Chen Yi-wen
Birthday: Born in in Taiwan
Deathday: Alive
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金馬獎
Character: Self
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Kim-má iáⁿ-tián) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is usually held in November or December in Taipei, although the event has also been held in other locations in Taiwan in recent times...
她和她的她
Character: Hsieh Chih-chung
Waking up from a coma, an accomplished headhunter finds herself in an alternate reality where she has to revisit an excruciating childhood trauma....
台灣犯罪故事
Character: Ying Min-wang
Anthology crime television series inspired by four real-life cold cases in Taiwan, exploring themes such as faith, temptation, redemption, and obligation through the eyes of the people of Taiwan....
和平歸來
Character:
The invisible enemy is not just the virus but also humanity. When every character has his struggles behind it, which one was his truest face before the crisis?...
妖怪人間
Character: Mao Xing Yan / 毛杏嚴
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愛的廣義相對論
Character: Kuo Hsing-Wei
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黑喵知情
Character: Chang Pen-Shan
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沉默的審判
Character:
A 2004 bombing and kidnapping case shatters three families, unraveling buried secrets and entangled grudges across two generations....
忘了我記得
Character: Mark
An aspiring stand-up comedian turns her struggles into heartfelt humor as she balances work and relationships while caring for her aging father....
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Increasing Echo
Character: Mr. Yan. Fu-Sheng YAN
Everything around Mrs. Yan looks perfect, but her mind is as confused and complex as the variety of medications she is taking. To reach peace of body and mind, she tries many methods including qi training, but to no avail. One day she gets a message that the woman who had an affair with her husband is in a nursing home and suffering from dementia....
Yi Yi
Character: Police Officer
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother-in-law is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions....
Leave Me Alone
Character: Brother Chao
For a sleepless city like Taipei, the lives of the rich and poor occasionally cross. These people flit in and out of one another lives, in a seemingly endless food chain of love....
The Funeral
Character: Li Chuan Cai
Chun Hua, who has been away from home for years after cutting her father off, receives the news of her grandfather's death and has no choice but to return home with her daughter for the funeral. Her father, whom she hasn't seen in years, is as cold and rude as ever, and doesn't look kindly on them. And when night falls, the family seems to be hiding more horrible secrets....
Summer
Character:
The story is set in a small southern town at the beginning of the century, where people believed that innocence and hope would lead to a better tomorrow....
A Confucian Confusion
Character: Liren
Over the course of a few days, the paths of a group of young friends, lovers, and acquaintances in Taipei crisscross, prompting them to arrive at realizations about their lives....
Looking for Kafka
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In Taipei, a rehearsal for Kafka’s Metamorphosis is in full swing as the show’s opening night approaches. Lin’s girlfriend, Julie, is visiting him from Paris. After the rehearsal, he picks her up at the airport and they spend the night together. In the morning, Lin is nowhere to be found and leaves Julie waiting at his apartment...
Paradise in Service
Character: Colonel Yu
Set in the island Kinmen, often seen as the most dangerous military base because it’s geographically close to China, "Paradise in Service" follows the adventure of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972, in preparation for a war that could erupt anytime. Through an unlucky lottery draw result, Pao, a twenty-something young man from Southern Taiwan has to serve the military in the remote and perilous Kinmen. Moreover, he is assigned to the Sea Dragon (ARB), a unit not...
The Embers
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In 2006, Detective Chang leads a police investigation into a murder committed in a public marketplace. Chang discovers the victim's father has ties to several other families with dead or missing members, and a grim espionage case buried for 50 years in Taiwan's past. Meanwhile, the kidnapped Mr. Hsu is interrogated by a mysterious mastermind. As the truth emerges, the embers of history become a deadly wildfire....
The Unforgiven
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Growth Period
Character: The Landlord
It portrays the tumultuous life of a middle-class couple and the reshuffling of relationship dynamics when the woman's young assistant and their landlord become involved, presenting urban life as observed by Yang through a multitude of rapid dialogue....
Peacock
Character: Liu Ching-Hui
A student from a modest home goes to an elite private school and makes a life-altering agreement with a talking peacock in the schoolyard....
The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon
Character: Lin Lu-ho (Bullhead)
The arrogant, third most-wanted criminal in Taiwan, decides to get rid of the top two competitors and crowns himself the most-wanted criminal before dying....
The Man from Island West
Character: Ah Chian
In contemporary Taiwan, the aboriginal Ah-ming attempts suicide. When his life is saved by an old miner, Ah-ming is drawn into a journey back to his origins. Meanwhile, the miner's son, Ah-Chuan, finds a fugitive hooker who has returned from the lowlands. But Ah-Chuan only wants to integrate himself into mainstream society, in sharp contrast to the intentions and needs of those around him....
Jam
Character:
The lives of two young thieves, a mob hitman and a film producer are entangled when the two thieves steal a car that had already been previously stolen to been used as a getaway car....
Century Egg
Character: Father
A man returns to Taiwan, the country he left behind decades prior, only to find himself wandering a city he no longer recognizes and in the company of a stranger who took him in....
The Blue Choker
Character: Dorm Master - Fang Tzu-kang
Yeh, a gifted student, transfers to Edison Junior High, a private school renowned for its academic performance. Disturbed by the gloomy atmosphere and distorted institutions, the rebellious Yeh begins to challenge everything he sees and feels. Little does he know that he is slowly falling into the treacherous trap of the mysterious "Dorm 420"....
Godspeed
Character: Wen
A Taiwanese drug mule has his foolproof smuggling method thrown out of whack when he catches a ride with the wrong cab driver....
Blossom
Character: Father
A 12-year-old XiaoJing survives a car accident unscathed. She bravely deals with the trepidation alone, until her father rushes to the hospital. She thought that her anxieties and emotional injuries could be alleviated, but is forced to face a more severe difficulty....
A Sun
Character: A-Wen
A family of four fractures under the weight of unmet expectations, unexpected tragedy, and uncompromising pride....
A Taxi Driver
Character: Tsui Jo-Chiang
A “yes-man” taxi driver tries to take revenge and regain control of his fate. However, it is fate who plays a joke on him instead. On this absurd day, a psychological rollercoaster awaits....
A Brighter Summer Day
Character: Horsecart
A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan....
A Trip with Mom
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In order to take care of his old mother, who has amnesia and is disabled, Xia Changming remains unemployed at home. A family of four have been relying on the wife Xiaoling for many years. Finally, when the police brought the mother back, and his wife took his son away, Changming decided to take his mother to on a trip......
Xiao Mei
Character: Landlord
A film about the tormenting presence of absence. A young shop girl named Xiao Mei suddenly vanishes from her usual existence, without explanation or trace. Has she dissolved, or perhaps redeemed herself somehow? Nine people from her immediate surroundings try to fill the empty space left behind by this supposedly insignificant young woman. In a kaleidoscope of meandering memories, projections, confessions, interpretations, incantations and helpless speculations through which the young escapee wa...
The Great Buddha+
Character: Congressman Gao
Security guard Pickle and his trash collector friend Belly Button kill time together in night shifts watching the American-educated boss's dash-cam recordings of his various sexual encounters with women. Against the buddies' will, something horrifying rather than erotic reveals....
Classmates Minus
Character: Congressman Gao
Four school buddies — a director, a temp worker, an insurance salesman and a paper craftsman — grapple with unfulfilled dreams amid middle age ennui....
Someone Who Was Lost
Character: Dad
Inspired by the notorious "cement murder" incident that shocked Hong Kong and Taiwan, this engaging crime drama is also a timely reflection on society and the struggles faced by young adults. Siblings Cong and Panda, along with Taiwanese student Tai, share a duplex apartment in Hong Kong. When Cong accidentally kills their landlord due to a series of misunderstandings, the three decide to seal the body in cement and flee to Taiwan. After news of the murder explodes over TV and the Internet, they...
Growing Pains
Character: Ren-Shiung Huang
Fourteen-year-old Yao is sick of his worn-out shoes, which his father never replace for being too deep in debt. One day, after a confrontation with debt collectors, his father suddenly buys him a pair of expensive sneakers. Little did Yao know, this is the start of a painful tragedy....
A Leg
Character: Senior Police Officer
In this deliciously dark comedy, a woman desperately attempts to reunite her husband's amputated leg with his body before his funeral, leading her on a wild goose chase across Taipei and through multiple encounters with bureaucracy, ineptitude, and her own recent past....
Plurality
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After a bizarre bus accident, Ming Ze awakens from a coma to discover that his mind now shares the consciousness of four fellow passengers – all of them dead; all of them suspects in a serial kidnapping and murder case. To prove his own innocence, Ming evades capture by the police and tries to track down the killer’s only surviving victim. But in order to unmask the murderer’s true identity, Ming must first fight the monster within himself....
Treat or Trick
Character: Hsu
Feng, a corrupted police officer, ordered to retrieve the diamonds within 48hrs, arrives at a remote village, following the mobile signal of his partner Chiang who stole the diamonds from the gang. While Feng and his men try to find Chiang in the village, they encounter the locals who seem naive but suspicious, and a ghost full of stories. Remake of a renowned Korean film To Catch A Virgin Ghost (2004)....
The Falls
Character: Supermarket Manager Chen
After having to quarantine together during COVID-19, a mother and daughter are forced to confront their personal obstacles and relationship tensions....
Formosa Mambo
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When a band of kidnappers attempts to collect a ransom for their young hostage, the boy’s family dismisses it as a prank. Stuck with a youngster to care for and on the lam, the stage is set for a dark comedy of errors. We get this and much more with delicious plot twists and a growing pile-up of fraud and double crosses....
Tristes Tropiques
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A group of young assassins, trained by the rainforest's absolute ruler known as 'Master' and affiliated with the organization 'Tristes Tropiques,' struggle with mutual distrust as they vow to exact bloody revenge....
A Foggy Tale
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Yue's brother was executed by the government. Determined to bring his body back home, Yue goes to Taipei alone and is nearly sold by human traffickers. Luckily, she is saved by Chao Kung-tao, a discharged soldier. Seeing no prospects in his own life, he decides to help Yue. Two people with no relations become friends in need, embarking on a journey that could cost them their lives....