Biography
Winston Chao Wen-hsuan (born 9 June 1960) is a Taiwanese actor. He came to international attention for his performance in the 1993 film The Wedding Banquet. He is also known for his roles in Red Rose White Rose and Eat Drink Man Woman, and for his five portrayals of Sun Yat-sen, notably in the films The Soong Sisters (1997), Road to Dawn (2007) and 1911 (2011). His notable television roles include the adaptation of Cao Yu's play Thunderstorm (1997), a double role in the historical drama Palace o...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Daughter's Daughter
2024
as Old Johnny
Jin is in her 60s. Her husband gone, her concern is for daughter Zuer, in New York trying out IVF with her partner Michelle. When Jin receives news th...

Be Somebody
2021
During the Republican era, a group of frustrated people from the movie industry is invited in a luxurious mansion to make a movie out of a gruesome ca...

I Dreamed A Dream
2021
An experimental "dream yoga" master Li Shihao experiences a stroke and falls into a coma. His daughter decides to go to his dream world to drag him ou...

Pegasus
2019
as Wan Heping
Zhang Chi, a hubris and dominating six-time racing champion, falls from grace following a crisis. After a five-year suspension from the motorsport, th...

Piano Lesson
2018
as A.I.
A pianist, who has already lost his real audience, is searching for his fans via performing music in a world controlled by Artificial Intelligence. Ho...

The Meg
2018
as Zhang
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Sh...

钢琴课
2018

Kabali
2016
as Tony Lee
A gangster in Malaysia goes in search of his family after 25 years of imprisonment.

Skiptrace
2016
as Victor Wong
A detective from Hong Kong teams up with an American gambler to battle against a notorious Chinese criminal.

Xuan Zang
2016
as Emperor Taizong of Tang
Chinese-Indian historical adventure of Xuan Zang's seventeen-year overland journey to India during the Tang dynasty in the seventh century.

Chinese Wine
2016
as 华老板

Surprise
2015
as Murong Hao
A monster crosses paths with the foursome from the classic Chinese story Journey To The West.

情战
2015
chinese film

Zhongkui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal
2015
as Zhang Daoxian
The story of Chinese legendary anti-hero Zhong Kui, a young man endowed with mysterious powers who is forced into a battle among the realms of Heaven,...

The Palace
2013
as Kangxi Emperor
In Qing Dynasty, Chen Xiang and Liuli became maids and friends in the imperial palace. Liuli wanted to be famous whereas Chen Xiang just wanted to liv...

Great Rescue
2012
In 1932, as Korea is occupied by Japan, Chu Fucheng, an important figure in the city of Jiaxing, China, is asked to help in hiding exiled Korean natio...

1911
2011
as Sun Yat-sen
China's first President Sun Yat-Sen and military commander Huang Xing lead the revolutionary Wuchang Uprising in a bid to put an end to the reign of t...

Road to Dawn
2007
Based on the story of Dr Sun Yat Sen’s revolutionary efforts and his love affairs while he was in Penang in 1910.

Those were the Days
2005
as Hu Weichen

The Touch
2002
as Yin's Father
A sister and brother, the last heirs of a family of acrobats, are called upon by a Buddhist monk sect to retrieve an artifact that their ancestors hav...

A Little Life-Opera
1998
as Sanpeng
The story of a part-time opera troupe in coastal Fujian province of China and their struggles.

Burning Harbor
1998
as Sato
At the end of WWII, the Japanese decide to build a secret submarine base in Hong Kong for a last point of resistance. The mariners on a Chinese cargo ...

Island of Greed
1997
as Minister Feng
A gutsy police detecive and his team of cops probe into the widespread illegal dealings of a criminal mastermind who schemes to redeem himself by runn...

Intimates
1997
as Wah
Foon escapes an arranged marriage by walking the road of a Ji Sor. After an affair with Shing, she becomes pregnant. An attempted abortion nearly cost...

Destination: 9th Heaven
1997
as Chin Ching
A father and daughter struggle with relationships as China regains control of Hong Kong.

The Soong Sisters
1997
as Sun Yat Sen
The Soong family was a political dynasty in China that reached the highest levels of power. This film follows the lives of the three Soong daughters, ...

Tonight Nobody Goes Home
1996
as Chen Siming
The Chen family contagiousness extends to taking on an extra-marital affair. Gua Ah-leh is at the movie's centre: she shines as Lung's wife, who finds...

In a Strange City
1996
Yu Jane, a high school teacher and Xiang Guo-Chen, a successful industrialist, are secretly having an affair outside of his marriage. Xiang is on his ...

Thunder Cop
1996
Cop action movie clumsily inter-cut with slapstick. Dumb cop befriends triad guy who wants to go straight but is being set up by his unscrupulous dru...

Crazy Little Thing Called Love
1995
Ever-changing life in a busy modern metropolis brings both ecstasy and sorrow: One night, 24-year-old A Rong by chance helps A Min, a beautiful woman,...

Xiu Xiu
1995
as Li Zhao
Yu Lei plays an orphan Xiu Xiu, who is married to a foreign land when she was 3. Her husband, a hunter (Lau Hok Yin), doesn't know how to love her. So...

I Want to Go on Living
1995
A woman stops waiting for her med student boyfriend and marries a rich man so she can pay her grandmother's medical bills.

Red Rose White Rose
1994
as Tung Zhenbao
Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels hap...

Eat Drink Man Woman
1994
as Li Kai
Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each da...

In Between
1994
as Wong Man Fai
Three directors deliver three stories about the love in the modern world.

The Wedding Banquet
1993
as Wai-Tung Gao
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to...

Top Cool
1993
After training in the United States, instructor Yu Da-peng comes back to Taiwan to train the first batch of pilots to receive new fighter jets.

The Legend of Nezha
N/A
as Master Tai Yi
Nezha gets into trouble and implicates his parents who are punished by the heavens along with him. He bravely steps up and admits his fault, which tou...

金牌律师之生死劫
N/A
as Ye Xun