Nien-Jen Wu
WRITER, ACTOR, DIRECTOR
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USAWu Nien-Jen was born in a coal miner's family in 1952. He started writing short stories for newspapers in 1975, when he was still an accounting majored college student. After writing his first screenplay in 1978, Wu entered Central Motion Picture Corporation as a creative supervisor and worked with several pioneering directors such as 'Hou Hsiao-Hsien' and Edward Yang. Wu has since written more than 70 screenplays that were made into films, and became one of the driving forces for the New Taiwanese Cinema Movement in the early 1980's. Wu set the record of winning the most Golden Horse Awards to date, among those includes the collaboration with the internationally acclaimed Hong Kong director 'Anne Hui' on her film Song of Exile, aka Ke tu qiu hen (1990). His novels and screenplays also made him one of the best-selling authors in Taiwan as well. Wu Nien-Jen made his directorial debut A Borrowed Life, aka Duo sang (1994) in 1994. The award winning movie commemorates Wu's Japanese-educated, hard-working father. The film won the Grand Prize at Torino Film Festival in Italy, and Best actor and International Critics Award in Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece. In 1996, Wu wrote and directed his second film Buddha Bless America, aka Tai ping tian guo (1996),a political satire set in the 1960s. Besides his directing and writing career, Wu cameo in films from time to time. But it was not until he acted in a series of beer and food products commercials that his acting talent was discovered. He was cast as the leading actor in Edward Yang's latest film A One And A Two, which was critically acclaimed and won several international awards. Wu runs his own production company Wu's Productions now, and actively writes, directs, produces and performs in both commercials and television programs.
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Each member of a middle class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.
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In the 1920's, when Taiwan is Japan's colony, the small town Chiu-Fen was famous of its gold mines. Escaping from the landlord's control, Chu and Wei join the gold rush in Chiu-Fen, hoping ...
8.1/10165 min
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A young couple leave their mining town home for Taipei where they struggle to eke out a living in an industrial wasteland.
7.6/10109 min
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The semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan, living through the deaths of his father, mother and grandmother.
7.6/10138 min
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Three vignettes from three different directors that tell stories of ordinary people during Taiwan's Cold War period.
7.1/10105 min
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When Wan (Kimi Hsia) returns home from Taipei with both a failed modeling career, and an enormous amount of debt, she finds that misfortune has also befallen her family's restaurant, which ...
6.6/10145 min
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Jiang Chen Bo is the typical loser: He is not fashionable or charming and has no money, girlfriend or respect. Then, an out of the blue promotion changes his world. Suddenly, he becomes the...
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