Chang Yao-sheng
Writing
Biography
Chang's works have been published by Mirror Fiction. His screenwriting credits include The Village of No Return (2017) and A Sun. By 2019, his screenplay for A Leg had won a NT$100,000 prize for scripts that not yet been produced at the Excellent Screenplay Awards, a ceremony organised by the Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development. A Leg became Chang's directorial debut, and alongside Huang Hsin-yao's Classmates Minus, is to open the 57th Golden Horse Awards. A Leg is one of four Taiwanese films to be shown at the 2020 Tokyo International Film Festival.
Known For
A family of four fractures under the weight of unmet expectations, unexpected tragedy, and uncompromising pride.
A Sun
In a remote village, a con man disguised as a Taoist priest introduces a memory-erasing device to residents — but a dangerous plot looms.
The Village of No Return
Apprentices at the Oolong Courtyard school are suspicious when two outsiders try to join the prestigious academy despite their strange behaviour.
Oolong Courtyard: Kung Fu School
After having to quarantine together during COVID-19, a mother and daughter are forced to confront their personal obstacles and relationship tensions.
The Falls
In an abandoned hospital in Tainan, a group of people came to try to communicate with the souls of their loved ones, only to be haunted by ominous supernatural phenomena.
Hospital
In this deliciously dark comedy, a woman desperately attempts to reunite her husband's amputated leg with his body before his funeral, leading her on a wild goose chase across Taipei and through multiple encounters with bureaucracy, ineptitude, and her own recent past.
A Leg
Yeh, a gifted student, transfers to Edison Junior High, a private school renowned for its academic performance. Disturbed by the gloomy atmosphere and distorted institutions, the rebellious Yeh begins to challenge everything he sees and feels. Little does he know that he is slowly falling into the treacherous trap of the mysterious "Dorm 420".
The Blue Choker
As his family home is set to be demolished during urban renewal, Hao decides to buy a new house with his inheritance from his father so as to get away from this sad place and start a new life elsewhere with his mother, Hsia. However, in the meantime, he finds out that Hsia has continued using the inheritance money to make political contributions, for she is such a political fanatic. Somehow, Hsia believes that only CHIANG Chung-Yao, the latest candidate running for mayor, can bring about a bright future for all. Eventually, Hao has chosen to hold his mother captive for fear that Hsia will be duped into giving away all the inherited assets.
Repulsion
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Kids
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托比的最後一個早晨
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See You after Life
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In Soul
In a tailor shop, Father wants to stop Grandma disturbing the customers so he removes the ladder leading to the attic where Grandma lives. However, insisting on coming down, she falls and dies from the injuries. After that Father is going mad as he sees her ghost following him everywhere…
Seams
Lin, a young boy bullied in school. Classmates accuse Lin's father of being a serial killer since he caused a hit-and-run accident several years ago. Lin turned to meat pie peddler who used to be a gangster. Lin stole his mother's money and asked the peddler to kill four of his classmates. But the peddler didn't take revenge for Lin; he ran away. Because of this, Lin transfers to a new school, a transformed person. From the scrawny boy bullied around, he has become the ring leader of a gang of bullies.
Fresh Meat Pie
A bold, big-budget Taiwanese action adventure film by Joseph Chen-Chieh Hsu (Little Big Women), reimagining iconic folklore figures as empowered modern legends — the first of a new, pan-Asian character universe.