Kuo Cheng

{{Infobox writer

|birth_name=Tao Te-san

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1955|8|24}}

|relatives={{Unbulleted list|Tao Te-chen, brother|Jing-shen Tao, uncle}}

|pseudonym={{Unbulleted list|Kuo Cheng|Ying Tianyu (應天魚)}}

|children=3

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Tao Te-san (born 24 August 1955), better known by his pen name Kuo Cheng, is a Taiwanese fiction writer. He is perhaps best known for writing the screenplays of several films directed by Ho Ping and Kevin Chu.

His older brother Tao Te-chen (陶德辰) was a filmmaker-actor in the 1980s. Their family originated in Huanggang, Hubei, China.{{cite web|url=http://www3.nmtl.gov.tw/Writer2/writer_detail.php?id=1491|script-title=zh:郭箏|trans-title=Kuo Cheng|website={{lang|zh-tw|2007台灣作家作品目錄}}|language=zh-tw|accessdate=22 October 2019|quote={{lang|zh-tw|籍貫：湖北黃岡}}|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304075213/http://www3.nmtl.gov.tw/Writer2/writer_detail.php?id=1491|url-status=dead}}

Works

Year	Chinese title	Translated English title	Translator
class="wikitable"
1988	彈子王	"King of the Pool Players"The Chinese PEN, Summer 1991.	Ying-tsih Hwang
1991	狼行千里	"The Journey of the Wolf"Renditions, Spring 2002.	Susan Wilf
1991	上帝的骰子	"God's Dice"

"The Journey of the Wolf" was one of the stories Kuo used when he and director Ho Ping wrote the screenplay for Ho's 1997 film Wolves Cry Under the Moon.

Filmography

=Films=

Year !English title !Chinese title !Director !class="unsortable"\|Notes
class="wikitable sortable"
1985	One Bright Day	好個翹課天	rowspan=2\|Fu Wei-te	original story (adapted by Wu Nien-jen)
1986	Gallery of Fools	哥們的糗事	original story (adapted by Yeh Yun-chiao and Chang Chien)
1993	colspan=2\|18	Ho Ping
rowspan=2\|1995	Heartbreak Island	去年冬天	Hsu Hsiao-ming	co-wrote with John S.C. Chiang
Trouble Maker	臭屁王	rowspan=3\|Kevin Chu
rowspan=2\|1996	The Feeling of Love	重慶愛情感覺
Naughty Boys & Soldiers	狗蛋大兵
1997	Wolves Cry Under the Moon	國道封閉	Ho Ping
1998	Chivalrous Legend	俠盜正傳	Tsai Yang-ming	co-wrote with Wu Nien-jen
2000	The Spy Tycoon	匪諜大亨	rowspan=2\|Ho Ping	TV film
2002	The Rule of the Game	挖洞人
2005	One Stone and Two Birds	一石二鳥	Kevin Chu	co-wrote with Lin Man-hsu
2008	Red Cliff	赤壁	John Woo	historical film, co-wrote with Woo, Sheng Heyu and Chan Khan
2015	Where the Wind Settles	風中家族	Wang Toon	co-wrote with Carol Li, Lin Chi-shiang, and Wu Jing

=TV Dramas (incomplete)=

Year !English title !Chinese title !class="unsortable"\|Notes
class="wikitable sortable"
1997	The Strange Cases of Lord Shi	施公奇案
rowspan=2\|1999	Lord of Imprisonment	神捕
Resurrecting the Husband	聊齋怪談之打鬼救夫
rowspan=4\|2001	Legend of the Martial Alliance	少林七崁
Chess Warriors	棋武士
Swordsman	多情刀客無情刀短刀行
Pretty Twins	偷龍轉鳳
2004	Thirteen Sons of Heaven Bridge	天橋十三郎
2016	Xiao Shiyilang	新萧十一郎

Film awards

class="wikitable sortable"
Year !# !Award !Category !Film !Result
1993 \|30th \|Golden Horse Awards \|Best Adapted Screenplay \|18 \|{{nom}}
2001 \|36th \|Golden Bell Awards \|Best Screenwriter (TV Film or Miniseries) \|The Spy Tycoon \|{{nom}}
2002 \|4th \|Deauville Asian Film Festival \|Best Screenplay \|The Rule of the Game \|{{won}}

class="wikitable sortable"

Year

!Award

!Category

!Film

!Result

1993

|30th

|Golden Horse Awards

|Best Adapted Screenplay

|18

|{{nom}}