Danny Deng

Danny Deng was born in 1956 in Taiwan. He is a Taiwanese director and actor, known for Yi Yi (2000), Cao Shan Chun Hui (2005) and U Motherbaker (2020).

Works

Yi Yi

Each member of a Taipei family asks hard questions about life's meaning as they experience everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother-in-law is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.

Release Date2000-09-20

Charactersd A-Di's Friend

Vote Count626

A Brighter Summer Day

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

Release Date1991-07-27

Charactersd The Film Director

Vote Count366

U Motherbaker - The Movie

A film sequel to the popular series, U Motherbaker. It is a Taiwanese family comedy about culture and the challenges of transforming a traditional cake shop. The film spin-off depicts the mother’s adventures of being the number one fan of the superstar OO.

Release Date2023-01-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Cab Driver

Vote Count1

The Making of an Ordinary Woman

A story of a woman born in 60s grew up in a Chinese herbal medicine store in southern Taiwan. Love, marriage, and seniority in human relationships around her collide together, leading to a different aspect of life.

Release Date2019-08-04

Charactersd Interviewer

Episode Count1

Vote Count25

Dust in the Wind

A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, and so do they. They fail to see time and fate are beyond their control.

Release Date1986-05-09

Charactersd Counselor Chief

Vote Count112

A Confucian Confusion

Over the course of a few days, the paths of a group of young friends, lovers, and acquaintances in Taipei intersect, prompting them to arrive at realizations about their lives.

Release Date1994-10-13

Charactersd Larry

Vote Count34

Golden Dream on Green Island

Release Date2022-10-29

Charactersd Prostitution client

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

The Amazing Grace of Σ

Muqi, a young pop star becomes more and more arrogant, especially with his manager Nagatsuki, a long-time friend who suddenly commits suicide. Muqi finds himself crushed by sadness and guilt. At the funeral, he meets Master Bensheng, guru of a cult his friend belonged to. If at first, he finds comfort within his place, cracks may soon appear in the caring appearances of the cult members.

Release Date2022-07-29

Charactersd Kai

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Double Vision

An FBI Agent pairs with a troubled Taiwan cop to hunt for a serial killer who's embedding a mysterious fungus in the brains of victims.

Release Date2002-10-17

Charactersd Hsieh's doctor

Vote Count74

Nana's Game

Tang Guan-guan is a single-minded and ruthless TV producer at the WTV television network. She is charged with creating a unique reality TV program like no other – for fans of horror and suspense. The show involves sending five contestants to spend 72 hours in a house where a terrible murder is supposed to have been committed. The house is notoriously spooky and located in a remote area, far away from other signs of civilisation, and some say that it is haunted by terrifying ghosts. At stake is a large cash prize, and the producer and her long-suffering crew decide to select their contestants from the world of social media and popular entertainment.

Release Date2018-04-15

Charactersd Early Television Executive

The Killer Who Never Kills

Trevor Ou is The Killer Who Never Kills, an assassin who earns the trust of his targets before snuffing their lives – and he does it without killing them! Trevor fakes the deaths of his targets and gives them new identities, but when his first target Grace returns – and reveals her love for him – Trevor may need to find a more permanent solution.

Release Date2011-07-29

Charactersd Dr Foreskin

Vote Count9

女生向前走

女生向前走

Release Date2000-11-02

Charactersd 方教授

Episode Count73

Island Etude

Ming-Hsang, a deaf college student, meets interesting people as he cycles around Taiwan before he graduates from college.

Release Date2006-11-22

Charactersd Film Director

Vote Count8

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Show

The unscrupulous owner of Crazy TV sets out to lower the channel's ratings so he can sell it to mobster Mr. David for cheap and count his losses. He promotes failing producer Yeh to program director and fires the staff.

Release Date2019-02-01

Charactersd Deng Dao

Vote Count3

Viva Baseball

To get his team to play a clean game, a high school baseball coach must put his life at stake.

Release Date2012-08-31

Charactersd Headmaster Chao

Vote Count2

U Motherbaker

A Taiwanese family comedy that reflect the daily culture of the people and also the problem of the transformation of a traditional cake shop. It discusses parent-child relationship, problems between mother in law and wife, the gap between generations and the dilema of maintaining tradition or modernization.

Release Date2020-06-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count70

Vote Count4

Drama Go! Go! Go!

Drama Go! Go! Go!

Drama Go Go Go is a 2012 Chinese romance drama produced by Ruby Lin and directed by Deng An Ning. It stars Ruby Lin, Jiro Wang and Lin Gengxin as the main characters. Shooting started on 10 October 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan and It was first aired on Hunan Satellite TV on 3 November 2012.

Release Date2012-11-10

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Still Me

Still Me

Release Date2022-05-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count23

The Thrifty Family

The Thrifty Family

The Thrifty Family is a comedic story centered around the LIU family, residing in social housing and striving to save for their own home. As they approach their savings goal, they face challenges like unemployment, breakups, and family conflicts, leading them to reconsider the value of their frugality and their pursuit of a house.

Release Date2024-04-12

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count5

The Ex-Man

Li Qin Ai is a magazine photographer who is happy with her career and her relationship with her boyfriend, Zhou Li Yang. She has tried hard to forget her first love, Dai Hai An, after they broke up 10 years ago. When Hai An reappears in Qin Ai’s life unexpectedly, some things are just not right with him. First of all, he is still his 18-year-old self from their youth, and he is “half-transparent.”

Release Date2018-05-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count13

Vote Count3

三春记

三春记

Release Date2020-04-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Savile Row

Release Date2019-12-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

玉琳国师之再世情缘

玉琳国师之再世情缘

Release Date1992-10-01

Episode Count33

Synapses

A wife needs to face not only the gradual deterioration of her husband's condition but also the complicated relationship between the daughter who was released from the prison on parole and the secret which was detonated after the old friend was back.All of the incidents make each other stuck into a family storm.

Release Date2019-11-15

Vote Count2

Old Man and Girl

Old Man and Girl is a Taiwanese Comedy starring Eric Tsang.

Release Date1989-01-01

Jam

The lives of two young thieves, a mob hitman and a film producer are entangled when the two thieves steal a car that had already been previously stolen to been used as a getaway car.

Release Date1998-07-04

Vote Count1

Gang of Three Forever

Three Taiwanese friends go through political, romantic and cultural changes, from childhood to middle age.

Release Date1989-07-01

女人真命苦

Release Date1990-01-01

Second Life

Inspired by a true story, "Second Life" follows a woman determined to swim across Taiwan's Sun Moon Lake before she loses her sight completely. She's joined by a group of visually impaired swimmers, all guided by a once-celebrated coach haunted by his past. As they train together, they battle fear, doubt, and old wounds—transforming pain into strength, and strangers into a family. More than a swim, it becomes a journey of healing, redemption, and proving that even in darkness, the human spirit shines brightest.

Release Date2025-10-03