Jack Kao

Jack Kao (, born 23 April 1958) is a Taiwanese actor.

Career He began his career in the late 1980s films of Hou Hsiao-hsien. Kao credits his success to the many real-life gangsters he knew when he was young. He appeared in City of Sadness, a film about Taiwan's White Terror, which received the 1989 Golden Lion award the Venice Film Festival. Another of his films about that same period, 2009's Prince of Tears, was also included in the festival. His 2001 film Millennium Mambo was featured in the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 2016 retrospective "Going Steadi: 40 Years of Steadicam".

Selected filmography

Daughter of the Nile (1987) - Lin Hsiao-fang, the brother Rouge of The North (1988) A City of Sadness (1989) - Wen Leung Mudan niao (1990) Island of Fire (1990) - Ho Wawa (1991) Dust of Angels (1992) Wu hu si hai (1992) - Fan Yat Wai Treasure Island (1993) Sheng nu de yu wang (1993) What Price Survival (1994) - Jie In The Heat of Summer (1994) Dian zhi bing bing: Qing nian gan tan (1994) - Chan Wei-Cheng Hao nan hao nu (1995) - Ah Wei Yi qian ling yi ye zhi meng zhong ren (1995) - Kwok Ping-Tak Te jing ji xian feng (1995) - Jiang Tian Modern Republic (1995) Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996) - Kao Go do gaai bei (1997) - Zang Flowers of Shanghai (1998) - Luo Du xia 1999 (1998) - Ma Kau Wan The Return of the Condor Heroes (1998, TV Series) - Golden Wheel Monk (1998) Sing yuet tung wa (1999) - Gene Xiang si chen xianzai (2000) - Jie Time and Tide (2000) - Police Officer Millennium Mambo (2001) - Jack Tai Bei wan 9 zao 5 (2002) - Brother Jack Moon Child (2003) Yau doh lung fu bong (2004) - Mona's Dad Gu lian hua (2005) Lian ren (2005) Ai li si de jing zi (2005) Liu lang shen gou ren (2007) - Yellow Bull Parking (2008) Shinjuku Incident (2009) Crazy Racer (2009) The Sniper (2009) - Barber Feng kuang de sai che (2009) (2009) - Chen Fu Xin Su shi jian (2009) - Gao Jie Sun cheung sau (2009) - Tao Ba... ni hao ma (2009) - Father (segment "Wish") Lei wangzi (2009) - Ah-Chang Yi xi zhi di (2009) - Master Lin Au Revoir Taipei (2010) - Kai's father Lie yan (2010) - Editor Red Nights (2010) - Mister Ko Wo, 19 sui (2010) (2011) - Chou Wei-te's father (segment "Reverberation") Dian Na Chà (2011) Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011) - Tartar Coming Back (2011) Bad Girls (2012) - Matthew Zombie-108 (2012) - Swat Commander Good-for-Nothing Heros (2012) Anywhere Somewhere Nowhere (2012) Witness (2012) - Lao Song Black & White (2012) Taipei Factory (2013) - (segment "Mr. Chang's New Address") Scandals (2013) Unbeatable (2013) - Lin Yuan Xiang My Lucky Star (2013) - Mr. Gao The Break-Up Artist (2014) - Hsieh Chun-Tang But Always (2014) - Anran's Father Zombie Fight Club (2014) - Wu Ming (Teacher / Prison Warden) The Crossing (2014) One Night in Taipei (2015) Two Thumbs Up (2015) - Warden Massagist (2015) - Chia-Ching The Unbearable Lightness of Inspector Fan (2015) Lion Dancing 2 (2015) Wild City (2015) - King The Crossing (2015) The Assassin (2015) Inside or Outside (2016) Spicy Hot in Love (2016) - Song Ming Meng xiang he huo ren (2016) One Night Only (2016) - Barth Jing xin po (2016) - Ben Lam Tian ma (2016) - Mai Zhongren Shaowu the Bad (2017) - Keiko Missing Johnny (2017) - Uncle Jiao Jing Cheng 81 hao 2 (2017) - Ji Chunlong Two Wrongs Make a Right (2017) - Qin Rui's father Tian sheng bu dui (2017) - Qin Kwai Jiao tou 2: Wang zhe zai qi (2018) - President Gui Cities of Last Things (2018) Project Gutenberg (2018) - Thai General Song of the Assassins (2018) Kuang tu (2018) - Chen Mu Pegasus: On the Brink (2018) The Big Shot (2019) Han Dan (2019) - Hsieh Chun-Hao Gang of Bra (2019) The Longest Shot (2019)