Cheng Yu-chieh

Besides being a screenwriter and director, Cheng is also known as an actor. In 2008 his portrayal of the police officer, Pan Shi-yuan, in Wang Shaudi's TV drama Police et vous (波麗士大人) was highly appreciated by the audience. Additionally, in 2009, he played Xu Fang-Guo in Chen Hui-Ling's TV drama Autumn's concerto (下一站，幸福) .

Cheng Yu-chieh's second feature film, Yang Yang (陽陽), was released on August 7, 2009, and was selected for the Berlin Film Festival. In 2010, Cheng Yu-chieh wrote and directed a five-episode mini-series entitled They explode the day before graduation (他們在畢業的前一天爆炸), which premiered on Public Television Service (公視). The mini-series received eight nominations at the 46th Golden Bell Awards in 2011, winning five major awards, including Cheng Yu-chieh's Mini-Series/Movie Screenplay Award.

On April 5, 2012, Cheng founded the Filmosa Pictures Production Company (一期一會影像製作有限公司), producing films, stage shows, music videos, etc.

Early life Cheng Yu-chieh began to participate in filmmaking while he was a student at National Taiwan University majoring in Economics.

Cheng was able to procure NT$8 million of subsidy from the Taiwanese government's film funding program to make his first feature film Do over, which is based on his award winning script (the 26th Excellent Screenplay Awards in 2003).

Cheng Yu-chieh and his wife Dai Hai-lun were married in June 2008. Dai Hai-Lun also works in the film industry and has served as the Director of the Domestic Affairs Department of the Golden Horse Awards.

Cheng Yu-chieh's father is an overseas Chinese living in Japan. Cheng learned Japanese from a young age and is fluent in the language. He is also the translator of the Chinese version of the Japanese novel Still Walking.

Filmography

Acting +Stage showYearChinese titleEnglish titleRole2019時光の手箱：我的阿爸和卡桑A Suitcase of MemoriesYan Hui-min (顏惠民)

Awards and honors

Political concerns Cheng Yu-chieh is straightforward with his political views in his films in interviews. In 2011, his short film Unwritten rules in Ten Plus Ten, which was supported by Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, revealed his concern about the inevitable political consequences of embracing China's film market: loss of creative freedom. Wawa No Cidal (2015), a film Cheng co-directed with Lekal Sumi Cilangasan, is critical of the government's economic development plan that did not take into consideration the destruction of the environment and the indigenous people in the east coast of Taiwan. His TV series, Days We Stared at The Sun II, is set between 2013 and 2017, after the Sunflower Student Movement.