Chiang Jui-chih
BIOGRAPHY
Chiang Jui-chih (Chinese: 姜瑞智, also credited as Ray Jiang; born June 11, 1980 in Taipei) is a Taiwanese film and television director. He came up through the production ranks as a line producer and assistant director, including on DiDi’s Dreams (2017), before moving into directing, and won Best Drama Director at the 53rd Golden Bell Awards. He also directed a run of government-commissioned promotional films for New Taipei City and Taoyuan.
He is most commercially identified with the Gatao gangster franchise, which he has worked on in every instalment for a decade: assistant director on Gatao (2015), co-director on Gatao 2: Rise of the King (2018), then director of Gatao: The Last Stray (2021), GATAO: Like Father Like Son (2024) and GATAO: Big Brothers (2025). Several of those films passed NT$100 million at the Taiwanese box office. In 2025 he directed Marching Boys, a 1990s-set drama that went on to Golden Horse Award nominations and international festival selection.
Chiang also directs BL series. He directed the We Best Love series (2021), Meow Meow Boss (2021), The Amazing Grace of Σ (2022) and My Tooth Your Love (2022), the last three with producer Sammi Pan and screenwriter Lin Pei-yu, a team that has stayed together across projects. He has spoken publicly about approaching his first BL commission by studying Taiwanese, Thai and Japanese examples of the genre. In 2026 he directed the twelve-episode BL series Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars, in which he also appears on screen as Brother Zhong.
Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars premiered on Thursday, March 26, 2026 on LINE TV in Taiwan, with episodes running between roughly thirty and forty minutes. It is a fantasy romance set on an island: He Xiang-yong, laid off in Taipei, goes back to his hometown and wishes not to be recognised, and the wish comes true. Jed Chung plays the adult Xiang-yong and Chu Meng-hsuan plays Chen Hao-wei, with Chen Yan-syu and Max Kuo as their teenage selves. Several performers come from his earlier work: Lee Lee-zen, who plays Old He, also appears in Marching Boys, and Andy Wu, who plays Brother Hong, played Bai Lang in My Tooth Your Love.
A gangster-film director moved into BL series and took a role in front of the camera in his 2026 production.
After the Gatao films, Chiang directed We Best Love in 2021, and he returned to the genre with Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars in 2026, appearing in it as Brother Zhong.
The producer and screenwriter of his 2022 series My Tooth Your Love, Sammi Pan and Lin Pei-yu, are named among the team that has stayed together across his BL work.
In my view, his career reads better as one long apprenticeship than as a change of genre. He rose from line producer and assistant director into directing, and the habit of returning to the same collaborators shows on both sides of his work: the Gatao films across a decade, and Sammi Pan and Lin Pei-yu across the series. If I were choosing where to start, I would take Marching Boys, his 2025 film, and then the 2026 series.
PROFILE DETAILS
- Native Name
- 姜瑞智
- Real Name
- Chiang Jui-chih (姜瑞智, Jui-Chih Chiang)
- Nickname
- Ray Jiang
- Pronouns
- he/him
- Born
- (Age 46)
- Birthplace
- Taipei, Taiwan
- Gender
- Male
- Western Zodiac
- Gemini ♊
- Profession
- Nationality
- Languages
- Mandarin Chinese
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