Known for Camera
Yao Hung-i (Chinese: 姚宏易) is a Taiwanese cinematographer and film director. He graduated from the Department of Product Craft Design of Fu-Hsin Trade and Arts School, was given an opportunity to join the film crew of director Hou Hsiao-hsien's "Good Men, Good Women" in 1994 due to his habit in photography. Beginning from an assistant job, Yao successively participated in many of Hou's filmmaking. Being encouraged by Hou, he started writing script and made his first film titled "Reflections" in 2006.
Birthplace
Taiwan
Filmography
33 films, 1 show


GATAO: Big Brothers
2025
country: Taiwan
Michael and his right-hand man Scorpion, who find themselves embroiled in their father Ko's turf war against rival gangs in Taipei, setting off a conflict between old and new generations of gangsters. The film is the latest installment in the Gatao franchise, following the narrative of a young successor trying to expand his power while navigating the volatile underworld.


GATAO: Like Father Like Son
2024 · 2h 11m
country: Taiwan
Michael and his right-hand man Scorpion, who find themselves embroiled in their father Ko's turf war against rival gangs in Taipei, setting off a conflict between old and new generations of gangsters. The film is the latest installment in the Gatao franchise, following the narrative of a young successor trying to expand his power while navigating the volatile underworld.


Salute
2022 · 2h 16m
country: Taiwan
Dancer SHEU Fang-yi’s career has been told through her modern dance dramas such as Sparrow, Stranger, Wall, and Martha GRAHAM‘s Heretic. Martha GRAHAM once said: “A dancer dies twice — once when they stop dancing, and this first death is the more painful.” At this intersection of her life, SHEU Fang-yi commemorates her glorious past two decades with a funeral, to farewell her past self, and to get ready to move toward her unknown future.


Hometown Boy
2011 · 1h 12m
country: Taiwan
One of the best-known Chinese figurative painters, Liu Xiaodong goes back to his hometown of Jincheng, in the province of Liaoning (North-East China), to re-paint again friends and relatives after several years have gone by. With a soundtrack by famed composer Lim Giong (Millennium Mambo, The Assassin).


Reflections
2007 · 1h 27m
country: Taiwan
A couple is torn by conflicting emotions. Jing and Mi are two women living in Taiwan who have been lovers for some time; Jing is a singer in a rock band who suffers from severe mood swings and has been suffering from a fractured relationship with her mother, while Mi is the more sedate and level-headed of the couple.