Yang Wengan

Yang Wengan

Yang Wengan (1923 ~ August 1, 2014), a famous director, was born in Pixian County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. He is known as the "father of documentary" of Taiwan films. He has made more than 500 documentaries and 19 films. When his films "spring dawn in Lishan" and "spring return in small town" were released in the 1960s, they set a grand occasion that the premiere line was long and the tickets could not be bought, and won the double awards including Golden Horse and Asia Pacific Film Festival Best Picture award. He died in Taiwan on August 1, 2014 at the age of 87.

Life figures

Yang Wengan is a native of Pi county, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. The first phase of the war school instructor class was graduated from the political work cadre school, and was first directed at the Kangle Defense Corps of the Ministry of national defense, and then transferred to the director and director of film production in Taiwan film studio. His film won the Golden Horse Award and the best documentary award at the Asian Film Festival, and was summoned by Chiang Kai Shek. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, his grandfather was a scholar. 5、 When he was six years old, before he went to primary school, his mother taught him to recite Tang poetry. His family's collection of books was similar to many small bookstores in Taiwan. He was very interested in literature because of this scholarly environment. working as a paperwork in Nanjing new life movement Promotion Association, he was bored every night, so he began to write articles and contribute to the newspaper. For the first time, he did not dare to leave his real name and address in the newspaper. He was afraid that people would lose face when they did not use them. At that time, he was only 19 years old. In 1949, when the inspirational society and the new sports association were going to retreat, they reorganized into a special service office He was in charge of the joint service headquarters, and the then chief of the personnel section was also the chief secretary, so he was transferred to the document section of the secret service. He only went to report three months later. When he reported, he lost his temper, because he was already a member of three newspapers in Nanjing, and he was a little famous in the literary and art circles and the press circles. He was very dissatisfied with their transfer of him to be a second lieutenant. When he withdrew in 1949, he was still a little angry Hou didn't know that Mr. long took the initiative to bring him to Taiwan. When Mr. long came to Taiwan, he set up a recreation corps, which is now the arts Corps. Mr. long became the chief of the corps and took him to the airport to ask for a secretary, but he was short of director. He began to work as a director of drama. He wrote a lot of plays and lyrics, which was very popular at that time. In 1979, he won the best film director award of the Taiwan Writers Association. died in Taiwan on August 1, 2014 at the age of 87. His family said they would hold a public ceremony at Huaide Hall of Taipei's first funeral home at 11:20 a.m. on August 21. They politely refused to hold the ceremony and the flower basket, and they would do it in a warm way

Representative works

He has directed more than 19 films, including Lishan Chunxiao, Xiaozhen Chunhui, fisherman's daughter, I love my wife, and more than 500 news, documentary and educational films, such as longying.

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He is proficient in screenwriting and directing, has directed stage plays, and has also made TV series "caifengqu". He is best at conveying the local cultural spirit of Taiwan into films. His documentaries almost win the Golden Horse Award for best documentary every year. In addition to "Longjing township" winning awards at home and abroad, he also spent several years to complete the "August 7th flood" documentary, which is the first film in Taiwan to present and record the disaster completely in the form of news, and can be called the "godfather of documentary" in Taiwan. Yang Wengan's documentary "Longjing Village" and drama "Xiaozhen Chunhui" won the best documentary director and best drama double awards at the 7th Golden Horse Awards. Xiaozhen Chunhui also won four Golden Horse Awards and participated in the Asia Pacific Film Festival Competition on behalf of Taiwan, winning the best film, which was the biggest winner of the national film of that year.