Yao Hung-i

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Yao Hung-i

Place of birth

Taiwan

Known for

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Credits

10 titles

Yao Hung-i (Chinese: 姚宏易) is a Taiwanese cinematographer and film director. He graduated from the Department of Product Craft Design of Fu-Hsin Trade and Arts School, was given an opportunity to join the film crew of director Hou Hsiao-hsien's "Good Men, Good Women" in 1994 due to his habit in photography. Beginning from an assistant job, Yao successively participated in many of Hou's filmmaking. Being encouraged by Hou, he started writing script and made his first film titled "Reflections" in 2006.

Known for

GATAO: Big Brothers poster
6.2

Michael and his right-hand man Scorpion, who find themselves embroiled in their father Ko's turf war against rival gangs in Taipei, setting off a conflict between old and new generations of gangsters. The film is the latest installment in the Gatao franchise, following the narrative of a young successor trying to expand his power while navigating the volatile underworld.

GATAO: Big Brothers

2025

GATAO: Like Father Like Son poster
7.3

Michael and his right-hand man Scorpion, who find themselves embroiled in their father Ko's turf war against rival gangs in Taipei, setting off a conflict between old and new generations of gangsters. The film is the latest installment in the Gatao franchise, following the narrative of a young successor trying to expand his power while navigating the volatile underworld.

GATAO: Like Father Like Son

2024

Gatao 3 poster
NR

Taiwanese gang leader Biao rises in the US but clashes with Hee and the Kowloon Society. Michael returns under Madam ZHANG Qiu-hua’s protection, forcing an uneasy alliance. In Taiwan, Ren escapes and heads to the Golden Triangle for revenge. As all forces converge, Hee strikes with a warlord, igniting a brutal cross-border battle. The fight ends, but the true ruler remains unknown.

Gatao 3

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The Immortal Lives poster
NR

In a stormy harbor city, the orphan Dayou grows up learning dark rituals from his master. Years later, he faces eerie hauntings, vengeful ghosts, and reckless youths who stir the spirits. As desires and curses intertwine, no one can tell angel from demon in the shadows.

The Immortal Lives

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Reflections poster
4.0

A couple is torn by conflicting emotions. Jing and Mi are two women living in Taiwan who have been lovers for some time; Jing is a singer in a rock band who suffers from severe mood swings and has been suffering from a fractured relationship with her mother, while Mi is the more sedate and level-headed of the couple.

Reflections

2007

Salute poster
8.8

Dancer SHEU Fang-yi’s career has been told through her modern dance dramas such as Sparrow, Stranger, Wall, and Martha GRAHAM‘s Heretic. Martha GRAHAM once said: “A dancer dies twice — once when they stop dancing, and this first death is the more painful.” At this intersection of her life, SHEU Fang-yi commemorates her glorious past two decades with a funeral, to farewell her past self, and to get ready to move toward her unknown future.

Salute

2022

Behind the camera

GATAO: Big Brothers poster
6.2

Michael and his right-hand man Scorpion, who find themselves embroiled in their father Ko's turf war against rival gangs in Taipei, setting off a conflict between old and new generations of gangsters. The film is the latest installment in the Gatao franchise, following the narrative of a young successor trying to expand his power while navigating the volatile underworld.

GATAO: Big Brothers

2025

GATAO: Like Father Like Son poster
7.3

Michael and his right-hand man Scorpion, who find themselves embroiled in their father Ko's turf war against rival gangs in Taipei, setting off a conflict between old and new generations of gangsters. The film is the latest installment in the Gatao franchise, following the narrative of a young successor trying to expand his power while navigating the volatile underworld.

GATAO: Like Father Like Son

2024

Gatao 3 poster
NR

Taiwanese gang leader Biao rises in the US but clashes with Hee and the Kowloon Society. Michael returns under Madam ZHANG Qiu-hua’s protection, forcing an uneasy alliance. In Taiwan, Ren escapes and heads to the Golden Triangle for revenge. As all forces converge, Hee strikes with a warlord, igniting a brutal cross-border battle. The fight ends, but the true ruler remains unknown.

Gatao 3

—

The Immortal Lives poster
NR

In a stormy harbor city, the orphan Dayou grows up learning dark rituals from his master. Years later, he faces eerie hauntings, vengeful ghosts, and reckless youths who stir the spirits. As desires and curses intertwine, no one can tell angel from demon in the shadows.

The Immortal Lives

—

The Immortal Lives poster
NR

In a stormy harbor city, the orphan Dayou grows up learning dark rituals from his master. Years later, he faces eerie hauntings, vengeful ghosts, and reckless youths who stir the spirits. As desires and curses intertwine, no one can tell angel from demon in the shadows.

The Immortal Lives

—

Reflections poster
4.0

A couple is torn by conflicting emotions. Jing and Mi are two women living in Taiwan who have been lovers for some time; Jing is a singer in a rock band who suffers from severe mood swings and has been suffering from a fractured relationship with her mother, while Mi is the more sedate and level-headed of the couple.

Reflections

2007

Reflections poster
4.0

A couple is torn by conflicting emotions. Jing and Mi are two women living in Taiwan who have been lovers for some time; Jing is a singer in a rock band who suffers from severe mood swings and has been suffering from a fractured relationship with her mother, while Mi is the more sedate and level-headed of the couple.

Reflections

2007

Salute poster
8.8

Dancer SHEU Fang-yi’s career has been told through her modern dance dramas such as Sparrow, Stranger, Wall, and Martha GRAHAM‘s Heretic. Martha GRAHAM once said: “A dancer dies twice — once when they stop dancing, and this first death is the more painful.” At this intersection of her life, SHEU Fang-yi commemorates her glorious past two decades with a funeral, to farewell her past self, and to get ready to move toward her unknown future.

Salute

2022

Salute poster
8.8

Dancer SHEU Fang-yi’s career has been told through her modern dance dramas such as Sparrow, Stranger, Wall, and Martha GRAHAM‘s Heretic. Martha GRAHAM once said: “A dancer dies twice — once when they stop dancing, and this first death is the more painful.” At this intersection of her life, SHEU Fang-yi commemorates her glorious past two decades with a funeral, to farewell her past self, and to get ready to move toward her unknown future.

Salute

2022

Hometown Boy poster
8.0

One of the best-known Chinese figurative painters, Liu Xiaodong goes back to his hometown of Jincheng, in the province of Liaoning (North-East China), to re-paint again friends and relatives after several years have gone by. With a soundtrack by famed composer Lim Giong (Millennium Mambo, The Assassin).

Hometown Boy

2011