Chu Tien-Wen
Writer · b. 1956 · Taipei, Taiwan
Chu Tien-Wen (Chinese: 朱天文, born August 24, 1956 in Taipei, Taiwan) is one of Taiwan's most prominent writers. She is the daughter of Chu Hsi-Ning and the older sister of Chu Tien-Hsin. Some of her literary works include "Fin-de-Siècle Splendour" (1990) and Notes of a Desolate Man (1994). She wrote many of the scripts for the famous Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Her screenwriting credits include movies like Taipei Story, The Puppetmaster, Goodbye South, Goodbye, Millenium Mambo, A City of Sadness and many more. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chu Tien-Wen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Movie7.9DocumentaryTV MovieEntry on Taiwanese new-wave filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien for French television's "Cinéma, de notre temps" series, directed by Olivier Assayas.
Movie8.0DocumentaryChu Tien-Wen, frequent screenwriter for Hou Hsiao-Hsien, makes her directorial debut with this entry in The Inspired Island documentary series. With Hou as producer, cinematographer Yao Hung-I and editor Liao ChingSung, Chu takes a deep dive into the story of her parents, famed authors Chu Hsi-Ning and Liu Mu-Sha. Through family albums, old letters and interviews with fellow writers, Chu crafts a deeply personal portrait of her parents’ romance, literary careers, family roots and the unfinished opus her father left behind.