Director

Yao Feng-Pan

Directing

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Directed movies: 27Directed series: 0All crew credits: 37

TMDB ID: 1155211

Known for: Directing

Born: August 10, 1932

Died: June 26, 2004

Age: 71

Place of birth: China

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1963 - 1986

Years active: 24

Also known as

Yiu Fung-Poon • Yao Fung-Pan • 姚鳳磐 • 姚凤磐

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Director (27)Screenplay (7)Writer (3)

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Biography

Feng-Pan Yao was born August 1932 in Anhui Province. Early employment consisted of reporting, editing and head writing duties in Taipei news publications. In 1956, he won an award for investigative journalism. In 1960, he began screenwriting. In 1968, he won a prize for his movie criticism. After that, he received commendation for being an up-and-coming writer in the younger generation and, in 1969, graduated to directing. From then until the early 80s, he almost exclusively shot ghost stories and made dozens of them, earning himself the nickname "King of Ghost Films" by the Taiwanese press. After the popularity of ghost films waned, Mr. Yao started his own magazine, a chain of fast food stores and invested in a theme park. He passed away in 2004.

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