Personal Info
Birth date
1947-10-14 (77 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Directing
Place of birth
Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
Also known as
楊凡
杨凡
Yang Fan
Yonfan
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.
Filmography
Colour Blossoms
3.9
Overview:
A real estate agent is drawn into a torrid - and sadomasochistic - relationship with a morose, stunningly beautiful Japanese photographer. The two cavort in a luxurious apartment owned by an elegant upper-crust Japanese lady, crossing paths with an infatuated policeman, a mysterious Korean woman, and an increasingly tangled web of violence, criss-crossing passions, and lurid, unchecked desires.Bishonen
6.4
Overview:
A hustler and a model policeman who is uneasy with his own secret homosexuality begin a secret relationship.The Banquet
5.2
Overview:
Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung has secured the other two properties. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.Mr. Coconut
6.5
Overview:
Lovable Mr. Coconut arrives in town from Hainan China where he lived with his coconuts. Here in the sophisticated urban jungles of Hong Kong. He has finally reunited with his family, as he endures Hong Kong Streets of the late 1980s, filled with stock and property gamblers, heavy mobile phones and others.Peony Pavilion
6.7
Overview:
In 1930s Suzhou, the fifth wife of an opium-addicted aristocrat, her husband's female cousin, and a handsome instructor develop an intense relationship.Keep Rolling
8
Overview:
One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung's directorial debut. A forerunner of the New Wave, Hui’s tumultuous, forty-year career is an unequivocal testimony to her unyielding dedication to filmmaking, and her expedition into the metamorphic city. This biopic probes into the acclaimed director’s idiosyncratic world, where we witness her rashness and goofiness, as well as her humanistic concerns for the everyday nobodies which make her films so moving.Immortal Story
5.8
Overview:
Set in the then Portuguese colony of Macau, IMMORTAL STORY depicts the story of the love affair between a small time chanteuse and her Japanese beau. They met when both were young and pretty and again many years later when he had became a drug addict and she a fallen woman.Last Romance
5.6
Overview:
Best friends So-so and Nancy fall in love with the same handsome Japanese boy, who cannot fulfill both girls' destinies.Sisterhood
5.5
Overview:
Love intertwines at the wrong time. Sei and Ling, former masseuses in Macau, in retrospect, had the best time together. Decades after, Sei learns that her late best friend has kept a secret she never knew...Prince of Tears
5
Overview:
A shameful period in Taiwanese history provides the backdrop for this emotional drama from writer and director Yonfan (aka Yang Fan). In 1949, in the wake of the 228 Incident (in which anti-government protesters launched a rebellion that was violently put down by authorities), Taiwan came under martial law, and through much of the 1950s brutal reprisals against suspected communists were commonplace. During the years of the "White Terror," thousand of supposed dissidents were killed, imprisoned or simply disappeared at the hands of the military police.Story of Rose
6
Overview:
Rose and her big brother Charles live a fairy-tale existence in their seaside villa. Rose is young, beautiful, and spoiled - in a word, irresistible. Disappointed in love, she moves to Paris. When Charles dies suddenly, she rushes back to Hong Kong to take over the family estate. Fate intervenes when she meets Ka-ming, who is the exact image of her late brother. The two fall in love, but their romance is in the hands of a not always benevolent fate.Double Fixation
4
Overview:
A femme fatale and a photographer embark on a romantic adventure surrounding a mysterious marble.Promising Miss Bowie
NYR
Overview:
Miss Bowie is more or less happily raking in the cash until her life is complicated by the sudden reappearance, after 20 years, of her first (and presumably true) love. To this is added Miss Bowie's annoying teenage niece and a strange disease.Bugis Street
5.3
Overview:
In 1960s Singapore when Bugis Street was a center of transvestite and transsexual prostitution, naïve sixteen-year-old Lian comes of age working as a receptionist for the Sin Sin Hotel, home to a gaggle of trans women whom all have stories of broken hearts and drunken sailors.A Certain Romance
8
Overview:
Yonfan’s early feature about a girl’s journey to womanhood, as she learns how to navigate the terms of relationships. Magi falls in love with a man she meets at the beach, while best friend Lily struggles with the fact that her single father has begun to show interest in another woman.Concrete Clouds
6.4
Overview:
Amidst the post-economic crash, a man must return from abroad after his father committed suicide. After return home, he must confront his past and struggle to hold on to his present.Venice 70: Future Reloaded
5.188
Overview:
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.No. 7 Cherry Lane
4.8
Overview:
Set in Hong Kong in 1967 — a time of complex politics when it was still a British colony — No. 7 Cherry Lane revolves around a love triangle between a university student, a single mother and her teenage daughter.Breaking the Willow
NYR
Overview:
In Breaking the Willow, tells the story of two Chinese women, of different dynasty & society, their personal link to a bejeweled Phoenix Tierra. Cui, a woman of humble background, who divorce her husband to marry again for comfort, who dreams her husband will gain title and bring the official Phoenix Tierra to honor her. One day her dream come true but is too late. Hsiao Yu, a beautiful songstress from a royal decent of the past dynasty, meets the First Scholar and falls in love. The day after their wedding, the husband is called for the frontier. The fallen Princess wears her Phoenix Tierra to bid him fare well poetry.Acting
2024Crossing Years as Himself
2020Keep Rolling as Unknown
2009Prince of Tears as Narrator (voice)
2001Peony Pavilion as Dance Tutor
1997星空下的傾情 (13 Episodes) as Unknown
1991The Banquet as Unknown
1990Promising Miss Bowie as Mr. Yeung
1989Mr. Coconut as Annoyed Customer at Buffet
1988Last Romance as Photographer
1987Double Fixation as Jacky's Assistant
1986Immortal Story as Unknown
Directing
2024Crossing Years ... Director
2019No. 7 Cherry Lane ... Director
2013Venice 70: Future Reloaded ... Director
2009Prince of Tears ... Director
2004Colour Blossoms ... Director
2003Breaking the Willow ... Director
2001Peony Pavilion ... Director
1998Bishonen ... Director
1995Bugis Street ... Director
1994In Between ... Director
1990Promising Miss Bowie ... Director
1988Last Romance ... Director
1987Double Fixation ... Director
1986Immortal Story ... Director
1986Story of Rose ... Director
1984A Certain Romance ... Director
Writing
2024Crossing Years ... Writer
2019No. 7 Cherry Lane ... Screenplay
2009Prince of Tears ... Screenplay
2004Colour Blossoms ... Screenplay
2001Peony Pavilion ... Screenplay
1998Bishonen ... Writer
1995Bugis Street ... Writer
1990Promising Miss Bowie ... Writer
1988Last Romance ... Screenplay
1986Immortal Story ... Screenplay
1986Story of Rose ... Screenplay
Production
2019No. 7 Cherry Lane ... Producer
2017Sisterhood ... Co-Producer
2013Concrete Clouds ... Producer
Art
2019No. 7 Cherry Lane ... Art Direction
Sound
2019No. 7 Cherry Lane ... Original Music Composer
Crew
1986Story of Rose ... Cinematography