Jack Kao

Career

He began his career in the late 1980s films of Hou Hsiao-hsien. Kao credits his success to the many real-life gangsters he knew when he was young. He appeared in City of Sadness, a film about the Tawain's White Terror, which received the 1989 Golden Lion award the Venice Film Festival. Another of his films about that same period, 2009's Prince of Tears, was also included in the festival. His 2001 film Millennium Mambo was recently featured in the Film Society of Lincoln Center's 2016 retrospective "Going Steadi: 40 Years of Steadicam".

Filmography

Daughter of the Nile (1987)

Rouge of The North (1988)

A City of Sadness (1989)

Island of Fire (1991)

Dust of Angels (1992)

Treasure Island (1993)

In The Heat of Summer (1994)

Modern Republic (1995)

Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996)

Flowers of Shanghai (1998)

The Return of the Condor Heroes (1998)

Millennium Mambo (2001)

Moon Child (2003)

Parking (2008)

Shinjuku Incident (2009)

Crazy Racer (2009)

The Sniper (2009)

Red Nights (2009)

Au Revoir Taipei (2010)

10+10 (2011)

Black & White (2012)

Bad Girls (2012)

Zombie-108 (2012)

Witness (2012)

Good-for-Nothing Heros (2012)

Anywhere Somewhere Nowhere (2012)

Scandals (2013)

Unbeatable (2013)

My Lucky Star (2013)

The Break-Up Artist (2014)

But Always (2014)

Zombie Fight Club (2014)

The Crossing (2014)

The Unbearable Lightness of Inspector Fan (2015)

Lion Dancing 2 (2015)

Two Thumbs Up (2015)

Wild City (2015)

The Crossing (2015)

Massagist (2015)

One Night in Taipei (2015)

The Assassin (2015)

Inside or Outside (2016)

Spicy Hot in Love (2016)

One Night Only (2016)