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Yonfan

Yonfan

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1947-10-14
Wuhan, Hubei, China

Biography

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.

Known For & Full Filmography13 Titles

#1Be My Guest

Drama Series - 2006, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Talk

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#2The Banquet

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.8 / 10
Comedy

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. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.

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#3星空下的傾情

Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Reality

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#4Last Romance

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Photographer

5.9 / 10
DramaRomance

Best friends So-so and Nancy fall in love with the same handsome Japanese boy, who cannot fulfill both girls' destinies.

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#5Peony Pavilion

Movie - 2001, 2h 15m as Dance Tutor

6.8 / 10
DramaRomance

In 1930s Suzhou, the fifth wife of an opium-addicted aristocrat, her husband's female cousin, and a handsome instructor develop an intense relationship.

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#6Mr. Coconut

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m as Annoyed Customer at Buffet

7.0 / 10
Comedy

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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#7Double Fixation

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m as Jacky's Assistant

5.0 / 10
MysteryDrama

A femme fatale and a photographer embark on a romantic adventure surrounding a mysterious marble.

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#8Immortal Story

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.2 / 10
DramaRomance

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.

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#9Prince of Tears

Movie - 2009, 2h 15m as Narrator (voice)

4.5 / 10
Drama

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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#10Keep Rolling

Movie - 2020, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
Documentary

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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#11Promising Miss Bowie

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m as Mr. Yeung

9.0 / 10
Drama

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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#12Intermission

Movie - 2024, 2h 15m as Self

8.8 / 10
Documentary

Spanning nearly sixty years, Yonfan features his career in music, dance, photography, and writing through fifteen films in Intermission. This captivating cinematic journey stands as a witness to the essence of a changing world.

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#13Crossing Years

Movie - 2024, 2h 15m as Himself

8.8 / 10
Documentary

This documentary records the precious memories of Chinese artist Huang Yongyu during the celebration of the Lunar New Year in 2012, showing his life details and personal emotions.

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