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

The Rope Curse 4: Kuntilanak ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Cyclone ... (Sound Designer)
The Waves Will Carry Us ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Moonglow ... (Sound Designer)
The Snowball on a Sunny Day ... (Sound)
Deep Quiet Room ... (Sound Editor)
A Dance with Rainbows ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Fly! Mountain Hawk-Eagle ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Oh My Ghost! Oh My God! ... (Sound Designer)

2025

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

2024

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

2023

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

2022

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

2021

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

2020

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

The Tenants Downstairs ... (Sound Designer)
Three ... (Sound Designer)
Underground Fragrance ... (Sound Designer)
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)
Wansei Back Home ... (Sound)
Elena ... (Sound Designer)

2014

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

2013

Soul ... (Sound Mixer)

2012

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

2011

Buddha Mountain ... (Sound Director)
You Are the Apple of My Eye ... (Sound Director)
Return Ticket ... (Sound Designer)
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

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

2007

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

2006

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

2005

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

2004

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

2003

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

2002

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

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

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

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

1986

Terrorizers ... (Sound Recordist)

1985

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

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)