Yonfan

Yonfan

Born: October 14, 1947
in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
Yonfan is a Hong Kong film director and photographer. He was born in Wuhan, Hubei, Republic of China. As the Yang family emigrated from mainland China, they lived first in Hong Kong for 3 years, and then moved to Taiwan when Yonfan was 5 years old.

He spent most of his childhood and adolescence in Taichung, Taiwan, and returned to Hong Kong in 1964 as a 17-year-old man to work as a photographer, but left for the United States in 1968 to study film. After a couple of years travelling through the United States, France and Britain, he returned to Hong Kong in 1973, and became a photographer noted for his celebrity portraits.

Movies for Yonfan...

Keep Rolling
Title: Keep Rolling
Released: December 3, 2020
Type: Movie
One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung's directorial debut. A forerunner of the New Wave, Hui’s tumultuous, forty-year career is an unequivocal testimony to her unyielding dedication to filmmaking, and her expedition into the metamorphic city. This biopic probes into the acclaimed director’s idiosyncratic world, where we witness her rashness and goofiness, as well as her humanistic concerns for the everyday nobodies which make her films so moving.
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Prince of Tears
Title: Prince of Tears
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 25, 2009
Type: Movie
A shameful period in Taiwanese history provides the backdrop for this emotional drama from writer and director Yonfan (aka Yang Fan). In 1949, in the wake of the 228 Incident (in which anti-government protesters launched a rebellion that was violently put down by authorities), Taiwan came under martial law, and through much of the 1950s brutal reprisals against suspected communists were commonplace. During the years of the "White Terror," thousand of supposed dissidents were killed, imprisoned or simply disappeared at the hands of the military police.
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Peony Pavilion
Title: Peony Pavilion
Character: Dance Tutor
Released: December 7, 2001
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, a songstress courtesan finds herself in a confusing relationship with her cousin as their marriages to men go into decline.
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A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation
Title: A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation
Character: Madame Trunk (voice) (Mandarin version)
Released: July 26, 1997
Type: Movie
A young man falls in love with a ghost and must avoid a variety of ghostbusters out to eliminate her and each other.
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The Banquet
Title: The Banquet
Released: November 30, 1991
Type: Movie
Developer Tsang Siu-Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung has secured the other two properties. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.
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Promising Miss Bowie
Title: Promising Miss Bowie
Character: Mr. Yeung
Released: June 14, 1990
Type: Movie
Miss Bowie is more or less happily raking in the cash until her life is complicated by the sudden reappearance, after 20 years, of her first (and presumably true) love. To this is added Miss Bowie's annoying teenage niece and a strange disease.
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Mr. Coconut
Title: Mr. Coconut
Character: Annoyed customer at buffet
Released: January 21, 1989
Type: Movie
Lovable Mr. Coconut arrives in town from Hainan China where he lived with his coconuts. Here in the sophisticated urban jungles of Hong Kong. He has finally reunited with his family, as he endures Hong Kong Streets of the late 1980s, filled with stock and property gamblers, heavy mobile phones and others.
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Last Romance
Title: Last Romance
Character: Photographer
Released: December 8, 1988
Type: Movie
Two best friends So-so and Nancy are love-struck by the same handsome Japanese boy who cannot fulfill both girls' destinies.
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Immortal Story
Title: Immortal Story
Released: November 6, 1986
Type: Movie
Set in the then Portuguese colony of Macau, IMMORTAL STORY depicts the story of the love affair between a small time chanteuse and her Japanese beau. They met when both were young and pretty and again many years later when he had became a drug addict and she a fallen woman.