- Yonfan
Yonfan (Manshih Yonfan;
Traditional Chinese : 楊凡; born 1947) is aHong Kong film director andphotographer .Biography
He was born in
Wuhan at theHunan province ofChina . As the Yon family emigrated from the People's Republic, Yonfan spent his childhood first inHong Kong and then inTaiwan . He returned to Hong Kong as a young man to work as a photographer, but left for theUnited States in 1968 to study film. After a couple of years travelling throughUnited States ,France and Britain, he returned to Hong Kong once again in 1973, and became a famous photographer most noted for his celebrity portraits.In 1984, he made his box office debut as a director with "A Certain Romance". Two years later, Yonfan adapted the much-loved romantic novel "The Story of Rose" by prolific writer
Yi Shu . Starring an up and comingMaggie Cheung , the passionate "Lost Romance" was a huge commercial success and rescued youngChow Yun-Fat from his descent into a "box office poison.After "In Between" (1993), 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 heartthrob
Daniel Wu .Filmography
* "A Certain Romance" (少女日記, 1984) starring
Sally Yeh
* "Lost Romance " (玫瑰的故事, 1986) starringMaggie Cheung ,Chow Yun-Fat
* "Immortal Story" (海上花, 1986) starringSylvia Chang
* "Double Fixation " (意亂情迷, 1987) starringCherie Chung ,Jacky Cheung
* "Last Romance" (流金歲月, 1988) starringCherie Chung ,Maggie Cheung
* "Promising Miss Bowie " (祝福, 1990) starringDodo Cheng ,Kenneth Tsang
* "In Between" (新同居時代, 1993) starringMaggie Cheung ,Sylvia Chang
* "Bugis Street" (妖街皇后, 1994) starringMaggie Cheung ,Sylvia Chang
* "Bishonen" (美少年之戀, 1998) starringDaniel Wu ,Shu Qi ,Brigitte Lin
* "Peony Pavilion" (遊園驚夢, 2001) starringDaniel Wu ,Rie Miyazawa ,Joey Wong ,Brigitte Lin
* "Breaking the Willow " (鳳冠情事, 2003)
* "Colour Blossoms " (桃色, 2004), starringTeresa Cheung ,Keiko Matsuzaka ee also
*
Cinema of Hong Kong
* Cinema of mainland ChinaReferences
External links
*imdb name|id=0948523|name=Yonfan
* [http://www.yonfan.com/ Yonfan Studio]
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