Kuo-Fu Chen

Kuo-Fu Chen

Chen Kuo-Fu 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 and continue his works in China. In 2001 Chen began to concentrate on feature film production beginning with Su Chao-Bin's youth comedy Better Than Sex through his company Nan Fang Film Productions. The following year, he directed and produced the supernatural thriller Double Vision.

  • Title: Kuo-Fu Chen
  • Popularity: 3.056
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1958-05-13
  • Place of Birth: Taichung, Taiwan
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  • Also Known As: Chén Guófù, Guo-fu Chen, Chen Kuofu, Guo Fu Chen, 陈国富, GuoFu Chen, 陳國富, Chan Kwok-fu, Chen Kuo-fu
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Kuo-Fu Chen Movies

  • 1999
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    HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien

    HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien

    7.8 1999 HD

    Entry on Taiwanese new-wave filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien for French television's "Cinéma, de notre temps" series, directed by Olivier Assayas.

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  • 2016
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    Yi Ge Cheng Ren Dian Ying Gong Zuo Zhe De Zi Bai

    Yi Ge Cheng Ren Dian Ying Gong Zuo Zhe De Zi Bai

    1 2016 HD

    An ordinary adult film staff uses seventeen minutes to talk about the chaotic market in today's Chinese film industry and how to revitalize Chinese...

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  • 2008
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    What on Earth Have I Done Wrong?!

    What on Earth Have I Done Wrong?!

    6.2 2008 HD

    Doze runs into many problems as he tries to secure funding for what he thinks will be the next mockumentary blockbuster.

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  • 2009
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    The Message

    The Message

    7.4 2009 HD

    After a series of assassinations in Nanking, a Japanese spy master gathers a group of suspects in a mansion, then a tense cat-and-mouse game erupts...

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  • 2009
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    The Message

    The Message

    7.4 2009 HD

    After a series of assassinations in Nanking, a Japanese spy master gathers a group of suspects in a mansion, then a tense cat-and-mouse game erupts...

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  • 2003
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    Warriors of Heaven and Earth

    Warriors of Heaven and Earth

    6.3 2003 HD

    A Chinese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is...

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  • 2010
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    Aftershock

    Aftershock

    7.1 2010 HD

    The epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976. Based on the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976 that took the...

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  • 2008
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    Forever Enthralled

    Forever Enthralled

    6.2 2008 HD

    The epic story Mei Lanfang, who overcame the prejudice against artists in 1930s China to become the country's greatest opera star.

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  • 2010
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    Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

    Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

    6.526 2010 HD

    When the future empress Wu Zetian's two courtiers die in a mysterious fire, she gets Di Renjie, a former detective and rebel, released from prison to...

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  • 2002
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    Double Vision

    Double Vision

    6.7 2002 HD

    An FBI Agent pairs with a troubled Taiwan cop to hunt for a serial killer who's embedding a mysterious fungus in the brains of victims.

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  • 2002
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    Double Vision

    Double Vision

    6.7 2002 HD

    An FBI Agent pairs with a troubled Taiwan cop to hunt for a serial killer who's embedding a mysterious fungus in the brains of victims.

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  • 2002
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    Double Vision

    Double Vision

    6.7 2002 HD

    An FBI Agent pairs with a troubled Taiwan cop to hunt for a serial killer who's embedding a mysterious fungus in the brains of victims.

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  • 2011
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    Starry Starry Night

    Starry Starry Night

    6.3 2011 HD

    There was once a young girl named May who felt alienated from everyone around her. May is worried about her mother and father, whose marriage is on...

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  • 1998
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    The Personals

    The Personals

    6.5 1998 HD

    An attractive and successful doctor places a personal ad in a newspaper to try to meet (and eventually marry) Mr. Right. A succession of blind dates...

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  • 1998
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    The Personals

    The Personals

    6.5 1998 HD

    An attractive and successful doctor places a personal ad in a newspaper to try to meet (and eventually marry) Mr. Right. A succession of blind dates...

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  • 2012
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    Tai Chi Zero

    Tai Chi Zero

    6 2012 HD

    In legendary Chen Village, everyone is a martial arts master, using their powerful Chen Style Tai Chi in all aspects of their lives. Lu Chan has...

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  • 2012
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    Tai Chi Hero

    Tai Chi Hero

    6.1 2012 HD

    Chinese steampunk martial arts blockbuster about the early years of Tai chi master Yang Luchan, the man who founded in the 19th century what has now...

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  • 2012
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    Back to 1942

    Back to 1942

    6.5 2012 HD

    In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by one of the most tragic famines in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million...

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  • 1995
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    The Peony Pavilion

    The Peony Pavilion

    9.5 1995 HD

    A high school student and a pop singer meld reality with fiction as they both fantasize themselves as characters in a Ming dynasty tale of seduction...

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  • 2011
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    10 Plus 10

    10 Plus 10

    5.7 2011 HD

    10+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are...

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  • 1993
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    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    6.5 1993 HD

    A group of young Taipei residents is drawn into the city’s underworld through the growing obsession of one, the boyish Ah-feng, for the sexy...

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  • 2015
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    Mojin: The Lost Legend

    Mojin: The Lost Legend

    6.2 2015 HD

    At the beginning of the 1990s, famous tomb explorer Hu Bayi decided to retire and move to the United States with his girlfriend Shirley. But before...

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  • 2013
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    Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon

    Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon

    6.3 2013 HD

    Young Dee Renjie arrives in the empire's capital to join the Supreme Court as police judge of his region. He wants to become a prosecutor. Empress...

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  • 2013
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    Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon

    Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon

    6.3 2013 HD

    Young Dee Renjie arrives in the empire's capital to join the Supreme Court as police judge of his region. He wants to become a prosecutor. Empress...

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  • 1989
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    School Girl

    School Girl

    1 1989 HD

    The film explores the friendship between two school girls balanced on the cups between childhood and the adult world. The break between them comes...

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  • 1993
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    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    6.5 1993 HD

    A group of young Taipei residents is drawn into the city’s underworld through the growing obsession of one, the boyish Ah-feng, for the sexy...

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  • 2014
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    Aberdeen

    Aberdeen

    5.3 2014 HD

    The extended Cheng family, which, like Aberdeen harbor’s Chinese namesake, represents today’s Little Hong Kong and its myriad of...

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  • 2014
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    Who Is Undercover

    Who Is Undercover

    5.7 2014 HD

    In 1946, to prevent the Chinese civil war, Zhou Enlai who represented the Communists held a talk with the Chinese Nationalist Party, and George C....

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  • 2010
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    If You Are the One 2

    If You Are the One 2

    5.8 2010 HD

    The odd-couple courtship saga continues of wealthy, middle-aged retiree Qin Fen and serious-minded young air hostess Xiaoxiao. After an amusing...

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  • 2004
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    A World Without Thieves

    A World Without Thieves

    7.2 2004 HD

    A con-team couple head west after taking a city businessman for his BMW. But an encounter with a naive young carpenter traveling home with his life...

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  • 2016
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    Chongqing Hot Pot

    Chongqing Hot Pot

    6.3 2016 HD

    When three friends open a hot pot restaurant in a former bomb shelter, they discover it’s linked by a single wall to the bank vault next door. ...

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  • 2021
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    Love Will Tear Us Apart

    Love Will Tear Us Apart

    6 2021 HD

    Lu and Ling, two high-school sweethearts who pledged to get married to each other in their youth. Over the next 10 years, their relationship is tried...

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  • 2015
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    The Ark Of Mr. Chow

    The Ark Of Mr. Chow

    4.6 2015 HD

    A group of bright teenagers are recruited for a special college program for young geniuses only to find themselves socially awkward among their more...

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  • 2002
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    B.T.S. (Better Than Sex)

    B.T.S. (Better Than Sex)

    6.4 2002 HD

    A web of connected stories on adventure, sex, and love in Taiwan, including a 17 y.o. boy with a porn obsession, three hoodlums, and a self-righteous...

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  • 2004
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    Mountain Patrol

    Mountain Patrol

    7.4 2004 HD

    A moving true story about volunteers protecting antelope against poachers in the severe mountains of Tibet.

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  • 2008
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    If You Are the One

    If You Are the One

    6.7 2008 HD

    Qin Fen, a funny, honest, single inventor, met a girl called Smiley, who was in agony of her boyfriend's betrayal. They traveled to Hokkaido, tried...

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  • 2001
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    Big Shot's Funeral

    Big Shot's Funeral

    6.4 2001 HD

    Don Tyler, a famous film-maker, falls ill on the sets of his movie. Fascinated by the funereal traditions of China, he requests a cameraman named...

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  • 2012
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    Painted Skin: The Resurrection

    Painted Skin: The Resurrection

    5.8 2012 HD

    According to demon lore, it takes hundreds of years to attain human form. Even then, lacking a human heart, a demon cannot experience the true pains...

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  • 2017
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    Hanson and the Beast

    Hanson and the Beast

    6 2017 HD

    Yuan Shuai, a debt-ridden animal-breeder, tries to get out of his financial predicament by finding a wealthy girlfriend through matchmaking dates. He...

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  • 2018
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    Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings

    Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings

    6.2 2018 HD

    Dee, the detective serving Chinese empress Wu Zetian, is called upon to investigate a series of strange events in Loyang, including the appearance of...

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  • 1970
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    黑色假面

    黑色假面

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1962
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    Golden Horse Awards

    Golden Horse Awards

    1 1962 HD

    The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī:...

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  • 1970
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    Golden Horse Awards

    Golden Horse Awards

    7.956 1970 HD

    When a spate of grisly murders throws a city into chaos, a tenacious prosecutor must brace for a cat-and-mouse game against a dangerous manipulator.

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