Ko I-chen
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Ko I-chen.
Born: February 10, 1946
Place of Birth: Yizhu Township, Taiwan
Known For
The Year of Happiness and Love
Jiang Chen-bo is a loser without prospects for success, until a surprise promotion becomes the catalyst for his entire family's upturn in fortune.
Wave Makers
Weng Wen-fang (Hsieh Ying-hsuan) came from a political family. She joined the Justice Party as the deputy director and spokesperson of the Publicity Department, after failing to be re-elected as a member of the Council. She led the publicity team in realizing their goals, but not without facing many challenges to their faith and values.
Full Moon in New York
Three Chinese women with vastly different backgrounds get acquainted and become friends amid the social desolation of New York.
Such a life
'Such a Life' is quite a sad film. It is set in the sixties, in a village on the west coast of Taiwan, where many are succumbing to 'black foot', a disease caused by drinking contaminated well water. The only 'cure' is to amputate the afflicted limb, and to avoid drinking the contaminated water. Many in the village were already sick, and few could afford to have tap-water installed. At the center of the story is Ah Chung, who lives with his grandfather, who has already lost one leg to 'black foot'. In the same village also live an opera family, who are finding things increasingly difficult there, an oyster farmer, who complains that his oysters are being poisoned by a nearby pharmaceutical plant, and an assortment of children who enjoy swimming in the sea, and who bully Ah Chung. A significant portion of the action also takes place in the village school, where Ah Chung is having trouble keeping up with the fees.
Mahjong
Amid a rapidly changing cityscape, the lives of a disparate group of swindlers, hustlers, gangsters, and expats collide, with a naive French teenager and a sensitive young local who tries to protect her caught dangerously in the middle.
Taipei Story
A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.
That Day, on the Beach
Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.
Life of Pi
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
The Cabbie
After falling in love with a traffic cop, a cab driver commits as many traffic violations as he can in order to see her again.
Super Citizen Ko
At an old age, a former political prisoner is determined to find out where his fellow sufferers have laid since their secret execution, while Taiwan embarks on a tumultuous path of democratization.
Filmography
as Weng Jen-hsiung
as 自己
as Master Fly Spirit
as Wu's father
as Tsimtsum Captain
as Salon Owner (segment "Hippocamp Hair Salon")
as A-mei's father (segment "Two Juliets")
as Hsu
as Lin Chang Shou
as Father
as Self
as Fei Fei's Father
as Police Captain
as Luen-Luen's Father
as Chen Cheng-I
as "Big Brother"
as Mr. Ke