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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1955-04-05 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

Taipei, Taiwan

Tu Duu-Chih

Biography:

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.

Known For

Sound

2025

I Dreamed a Dream as Sound Director

2024

Shambhala as Sound
The Lyricist Wannabe as Supervising Sound Editor
Pierce as Sound Designer
Kids as Supervising Sound Editor
GATAO: Like Father Like Son as Sound Designer
Stranger Eyes as Sound
The Embers as Sound
Papa as Sound Director
She's Talking, in Island. as Supervising Sound Editor
Imperfect Us as Sound Designer

2023

The Horse as Sound Designer
On the Train as Sound
Where the Wind Blows as Sound Designer
Salli as Sound Supervisor
Workers The Movie as Sound Director
Old Fox as Sound
Scamsgiving as Sound Designer
The Settlers as Sound Designer
The Monk and the Gun as Sound Editor
Be With Me as Supervising Sound Editor
See You at the Rally as Supervising Sound Editor
BIG as Supervising Sound Editor
Kiss My Ass Boss as Supervising Sound Editor
Love Is a Gun as Sound
Ma, I Love You as Sound Designer
Abang Adik as Supervising Sound Editor

2022

Untouchable as Sound Director
Life For Sale as Sound
Before Next Spring as Sound Director
Yanagawa as Sound Director
Coo-Coo 043 as Sound Designer
Girls, Be Ambitious! as Sound Designer
Welcome Home as Sound
GAGA as Supervising Sound Editor

2021

Are You Lonesome Tonight? as Sound Supervisor
American Girl as Sound Designer
Terrorizers as Sound Designer
The Hand as Sound Designer
The Falls as Sound
Love After Love as Sound Designer
Whale Island as Sound Designer
The Magician on the Skywalk as Supervising Sound Editor

2020

Taipei Suicide Story as Sound Mixer
Your Name Engraved Herein as Supervising Sound Editor

2019

Gone with the Light as Sound Director
Night Bus as Supervising Sound Editor
Suburban Birds as Sound Designer
Jinpa as Sound Designer
A Sun as Sound Director
Spring Tide as Sound Director
Balloon as Sound Designer
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom as Supervising Sound Editor

2018

Baby as Sound Designer
Cities of Last Things as Sound Designer
Xiao Mei as Sound Designer

2017

52Hz, I Love You as Sound Director
Love Education as Sound Editor
The Great Buddha+ as Sound Designer
Our Time Will Come as Sound Designer
Take Me to the Moon as Sound Designer

2016

The Road to Mandalay as Sound Designer
Hang in There, Kids! as Sound Designer

2015

Underground Fragrance as Sound Designer
Office as Sound
Elena as Sound Designer
The Assassin as Sound Editor
The Assassin as Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Murmur of the Hearts as Sound Director

2014

Aberdeen as Sound Designer
Stray Dogs as Sound Designer
Meeting Dr. Sun as Sound Director

2013

Soul as Sound

2012

Walker as Sound Designer
Girlfriend Boyfriend as Sound Designer
A Simple Life as Sound Designer

2011

Great Wall, My Love as Sound Editor
Return Ticket as Sound Designer

2010

Buddha Mountain as Sound Director

2009

Hear Me as Sound

2008

Parking as Sound
Candy Rain as Sound Designer

2007

Amour-Legende as Sound Designer
Reflections as Sound Designer

2006

Do Over as Sound
Eternal Summer as Sound Designer

2005

The Wayward Cloud as Sound Designer
Three Times as Sound Designer

2004

Love of May as Sound
20 30 40 as Sound
Café Lumière as Sound Designer

2003

2002

BRAVE 20 as Sound
July Rhapsody as Sound Designer
July Rhapsody as Foley Recordist
July Rhapsody as Foley Editor
July Rhapsody as Foley
Princess D as Sound Designer
Blue Gate Crossing as Sound Designer

2001

Mirror Image as Sound
Millennium Mambo as Sound Designer

1998

Flowers of Shanghai as Original Music Composer
Jam as Sound
Hold You Tight as Sound Recordist

1997

Such a life as Sound
Love Go Go as Sound
Happy Together as Sound Editor

1996

Goodbye South, Goodbye as Sound Recordist

1995

1993

1992

1990

Song of the Exile as Sound Recordist

1989

1988

Neverending Memory as Sound Designer

1986

Terrorizers as Sound Recordist

1985

Spring Daddy as Sound
My Favorite Season as Original Music Composer
Super Citizen as Sound
Kuei-mei, a Woman as Sound Recordist
Run Tiger Run as Sound Recordist
Taipei Story as Sound
Taipei Story as Original Music Composer

1984

Run Away as Sound
Teenage Fugitive as Sound Designer
A Summer at Grandpa's as Original Music Composer

1983

Ah Fei as Sound Designer

1982

In Our Time as Sound

1981

If I Were for Real as Sound Recordist

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Oh My Ghost! Oh My God! as Sound Designer
Heaven and Hell as Sound Director
Moonglow as Sound Designer

Editing

2002

Princess D as Editor

1982