Wang Toon

He studied at the National Taiwan College of Arts (國立藝術專科學校) from 1962 to 1965, under the guidance of teachers such as Long Sihliang (龍思良), Gao Yifeng (高一峰) and Wu Yaozong (吳耀宗).

[5] Wang Tong got a chance to join the production team of Songfest (山歌姻緣) as art assistant when Director Yuan Qiufeng (袁秋楓) came to Taiwan to his this feature film in 1963.

[5] Wang entered Central Motion Picture Corporation in 1966 and was placed under Johnson Tsao Chuang-Sheng (曹莊生), from whom he learned to improve his aesthetic skills and the details about film production, such as architecture, space, makeup, costumes, and color.

An avid learner, he also grabbed whatever opportunities he could have to learn from other directors he admired, such as Li Hanhsiang (李翰祥) and King Hu (胡金銓) to polish his production skills.

Wang subsequently made three films about Taiwan’s history from the colonial time of the 1920s to the civil war between the nationalist and communist parties in the mid 20th century: Straw Man (稻草人; 1987), Banana Paradise (香蕉天堂; 1989), and Hill of No Return (無言的山丘; 1992).

Wang’s 12th feature A Way We Go (自由門神; 2002) is a contemporary dark comedy about three socially marginalized young men finding no way to go in globalized urban Taipei.

After 13 years, Wang’s last film Where the Wind Settles (風中家族; 2015) picks up the same topic of Chinese Civil War to tell the story of a group of mainland refugees forming a new family in Taipei after 1949.

Under his helm the company established the first and exclusive high-tech post-production studio in Taiwan's film industry, with synchronous recording cameras, lighting equipment, and computer editing capacity.