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Wolves Cry Under The Moon
''Wolves Cry Under the Moon'' is a 1997 Taiwanese road movie directed by Ho Ping, written by Kuo Cheng and Ho Ping. The story is based on 4 short stories by Kuo Cheng. Plot The overall story is based on Kuo Cheng's 1993 short story "Highway Closing" (國道封閉, also the film's Chinese title). Sub-plot 1: "The Journey of the Wolf" Based on Kuo Cheng's 1991 short story "The Journey of the Wolf" (狼行千里), which has been translated into English by Susan Wilf.'' Renditions'', Spring 2002 * Tou Chung-hua * Ku Pao-ming Sub-plot 2: "Driving on the Road" Based on Kuo Cheng's 1988 short story "Driving on the Road" (開車上路). * Chang Shih * Yue Hong Sub-plot 3: "The Heart Thief" Based on Kuo Cheng's 1997 short story "The Heart Thief" (偷心賊). * Annie Yi Wu Chin-yi (; born March 4, 1968), better known as Annie Yi () or Annie Shizuka Inoh ( ja, 伊能 静, Inō Shizuka), is a Taiwanese singer, actress, and writer. Early life and education Wu Chin-yi () was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ho Ping
Ho Ping (; born 1958) is a Taiwanese film director. Born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, he studied chemical engineering at Tunghai University before moving to the United States to earn an MFA from Syracuse University. Upon graduation, Ho returned to Taiwan in 1987 and released his directorial debut, ''The Digger'' (''Yin jian xiang ma'') (1988). The next year, he won the Special Jury Prize at the 25th Golden Horse Awards with ''The Suona Player'' (''Chui gu chui'', also known as ''For whom the Suona Blows''). Both ''The Digger'' and ''The Suona Player'' were film adaptions of short stories written by Wang Ben-hu. According to director Daw-Ming Lee, his films share a "bitter tone of absurdity" and he is influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Shūji Terayama and Luis Buñuel. Ho has won a number of awards throughout his career, including the International Federation of Film Critics Award, the Don Quixote Prize of the International Federation of Film Societies, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuo Cheng
Tao Te-san (born 24 August 1955), better known by his pen name Kuo Cheng, is a Taiwanese fiction writer. He is perhaps best known for writing the screenplays of several films directed by Ho Ping and Kevin Chu. His older brother Tao Te-chen (陶德辰) was a filmmaker-actor in the 1980s. Their family originated in Huanggang, Hubei, China. Works "The Journey of the Wolf" was one of the stories Kuo used when he and director Ho Ping Ho Ping (; born 1958) is a Taiwanese film director. Born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, he studied chemical engineering at Tunghai University before moving to the United States to earn an MFA from Syracuse University. Upon graduation, Ho returned to Taiw ... wrote the screenplay for Ho's 1997 film '' Wolves Cry Under the Moon''. Filmography Films TV Dramas (incomplete) Film awards References External links * * 1955 births Taiwanese screenwriters Writers from Taipei Taiwanese male short story writers Living people 20th-century Taiwanese sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Yi
Wu Chin-yi (; born March 4, 1968), better known as Annie Yi () or Annie Shizuka Inoh ( ja, 伊能 静, Inō Shizuka), is a Taiwanese singer, actress, and writer. Early life and education Wu Chin-yi () was born on March 4, 1968 in Taipei, Taiwan, the youngest of seven daughters of Yang Shu-wan () and Wu Min (). Her mother is from Keelung and her father is from Shandong. Her father divorced her mother to married another woman who gave him a boy, her half-brother Wu Pu-hui (). During her childhood, she was sent to study in a primary school at Hong Kong to learn English. Then, she moved to Japan to live with her mother and her step-father 伊能祥光, a Japanese man from the Ryukyu Islands. She took her step-father's surname and took a Japanese name "Shizuka Inoh" ( ja, 伊能 静江, Inō Shizuka). She lived in Tokyo, Japan for six years and studied at Tokyo Chinese School. After returning to Taiwan in 1988, she took the stage name "Yi Nengjing" (), by simplifying her Japanese na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chang Shih (actor)
Chang Shih (; born 7 February 1966) is a Taiwanese actor. He won the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1989. Filmography Film TV series *''The Emperor in Han Dynasty'' (2005) *''The Lucky Stars'' (2005) *''The Myth (TV series), The Myth'' (2010) External links * * 1966 births Living people Taiwanese male television actors Taiwanese male film actors 20th-century Taiwanese male actors 21st-century Taiwanese male actors Taiwanese film directors {{Taiwan-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tou Chung-hua
Tuo Tsung-hua (; born 10 October 1962) is a Taiwanese actor. He won the 2005 Golden Bell Award for Best Actor. Selected filmography *''Osmanthus Alley'' (1987) *'' A Home Too Far'' (1990) *'' Zodiac Killers'' (1991) *'' 18'' (1993) *''The Day the Sun Turned Cold'' (1994) *''Siao Yu'' (1995) *'' The Christ of Nanjing'' (1995) *'' Wolves Cry Under the Moon'' (1997) *''July Rhapsody ''July Rhapsody'' () is a 2002 Hong Kong drama film directed by Ann Hui and produced by Ann Hui and Derek Yee. Overview The film's Chinese title literally translates to Man, 40. Its alternative title is Laam yan sei sap. The film explores mi ...'' (2002) *''The Pawnshop No. 8'' (2003) *''Island of Fire'' (2006) *''Lust, Caution'' (2007) *''Parking (2008 film), Parking'' (2008) *''The Warrior and the Wolf'' (2009) *''Soul (2013 film), Soul'' (2013) *''Bromance (2015 TV series), Bromance'' (2015) *''First of May (2015 film), First of May'' (2015) *''Godspeed (film), Godspeed'' (2016) *''Plant Goddes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ku Pao-ming
Ku Pao-ming (; 8 April 1950 – 19 March 2022) was a Taiwanese actor and comedian. He appeared with the in ''Art'' (2003), alongside Chin Shih-chieh and Lee Li-chun, as well as ''The Apartment'' (2006). Ku also performed in ''Legitimate Crimes'' (2009) with the Ping-Fong Acting Troupe and its founder Hugh Lee. Ku died of congestive heart failure on 19 March 2022, at the age of 71. Selected filmography *'''' (1986) *'' |
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, often stylized as tiff) is one of the largest publicly attended film festivals in the world, attracting over 480,000 people annually. Since its founding in 1976, TIFF has grown to become a permanent destination for film culture operating out of the TIFF Bell Lightbox, located in Downtown Toronto. TIFF's mission is "to transform the way people see the world through film". Year-round, the TIFF Bell Lightbox offers screenings, lectures, discussions, festivals, workshops, industry support, and the chance to meet filmmakers from Canada and around the world. TIFF Bell Lightbox is located on the north west corner of King Street and John Street in downtown Toronto. In 2016, 397 films from 83 countries were screened at 28 screens in downtown Toronto venues, welcoming an estimated 480,000 attendees, over 5,000 of whom were industry professionals. TIFF starts the Thursday night after Labour Day (the first Monday in September in Canada) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwanese Hokkien
Taiwanese Hokkien () (; Tâi-lô: ''Tâi-uân-uē''), also known as Taigi/Taigu (; Pe̍h-ōe-jī/Tâi-lô: ''Tâi-gí / Tâi-gú''), Taiwanese, Taiwanese Minnan, Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively by about 70%+ of the population of Taiwan. It is spoken by a significant portion of Taiwanese people descended from immigrants of southern Fujian during the Qing dynasty. It is one of the national languages of Taiwan. Taiwanese is generally similar to spoken Amoy dialect, Amoy Hokkien, Quanzhou dialect, Quanzhou Hokkien, and Zhangzhou dialect, Zhangzhou Hokkien, as well as their dialectal forms used in Southeast Asia, such as Singaporean Hokkien, Penang Hokkien, Philippine Hokkien, Medan Hokkien, & Southern Peninsular Malaysian Hokkien. It is Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible with Amoy dialect, Amoy Hokkien and Zhangzhou dialects, Zhangzhou Hokkien at the mouth of the Jiulong River (九龍) immediately to the west in mainland China and wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road Movie
A road movie is a film genre in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday lives. Road movies often depict travel in the hinterlands, with the films exploring the theme of alienation and examining the tensions and issues of the cultural identity of a nation or historical period; this is all often enmeshed in a mood of actual or potential menace, lawlessness, and violence, a "distinctly existential air"Cohan, Steven and Hark, Ina Rae. "Introduction". ''The Road Movie Book''. Eds. Cohan, Steven and Hark, Ina Rae. Routledge, 2002. p. 1 and 6 and is populated by restless, "frustrated, often desperate characters".Laderman, David. ''Driving Visions: Exploring the Road Movie''. University of Texas Press, 2010. Ch. 1 The setting includes not just the close confines of the car as it moves on highways and roads, but also booths in diners and rooms in roadside motels, all of which helps to create intimacy and tension between the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunghai University
Tunghai University (THU; ) is the oldest private university in Taiwan, established in 1955. It was founded by the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (UBCHEA). It is located in Xitun District, Taichung, Taiwan. According to ''Times Higher Education''s Impact Rankings 2020, the university is rated as the most impactful private university in Taiwan and third in the country. The first president, :zh:曾約農, Beauson Tseng, said "Pioneering will be our watchword", hoping that Tunghai would become an outstanding and innovative university. Tunghai became the first university in Taiwan to introduce universal AI education, AWS-powered innovation school and the first in Central Taiwan to establish a Chinese Language Center. The university is known for its liberal arts education, and universal artificial intelligence curriculum. On the grounds, the Luce Memorial Chapel (designed by architects Chen Chi-kwan and I. M. Pei) is a local landmark. The logo of the university co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renditions (magazine)
''Renditions: A Chinese-English Translation Magazine'' () is a literary magazine on Chinese literature in English translation published by the Research Centre for Translation (RCT) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It was established in 1973 and covers Chinese literature, from classical works of poetry, prose, and fiction to their contemporary counterparts, as well as articles on art, Chinese studies, and translation studies. ''Renditions'' is published twice a year, in May and in November. History ''Renditions'' was established by Chinese American translator George Kao who was a visiting senior fellow at RCT and contributed a number of translations to the journal himself. Special issues Special issues include one on women's writing (issues 27 & 28, 1987) by writers from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; the first anthology of Hong Kong literature in any language (issues 29 & 30, 1988); Chinese Impressions of the West (issues 53 & 54, 2000), which presents the experience a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Films
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