Personal Info
Birth date
-
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Taiwan
Also known as
陳以文
Chen Yi-Wen
Yiwen Chen
Ivan Chen
陈以文
Chen Yiwen
Chen Yi-wen
Biography
We dont have a biography for Chen Yi-wen
Filmography
Golden Horse Awards
NYR
Overview:
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Kim-má iáⁿ-tián) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is usually held in November or December in Taipei, although the event has also been held in other locations in Taiwan in recent timesTaiwan Crime Stories
7.2
Overview:
Anthology crime television series inspired by four real-life cold cases in Taiwan, exploring themes such as faith, temptation, redemption, and obligation through the eyes of the people of Taiwan.Forget You Not
9
Overview:
An aspiring stand-up comedian turns her struggles into heartfelt humor as she balances work and relationships while caring for her aging father.Shards of Her
7.8
Overview:
Waking up from a coma, an accomplished headhunter finds herself in an alternate reality where she has to revisit an excruciating childhood trauma.The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon
7.301
Overview:
The arrogant, third most-wanted criminal in Taiwan, decides to get rid of the top two competitors and crowns himself the most-wanted criminal before dying.A Brighter Summer Day
8.321
Overview:
A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.Yi Yi
7.9
Overview:
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother-in-law is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.Hoping
10
Overview:
The invisible enemy is not just the virus but also humanity. When every character has his struggles behind it, which one was his truest face before the crisis?Confessions
NYR
Overview:
A 2004 bombing and kidnapping case shatters three families, unraveling buried secrets and entangled grudges across two generations.The Cabbie
7
Overview:
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.A Confucian Confusion
7.7
Overview:
Over the course of a few days, the paths of a group of young friends, lovers, and acquaintances in Taipei crisscross, prompting them to arrive at realizations about their lives.A Foggy Tale
NYR
Overview:
Follows a young girl as she embarks on a perilous journey to earn funds to reclaim her family's remains.A Sun
7.7
Overview:
A family of four fractures under the weight of unmet expectations, unexpected tragedy, and uncompromising pride.The Great Buddha+
7.875
Overview:
Security guard Pickle and his trash collector friend Belly Button kill time together in night shifts watching the American-educated boss's dash-cam recordings of his various sexual encounters with women. Against the buddies' will, something horrifying rather than erotic reveals.Paradise in Service
6.8
Overview:
Set in the island Kinmen, often seen as the most dangerous military base because it’s geographically close to China, "Paradise in Service" follows the adventure of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972, in preparation for a war that could erupt anytime. Through an unlucky lottery draw result, Pao, a twenty-something young man from Southern Taiwan has to serve the military in the remote and perilous Kinmen. Moreover, he is assigned to the Sea Dragon (ARB), a unit noted for the toughest physical training. It never occurs to Pao, however, that the greatest challenge in his military service lies not in the Sea Dragon but in Unit 831, a special task he is later appointed to… In this peculiar assignment, Pao vows to keep his virginity against all odds.Classmates Minus
7.2
Overview:
Four school buddies — a director, a temp worker, an insurance salesman and a paper craftsman — grapple with unfulfilled dreams amid middle age ennui.The Falls
6.8
Overview:
After having to quarantine together during COVID-19, a mother and daughter are forced to confront their personal obstacles and relationship tensions.The Embers
NYR
Overview:
In 2006, Detective Chang leads a police investigation into a murder committed in a public marketplace. Chang discovers the victim's father has ties to several other families with dead or missing members, and a grim espionage case buried for 50 years in Taiwan's past. Meanwhile, the kidnapped Mr. Hsu is interrogated by a mysterious mastermind. As the truth emerges, the embers of history become a deadly wildfire.Leave Me Alone
4
Overview:
For a sleepless city like Taipei, the lives of the rich and poor occasionally cross. These people flit in and out of one another lives, in a seemingly endless food chain of love.Treat or Trick
5.8
Overview:
Feng, a corrupted police officer, ordered to retrieve the diamonds within 48hrs, arrives at a remote village, following the mobile signal of his partner Chiang who stole the diamonds from the gang. While Feng and his men try to find Chiang in the village, they encounter the locals who seem naive but suspicious, and a ghost full of stories. Remake of a renowned Korean film To Catch A Virgin Ghost (2004).A Leg
5.7
Overview:
In this deliciously dark comedy, a woman desperately attempts to reunite her husband's amputated leg with his body before his funeral, leading her on a wild goose chase across Taipei and through multiple encounters with bureaucracy, ineptitude, and her own recent past.The Funeral
5.3
Overview:
Chun Hua, who has been away from home for years after cutting her father off, receives the news of her grandfather's death and has no choice but to return home with her daughter for the funeral. Her father, whom she hasn't seen in years, is as cold and rude as ever, and doesn't look kindly on them. And when night falls, the family seems to be hiding more horrible secrets.Plurality
5.2
Overview:
After a bizarre bus accident, Ming Ze awakens from a coma to discover that his mind now shares the consciousness of four fellow passengers – all of them dead; all of them suspects in a serial kidnapping and murder case. To prove his own innocence, Ming evades capture by the police and tries to track down the killer’s only surviving victim. But in order to unmask the murderer’s true identity, Ming must first fight the monster within himself.Peacock
7
Overview:
A student from a modest home goes to an elite private school and makes a life-altering agreement with a talking peacock in the schoolyard.Godspeed
7.3
Overview:
A Taiwanese drug mule has his foolproof smuggling method thrown out of whack when he catches a ride with the wrong cab driver.Increasing Echo
5
Overview:
Everything around Mrs. Yan looks perfect, but her mind is as confused and complex as the variety of medications she is taking. To reach peace of body and mind, she tries many methods including qi training, but to no avail. One day she gets a message that the woman who had an affair with her husband is in a nursing home and suffering from dementia.Xiao Mei
4.8
Overview:
A film about the tormenting presence of absence. A young shop girl named Xiao Mei suddenly vanishes from her usual existence, without explanation or trace. Has she dissolved, or perhaps redeemed herself somehow? Nine people from her immediate surroundings try to fill the empty space left behind by this supposedly insignificant young woman. In a kaleidoscope of meandering memories, projections, confessions, interpretations, incantations and helpless speculations through which the young escapee wanders aimlessly, they attempt to solve the mystery of her disappearance.Acting
TBAConfessions (1 Episode) as Unknown
TBAA Foggy Tale as Unknown
TBATristes Tropiques as Unknown
2025Forget You Not (6 Episodes) as Mark
2024The Embers as Unknown
2024Century Egg as Unknown
2023The Unforgiven as Unknown
2023The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon as Lin Lu-ho (Bullhead)
2023Hoping (7 Episodes) as Unknown
2023Taiwan Crime Stories (2 Episodes) as Ying Min-wang
2022Shards of Her (7 Episodes) as Hsieh Chih-chung
2022The Funeral as Li Chuan Cai
2022Summer as Unknown
2022Increasing Echo as Mr. Yan. Fu-Sheng YAN
2021Leave Me Alone as Brother Chao
2021Treat or Trick as Hsu
2021The Falls as Supermarket Manager Chen
2021Plurality as Unknown
2021Growing Pains as Ren-Shiung Huang
2020A Leg as Senior Police Officer
2020Classmates Minus as Congressman Gao
2020Memory Eclipse (1 Episode) as Kuo Hsing-Wei
2020Animal Whisper (14 Episodes) as Chang Pen-Shan
2020Monstrous Me (8 Episodes) as Mao Xing Yan / 毛杏嚴
2020Someone Who Was Lost as Dad
2019A Sun as A-Wen
2019A Trip with Mom as Unknown
2018Xiao Mei as Landlord
2018Looking for Kafka as Unknown
2018The Blue Choker as Dorm Master - Fang Tzu-kang
2018Peacock as Liu Ching-Hui
2018A Taxi Driver as Tsui Jo-Chiang
2018Dog Mask as Boss
2017Blossom as Father
2017The Great Buddha+ as Congressman Gao
2016Godspeed as Wen
2014Paradise in Service as Colonel Yu
2011Formosa Mambo as Unknown
2000Yi Yi as Police Officer
1998Jam as Unknown
1994生活的教訓 as Unknown
1994A Confucian Confusion as Liren
1993Growth Period as The Landlord
1991A Brighter Summer Day as Horsecart
1990The Man from Island West as Ah Chian
1962Golden Horse Awards (1 Episode) as Self
Directing
2013As the Winds Blow ... Director
2006Tripping ... Director
2000The Cabbie ... Director
2000A Chance to Die ... Director
1998Jam ... Director
1994生活的教訓 ... Director
1994Scenes of Violence ... Director
Editing
1994生活的教訓 ... Editor