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 Yonfan in 2020 | |||||||
| Born | (1947-10-14)14 October 1947 (age 78) | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 楊凡 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 杨凡 | ||||||
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Yonfan (born 14 October 1947) is aHong Kongfilm director andphotographer.
He was born inWuhan,Hubei,Republic of China. As the Yang family emigrated from mainland China, they lived first in Hong Kong for 3 years, and then moved toTaiwan when Yonfan was 5 years old. He spent most of his childhood and adolescence inTaichung, 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.
In 1984, he made his box office debut as a director withA Certain Romance. Two years later, Yonfan adapted the much-loved romantic novelThe Story of Rose byYi Shu. Starring an up-and-comingMaggie Cheung, the passionateLost Romance was a huge commercial success starring a youngChow Yun-fat.
AfterIn Between (1994), Yonfan started to steer away from the mainstream market and began to introduced characters from the marginalised section of the society. With 1998 came another milestone,Bishonen, best known for its romantic cinematography and explicit portrayal of homosexual onscreen passion. Inspired by a real-life scandal in which a Hong Kong playboy was found to possess more than a thousand nude photographs of local police officers, this melodramatic tale of redemption polarized film critics in Hong Kong, but was very well received at film festivals around the globe. It also launched the acting career of heartthrobDaniel Wu.
His 2001 filmPeony Pavilion was entered into the23rd Moscow International Film Festival.[1]
In 2010, Yonfan was head of the jury at Hong Kong'sAsian Film Awards in March and was part of the jury of theSydney Film Festival in May.[2]
In 2011, Yonfan headed the New Currents jury at the 16thBusan International Film Festival in October.[3] The Festival also hosted a retrospective of the director's films, featuring seven of his restored and re-mastered films from the 1980s through 2000s.[4]
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