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name: "Chu Tien-Wen"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "24 August 1956"
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average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T12:39:07.477185+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Chu Tien-Wen

Writer. Born 24 August 1956 in Taipei, Taiwan.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 24 August 1956, Taipei, Taiwan
- **Also known as:** Chu Tin-Man, Zhu Tianwen
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu_T%CA%BBien-wen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q947123, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0160883/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69831

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Assassin*](https://film.one/film/the-assassin.md) (82)

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## Biography

Chu Tien-Wen (also credited as T'ien-wen Chu or Zhu Tianwen) is a Taiwanese screenwriter and fiction writer. Born on 24 August 1956 in Taipei, she graduated from Tamkang University and began publishing short stories while still at school.

She is best known for her long collaboration with director Hou Hsiao-Hsien, writing or co-writing screenplays for films including *The Boys from Fengkuei* (1983), *Taipei Story* (1985), *A City of Sadness* (1989), *The Puppetmaster* (1993), *Millennium Mambo* (2001) and *The Assassin* (2015). She has also adapted her own literary works for the screen and received several Golden Horse Awards for her screenplays, as well as the 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Assassin* (2015), Fi1m 82, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-assassin.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams* (2020), Director
- *The Assassin* (2015), Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-assassin.md)
- *Three Times* (2005), Writer
- *Café Lumière* (2004), Writer
- *Millennium Mambo* (2001), Producer, Screenplay
- *HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien* (1999), Acting
- *Flowers of Shanghai* (1998), Writer
- *Goodbye South, Goodbye* (1996), Screenplay
- *Good Men, Good Women* (1995), Writer
- *The Puppetmaster* (1993), Writer
- *A City of Sadness* (1989), Writer
- *Daughter of the Nile* (1987), Writer
- *Drifters* (1986), Story
- *Dust in the Wind* (1986), Writer
- *His Matrimony* (1985), Writer
- *The Time to Live and the Time to Die* (1985), Writer
- *Taipei Story* (1985), Screenplay
- *My Favorite Season* (1985), Writer
- *A Summer at Grandpa's* (1984), Writer
- *Out of the Blue* (1984), Writer
- *The Boys from Fengkuei* (1983), Writer
- *Growing Up* (1983), Novel

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