A native of Taiwan, Kao entered the film world through the late-1980s collaborations with director Hou Hsiao-hsien, drawing on contacts with real-life gangsters he knew in his youth. His early breakthrough came with a role in City of Sadness, a depiction of the White Terror that earned the Golden Lion at the 1989 Venice Film Festival. He later returned to the same historical period in Prince of Te… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for The Assassin 2015 Shinjuku Incident 2009 Millennium Mambo 2001 Time and Tide 2000 ★ 7.6 Crazy Racer 2009
Ah Jie ★ 7 Millennium Mambo 2001
Jack ★ 7.1 Project Gutenberg 2018
General ★ 6.9 Flowers of Shanghai 1998
Luo ★ 6.9 Unbeatable 2013
Lin Yuan Xiang ★ 6.8 Throw Down 2004
Mona's Father ★ 7.7 Dust of Angels 1992
Hsiao Kao ★ 7 Goodbye South, Goodbye 1998
Kao ★ 7.2 Daughter of the Nile 1987
Lin Hsiao-Fang ★ 6.8 Full Alert 1997
Zang ★ 7 Good Men, Good Women 1995
Ah Wei ★ 6.8 Black & White: The Dawn of Assault 2012
Brother Yuan ★ 6.9 Octopus with Broken Arms 2024
Daymond ★ 6.5 Time and Tide 2000
SDU Commander ★ 6.7 Moonlight Express 1999
Gene ★ 6.4 Cities of Last Things 2018
Adult Zhang Dongling ★ 6.3 Parking 2008
Barber ★ 6.2 The Big Shot 2019
★ 6 But Always 2014
Anran's Father ★ 6.1 Two Thumbs Up 2015
Warden ★ 6 The Conman 1998
Macau Mon ★ 5.8 Gatao 2: Rise of the King 2018
President Gui ★ 6 One Night Only 2016
Bart ★ 6.1 The Sniper 2009
Yip Tao ★ 5.8 Au Revoir Taipei 2010
Father ★ 6.2 Island of Fire 1991
Lin ★ 5.6 Song of the Assassins 2022
Chai Kang ★ 5.7 Wild City 2015
King ★ 5.3 Blood Brothers 2007
Boss Chen ★ 5.5 The Crossing I 2014
Yan Cangmeng ★ 5.3 The Crossing II 2015
Yan Cangmeng ★ 3.6 Zombie 108 2012
SWAT Commander ★ 5.6 Zombie Fight Club 2014
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