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Wu Nien-jen. Wu Nien-jen ( Chinese: 吳念真; pinyin: Wú Niànzhēn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gô͘ Liām-chin; born Chinese: 吳文欽; pinyin: Wú Wēnqīn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gô͘ Bûn-khim; 5 August 1952) is a Taiwanese screenwriter, director, and writer. He is one of the most prolific and highly regarded scriptwriters in Taiwan and a leading member ...
- Taiwanese
- Golden Horse Awards – Best Original Screenplay, 1981 Classmates, 1984 Second Spring of Mr. Muo, 1990 Song of the Exile, 1992 Hill of No Return, Best Adapted Screenplay, 1986 Father-son Relationship
Nien-Jen Wu. Writer: A Borrowed Life. Wu Nien-Jen was born in a coal miner's family in 1952. He started writing short stories for newspapers in 1975, when he was still an accounting majored college student. After writing his first screenplay in 1978, Wu entered Central Motion Picture Corporation as a creative supervisor and worked with several ...
- Writer, Actor, Producer
- August 5, 1952
- 2 min
Wu is also a talented actor, playing crucial roles in Yang’s Taipei Story and Mahjong, and is today a fixture on television in Taiwan, where he remains a well-known and beloved figure. The HFA is pleased to welcome Wu Nien-Jen to present his wonderful yet underappreciated films and discuss the career and legacy of Edward Yang.
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Wu Nien Jen is a Taiwanese screenwriter, director and actor. After writing his first screenplay in 1978, Wu Nien Jen became a leading member of Taiwan's New Wave Cinema movement throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He also starred in Edward Yang's "Yi Yi" (2000). Edit Biography
Wu Nien-jen (Chinese: 吳念真; born 5 August, 1952) is a Taiwanese screenwriter, director, and writer. He is one of the most prolific and highly regarded scriptwriters in Taiwan and a leading member of the New Taiwanese Cinema, although he has also acted in a number of films, like Edward Yang's film Yi Yi (2000).
Patriarch on the Sidelines. By Andrew Chan in the November-December 2012 Issue. With his 1994 debut, the Taiwanese writer-director Wu Nien-jen looks back at his memories of paternal love as if through squinted eyes. The opening shot of A Borrowed Life is unabashedly nostalgic: the outline of a man polishing his shoes, almost imperceptible ...
Aug 26, 1995 · A Borrowed Life: Directed by Nien-Jen Wu. With Akio Chen, Shu-Fang Chen, Jun Fu, Yung-Feng Lee. Autobiographical story about the life of a poor family in the Taiwanese countryside during the 1940s and 1950s as the Japanese rule of the island ends and nationalist forces of Kwomintang arrive when the Communists take the mainland.
