Jonathan Chang (張洋洋) (; Wade–Giles: Chang Yang2 Yang2) (born May 1, 1991) is a Taiwanese actor, most known for his role as "Yang Yang" in

Edward Yang Edward Yang (; November 6, 1947 – June 29, 2007) was a Taiwanese filmmaker. Yang, along with fellow auteurs Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang, was one of the leading film-makers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese cinema. He won the Be ...

's 2000 film ''

Yi Yi ''Yi Yi'' () is a 2000 Taiwanese drama film written and directed by Edward Yang centering around the struggles of an engineer named NJ (played by Wu Nien-jen) and three generations of his middle-class Taiwanese family in Taipei. The title in C ...

''.

Career

Chang was selected to play "Yang Yang" in

's film ''

'' (2000) when he was only nine years old, which Yang won the Cannes Best Director award for that year. The film ended up winning a number of awards, including ranking #3 or higher on various "Top 10 Films of the Decade" lists, covering the decades spanning from 1990-2000. After ''Yi Yi'', Chang appeared in the feature film ''Da-Yu: The Touch of Fate'' (2006), directed by Chih-yuan Pan, where he played the title character, Da-Yu. The film ended up being nominated for four awards at the 2006 Golden Horse Film Festival: Best Supporting Actor (Matt Chung-Tien Wu), Best Original Screenplay (Chih-yuan Pan and Hsueh-Jung Liu), Best New Performer (Matt Chung-Tien Wu) and the Formosa Award. Chang next appeared in the feature film ''God Man Dog'' as the character Hsien. The film was directed by Singing Chen, and won the Reader Jury of the "Tagesspiegel" Award at the 2008

Berlin Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ...

or Berlinale. The film also won a Best Screenplay award (for writers Singing Chen and Lou Yi-an) at the 2008 Durban International Film Festival, and the E-Changer award for Singing Chen at the 2008 Fribourg International Film Festival. In 2012, Chang starred in the short film ''Before Summer Rain'' directed and written by Hong-ren Chen aka Isara Chen. The film screened at a number of film festivals, including the 2014 Golden Horse Film Festival and the 2014 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.Before Summer Rain, 2014 LAAPFF, In the film, Chang plays the older brother of the main character, his sister. The older brother eventually gets cancer, which tests the bonds between the siblings.

Filmography

* Yi Yi (2000) * Before Summer Rain (2012)

References

External links

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Jonathan Chang Credits on Douban (Mandarin)Interview with Jonathan Chang (Mandarin)Jonathan Chang Discusses a Film Project (Mandarin)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chang, Jonathan 1991 births Living people Taiwanese male film actors Male actors from Taipei 20th-century Taiwanese male actors 21st-century Taiwanese male actors