Yang Chia-Yun

Yang Chia-yun (Karen Yang), born March 1947 and originally from Qingdao, Shandong Province, is one of the second generation directors in Taiwan. She is also regarded as a "pioneer female film director of commercial Taiwanese film during the 1970s and 1980s". In 1998, Yang Chia-yun directed the documentary A Secret Buries For 50 Years-- A Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women", which won the 35th Golden Horse Awards for "Best documentary". "The fate and resistance of women are mostly the focus of Chia-yun Yang's movies",

Biography Early years Yang Chia-yun's interest in and preference for movies had been cultivated since she was a child. At that time, her elder brother often liked to make use of existing simple props, such as curtains, table lamps, homemade paper puppets and so forth, to create a "family shadow play". Even if the props were simple and the techniques were not mature enough, this game was quite interesting for Yang Chia-yun at a young age. After graduating from high school, Yang Chia-yun went to the National Taiwan Art Academy (now the Taiwan Art University) to study in the department of movie and TV program. During that time, she experienced the work of a continuity clerk for the first time in the summer internship. Later, she was assigned by the Central Motion Picture Corporation (now the Central Pictures Corporation) to work as an intern in director Hsing Lee's movie Jade Goddess, during which time she was promoted by Yung-Tze Li, the continuity clerk of the movie, and became a formal continuity girl. In the first nine years of Yang Chia-yun's career, she once served as a continuity clerk, an assistant director and a deputy director and acquired technical skills such as cutting, dubbing and so forth. She also followed and cooperated with senior directors Hsing Lee, Ching-Jui Pai and Yao-Chi Chen in the early period. Therefore, she had accumulated rich experience in practice. Encouraged by the news agency of the executive council, The Unsinkable Miss Calabash was sent to show in the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Yang Chia-yun also tried to direct the works of other subjects, such as a thriller Who Dare Challenge Me in 1981 and a horror movie Exposed to Danger in 1982. In 1998, Yang Chia-yun directed the documentary A Secret Buries For 50 Years-- A Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women", which was in the shortlist of Japanese Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, and won the 35th golden horse award for "Best documentary". What's more, Yang Chia-yun worked for Hsing Lee's stage play Xia Xue.

Filmography Movies Title Year Genres Starring Morning Mist 1978 Romance Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia, Han Chin Love Comes from the Sea 1980 Drama Kenny Bee, Tsai-Ling Ying The Unsinkable Miss Calabash 1981 Comedy/Romance Tsai-Ling Ying, Sibelle Hu Who Dare Challenge Me 1981 Drama Hui-Shan Yang, Hao-Jen Chiang The Lady Avenger 1981 Action/Crime/Drama Hsiao-Fen Lu, Shou-Ping Tsui Exposed to Danger 1982 Crime/Horror Hsiao-Fen Lu, Wing-Lun Tam The Wayward Angels 1982 Drama Fu-Mei Chang, Ping Chang The Crazy Youth 1982 Drama Hsiao-Fen Lu, Kai-Li Chu (Niu Tien) Women Warriors of Kingmen 1983 Adventure Hsiao-Fen Lu, Hsiu-Shen Liang A Secret Buries For 50 Years—A Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women" 1998 Documentary A-Tao Huang, Man-Mei Lu

Television series Title Year TV Station Starring Mo Ran Hui Shou 1984 China Television Company, Ltd Yi-Chan Lu, Lily Li, Pi-Ling Lo, Ailun Chiang Mo Gui Shu 1985 Chinese Television Service Stephen Tung, Ruo-yu Liu Sunny Rain 1990 China Television Company, Ltd Yi-Chen Lin, Morni Chang Jin Se Shi Guang 1991 China Television Company, Ltd Han Yu, Yu-Lan Chin Jin Qian Shu Unknown Unknown Unknown

Scripts Title Year Genre Director Starring The Three Tales 1974 Drama Hsing Lee, Chia Li, Ching-Jui Pai Ping-Yu Chang, Ya-Hui Huang, Chun Hsiung Ko A Saturday Date 1976 Comedy/Romance Yung-Tze Li Charlie Chin, Feng Hsu, Kai-Li Chu (Niu Tien), Wen-Ching Liu The Beauty with Two Faces 1976 Romance Yung-Tze Li Alan Tang, Brigitte Lin, Wei Chang Love, Diploma & Jeans 1976 Romance Wei-Bin Liu Feng-Jiao Lin, Wen-Ching Liu, Kai-Li Chu (Niu Tien) First Kiss First Good-bye 1978 Romance Yao-Chi Chen Wen-Ching Liu, Yin-Chen Chang, Ya-Lei Kuei

Others Title Year Genre Yin fa shou nian : Sun Yue he ta de lao peng you men 2007 TV program Xia Xue 2010 Stage Play