# Chen Kunhou

> Chen Kun-hou (陳坤厚) is a veteran cinematographer, who started his career in the 1960s. He won his first best cinematography award at the Golden Horse Awards in 1978 for He Never Gives Up (汪洋中的一條船), directed by Li Hsing. In the early 1980s he began to direct his own films in collaboration with Hou Hsiao-hsien. After series of urban comedies, he made quite a few representative films of the Taiwan New Cinema, such as Growing Up (1983), which won him the best director award at the Golden Horse Awards, His Matrimony, which won him the second best cinematography award at Golden Horse Awards, My Favorite Season, and Osmanthus Alley (1987). He was awarded for his life achievements in Taiwan cinema at the 60th Golden Horse Awards in 2023.

*Film director*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Movie Director ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999))
- **Category:** Directors
- **Country:** Taiwan
- **Born:** 1939
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Chen Kun-hou (陳坤厚) is a veteran cinematographer, who started his career in the 1960s. He won his first best cinematography award at the Golden Horse Awards in 1978 for He Never Gives Up (汪洋中的一條船), directed by Li Hsing. In the early 1980s he began to direct his own films in collaboration with Hou Hsiao-hsien. After series of urban comedies, he made quite a few representative films of the Taiwan New Cinema, such as Growing Up (1983), which won him the best director award at the Golden Horse Awards, His Matrimony, which won him the second best cinematography award at Golden Horse Awards, My Favorite Season, and Osmanthus Alley (1987). He was awarded for his life achievements in Taiwan cinema at the 60th Golden Horse Awards in 2023.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 43.6
- **Momentum:** 1.5

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0155292/ (@nm0155292)

## Sources
- [Chen Kunhou](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Kunhou)
- [Chen Kun-hou](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Kun-hou)
- [陳坤厚](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B3%E5%9D%A4%E5%8E%9A)
- [The Movie DB](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1158874)
- [تشين كونهو](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D9%87%D9%88)
- [چن کن ہو](https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%86_%DA%A9%D9%86_%DB%81%D9%88)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5090830)

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