Wishing Chong

Wishing Chong

Born in 1957, Japan. He studied in the Department of Arts of the Yokohama Movie and Broadcasting College. In 1993 he branched out into film, and his movie All Under the Moon(1993) won the prize for Best Screenplay in the Mainichi Film Competition and the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Screenplay. He won several awards for his movie Begging for Love(1998), including the Japan Academy Prize for Best Screenplay, and the First Asia-Pacific Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay. He also won the 2001 National Arts Festival Grand Prize for his TV drama I'll Be Eighteen Tomorrow(2001), and published a collection of essays Andreas's Hat(1995). In 2008, his Japan-South Korea joint production the play Yakiniku Dragon was staged in Tokyo and Seoul.

  • Title: Wishing Chong
  • Popularity: 0.838
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1957-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
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  • Also Known As: 鄭義信, Wui-Sin Chong, Wui Shin Chong, 정의신, Jung Eui-shin
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Wishing Chong Movies

  • 1997
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    Labyrinth of Dreams
    Labyrinth of Dreams

    6.9 1997 HD

    Tomiko falls in love with Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being the Tokyo bus driver serial killer, who killed his female conductors...

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  • 2001
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    Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
    Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

    6.8 2001 HD

    Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and...

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  • 1993
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    All Under the Moon
    All Under the Moon

    5.8 1993 HD

    A Korean taxi-driver interacts both humorously and tragically with his customers and employers in '90s Tokyo.

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  • 1991
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    BURNING DOG
    BURNING DOG

    1 1991 HD

    The ambition of a man and a woman who try to steal 20 million dollars in an American military vault

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  • 2004
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    Lady Joker
    Lady Joker

    7.5 2004 HD

    Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama...

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  • 2002
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    Doing Time
    Doing Time

    5.5 2002 HD

    A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon...

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  • 2002
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    Out
    Out

    5.3 2002 HD

    When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the...

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  • 1998
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    Begging for Love
    Begging for Love

    6.3 1998 HD

    During a quest to find a Taiwanese father's grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused.

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  • 1995
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    Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe
    Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe

    1 1995 HD

    The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume...

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  • 2023
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    Parasite
    Parasite

    1 2023 HD

    A stage adaptation of the Korean film Parasite, which changes the setting to 1990s Japan. It ran from June 5th-July 2nd 2023 in Tokyo.

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  • 2024
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    Parasite
    Parasite

    1 2024 HD

    A stage adaptation of the Korean film Parasite, which changes the setting to 1990s Japan. It ran from June 5th-July 2nd 2023 in Tokyo.

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  • 1998
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    Dog Race
    Dog Race

    1 1998 HD

    Ethnically Korean Japanese filmmaker Yoichi Sai directs this madcap crime comedy. Nakayama (Goro Kishitani) is a suave police detective who doesn't...

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  • 2018
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    Yakiniku Dragon
    Yakiniku Dragon

    7.889 2018 HD

    Set in the 1970's in the Kansai region of Japan.. Yong-Gil is Korean, but he moved to Japan and settled down. He runs a small restaurant named...

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  • 2018
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    Yakiniku Dragon
    Yakiniku Dragon

    7.889 2018 HD

    Set in the 1970's in the Kansai region of Japan.. Yong-Gil is Korean, but he moved to Japan and settled down. He runs a small restaurant named...

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  • 2010
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    Forget Me Not
    Forget Me Not

    1 2010 HD

    A nostalgic human drama based on Dazai Osamu Prize winner Tsujiuchi Tomoki's novella. Set in a declining coal-mining town in 1950s Fukuoka, the story...

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  • 1999
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    The Pig's Retribution
    The Pig's Retribution

    5.2 1999 HD

    A virginal boy travels with three hookers to a small island to collect his estranged father's washed up and sun-bleached bones.

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  • 1996
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    Boys, Be Ambitious
    Boys, Be Ambitious

    5 1996 HD

    Chunba and Kotetsu, grows up in the working class neighborhood of Kishiwada in Osaka in the mid-seventies. Their life in school is a never-ending...

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