Wu Nien-jen
Born: 1952-08-05 in Juifang, Taipei County, Taiwan
Known For: Writing
Biography
Wu Nien-jen (Chinese: 吳念真; born 5 August, 1952) is a Taiwanese screenwriter, director, and writer. He is one of the most prolific and highly regarded scriptwriters in Taiwan and a leading member of the New Taiwanese Cinema, although he has also acted in a number of films, like Edward Yang's film Yi Yi (2000).
Filmography
2023
- Free Beats: The Musical Journey of CHEN Ming Chang
- Caring for Black-Faced Spoonbill as (narrator)
- Day Off ... (Executive Producer)
2020
- 36 Questions
- Twelve Nights 2: Back to Day Zero as Narrator
2016
- My Egg Boy as Old Egg Boy
2015
- Fly, Kite Fly as Narrator
2014
2013
- Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast as Master Silly Mortal
- Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above as Narrator
- Beautiful 2013 ... (Director)
2011
- 10 Plus 10 ... (Director)
2009
- Somewhere I Have Never Travelled ... (Executive Producer)
- The Year of Happiness and Love as Chen Ding He
2006
- Island Etude as Tour Bus Driver
2000
- Yi Yi as N.J.
1998
- Chivalrous Legend ... (Writer)
1996
- Mahjong as Gangster in Black Suit
- Buddha Bless America ... (Director)
1995
- Forever Friends ... (Screenplay)
- A Borrowed Life ... (Director)
- Kangaroo Man as An Chen-li
- Super Citizen Ko ... (Screenplay)
1993
- End of the Road ... (Screenplay)
- The Puppetmaster ... (Writer)
1992
- Hill of No Return ... (Writer)
- Joe-Goody ... (Writer)
1991
- Zodiac Killers ... (Writer)
- My American Grandson ... (Writer)
- Fatal Recall ... (Screenplay)
1990
- Song of the Exile ... (Writer)
- Sunless Days ... (Writer)
1989
- A City of Sadness as Mr. Wu
- The Dull-Ice Flower ... (Writer)
- Winter Break ... (Screenplay)
- Lessons of the Playground ... (Screenplay)
- Two Painters ... (Screenplay)
- Honor Thy Father ... (Screenplay)
1988
- I Love Mary
- Gangland Odyssey ... (Screenplay)
- All for Tomorrow ... (Screenplay)
- Lao ke de zui hou yi ge chun tian ... (Writer)
- The Third Bridge ... (Writer)
- Sir, Tell Me Why? ... (Screenplay)
- Autumn Tempest ... (Screenplay)
- Young and Happy School Music ... (Screenplay)
1987
- Daughter of the Nile as Tutor
- Osmanthus Alley ... (Writer)
- Love Is Grown with Flower ... (Writer)
- The Two of Us ... (Screenplay)
- Be My Lovely Child Again ... (Writer)
1986
- Dust in the Wind ... (Writer)
- The Campus Incidents ... (Screenplay)
1985
- Taipei Story as Chen
- My Favorite Season as Bi Bao-liang's brother-in-law
- Myth of a City ... (Writer)
- Taste of Mercy ... (Writer)
- Ghost Chasers ... (Screenplay)
- Story of a Bride ... (Screenplay)
- The Loser, the Hero ... (Screenplay)
- Wu Nu ... (Screenplay)
- One Bright Day ... (Screenplay)
1984
- The Woman of Wrath ... (Writer)
- North South West East ... (Screenplay)
- Old Mao's Second Spring ... (Writer)
- The First Stitch ... (Screenplay)
- Wanpi Nansheng Qiao Nusheng ... (Screenplay)
- Nature Is Quietly Beautiful ... (Screenplay)
- Impending War ... (Screenplay)
1983
- The Sandwich Man ... (Writer)
- That Day, on the Beach as Piano Tuner
- All the King's Men ... (Screenplay)
- Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing? ... (Writer)
- Send in the Clowns ... (Screenplay)
- Is Q Still Alive? ... (Screenplay)
- Traveller ... (Screenplay)
1982
- Portrait of a Fanatic ... (Story)
- Super Warrior ... (Screenplay)
- Return of the Electric Love ... (Screenplay)
- Taipei Sweet Heart ... (Screenplay)
- The Graduation Trip ... (Screenplay)
- The City ... (Screenplay)
- A Lily in the Valley ... (Screenplay)
- I Shall Return ... (Screenplay)
- The Switch ... (Screenplay)
- Dangerous Seventeen ... (Screenplay)
1981
- Kuo-Hao Crams for College ... (Screenplay)
- The Merry Couple ... (Screenplay)
- Spring Fever ... (Screenplay)
- Once We Were Together ... (Screenplay)
- Classmate ... (Screenplay)
1980
- Young People's Desire ... (Screenplay)
- Sailing for Tomorrow ... (Screenplay)
1979
- The Blind Love ... (Screenplay)
- Gone with Honor ... (Screenplay)
- The Fellow Who Rejected College ... (Screenplay)
1962
- Golden Horse Awards as Self