ErostrateDiscovering the world's cultures, one work at a time
My list 0

How the works were chosen

Taiwan

Filmmaker · Taiwan

Edward Yang

Died in 2007

Edward Yang was born in 1947 in Shanghai and grew up in Taipei, where his family settled in 1949. An electrical engineer, he did a master's degree in Florida and briefly attended a film school, which he judged too commercial, before working in computing in Seattle. A film by Werner Herzog brought him back to cinema. Back in Taiwan, he became one of the figures of the new Taiwanese cinema, made seven feature films, all set in Taipei, and received the award for best direction at Cannes in 2000.

In the catalogue 1