Tu Duu-Chih

Born: 1955-04-05 in Taipei, Taiwan

Known For: Sound

Biography

Tu Duu-Chih (Chinese: 杜篤之, Born in 1955 in Taipei), Tu was trained in 1973 as a sound engineer in the Film Technicians Training Program conducted by Central Motion Pictures Corporation. In 1978 he was hired by CMPC as assistant sound engineer, thus began his career in film and has been responsible for the sound recording, editing and mixing of many of the ‘Taiwanese New Wave’ works. He has been one of the leading sound technicians in the Taiwan film industry since the 1980s, and was instrumental in the sound engineering for the filmmakers of the "Taiwan New Wave." He has been involved in the majority of Taiwanese films that have garnered international critical acclaim. He worked for HOU Hsiao-Hsien(侯孝賢) in "City of Sadness,"(悲情城市) "The Puppetmaster,"(戲夢人生) "Good Men, Good Women,"(好男好女) "Flowers of Shanghai,"(海上花) "Millennium Mambo," and “Kohi Jikou”(咖啡時光). His works for Edward YANG include "That Day, On the Beach," (海灘的一天) "Taipei Story," (青梅竹馬) "The Terrorizer," (恐怖份子) "A Brighter Summer Day," (牿嶺街少年殺人事件) "A Confusion, Confusion," (獨立時代) "Mahjong," (麻將) and "A One and a Two." (一一) His other important works include "A Borrowed Life," (多桑directed by WU Nien-Jen吳念真) "The Peach Blossom Land," (暗戀桃花源 directed by Stan LAI賴聲川) "In the Mood for Love," (花樣年華directed by WONG Kar Wai王家衛) and "What Time is it There?" (你那邊幾點directed by TSAI Ming-Liang蔡明亮). Tu received the Prix du Jury a Un Technicien for "Millennium Mambo" and "What Time is it There?" at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001.

Filmography

2026

A Dance with Rainbows ... (Supervising Sound Editor)

2025

GATAO: Big Brothers ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Dear Stranger ... (Sound Supervisor)
Mother Bhumi ... (Sound Designer)
Praying Mantis ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Deadline ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Girl ... (Sound Designer)
Demon Hunters ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
April ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Measure in Love ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Unexpected Courage ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Heaven and Hell ... (Sound Director)
Forget You Not ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
I Dreamed a Dream ... (Sound Director)
The Waves Will Carry Us ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
A Dance in Vain ... (Sound Supervisor)
Deep Quiet Room ... (Sound Editor)

2024

All Shall Be Well ... (Sound)
The Chronicles of Libidoists ... (Sound Designer)
GATAO: Like Father Like Son ... (Sound Designer)
Shambhala ... (Sound)
Papa ... (Sound Director)
A Place Called Silence ... (Sound)
Sleep with Your Eyes Open ... (Sound)
The Embers ... (Sound)
Kids ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Imperfect Us ... (Sound Designer)
Mystery Writers ... (Sound)
Pierce ... (Sound Designer)
Stranger Eyes ... (Sound)
She's Talking, in Island. ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Come Home, My Child ... (Sound)
Salli ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
The Lyricist Wannabe ... (Supervising Sound Editor)

2023

The Settlers ... (Sound Designer)
BIG ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Where the Wind Blows ... (Sound Designer)
Be With Me ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Old Fox ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Workers The Movie ... (Sound Director)
Lost in Forest ... (Sound)
A Boy and a Girl ... (Sound)
Free Beats: The Musical Journey of CHEN Ming Chang
Snow in Midsummer ... (Sound)
The Monk and the Gun ... (Sound Editor)
The Horse ... (Sound Designer)
Love Is a Gun ... (Sound)
Abang Adik ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
On the Train ... (Sound)
Ma, I Love You ... (Sound Designer)
Scamsgiving ... (Sound Designer)
See You at the Rally ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Kiss My Ass Boss ... (Supervising Sound Editor)

2022

Before Next Spring ... (Sound Director)
Yanagawa ... (Sound Director)
Fantasy · World ... (Sound)
Untouchable ... (Sound Director)
GAGA ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Life For Sale ... (Sound)
Coo-Coo 043 ... (Sound Designer)
Welcome Home ... (Sound)
My Best Friend's Breakfast ... (Sound)
Girls, Be Ambitious! ... (Sound Designer)

2021

American Girl ... (Sound Designer)
Love After Love ... (Sound Designer)
Terrorizers ... (Sound Designer)
The Falls ... (Sound)
Are You Lonesome Tonight? ... (Sound Supervisor)
Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai' as Self
The Magician on the Skywalk ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Whale Island ... (Sound Designer)

2020

Your Name Engraved Herein ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
The Rope Curse 2 ... (Sound)
Taipei Suicide Story ... (Sound Mixer)

2019

A Sun ... (Sound Director)
Gone with the Light ... (Sound Director)
Spring Tide ... (Sound Director)
Jinpa ... (Sound Designer)
Night Bus ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Balloon ... (Sound Designer)
Suburban Birds ... (Sound Designer)

2018

Cities of Last Things ... (Sound Designer)
Tracey ... (Sound Mixer)
Back to the Good Times ... (Sound)
Xiao Mei ... (Sound Designer)
Baby ... (Sound Designer)
To Heaven, to Gather ... (Sound)

2017

Mon Mon Mon Monsters ... (Sound)
The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful ... (Sound Designer)
Love Education ... (Sound Editor)
The Great Buddha+ ... (Sound Designer)
Our Time Will Come ... (Sound Designer)
Take Me to the Moon ... (Sound Designer)
52Hz, I Love You ... (Sound Director)
十年，再見楊德昌 as 自己

2016

Three ... (Sound Designer)
The Tenants Downstairs ... (Sound)
The Road to Mandalay ... (Sound Designer)
Hang in There, Kids! ... (Sound Designer)

2015

The Assassin ... (Sound Editor)
Office ... (Sound)
Murmur of the Hearts ... (Sound Director)
Elena ... (Sound Designer)
Underground Fragrance ... (Sound Designer)
Wansei Back Home ... (Sound)

2014

Stray Dogs ... (Sound Designer)
Vara : A Blessing ... (Sound)
Aberdeen ... (Sound Designer)
Meeting Dr. Sun ... (Sound Director)

2013

Soul ... (Sound)

2012

A Simple Life ... (Sound Designer)
Girlfriend Boyfriend ... (Sound Designer)
Walker ... (Sound Designer)

2011

Return Ticket ... (Sound Designer)
Buddha Mountain ... (Sound Director)
Great Wall, My Love ... (Sound Editor)

2010

Au Revoir Taipei ... (Sound)
The Fourth Portrait ... (Sound)

2009

Hear Me ... (Sound)
Su mi ma sen, Love ... (Sound)

2008

Candy Rain ... (Sound Designer)
Parking ... (Sound)
1895 in Formosa ... (Sound)

2007

Reflections ... (Sound Designer)
Amour-Legende ... (Sound Designer)

2006

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone ... (Sound)
Eternal Summer ... (Sound Designer)
Do Over ... (Sound)

2005

The Wayward Cloud ... (Sound Designer)
Three Times ... (Sound Designer)
Love's Lone Flower ... (Sound)

2004

Café Lumière ... (Sound Designer)
The Hand ... (Sound Designer)
Love of May ... (Sound)
20 30 40 ... (Sound)
Holiday Dreaming ... (Sound)

2003

Goodbye, Dragon Inn ... (Sound)
My Whispering Plan ... (Sound)
Fancy 25 ... (Sound)
Brave 20 ... (Sound)

2002

Blue Gate Crossing ... (Sound Designer)
July Rhapsody ... (Foley Editor)
Double Vision ... (Sound Editor)
Princess D ... (Editor)
The Skywalk Is Gone ... (Sound)

2001

Millennium Mambo ... (Sound Designer)
What Time Is It There? ... (Sound)
Betelnut Beauty ... (Sound)
Mirror Image ... (Sound)

2000

In the Mood for Love ... (Sound)
Yi Yi ... (Sound)
The Island Tales ... (Sound)
Lament of the Sand River ... (Sound)

1998

Hold You Tight ... (Sound Recordist)
Flowers of Shanghai ... (Original Music Composer)
Jam ... (Sound)

1990

Song of the Exile ... (Sound Recordist)

1989

A City of Sadness ... (Sound)
Boss No Balls ... (Sound)

1988

Neverending Memory ... (Sound Designer)

1987

Split of the Spirit ... (Sound)
The Game They Call Sex ... (Sound)

1986

Terrorizers ... (Sound Recordist)

1985

Taipei Story ... (Sound)
Super Citizen ... (Sound)
Run Tiger Run ... (Sound Recordist)
My Favorite Season ... (Original Music Composer)
Spring Daddy ... (Sound)
Kuei-mei, a Woman ... (Sound Recordist)

1984

A Summer at Grandpa's ... (Original Music Composer)
Run Away ... (Sound)
Teenage Fugitive ... (Sound Designer)

1983

That Day, on the Beach ... (Sound)
Ah Fei ... (Sound Designer)

1982

The Bloody Mission ... (Editor)
In Our Time ... (Sound)

1981

If I Were for Real ... (Sound Recordist)