Kenneth Pai Hsien-Yung (Writer)

Crystal Boys

A-Qing, a sensitive youth in 1971 Taipei, is expelled from school and rejected by his family after a same-sex relationship with classmate Zhao Ying is discovered. Alone and searching for belonging, he begins spending time at New Park, a gathering place for gay men, where he meets friends and fellow outsiders navigating love, desire, and survival in a society that ostracizes them. Through his experiences and those of his peers, the story explores identity, friendship, longing, and the struggle for acceptance, offering a nuanced portrait of Taiwan’s gay subculture in the early 1970s and the bonds that sustain a marginalized community.

Release Date2003-02-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count20

Vote Count4

Memoirs of Madam Jin

Set in Shanghai in the 1930s / 1940s, the drama follows the story of a dance hostess, Chin Zhao Li, and the 3 important men in her life. Due to family poverty, Chin Zhao Li was forced to become a dance hostess at the infamous Paramount dance hall in Shanghai when she was 18 years old. The story is about how she met her first love, Sheng Yue Ru, a young man from Shanghai's high society, who studied abroad, loves painting and theater, and someone who is single-minded and dedicated to love. They fell deeply in love and became lovers. But their relationship faced strong resistance and objections from both families, especially Yue Ru's father, a rich banker.

Release Date2009-09-26

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JobCreator

孤戀花

Release Date2005-04-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count16

The Last Night of Madam Chin

Set in Shanghai in the 1940s. Story of a ballroom girl Jolie Chan who falls in love with a student and becomes pregnant, but the student's family force her to have an abortion.

Release Date1984-11-08

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count1

Jade Love

Set in China during the 1940s, story told through the eyes of a 10 year old boy of the relationship between the boy, his mysterious nanny and her weakling godbrother.

Release Date1984-01-03

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count2

The Outsiders

In 1985, senior high school student A-Qing was found fornicating with a staff member at school and got expelled. His deeply humiliated veteran father has since cast him out of the family, leaving him with nowhere to go but the refuge of his "own kind" at Taipei New Park. In the park, A-Qing encounters a mature man Long Zi (Dragon) and is attracted to him. However, A-Qing also gets daunted by the story of Long Zi committing a crime of passion.

Release Date1986-08-23

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count4

Love's Lone Flower

A woman falls in love with two different girls, both singers - one in Shanghai during the late 1940s, the other in Taiwan during the late 1950s.

Release Date2005-05-13

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count8

My Rice Noodle Shop

Carol 'Do Do' Cheng portrays the tough, eventful life of "Mama Boss" from childhood in pre-1949 Guilin to disillusionment in 1970s Taipei, where she struggles to run a noodle shop and contend with a host of colourful customers.

Release Date1998-09-11

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count3

Lonely Seventeen

The story of Lonely Seventeen centers on Tan-mei, a seventeen-year-old high school girl who comes from a wealthy family. The film begins with Tan-mei inviting her cousin, who is also her sister’s fiancé, Feng Tse (Ke Jun-Xiong), to come over to her place on a rainy night. However, Feng Tse secretly visits his mistress first and gets seriously wounded after a fight with the woman. When he tries to make a second stop at Tan-mei’s place, he loses control of his car and is killed in a car accident. After the death of Feng Tse, Tan-mei and the mistress start to behave strangely, and both of them are sent to the same mental health institute after their emotional breakdown.

Release Date1967-07-29

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

青春版牡丹亭

Release Date2007-06-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

青春版牡丹亭

Release Date2004-04-29

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

The Peony Pavilion Young Lovers' Edition

April 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the film "Youth Edition of Peony Pavilion". It was authorized by the Hong Kong film company and presented on the big screen for the first time at the 14th Beijing International Film Festival, with the approval of Mr. Bai Xianyong. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Du Bao, the prefect of the Southern Song Dynasty, had strict family education. Her only daughter, Du Liniang, was elegant and beautiful. In spring, she played in the garden with her maid, Chunxiang, and a hundred flowers bloomed, which turned into a dream. In the dream, she was enjoying the peony pavilion with a handsome scholar. After waking up, she felt lost and died of sadness.

Release Date2024-04-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Thirteen Talks

Release Date2016-05-17

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

First Person Plural

The TV show invites different conversation guests to discuss various aspects of society, science, life, and more in each episode.

Release Date2023-09-20

Episode Count1

The Inspired Island: Multiflorate Splendour

The writer Bai Xianyong from the youthful vigor of founding "Modern Literature" at the age of 22, to the sincerity of the people who wrote "Father and the Republic of China" and "Pain Relief and Healing" in recent years. The film borrows the form of the stream of consciousness (dream of a garden tour)-the taste of Guilin rice noodles separated more than 40 years ago, the 10-year re-visit of Suzhou gardens, the dark kingdom on the stage, and the journey of lectures and lectures. With special encounters and literary history, one person has led the trend of several generations. He is uniquely strong and courageous, exquisite and affectionate. He echoes the symphony in the film and leads the audience to gradually touch the hot novelist's mind.

Release Date2015-12-18