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Edward Yang
Writer 1947 - 2007

Edward Yang

Thượng Hải, Trung Quốc

Edward Yang (Chinese: 楊德昌; pinyin: Yáng Déchāng; November 6, 1947 – June 29, 2007) was a Taiwanese filmmaker. Yang, along with fellow auteurs Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang, was one of the leading film-makers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. Yang's... Read full bio →

Filmography

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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.

Du li shi dai

Du li shi dai

Edward Yang 1994 2h 9m

Over the course of a few days, the paths of a group of young friends, lovers, and acquaintances in Taipei intersect, prompting them to arrive at realizations about their lives.

Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian

Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian

Edward Yang 1991 3h 57m 7.0

Set in Taiwan during the year 1960, a talented but self-centered student refuses to compromise his moral standards with anyone - teachers, friends, parents or girlfriend.

Kong bu fen zi

Kong bu fen zi

Edward Yang 1986 1h 49m 8.0

The lives of a couple, an amateur photographer and an injured girl intertwine.

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.

Guang yin de gu shi

Guang yin de gu shi

Edward Yang, Jim Tao 1982 1h 50m

Four vignettes, each set in different decades from the 1950s through the 1980s, deal with protagonists at different stages of life between childhood and young adulthood.

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