Yi-An LOU 台灣電影網 Taiwan Cinema

樓一安
Yi-An LOU

Cast & Crew
Type：	Director , Scriptwriter
Biography：	Yi-An Lou is a film scriptwriter and director. His works generally carry multiple narratives with dark absurdity. He received numerous awards and nominations at home and abroad with Happy Sail (2005) of Public Television Service’s Life Story, A Place of One's Own (2009), his first feature film, and TV Movie The Losers (2013) which touch on issues about land, race, and class in Taiwan from different aspects. White Lies, Black Lies (2015) is his first mainstream film which differs vastly from his previous works focusing on social issues. Roseki (2018), a TV series written and directed by Lou for Hakka TV, revolves around Taiwanese writer Lu He-Ruo; the plot combines reality and imagination and alternates between Lu’s life story and work. The series was nominated for 11 and won 5 Golden Bell Awards. In recent years, Lou has been an active scriptwriter and director. He wrote the script for TV series Heaven on the 4th Floor and co-wrote the script with Singing Chen for her film Goddamned ASURA. Goddamned ASURA was nominated for 9 and won 3 Taipei Film Awards, nominated for 3 Golden Horse Awards and won 1 award, and won Special Mention of Taiwan Awards at Taoyuan Film Festival. The film was also recommended by the Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development, Ministry of Culture to represent Taiwan and compete for Best International Feature Film of the 95th Academy Awards.

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Type：

Director , Scriptwriter

Biography：

Yi-An Lou is a film scriptwriter and director. His works generally carry multiple narratives with dark absurdity. He received numerous awards and nominations at home and abroad with Happy Sail (2005) of Public Television Service’s Life Story, A Place of One's Own (2009), his first feature film, and TV Movie The Losers (2013) which touch on issues about land, race, and class in Taiwan from different aspects. White Lies, Black Lies (2015) is his first mainstream film which differs vastly from his previous works focusing on social issues. Roseki (2018), a TV series written and directed by Lou for Hakka TV, revolves around Taiwanese writer Lu He-Ruo; the plot combines reality and imagination and alternates between Lu’s life story and work. The series was nominated for 11 and won 5 Golden Bell Awards. In recent years, Lou has been an active scriptwriter and director. He wrote the script for TV series Heaven on the 4th Floor and co-wrote the script with Singing Chen for her film Goddamned ASURA.

Goddamned ASURA was nominated for 9 and won 3 Taipei Film Awards, nominated for 3 Golden Horse Awards and won 1 award, and won Special Mention of Taiwan Awards at Taoyuan Film Festival. The film was also recommended by the Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development, Ministry of Culture to represent Taiwan and compete for Best International Feature Film of the 95th Academy Awards.

Awards：
Awards 2022 Best Screenplay of the 24th Taipei Film Awards for Goddamned ASURA 2018 Best Writing for a Television Series of the 53th Golden Bell Awards for Roseki 2016 Up-and-Coming Screenwriter of the Year of the 11th Chinese Young Generation Film Forum for White Lies, Black Lies 2005 Best Directing for a Mini-series/TV movie of the 41th Golden Bell Awards for Happy Sail 2002 Best Screenplay of the 24th Taipei Film Awards for Goddamned ASURA Nominations 2022 Best Director of the 24th Taipei Film Awards for Goddamned ASURA 2022 Best Editing of the 24th Taipei Film Awards for Goddamned ASURA 2022 Best Writing for a Television Series of the 57th Golden Bell Awards for Heaven on the 4th Floor 2021 Best Original Screenplay of the 58th Golden Horse Awards for Goddamned ASURA 2018 Best Director for a Television Series of the 53th Golden Bell Awards for Roseki 2008 Best Original Screenplay of the 44th Golden Horse Awards for God Man Dog

Filmography：
Year	Title	Festivals and Awards
2021	GODDAMNED ASURA	Awards 2022 Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress and Best Music of the 24th Taipei Film Awards 2022 Special Mention of Taiwan Awards at Taoyuan Film Festival 2022 Audience Award for Best Feature Film of the 5th Taiwan Film Festival in Australia 2021 Best Supporting Actress of the 58th Golden Horse Awards Nominations 2022 Best Narrative Feature, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing and Best Makeup & Costume Design of the 24th Taipei Film Awards 2021 Best New Performer and Best Original Screenplay of the 58th Golden Horse Awards
2016	White Lies,Black Lies	Awards 2016 Best Leading Actress of the 18th Taipei Film Awards 2016 Up-and-Coming Screenwriter of the Year and Up-and-Coming Cinematographer of the Year of the 11th Chinese Young Generation Film Forum Nominations 2016 Best Narrative Feature of the 18th Taipei Film Awards 2016 Best New Performer of the 53rd Golden Horse Awards 2016 Best Film of the 11th Chinese Young Generation Film Forum Festivals 2015 Shanghai International Film Festival 2015 Kaohsiung Film Festival
2014	The Losers	2014 Jury Prize of Fukuoka Asian Film Festival (winner)
2014	When Yesterday Comes	2012 Special Mention at Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival (winner)
2011	The Clock(Part 2 of When Yesterday Comes)	2013 Best Fiction Short of the 35th Golden Harvest Awards (nominee) 2012 Best Short Film of the 14th Taipei Film Awards (nominee) 2012 「優選獎」of the International Short Film Competition at the 12th Kaohsiung Film Festival When Yesterday Comes 2012 Special Mention of the 61st International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg (winner) 2012 The 4th Hangzhou Asian Film Festival 2012 The 9th Hong Kong Asia Film Festival 2011 The 48th Golden Horse Film Festival (gala premiere)
2009	A Place of One`s OWN	Awards 2010 Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor of the 10th Chinese Film Media Awards 2009 Best Supporting Actress, Best Art Design, and Audience Choice Award of the 11th Taipei Film Awards Nominations 2009 Best Supporting Actress of the 46th Golden Horse Awards 2009 FIPRESCI Prize of the 33rd Kong International Film Festival Selections 2009 The 33rd Hong Kong International Film Festival – Taiwan's New Generation Festivals 2009 The 33rd Hong Kong International Film Festival 2009 Chicago International Film Festival 2009 Stockholm International Film Festival
2008	God Man Dog	Awards 2008 Tagesspiegel Readers’ Jury Award, Internationale Forum des Jungen Films at Berlin International Film Festival 2008 E-Changer Award, Official Competition at Fribourg International Film Festival 2008 Best Screenplay (Singing Chen, Yi-An Lou) at Durban International Film Festival 2008 Asian Film Festival Roma, won Best Actress (Tarcy Su) 2008 Best Actor (Jack Kao) of the 2nd Asian Film Awards Nominations 2008 Best New Director (Singing Chen) at Asian Film Festival Barcelona 2008 Grand Jury Award – Best Narrative Feature Film and Young Audience Jury Award of the Creteil International Women’s Film Festival 2008 Best Narrative Feature of the 10th Taipei Film Awards 2008 Taiwan's New Generation of the Hong Kong International Film Festival 2008 The Focus on Asia of the Fukuoka International Film Festival 2007 Best Original Screenplay (Singing Chen, Yi-An Lou), Best Art Direction (Mei-Ching Huang), and Best Film Editing (Singing Chen) of the 44th Golden Horse Awards 2007 New Currents of the Busan International Film Festival 2007 Vancouver International Film Festival
2007	WATERFRONT VILLA BONITA	2008 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival – International Competition

Works：
Directing Works 2018 Roseki, a Hakka TV series (nominee for 11 and winning 5 Golden Bell Awards) 2007 Waterfront Villa Bonita (a 35mm short film) directed, written, and edited by him was selected into International Competition of Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival 2005 As the director, scriptwriter and editor for TV movie, Happy Sail of Public Television Service’s Life Story. For the Golden Bell Awards in 2006, the film won Best Directing and Best Leading Actor for a Miniseries /TV movie and was nominated for Best Miniseries or Television Film and Best Writing for a Miniseries /TV movie. 2002 As the director and editor of Flower Wish for Public Television Service’s View Point Other Works 2007 As the producer, assistant director and scriptwriter for the 35mm feature film God Man Dog nominated for three Golden Horse Awards, including Best Original Screenplay, and selected into Berlin Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, etc. 2004 As the scriptwriter for TV series Dandelion in the Win of DaAi Drama 2003 As the assistant director for Dancing in the Dark, an episode of Public Television Service’s Rare Disease series 2003 As the assistant director and writer for The Important Affair (for Public Television Service’s Life Story), which was nominated for six Golden Bell Awards, including Best Miniseries or Television Film 2002 As the assistant director for Blue Vacation of Public Television Service’s Life Story 2002 As the assistant director for Lao Wei of Public Television Service’s Life Story 2000 As the assistant director and the producer of post-production for Bundled, which won Best Narrative Feature and Best New Director of the 8th Taipei Film Awards and Ecumenical Jury Award of Fribourg International Film Festival 2000 As the executive producer for the 35mm short documentary Who Is Fishing® (an episode of Floating Islands)

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Posted date:2005/03/16

Update:2026/03/19