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Chang Yao-sheng (Chinese: 張耀升; born 1975) is a Taiwanese film director, novelist and screenwriter. Chang's works have been published by Mirror Fiction . His screenwriting credits include The Village of No Return (2017) and A Sun (2019).
Mar 10, 2021 · SINGAPORE - Taiwanese film A Leg, the directorial debut of writer-director Chang Yao-sheng, follows a woman (Gwei Lun-mei) who is bent on finding the missing amputated leg of her late husband (Yo...
A Leg (Chinese: 腿) is a 2020 Taiwanese dark romantic comedy drama film co-written and directed by Chang Yao-sheng (in his feature directorial debut), produced and co-written by Chung Mong-hong and starring Gwei Lun-mei and Tony Yang.
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In 2013 Taipei, troubled teenager Chen Jian-ho and his friend, Radish, approach a young man named Oden at a restaurant; unbeknownst to Ho, Radish cuts off Oden's hand with a machete. Ho is sentenced to juvenile detention, and Radish receives a harsher sentence. Ho's father, Wen, disowns him, however his wife Qin still visits their son in prison. We...
Chen Yi-wen as Wen (文), father of Chen Jian-ho and Hao and husband of Qin. He works as a driving instructor; his driving schoolhas the slogan "Seize the day, decide your path", which he uses as a m...Background and pre-production
Director Chung Mong-hong conceived A Sun when he met his once-troubled high-school friend, who told him about how he and his friend had cut off someone's hand in his youth and how it affected him psychologically for some time. Later, while having dinner with friends and family, he visualized a hand boiling in a hot pot; this drove him to write the film. After writing the opening sequence, Chung began to think about suicide (a common occurrence in Taiwan) and the familial and social effects of...
Filming
Principal photography of A Sun began in September 2018 and took 38 days, a tight schedule given the film's 155-minute runtime. Chung attributed the schedule to the lack of popularity of his films in the Taiwanese market. Its financing was not completed during filming, a recurring problem with Chung's films. Eventually, the team settled a budget of NT$ 44million (US$1,500,000 as of 2018). Despite his desire to use film stock, Chung decided to use digital cinematographyinstead; he said that the...
Post-production
A Sun was edited by Lai Hsiu-hsiung, who had collaborated with Chung on Godspeed, The Great Buddha+, and Xiao Mei (2018). With a running time of 155 minutes, it is Chung's longest film by far, which the production team agreed on as being the right length. The film's sound designer Tu Duu-chih, known for his work on Millennium Mambo (2001),initially proposed trimming it; others said, though, that every scene in the final cut is important. In the film, Hao tells a dark version of the story of S...
According to Chung, his intention with A Sunwas to explore the familial and social effects of juvenile imprisonment and suicide. The film, he said, is not about joy but a reflection about family, society, and life's hardships. Its motifs of light and dark have been discussed, and Chung said that the Sun symbolizes hope. The family's love is like su...
A Sun had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2019, before the film's Asian premiere at the 2019 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival on 3 October. It was then screened at the 24th Busan International Film Festival four days later. Successive festivals included the Tokyo International Film Festival and the 56th Tai...
Box office
According to data from the Taiwan Film Institute between 4 and 10 November (its approximate opening week), A Sun played in 44 theaters in Taiwan; it grossed NT$4,550,861, with 19,172 tickets sold. The revenue was a 38.11% increase from its 1–3 November. Over the next six days, two theaters stopped screening the film; it grossed $3,258,810 with 13,686 tickets sold, a 28.61% decrease. It earned $14,157,606 with 59,687 tickets sold the following week, a 5.40% drop. Eight theaters added the film...
Critical response
Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes marked A Sun as generally well-received, with a 94% approval rating based on 18 critics; many called it one of the best films of 2019–2020 as well as a masterpiece of Taiwanese cinema. Writing for Sight & Sound, Tony Rayns called it "the most impressive film of recent times"; Debruge called it "a world-cinemastunner" built on mastery. A number of critics enjoyed the film's treatment of its themes. The good and the evil are balanced; subgenres including crime,...
A Sun at IMDbA Sun on NetflixA Sun at AllMovieIn this deliciously dark comedy, a woman desperately attempts to reunite her husband's amputated leg with his body before his funeral, leading her on a wild goose chase across Taipei and through multiple encounters with bureaucracy, ineptitude, and her own recent past.
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Aug 31, 2000 · The court ruled that Chang Yao-sheng (張耀昇), 37, fabricated details of an August 1997 shootout with the suspects and attempted to steal credit from subordinates who had been chasing Lin and Kao.
Jan 20, 2016 · Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong caught the audience by surprise when he crooned the first line of xinyao classic Xi Shui Chang Liu (Friendship Forever) at the National Day Rally on Sunday.
