Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia
Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia (Chinese: 林青霞; pinyin: Lín Qīngxiá; born 3 November 1954) is a Taiwanese actress. She was a popular actress, regarded as an icon of Chinese cinema, who acted in both Taiwanese and Hong Kong films. She retired in 1994, although she had a minor role in the 1998 film Bishonen.
She was born in Taipei, and was "discovered" in 1972 by a film producer, and first appeared in many Taiwanese romance films based on the novels of Chiung Yao. Her movie debut is in Chuangwai. She later switched over to making movies in Hong Kong. At the height of her popularity she was arguably one of the most sought-after actresses in the Chinese film industry. She starred in more than 100 movies.
In Hong Kong movies, Lin made a career of playing transgender roles: in Peking Opera Blues she plays a tomboy who dresses in male Western clothes; in New Dragon Gate Inn she is a woman who dresses as a man, and in Swordsman II and III she plays a male character who castrates himself for power and so is now slowly turning into a woman. She had a good working relationship with Tsui Hark, acting in many of the films he directed (like Peking Opera Blues) and produced (Swordsman II).
She married businessman Michael Ying in 1994 and left the film industry. She has two daughters, born in 1997 and 2001. She made her first public appearance since her marriage at a screening of Ashes of Time Redux at the 2008 New York Film Festival.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 13.649 |
| Birthday | 1954-11-03 |
| Place of Birth | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Also Known As | Venus Lin, Lam Ching-Ha, Lin Ching-Ha, Lin Ching-Tsia, Lam Cheng-Ha, Lin Chin-Hsia, 林青霞, Lin Ching Hsia, 임청하, หลินชิงเสีย, Lâm Thanh Hà, Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia, Brigette Lin, Bridget Lin, Ling Ching-Tsia, Lin Ching-shya, Lin Cheng-hsia, ブリジット・リン, Lín Qīngxiá, |
1994
Chungking Express
7.989/1812
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-ni...
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Chungking Express
1993
The Bride with White Hair 2
5.8/34
For ten years, Cho has been in the snow of Mount Shin Fung waiting for a rare flower to blossom that will cure his wife who, back in Chung Yuan, is sl...
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The Bride with White Hair 2
1985
Police Story
7.532/881
Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a...
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Police Story
1992
Dragon Inn
7.186/121
During the Ming Dynasty, Tsao Siu-yan, a power-crazed eunuch who rules his desert region of China as if he were the Emperor, ruthlessly thwarts plots...
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Dragon Inn
1994
Ashes of Time
7.078/332
Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days in the desert, connecting expert swordsmen with those seeking revenge and willing to...
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Ashes of Time
1983
Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
6.7/85
In the fifth century, constant civil war scars western China. To escape death, Ti, a young scout, jumps through a crevice in the Zu mountains where he...
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Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
1983
Fantasy Mission Force
4.745/49
A force of loners and fighters is put together to try and rescue the generals and save the war effort with the promise of gold and pardons of past cri...
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Fantasy Mission Force
1994
The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains
5.2/16
Legend has it that in a faraway place beyond the edge of the earth, there exists a broken-hearted man with infinite power. Abandoned by his loved ones...
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The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains
1977
The Dream of the Red Chamber
6.3/11
Pao-yu is in love with his cousin, Lin Tai-yu, but his family has other marital plans for him that will leave both broken-hearted.
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The Dream of the Red Chamber
1986
Peking Opera Blues
7/66
In 1913 Beijing, three fierce women—disguised rebel Tsao Wan, jewel-seeking Sheung Hung, and opera heiress Pat Neil—embark on a daring quest filled wi...
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Peking Opera Blues
1993
Swordsman III: The East Is Red
6.1/47
A royal official accompanies a Portuguese warship to the Black Cliffs to see the site of the defeat of the evil Invincible Asia, who attained supernat...
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Swordsman III: The East Is Red
1992
The Legend of the Swordsman
6.5/114
Ling Wu Chung decides to hide from the chaotic world. Before leaving, he visits his friends, a tribe of snake-wielding women warriors. However, he fin...
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The Legend of the Swordsman
1994
Deadful Melody
5.8/24
A young security man must prove himself worthy by defending the one object wanted by all the masters of the Martial Arts world - the Magic Lyre!
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Deadful Melody
1993
The Bride with White Hair
6.483/89
The sensitive swordsman Cho Yi-Hang is tired of his life. He is the unwilling successor to the Wu-Tang clan throne and the unsure commander of the cla...
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The Bride with White Hair
2001
Peony Pavilion
6.7/13
In 1930s Suzhou, the fifth wife of an opium-addicted aristocrat, her husband's female cousin, and a handsome instructor develop an intense relationshi...
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Peony Pavilion
1992
Royal Tramp 2
6.982/82
Following on from the Royal Tramp I, after discovering that the Empress is actually Lone-er, a member of the St Dragon Sect, and that she imprisoned t...
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Royal Tramp 2
1976
The Beauty with Two Faces
0/0
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The Beauty with Two Faces
1983
All the Wrong Spies
6.9/8
In Hong Kong, Circa 1940s, World War II, private detective Yoyo and friend Inspector Teddy Robin join a resistance group during the Japanese occupatio...
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All the Wrong Spies
1983
Seven Black Heroines
5.7/10
A group of women with various criminal skills are thrown into prison during World War 2. They escape and proceed to head off to destroy a chemical lab...
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Seven Black Heroines
1982
Pink Force Commando
4/2
In a world where cowboys coexist with Chinese thugs, Arab swordsmen, Nazi troops, Klansmen and spandex-bearing superheroines. Brigette Lin is the "Jac...
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Pink Force Commando
1994
The Three Swordsmen
5.6/11
Samurai and Smiling Sam are two famous martial arts masters in Central China. On the night before the big martial arts competition, someone murders th...
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The Three Swordsmen
1984
The Other Side of Gentleman
5/1
As part of a sociology experiment, Brigitte Lin tries to get lower-class playboy Alan Tam to fall in love with her. Not only does he fall for her, but...
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The Other Side of Gentleman
1994
Fire Dragon
6.4/8
Rebel fighter Yuen Ming (Max Mok) must protect an important letter with content that can expose the corrupt Chinese government. Sent to retrieve the l...
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Fire Dragon
1981
Love Massacre
6.1/13
The boyfriend of a young co-ed turns into a demented stalker after his sister's suicide.
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Love Massacre
1992
Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land
7.8/17
Two drama companies happened to share one auditorium for rehearsal. Friction was inevitable. One of them played 'Peach Blossom', a comedy in medieval...
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Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land
1989
Web of Deception
6.2/6
Jane is unknowingly being blackmailed by her co-worker May. When May's roommate Queenie needs a large amount of money to bail her twin sister out, May...
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Web of Deception
1986
Dream Lovers
6.8/5
Musician Song Yu and jewellery designer Yuet-heung, who barely know each other, meet in their dreams before finally uniting in person.
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Dream Lovers
1988
Starry Is the Night
6/3
As Cai Mei, a single 40 year old woman and a social worker starts a relationship with a teen-ager Tian-Ah, she remembers her relationship when she was...
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Starry Is the Night
1993
The Black Panther Warriors
5.9/9
A group of specialists are recruited to steal from a police station.
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The Black Panther Warriors
2021
One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart
7.125/8
Tracing the beginnings of Jet Tone Films, which was founded in 1991 by Wong Kar Wai for the production of Ashes of Time (1994), the film features neve...
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One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart
1990
Red Dust
6.8/22
Stretching across the canvas of the Sino-Japanese War of the 30s, the subsequent Japanese surrender in 1945, and the onslaught of Communism, this film...
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Red Dust
1976
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
0/0
Taiwanese movie
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
1987
Lady in Black
8/2
Kin Seng (Leung Ka Fai) falls into big debts in the gambling house. He persuades his loving wife, May (Lin Ching Hsia), to embezzle a huge sum from wo...
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Lady in Black
1993
Boys Are Easy
6.7/7
A man wants to see his three daughters get married.
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Boys Are Easy
1986
True Colours
7.1/4
Lung and Wong are buddies in their ferocious youth. Lung fled from his motherland to escape a death penalty. Lung returns after five years and runs in...
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True Colours
1993
The Eagle Shooting Heroes
7/97
A power struggle between the Queen's treasonous lover and a princess occurs amid musical numbers, slapstick battles, and martial arts acrobatics.
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The Eagle Shooting Heroes
1992
Handsome Siblings
6.3/13
One hundred seventy years ago, a wise monk made a section of land known as the Villians Valley, a sanctuary. Anyone who came to the valley was conside...
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Handsome Siblings
1983
Fire Dragon
5.6/4
A Team of Prisoners, famous thieves and great fighters are assembled by a shadowy government agency to steal a top-secret file. Their destination the...
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Fire Dragon
1975
The Forest of Forever
0/0
Among lofty mountains and valley, a family’s business successor, Luo Ya-nan, meets an engineer, Lu Chang-jong.
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The Forest of Forever
1983
Black and White
0/0
Taiwanese war film.
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Black and White
1976
Different Love
0/0
Brigitte Lin is Sung Hsiao Yu, a young girl in love with Wen Hsing Yu (Charlie Chin), a botanist who's trying to cross-fertilize flowers to create a p...
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Different Love
1974
Ghost of the Mirror
7/2
Adapted from a Tang Dynasty fantasy tale, Sung Chuen-sau used the story of a scholar meeting a female ghost at night, but emphasised neither the killi...
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Ghost of the Mirror
1973
Outside the Window
6/2
Brigitte Lin's debut film is a melodrama in which her character gets involved in a socially unacceptable relationship and then forced into marriage.
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Outside the Window
1974
Gone with the Cloud
0/0
After the death of her parents, a young woman (Tang Bao Yun) is forced to work as a barmaid to support the education of her younger brother (Liu Chia...
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Gone with the Cloud
1974
Moon River
5/4
Romantic film starring Brigitte Lin.
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Moon River
1976
Forever My Love
0/0
Alan Tang plays an engineering student in Taipei, Taiwan who meets and falls in love with another college student played by Brigitte Lin. Tang is the...
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Forever My Love
1976
My Funny Intern
0/0
Alan Tang plays a famous soccer coach who comes down with the flu. He goes to a clinic for help and meets Brigitte Lin who is a doctor. He is immediat...
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My Funny Intern
1981
The Women Soldiers
0/0
Four girls graduate from high school with the hope of joining the army, even though that may clash with their parents' wishes...
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The Women Soldiers
1987
The Thirty Million Dollar Rush
6.9/7
Treasury employee Fatty (Eric Tsang) discovered that bags of used 30 million in Hong Kong Dollars have not been incinerated due to a system error; the...
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The Thirty Million Dollar Rush
1975
Misty Drizzle
0/0
A divorced entrepreneur (Yueh Yang) and his handsome partner (Charlie Chin) both fall for the beautiful company secretary (Brigitte Lin)...
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Misty Drizzle
1975
Little Sister-in-law
0/0
Mr. and Mrs. Ho are longing for a grandson. Their son, Ho Chieh and daughter-in-law, Wan Ping, come home from abroad. Wan Ching, the little sister-in-...
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Little Sister-in-law
1978
Love of the White Snake
8/1
This early Brigitte Lin film is based on the same Chinese folk tale that Tsui Hark later used as his source for The Green Snake. It is the story of tw...
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Love of the White Snake
1976
Come Fly with Me
0/0
Charlie Chin is Cheng Chieh, an engineer obsessed with flying. Brigitte Lin is Liu Yen-mei, a rich girl who has to choose between Chieh and a rich ma...
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Come Fly with Me
1982
Phoenix the Raider
3/1
A story of two friends on the opposite side of the law.
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Phoenix the Raider
1977
There's No Place like Home
0/0
Taiwanese romance film released to commemorate the 9th anniversary of First Films' founding.
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There's No Place like Home
1976
The Autumn Love Song
0/0
When a rich guy met a poor gal and fell in love, his authoritative father disapproved of their relationship owing to his girlfriend’s complicated fami...
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The Autumn Love Song
1974
The House for Love
0/0
Lo Wen (Chin Han) is enamored of his college sweetheart Xiao Yu (Brigitte Lin), and the two wish to get married as soon as they possibly can. But Lo W...
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The House for Love
1982
The Switch
5.5/2
Taiwanese crime drama.
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The Switch
1975
Run Lover Run
0/0
Brigitte Lin stars as a young girl on the cusp of becoming a woman...a problem for her mother, who thinks it's about time that her daughter got hitche...
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Run Lover Run
1978
Love's Many Faces
0/0
An unusual tale about the love between a female cat-burglar and a university student.
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Love's Many Faces
1980
The Marigolds
0/0
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The Marigolds
1984
Be Careful Sweetheart
6.5/2
Taiwanese martial arts drama starring Brigitte Lin.
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Be Careful Sweetheart
1979
Return of Monsoon
0/0
Chia Yi is already engaged but she still feels lonely deep in her heart. She has a tough decision to make when her cousin confesses his admiration for...
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Return of Monsoon
1987
Flag of Honor
0/0
Hong Kong romance set in wartime
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Flag of Honor
1977
Orchid in the Rain
0/0
Love story about a man who falls for a cabaret hostess.
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Orchid in the Rain
1979
By Love Obsessed
0/0
While taking pictures in a remote forest, a young photographer encounters a beautiful, mysterious girl. The photographer soon discovers that the girl...
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By Love Obsessed
1998
Bishonen
6.389/18
Jet is a gay hustler who one night spots a young man walking with a woman, and falls for him instantly. He does some research, and discovers that the...
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Bishonen
1985
Seven Foxes
0/0
Billionaire Suen falls seriously ill, he hopes to find his only son who has been missing for twenty years to inherit his fortune. Meanwhile, he tells...
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Seven Foxes
1983
The Four Sheepish Dummies
0/0
Taiwanese comedy.
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The Four Sheepish Dummies
1980
Poor Chasers
0/0
Pairs of best college friends, Shen Jung (Brigitte Lin) and Li Lun-mei (Chelsia Chan); Chen Cheng-hsiung (Chin Han) and Fang Juei (Alan Tam) meet at t...
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Poor Chasers
1978
Morning Fog
0/0
In "Morning Fog", Brigitte Lin plays Tu Hsiao Meng, a spirited young woman who's had an unenviable life full of hard knocks. The daughter of a single...
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Morning Fog
1977
Love in My Heart
0/0
Taiwanese romance film.
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Love in My Heart
1982
Lily Under the Gun
0/0
In a valiant attempt to rescue her younger brother, a young woman goes head to head with a group of ruthless gangsters.
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Lily Under the Gun
1982
Burn Phoenix Burn
0/0
A young lady sacrificed her first love when she discovered her boyfriend had a crush on her younger sister whom she was guilt-ridden of her loss of ey...
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Burn Phoenix Burn
1975
Eight Hundred Heroes
6.6/12
As battle rages in Shanghai, a single battalion of soldiers led by Xie Jinyuan is ordered to hold back the Japanese forces at the Sihang warehouse. Gi...
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Eight Hundred Heroes
1975
The Unforgettable Character
5/1
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The Unforgettable Character
1975
Hot Wave
0/0
A taiwanese romance set during the summer starring Brigitte Lin.
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Hot Wave
1974
Girl Friend
0/0
An early Brigitte Lin Romance.
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Girl Friend
1974
Green Green Meadow
0/0
An early Brigitte Lin Romance.
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Green Green Meadow
1976
The Chasing Game
0/0
Mandarin movie about the romance of an undergraduate with the prettiest girl on campus.
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The Chasing Game
1979
The Wild Goose on the Wing
0/0
After studying drama in the UK, Tan-feng returns to Taiwan to investigate her sister's death. She suspects that her sister committed suicide because h...
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The Wild Goose on the Wing
1978
The Misty Moon
0/0
Brigitte Lin and Charlie Chin star in this Taiwanese drama about a kindergarten teacher who falls in love with a divorcee but leaves him because she t...
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The Misty Moon
1979
An Unforgettable Day
0/0
Taiwanese romantic drama set in a mining town starring Brigitte Lin.
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An Unforgettable Day
1983
Night Orchid
0/0
A secret society is out to ruin a nobleman’s reputation and destroy those closest to him while a swordsman returns to find himself embroiled in the pl...
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Night Orchid
1977
Cloud of Romance
5/1
TUAN Wan-lu is a naïve and carefree young woman raised in the family of a professor and doted on by her protective older brother and childhood friend...
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Cloud of Romance
1978
Birds Are Singing Everywhere
0/0
Taiwanese romance film.
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Birds Are Singing Everywhere
1974
Love, Love, Love
0/0
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Love, Love, Love
1974
News Hen
0/0
An early romantic comedy starring Brigitte Lin.
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News Hen
1974
Long Way from Home
0/0
A romantic melodrama starring Brigitte Lin.
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Long Way from Home
1975
The Life God
0/0
Tells the story of "Bao sheng da di"--A marvelous man who wanted to become a doctor so that he could save his mother's life.
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The Life God
1975
He Loved Once Too Many
0/0
An early drama starring Brigitte Lin.
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He Loved Once Too Many
1975
True Love
0/0
A romance.
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True Love
1977
The Love Affair of Rainbow
0/0
The son of a wealthy man married a peasant’s daughter against his family’s objection . When he became a successful author, his wife felt belittled and...
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The Love Affair of Rainbow
1979
A Love Seed
5/1
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A Love Seed
1979
Love Under a Rosy Sky
0/0
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Love Under a Rosy Sky
1978
The Story of Green House
0/0
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The Story of Green House
1980
Magnificent 72
0/0
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Magnificent 72
1976
Love By Post
0/0
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Love By Post
1992
Royal Tramp
7.034/104
The story of Wilson Bond, a pimp who after saving Chan, the leader of the Heaven and Earth society, a revolutionary group, is made a member. After a b...
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Royal Tramp
1983
The Great Surprise
0/0
Taiwanese comedy. A large diamond named "The Light of Shanghai" is given as a gift to the boss of Shanghai Beach, a local gang, and it triggers a bat...
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The Great Surprise
The Star
0/0
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The Star
1979
Off to Success
0/0
A group of youths undergo the hardships of military training.
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Off to Success
2009
Ashes of Time Redux
7/1
On the night when his lover (played by Maggie Cheung) married his elder brother in a fit of pique, Ouyang Feng (played by Leslie Cheung) left the Whit...
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