Chen Kuofu

About

Chen Kuofu is a Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and producer. His film The Personals was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Born in 1958 Chen worked as a film critic before debuting as a director in 1989 with School Girl. In the 1990s, he continued to explore the world through a female perspective with Treasure Island, The Peony Pavilion and anti-romantic comedy The Personals. The latter, in which a single woman searches for Mr. Right on a series of blind dates, screened in Cannes' Un Certain Regard sidebar and was distributed in Asia, Europe and North America. In 2000 Chen became the head of the production unit of the Asian branch of Columbia Pictures. Here he accumulated experience in international film making and connections to young Chinese directors such as Feng Xiaogang. With these he would later join Huayi Brothers Media Corporation...

Known for

Copycat KillerSeries • 2023Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom FlameMovie • 2010Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly KingsMovie • 2018Mojin: The Lost LegendMovie • 2015Tai Chi ZeroMovie • 2012Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea DragonMovie • 2013Tai Chi HeroMovie • 2012The MessageMovie • 2009AftershockMovie • 2010Back to 1942Movie • 2012Double VisionMovie • 2002Warriors of Heaven and EarthMovie • 2003Big Shot's FuneralMovie • 2001Painted Skin: The ResurrectionMovie • 2012A World Without ThievesMovie • 2004Love Will Tear Us ApartMovie • 2021Forever EnthralledMovie • 2008Hanson and the BeastMovie • 2017If You Are the OneMovie • 2008Starry Starry NightMovie • 2011Mountain PatrolMovie • 2004AberdeenMovie • 2014Chongqing Hot PotMovie • 2016If You Are the One 2Movie • 2010