
Directing
Cheng Wen-tang
Born
1958-11-06 (67)
Place of birth
Yilan, Taiwan
Known for
Directing
Credits
29 titles
Known for
5.710+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are invited to make a 5-minute short film each on the theme of the “Uniqueness of Taiwan,” but allowed total freedom in all other aspects.
10 Plus 10
2011
NRNo synopsis available yet.
She's Family
2017
7.0A-Tek is on a quest to find his favorite metal band, Chthonic, and persuade them to play a benefit protest concert in his southern Taiwan hometown. Can music save a Taiwanese homeowner from a Chinese land grab? He sure hopes so.
Tshiong
2017
4.5Soon after a young police officer reports for duty, he is confronted with the unspoken rules. There are people who cannot be questioned and cases that cannot be further investigated. Although he has been sidelined, he refuses to give up the old case. However, having spent so much time and effort, will he find out the truth or some long forgotten conscience?
Maverick
2015
After listening to the story about millet and aboriginal, BaDu asks his teacher what millet is. In order to impress the teacher, BaDu and his best friend go on the trip to find millet.
Badu's Homework
2003
"Yang" was a desperate poor Taiwanese young man trying to find work in Tokyo. After being employed by a newspaper delivery stand he thought he could bring an end to the family's misfortune.
送報伕
2015
Behind the camera
5.710+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are invited to make a 5-minute short film each on the theme of the “Uniqueness of Taiwan,” but allowed total freedom in all other aspects.
10 Plus 10
2011
5.710+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are invited to make a 5-minute short film each on the theme of the “Uniqueness of Taiwan,” but allowed total freedom in all other aspects.
10 Plus 10
2011
NRNo synopsis available yet.
She's Family
2017
7.0A-Tek is on a quest to find his favorite metal band, Chthonic, and persuade them to play a benefit protest concert in his southern Taiwan hometown. Can music save a Taiwanese homeowner from a Chinese land grab? He sure hopes so.
Tshiong
2017
7.0A-Tek is on a quest to find his favorite metal band, Chthonic, and persuade them to play a benefit protest concert in his southern Taiwan hometown. Can music save a Taiwanese homeowner from a Chinese land grab? He sure hopes so.
Tshiong
2017
4.5Soon after a young police officer reports for duty, he is confronted with the unspoken rules. There are people who cannot be questioned and cases that cannot be further investigated. Although he has been sidelined, he refuses to give up the old case. However, having spent so much time and effort, will he find out the truth or some long forgotten conscience?
Maverick
2015
4.5Soon after a young police officer reports for duty, he is confronted with the unspoken rules. There are people who cannot be questioned and cases that cannot be further investigated. Although he has been sidelined, he refuses to give up the old case. However, having spent so much time and effort, will he find out the truth or some long forgotten conscience?
Maverick
2015
After listening to the story about millet and aboriginal, BaDu asks his teacher what millet is. In order to impress the teacher, BaDu and his best friend go on the trip to find millet.
Badu's Homework
2003
After listening to the story about millet and aboriginal, BaDu asks his teacher what millet is. In order to impress the teacher, BaDu and his best friend go on the trip to find millet.
Badu's Homework
2003
"Yang" was a desperate poor Taiwanese young man trying to find work in Tokyo. After being employed by a newspaper delivery stand he thought he could bring an end to the family's misfortune.
送報伕
2015
"Yang" was a desperate poor Taiwanese young man trying to find work in Tokyo. After being employed by a newspaper delivery stand he thought he could bring an end to the family's misfortune.
送報伕
2015
6.6There is usually only one full moon every month, but occasionally there are two – and that second full moon is called the Blue Moon. It is said that when a person sees a blue moon and makes a wish, he will be granted a second chance in things.
Blue Moon
1997
NRNo synopsis available yet.
People by the Sea
2007
6.3A detective seeks redemption after taking on an assignment involving the death of a girl.
Tears
2010
6.4Passionate about life and art, young researcher Ching is in love with museum historian Tung-Heng, but he is absorbed in his work. Then Tao arrives in Taiwan to view an item of historical calligraphy, and they realize why he pursues calligraphy.
The Passage
2004
4.7In the eyes of her classmates, Yvette is a rock-and-roll girl. Because of a congenital heart condition, she has dropped out of school and spends most of her time at home with her cat Summer, messing around, playing the guitar, and getting out and about.
Summer's Tail
2007
4.7In the eyes of her classmates, Yvette is a rock-and-roll girl. Because of a congenital heart condition, she has dropped out of school and spends most of her time at home with her cat Summer, messing around, playing the guitar, and getting out and about.
Summer's Tail
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Youngsters from Lanyang River
1998
NRAn indigenous construction worker has led a distasteful life, until he meets a young hooker, and starts a poetic journey of love⋯ Postcard is Cheng's first short film, which elegantly presents the situation of the lower class with songs and poems.
Postcard
2020
NRAn indigenous construction worker has led a distasteful life, until he meets a young hooker, and starts a poetic journey of love⋯ Postcard is Cheng's first short film, which elegantly presents the situation of the lower class with songs and poems.
Postcard
2020
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Freewill Of Formosa
2019
7.0A-Te used to be a social movement fanatic. But after suffering the pain of divorce and the death of his child, he changed his profession and became a taxi driver. Ma Le, a young aboriginal man, came to Taipei alone to earn a living on construction sites. However, unable to bear the exploitation, and in a rage, Ma Le accidentally killed a site superintendent and was sentenced to death. A-Te gave Ma Le a ride in his taxi on the night that Ma Le committed the killing and their two fates were thereafter intertwined.
Connection by Fate
1998
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tamsui Vanity
2000
Somewhere Over the Dreamland adopts a portmanteau form to provide a realistically poetic depiction of the sad fate of two generations of aboriginals as alienated laborers in Taipei city.
Somewhere Over the Dreamland
2003
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Pact of Choshui River
1999
7.5Just coming out of the jail, depressed and close-hearted, Ah Yu met two men with different characters from each other. One is a businessman, charming and mature; the other is a young supervisor in a factory with a promising future. But these two loves are short-lived, fading away like bubbles on the beach. With a wounded soul, she went back to the cottage owned by Sister An, a friend from jail.
Blue Cha Cha
2006
7.5Just coming out of the jail, depressed and close-hearted, Ah Yu met two men with different characters from each other. One is a businessman, charming and mature; the other is a young supervisor in a factory with a promising future. But these two loves are short-lived, fading away like bubbles on the beach. With a wounded soul, she went back to the cottage owned by Sister An, a friend from jail.
Blue Cha Cha
2006
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Wadan's Wine Bottle
2002
No synopsis available yet.
破浪而出
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