Yen Cheng-kuo

Yen Cheng-kuo

Nascimento : 1974-10-10, Taipei - Taiwan

História

Born in Taipei City, during his childhood Yen Chin Kwok appeared in almost 30 movies, mostly in dramatic roles, standing out in "The Boys From Fengkuei" (1983), "Ah Fei" and "Growing Up" (both from 1985) before the success of the "Kung Fu Kids" film series.

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Yen Cheng-kuo

Filmes

Untouchable
Writer
“Siaulian”, who is released from prison and trying to turn his life back to track, runs into his childhood friend Tang, now a police officer, in a gang fight. Siaulian is wanted by the gangs since he has been made the one responsible for the fight. Siaulian is forced to form his own gang in order to protect his family and seek revenge. Eventually, he is wanted by both the gangsters and the police. As for Tang, he is struggling to protect his dearest friend as he is actually the reason why Siaulian was sentenced to prison.
Untouchable
“Siaulian”, who is released from prison and trying to turn his life back to track, runs into his childhood friend Tang, now a police officer, in a gang fight. Siaulian is wanted by the gangs since he has been made the one responsible for the fight. Siaulian is forced to form his own gang in order to protect his family and seek revenge. Eventually, he is wanted by both the gangsters and the police. As for Tang, he is struggling to protect his dearest friend as he is actually the reason why Siaulian was sentenced to prison.
Untouchable
Director
“Siaulian”, who is released from prison and trying to turn his life back to track, runs into his childhood friend Tang, now a police officer, in a gang fight. Siaulian is wanted by the gangs since he has been made the one responsible for the fight. Siaulian is forced to form his own gang in order to protect his family and seek revenge. Eventually, he is wanted by both the gangsters and the police. As for Tang, he is struggling to protect his dearest friend as he is actually the reason why Siaulian was sentenced to prison.
Enforcados 2
“Enforcados” é um filme de terror taiwanês, que gira em torno de trágicos acontecimentos após um sacerdote taoísta tentar ajudar uma jovem médium a libertar sua tia de uma poderosa possessão demoníaca.
The Gangs, the Oscars, and the Walking Dead
Mr. Liao
Two friends want to make a genre movie. However, there is not enough money. Therefore, besides their regular jobs as being flmmakers in the day time, they join the local gang in order to make extra petty cash at nights. One day, big boss is deeply favored by him.
Primeiro Amor, o Último Yakuza
Wan
Um jovem boxeador e uma garota de programa são apanhados em um esquema de tráfico de drogas ao longo de uma noite em Tóquio.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Show
Brother David
The unscrupulous owner of Crazy TV sets out to lower the channel's ratings so he can sell it to mobster Mr. David for cheap and count his losses. He promotes failing producer Yeh to program director and fires the staff.
The Outsiders
Pei Yu Yen has her whole life ahead of her. Raised in a sheltered environment by her father who is a professor, she is prim and proper and typical good student. However, her life is akin to a canary bird in a cage until the day she met Yu Hao. He is boy caught in a brawl with gangsters on the street. He is the boy who rushed into the classroom to thank her. He is the boy who stopped the bus to give her a love letter. They may be further apart than any two people in the world, but he cannot resist the urge to reach out to her to see her smile again.
Gatão 2: A Ascensão do Rei
Writer
Um líder de gangue planeja apagar um ex-amigo que virou rival na briga por território, e tensões internas complicam a batalha para ver quem manda.
Gatão 2: A Ascensão do Rei
Director
Um líder de gangue planeja apagar um ex-amigo que virou rival na briga por território, e tensões internas complicam a batalha para ver quem manda.
Gatao
Kuo
Qing Feng is the top lieutenant under gang boss Yong. Three years ago, his good friend Xiong went to jail for him in the name of brotherhood. Upon his return, Xiong is immediately favored by Yong, which plants a growing rift in his friendship with Qing Feng. Over on the rival gang side, U.S.-educated Michael returns to Taiwan to take over for his late father and applies ruthless business strategies to expand his turf. With his eyes set on a profitable property development project, Michael will stop at nothing to eliminate Yong and take over his turf.
A Chance to Die
Burned by the desire to avenge her dead boyfriend, a Japanese woman learns to shoot a gun, and goes after the local Mafia in Taiwan. Mizuno Miki excels in her role as the grieving and estranged, then vengeful and cold-blooded foreigner.
Dust of Angels
Ah Kuo
A-Guo and A-Dou are two teenagers living in an industrial town in Taiwan, who fight, loaf, and cause trouble all day and hang out with Jie, a young gangster. When Jie's gangland patron is gunned down, the trio set out to revenge the killing. As a result, the two teens are forced into hiding.
The Kung Fu Kids VI
Hsiao
On the way to a visit of their uncle in Thailand, Fatty bumps into a young girl named Baiyer. Daughter of a famous anthropologist, Baiyer has in secret possession a golden necklace on which is engraved the map of an ancient treasure by her father. Having witnessed the murder of her father by Scorpio. They befriend with each other and return to Bangkok.
The Kung Fu Kids III
The Kung Fu Kids IV
A-Kuo
A young martial arts kid travels by accident from another dimension to our world in search of a magical swordsman.
The Kung Fu Kids
Ah Kuo
Three young boys learn the art of kung fu from their grandfather, a martial arts expert, and are able to hold their own on a trip to the city.
Super Citizen
A young man from the country comes to Taipei to search for his sister from whom he has heard nothing during the past year. Beginning in a tenement slum, the young man travels through the city's lowlife, where street hustlers sell fake Rolex watches and other contraband, gangs fight each other, and the ubiquitous sex businesses ply their trade. The young man befriends a rich teenage girl and a young prostitute as he and a hustler who knew his sister search for her through a trail of clues leading to restaurants, dance joints, and brothels.
The Young and Old Wanderers
Taiwanese comedy.
Um Verão na Casa do Vovô
Young Boy
Historia do menino Tung-tung e sua irmã caçula Ting-ting que são mandados para o interior, para a casa de seu avô materno, enquanto sua mãe está doente, internada num hospital em Taipei.
Old Mao's Second Spring
Taiwan's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1984
The Express
Cheng Chu and Cheng Lin are brothers, who grow up in a rather ill-off family. Chu later becomes a gang leader while Lin as a senior high student. Lin is under the pressure of college entrance exams and becomes restive. Ah-Chiang, Lin's boyhood friend deserts the army and runs away with military weapons. He hides in Lin's rented house, shoots a policeman to death by accident and flees with Lin. They kidnap a fashion model, Sophia...
The Sandwich Man
Chiang A-jih (segment "The Taste of Apple")
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.
The Boys from Fengkuei
Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an apartment through relatives, and Ah-Ching is attracted to the girlfriend of a neighbor. There they face the harsh realities of the big city.
Ah Fei
The startling contrast between old and new Taiwan is the subject of Wan Jen's epic of traditional identities coming into conflict with an urban life, emphasizing the situation of women.
Kidnapped
After her six year old son is kidnapped, a successful fashion designer must work with a detective to clear up the terrifying mystery and get her son back.
Growing Up
Shiao Pi's Younger Brother
The story follows a young man as he changes from an intelligently aware youth, to a teenager with much less confidence than he once had, and finally, to a stable adult.
The Green, Green Grass of Home
Yan Zhengguo
A substitute teacher from Taipei arrives in a country village to teach a class of mischievous students. He soon falls in love with nature, country life and a fellow teacher at the school.
Play While You Play
Juvenile
A photographer travels with her boyfriend to a seaside village in Penghu. There she strikes up a relationship with a blind man. When they reencounter one another back in Taipei, where he is preparing to undergo an operation to restore his sight, their connection intensifies.
Lovable You
Bad Face
Primeiro filme de Hou, Menina bonita é uma comédia romântica que conta, assim como Vento gracioso e A grama verde de casa, com a presença de Kenny Bee, então astro pop de Hong Kong. Bee interpreta um topógrafo que vai ao campo a trabalho e conhece a personagem de Feng Fei-fei, uma moça que mora na cidade grande, mas que está visitando a família no interior. Os dois se apaixonam, mas têm de enfrentar a família de Feng Fei-fei, uma vez que ela havia sido prometida em casamento a outro homem.