Pai Ching-jui

Biography

Pai Ching-jui was born in 1931 in Yingkou, Liaoning. He came to Taiwan in 1949. After studying at the foreign language department of Taiwan Provincial Teachers’College (now National Taiwan Normal University), he transferred to the school's art department. He was inspired by Italian neorealism films to become the first person from Taiwan to study film in Italy. He first entered the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma studying painting and stage design, later studying film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. After completing his studies in 1964, he returned to Taiwan and worked at the Central Motion Picture Company. Beginning in the 1970s, he tried his hand at romantic art films and adaptations of literary works. He died in 1997 of a heart attack.

Directed

1. Four Moods (1970) — Director
2. The Coldest Winter in Peking (1981) — Director
3. The Wheel of Life (1983) — Director
4. The Last Night of Madam Chin (1984) — Director
5. Touch of Fairlady (1979) — Director
6. Four Winds (1972) — Director
7. A Girl Without Sorrow (1979) — Director
8. There's No Place like Home (1977) — Director
9. Fantasies Behind the Pearly Curtain (1975) — Director
10. Walking in the Sunset (1978) — Director
11. The Bride & I (1969) — Director
12. Poor Chasers (1980) — Director
13. Forbidden Imperial Tales (1990) — Director
14. Girl Friend (1974) — Director
15. The Three Tales (1974) — Director
16. Accidental Trio (1969) — Director
17. Home, Sweet Home (1970) — Director
18. Offend the Law of God (1980) — Director
19. Love in a Cabin (1972) — Director
20. Lonely Seventeen (1967) — Director
21. Forever My Love (1976) — Director
22. Fire Bulls (1966) — Director
23. The Autumn Love Song (1976) — Director
24. Hotel Esquire (1971) — Director
25. Love's Many Faces (1978) — Director
26. A Morning in Taipei (1964) — Director
27. Good Bye! Darling (1970) — Director
28. How is the Weather Today? (1974) — Director
29. The Sunset in Geneva (1986) — Director
30. Two Ugly Men (1973) — Director
31. My Father, My Husband, My Son (1974) — Director
32. Far Away from Home (1977) — Director
33. Un Amore (1963) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Golden Horse Awards (1962) — Self