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)
Cold War 1994 ... (Sound Designer)
Arrested Memory ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Cyclone ... (Sound Designer)
The Snowball on a Sunny Day ... (Sound)
Moonglow ... (Sound Designer)
We Are Born Good ... (Sound Designer)
The Age Of Goodbyes ... (Sound Director)
Oh My Ghost! Oh My God! ... (Sound Designer)
Deep Quiet Room ... (Sound Editor)
SAYANG ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
The Waves Will Carry Us ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Fly! Mountain Hawk-Eagle ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
A Dance with Rainbows ... (Supervising Sound Editor)
Dead Tide ... (Supervising Sound Editor)

2025

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

2024

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

2023

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

2022

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

2021

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

2020

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

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

The Assassin ... (Sound Re-Recording Mixer)
Office ... (Sound)
Murmur of the Hearts ... (Sound Director)
Elena ... (Sound Designer)
Wansei Back Home ... (Sound)

2014

Aberdeen ... (Sound Designer)
Stray Dogs ... (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

You Are the Apple of My Eye ... (Sound Director)
Buddha Mountain ... (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)
Miss Kicki ... (Sound Designer)
Su mi ma sen, Love ... (Sound)

2008

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

2007

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

2006

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

2005

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

2004

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

2003

Goodbye, Dragon Inn ... (Sound)
The Skywalk Is Gone ... (Sound)
My Whispering Plan ... (Sound)
Fancy 25 ... (Sound)
Brave 20 ... (Sound)

2002

Double Vision ... (Sound Editor)
Blue Gate Crossing ... (Sound Designer)
July Rhapsody ... (Foley Editor)
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)
Goodbye South, Goodbye ... (Sound Recordist)
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 ... (Original Music Composer)
Run Tiger Run ... (Sound Recordist)
Run Away ... (Sound)
My Favorite Season ... (Original Music Composer)
Kuei-mei, a Woman ... (Sound Recordist)
Spring Daddy ... (Sound)
Super Citizen ... (Sound)

1984

A Summer at Grandpa's ... (Original Music Composer)
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)