Cheng Yu-chieh

Cheng Yu-chieh is a Taiwanese director, a screenwriter and an actor. His first feature film Do Over in 2006 won the top prize in Taipei Film Festival and was invited to various international film festivals and gained Cheng international attention.
Besides being a screenwriter and director, Cheng is also known as an actor. In 2008 his portrayal of the police officer, Pan Shi-yuan, in Wang Shaudi's TV drama Police et vous was highly appreciated by the audience. Additionally, in 2009, he played Xu Fang-Guo in Chen Hui-Ling's TV drama Autumn's concerto .
Cheng Yu-chieh's second feature film, Yang Yang, was released on August 7, 2009, and was selected for the Berlin Film Festival. In 2010, Cheng Yu-chieh wrote and directed a five-episode mini-series entitled They explode the day before graduation '','' which premiered on Public Television Service. The mini-series received eight nominations at the 46th Golden Bell Awards in 2011, winning five major awards, including Cheng Yu-chieh's Mini-Series/Movie Screenplay Award.
On April 5, 2012, Cheng founded the Filmosa Pictures Production Company, producing films, stage shows, music videos, etc.

Early life

Cheng Yu-chieh began to participate in filmmaking while he was a student at National Taiwan University majoring in Economics. He starred in a few student films and attempted scriptwriting. His then wrote, directed, and acted in his first short film Baby face, which won the Special Jury Prize at the 2002 Taipei Film Festival for Student Film Golden Lion Awards. His 2001 short film Summer, dream won multiple awards, including Best Short Film at the 38th Golden Horse Awards and Best Narrative Feature at the 2002 Taipei Film Awards.
Cheng was able to procure NT$8 million of subsidy from the Taiwanese government's film funding program to make his first feature film Do over, which is based on his award winning script.
Cheng Yu-chieh and his wife Dai Hai-lun were married in June 2008. Dai Hai-Lun also works in the film industry and has served as the Director of the Domestic Affairs Department of the Golden Horse Awards.
Cheng Yu-chieh's father is an overseas Chinese living in Japan. Cheng learned Japanese from a young age and is fluent in the language. He is also the translator of the Chinese version of the Japanese novel Still Walking.

Filmography

Year	Chinese title	English title
2006	一年之初	DO OVER
2009	陽陽	Yang Yang
2015	太陽的孩子	Panay
2020	親愛的房客	Dear Tenant

Year	Chinese title	English title
2010	他們在畢業的前一天爆炸	Days we stared at the sun
2017	他們在畢業的前一天爆炸2	Days we stared at the sun II

Acting

Year	Chinese title	English title	Role
2008	波麗士大人	Police et Vous	Pan Shih-yuan
2009	下一站，幸福	Autumn's Concerto	Xu Fang-kuo
2014	流氓蛋糕店	CHOCOLAT	Ye Da-ren
2019	鏡子森林	The Mirror	Huang Kuo-wei
2021	超感應學園	Sometimes When we Touch	Chief Chang
2021	天橋上的魔術師	The Magician on the Skywalk	The special agent
2022	我願意	The Amazing Grace of Σ	President Chang
2025	零日攻擊	Zero Day

Year	Chinese title	English title	Role
2019	時光の手箱：我的阿爸和卡桑	A Suitcase of Memories	Yan Hui-min

Awards and honors

Political concerns

Cheng Yu-chieh is straightforward with his political views in his films in interviews. In 2011, his short film Unwritten rules in Ten Plus Ten, which was supported by Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Executive Committee, revealed his concern about the inevitable political consequences of embracing China's film market: loss of creative freedom. Wawa No Cidal, a film Cheng co-directed with Lekal Sumi Cilangasan, is critical of the government's economic development plan that did not take into consideration the destruction of the environment and the indigenous people in the east coast of Taiwan. His TV series, Days We Stared at The Sun II, is set between 2013 and 2017, after the Sunflower Student Movement. When being asked whether he would compromise or revise his future works due to political considerations, he answered that “What motivated me is faith, not fear. I would not let fear decide my future.”