Directing

Yao Feng-Pan

Born — Died

1932-08-10 — 2004-06-26

Place of birth

China

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Feng-Pan Yao was born August 1932 in Anhui Province. Early employment consisted of reporting, editing and head writing duties in Taipei news publications. In 1956, he won an award for investigative journalism. In 1960, he began screenwriting. In 1968, he won a prize for his movie criticism. After that, he received commendation for being an up-and-coming writer in the younger generation and, in 1969, graduated to directing. From then until the early 80s, he almost exclusively shot ghost stories and made dozens of them, earning himself the nickname "King of Ghost Films" by the Taiwanese press. After the popularity of ghost films waned, Mr. Yao started his own magazine, a chain of fast food sto…

Known for

Behind the camera

The Black Pearl poster
NR

Women are beaten, raped, tortured and killed in brutal prison.

The Black Pearl

1982

The Tale of Old House poster
NR

Under the twilight at dusk in the vast plain with dog barking a young man Yo-ching and his wife Chiu-yun as well as their daughter are walking toward a giant deserted house. A queer old lady lives upstairs there and arranges them to sleep. Chilly wind blows in the mid-night shaking the old windows. The first night passes under terrible fear. Yo-ching goes out to arrange the matters for his father's bones the next morning. The old lady is out as well. As it turns dark, Chiu-yun and her little daughter feel scared. In the old house, she is terribly scared by one after another and she leaves the old house and by mistake enters another old house and is scared again. Yo-ching finds her and takes her back to the old house. A young lady comes downstairs in the old house to Yo-ching. Who is the mysterious young lady? Is she a human or a ghost? By whom she was murdered?.........

The Tale of Old House

1979

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

弱者是男人

1970

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

弱者是男人

1970

The 3 Musketeers of Dragon Inn poster
NR

Taiwanese swordplay film.

The 3 Musketeers of Dragon Inn

1968

The Lost Dream poster
NR

Taiwanese drama.

The Lost Dream

1977

The New Moon poster
NR

Taiwanese horror film.

The New Moon

1978

Nightmarish Highway poster
NR

A car accident on a curvy road with a history of death is just the beginning of a woman's horror story.

Nightmarish Highway

1982

Furious Dragon poster
NR

A great Kung Fu expert is murdered by a gang of thugs who are accompanied by a Japanese warlord. The Kung Fu experts young son is also attacked by the thugs and turned into a mute. 10 years later, the boy, now a young man, goes after the men who slaughtered his family.

Furious Dragon

1973

No artwork available
NR

Taiwanese horror movie from 1973.

The Blood Sucker

1973

No artwork available
NR

Taiwanese horror movie from 1973.

The Blood Sucker

1973

The Old House poster
NR

Taiwanese horror film.

The Old House

1977

The Blue Lamp in Winter Night poster
7.0

On his way to take the imperial examinations, a young scholar encounters the beautiful ghost Nie Xiaoqian, who is bound to a malevolent supernatural power. As the two fall in love, he is drawn into a struggle to free her from the forces controlling her.

The Blue Lamp in Winter Night

1975

Ghost Under the Cold Moonlight poster
NR

Taiwanese horror film.

Ghost Under the Cold Moonlight

1975

Scary Devil poster
NR

Taiwanese horror movie from 1981.

Scary Devil

1981

Scary Devil poster
NR

Taiwanese horror movie from 1981.

Scary Devil

1981

Secrets of the Inner Chamber poster
3.3

The story is about a licentious emperor during the Tang Dynasty.

Secrets of the Inner Chamber

1985

The Mid-Night poster
NR

Taiwanese horror film.

The Mid-Night

1981

Defective Lamp at Midnight poster
NR

Taiwanese horror movie from 1977.

Defective Lamp at Midnight

1977

Horror Inn poster
NR

Taiwanese horror movie from 1979.

Horror Inn

1979

Keep Out of Danger poster
NR

Taiwanese horror film.

Keep Out of Danger

1980

Demons Apartment poster
NR

A family just moved in a new mansion in the suburbs, but weird things happen on and on. The wife sees a dead man’s skull. The son strangely says he sees many people in the living room. Is the house haunted or could there be some other reason?

Demons Apartment

1986

Black Bull and White Snake poster
7.0

In Chinese folklore a white snake symbolizes a woman, especially an evil type of woman, while a black bull typifies a man, robust, strong and virile. "Black Bull and White Snake", a film version of Young Nien-ts'u's best-selling novel of the same title, is exactly about a white snake-woman, having been sold into prostitution at an early age, is rescued by a black bull of a man only to fall back into the gutter again. A production from the Grand Motion Picture Company, "Black Bull and White Snake" stars Chiang Ching and newcomer Tien Yeh.

Black Bull and White Snake

1970

Our Neighbor poster
5.0

An orphaned girl in a poverty-stricken neighborhood is adopted by a kindly neighbor. He struggles to support her honestly, despite opportunities to participate in a neighbor’s scurrilous get-rich-quick schemes. Invoking the pain of Chinese exiles living in Taiwan, or missing relatives still in China, the touching film posits an in-between historical period during which it is crucial for displaced residents to maintain virtue as a bedrock of identity.

Our Neighbor

1963

The Midnight Song poster
NR

A gravely ill company chairman refuses his medication while his attentive private secretary courts the chairman’s daughter. After the chairman dies, the secretary wins her love and gains control of the family fortune — only for his true, murderous intentions to emerge.

The Midnight Song

1976

Glass Eyeball poster
NR

Taiwanese horror movie from 1969.

Glass Eyeball

1969

Glass Eyeball poster
NR

Taiwanese horror movie from 1969.

Glass Eyeball

1969

The Ghost Lover poster
NR

While camping in the mountains, a college student finds a bundle intended for a ghost marriage and encounters a mysterious young woman living in an isolated house. As he falls in love with her, he is drawn into a supernatural romance that crosses the boundary between the living and the dead.

The Ghost Lover

1976

Lady Snow poster
NR

A lecherous scholar pursues a recently widowed woman. Though warned by a Taoist priest that the woman is a ghost, it may be too late for the scholar and his family.

Lady Snow

1969

Lady Snow poster
NR

A lecherous scholar pursues a recently widowed woman. Though warned by a Taoist priest that the woman is a ghost, it may be too late for the scholar and his family.

Lady Snow

1969

Lady Sun poster
7.0

Taiwanese horror movie from 1966.

Lady Sun

1966

The True and False Wife poster
5.5

Taiwanese romantic comedy.

The True and False Wife

1971

The True and False Wife poster
5.5

Taiwanese romantic comedy.

The True and False Wife

1971

The Terrible Night poster
NR

Taiwanese horror film.

The Terrible Night

1978

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Perturbed Girl

1966

The Furious Avenger poster
9.2

In the early days of the war of resistance against the foreign power invasion, Wu is captured and most of his family members are brutally murdered. Wu swears to seek revenge. He tracks down the murderers one by one.

The Furious Avenger

1974

The Old Lock poster
NR

Ghost story.

The Old Lock

1977

Love with Cloud poster
NR

Wong Chi-chae, an ambitious young doctor, is secretly in a relationship with Cheng Yuh-hsya, a nurse. When the president of the hospital selects Wong to be his daughter's suitor, the doctor breaks off his relationship with Yuh-hsya, who reveals that she is pregnant and determined to keep the child. During a heated argument, Wong kills Yuh-hsya and hides her body in a well. He then begins to lose his grip on reality. Has he truly become the victim of Yuh-hsya's supernatural revenge?

Love with Cloud

1981

Shocking! poster
7.0

Taiwan / HK co-production centers around a haunted house and has never been outside of Asia.

Shocking!

1981

At Dawn poster
5.8

A newly appointed court official is shocked at the corruption he witnesses.

At Dawn

1968