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蒂蒂日記 (1978)
Character: N/A
A young girl, her life in despair, finds confidence in life again through the encouragement of her lover and relatives.
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黑獄大逃亡 (1982)
Character: N/A
A historical thriller directed by Cheng Kang.
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不歸路 (1984)
Character: N/A
Taiwan Drama starring Ko Chun-Hsiung
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泡沫之夏 (2016)
Character: Dean of Luoxi Welfare Institute
Yin Xia Mo is torn between her rich boyfriend, Ou Chen, and the charismatic orphan Luo Xi, who would do anything to win her heart.
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花伴舞春風 (1980)
Character: N/A
Flower Just Smile in the Spring Breeze is a Taiwanese Romance starring Alan Tam
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事事如意 (1972)
Character: N/A
It tells the story of Long Baonian, an entrepreneur who owns tourist hotels and tour bus companies, from his youth to old age and his recollections of the past.
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葡萄成熟時 (1970)
Character: N/A
The film depicts Ge Xiangting and Gui Yalei as an old couple with a psychological barrier between the two after their marriage, which turns into a series of ups and downs in their married life, portraying the conflicting love lives of the old couple under the age gap.
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沙家十五女英豪 (1981)
Character: N/A
Taiwanese adventure film that reunites Ivy Ling Po with ex-Shaw stars Ching Li and Lisa Chiao Chiao.
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Ren gui hu (1969)
Character: N/A
Tells the story of people, ghosts and foxes between a poignant love story.
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風水二十年 (1983)
Character: Kuei Ya-mei
The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
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庭院深深 (1971)
Character: N/A
A girl who weds her love against her wishes repents after their daughter is born and her decision makes her husband leave her. He returns 10 years later to see the child.
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煙雨濛濛 (1965)
Character: Lu Yi-ping
Adaptation of Chiung Yao's novel "Fire and Rain".
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不敢跟你講 (1969)
Character: N/A
A student secretly works a night job to pay off his father’s gambling debts, and as a result constantly dozes off during classes in the day. When the teacher investigates, a series of family disputes ensues. This is MOU’s first film after graduating from Taiwan Art College. When it was first shown, it drew much criticism and debate.
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晚間新聞 (1980)
Character: Lin Ko-Ching
Shih-Yen is upset about Ko-Ching prioritizing her career over their marriage and even getting an abortion without his knowledge. To express discontent, Shih-Yen moves in with his mistress. Despite feeling overwhelmed by her messy personal life, Ko-Ching manages to lead her company and delivers a successful fashion show. The film reflects on career women’s struggles between family and work, it also describes the gender role stereotypes in a marriage. Although the film demonstrates clearly women’s difficult role in society, it still chooses to show the possibility of women being independent, capable and charming to refute the status quo of patriarchy.
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天倫樂 (1973)
Character: N/A
A very good student, Stone helped his mother at the salt field. After the death of his mother, Stone learned that his father, Ta Hua, president of the Ta Hua Enterprises walked out on his pregnant mother and married Ming Fang.
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佛祖降魔 (1970)
Character: N/A
Taiwanese horror movie from 1970.
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Inferno Thunderbolt (1985)
Character: (archive footage)
A young beautiful woman goes undercover into a wealthy powerful crime family to investigate and avenge her younger sister's tragic death.
Cut-and-paste transformation of Taiwanese movie "The Anger" a.k.a. "Shi Jie" (original title; 1982) directed by Richard Chen Yao-Chi with new Hong Kong footage.
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Lang zi di shi san (1977)
Character: N/A
For a movie with kung fu right there in the title this one sure takes it's time before we even get to any fight scenes. For the first half hour or so it's all heavy melodrama about a guy seeking revenge for his dead father and his mom's disappointment with him for not getting it and generally for being such a loser. When we finally get to some fighting there are some weird choices including one of the end fight scenes being just a series of stills shown over some music.
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沙灘上的月亮 (1978)
Character: N/A
An unusual tale about the love between a female cat-burglar and a university student.
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恋爱反斗星 (1980)
Character: N/A
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 the tennis courts. Fang Juei likes the ebullient Li Lun-mei, but after hearing the contemplative Cheng-hsiung at a school concert, is smitten by his talents and looks. However, as fate would have it, Cheng-hsiung is after the studious and gentler Shen Jung.
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深情比酒濃 (1967)
Character: Hsu Hsiao-Ching
A romance that was destined to be, becomes altered by a man's insecurity and a woman's pride. Will their love stand the test of time?
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謊島美人魚 (2025)
Character: N/A
Online movie critic known for his sharp reviews, has now become an AI to dish the dirt on the latest cinematic disaster, "The Mermaid Falls for Me." A struggling writer who's close to his mom, stumbles into an online romance with a fan of his work. He thinks he's hit the jackpot in love and heads to an island for a mix of business and pleasure. But when his internet sweetheart is a no-show and his writing gig goes south, He's left high and dry. That's when he unexpectedly connects with Wen, his innkeeper, who's actually his online crush in disguise—a woman healing from a broken heart through her anonymous internet persona. Wen, once shy and lacking confidence, comes alive with the writer’s flirty chats. The writer inspired by Wen, invites her to co-write a new spin on the tired mermaid story. But as they finish, life throws a wrench in the works: His mom falls ill. In the emotional chaos, he finds out Wen was his mystery girl all along. He reacts badly, and Wen leaves, heartbroken.
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玻璃眼球 (1969)
Character: N/A
Taiwanese horror movie from 1969.
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忘憂草 (1979)
Character: N/A
The son of a wealthy businessman (Alan Tam) sees Yun Bai (Lin Feng-Jiao) at an art exhibition for the very first time and falls in love with her. Soon he finds out that Yun Bai doesn't like men who are lazy and who don't have to do anything for their money. Hsiao Chi (Alan Tam) wants to do whatever he has to do to get this wonderful girl and is lying to her that he's a poor artist. Yun Bai falls in love with him and now he wants to reveal his real identity. But how can he do it without losing her again?
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真假太太 (1971)
Character: Hsu Mu Cheng
Taiwanese romantic comedy.
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三朵花 (1970)
Character: Pai Chieh-Chun
The story is about three nurses, Bai Jiejun, Huang Siman and Lu Xiaoya, who are in love and in pursuit of a new doctor, Fan Erkang, at Hongkang Hospital.
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結婚三級跳 (1979)
Character: N/A
The Funny Couple is a Taiwanese Romantic Comedy starring Alan Tam
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蓋世奇花 (1981)
Character: Happy Fairy
A female ninja avenges her mother's death.
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寒山飛狐 (1982)
Character: Lady Shang
A marriage between nobles in Ancient China sets the stage for murder, monsters, and mutilation as the invited guests search for a secret hidden treasure. A search that leads them through dark evil forests, opulent palaces, and each other! When two sick and twisted killers enter the fray it is up to our hat wearing hero to straighten things out and put the warlords, henchmen, and evil ninja six feet under! But is he working for the law, or himself?
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摧花者死 (1983)
Character: N/A
Ah-feng is a teenager who is raped by her Mother's boyfriend. Following her subsequent pregnancy she decides to seek revenge.
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女兵日記 (1975)
Character: N/A
Taiwanese war film directed by Li Chia.
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饮食男女2012 (2012)
Character: Bai Ping
Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, the present day. Master chef Tang Shizhe (Kenneth Tsang) tells his two daughters, the careerist Wa'er (Huo Siyan) and teenage Xiaolan (Jiang Mengjie), that he has decided to sell his upscale vegetarian restaurant, the centre of his life for 30 years.
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中國女兵 (1981)
Character: N/A
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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新目蓮救母 (1982)
Character: N/A
Three generations of the Luo family fasted and chanted Buddha's name. However, Mr. Luo died young. Luo's mother complained and began to kill animals and eat meat. When Luo Bu grew up, her family property was wiped out by her uncle. Oppose and remarry someone else. After Luo's mother died, she went to hell. Luo Bu received God's instructions and followed Pratyekabuddha to practice, and his Dharma name was Mulian. However, because he could not bear the suffering of his mother in hell, he broke into the underworld to rescue his mother. After all the hardships, he finally felt the Buddha's will. Let Mother Luo be reincarnated.
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重返20岁 (2015)
Character: Shen Mengjun
A visit to the photographer's returns the physical looks of a 70-year-old grandmother back to her 20s. Things get even stranger when his grandson asks her to join his band, and his best friend begins to fall for her.
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春寒 (1979)
Character: N/A
This wartime romantic melodrama set in the mountains of Yilan during the final days of WWII. Young and free-spirited Shiow-lan (Feng Fei-fei) falls in love at first sight with Charng-rong (Liang Hsiu-shen), a worker at her father’s lumber mill. She likes to sing, he likes to write music. With their parents' approval, the two decide to get married but their plans are thwarted by Japanese lieutenant Herng-shan who has set his eyes on Shiow-lan. Herng-shan drafts Charng-rong and sends him to war in Southeast Asia where almost certain death awaits.
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燃燒吧，火鳥 (1982)
Character: N/A
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 eyesight since childhood days. Years later, when she found her new love, her relationship with her new boyfriend was again put to test when he saw her blind but beautiful sister...
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未婚媽媽 (1980)
Character: Madam Pai
Hsiao-Peng, an unmarried mother is sent to a maternity home for young single mothers. During her time in the maternity home, she slowly overcomes the depressive thoughts and builds strong bonds with Wen-Yueh, Ko-Hsin, and Madam Pai. After moving out the maternity home, Hsiao-Peng lives with Wen-Yueh and Ko-Hsin in an apartment where they continue to be each other’s support. The two main settings of the film, the maternity home and the apartment, build an atypical family model. It is a tender coming-of-age tale where women are empowered with the right to think for themselves.
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旗正飄飄 (1987)
Character: N/A
Hong Kong romance set in wartime
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Beneath the Banyan Tree (2021)
Character: Jia-Rong Woo
After her son is jailed, a Chinese mother with high expectations struggles to protect her family's remaining reputation by parenting her independent daughter, whom she must seek shelter from in the U.S. with her son's two unmanageable adolescents.
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云水谣 (2006)
Character: 王碧云（老年）
They fell in love; Chen Qiushui was 20. Wang Biyun was 18. When Qiushui fled Taiwan after the 228 Massacre, Biyun gave him a gold engagement ring and they promised to meet again. Qiushui served as an army doctor during the Korean War, where he met Wang Jindi, a nurse from Shanghai who fell in love with him instantly. Years had gone by, Qiushui married Jindi and settled in Tibet. While in Taiwan, Biyun buried Qiushui's mother and continued to pray for his return. Flashback to modern time, Biyun is living in New York. Her niece played by Isabella Leong, a writer, has travelled to Tibet to find out what happened to Qiushui. Through the pictures she sends back via internet, Biyun finally gets to see the familiar face once again.
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囍宴 (1993)
Character: Mrs. Gao
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.
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自梳 (1997)
Character: Auntie Foon - Aged Wan
Foon escapes an arranged marriage by walking the road of a Ji Sor. After an affair with Shing, she becomes pregnant. An attempted abortion nearly costs Foon her life. Wan, the young owner of a silk factory, rescues her. Wan and Foon share their romances, reflecting the experience of women during the 40's.
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聚散兩依依 (1981)
Character: Chung Tsui-wei
Kao Han (Kenny Bee) and Pan-yun (Xiu-ling Lu) meet for the first time as strangers in a pet shop. It is destiny that they meet a second time and Kao Han takes a chance in this second meeting to pursue Pan-yun. Pan-yun is reluctant to get involved with Kao Han because she still thinks about and love her late-husband and also her late-husband's niece, Ko-hui (Lan-xi), is in love with Kao Han. Reluctantly and unwillingly Pan-yun falls for Kao Han but their love is not so easily obtained.
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拿摩一等 (2019)
Character: Grandmother
In the context of China's urbanization, a young man faces existential difficulties and decides to rewrite his life.
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夜奔 (2000)
Character: Wei's Mother
Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters, each involved with a performance of the opera Fleeing by Night in a local theatre.
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嫁到宮中的男人 (1990)
Character: N/A
Forbidden Imperial Tales is a Taiwan History movie
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候鳥 (2001)
Character: Chen's Mom
Fong, a Taiwanese woman has relocated to Canada with her husband Kwok. Fong suspects that Kowk is cheating on her on his regular business trips to Taiwan.
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奇蹟 (1989)
Character: Lady Rose / Ms. Kao
A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.
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滿月酒 (2015)
Character: Ma
Danny, a Taiwanese-American man, and his partner Tate want to have a baby, but the complex world of international surrogacy is further complicated by Danny's well-meaning but extremely meddlesome mother.
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小猪佩奇过大年 (2019)
Character: Grandma
Tang Yuan, Jiao Zi and their family enjoy Chinese New Year together, learning about traditions, and sharing Peppa Pig stories.
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脂粉奇兵 (1982)
Character: N/A
A story of two friends on the opposite side of the law.
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女儿红 (1995)
Character: 周花雕（老年）
To celebrate his newborn baby girl, an old wine brewer made a bottle of Maiden Rose for her future marriage. Eighteen years later, the girl was already a beautiful woman and fall in love with a youngster. However, her father was unhappy with their romance, though she had been pregnant. Fifty years passed by, three women of three generations finally had a chance to drink that bottle of Maiden Rose.
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蕃薯浇米 (2020)
Character: N/A
Widow Lin Xiumei realizes that soon after both of her sons have left home, she changes into someone who was once “needed” to an “irrelevant” person, which causes a painful confusion for her. The sudden death of Qing Er, her only friend who is 10 years younger than her, sends yet another shockwave to her. She decides to prove her worth and importance once again in her 70s before she is taken by death. With the help from others, including the guidance from Qing Er’s ghost, and the instructions from the “Goddess”, Lin Xiumei takes on an impossible mission. Will she regain the care from her family? Will she successfully find her lost self?
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飲食男女 (1994)
Character: 梁伯母
Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each daughter encounters a new man in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes.
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今天不回家 (1996)
Character: Mrs. Chen
The Chen family contagiousness extends to taking on an extra-marital affair. Gua Ah-leh is at the movie's centre: she shines as Lung's wife, who finds she has a thing or two to learn from the gigolo after Lung blithely. Lang Hisung plays old dentist for broad comedy he is sixty years old.
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百戰保山河 (1978)
Character: N/A
Immortal Warriors is a Taiwanese Martial Arts movie.
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冬暖 (1969)
Character: A Chin
The winters in Northern China could become rather bitter and harsh especially if one must endure it alone. Hoping to spend his last winter in solitude, a timid man must declare his love for his sweetheart before her family forces her to be married off.
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皇天后土 (1981)
Character: N/A
Story of a US-educated scientist who returned to China, and suffered during the years of the Cultural Revolution.
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苦戀 (1982)
Character: N/A
In 1949 when the Communist regime was established in China, the world-famed painter Ling Chen-kuang, believing his conviction for a new-born society had come true on his motherland, returned anxiously from the U.S., whither he had fled apprehension by lawmen when cracking down on rebellious activities he had actively engaged in out of cynicism and hostility – the feelings evolved from constant haunting by the memories of his childhood miserableness – to the then existing institutions in China. Alas, to his disillusion, the land he had so deeply loved, the society of which he had expected so much, should have turned out to be the hell on earth. Why? The enigma kept obsessing and puzzling him even to his dying moment.
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