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# Liao Ching-sung

Producer. Born 5 March 1950 in Taipei, Taiwan.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 5 March 1950, Taipei, Taiwan
- **Also known as:** Ching-Song Liao, Liu Hing-Chung, Liao Qing-Song, Liu Hing-Sung, Lew Chen-Suing, 廖慶松, Ching-Sung Liao, Liao Ching-Song, Uncle Liao, 廖庆松
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liao_Ching-sung, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55696502, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0508679/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69834

## Streaming the US now

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

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## Biography

Liao Ching-sung (also credited as Ching-Song Liao and others) is a Taiwanese film editor. Born on 5 March 1950, he began his career in 1974 as an editing technician at the Central Motion Picture Corporation in Taipei.

He is known for his extensive work with directors of the Taiwan New Wave, particularly Hou Hsiao-hsien. Liao has edited the majority of Hou's films from *The Boys from Fengkuei* (1983) onwards, including *Dust in the Wind* (1986), *Flowers of Shanghai* (1998), *Millennium Mambo* (2001), *Three Times* (2005) and *The Assassin* (2015). He has also edited films by Edward Yang, such as *Terrorizers* (1986).

In addition to editing, Liao has worked as a producer and co-writer. He received the Special Contribution Award at the 55th Golden Horse Awards in 2018, as well as two Golden Horse Awards for Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Complete filmography (135)

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

- *I Blew Out the Candles Before Making a Wish* (2026), Editor
- *All Things to All* (2026), Supervising Editor
- *Qingtong & Kuihua* (2026), Editor
- *Admission* (2025), Editor
- *Hunter Brothers* (2025), Producer
- *Mongrel* (2025), Executive Producer
- *The Taste of Pork Belly* (2024), Executive Producer
- *Daughter's Daughter* (2024), Editor
- *Come Home, My Child* (2024), Executive Producer, Editor
- *See You* (2024), Producer
- *Soul of Soil* (2024), Editor
- *Shambhala* (2024), Executive Producer, Editor
- *Stonewalling* (2024), Editor
- *Be with Me* (2023), Editor
- *A Boy and a Girl* (2023), Editor
- *The Abandoned* (2023), Editor
- *Leap of Faith* (2023), Editor
- *Why Try to Change Me Now* (2023), series, Editor
- *Welcome Home* (2022), Supervising Editor, Executive Producer
- *Salute* (2022), Editor
- *Raydio* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Twisted Strings* (2022), series, Editor
- *Untouchable* (2022), Editor
- *Another Brick On The Wall* (2021), Editor
- *Who is Sleeping in Silver Grey* (2021), Editor
- *Farewell, My Lad* (2021), Editor
- *The Inspired Island: Unfulfilled Dreams* (2020), Editor
- *Little Big Women* (2020), Executive Producer, Supervising Editor
- *Stars Await Us* (2020), Editorial Consultant
- *Tough Out* (2020), Editorial Consultant
- *Damp Season* (2020), Editor
- *Like Father, Like Daughter* (2019), Executive Producer
- *The Paradise* (2019), Editor
- *Grandmother’s Small Talk* (2019), Executive Producer
- *See You, Sir!* (2019), Executive Producer
- *Balloon* (2019), Editor
- *Suburban Birds* (2019), Editor
- *Spring Tide* (2019), Editor, Executive Producer
- *The Outsiders* (2019), Editor
- *Baby* (2018), Editor
- *High Flash* (2018), Executive Producer, Editor
- *Father to Son* (2018), Editor
- *Mr. No Problem* (2017), Editor
- *End of Summer* (2017), Producer
- *A Dream of Spring* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Missing Johnny* (2017), Editor
- *Twenty Two* (2017), Editor
- *Condemned Practice Mode* (2017), Editor
- *The Foolish Bird* (2017), Editor
- *Plastic China* (2017), Editor
- *Masters in the Forbidden City* (2016), Editor
- *Songs of the Youth 1969* (2016), Editor
- *Keep Going* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Absent without Leave* (2016), Editor
- *Fly, Kite Fly* (2015), Editor
- *Tharlo* (2015), Editor
- *The Assassin* (2015), Editor, Executive Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-assassin.md)
- *It Takes Two to Tango* (2014), Screenplay
- *Sock'n Roll* (2013), Editor
- *Longing for the Rain* (2013), Editor
- *Together* (2012), Editor
- *Return Ticket* (2011), Editor
- *A Beautiful Life* (2011), Thanks
- *One Step is Enough* (2011), Producer
- *Judge* (2010), Editor
- *One Day* (2010), Editor
- *Hear Me* (2009), Editor
- *Orz Boyz* (2008), Editor
- *The Most Distant Course* (2007), Editor
- *God Man Dog* (2007), Editorial Consultant
- *The Postmodern Life of My Aunt* (2007), Editor
- *Flight of the Red Balloon* (2007), Editor
- *Reflections* (2007), Producer, Executive Producer, Editor
- *The Wall* (2007), Editor
- *Karmic Mahjong* (2006), Editor
- *Chocolate Rap: Rise of the B Boyz* (2006), Editor
- *Three Times* (2005), Producer, Editor
- *Café Lumière* (2004), Producer, Editor
- *Love of May* (2004), Editor
- *20 30 40* (2004), Editor
- *Sacrificial Victims* (2004), Director
- *Blue Gate Crossing* (2002), Editor
- *Millennium Mambo* (2001), Editor
- *Betelnut Beauty* (2001), Editor
- *Flowers of Shanghai* (1998), Editor
- *Goodbye South, Goodbye* (1996), Editor
- *Super Citizen Ko* (1995), Producer, Screenplay, Editor
- *A Borrowed Life* (1995), Editor
- *Good Men, Good Women* (1995), Editor
- *The Puppetmaster* (1993), Editor
- *Dust of Angels* (1992), Editor
- *The Story of Taipei Women* (1992), Editor
- *Fatal Recall* (1991), Editor
- *Ming Ghost* (1990), Editor
- *Boss No Balls* (1989), Cinematography
- *When The Ocean Is Blue* (1988), Director
- *My Mother's Teahouse* (1988), Editor
- *Daughter of the Nile* (1987), Editor
- *Be My Lovely Child Again* (1987), Editor, Director
- *Osmanthus Alley* (1987), Editor
- *Farewell to the Channel* (1987), Editor
- *Terrorizers* (1986), Editor
- *The Outsiders* (1986), Editor
- *Drifters* (1986), Editor
- *Dust in the Wind* (1986), Editor
- *The Scalper* (1986), Editor
- *His Matrimony* (1985), Editor
- *The Time to Live and the Time to Die* (1985), Editor
- *Super Citizen* (1985), Editor, Writer
- *A Summer at Grandpa's* (1984), Editor
- *Out of the Blue* (1984), Editor
- *Nature Is Quietly Beautiful* (1984), Editor
- *Ah Fu* (1984), Editor
- *The Sandwich Man* (1983), Editor
- *The Boys from Fengkuei* (1983), Editor
- *Ah Fei* (1983), Editor
- *Growing Up* (1983), Editor
- *The Longest Night* (1983), Editor
- *The Green, Green Grass of Home* (1982), Editor
- *In Our Time* (1982), Editor
- *Six Is Company* (1982), Editor
- *Play While You Play* (1981), Editor
- *Longing* (1981), Editor
- *Spring in Autumn* (1980), Editor
- *Mo li hua* (1980), Cinematography
- *China, My Native Land* (1980), Editor
- *Cute Girl* (1980), Editor
- *He Never Gives Up* (1979), Editor
- *Lover on the Wave* (1978), Editor
- *Sunset in the Forbidden City* (1975), Cinematography
- *The Sleep Goddess*, Executive Producer, Producer
- *The Sunset is Beautiful, isn't It?*, Executive Producer
- *Beauty Goes Up The Mountain*, Executive Producer
- *Running Wild*, Executive Producer
- *The Pianist Under the Starry Sky*, Executive Producer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Asia's Most Influential Taiwan 2022: Asia's Most Influential Taiwan (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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