Cheng Yu-chieh Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Cheng Yu-chieh
Directing
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Filmography Movies
Acting
Into the Unknown
Gao was trying to seek a complete love in different people to fulfill her emptiness.
Falling Koi
A depressed young man, an enthusiastic local and a koi embark on a journey.
Blossom
Cherry identified herself as a drag queen. She just had a fight right before the show, finding out her boyfriend had been cheating sleeping with another girl for a long time. Later, she pulled herself together and walked on her way to work, she met with an abandoned baby. When she was performing sparkly on the stage with her close sister, Lena, they discovered something weird about this baby… The baby that intruded Cherry’s life at the night has given her a short fantasy of having an ordinary family with a child. Yet once again, it reminded her and Lena with a cruel reality of their actual life. This is a journey about a drag queen exploring herself with an abandoned baby at an unconventional night. It is also a story about the searching of one’s the sense of belonging and one’s own.
The Same
Don, in his adolescence, feels low-esteem due to his awkward walking posture. The problem now is his father, who is coming home after years of far-sea fishing. His father always makes him feel uncomfortable. However, he’s not aware that his father is facing the same dilemma.
My Sister
It's the day before Hsiao-Chun's 18th birthday but she overhears a secret which will change the way she looks at her family. As the candlelight on the birthday cake glimmers before her gloomy heart, what wish will she make?
The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon
The arrogant, third most-wanted criminal in Taiwan, decides to get rid of the top two competitors and crowns himself the most-wanted criminal before dying.
Trouble Girl
According to the biggest dating website's research, teacher is among the top five professions most likely to cheat, and their students' parents are among the people whom they cheat with. Xiao-xiao, who has mild ADHD, is the troublemaker in her class. But she has her own trouble - her mother Wei-fang and her homeroom teacher, Paul, have started a romantic relationship as a result of discussing her ADHD conditions.
Ten Years Taiwan
What will our lives be like 10 years from now? Five up and coming Taiwanese directors each offer their own take in answering this question. In 2028, Taiwan is suffering from nuclear waste (“The Can of Anido”), migrant workers (“942”), industrial collapse (“Way Home”), low birth rates and diversity in families (“A Making-Of”), and insomnia (“The Sleep”).
Production
Do Over
Do Over follows five characters over twenty four hours on the last day of the year. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel. By depicting five different characters at emotional crossroads, Do Over examines the struggle of overcoming our greatest fears; the unknown of what lies ahead in the future, the fading value of our existence in the present, and most of all, irreversible mistakes made in the past that may catch up to us.
Yang Yang
Yang Yang's mother marries her track coach, who then becomes Yang Yang's stepfather, with his daughter Xiao-Ru becoming Yang Yang's stepsister. The two girls seem close, but their relationship possesses a hidden and ultimately damaging jealousy. Xiao-Ru’s boyfriend Shawn has a desire for Yang Yang and she bears some attraction in return.
Summer, Dream
College student Hsiao Chih has been dreaming of studying abroad and having foreign affairs. His plan to fulfill this dream in the summer is, however, discouraged by economic down turn in Taiwan. Just as he feels depressed about the need to spend a long summer back home, taking care of his old grandma and her grocery store, here comes a Western girl named Elisa. One thing leads to another, Hsiao Chih and two women - his grandma and Elisa a girl from afar - spend a whole summer under the same roof...
Yang Yang
Yang Yang's mother marries her track coach, who then becomes Yang Yang's stepfather, with his daughter Xiao-Ru becoming Yang Yang's stepsister. The two girls seem close, but their relationship possesses a hidden and ultimately damaging jealousy. Xiao-Ru’s boyfriend Shawn has a desire for Yang Yang and she bears some attraction in return.
10 Plus 10
10+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are invited to make a 5-minute short film each on the theme of the “Uniqueness of Taiwan,” but allowed total freedom in all other aspects.
Do Over
Do Over follows five characters over twenty four hours on the last day of the year. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel. By depicting five different characters at emotional crossroads, Do Over examines the struggle of overcoming our greatest fears; the unknown of what lies ahead in the future, the fading value of our existence in the present, and most of all, irreversible mistakes made in the past that may catch up to us.
Panay
Panay worked in the city as a journalist. One day, she found her tribe had been overdeveloped and changed by tourism. They were losing their land and their culture, so she decided to return home to bring back the abandon terrace. In this process, she found it's not only about the land, but also about who she really is.
My Little Honey Moon
Life of a Vietnamese girl married to a farmer in the countryside of Taiwan.
Summer, Dream
College student Hsiao Chih has been dreaming of studying abroad and having foreign affairs. His plan to fulfill this dream in the summer is, however, discouraged by economic down turn in Taiwan. Just as he feels depressed about the need to spend a long summer back home, taking care of his old grandma and her grocery store, here comes a Western girl named Elisa. One thing leads to another, Hsiao Chih and two women - his grandma and Elisa a girl from afar - spend a whole summer under the same roof...
Panay
Panay worked in the city as a journalist. One day, she found her tribe had been overdeveloped and changed by tourism. They were losing their land and their culture, so she decided to return home to bring back the abandon terrace. In this process, she found it's not only about the land, but also about who she really is.
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