Yang Chia-yun

Chia-Yun Yang (Karen Yang), born March 1947[1] and originally from Qingdao, Shandong Province, is one of the second generation directors in Taiwan. She is also regarded as a "pioneer female film director of commercial Taiwanese film during the 1970s and 1980s".[2] In 1998, Chia-Yun Yang directed the documentary A Secret Buries For 50 Years-- A Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women", which won the 35th Golden Horse Awards for "Best documentary".[3] "The fate and resistance of women are mostly the focus of Chia-yun Yang's movies",[3] among which The Unsinkable Miss Calabash and A Secret Buries For 50 Years-- A Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women" are the ones that she is personally most satisfied with.[4]

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yang.
Yang Chia-yun
Traditional Chinese楊家雲
Simplified Chinese杨家云

Biography

Early years

Chia-Yun Yang's interest in and preference for movies had been cultivated since she was a child. At that time, her elder brother often liked to make use of existing simple props, such as curtains, table lamps, homemade paper puppets and so forth, to create a "family shadow play". Even if the props were simple and the techniques were not mature enough, this game was quite interesting for Chia-Yun Yang at a young age.[5] After graduating from high school, Chia-Yun Yang went to the National Taiwan Art Academy (now the Taiwan Art University) to study in the department of movie and TV program. During that time, she experienced the work of a continuity clerk for the first time in the summer internship. Later, she was assigned by the Central Motion Picture Corporation (now the Central Pictures Corporation) to work as an intern in director Hsing Lee's movie Jade Goddess, during which time she was promoted by Yung-Tze Li, the continuity clerk of the movie, and became a formal continuity girl.[6]
In the first nine years of Chia-Yun Yang's career, she once served as a continuity clerk, an assistant director and a deputy director and acquired technical skills such as cutting, dubbing and so forth. She also followed and cooperated with senior directors Hsing Lee, Ching-Jui Pai and Yao-Chi Chen in the early period. Therefore, she had accumulated rich experience in practice.[6] In the 1970s, Chia-Yun Yang also worked as a writer and co-wrote the scripts of the movies such as The Three Tales, A Saturday Date, The Beauty with Two Faces and others.[2]

After becoming a movie director

In 1978, after entering the movie industry for nine years, Yang became a director officially and directed her first film, an affectionate literary film Morning Mist,[5] with Brigitte Lin and Chin Han playing the lead roles. Later, Yang and the female writer Hsuan Hsiao-fa together set up Sunshine Film Company and their first movie was a comedy, The Unsinkable Miss Calabash in 1981. In fact, they originally planned to produce another movie as the first one of the company. However, the comedy movies were popular at that time, so they changed their plan.[7] Encouraged by the news agency of the executive council, The Unsinkable Miss Calabash was sent to show in the Edinburgh International Film Festival.[6] This movie also got three nominations in the 18th Golden Horse Awards, best actress and best film original music, and Wang Lai, supporting actress of the movie, won the golden horse award of the best supporting actress.[8] Chia-Yun Yang also tried to direct the works of other subjects, such as a thriller Who Dare Challenge Me in 1981 and a horror movie Exposed to Danger in 1982. In 1998, Chia-Yun Yang directed the documentary A Secret Buries For 50 Years-- A Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women", which was in the shortlist of Japanese Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, and won the 35th golden horse award for "Best documentary".[3] After directing A Secret Buries For 50 Years-- A Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women", "Chia-yun Yang stopped directing drama movies and made only advertisements, social education films and public welfare films".[4]

Other works

In addition to making films, Chia-Yun Yang also participated in the direct of television series for China Television Company, Ltd. (CTV), and Chinese Television Service (CTS, now the Chinese Television System Enterprise), such as Mo Ran Hui Shou (in 1984), Mo Gui Shu (in 1985), Sunny Rain (in 1990), Jin Se Shi Guang (in 1991), Jin Qian Shu.[4] Moreover, she also participated in making a TV program: Yin fa shou nian : Sun Yue he ta de lao peng you men. "The same team worked for A Secret Buries For 50 Years-- A Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women" parptcipated in making this program, including director Chia-Yun Yang, producer Nianci Wang, photography Ruiyuan Shen, and WorldCat Identities".[9] What's more, Chia-yun Yang worked for Hsing Lee's stage play Xia Xue.

Chronology lists of Chia-Yun Yang's works

Movies
TitleYearGenresStarring
Morning Mist1978RomanceBrigitte Lin Ching Hsia, Han Chin
Love Comes from the Sea1980DramaKenny Bee, Tsai-Ling Ying
The Unsinkable Miss Calabash1981Comedy/RomanceTsai-Ling Ying, Sibelle Hu
Who Dare Challenge Me1981DramaHui-Shan Yang, Hao-Jen Chiang
The Lady Avenger1981Action/Crime/DramaHsiao-Fen Lu, Shou-Ping Tsui
Exposed to Danger1982Crime/HorrorHsiao-Fen Lu, Wing-Lun Tam
The Wayward Angels1982DramaFu-Mei Chang, Ping Chang
The Crazy Youth1982DramaHsiao-Fen Lu, Kai-Li Chu (Niu Tien)
Women Warriors of Kingmen1983AdventureHsiao-Fen Lu, Hsiu-Shen Liang
A Secret Buries For 50 Years—A Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women"1998DocumentaryA-Tao Huang, Man-Mei Lu

Television Series[4]
TitleYearTV StationStarring
Mo Ran Hui Shou1984China Television Company, LtdYi-Chan Lu, Lily Li, Pi-Ling Lo, Ailun Chiang
Mo Gui Shu1985Chinese Television ServiceStephen Tung Wai, Ruo-yu Liu
Sunny Rain1990China Television Company, LtdYi-Chen Lin, Morni Chang
Jin Se Shi Guang1991China Television Company, LtdHan Yu, Yu-Lan Chin
Jin Qian ShuUnknownUnknownUnknown

Scripts
TitleYearGenreDirectorStarring
The Three Tales1974DramaHsing Lee, Chia Li, Ching-Jui PaiPing-Yu Chang, Ya-Hui Huang, Chun Hsiung Ko
A Saturday Date1976Comedy/RomanceYung-Tze LiCharlie Chin, Feng Hsu, Kai-Li Chu (Niu Tien), Wen-Ching Liu
The Beauty with Two Faces1976RomanceYung-Tze LiAlan Tang, Brigitte Lin, Wei Chang
Love, Diploma & Jeans1976RomanceWei-Bin LiuFeng-Jiao Lin, Wen-Ching Liu, Kai-Li Chu (Niu Tien)
First Kiss First Good-bye1978RomanceYao-Chi ChenWen-Ching Liu, Yin-Chen Chang, Ya-Lei Kuei

Others
TitleYearGenre
Yin fa shou nian : Sun Yue he ta de lao peng you men2007TV program
Xia Xue2010Stage Play

References
  1. http://www.ctfa.org.tw/filmmaker/content.php?cid=2&id=767
  2. "Chia-Yun Yang". Retrieved March 12, 2018.
  3. 魏时煜 (2014). 東西方電影 (in Chinese) (增訂版 ed.). City University of Hong Kong Press. p. 459. ISBN 9789629372651.
  4. 刘亚玉. 台湾女导演研究1957-2000 (Ph.D. thesis). Retrieved March 11, 2018.
  5. 呂麗秋 (1978). "導演椅，真難坐!—訪臺灣女導演楊家雲聽"唉"聲!". 銀色世界 (102): 52–53.
  6. "楊家雲 Yang Chia-Yun" (in Chinese). Retrieved March 13, 2018.
  7. 玄小佛 (1981). "我想把楊家雲勒死". 銀色世界 (134): 30.
  8. "小葫芦" (in Chinese). Retrieved March 13, 2018.
  9. "銀髮熟年-孫越和他的老朋友們". Retrieved March 11, 2018.
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