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''Blue Gate Crossing'' () is a 2002 Taiwanese film directed and written by Yee Chih-yen. It was screened at the Director's Fortnight section of the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for ''Best Asian Film'' at the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards held in 2004. The film grossed over five million New Taiwan Dollars at the box office in Taiwan, which was a rare achievement for a Taiwanese film in the 2000s. Cast The filming location for ''Blue Gate Crossing'' was the Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University Affiliated Senior High School in Taipei, and the three main characters in the story are also set to attend this school. Gwei Lun-mei as Meng Kerou Meng Kerou comes from a single-parent family and helps her family make a living by running a snack bar. She has a crush on Lin Yuezhen and agrees to help her deliver a love letter to Zhang Shihao, but Zhang Shihao misunderstands and thinks that Meng Kerou is the one expressing her own feelings for him. Yol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bolin Chen
Chen Bolin (; born 27 August 1983), also known as Wilson Chen, is a Taiwanese actor. He is known for the films '' Blue Gate Crossing'' (2002), '' Buddha Mountain'' (2010), ''The Continent'' (2014), and '' 20 Once Again'' (2015), as well as the television series ''In Time with You'' (2011). Early life and education Chen was born on 27 August 1983. While in high school, Chen participated in the Taiwanese variety show ' due to his similarity to Takeshi Kaneshiro. He attended Jinwen University of Science and Technology. Career Chen first gained attention with his debut film '' Blue Gate Crossing'', which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and received positive reviews. His supporting roles in Hong Kong films, such as '' The Twins Effect II'', '' A Chinese Tall Story'' and '' Kung Fu Dunk'' pushed his stardom to regions beyond Taiwan. Chen rose to prominence in 2011. He was nominated for the Best Actor award at the Deauville Asian Film Festival for his performance in the ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gwei Lun-mei
Gwei Lun-mei (; born 25 December 1983) is a Taiwanese actress. She started her acting career in 2002, with the film '' Blue Gate Crossing''. Gwei then appeared in a few more films before achieving wide recognition for the film '' Secret'', directed by Jay Chou, in which Gwei played the character of Lu Hsiao-yu. In 2012, Gwei starred in '' Girlfriend, Boyfriend'', a coming-of-age Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult. The specific age at which this transition takes place varies between societies, as does the nature of the change. It can be a simple legal convention or can b ... drama in which three teenagers navigate their attraction to one another – from their high school years into their adulthood. The film won Gwei a Best Leading Actress award at the 49th Golden Horse Awards. Personal life Gwei has been in a long-term relationship with actor and filmmaker Leon Dai since 2004. Filmography Film Television Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jay Shih
Makazayazaya Maicus (), known professionally as Jay Shih (; born 31 October 1983) is a Taiwanese actor, singer and television host of Paiwan descent. He debuted as one half of the Mandopop duo Awaking, with the other being Wesley Chia. As an actor, he has appeared in television series including '' Miss No Good'' (2008), ''Summer Fever'' (2012) and '' Love Cheque Charge'' (2014), and is best known for portraying Cheng Jen-wei in the SET series ''In a Good Way In a Good Way () is a 2013 Taiwanese romantic television series produced by Sanlih. It stars Lego Lee, Lorene Ren, Jay Shih and Smile Weng. The original title literally translates as "My freedom years" which is in reference to Taiwan's govern ...'' (2013). On 5 July 2024, Jay changed his name into the Paiwan name Makazayazaya Maicus. Filmography Television series Film Variety show Discography Singles Compilation album Published works * Awards and nominations References External links * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chen Bolin
Chen Bolin (; born 27 August 1983), also known as Wilson Chen, is a Taiwanese actor. He is known for the films '' Blue Gate Crossing'' (2002), '' Buddha Mountain'' (2010), ''The Continent'' (2014), and '' 20 Once Again'' (2015), as well as the television series ''In Time with You'' (2011). Early life and education Chen was born on 27 August 1983. While in high school, Chen participated in the Taiwanese variety show ' due to his similarity to Takeshi Kaneshiro. He attended Jinwen University of Science and Technology. Career Chen first gained attention with his debut film '' Blue Gate Crossing'', which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and received positive reviews. His supporting roles in Hong Kong films, such as '' The Twins Effect II'', '' A Chinese Tall Story'' and '' Kung Fu Dunk'' pushed his stardom to regions beyond Taiwan. Chen rose to prominence in 2011. He was nominated for the Best Actor award at the Deauville Asian Film Festival for his performance in the ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Coming Of Age
Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult. The specific age at which this transition takes place varies between societies, as does the nature of the change. It can be a simple legal convention or can be part of a ritual or spiritual event. In the past, and in some societies today, such a change is often associated with the age of sexual maturity ( puberty), especially menarche and spermarche. In others, it is associated with an age of religious responsibility. Particularly in Western societies, modern legal conventions stipulate points around the end of adolescence and the beginning of early adulthood (most commonly 16 and 18 though ranging from 14 to 21) when adolescents are generally no longer considered minors and are granted the full rights and responsibilities of an adult. Some cultures and countries have multiple coming of age ceremonies for multiple ages. Many cultures retain ceremonies to confirm the coming of age, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Edward Yang
Edward Yang (; November 6, 1947 – June 29, 2007) was a Taiwanese and American filmmaker. He rose to prominence as a pioneer in the Taiwanese New Wave of the 1980s, alongside fellow auteurs Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang. Yang was regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of Taiwanese cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film '' Yi Yi''. Youth and early career Yang was born in Shanghai in 1947, and grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. After studying electrical engineering in National Chiao Tung University (located in Hsinchu, Taiwan), where he received his bachelor's degree ( BSEE), he enrolled in the graduate program at the University of Florida, where he received his master's degree in electrical engineering in 1974.''International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers''. Eds. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. Vol. 2: Directors. 4th ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 2001. p1092-1094. 4 vols. "Edward Yang" accessed through Thomson Gale's Biography Resear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Portland Mercury
''Portland Mercury'' is an alternative bi-weekly newspaper and media company founded in 2000 in Portland, Oregon. It has a sibling publication in Seattle, Washington, called '' The Stranger''. History A prior version of ''The Mercury'' was published from 1869 and into the 1930s. The current ''Portland Mercury'' launched in June 2000. The paper describes their readership as "affluent urbanites in their 20s and 30s." Its long-running rivalry with ''Willamette Week'' began before its first issue was even printed when ''Willamette Week'' publisher Richard Meeker asked a Portland law firm to pay $10 to register the ''Mercury'' name with Oregon's Corporation Division, thus preventing it from being used for 120 days. As of 2020, the newspaper's revenue was almost entirely dependent on advertising and sales of tickets for events and concerts with nearly 95% of its revenue coming from advertisements. Former managing editor Phil Busse's controversial tenure included charges of plagia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cyrano De Bergerac (play)
''Cyrano de Bergerac'' ( , ) is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. The play includes elements of the life of the 17th-century novelist and playwright Cyrano de Bergerac, along with elements of invention and myth. The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line, very close to the French alexandrine, classical alexandrine form, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of the Académie française and the Précieuses, ''dames précieuses'' glimpsed before the performance in the first scene. The play has been translated and performed many times, and it is responsible for introducing the word ''panache'' into the English language. The character of Cyrano himself makes reference to "my panache" in the play. The most famous English translations are those by Brian Hooker (poet), Brian Hooker, Anthony Burgess, and Louis Untermeyer. Plot summary Hercule Savinien de Cyrano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Yee Chih-yen
Yee Chih-yen (; born 21 November 1959) is a Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, critic, instructor, and writer. He was born in Taipei, Taiwan. His works include ''Blue Gate Crossing'' (2002), '' Dangerous Mind'' (2006)--Yee Chih-yen's television debut for the Taiwan Public Television Service that won Best Television Series at the Golden Bell Awards, ''Meeting Dr. Sun'' (2014) that won Best Original Screenplay at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, as well as ''City of Lost Things'' (2020) that won Best Animated Feature at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards. Biography Yee Chih-yen was born in Taipei, Taiwan, where he also completed his undergraduate studies in English (formerly Western Languages and Literature) at the National Chengchi University. He then completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) between 1983 and 1988. He has received many awards for his directorial works in both feature leng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Hou Hsiao-hsien ( zh, t=侯孝賢, poj=Hâu Hàu-hiân; born 8 April 1947) is a retired Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film '' A City of Sadness'' (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for '' The Assassin'' (2015). Other highly regarded works of his include '' The Puppetmaster'' (1993) and ''Flowers of Shanghai'' (1998). Hou was voted "Director of the Decade" for the 1990s in a poll of American and international critics by ''The Village Voice'' and ''Film Comment''. In a 1998 New York Film Festival worldwide critics' poll, Hou was named "one of the three directors most crucial to the future of cinema." ''A City of Sadness'' ranked 117th in the British Film Institute's 2012 ''Sight & Sound'' critics' poll of the greatest films ever made. In 2017, Met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival (; ), until 2003 called the International Film Festival ('), is the most prestigious film festival in the world. Held in Cannes, France, it previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world. Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. The festival was formally accredited by the FIAPF in 1951. Cannes is one of the "Big Three" major European film festivals, alongside Venice and Berlin, as well as one of the "Big Five" major international film festivals, alongside Venice, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance. History The early years The Cannes Film Festival has its origins in 1938 when Jean Zay, the French Minister of National Education, on the proposal of high-ranking official and historian Philippe Erlanger and film journalist Robert Favre Le Bret decided to set up an international cinematographic festival. They found the support of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
