Tu Duu-chih
Known for: Sound
Born: April 5, 1955
Place of birth: Taipei, Taiwan
Tu Duu-Chih (Chinese: 杜篤之, Born in 1955 in Taipei), Tu was trained in 1973 as a sound engineer in the Film Technicians Training Program conducted by Central Motion Pictures Corporation. In 1978 he was hired by CMPC as assistant sound engineer, thus began his career in film and has been responsible for the sound recording, editing and mixing of many of the ‘Taiwanese New Wave’ works. He has been one of the leading sound technicians in the Taiwan film industry since the 1980s, and was instrumental in the sound engineering for the filmmakers of the "Taiwan New Wave." He has been involved in the majority of Taiwanese films that have garnered international critical acclaim. He worked for HOU Hsiao-Hsien(侯孝賢) in "City of Sadness,"(悲情城市) "The Puppetmaster,"(戲夢人生) "Good Men, Good Women,"(好男好女) "Flowers of Shanghai,"(海上花) "Millennium Mambo," and “Kohi Jikou”(咖啡時光). His works for Edward YANG include "That Day, On the Beach," (海灘的一天) "Taipei Story," (青梅竹馬) "The Terrorizer," (恐怖份子) "A Brighter Summer Day," (牿嶺街少年殺人事件) "A Confusion, Confusion," (獨立時代) "Mahjong," (麻將) and "A One and a Two." (一一) His other important works include "A Borrowed Life," (多桑directed by WU Nien-Jen吳念真) "The Peach Blossom Land," (暗戀桃花源 directed by Stan LAI賴聲川) "In the Mood for Love," (花樣年華directed by WONG Kar Wai王家衛) and "What Time is it There?" (你那邊幾點directed by TSAI Ming-Liang蔡明亮). Tu received the Prix du Jury a Un Technicien for "Millennium Mambo" and "What Time is it There?" at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001.
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Filmography
206 movies · 4 TV shows, newest first
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We Are Born Good
2026
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Terbang
2026
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The Age Of Goodbyes
2026
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Oh My Ghost! Oh My God!
2026
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Arrested Memory
2026
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The Rope Curse 4: Kuntilanak
2026
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Fly! Mountain Hawk-Eagle
2026
6.5
Cold War 1994
2026
NR
The Waves Will Carry Us
2026
6.0
Deep Quiet Room
2026
6.0
The Snowball on a Sunny Day
2026
NR
Moonglow
2026
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Cyclone
2026
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A Dance with Rainbows
2026
5.0
Demon Hunters
2025
8.4
Mother Bhumi
2025
5.5
Girlfriends
2025
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Praying Mantis
2025
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Heaven and Hell
2025
6.7
Deadline
2025
7.1
Girl
2025
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April
2025
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Unexpected Courage
2025
5.0
Measure in Love
2025
7.0
Dear Stranger
2025
6.0
A Dance in Vain
2025
6.2
GATAO: Big Brothers
2025
9.0
Forget You Not
2025
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I Dreamed a Dream
2025
8.1
Papa
2024
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The Embers
2024
6.4
Stranger Eyes
2024
7.4
Pierce
2024
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Come Home, My Child
2024
6.8
A Place Called Silence
2024
7.8
Shambhala
2024
7.3
GATAO: Like Father Like Son
2024
5.6
The Chronicles of Libidoists
2024
5.7
Sleep with Your Eyes Open
2024
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She's Talking, in Island.
2024
7.2
All Shall Be Well
2024
7.3
Mystery Writers
2024
8.1
Imperfect Us
2024
4.5
Salli
2024
6.6
The Lyricist Wannabe
2024
3.0
Kids
2024
7.0
Love Is a Gun
2023
7.7
Abang Adik
2023
7.6
Old Fox
2023
7.0
The Horse
2023
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Free Beats: The Musical Journey of CHEN Ming Chang
2023
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A Boy and a Girl
2023
4.2
Be with Me
2023
5.4
BIG
2023
7.5
Snow in Midsummer
2023
6.4
Only the River Flows
2023
7.2
The Monk and the Gun
2023
6.7
The Settlers
2023
4.2
Kiss My Ass Boss
2023
3.2
See You at the Rally
2023
8.0
On the Train
2023
8.0
Workers The Movie
2023
5.6
Where the Wind Blows
2023
10.0
Ma, I Love You
2023
6.0
Scamsgiving
2023
6.4
Lost in Forest
2023
7.0
Welcome Home
2022
4.0
Girls, Be Ambitious!
2022
3.5
Coo-Coo 043
2022
6.6
GAGA
2022
6.2
Fantasy · World
2022
6.8
Yanagawa
2022
6.2
Life For Sale
2022
5.0
Untouchable
2022
6.7
Before Next Spring
2022
5.6
My Best Friend's Breakfast
2022
6.8
American Girl
2021
5.9
Terrorizers
2021
6.6
The Falls
2021
5.6
Love After Love
2021
5.6
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
2021
7.2
The Hand
2021
8.0
Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'
2021
8.5
Whale Island
2021
8.1
The Magician on the Skywalk
2021
7.5
Taipei Suicide Story
2020
7.9
Your Name Engraved Herein
2020
5.4
The Rope Curse 2
2020
5.9
Gone with the Light
2019
7.4
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom
2019
7.7
A Sun
2019
5.7
Night Bus
2019
7.0
Balloon
2019
5.9
Suburban Birds
2019
6.8
Spring Tide
2019
6.8
Jinpa
2019
6.4
Cities of Last Things
2018
5.0
Xiao Mei
2018
6.2
Tracey
2018
6.1
G Affairs
2018NR
To Heaven, to Gather
2018
5.9
Baby
2018
6.2
Back to the Good Times
2018
4.5
Take Me to the Moon
2017
7.1
The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful
2017
7.5
Love Education
2017
7.9
The Great Buddha+
2017
6.7
Mon Mon Mon Monsters
2017
6.0
Our Time Will Come
2017
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十年，再見楊德昌
2017
5.0
52Hz, I Love You
2017
6.9
The Road to Mandalay
2016
6.0
Three
2016
6.3
The Tenants Downstairs
2016
5.8
Hang in There, Kids!
2016
5.3
Underground Fragrance
2016
9.7
Wansei Back Home
2015
5.6
Office
2015
6.4
The Assassin
2015
6.2
Elena
2015
6.0
Murmur of the Hearts
2015
5.1
Meeting Dr. Sun
2014
8.4
Vara: A Blessing
2014
5.2
Aberdeen
2014
6.3
Stray Dogs
2014
6.1
Soul
2013
6.3
Walker
2012
6.6
Girlfriend Boyfriend
2012
7.5
A Simple Life
2012
6.8
Return Ticket
2011
6.0
Great Wall, My Love
2011
7.4
You Are the Apple of My Eye
2011
6.8
Buddha Mountain
2011
6.6
The Fourth Portrait
2010
5.8
Au Revoir Taipei
2010
7.4
Hear Me
2009
5.7
Miss Kicki
2009
3.0
Su mi ma sen, Love
2009
4.1
1895 in Formosa
2008
4.2
Candy Rain
2008
6.3
Parking
2008
5.0
Amour-Legende
2007
4.0
Reflections
2007
6.6
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
2006
3.0
Do Over
2006
6.1
Eternal Summer
2006
7.0
Three Times
2005
4.5
Love's Lone Flower
2005
6.0
The Wayward Cloud
2005
6.3
Holiday Dreaming
2004
6.8
Café Lumière
2004
6.3
Love of May
2004
5.6
20 30 40
2004
6.8
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
2003NR
My Whispering Plan
20039.0
Fancy 25
2003
5.9
The Skywalk Is Gone
2003
10.0
Brave 20
2003
6.6
Double Vision
2002
7.2
Blue Gate Crossing
2002
7.3
Princess D
2002
6.5
July Rhapsody
2002
7.0
Millennium Mambo
2001
7.0
What Time Is It There?
2001
6.4
Betelnut Beauty
2001
6.8
Mirror Image
2001
8.1
In the Mood for Love
2000
7.9
Yi Yi
2000
7.0
Lament of the Sand River
2000
6.8
The Island Tales
2000
6.9
Flowers of Shanghai
1998
7.5
Jam
1998
5.3
Hold You Tight
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JIA MIEN CHAO REN
1997
8.0
Such a life
1997
6.5
Love Go Go
1997
6.7
Yours and Mine
1997
7.6
Happy Together
1997
4.3
Wolves Cry Under the Moon
1997
7.0
Goodbye South, Goodbye
1996
5.5
A Drifting Life
1996
9.4
The Peony Pavilion
1995
7.0
Good Men, Good Women
1995
6.6
The Puppetmaster
1993
7.7
Dust of Angels
1992
8.2
A Brighter Summer Day
1991
7.6
Song of the Exile
1990
7.5
A City of Sadness
1989
8.0
Boss No Balls
1989
9.0
Neverending Memory
1988
6.3
The Game They Call Sex
1987
6.3
Split of the Spirit
1987
7.4
Terrorizers
1986
7.0
Kuei-mei, a Woman
1985
8.2
Run Away
1985
7.0
Spring Daddy
1985
7.5
Taipei Story
1985
10.0
Super Citizen
1985
10.0
My Favorite Season
1985
8.6
Run Tiger Run
1985
7.5
A Summer at Grandpa's
1984
6.8
Teenage Fugitive
1984
7.6
That Day, on the Beach
1983
6.3
Ah Fei
1983
7.2
In Our Time
1982
7.0
The Bloody Mission
1982
6.3
If I Were for Real
1981
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The Voice of Algal Reefs
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The Long Goodbye
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When Fortune Comes Ashore
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