Director

Chen Kuofu

Writing

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Directed movies: 9Directed series: 0All crew credits: 38

TMDB ID: 53218

IMDb ID: nm0155295

Known for: Writing

Born: May 13, 1958

Age: 67

Place of birth: Taichung, Taiwan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1962 - 2025

Years active: 64

Average TMDB rating: 6.5

Wikidata: Q5090832

Also known as

Chén Guófù • Guo-fu Chen • Chen Kuofu • Guo Fu Chen • 陈国富 • GuoFu Chen • 陳國富 • Chan Kwok-fu • Chen Kuo-fu

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Director (9)Producer (17)Executive Producer (6)Story (2)Writer (2)Presenter (1)Screenplay (1)

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Biography

Chen Kuofu is a Taiwanese film director, screenwriter and producer. His film The Personals was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Born in 1958 Chen worked as a film critic before debuting as a director in 1989 with School Girl. In the 1990s, he continued to explore the world through a female perspective with Treasure Island, The Peony Pavilion and anti-romantic comedy The Personals. The latter, in which a single woman searches for Mr. Right on a series of blind dates, screened in Cannes' Un Certain Regard sidebar and was distributed in Asia, Europe and North America. In 2000 Chen became the head of the production unit of the Asian branch of Columbia Pictures. Here he accumulated experience in international film making and connections to young Chinese directors such as Feng Xiaogang. With these he would later join Huayi Brothers Media Corporation and continue his works in China. In 2001 Chen began to concentrate on feature film production beginning with Su Chao-Bin's youth comedy Better Than Sex through his company Nan Fang Film Productions. The following year, he directed and produced the supernatural thriller Double Vision.

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