* 1947 – Edward Yang, Taiwanese film director ( d. 2007 )

* October 27 – Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwanese film director

* John Woo ( cameo ), the director, is the Taiwanese police chief walking along the corridor of the bloodshed restaurant in slow motion.

His popularity soon began to grow, and due to the quality of his choreography and disciplined approach to his work, he again caught the eye of celebrated Taiwanese director, King Hu.

* Sylvia Chang, Taiwanese actress, producer and director

He was then selected by a Taiwanese director Edward Yang to be the protagonist of his 4-hour critically acclaimed film A Brighter Summer Day ( 牯嶺街少年殺人事件 ).

Hui's first work was in a film by Taiwanese director Li Han-Hsiang called The Warlord ( 大軍閥 or " The Great Regime ", 1972 ), where he played a farcical warlord in post-revolutionary China.

In addition, Tsai Ming-liang, an oversea Chinese student from Malaysia, has gained the world's attention as a Taiwanese director.

Under the influence of Taiwanese director Li Han-Hsiang, Hu embarked on a directorial career, helping him helm the phenomenally successful The Love Eterne ( 1963 ).

Interior Minister Yu Cheng-hsien announced his resignation on April 4, 2004, and National Security Bureau director Tsai Chao-ming stepped down the week before to take responsibility for the shooting, in keeping with the Taiwanese tradition that government officials take responsibility for perceived or implied dereliction of duty.

One of the best known figures in Taiwanese cinema is director Ang Lee, who has also made movies in the West and has won an Academy Award.

Raintree Pictures invested in two regional co-productions, Liang Po Po and The Truth About Jane and Sam, which starred Singaporean television lead actress Fann Wong with Taiwanese singer Peter Ho and Hong Kong director Derek Yee.

Hou Hsiao-Hsien () ( born April 8, 1947 ) is a Taiwanese actor, singer, producer and director.

* In Our Time ( 1982 film ), a Taiwanese collection of film shorts featuring director Edward Yang

Directed by Hong Kong director Derek Yee, the movie stars Singapore actress Fann Wong and Taiwanese male singer Peter Ho.

She wrote many of the scripts for the famous Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien.

Shochiku has also produced films by highly regarded independent and " loner " directors such as Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, Akira Kurosawa and Taiwanese New Wave director Hou Hsiao-Hsien.

is a 2003 Japanese film directed by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien for Shochiku as homage to Yasujiro Ozu, with direct reference to the late director's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ).

Among them are: the notable frequent full-frontal nudity of Hong Kong Chinese females and the brief but particularly notable full-frontal adult male nudity of a Hong Kong Chinese male actor, Chung Lin, who plays the robot version of Japanese scientist Ryuichi Yamamoto, in the 1991 science fiction / comedy film Robotrix ( perhaps the first time in Hong Kong cinema that a Chinese adult male's genitals have been fully revealed on camera in a film on general release ), the full-frontal appearance of Hong Kong Chinese actor Michael Lam, who was the lead in Bugis Street ( 1995 ), as his clothes and underwear are torn off by his lover, fully exposing his genitals ; a variety of East Asian actors in The Pillow Book ( 1996 ); of Hong Kong Chinese lead actor Sunny Chan in a bathroom scene as he enters a shower, fully revealing his genitals for a few moments, in Hold You Tight ( 1997 ); of mainland China lead actor Liu Ye in Lan Yu ( 2001 ), whose genitals are shown as he lies naked on a bed ; a variety of East Asian actors in Under One Roof ( 2002 ); of French Vietnamese actor Steve Tran whose genitals are shown as he walks naked in a high school locker room in Cold Showers ( 2005 ); of Singapore Chinese actor / director Zihan Loo, who removes all his clothes, uncovering his genitals, and while waiting to meet a prostitute, masturbates on camera, eventually revealing his fully erect penis, in Pleasure Factory ( 2007 ); a variety of Taiwanese Chinese actors who dare each other to skinnydip in Winds of September ( 2008 ), and of lead actor Ron Heung and the Hong Kong National Baseball Team, who are shown naked in City Without Baseball ( 2008 ), with their genitals fully revealed on camera.

Flowers of Shanghai ( 海上花, pinyin: hǎi shàng huā ) is a 1998 film, made in Taiwan, directed by Guangdong-born Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien starring Hada Michiko, Annie Shizuka Inoh, Shuan Fang, Jack Kao, Carina Lau, Tony Leung, Rebecca Pan, Michelle Reis and Vicky Wei.

Produced by veteran Taiwanese director Lee Hsing of Lee's Production Ltd ( 李行工作室有限公司 ), he came out of retirement to produce his first film in 20 years ( since 1984 ), funding NT $ 2 million.

Shochiku produced the film Café Lumière ( 珈琲時光 ), directed by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien as homage to Ozu, with direct reference to the late master's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), to premiere on Ozu's birthday.

The cinematographer Christopher Doyle, for whom the film was the sixth collaboration with Wong Kar-wai, had to leave the film when production went over schedule and was replaced by Mark Lee Ping Bin, renowned for his work with Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien.

One of his latest films is a documentary about Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien.

Chang also appeared opposite Shu Qi in Hou Hsiao Hsien's Three Times ( 2005 ), which was nominated for the Palme d ' Or at Cannes and won Golden Horse accolades for Best Taiwanese film, among other awards.

For instance, Hou Hsiao-Hsien's A City of Sadness portrays the tensions and the conflicts between the local Taiwanese and the newly arrived Chinese Nationalist government after the end of the Japanese occupation.

Tsai Ming-liang () ( born October 27, 1957 ) is a Malaysian Chinese and one of the most celebrated " Second New Wave " film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with earlier contemporaries such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang.

Hou generally makes rigorously minimalist dramas dealing with the upheavals of the Taiwanese ( and occasionally larger Chinese ) history of the past century by viewing its impacts on individuals or small groups of characters.

Hou has also had some acting experience, appearing as the lead in fellow Taiwanese New Wave auteur Edward Yang's 1984 film, Taipei Story.

Patty Hou (; born December 20, 1977 in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China ) is a former news anchor in Taiwan who resigned her position after a Hong Kong magazine revealed her relationship with Taiwanese R & B singer Jay Chou in February 2005.

' Best of Times ') is a 2005 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien.

Kay Weissberg in Variety was very positive :" Synthesizing Hou Hsiao-hsien's ambivalent relationship with time and memory, Three Times forms a handy connecting arc between the Taiwanese helmer's earlier work and the increasingly fragmentary direction of his recent films.

Jim Jarmusch: " Hou Hsiao-hsien is not only the crowning jewel of contemporary Taiwanese cinema, but an international treasure.

** Won: Best Taiwanese Filmmaker ( Hou Hsiao-hsien )

Two areas of cross-pollination between literature and other arts in Taiwan include modern dance ( particularly the modern dance troupe Cloud Gate Dance Theater, founded and directed by author Lin Huai-min ) and filmmaking ( including productions of stories by Huang Chunming directed by the leading Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien ).

Dennis Lim, in a review for the Village Voice, observed the film's " meticulous framing and haunting use of repeated motifs " reflects the influence of Taiwanese New Wave directors Hou Hsiao-hsien and Edward Yang.

Good Men, Good Women () is a 1995 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, starring Annie Shizuka Inoh, Lim Giong and Jack Kao.

Jia brought in the Taiwanese composer Lim Giong, who had previously worked with Hou Hsiao-hsien, to score the film using primarily electronic music.

* Li Ang, acclaimed Taiwanese feminist writer and author of The Butcher's Wife ( b. 1952 )

* Mars ( TV series ), a 2004 Taiwanese drama series based on the manga by Fuyumi Soryo

* Meteor Garden, a 2001 Taiwanese drama

" as the theme for the 2000 Taiwanese drama, Huai Yu Gong Zhu ( 懷玉公主 ).

He's acted in Taiwanese drama series such as Spicy Teacher, Meteor Garden, its sequel Meteor Garden 2, Meteor Rain, Come To My place, Love Scar, The Hospital, and made a movie, Magic Kitchen 魔幻廚房 ( 2004 ).

* ToGetHer, a 2009 Taiwanese drama starring Rainie Yang, Jiro Wang and George Hu

Lu Su-shang, is not primarily remembered for his benshi performances, but mainly because he wrote the inestimable history of cinema and drama in Taiwan, the bible of Taiwanese film history.

* The Taiwanese drama series, Hana Kimi was filmed here.

Meteor Garden () is a 2001 Taiwanese drama starring Barbie Hsu, Jerry Yan, Vic Zhou, Vanness Wu and Ken Chu.

In February, Zax Wang co-starred with Taiwanese singer Pace Wu in the drama Shi Shen ( God of Cookery ).

* Tomorrow ( Taiwanese TV series ), a 2002 drama series

Taiwanese ( folk ) opera () is the only form of traditional drama known to have originated in Taiwan.

* The Rose ( TV soundtrack ), the soundtrack for the 2003 Taiwanese drama The Rose

* The Rose ( TV series ), a 2003 Taiwanese drama

* It started with a kiss ( Taiwanese drama )

* MARS ( Taiwanese drama )

* The Outsiders, a Taiwanese TV drama series featuring An Yixuan

Hot Shot () is a Taiwanese drama starring Jerry Yan, Show Luo, and Wu Chun of Fahrenheit.

She has also contributed to three Taiwanese drama soundtracks.

She had taken part in various singing competitions since at an early age, and had previously won her some appearances in the Taiwanese local drama Che Zheng Zai Zhui ( 車正在追, with Viter Fan ) in 1999 ; she had also appeared in the music videos of other singers such as Tanya Chua's video " Reminding " ( 紀念 ) in 2000 even before she made her debut, she did also appear in 石康軍's " 變質 " mv, Beatrice Hsu's MV " 許瑋倫 天使的翅膀 ", & Kenji Wu's Na Na Na MV.

They are well known throughout Asia with their hit " Lydia ", which was the theme song for the Taiwanese TV drama The Outsiders ( 鬥魚 ).

The series was adapted as a Taiwanese drama in 2002 and a Japanese animated television series in 2005.

After playing minor roles in various series and films, Lin was selected by Taiwanese writer Chiung Yao to audition for a main role in the new TV drama Princess Pearl.

Many people enjoy watching miniseries collectively called Taiwanese drama.

* Taiwanese drama