Edward Yang

Edward Yang Chinese 楊德昌 pinyin Yáng Déchāng November 6 1947 June 29 2007 was a Taiwanese filmmaker Yang along with fellow auteurs Hou Hsiaohsien and Tsai Mingliang was one of the leading filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema Yangs singular visual style has been defined by deliberate pacing long takes fixed camera few closeups empty spaces and cityscapes His films prominently feature themes of struggle between tradition and modernity and between business and art set against the backdrop of an evolving Taiwanese society