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Chen Kunhou

Film director · Taiwan · On the map · Directors · Born 1939 · age 87

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.

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A life in dates

2026Qingtong & KuihuaFilm, Director2012The Triangle LandFilm, Director2009Colorful MindFilm, Director2008Twin DaggersFilm, Director1988My Mother's TeahouseFilm, Director1987Osmanthus AlleyFilm, Director1986DriftersFilm, Director1985His MatrimonyFilm, Director1984Out of the BlueFilm, Director1983Golden Horse Award for Best DirectorAwardGrowing UpFilm, 1983Director1982Six Is CompanyFilm, Director1981LongingFilm, Director1980Spring in AutumnFilm, Director1978Lover on the WaveFilm, Director1962Golden Horse AwardsSeries1939Born25 July 1939

Filmography 16

47 credits on file

Television 1

Awards

Golden Horse Award for Best Director1983

About this person

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.

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Country
Taiwan
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1939 · age 87