Biography
Yau Fook-Sang, also credited as Chiu Fu-sheng, is a Taiwanese film producer. Born in Pingtung County in 1947, he founded Era Communications in 1982 as a video and independent film distribution company.
Through Era he produced Hou Hsiao-hsien’s A City of Sadness (1989) and The Puppetmaster (1993), and Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern (1991) and To Live (1994). Raise the Red Lantern and To Live each won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language.
He has also worked in television as the first chairman of TVBS and as a real estate developer.
