Winston Chao
Also Known As: Winston Chao Wen-Hsuan, 趙文瑄, 赵文瑄, Zhao Wenxuan
Biography: Winston Chao Wen-hsuan (born 9 June 1960) is a Taiwanese actor. He came to international attention for his performance in the 1993 film The Wedding Banquet. He is also known for his roles in Red Rose White Rose and Eat Drink Man Woman, and for his five portrayals of Sun Yat-sen, notably in the films The Soong Sisters (1997), Road to Dawn (2007) and 1911 (2011). His notable television roles include the adaptation of Cao Yu's play Thunderstorm (1997), a double role in the historical drama Palace of Desire, the biographical mini-series The Legend of Eileen Chang (2004), the historical drama Da Tang Fu Rong Yuan (2007), the adaptation of Ba Jin's novel Cold Nights (Han ye, 2009), and the portrayal of Confucius (2011). Description above from the Wikipedia article Winston Chao, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Taiwan
Birthday: June 09, 1960
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Gender: Male
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Those were the Days
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The Wedding Banquet
Overview: A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1993-03-01
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The Soong Sisters
Overview: The Soong family was a political dynasty in China that reached the highest levels of power. This film follows the lives of the three Soong daughters, who were educated in America and returned to China. Ai-ling married a wealthy and powerful businessman. Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary founder of modern China. Mei-ling married Chiang Kai-shek, China's leader during World War II. The sisters captured the world's fascination for their brilliant marriages and their strong influence on their nation.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1997-05-01
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Top Cool
Overview: After training in the United States, instructor Yu Da-peng comes back to Taiwan to train the first batch of pilots to receive new fighter jets.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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钢琴课
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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Daughter's Daughter
Overview: Jin is in her 60s. Her husband gone, her concern is for daughter Zuer, in New York trying out IVF with her partner Michelle. When Jin receives news that Zuer and Michelle have died in an accident, she heads for NY. There, she has another shock: she has inherited Zuer’s embryo and it’s for her to decide its fate. Meanwhile, going to NY also forces Jin to face Emma, the daughter she gave up for adoption when she was 17.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-11-22
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Eat Drink Man Woman
Overview: A retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu and his family live in modern day Taipei, Taiwan. He lives with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each of the daughters encounter new men in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1994-08-03
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Red Rose White Rose
Overview: Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end up with her. To maintain his reputation, he marries an antiseptic, frigid but classy lady of a prim and proper background. Dissonance abound when he finds his bride irritating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1994-12-09
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The Touch
Overview: A sister and brother, the last heirs of a family of acrobats, are called upon by a Buddhist monk sect to retrieve an artifact that their ancestors have protected throughout the ages.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-08-01
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Tonight Nobody Goes Home
Overview: The Chen family contagiousness extends to taking on an extra-marital affair. Gua Ah-leh is at the movie's centre: she shines as Lung's wife, who finds she has a thing or two to learn from the gigolo after Lung blithely. Lang Hisung plays old dentist for broad comedy he is sixty years old.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1996-07-04
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1911
Overview: China's first President Sun Yat-Sen and military commander Huang Xing lead the revolutionary Wuchang Uprising in a bid to put an end to the reign of the Qing Dynasty.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action History War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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In Between
Overview: Three flatmates share a luxury flat. A philandering hairdresser meets his match. A young stockbroker meets his boss's soon-to-be-ex-wife. A pregnant lady unsure over the identity of the baby's father.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-01-06
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Intimates
Overview: Foon escapes an arranged marriage by walking the road of a Ji Sor. After an affair with Shing, she becomes pregnant. An attempted abortion nearly costs Foon her life. Wan, the young owner of a silk factory, rescues her. Wan and Foon share their romances, reflecting the experience of women during the 40's.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1997-10-23
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Chinese Wine
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-01-15
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Zhongkui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal
Overview: The story of Chinese legendary anti-hero Zhong Kui, a young man endowed with mysterious powers who is forced into a battle among the realms of Heaven, Earth and Hell in the course of his attempt to save his countrymen and the woman he loves.
Genres: Action Fantasy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-02-19
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I Want to Go on Living
Overview: A woman stops waiting for her med student boyfriend and marries a rich man so she can pay her grandmother's medical bills.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-08-24
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Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Overview: Ever-changing life in a busy modern metropolis brings both ecstasy and sorrow: One night, 24-year-old A Rong by chance helps A Min, a beautiful woman, defending her from group of harassers on the street. A Rong takes A Min sleep in his house, while he himself goes to a friend's house to sleep on the sofa. The next morning, A Rong arrives home to find A Min gone; he does everything he can to find her and ask her to marry him.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-09-01
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A Little Life-Opera
Overview: The story of a part-time opera troupe in coastal Fujian province of China and their struggles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1998-12-16
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Be Somebody
Overview: During the Republican era, a group of frustrated people from the movie industry is invited in a luxurious mansion to make a movie out of a gruesome case that has recently rattled the city of Shanghai, in the hopes that it would turn into a huge sensation and make them famous. However, they never expected that the murderer would be in their midst and that the truth behind the case would be far more bizarre than their fictional movie plot.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-11-11
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Road to Dawn
Overview: Based on the story of Dr Sun Yat Sen’s revolutionary efforts and his love affairs while he was in Penang in 1910.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2007-06-28
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Xuan Zang
Overview: Chinese-Indian historical adventure of Xuan Zang's seventeen-year overland journey to India during the Tang dynasty in the seventh century.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-04-29
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Kabali
Overview: A gangster in Malaysia goes in search of his family after 25 years of imprisonment.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2016-07-22
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Xiu Xiu
Overview: Yu Lei plays an orphan Xiu Xiu, who is married to a foreign land when she was 3. Her husband, a hunter (Lau Hok Yin), doesn't know how to love her. So a passionate affair is unavoidable when she meets up with a military doctor (Winston Chao).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-08-25
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Skiptrace
Overview: A detective from Hong Kong teams up with an American gambler to battle against a notorious Chinese criminal.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-21
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Surprise
Overview: A monster crosses paths with the foursome from the classic Chinese story Journey To The West.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-12-18
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The Meg
Overview: A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-09
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Island of Greed
Overview: A gutsy police detecive and his team of cops probe into the widespread illegal dealings of a criminal mastermind who schemes to redeem himself by running for government office in taiwan.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1997-12-23
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In a Strange City
Overview: Yu Jane, a high school teacher and Xiang Guo-Chen, a successful industrialist, are secretly having an affair outside of his marriage. Xiang is on his way to a political career. His campaign advisor wants him to break off his relationship with Yu so to present himself as a candidate with an untarnished image.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1996-04-26
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The Palace
Overview: In Qing Dynasty, Chen Xiang and Liuli became maids and friends in the imperial palace. Liuli wanted to be famous whereas Chen Xiang just wanted to live a normal life. Liuli attempted to change her life by knowing the prince, even at the cost of betraying Chen Xiang.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-08-13
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Thunder Cop
Overview: Cop action movie clumsily inter-cut with slapstick. Dumb cop befriends triad guy who wants to go straight but is being set up by his unscrupulous drug dealing colleagues.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-04-20
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Pegasus
Overview: Zhang Chi, a hubris and dominating six-time racing champion, falls from grace following a crisis. After a five-year suspension from the motorsport, the now single-father to a six-year-old boy throws down the gauntlet once again.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-02-05
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Great Rescue
Overview: In 1932, as Korea is occupied by Japan, Chu Fucheng, an important figure in the city of Jiaxing, China, is asked to help in hiding exiled Korean nationalist Kim Gu.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2012-09-21
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Destination: 9th Heaven
Overview: A father and daughter struggle with relationships as China regains control of Hong Kong.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1997-07-24
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Piano Lesson
Overview: A pianist, who has already lost his real audience, is searching for his fans via performing music in a world controlled by Artificial Intelligence. However, his only audience is a deaf and dumb cyborg girl, who is raised by data and has no actual experience with real humans. Can they identify each other’s feeling by the signals of music? As AI rises, how can the last generation of Homo sapiens and posthuman face their fate of desolation?
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-10-28
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Burning Harbor
Overview: At the end of WWII, the Japanese decide to build a secret submarine base in Hong Kong for a last point of resistance. The mariners on a Chinese cargo boat are interned and forced to be labourers. When the Japanese commander orders that the laborers are to be killed on completion of the base, the captain of the cargo boat leads his crew in a fight for survival.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1998-07-01
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The Legend of Nezha
Overview: Nezha gets into trouble and implicates his parents who are punished by the heavens along with him. He bravely steps up and admits his fault, which touches the heavens, and his effort comes to fruition. The family of three finally reunites in the end.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: zh
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I Dreamed A Dream
Overview: An experimental "dream yoga" master Li Shihao experiences a stroke and falls into a coma. His daughter decides to go to his dream world to drag him out and wake her father up.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-09-10
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金牌律师之生死劫
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Original Language: zh
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