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Chang Yi (director)

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Chang Yi
張毅
Born(1951-12-14)December 14, 1951
Taipei, Taiwan
DiedNovember 1, 2020(2020-11-01) (aged 68)
Occupation(s)film director, screenwriter
Years active1980-1986
Notable workJade Love (1984), Kuei-Mei, a Woman (1985)
Spouse(s)Hsiao Sa (divorce)
Loretta Yang
AwardsAsia Pacific Film FestivalBest Director
1985 Kuei-Mei, a Woman

Golden Horse AwardsBest Screenwriter
1980 The Pioneers

Golden Horse Awards – Best Director
1985 Kuei-Mei, a Woman[1]

Chang Yi (張毅; 14 December 1951 – 1 November 2020) was a Taiwanese film director.

Career

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Chang was born in Taipei and studied film at Shih Hsin University.[2] He is listed in the New Taiwan Cinema directors. He won the Golden Horse Award for Best Director and Asia Pacific Film Festival because of 1985 film Kuei-Mei, a Woman (我這樣過了一生)[1][3][need quotation to verify]. He had an extramarital affair with Loretta Yang, the leading actress in many of Chang's movies. After the affair was exposed by Hsiao Sa, Chang Yi and Loretta Yang left Taiwan film industry and became the founders of contemporary glass studio Liuli Gongfang.[4][5][need quotation to verify][6]

Chang Yi died on November 1, 2020. Lorretta Yang acknowledged that Chang had health issues from 2018, particularly with his immune system and kidneys, and that Chang had sought medical treatment in hospital since February 2020.[2][7]

Filmography

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Screenwriter

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Director

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References

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  1. ^ a b "張毅 CHANG Yi". 台灣電影網 Taiwan Cinema. Retrieved 2020-06-03. Chang has earned multiple Golden Horse nominations, and won the Golden Horse Awards for best director, best adapted screenplay, and best feature film for "Kuei-mei, A Woman."
  2. ^ a b Yeh, Kuan-yin; Wang, Hsin-yu; Cheng, Sabine; Chiang, Yi-ching (1 November 2020). "Co-founder of Liuli Gongfang glass art studio Chang Yi dies at 68". Central News Agency. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  3. ^ Daw-Ming Lee (8 November 2012). Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema. Scarecrow Press. pp. 95–. ISBN 978-0-8108-7922-5.
  4. ^ Daw-Ming Lee (8 November 2012). Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-8108-7922-5. "... as Chang was having an extramarital affair with Yang. After the film was completed. Hsiao wrote an open letter in the media exposing Chang's affair with Yang. The sensational news reports forced Chang to split with his wife. and the Chang-Yang couple left the film industry to find a new career in glass art. Liulogongfang (Chinese Crystal Glass Workhouse) was founded in 1987 by Chang, Yang and their good friend......
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "張毅 Chang Yi" (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 台灣電影數位典藏中心. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
  6. ^ "金馬導演張毅病逝妻女相伴 享壽69歲". 中央社 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 2020-11-01. Retrieved 2020-11-01. 琉璃工房今天在官方臉書(Facebook)專頁上公布,琉璃工房的創辦人、大家長張毅已於11月1日清晨在妻子楊惠姍、女兒張源,及家人們的陪伴下安詳辭世,享壽69歲。
  7. ^ Lim Ruey Yan (November 1, 2020). "Award-winning Taiwanese film director Chang Yi dies at 69". Straits Times. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
  8. ^ Vishnevetsky, Ignatiy. "In Our Time". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  9. ^ 黃自強 (Apr 18, 2019). "張毅拍狗狗傷心誌反省當代 星國華語電影節精選". CNA (in Chinese). Taipei. Retrieved 2020-06-03. 張毅是台灣新浪潮電影時期的代表人物之一,他在睽違影壇多年後,2017年推出耗費15年完成的首部動畫電影「狗狗傷心誌」
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