Wen-Tang Cheng

Born in Ilan county of the north eastern Taiwan, started his career in the film industry as a continuity clerk, assistant director, film producer, scriptwriter, and director since 1982.

Cheng’s first 35mm feature film Somewhere Over the Dreamland (2002) has been lined up in the 59th Venice International Film Festival for the Venice Critics Week.

The Passage (2004) is Cheng’s second 35 mm film.

Blue Cha-Cha (2005), his third and the latest film, was screened in various festivals like Rotterdam, Pusan, Tokyo, Deauville, Los Angeles and won the Golden Horse Award for the best original music in Taiwan and a special mention at the Fribourg International Film Festival.

Wen-Tang Cheng filmography

 

Poster for the movie "Blue Cha Cha"

Blue Cha Cha

Just coming out of the jail, depressed and close-hearted, Ah Yu met two men with different characters from each other. One is a businessman, charming and mature; the other is a young supervisor in a factory with a promising future. But these two loves are short-lived, fading away like bubbles on the beach. With a wounded soul, she went back to the cottage owned by Sister An, a friend from jail. A-Yu, a woman just … Read more