Liao Ching-sung

Editing

Liao Ching-sung

Born 1950-03-05 · Taipei, Taiwan

Liao Ching-Sung (Chinese: 廖慶松) was born in 1950. He began his career as an editing technician at the Central Motion Picture Corp, and has been responsible for the editing of many of the "Taiwan New Wave" works. In particular, he began work with Hou Hsiao-Hsien on military documentaries at the Central Motion Picture Corp, and with the exception of "A Time to Live and A Time to Die" he has been responsible for the editing of all of Hou's works. Other major works include "The Terrorist " (1987, directed by Edward Yang) and "Dust of Angels" (1992, directed by Hsu Hsiao-Ming). He was awarded Special Contribution Award at the 55th Golden Horse Awards.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Three Times poster
7.0

In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.

Three Times

2005

Café Lumière poster
6.8

In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.

Café Lumière

2004

When The Ocean Is Blue poster
NR

A couple and their son and daughter struggle through their divorce. The children try to cope after moving away to their grandparents', who live by the ocean, with the help of fairy tales that are told to them.

When The Ocean Is Blue

1988

See You poster
7.5

After his suicide, a teen ghost contacts his classmate through sign language, revealing the queer love and pain they were never allowed to voice.

See You

2024

Be My Lovely Child Again poster
7.0

The story of a little girl who has leukemia but wants to live a normal life just like any other child.

Be My Lovely Child Again

1987

It Takes Two to Tango poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

It Takes Two to Tango

2014

End of Summer poster
5.7

A coming-of-age family drama with a timid fifth grader, an orthodox middle-aged teacher, and a grumpy old man awakening to their true selves during the 1998 World Cup.

End of Summer

2017

One Step is Enough poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

One Step is Enough

2011

The Sleep Goddess poster
NR

An exploration of life through the perspective of the sleepy bug.

The Sleep Goddess

Hunter Brothers poster
6.0

Seven years ago, Lin Cheng was jailed for his father’s death. Finally released, he and older brother Hsiang, the real culprit, must face the consequences of the past together.

Hunter Brothers

2025

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

Super Citizen poster
10.0

A young man from the country comes to Taipei to search for his sister from whom he has heard nothing during the past year. Beginning in a tenement slum, the young man travels through the city's lowlife, where street hustlers sell fake Rolex watches and other contraband, gangs fight each other, and the ubiquitous sex businesses ply their trade. The young man befriends a rich teenage girl and a young prostitute as he and a hustler who knew his sister search for her through a trail of clues leading to restaurants, dance joints, and brothels.

Super Citizen

1985

Super Citizen Ko poster
7.2

At an old age, a former political prisoner is determined to find out where his fellow sufferers have laid since their secret execution, while Taiwan embarks on a tumultuous path of democratization.

Super Citizen Ko

1995

Super Citizen Ko poster
7.2

At an old age, a former political prisoner is determined to find out where his fellow sufferers have laid since their secret execution, while Taiwan embarks on a tumultuous path of democratization.

Super Citizen Ko

1995

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sacrificial Victims

2004