2013Nominee
Best Director
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Yonfan
Actor · Director · Producer · Writer
Wuhan, Hubei, China
October 14, 1947
Biography
Yonfan is a Hong Kong film director and photographer. He was born in Wuhan, Hubei, Republic of China. As the Yang family emigrated from mainland China, they lived first in Hong Kong for 3 years, and then moved to Taiwan when Yonfan was 5 years old. He spent most of his childhood and adolescence in Taichung, Taiwan, and returned to Hong Kong in 1964 as a 17-year-old man to work as a photographer, but left for the United States in 1968 to study film. After a couple of years travelling through the United States, France and Britain, he returned to Hong Kong in 1973, and became a photographer noted for his celebrity portraits.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1991Nominee
Best Performance
The Banquet
1984Nominee
Best Writing
Shanghai Blues
Career Highlights
2025Highlight
Best Picture
Praying Mantis
2004Highlight
Best Director
Colour Blossoms
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Shanghai Blues
Praying Mantis
Last Romance