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Edward Yang
Sign in to saveTaiwanese film director and screenwriter (1947-2007)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Challenges to China's Economic Statecraft
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Film & TV
中国上海, Shanghai, Cina
Edward Yang (Chinese: 楊德昌; pinyin: Yáng Déchāng; 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. Yang's singular visual style has been defined by deliberate pacing, long takes, fixed camera, few closeups, empty spaces, and…
Known for
- Yi Yi — Pianist (uncredited)2000
- Jam1998
- Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema — Self1998
- First Love Unlimited — Tap's step-father1997
- When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang — Self1993
- Taipei Story — Bartender (uncredited)1985
- A Summer at Grandpa's — Guanglin1984
- The Winter of 19051982
- Happy Single Lady1981
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 49
- Total plays
- 688
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edward
- Family name
- Yang
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Taiwan
- Place of birth
- Shanghai
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- director
- Educated at
- Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School
- Employer
- National Chiao Tung University
- Languages spoken
- Chinese
- Image
- 第31屆金馬「最佳原著劇本獎」得主楊德昌.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
- Work location
- Taiwan
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- cause of death
- Colorectal cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of burial
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1947-11-06
- date of death
- 2007-06-29
- nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Non-European Film
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Edward Yang
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