# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-yang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:21:39.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-yang"
name: "Edward Yang"
slug: "edward-yang"
description: "Edward Yang was a Taiwanese and American filmmaker. He rose to prominence as a pioneer in the Taiwanese New Wave of the 1980s, alongside fellow auteurs Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Ming-liang. Yang was regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of Taiwanese cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi."
tagline: "Taiwanese film director and screenwriter (1947-2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E7%AC%AC31%E5%B1%86%E9%87%91%E9%A6%AC%E3%80%8C%E6%9C%80%E4%BD%B3%E5%8E%9F%E8%91%97%E5%8A%87%E6%9C%AC%E7%8D%8E%E3%80%8D%E5%BE%97%E4%B8%BB%E6%A5%8A%E5%BE%B7%E6%98%8C.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CN"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1947-11-06"
deathDate: "2007-06-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.273668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  214
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Edward Yang"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump