Joseph Chang
Also Known As: 張孝全, Joseph Chang Hsiao-chuan, Zhang Xiaoquan, Joseph Chang, Xiaoquan Zhang, Joseph Chang Hsiao-Chuan, Τζόσεφ Τσανγκ, ジョセフ・チャン, チャン・シャオチュアン, 张孝全
Biography: Joseph Chang Hsiao-Chuan (Chinese: 張孝全; pinyin: Zhāng Xiàoquán, born 28 December 1983) is a Taiwanese actor. He is best known for his role in the critically acclaimed 2006 Taiwanese film Eternal Summer, which earned him two Golden Horse Awards nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Best New Performer for his role as Yu Shouheng. He was also nominated in 2006, for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film at the 41st Golden Bell Awards for his role as Paul in Corner of Auction World. He attended the Fu-Hsin Trade and Arts School (復興商工) in Taipei.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Republic of China (Taiwan)
Adult: No
Birthday: December 28, 1983
Age: 41 years old
Gender: Male
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Au Revoir Taipei
Overview: Kai (Jack Yao), who works at his parent's noodle shop by day and spends his nights in a bookstore to learn French, decides to go to Paris after his girlfriend, who recently left for Paris, dumps him by phone. Then the local neighborhood mafia boss offers Kai a free plane ticket to Paris if he takes a mysterious package with him.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2010-04-02
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Ballistic
Overview: Lawrence Lau directs Ballistic, a crime thriller that uses the turbulent world of Taiwanese politics to tell a riveting story of cops, corruption, and how righteousness still has value in this grey-shaded world.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2008-11-28
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Eternal Summer
Overview: Three high school students experience the perks and pitfalls of love in director Leste Chen’s sensitive tale of friendship and yearning.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2006-10-13
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Joyful Reunion
Overview: Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, the present day. Master chef Tang Shizhe (Kenneth Tsang) tells his two daughters, the careerist Wa'er (Huo Siyan) and teenage Xiaolan (Jiang Mengjie), that he has decided to sell his upscale vegetarian restaurant, the centre of his life for 30 years.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2012-03-23
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Girlfriend Boyfriend
Overview: Mabel, Liam and Aaron have been friends since childhood. Their bonds of friendship are tested when, years later, they realize their friendship is the only reason they have made it through emotional hardships and extreme tragedies.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2012-08-03
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Fantasy · World
Overview: A cold, hard-nosed lawyer, Zhang, discovers that his past client, Tang, is involved in yet another case of sexual assault. Thirteen years ago, Zhang was a rookie and mentored by a senior lawyer, Tu. Young and ambitious as Zhang was, his outstanding performance successfully helped Tang exonerated from the charge. However, the brutal cross-examination on the victim inevitably became his nightmare. After so many years, tormented by guilt, Zhang finally has the opportunity to atone for his mistakes and avenge the girl he loved. Challenged by Tu and Tang, he decides to pursue justice at any cost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-10-07
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Soul
Overview: Chuan, a quiet 30-year-old man working as a chef in a Japanese restaurant, collapses suddenly and is rushed to a hospital. His colleagues send him to his father, who resides in the mountains. While there, Chuan becomes immobile: he won’t speak, eat or even go to the toilet on his own. One day his father returns from work only to find Chuan sitting in the corner with his daughter lying dead in a pool of blood. In an unfamiliar, eerily calm voice, Chuan says, “I saw this body was empty, so I moved in.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-08-30
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The Stolen Years
Overview: He Man awakes from a coma thinking that she’s still on her honeymoon with her husband Xie Yu, but she gets a rude shock: there’s a five-year gap in her memory, and during that time the couple has divorced. Confused and desperate to figure out how their marriage crumbled, He Man seeks out her ex-husband and her ex-best-friend for answers.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-08-29
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Prince of Tears
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-06-25
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Drop Me a Cat
Overview: It's the year 1999, Hei-shu, a long-term unemployed man, finally gets a job in a local musical band, performing at funerals and weddings. One day, Hei-shu's cat is missing. He later suspects that the cat has turned into a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2003-03-15
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Be With Me
Overview: This is a story of reminiscence, remembering my long-deceased Grandpa. To remember is to transcend, therefore it’s a story of time and space, overlapped and intertwined. It’s also a quest of love and work, a spiritual and emotional journey; and through which values are re-examined and life reaffirmed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-11-17
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Organ Child
Overview: A series of tragic events unfolds after Chang Chi-Mao's daughter goes missing as an infant. Chang becomes consumed by revenge against a powerful criminal organization suspected of kidnapping her. Along the way, he clings to the hope that his daughter may still be alive, determined to rescue her and break free from their dark fate.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2025-04-11
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The Post-Truth World
Overview: A has-been newscaster Liu Li-min is taken hostage by an escaped inmate Zhang Zheng-yi, who pleads his innocence. To Liu's astonishment, Zhang claims that he was smeared by Liu's departed wife. Thus, Liu teams up with Zhang and reinvestigates Zhang's murder case to help his beloved be cleared of blame. However, the more they get to the bottom of the case, the further the truth is beyond their reach.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-10-28
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10 Plus 10
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-11-04
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Five Minutes To Tomorrow
Overview: A lonely young man happens to meet RuoLan who has an identical twin sister RuMei. They are older than him. RuoLan tells him about her wound from a painful breakup and her troubles being a twin. While supporting RuoLan, the young man gets close to her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-10-23
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18×2 Beyond Youthful Days
Overview: Having lost his job and the company he built, a 36-year-old man at rock bottom goes on a wistful solo trip to Japan in search of the love he left behind.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-03-14
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Deep Quiet Room
Overview: After his pregnant wife Yi-ting unexpectedly committed suicide, Ming decides to take care of his father-in-law, only to find out the unbearable truth of Yi-ting’s family that leads to her death.
Genres: Drama Mystery Family
Original Language: zh
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Murmur of the Hearts
Overview: Mei falls for an underachieving boxer, and begins years of soul searching in the city, where she reunites with her estranged brother under unexpected circumstances. What was remembered and forgotten are lessons that have profound consequences.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-03-23
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Wild City
Overview: Former cop-turned-bar owner Kwok and his underachieving half-brother befriends a drunken woman, they soon find themselves targeted by both her former lover, a high-powered attorney, and the gangster he employs. A suitcase full of tainted cash enters the picture as Kwok finds himself torn between the gangsters and his former colleagues.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Adventure
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2015-07-25
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My So-called Love
Overview: Raised in a broken family, Cat runs away from home as a teenager to escape her stepfather. In high school, she begins living with boyfriend Liam, but puppy love eventually ends in betrayal. While Liam is in the army, Cat, feeling lonely and poor, meets an older man through the Internet; Xiao Gu is looking for sex, Cat is looking for money. From lust comes love, until Cat discovers Xiao Gu is actually married. After ten years of ups and downs, Cat begins anew at age 28 when she meets the rich and kind-hearted Sunshine, but is he really her heart's final home?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2008-11-21
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Keeping Watch
Overview: The sudden arrival of Han provides a diversion from Ching's monotonous life as the proprietor of the family clock shop. She quickly falls in love with the young man who claims to be her high school classmate, but her bliss proves short-lived as he disappears just as abruptly. Worried, Ching calls Han's parents, only to be told that he died many years ago.
Genres: Romance Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2007-08-31
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Pinoy Sunday
Overview: The discovery of a discarded sofa, in Taipei city, transforms a routine Sunday into a capricious adventure of perseverance and self-discovery for Filipino guest workers Manuel and Dado.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-10-24
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The Laundryman
Overview: A-Gu enlists a group of contract killers in the disguise of laundry service. One of them, code-named "No.1 Qingtian Street", is haunted by the ghosts of his victims. He seeks help from Lin Hsiang, a psychic.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Thriller Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-08-20
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Sky on Fire
Overview: The chief security officer at a top-secret medical facility finds himself caught in an explosive battle when a young thief and his accomplices steal a groundbreaking curative medicine. After discovering the true origins of the medicine, the officer must decide who he can trust to protect the cure from falling into the wrong hands, and prevent an all-out war from bringing the city to its knees.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-11-25
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The Village of No Return
Overview: In a remote village, a con man disguised as a Taoist priest introduces a memory-erasing device to residents — but a dangerous plot looms.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-01-26
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Cooking Without Clothes
Overview: When Jeff quit his engineer job in pursuit of his dream as a professional chef, he could never imagine his father’s violent objection. By sheer chance, he was discovered by a veteran TV producer, Jia Ying, whose cooking program was facing a crisis after their diva host, Yang Tai, walked out of the production. Jia Ying managed to turn Jeff into an up and coming celebrity chef through professional packaging. In the meantime, Jeff’s father joined force with Yang Tai in a plot to stop Jeff’s dream and resurrect Yang Tai’s dying career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Meeting Dr. Sun
Overview: Two factions of Taipei's poorest high school students both plot to steal their school's iconic statue of the famed philosopher Dr. Sun to make some much-needed money-but when their plans clash and they find themselves at war, they have to question: what are they really fighting for?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-11-01
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Love Contractually
Overview: A strict female CEO of an insurance company has already given up on love and believes that only the love towards a child is true and eternal. Thus, she decides to have her own child so she "borrows" sperm from a delivery man whom she hired, but things start to get out of hand when the two starts to fall in love with each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-02-16
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A Nail Clipper Romance
Overview: After being released from hospital after a surfing accident, Sean meets a girl at a party and falls in love. She draws him into her strange world and confesses that she follows an unusual diet: she only eats... nail clippers! Sean loses his head and decides to help her realize her dream of opening a bar for other nail-clipper eaters.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-04-14
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The Big Call
Overview: With telecom fraud cases going increasingly rampant, it’s a war in the air against invisible enemy in digital network era. The Ministry of Public Security has established a special center focusing on telecom fraud crimes, criminal mastermind Ah-hai and his gang become the key target. Female SWAT team member Xu Xiaotu is sent as an undercover agent to penetrate into Ah-hai’s den in Thailand. They has also recruited Ding Xiaotian, a town policeman who has come to Beijing alone for catching criminals. The center is led by Captain Tan Sirong, an experienced police officer who has cracked many telecom fraud cases before.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-12-08
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Cities in Love
Overview: Florence, Prague, Paris, Shanghai, Otaru of Hokkaido, five different love stories in five different cities.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-08-20
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City of Lost Things
Overview: 16-year-old teenager Leaf runs away from home, skipping classes and ending up in a peculiar place called City of Lost Things. There he meets Baggy, a 30-year-old plastic bag. Baggy never sees himself as just another piece of junk. He has a purpose in his life - to lead his tribe to flee City of Lost Things. But he needs the help from Leaf to fight the dreadful army of the Armors.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-10-29
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