Wishing Chong

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Born in 1957, Japan. He studied in the Department of Arts of the Yokohama Movie and Broadcasting College. In 1993 he branched out into film, and his movie All Under the Moon(1993) won the prize for Best Screenplay in the Mainichi Film Competition and the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Screenplay. He won several awards for his movie Begging for Love(1998), including the Japan Academy Prize for Best Screenplay, and the First Asia-Pacific Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay. He also won the 2001 National Arts Festival Grand Prize for his TV drama I'll Be Eighteen Tomorrow(2001), and published a collection of essays Andreas's Hat(1995). In 2008, his Japan-South Korea joint production the play Yakiniku Dragon was staged in Tokyo and Seoul.

Most Popular Wishing Chong Trailers

Total trailers found: 16

Doing Time Trailer (2002)

14 May 2002

A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.

Boys, Be Ambitious Trailer (1996)

09 March 1996

Chunba and Kotetsu, grows up in the working class neighborhood of Kishiwada in Osaka in the mid-seventies.

Blood and Bones Trailer (2004)

06 November 2004

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.

Out Trailer (2002)

19 October 2002

When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the body parts, piece by piece.

Parasite Trailer (2023)

05 June 2023

A stage adaptation of the Korean film Parasite, which changes the setting to 1990s Japan. It ran from June 5th-July 2nd 2023 in Tokyo.

Yakiniku Dragon Trailer (2018)

22 June 2018

Set in the 1970's in the Kansai region of Japan.. Yong-Gil is Korean, but he moved to Japan and settled down.

Begging for Love Trailer (1998)

25 September 1998

During a quest to find a Taiwanese father's grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused.

Dog Race Trailer (1998)

26 September 1998

Ethnically Korean Japanese filmmaker Yoichi Sai directs this madcap crime comedy. Nakayama (Goro Kishitani) is a suave police detective who doesn't play by the rules.

The Pig's Retribution Trailer (1999)

09 July 1999

A virginal boy travels with three hookers to a small island to collect his estranged father's washed up and sun-bleached bones.

Burning Dog Trailer (1991)

09 August 1991

A gang of thieves plot to rob a US military base in Okinawa, but rising tensions in the group threaten to put the plan in jeopardy.

Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe Trailer (1995)

28 January 1995

The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume their fraudulent activities.

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle Trailer (2001)

07 October 2001

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism.

All Under the Moon Trailer (1993)

06 November 1993

A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo.

Labyrinth of Dreams Trailer (1997)

15 February 1997

Tomiko falls in love with Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being the Tokyo bus driver serial killer, who killed his female conductors after tiring of them.

Lady Joker Trailer (2004)

11 December 2004

Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama inspired by the unsolved 1984 kidnapping of a Japanese candy company president.

Forget Me Not Trailer (2010)

27 November 2010

A nostalgic human drama based on Dazai Osamu Prize winner Tsujiuchi Tomoki's novella. Set in a declining coal-mining town in 1950s Fukuoka, the story depicts a rambunctious but pure-hearted young boy in love with an older woman.