Yang Ya-che

Yang Ya-che is a Taiwanese film and television director and screenwriter, born on 17 July 1971 in Banqiao, New Taipei City. He studied mass communication at Tamkang University after first reading French there, and built a career across stage plays, television dramas, serials, documentaries and films. In television he won the Golden Bell Award for directing and for writing the drama Wei zhang tian tang in 2002, and later won a Golden Bell for directing The Magician on the Skywalk. His feature films are Orz Boyz! (2008), Girlfriend, Boyfriend (2012) and The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful (2017); the last won best feature film at the Taipei Golden Horse Awards, where he was also nominated for best director for the second and third films. The female leads of his films and series have repeatedly won acting prizes, which earned him the nickname Queen Maker. In 2022 he became chairman of the broadcaster Mirror TV.