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Chen Kuofu

Producer, Writer, Director, Editor, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn May 13, 1958 (67 years)
Chen Kuofu is a Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and producer. His film The Personals was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Born in 1958 Chen worked as a film critic before debuting as a director in 1989 with School Girl. In the 1990s, he continued to explore the world through a female perspective with Treasure Island, The Peony Pavilion and anti-romantic comedy The Personals. The latter, in which a single woman searches for Mr. Right on a series of blind dates, screened in Cannes' Un Certain Regard sidebar and was distributed in Asia, Europe and North America. In 2000 Chen became the head of the production unit of the Asian branch of Columbia Pictures. Here he accumulated experience in international film making and connections to young Chinese directors such as Feng Xiaogang. With these he would later join Huayi Brothers Media Corporation and continue his works in China. In 2001 Chen began to concentrate on feature film production beginning with Su Chao-Bin's youth comedy Better Than Sex through his company Nan Fang Film Productions. The following year, he directed and produced the supernatural thriller Double Vision.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame
  • A World Without Thieves
  • Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon
  • Tai Chi Zero
  • Mojin: The Lost Legend
  • Tai Chi Hero
  • Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings
  • Chongqing Hot Pot

Known For

  • Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame
  • Assembly
  • A World Without Thieves
  • Tai Chi Zero
  • Mojin: The Lost Legend
  • The Message
  • If You Are the One
  • Back to 1942
  • Double Vision
  • Tai Chi Hero
  • Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings
  • Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon
  • If You Are the One 2
  • The Yinyang Master
  • Aftershock
  • The Equation of Love and Death
  • Chongqing Hot Pot
  • 20:30:40
  • Starry Starry Night
  • Painted Skin: The Resurrection
  • Mountain Patrol
  • Warriors of Heaven and Earth
  • Forever Enthralled
  • The Personals

Filmography

2025
Mumu · as Executive Producer
2024
The Chronicles of Libidoists · as Executive Producer
2021
Love Will Tear Us Apart · as Executive Producer
2021
2018
2017
2016
2015
2015
2014
2013
2012
Back to 1942 · as Executive Producer
2012
Tai Chi Hero · as Executive Producer
2012
Tai Chi Zero · as Executive Producer
2012
2011
2011
One Mile Above · as Executive Producer
2010
2010
2009
2008
2008
The Equation of Love and Death · as Executive Producer
2007
Assembly · as Executive Producer
2007
Matrimony · as Executive Producer
2007
What on Earth Have I Done Wrong?! · as Executive Producer
2004
2004
2004
20:30:40 · as Executive Producer
2003
Warriors of Heaven and Earth · as Executive Producer
2002
2002
2001

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