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Chu Tien-wen (b. 1956)

Alias:
Chu Tin-Man
T'ien-wen Chu
Tian-wen Zhu
Zhu Tianwen
朱天文

Birthplace:
Taipei, Taiwan

Born:
August 24, 1956

Biography from TheMovieDB

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  Chu Tien-wen (Chinese: 朱天文, born August 24, 1956 in Taipei, Taiwan) is one of Taiwan's most prominent writers. She is the daughter of Chu Hsi-ning and the older sister of Chu Tien-hsin. Some of her literary works include "Fin-de-Siècle Splendour" (1990) and Notes of a Desolate Man (1994). She wrote many of the scripts for the famous Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien. Her screenwriting credits include movies like Taipei Story, The Puppetmaster, Goodbye South, Goodbye, Millenium Mambo, City of Sadness (1989) and many more.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Chu Tien-wen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

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Film Production

Director:
2020  The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams

Novel:
1983  Growing Up
2020  The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams

Producer:
1983  Growing Up
2001  Millennium Mambo
2020  The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams

Screenplay:
1983  Growing Up
1985  Taipei Story
1996  Goodbye South, Goodbye
2001  Millennium Mambo
2015  The Assassin
2020  The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams

Story:
1983  Growing Up
1985  Taipei Story
1986  Drifters
1996  Goodbye South, Goodbye
2001  Millennium Mambo
2015  The Assassin
2020  The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams

Writer:
1983  Growing Up
1983  The Boys from Fengkuei
1984  A Summer at Grandpa's
1984  Out of the Blue
1985  His Matrimony
1985  My Favorite Season
1985  Taipei Story
1985  The Time to Live and the Time to Die
1986  Drifters
1986  Dust in the Wind
1987  Daughter of the Nile
1989  A City of Sadness
1993  The Puppetmaster
1995  Good Men, Good Women
1996  Goodbye South, Goodbye
1998  Flowers of Shanghai
2001  Millennium Mambo
2004  Café Lumière
2005  Three Times
2015  The Assassin
2020  The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams

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