Cheng Ying Lai

Lai Cheng Ying

  • Name: Lai Cheng Ying
  • Native name: 賴成英
  • Also Known as: Lai Sheng Ying, Lai Cheng Ing, Laai Shing Ying
  • Nationality: Taiwanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: August 29, 1931
  • Age: 94
Lai Cheng Ying is a Taiwanese director, cinematographer and camera operator. He graduated from Provincial Taichung First Senior High School. and is a senior cinematographer. He started his career in 1952 as a camera assistant for many films. In 1955, he served as the cinematographer for the first time for Shan Di Gu Niang and continued his career as a cinematographer.In 1958, he shot Chang Feng Wan Li, the first black-and-white CinemaScope film in Taiwan. In the same year, he went to Japan to learn color cinematography in Daiei Film and color film developing in Tokyo Laboratory, and also observed animation production and learned bluescreen special effects-based cinematography in Toei Company. In 1959, he returned to Taiwan and served as the cinematographer for Mo Ku Sha Zi Bao and Reunion; both films won the Best Black and White Cinematography Award for Excellent Mandarin Films from the Government Information Office. In 1963, he worked with director Hsing Lee in Our Neighbors. They became long-term collaborators, and Lai won Best Cinematography for Color Film of Golden Horse Awards for three films directed by Lee: Beautiful Duckling, Stardust and Execution in Autumn.

In 1975, he began to direct films.In Confused Love (1976), he served as a cinematographer for the last time, accumulating over 60 cinematographical works in total. Since then, he has served as the Director of the New York branch of I-Sky-Net, the Deputy General Manager of Era Film and TV Prod. Ltd. Co., and the administrative secretary of the Chinese Society of Cinematographers and Directors Guild of Taiwan. He has devoted himself to filmmaking for long years and contributed greatly to Taiwan’s film industry.

In 2022, he received Lifetime Achievement Award of the 59th Golden Horse Awards.

(Source: TaiwanCinema) Edit Biography
Cinematography
Year Title Type Rating
1977 Cloud of Romance
Movie
6.7
1976 Posterity and Perplexity
Movie
0.0
1975 Our Land Our People
Movie
0.0
1974 First Come, First Love
Movie
0.0
1974 Where the Seagull Flies
Movie
8.0
1974 The Big Raid
Movie
0.0
1974 Rhythm of the Wave
Movie
5.0
1974 Blue Lamp in a Winter Night
Movie
0.0
1973 The Heart with Million Knots
Movie
6.0
1972 Love in a Cabin
Movie
0.0
1972 Execution in Autumn
Movie
8.0
1971 Woman Guerilla with Two Guns
Movie
0.0
1971 Love Styles X-Y-Z
Movie
0.0
1970 Weakness Thy Name Is Man
Movie
0.0
1970 Four Moods
Movie
0.0
1969 Jade Goddess
Movie
0.0
1968 Greatest Fight
Movie
0.0
1967 The Road
Movie
0.0
1966 Fire Bulls
Movie
4.0
1965 The Silent Wife
Movie
4.0
1965 Four Loves
Movie
0.0
1965 Beautiful Duckling
Movie
7.0
1958 Chang Feng Wan Li
Movie
0.0
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  • First Name: Cheng Ying
  • Family Name: Lai
  • Native name: 賴成英
  • Also Known as: Lai Sheng Ying, Lai Cheng Ing, Laai Shing Ying
  • Nationality: Taiwanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: August 29, 1931
  • Age: 94

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