Yao Feng-Pan

FengPan Yao was born August 1932 in Anhui Province Early employment consisted of reporting editing and head writing duties in Taipei news publications In 1956 he won an award for investigative journalism In 1960 he began screenwriting In 1968 he won a prize for his movie criticism After that he received commendation for being an upandcoming writer in the younger generation and in 1969 graduated to directing From then until the early 80s he almost exclusively shot ghost stories and made dozens of them earning himself the nickname King of Ghost Films by the Taiwanese press After the popularity of ghost films waned Mr Yao started his own magazine a chain of fast food stores and invested in a theme park He passed away in 2004