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Duan Chun-hao
Duan Chun-hao () is a Taiwanese actor best known for his role as Hao-Hao in the romance film ''Millennium Mambo'' (2001). He received two nominations for Best Supporting Actor with his performances in ''Fancy 25'' (2002) and ''We Are Champions'' (2019), in the 39th and 56th Golden Horse Awards respectively. In 2022, he earned a nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries in the 57th Golden Bell Awards for portraying six different characters in the HBO Asia miniseries ''Twisted Strings''. Early life Duan studied performing arts at . He was a basketball team member in junior high and high school. During high school, he suffered from a spinal disc herniation and underwent multiple surgeries, which led to him skipping mandatory military service. At the age of 16, he began working part-time as a production assistant while studying at Hwa Kang, including on projects by Chang Hwa-kun, who also offered him a bit part in the Japanese film ''Rainy Dog'' which he produced. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing Film Academy
Beijing Film Academy (BFA; ) is a coeducational state-run higher education institution in Beijing, China. The film school is the largest institution specializing in the tertiary education for film and television production in Asia. The academy has earned international recognition for its achievements in film production. History Established in May 1950, the Beijing Film Academy was first named ''Performance Art Institution of the Film Bureau of the Ministry of Culture''. During its first year, 38 students enrolled. For the next five years, the school was renamed thrice - ''Film School of the Film Bureau of the Ministry of Culture'' in July 1951, ''Beijing Film School'' in March 1953 and finally, ''Beijing Film Academy'' on June 1, 1956. Upon its first establishment, the academy contained 2 schools - the ''School of Photography'' and the ''Animation School'' with the associated departments and their subsequent specialties. The Screenwriting Department was one of the earliest de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rainy Dog
is a 1997 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike, completely set and filmed in Taipei, Taiwan. Although the movie contains a fair amount of controversial material, the overall theme of the movie concerns the unlikely relationships formed between a hitman and his girlfriend / hooker and son. This movie is the second part of the ''Black Society'' trilogy. Plot The film begins with the main character, Yuuji, being fired from his yakuza syndicate. Soon he finds work for another boss solely as a pay-per-hit assassin, killing members of other syndicates. His life starts to become more complicated when an ex-girlfriend or hooker drops his son off at his house. His son, who is mute, begins to follow him, where the boy watches him shoot a man who is having lunch with his wife and infant son. Afterward, the boy follows Yuuji to a whorehouse where he waits outside. While waiting, he eats food from the garbage and befriends a puppy who is chained in the alley. The prostitute (Lilly) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nownews
EBC News () is a satellite cable news channel operated by Eastern Television in Taiwan. It was a free-to-air studios television launched on 1 January 1990. It was a holder channel for BBC News. It was another presenter news for Donald MacCormick. ETTV Asia News ETTV Asia News (, Pinyin: Dōngsēn yazhou xīnwén tái) is a satellite cable news channel operated by Eastern Television in Southeast Asia. It was a free-to-air studios television launched on 2002. EBC Asia News is 24-hour all-news channel specially designed to serve Asian viewers, The News Content is 24 Hours Nonstop Telecasting From Domestic Channels - EBC News and EBC News Americas, Some Commercial Only Aired International Feed with Original Programme Promos and Advertising due the Copyright, The Channel is Available on Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, Also Received Satellite Across Asia Pacific Countries such as Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Australia and New Zealand and More. ETTV News Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falling Into You (TV Series)
''Falling Into You'' () is a Taiwanese drama streaming television show, created for Taiwan Television and released on streaming platform Viki through its channel on Apple TV and Netflix internationally. It premiered on 19 September 2020. Plot Chen Zi Tong (Puff Kuo) is down on her luck. She was once a promising taekwondo athlete with hopes of competing at the Olympic Games, but she suffered a knee injury inflicted by a scheming friend and a disloyal boyfriend that made her turn her back on her sporting ambitions. Chen still dreams of returning to competition, but has been forced to take on a job as a worker at a startup delivery company where she meets its young, successful CEO Fang Zhi Sheng (Jiro Wang). She manages to land a job at his company's head office, but Fang soon discovers she is not that interested in him. However, Fang Zhi Sheng suffers from hemophobia and is scared at the sight of blood. Slowly, the unconventional duo begins to form a bond over this disease. Fang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashi Miike
is a Japanese film director, film producer and screenwriter. He has directed over one hundred theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. His films run through a variety of different genres, and range from violent and bizarre to dramatic and family-friendly movies. He is a controversial figure in the contemporary Japanese cinema industry, with several of his films being criticised for their extreme graphic violence. Some of his best known films are ''Audition'', ''Ichi the Killer'', ''Gozu'', ''One Missed Call'', the ''Dead or Alive'' trilogy, and various remakes: ''Graveyard of Honor'', '' Hara-kiri'' and ''13 Assassins''. Early life Miike was born in Yao, Osaka Prefecture, to a ''Nikkei'' family originally from the Kumamoto Prefecture, on the island of Kyushu. During World War II, his grandfather was stationed in China and Korea, and his father was born in Seoul in today's South Korea. His father worked as a welder and his mother as a sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Love (2019 Film)
is a 2019 crime thriller film directed by Takashi Miike. It tells the story of a boxer and a call girl who become unwittingly involved in a drug-smuggling scheme. The film premiered on 17 May 2019 in Directors' Fortnight, before being released in theaters in the United Kingdom and Japan in February 2020. Plot Leo, an up-and-coming boxer, works at a Chinese restaurant in Kabukichō, Tokyo as his day job. After taking a surprise punch and collapsing during a match, he is told by a doctor that he has an inoperable brain tumor and does not have long to live. Meanwhile, drug-addicted call girl Yuri is trying to pay off her father's debts. She is trapped by yakuza member Yasu and his girlfriend Julie in an apartment, which is used as one of the yakuza's drug-dealing hubs. In the same district of Tokyo, yakuza member Kase and corrupt cop Ōtomo plan a drug-smuggling scheme: they plan to steal drugs from Yasu and Julie, then blame it on Yuri, hoping her drug habit will be enough to con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taipei Film Awards
The Taipei Film Awards () are given by the Taipei Film Festival to honor achievements in Taiwanese cinema. Winners are selected from Taiwanese films which are presented in the competition section at the festival. Grand Prize winners Film awards Individual awards Outstanding Artistic Contribution awards Outstanding Contribution Award Other prizes Lifetime Achievement Award Best Individual Achievement Special Mention, Actress Special Grand Award of the Year Special Jury Award Special Mention Industry Award for Narrative Feature Non-Narrative Feature, Jury Prize Best Experimental Film Documentary Special Prize Creative Genre Film Award Best Fictional Film-Video Award Best Animated Film-Video Award Industry Award for Short Narrative Short – Jury Special Award Best Animation Short Animation Short – Special Mention Audience's Choice Award (2nd and 3rd place) Best Animation Directors Award Pro-Film Industry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018 Film)
''Long Day's Journey into Night'' (, literally "Last evenings on Earth") is a 2018 Chinese language, Chinese drama film directed by Bi Gan (film director), Bi Gan. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Despite the film's English-language title, it is unrelated to the 1956 Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey into Night, play of the same name. It is notable for its final 59 minutes, which consists of one unbroken long take in 3D film, 3D. Plot In the opening scene, Luo Hongwu (Huang Jue) remarks to a prostitute after intercourse how he is haunted by the memory of a woman who disappeared. The story of his involvement with that woman is then told in a chiefly non-linear, out-of-order series of scenes that resist easy explanation. Luo's hometown is Kaili City, Kaili, where he and his friend Wildcat grew up. Wildcat was to sell a quantity of apples to the sadistic gangster Zuo Hongyuan (Yongzhong Chen) and enlisted Luo's help, but Luo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cities Of Last Things
''Cities of Last Things'' ( zh, 幸福城市) is a drama film, directed by Ho Wi Ding and released in 2018."'Cities of Last Things': Film Review , TIFF 2018" '''', September 12, 2018. Plot The film opens in 2056 with the an unnamed person jumping out an apartment window and falling to his death. The story examines, in reverse chronological order three different timeframes of the life of Zhang Dong Ling leading up to his suicide. The first segment starts with a middle age ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missing Johnny
''Missing Johnny'' is a 2017 Taiwanese drama film written and directed by Huang Xi. The film stars Lawrence Ko, Rima Zeidan and Sean Huang. ''Missing Johnny'' is Huang's debut feature. It is executive produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien. Premise Hsu, a young woman who raises parrots and other feathered creatures in her apartment, keeps getting wrong phone calls for someone named Johnny. Lee, the autistic son of Hsu's landlady, seems to live in his own world. Chang is a shy handyman who feels disoriented whenever his beloved car breaks down. The lives of these three lonely individuals are drawn together when one of Hsu's parrots goes missing one day. Cast * Lawrence Ko as Chang Yi-feng * Rima Zeidan as Hsu Zi-qi * Sean Huang as Lee Li * Chang Kuo-chu as Chi-yuan * Kay Huang as Mrs. Lee * Duan Chun-hao as Hao * Tang Zhi-ping as Zhi-wei * Hsueh Ti-ying as Hsueh * Pao Chen-fang * Jack Kao Jack Kao (, born 23 April 1958) is a Taiwanese actor. Career He began his career in the late 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing
} Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 million residents. It has an administrative area of , the third in the country after Guangzhou and Shanghai. It is located in Northern China, and is governed as a municipality under the direct administration of the State Council with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts.Figures based on 2006 statistics published in 2007 National Statistical Yearbook of China and available online at archive. Retrieved 21 April 2009. Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jingjinji megalopolis and the national capital region of China. Beijing is a global city and one of the world's leading centres for culture, diplomacy, politics, financ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shu Qi
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