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Chu T'ien-wen is a Scriptwriter and Producer Taiwanaise born on 24 august 1956
Chu Tien-wen (Chinese: 朱天文; pinyin: Zhū Tiānwén; born August 24, 1956 in Taipei, Taiwan) is one of Taiwan's most prominent writers. She is the daughter of Chu Hsi-ning and the older sister of Chu Tien-hsin. Some of her literary works include "Fin-de-Siècle Splendour" (1990) and Notes of a Desolate Man 荒人手記 (1994). She wrote many of the scripts for the famous Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien. Her screenwriting credits include movies like Taipei Story, The Puppetmaster, Goodbye South, Goodbye, Millennium Mambo, City of Sadness 悲情城市 (1989) and many more.
Vers la fin des années 1970, avec sa sœur, elle a créé la revue Sansan jikan (三三季刊), puis les éditions Sansan shufang (三三書坊).
Elle est l’auteur d’une douzaine de livres, recueils de nouvelles et de textes en prose, mais également d’un roman, Huangren shouji (荒人手记), qui a été récompensé en 1994 par le Zhongguo shibao (China Times) et dont il existe une version anglaise, Notes of a Desolate Man (trad. par Howard Goldblatt et Sylvia Li-chun Lin, 1999).
Plusieurs de ses nouvelles ont été traduites en français.
Elle est également scénariste : elle a colloboré à de nombreuses reprises avec le cinéaste taïwanais Hou Hsiao-hsien.
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Chu Tien-wen (Chinese: 朱天文; pinyin: Zhū Tiānwén; born August 24, 1956 in Taipei, Taiwan) is one of Taiwan's most prominent writers. She is the daughter of Chu Hsi-ning and the older sister of Chu Tien-hsin. Some of her literary works include "Fin-de-Siècle Splendour" (1990) and Notes of a Desolate Man 荒人手記 (1994). She wrote many of the scripts for the famous Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien. Her screenwriting credits include movies like Taipei Story, The Puppetmaster, Goodbye South, Goodbye, Millennium Mambo, City of Sadness 悲情城市 (1989) and many more.
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Chu T’ien-wen (Zhu Tianwen) est un des écrivains les plus importants de Taiwan. Elle est la fille de Chu Hsi-ning (Zhu Xining 朱西宁, 1927-1998), et la sœur de Chu T’ien-hsin (Zhu Tianxin 朱天心, née en 1958), lesquels sont eux aussi des romanciers.Vers la fin des années 1970, avec sa sœur, elle a créé la revue Sansan jikan (三三季刊), puis les éditions Sansan shufang (三三書坊).
Elle est l’auteur d’une douzaine de livres, recueils de nouvelles et de textes en prose, mais également d’un roman, Huangren shouji (荒人手记), qui a été récompensé en 1994 par le Zhongguo shibao (China Times) et dont il existe une version anglaise, Notes of a Desolate Man (trad. par Howard Goldblatt et Sylvia Li-chun Lin, 1999).
Plusieurs de ses nouvelles ont été traduites en français.
Elle est également scénariste : elle a colloboré à de nombreuses reprises avec le cinéaste taïwanais Hou Hsiao-hsien.
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The Assassin (2015)
, 1h45Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama, Martial arts, Action, Historical, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Wuxia films
Actors Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Zhou Yun, Tetsuya Komuro, Zuo Xiaoqing
Rating63%
The film is set during the Tang Dynasty-period in Chinese history, in 9th century China. The film centers on Nie Yinniang (played by Shu Qi) a female killer appointed to slay corrupt government officials by her master, Jiaxin, a nun who raised her from the age of ten. When Yinniang displays mercy by failing to kill during her duties, Jiaxing punishes her with a ruthless assignment designed to test Yinniang’s resolve. She is sent to the distant province/circuit of Weibo in northern China, which is led by the military governor Tian Ji'an, her cousin and former lover.
Three Times (2005)
, 2h12Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors Shu Qi, Chang Chen
Roles Author
Rating68%
(Chinese: 戀愛夢; pinyin: liàn ài mèng) Set in Kaohsiung in 1966, with dialogue in Taiwanese Hokkien.
Café Lumière (2004)
, 1h43Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Actors Tadanobu Asano, Masato Hagiwara, Kimiko Yo, Nenji Kobayashi, Kimiko Yo
Roles Writer
Rating67%
The story revolves around Yoko Inoue (played by Yo Hitoto), a young Japanese woman doing research on Taiwanese composer Jiang Wen-Ye, whose work is featured on the soundtrack. The late composer's Japanese wife and daughter also make appearances as themselves.
Millennium Mambo (2001)
, 1h59Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Shu Qi, Jack Kao, Doze Niu, Pauline Chan
Roles Auteur
Rating69%
The main character, Vicky, portrayed by actress Shu Qi narrates from 2011 about her life 10 years earlier. She describes her youth and story of her changing life at the beginning of the new millennium. She works as a hostess in a trendy bar. Vicky is torn between two men, Hao-Hao and Jack, and her journeys display the parallel journey of the psyche and how one girl deals with her fleeting youth.
Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
, 2h10Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Annie Yi, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Carina Lau, Michiko Hada, Jack Kao, Michelle Reis
Roles Writer
Rating72%
In four elegant brothels, called "Flower Houses", in fin-de-siècle 19th-century Shanghai (Qing dynasty), several affairs are described. Events presumably take place in 1884, a year named in one of the scenes. The action involves four men who live for pleasure, and takes place mostly in the light of oil lamps, giving the film a claustrophobic feel. Preparation and consumption of opium and tea occur more than once, and dishes of food are served and hot towels prepared in several scenes.
Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996)
, 1h52Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Crime
Actors Jack Kao, Annie Yi, Vicky Wei
Rating71%
Gao (Jack Kao) rides the train to Pinghsi to set up a 10-day gambling den with his friend Hsi (Hsi Hsiang). He takes his acolyte Flatty (Lim Giong) and Pretzel (Annie Shizuka Inoh), Flatty's girl friend, who works part-time in a night club.
Good Men, Good Women (1995)
, 1h48Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Annie Yi, Jack Kao, Vicky Wei
Roles Writer
Rating70%
The film depicts the real-life story of Chiang Bi-Yu (Annie Shizuka Inoh). In the 1940s, she and her newlywed husband, Chung Hao-Tung (Giong Lim), head to mainland China to join the anti-Japanese resistance. During the war, she is forced to give her baby for adoption. After the war they return to Taiwan, as Chung is to distribute a communist paper called "The Enlightenment". However, as the Korean War deepens, Chiang Kai-Shek's Kuomintang regime intensifies the White Terror and Chung is eventually executed.
The Puppetmaster (1993)
, 2h22Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama, War, Biography
Actors Vicky Wei
Roles Writer
Rating70%
It tells the story of Li Tian-lu who becomes a master puppeteer but is faced with demands to turn his skills to propaganda during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in World War II. This film is the second in Hou's trilogy of historical films that include A City of Sadness (1989) and Good Men, Good Women (1995).
A City of Sadness (1989)
, 2h37Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Jack Kao, Wu Nien-jen
Roles Writer
Rating77%
The film depicts the Lin family's experiences during the February 28 Incident. The eldest brother Wen-heung (Sung Young Chen) is murdered by a Shanghai mafia boss, the middle brother Wen-leung (Jack Kao) suffers a traumatic brain injury in a KMT jailhouse, and the youngest brother Wen-ching (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), who is both deaf and mute, hopes to flee to the mountains with his friend to fight in the anti-KMT resistance movement. By the end of the film even the photographer Wen-ching has been arrested by the authorities, leaving only his wife to tell the story of the family's destruction.
Daughter of the Nile (1987)
, 1h31Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jack Kao, Yonfan, Wu Nien-jen
Roles Writer
Rating69%
Lin Hsiao-yang (Lin Yang), tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. Her mother and older brother are dead. Her father (Fu Sheng Tsui) works out of town. It's up to Lin Hsiao-yang to take care of her pre-teen sister, who has already begun to steal, and a brother (Jack Kao) who is a burglar and gang member.
Dust in the Wind (1986)
, 1h49Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama, Romance
Roles Writer
Rating75%
A love story about a young couple from a village in the northern-east part of Taiwan. The boy, Ah-yuan goes to Taipei to work after graduating from junior high school so he can earn money to send home. The girl, Ah-yun follows him the next year and they work hard to earn enough money to marry. Then Ah-yuan must spend three years in the military and the girl marries someone else. Although Ah-yuan regrets what happened he does not blame Ah-yun.
Taipei Story (1985)
, 1h50Directed by Edward Yang (楊德昌)
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Chin, Tsai Chin, Wu Nien-jen, Cynthia Khan
Roles Ecrivain
Rating75%
Taipei Story concerns a young woman (Tsai Chin) urgently seeking to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei, and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung (Hou Hsiao-hsien) 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.
, 2h18Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama
Actors Tien Feng
Roles Writer
Rating74%
Spanning the years 1947-1965, the film follows the maturation of Ah-ha (Ah-hsiao) as he and his family (parents, grandmother, older sister, three brothers) cope with the shock of leaving their homeland (the grandmother keeps talking about returning to the mainland to visit the ancestors). Having been only a child during the move, Ah-ha quickly acclimatize himself to the new country, often putting him at odds with his more traditional family; he joins a street gang and has to choose between that life and taking the college entrance exam.
A Summer at Grandpa's (1984)
, 1h33Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama
Actors Edward Yang (楊德昌)
Roles Writer
Rating75%
Tung-tung et sa petite sœur Pi-yun partent pour quelques semaines chez leur grand-père, leur mère étant très malade. À travers les vacances des enfants, lumineuses et gaies, à travers leurs jeux anodins, la mort et des drames insoupconnés jaillissent dans le monde des adultes.
The Boys from Fengkuei (1983)
, 1h41Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama
Actors Doze Niu, Hou Hsiao-hsien
Roles Writer
Rating72%
Ah-Ching et ses amis ont fini leurs études dans leur village de pêcheurs et passent maintenant leur temps à boire et à se battre. Trois d'entre eux décident d'aller à la ville portuaire de Kaohsiung pour rechercher un travail. Ils y font face aux dures réalités de la vie.