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Wu Nien-jen
Writer 74 years old

Wu Nien-jen

Juifang, Taipei, Taiwan

Wu Nien-jen (Chinese: 吳念真; born 5 August, 1952) is a Taiwanese screenwriter, director, and writer. He is one of the most prolific and highly regarded scriptwriters in Taiwan and a leading member of the New Taiwanese Cinema, although he has also acted in a number of films, like... Read full bio →

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6 titles
Yi yi

Yi yi

Edward Yang 2000 2h 54m 8.1

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries.

Ma jiang

Ma jiang

Edward Yang 1996 2h 1m

Amid a rapidly changing cityscape, the lives of a disparate group of swindlers, hustlers, gangsters, and expats collide, with a naive French teenager and a sensitive young local who tries to protect her caught dangerously in the middle.

Bei qing cheng shi

Bei qing cheng shi

Hou Hsiao-hsien 1989 2h 38m 7.5

The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror", mainland China's political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government in the late 1940s.

Ni luo he nu er

Ni luo he nu er

Hou Hsiao-hsien 1987 1h 31m

The eldest daughter of a broken and troubled family works to keep the family together and look after her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.

Qing mei zhu ma

Qing mei zhu ma

Edward Yang 1985 2h 9.0

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.

Hai tan de yi tian

Hai tan de yi tian

Edward Yang 1983 2h 46m

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.

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