
Directing
Chen Yao-chi
Born
1938-01-01 (88)
Place of birth
Taiwan
Known for
Directing
Credits
29 titles
Yao-Chi Chen was born in 1938 in Taiwan. He is a director and production manager, known for Wanchun qingshi (1989), Di Di ri ji (1978) and Pi li da niu (1982).
Known for
NRA musical comedy developed from the usual poor-boy-loves-rich-girl situation.
Come Rain or Come Shine
1974
3.3Drama-thriller from Taiwan.
Kill for Love
1982
7.0The story depicts a dwarf who wanted to get married. Through the arrangement of his family, he was going to marry a girl, Peach. Peach rejected him in the beginning and gradually she was touched by his talents and thoughtfulness and finally accepted him.
Spring Swallow
1989
NRA hand-drawn animation of the Chinese folktale “Houyi Shoots Down the Suns.”
The Archer
1963
NRCharlie Chin is Cheng Chieh, an engineer obsessed with flying. Brigitte Lin is Liu Yen-mei, a rich girl who has to choose between Chieh and a rich man's son who stoops to manipulation to separate the 2 lovebirds.
Come Fly with Me
1976
4.0An attempted rape of a deaf mute girl causes her to take revenge. Soon the killings begin.
Girl with a Gun
1982
Film credits
1990s · 2 titles
NRA biographical documentary filmed in 1999 on the occasion of Chang Chao-tang (張照堂) receiving the National Award for Arts (國家文藝獎) in the Fine Arts category (美術類). In the film he is credited as both director and editor under the pseudonym “Gao Shang-tu” (高尚土)—a name derived by decomposing the character “tang” (堂) into its constituent elements “gao” (高), “shang” (尚), and “tu” (土). Semantically, the pseudonym implies a counter-reference to the notion of temple-like, institutional “high culture,” redirecting emphasis instead toward the vernacular and the earthy—suggesting that what is truly “noble” lies in the force emerging from the “soil” (土) of the people. For this reason, the film may also be understood as a semi-autobiographical documentary that carries an element of self-writing within its particular historical context.
The Instant of Gaze: Portraits by Chang Chao-Tang
1999
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Tofu Maker Had a Dream
1991
Behind the camera
NRA musical comedy developed from the usual poor-boy-loves-rich-girl situation.
Come Rain or Come Shine
1974
NRA musical comedy developed from the usual poor-boy-loves-rich-girl situation.
Come Rain or Come Shine
1974
3.3Drama-thriller from Taiwan.
Kill for Love
1982
7.0The story depicts a dwarf who wanted to get married. Through the arrangement of his family, he was going to marry a girl, Peach. Peach rejected him in the beginning and gradually she was touched by his talents and thoughtfulness and finally accepted him.
Spring Swallow
1989
NRA hand-drawn animation of the Chinese folktale “Houyi Shoots Down the Suns.”
The Archer
1963
NRCharlie Chin is Cheng Chieh, an engineer obsessed with flying. Brigitte Lin is Liu Yen-mei, a rich girl who has to choose between Chieh and a rich man's son who stoops to manipulation to separate the 2 lovebirds.
Come Fly with Me
1976
4.0An attempted rape of a deaf mute girl causes her to take revenge. Soon the killings begin.
Girl with a Gun
1982
4.0An attempted rape of a deaf mute girl causes her to take revenge. Soon the killings begin.
Girl with a Gun
1982
NRMandarin movie about the romance of an undergraduate with the prettiest girl on campus.
The Chasing Game
1976
NRA young girl, her life in despair, finds confidence in life again through the encouragement of her lover and relatives.
The Diary of Di-Di
1978
8.0Wu Linfang, an immigrant from the mainland to Taiwan more than a hundred years ago, grows from a poor boy to a leader who instructs villagers to open oil wells
The Pioneers
1980
NRDrama-thriller from Taiwan.
The Anger
1982
NRDrama-thriller from Taiwan.
The Anger
1982
7.0The director follows three art college students HUANG Yong-song, MOU Tun-fei, and HUANG Gui-rong as they enjoy an excursion into the mountains. As the song ‘California Dreamin’ plays, the three talk about their artistic ideals, how only KMT party members were eligible for scholarships, and their view on the Vietnam War.
The Mountain
1966
6.0A woman is raped and impregnated by a psychopath, who comes back from beyond the grave to exact revenge when his demonic son undergoes an exorcism.
Devil Returns
1982
6.0A woman is raped and impregnated by a psychopath, who comes back from beyond the grave to exact revenge when his demonic son undergoes an exorcism.
Devil Returns
1982
7.5Those who grew up in Hong Kong in the 1970s definitely remember the Wynners, a band formed by Alan Tam, Kenny Bee, Bennett Pang, Danny Yip, and Anthony Chan. They first dabbled into the film industry with Let's Rock in 1975, and in 1978 Taiwanese director Chen Yao Chi created another Wynners movie Making It. With a script tailored for the Wynners, youth film Making It is an updated Chinese version of The Prince and the Pauper. Five up-and-coming young music lovers, played by none other but the Wynners, overcome a lot of difficulties before they have a chance to perform at a restaurant. However, one of the band members, Alan (Alan Tam), suddenly feels ill and is hospitalized. His four friends fortunately come across the rich Sylvester (also Alan Tam) who looks exactly like Alan, and the four desperate band members ask him to take Alan's place for the performance. Meanwhile, Sylvester's parents, busily fetching Sylvester to fulfill an arranged marriage, mistake Alan as Sylvester...
Making It
1978
NRIt is the story of Yu Hoi-Tin who accompanies To Hiu-Kwan to search for the secret of the "priceless treasure" hidden in the jacket collar, the various encounters that happen and the love story between them.
Judy's Lucky Jacket
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NRBrigitte Lin and Charlie Chin star in this Taiwanese drama about a kindergarten teacher who falls in love with a divorcee but leaves him because she thinks he's still in love with his ex-wife.
The Misty Moon
1978
8.0An ambitious country boy gets a job as a security guard in Taipei.
Going Up, Anybody?!
1980
8.0An ambitious country boy gets a job as a security guard in Taipei.
Going Up, Anybody?!
1980
10.0Brigitte Lin stars as a young girl on the cusp of becoming a woman...a problem for her mother, who thinks it's about time that her daughter got hitched! The dilemma: Brigitte is a tomboy, and more likely to wallop a suitor than wink at him. Luckily, the neighbor's son Alan Tang is returning from obtaining his nuclear physics degree, and seems to be the perfect catch. Mom sets her trap, and Brigitte and Alan are roped in, much to their dismay! Ever the canny young girl, Brigitte does her best to pawn Alan off on her brother's girlfriend...but her heart tells her ever so slightly that she might have made a mistake! Can she win Alan back?
Run Lover Run
1975
THROUGH THE YEARS touches on the theme of Westward expansion by combining facts with fiction. A film about three college students.
Through the Years
1966
NRLIU PI-CHIA, a biographical documentary depicting the life of a veteran who joined tens of thousands of others to work on national infrastructure construction projects in the 1960s, is considered Taiwan’s first cinéma vérité film.
Liu Pi-Chia
1967
NRThe story is about three nurses, Bai Jiejun, Huang Siman and Lu Xiaoya, who are in love and in pursuit of a new doctor, Fan Erkang, at Hongkang Hospital.
A Test of Love
1970


