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Edward Yang
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Michelangelo Antonioni
is one of his favorite directors.
Applied, and got admitted to Harvard's Architecture School, The Harvard University Graduate School of Design, but decided not to go.
Attended USC Film School for awhile, before going to Seattle to work as an engineer.
Received a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Florida.
Taught Theatre and later Film at The Taipei National University of The Arts.
Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001
Likes to cast
Chang Chen
,
Elaine Jin
, and
Nien-Jen Wu
in his films. He even cast fellow auteur and filmmaker
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
as one of the leads in his 1985 film Taipei Story.
Uses a variety of interesting nicknames for his characters: "Sly", "Honey", "Threads" as the name of various gang members in
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
, "Birdy" and "Akeem" in
A Confucian Confusion (1994)
, "Hong Kong" and "Red Fish" in
Mahjong (1996)
, and "NJ", "Yang-Yang" and "Fatty" in
Yi Yi (2000)
.
The first Taiwanese and second Chinese to win Best Director Award at Cannes (2000) after
Kar-Wai Wong
(HK).
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