Biography
Tu Duu-chih (Chinese: 杜篤之, Born in 1955 in Taipei), Tu was trained in 1973 as a sound engineer in the Film Technicians Training Program conducted by Central Motion Pictures Corporation. In 1978 he was hired by CMPC as assistant sound engineer, thus began his career in film and has been responsible for the sound recording, editing and mixing of many of the ‘Taiwanese New Wave’ works. He has been one of the leading sound technicians in the Taiwan film industry since the 1980s, and was instrumental in the sound engineering for the filmmakers of the "Taiwan New Wave." He has been involved in the majority of Taiwanese films that have garnered international critical acclaim. He worked for HOU Hsiao-Hsien(侯孝賢) in "City of Sadness,"(悲情城市) "The Puppetmaster,"(戲夢人生) "Good Men, Good Women,"(好男好女) "Flowers of Shanghai,"(海上花) "Millennium Mambo," and “Kohi Jikou”(咖啡時光). His works for Edward YANG include "That Day, On the Beach," (海灘的一天) "Taipei Story," (青梅竹馬) "The Terrorizer," (恐怖份子) "A Brighter Summer Day," (牿嶺街少年殺人事件) "A Confusion, Confusion," (獨立時代) "Mahjong," (麻將) and "A One and a Two." (一一) His other important works include "A Borrowed Life," (多桑directed by WU Nien-Jen吳念真) "The Peach Blossom Land," (暗戀桃花源 directed by Stan LAI賴聲川) "In the Mood for Love," (花樣年華directed by WONG Kar Wai王家衛) and "What Time is it There?" (你那邊幾點directed by TSAI Ming-Liang蔡明亮). Tu received the Prix du Jury a Un Technicien for "Millennium Mambo" and "What Time is it There?" at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001.
Filmography
all 155
Movies 153
Director 12
TV Shows 2
self 1
She's Talking, in Island. (2024)
All Shall Be Well (2024)
Mystery Writers (2024)
Imperfect Us (2024)
Salli (2024)
Shambhala (2024)
Sleep with Your Eyes Open (2024)
Kids (2024)
Love Is a Gun (2023)
Abang Adik (2023)
Old Fox (2023)
The Horse (2023)
Be With Me (2023)
Free Beats: The Musical Journey of CHEN Ming Chang (2023)
A Boy and a Girl (2023)
BIG (2023)
Snow in Midsummer (2023)
Come Back, My Child (2023)
The Settlers (2023)
Kiss My Ass Boss (2023)
See You at the Rally (2023)
On the Train (2023)
Workers The Movie (2023)
Where the Wind Blows (2023)
Scamsgiving (2023)
Lost in Forest (2023)
Welcome Home (2022)
Girls, Be Ambitious! (2022)
Coo-Coo 043 (2022)
GAGA (2022)
A Place Called Silence (2022)
Fantasy · World (2022)
Yanagawa (2022)
Life For Sale (2022)
Untouchable (2022)
Before Next Spring (2022)
My Best Friend's Breakfast (2022)
American Girl (2021)
Terrorizers (2021)
The Falls (2021)
Love After Love (2021)
Are You Lonesome Tonight? (2021)
The Hand (2021)
Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai' (2021)
Whale Island (2021)
The Magician on the Skywalk (2021)
Taipei Suicide Story (2020)
Your Name Engraved Herein (2020)
The Rope Curse 2 (2020)
Gone with the Light (2019)
A Sun (2019)
Night Bus (2019)
Balloon (2019)
Suburban Birds (2019)
Spring Tide (2019)
Jinpa (2019)
Cities of Last Things (2018)
Xiao Mei (2018)
To Heaven, to Gather (2018)
Baby (2018)
Back to the Good Times (2018)
Take Me to the Moon (2017)
The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful (2017)
Love Education (2017)
The Great Buddha+ (2017)
Mon Mon Mon Monsters (2017)
Our Time Will Come (2017)
52Hz, I Love You (2017)
The Road to Mandalay (2016)
The Tenants Downstairs (2016)
Hang in There, Kids! (2016)
Wansei Back Home (2015)
Office (2015)
Underground Fragrance (2015)
The Assassin (2015)
Elena (2015)
Murmur of the Hearts (2015)
Meeting Dr. Sun (2014)
Aberdeen (2014)
Stray Dogs (2014)
Vara : A Blessing (2013)
Soul (2013)
Walker (2012)
Girlfriend Boyfriend (2012)
Return Ticket (2011)
Great Wall, My Love (2011)
Buddha Mountain (2010)
The Fourth Portrait (2010)
Au Revoir Taipei (2010)
Hear Me (2009)
Su mi ma sen, Love (2009)
Candy Rain (2008)
Parking (2008)
Reflections (2007)
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006)
Do Over (2006)
Eternal Summer (2006)
Three Times (2005)
The Wayward Cloud (2005)
Love's Lone Flower (2005)
Holiday Dreaming (2004)
Café Lumière (2004)
Love of May (2004)
20 30 40 (2004)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
My Whispering Plan (2003)
Fancy 25 (2003)
BRAVE 20 (2002)
The Skywalk Is Gone (2002)
Blue Gate Crossing (2002)
Princess D (2002)
July Rhapsody (2002)
Millennium Mambo (2001)
What Time Is It There? (2001)
Betelnut Beauty (2001)
Mirror Image (2001)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Yi Yi (2000)
Lament of the Sand River (2000)
The Island Tales (2000)
Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
Jam (1998)
JIA MIEN CHAO REN (1997)
Such a life (1997)
Love Go Go (1997)
Yours and Mine (1997)
Happy Together (1997)
Wolves Cry Under the Moon (1997)
Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996)
A Drifting Life (1996)
The Peony Pavilion (1995)
The Puppetmaster (1993)
Dust of Angels (1992)
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
Song of the Exile (1990)
A City of Sadness (1989)
Boss No Balls (1989)
Neverending Memory (1988)
The Game They Call Sex (1987)
Split of the Spirit (1987)
Run Away (1985)
Spring Daddy (1985)
Taipei Story (1985)
Super Citizen (1985)
My Favorite Season (1985)
Teenage Fugitive (1984)
Ah Fei (1983)
In Our Time (1982)
The Bloody Mission (1982)
My Grandfather (1981)
If I Were for Real (1981)
Oh My Ghost! Oh My God!
The Voice of Algal Reefs
Heaven and Hell
Pierce
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Known ForSound
GenderMale
Birthday1955-04-05 (69 years old)
Birth PlaceTaipei, Taiwan
CitizenshipsTaiwan
Also Known AsTu Duu Chih, Du-Chih Du, Du-Jy Du, Du-Zhi Du, Du Chih Tu, 杜篤之, 두독지, 杜 笃之, Tu Du-che, Tu Duche, Tu Du Che, Tu Duuchih, Duu-Chih Tu, Du-Che Tu
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