Wu Nien-Jen

Wu Nien-Jen

Nascimento : 1952-08-05, Juifang, Taipei County, Taiwan

Perfil

Wu Nien-Jen

Filmes

Caring for Black-Faced Spoonbill
(narrator)
A documentary took more than 30 years to pursue a migrating bird, black-faced spoonbill.
Day Off
Executive Producer
A woman who has owned a barbershop for over 40 years determines to embark on a long journey to cut the hair of an old customer who has moved away and is too sick to travel.
Twelve Nights 2: Back to Day Zero
Narrator
My Egg Boy
Old Egg Boy
Even in modern-day Taipei, women feel the societal pressure to get married and have children before the clock runs out. Thankfully, there is a solution: freeze your eggs and prolong your fertility until the right one comes along! Starring Ariel Lin, the film is a glimpse of what millions of working women struggle with: finding the balance between pursuing a career and marriage.
Fly, Kite Fly
Narrator
The black kite, generally referred to as “the eagle” in Taiwan, used to be very widespread and so common that it is the main character in a well-known Taiwanese children’s game. However, it has now become so rare that very few people ever get to see it. SHEN Zhen-zhong, better known as “Mr. Kite” who vowed to safeguard this endangered bird, is determined that he spent the best 20 years of his life traveling throughout Taiwan to find out why the black kite is disappearing. From 1992 to 2015, the film documentary maker LIANG Chieh-te followed Mr. Kite’s journey. Through his camera lenses, the story of how, one person can cross the species barrier and totally devote himself to a cause with no regrets because of love.
The Boar King
When Cho loses her husband Ying and her family business in a massive typhoon, she is devastated.Then the villagers begin receiving mail from Ying. Is he really dead?
Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above
Narrator
Documenting Taiwan from an aerial perspective offering a glimpse of Taiwan's natural beauty as well as the effect of human activities and urbanization on our environment.
Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast
Master Silly Mortal
More than 20 years ago, there were three "Ban Dou" master chefs who dominated the catering business in Taiwan. However, the street banquet business has been in decline since Taiwan's economic boom. Master Fly Spirit wants to pass the family recipes and culinary skills on to his only child, Wan, but she desperately wants to run away from the family business and to become a film star.
10 Plus 10
Director
10+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are invited to make a 5-minute short film each on the theme of the “Uniqueness of Taiwan,” but allowed total freedom in all other aspects.
Somewhere I Have Never Travelled
Executive Producer
Colorrblind girl A-Kuei feels alienated and misunderstood. She is raised by her grandmother who would rather believe she is possessed than hear her feelings. The only person in the village who understands her is her bookworm cousin A-Hsien. He tells her that there is an island far away in the South Pacific where everyone is also colorblind due to a genetic mutation.
Island Etude
Tour Bus Driver
Ming-Hsang, a deaf college student, meets interesting people as he cycles around Taiwan before he graduates from college.
As Coisas Simples da Vida
N.J.
NJ Jian mora com sua esposa, seus dois filhos e a sogra já idosa, formando uma típica família de classe média. NJ é sócio de uma bem-sucedida empresa de computação, mas, se não buscar novos rumos, em breve irá à falência. Para tanto, ele busca fazer uma parceria com Ota, um inovador designer de jogos de computação no Japão, que pode dar o novo toque que sua empresa precisa. Mas as coisas começam a dar para os Jian quando a integrante mais velha da família sofre um derrame e entra num coma o qual poderá nunca mais acordar. Neste meio termo, NJ ainda reencontra Sherry, seu primeiro amor de infância, que reaparece em sua vida, agora casada com um americano.
Chivalrous Legend
Writer
After Japanese soldiers kill 12-year-old Ten-din's (Shiao Sheih Long) mother during an invasion, Ten-din must hide in order to save his own life. He takes refuge with a Peking opera company, where he perfects his fighting skills and turns into a kung fu expert. He later uses his skills to help those in need, by robbing the rich to help the poor. When Ten-din's actions are discovered, a group is sent out to intercept him and his friend Ying.
Mahjong
Gangster in Black Suit
Winston Chen, a prominent businessman, goes missing after racking up $100 million in debts to the Taipei underworld. Two enforcers sent to find him, and they track down his son, Red Fish, the leader of a street gang.
Buddha Bless America
Writer
When a military contingent of "mythic" Americans arrive for war games in a little farming village in South Taiwan in the late 1960s, a veritable flood of hilarious cultural and linguistic misunderstandings is loosed on both sides.
Buddha Bless America
Director
When a military contingent of "mythic" Americans arrive for war games in a little farming village in South Taiwan in the late 1960s, a veritable flood of hilarious cultural and linguistic misunderstandings is loosed on both sides.
A Borrowed Life
Writer
Sega's children, born into post-war Chinese rule, can't relate to their father's love for Japanese culture, having grown up under Japanese rule before WWII.
A Borrowed Life
Director
Sega's children, born into post-war Chinese rule, can't relate to their father's love for Japanese culture, having grown up under Japanese rule before WWII.
Forever Friends
Screenplay
A couple of friends join the Taiwanese army to fight the Mainland Chinese. But life in the army isn't all that they dreamed off....
Kangaroo Man
An Chen-li (as Wenming Chen)
"Kangaroo Man" is produced by China Film Co., Ltd., directed by Liu Yiming drama, Qiu Xinzhi, Chen Wenmin to participate in the show. The film tells the story of Li Maitian's wife Jane Li because of accidental pregnancy can not, surrogate also failed, Li Maitian decided to get pregnant, in order to achieve and cherish wish.
Super Citizen Ko
Screenplay
At an old age, a former political prisoner is determined to find out where his fellow sufferers have laid since their secret execution, while Taiwan embarks on a tumultuous path of democratization.
Mestre das Marionetes
Writer
Hou Hsiao-Hsien centra este seu filme (Prémio do Júri do Festival de Cannes 1993) na vida e carreira do marionetista Li Tien-Lu, cuja vida pessoal combina com a história de Taiwan entre 1909 e o fim da dominação japonesa da ilha em 1945. "The Puppetmaster," como é internacionalmente conhecido, é o segundo dos títulos da trilogia histórica do realizador, também composta por "A City of Sadness" (1989) e "Good Men, Good Women" (1995).
End of the Road
Screenplay
Hill of No Return
Writer
In 1920s Taiwan, Jou, a controversial woman with a tragic past, seeks to change her life after falling for a man named Che. Meanwhile, a man named Wei seeks to buy the freedom of Fumiko, a dying young woman.
Joe-Goody
Writer
Jen, nicknamed Ah Dai, had been a rebellious child. He fled home the age of 16. A few years later, he became the driver of the leader of the Underworld, Mr. Lin. He was deeply moved by the kindness and care Mr. & Mrs. Lin showed him, grateful enough to do anything for them in return. Ah Dai observed the conflicts and struggle for privileges in the Underworld, and its strange interactions with the police.
My American Grandson
Writer
A 12-year-old boy from America experiences the clash of cultures and the generation gap when he visits his grandfather in Shanghai.
Zodiac Killers
Writer
Hong Kong student Ben Lee becomes friends with his mainland Chinese classmate Chang Chih while studying abroad in Japan. Ben is unmotivated to study and only cares about money and on the other hand, whenever Chih encounters a Chinese person, he would ask whereabouts of his childhood sweetheart. Ming is also from Hong Kong and in order to elevate his social status, he becomes involved with a bar hostess and owner Yuriko, hoping to become Yakuza leader Yamada Ishikawa's brother in-law.
Fatal Recall
Screenplay
Fatal Recall is a Taiwanese Thriller starring Alex Man
Song of the Exile
Writer
Set in the early 1970s, it tells the story of a Chinese-Japanese student who returns to her native Hong Kong after graduating from a university in London. Once she arrives back home, she and her family begins to fight, largely due to cultural and societal conflicts between her mother and herself.
Sunless Days
Writer
Director Shu Kei travelled to Venice, Canada, London and Hong Kong, collecting accounts of the Tiananmen impact. Among his interviewees are: award-winning Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien; Hong Kong director Alfred Cheung, a witness to the massacre; actress Deanne Ip, whose national consciousness is fired by the event; as well as his own brothers, one who soon migrates from Hong Kong, and the other, already an Australian emigre. Their personal testimonies are pieced together into a mural of the Chinese people united in their horror and outrage.
A Cidade das Tristezas
Writer
Filme que narra uma série de acontecimentos em Taiwan entre 1945 e 1949 a partir das experiências de uma família de quatro filhos, um patriarca e alguns agregados. Destaque para o trágico acontecimento de 28 de fevereiro de 1947, quando mais de 20 mil taiwaneses foram mortos por tropas nacionalistas chinesas.
A Cidade das Tristezas
Mr. Wu
Filme que narra uma série de acontecimentos em Taiwan entre 1945 e 1949 a partir das experiências de uma família de quatro filhos, um patriarca e alguns agregados. Destaque para o trágico acontecimento de 28 de fevereiro de 1947, quando mais de 20 mil taiwaneses foram mortos por tropas nacionalistas chinesas.
The Dull-Ice Flower
Writer
Ku Ah-ming is a 4th grader at Chungshan Elementary School in Shuiyu Township, Taiwan. Despite being not very good in most subjects at school, he is very talented in art and has a great imagination, though most teachers don't know what he's expressing in his artwork.
Honor Thy Father
Screenplay
After his twin dies as a baby, the protagonist's family has little hope for his survival. But as he grows older, he discovers baseball, and much to his father's chagrin, he begins playing. He will go on to be a star baseball player.
Lessons of the Playground
Screenplay
Taiwanese film directed by Chin Ao-hsin.
The Long Vacation
Screenplay
Two Painters
Screenplay
Adaptation of Huang Chunming's short story "The Two Signpainters".
I Love Mary
Lao ke de zui hou yi ge chun tian
Writer
Gangland Odyssey
Script Consultant
A Chinese drama
Gangland Odyssey
Screenplay
A Chinese drama
People Between Two China
Writer
Quando Taiwan autoriza que seus habitantes visitem seus amigos e parentes na China, o senhor Sun, depois de quarenta anos morando em Taiwan, encontra-se dividido entre sua família taiwanesa e a família chinesa que decide visitar.
Young and Happy School Music
Screenplay
Autumn Tempest
Screenplay
Accustomed to the life of a young master, Wen Hsieng is forced to compromise under the pressure of family members, and arranges to go to the mountain temple to study. The environment in the temple makes it difficult for him to adapt to.
Sir, Tell Me Why?
Screenplay
The story of how a high school teacher overcomes all the problems and difficulties with problem students as well as other unfavorable circumstances in his teaching.
Daughter of the Nile
Tutor
Lin Hsiao-yang tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. With no mother and her father currently working out of town, it is up to Lin Hsiao-yang to take care of her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.
Be My Lovely Child Again
Writer
Osmanthus Alley
Writer
Ti Hung's parents die when she is twelve. When she is sixteen, she determines to change her fate, swearing to rise from her poverty. She becomes famous for her embroidery and eventually marries into a rich family, but tragedy ensues.
The Two of Us
Screenplay
Love Is Grown with Flower
Writer
A farming village is undergoing change. Some of the young people want to live in the city, while others stay behind and try to help the older residents adjust to a new scheme of growing flowers to sell at market instead of rice.
Poeira no Vento
Writer
Aparentemente feitos um para o outro, um casal de jovens namorados abandona sua pequena cidade para viver em Taipei, onde começam a procurar trabalho. Aos poucos, a relação vai se deteriorando frente às dificuldades que encontram no dia-a-dia.
The Campus Incidents
Screenplay
Myth of a City
Writer
It is a school bus driver's last day at work. On a whim, he drives off to the seashore with the school's cook, a young teacher, and a busload of children. Facing an unhappy retirement, he seeks one great moment of happiness, which he finds on the road with the children. They encounter an aboriginal family, who invite them in for a feast, and then some young motorcycle riders, with whom they camp by the sea.
Ghost Chasers
Screenplay
Taiwanese ghost comedy film.
My Favorite Season
Bi Bao-liang's brother-in-law
Bi Bao-Liang is a 29 year-old man who believes that he will have bad luck if he touches a woman before he turns thirty. Liu Xiang-mei is a beautiful woman who had a love affair with her married boss, and now she is pregnant. In order to give her child a family name, she decides to find a man to have a one-year marriage contract. Bi Bao-Liang is the perfect man she is looking for because he is afraid of women. However, their marriage does not follow what they've planned...
One Bright Day
Screenplay
Story of a Bride
Screenplay
Wu Nu
Screenplay
Taste of Mercy
Writer
História de Taipei
Chen
A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.
The Loser, the Hero
Screenplay
A boy's disappointing scores on the college entrance exam bring shame down on his family.
The First Stitch
Screenplay
Set in the southern port of Kaohsiung, a comedy-romance between a shy young tailor and a 'tart with a heart', both of whom have their different dreams. Based on the short story by Yang Ching-chu.
The Woman of Wrath
Writer
A woman, married off to a butcher who routinely abuses her, is overpowered by the twin forces of patriarchy and tradition in Taiwan.
Old Mao's Second Spring
Writer
Taiwan's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1984
Impending War
Screenplay
Wanpi Nansheng Qiao Nusheng
Screenplay
Nature Is Quietly Beautiful
Screenplay
The Sandwich Man
Writer
Composed of three separate stories, the film vividly portrays Taiwan during the cold war period when the country developed its economy with help from the United States.
That Day, on the Beach
Piano Tuner
Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.
That Day, on the Beach
Writer
Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.
Send in the Clowns
Screenplay
Two sisters are part of a cabaret act that is rapidly declining in attendance, and although the older sisteris constantly trying to push her younger sister to the forefront in a solo act, the younger sibling is less than enthusiastic. She sees little future in show business, whether in the chorus line or up front -- and so when her older sister finally pulls off a deal for the two to go to Taipei and possibly make some "real money," the younger sister must say yes or no, and either way, one of the two will not be happy.
Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?
Writer
A poor army veteran in Taiwan adopts a daughter. She grows up and leaves him to enter show business. When she becomes famous she shuns her father and friends.
Is Q Still Alive?
Screenplay
Traveller
Screenplay
All the King's Men
Screenplay
It's the 10th century BC, the emperor (Tien Feng) is not well, and the medicines he is receiving from con artist "Immortal Li" are in reality only making him worse. There is a man in a nearby kingdom, "Divine Physician" Chang Po-chao, whom it's said could cure his epilepsy, but the only way to bribe the head of the border guard is with a new work by painter Wei Yu-pi. He, meanwhile, wishes to be paid in jade, in fact with a specific piece, which requires a thief. But Ting Yu-yu, the best in the area, claims to be retired, though his daughter Li-ting (Cheng Pei-pei) seems enthusiastic. And for the sake of secrecy, the archivists originally sent to recruit Chang don't even know it's on behalf of the emperor!
Portrait of a Fanatic
Story
In 1949 when the Communist regime was established in China, the world-famed painter Ling Chen-kuang, believing his conviction for a new-born society had come true on his motherland, returned anxiously from the U.S., whither he had fled apprehension by lawmen when cracking down on rebellious activities he had actively engaged in out of cynicism and hostility – the feelings evolved from constant haunting by the memories of his childhood miserableness – to the then existing institutions in China. Alas, to his disillusion, the land he had so deeply loved, the society of which he had expected so much, should have turned out to be the hell on earth. Why? The enigma kept obsessing and puzzling him even to his dying moment.
I Shall Return
Screenplay
The Switch
Screenplay
Taiwanese crime drama.
Super Warrior
Screenplay
Return of the Electric Love
Screenplay
Taipei Sweet Heart
Screenplay
The City
Screenplay
Dangerous Seventeen
Screenplay
The Graduation Trip
Screenplay
Taiwanese youth film.
Spring Fever
Screenplay
Sun Ya-fang, a freshman from college, is wooed by her schoolmates Chen, a boastful and frivolous playboy, and Yang, an introvert, who is simple and honest. Yang's sister teaches him to adopt a more aggressive approach towards Sun. Perturbed by his advances, Sun deflects Yang's attention towards her classmate, Sung. Meanwhile, Sun's cousin, George, returns from abroad and further complicates the situation. Sun falls for George, who is more interested in Sung.
The Merry Couple
Screenplay
Taiwanese romance film.
Classmate
Screenplay
Once We Were Together
Screenplay
Kuo-Hao Crams for College
Screenplay
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Young People's Desire
Screenplay
Sailing for Tomorrow
Screenplay
Gone with Honor
Screenplay
The Boy Who Refused to Take the Entrance Examination
Screenplay
The Blind Love
Screenplay