Hsu Shu-Yuan
Also Known As: 徐淑媛, Vina Chui, Hsa Shu-Yuang, Hsu Shu-Yuan, Shuyuan Xu, Chui Suk-Woon, Xu Vina, Hsu Shu-Yuen, Vivian, Joyce Tsui, Xu Shuyuan
Biography: A celebrated model renowned for her tall frame and cool outlook. Hsu turned up the heat when she posed provocatively on the cover of 'Playboy' magazine's Taiwanese edition, following the footsteps of local celebrities as Guo Jing-chun, Yeung Sze-man, Carol Cheng, Luo Wan-yi, Yu Ke-xin and Xu Le-mei. Hsu moved to Hong Kong in 1985 and starred in various films such as 'Twisted Love', 'Hong Kong Godfather', 'The Missed Date' and 'The Seventh Curse'. She had also appeared in drama serials for Taiwan Television Enterprise (TTV). She married in 1998, withdrew from the limelight and lives in the United States.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Republic of China (Taiwan)
Birthday: December 01, 1959
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Lee See Fung
Overview: Crime drama.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Yi Yi
Overview: Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother-in-law is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2000-09-20
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The Last Night of Madam Chin
Overview: Set in Shanghai in the 1940s. Story of a ballroom girl Jolie Chan who falls in love with a student and becomes pregnant, but the student's family force her to have an abortion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1984-11-08
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The Missed Date
Overview: Glamorous Mei builds her entire life around husband Philip, an advertising executive and faithless twerp. She suspects him of fooling around when he pleads working late and having to entertain important clients, and talks this over with Ling, who has a 'modern' relationship with lawyer Ben. Mei is flattered by the attention of Ling's suave cousin Peter, but resists his advances, until confronted by seeing Philip with a lecherous female client. Will Mei retaliate in kind?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-05-24
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Evil Cat
Overview: Every 50 years a cat demon has to be killed by a Cheung family member until the body-hopping feline demon's 9 lives are up. This time it falls on the shoulders of Master Cheung. He is afraid of cancer killing him before he can stop the demonic force, so when Long comes to him after his boss gets possessed, he tries teaching him his family's Mao Shan magic hoping to pass it onto him since Cheung's bloodline stops with himself.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Seventh Curse
Overview: When Dr. Yuen attempts to rescue a girl about to be sacrificed by the Worm Tribe in the middle of a jungle in Thailand, he is damned with seven 'blood curses' and must return there to find a permanent cure.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-11-22
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Jam
Overview: The lives of two young thieves, a mob hitman and a film producer are entangled when the two thieves steal a car that had already been previously stolen to been used as a getaway car.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1998-07-04
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Zhong Guo kai guo qi tan
Overview: The film is composed of four unconnected Chinese myths, including how Pangu opened the sky, Nuwa created man, Kuafu chased the sun, and when Huangdi fights Chiyou, of which the latter occupies the longest section. Between the stories, the director connects them with narrations "full of sensibility and philosophy", thus forming a "picture of the founding of the ancestors" imagined by the director.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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Lake Sprite
Overview: Aming travels to his home from America to take some photos for a company but finds a girl named Chiang Jo Ping (Joey Wang), falls in love with her, but actually it turns out that Jo Ping is a ghost.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Hong Kong Godfather
Overview: After receiving a life imprisonment sentence for a NY Chinatown massacre, Jia Shi Lan, alias Hei Lan, obtains a pardon through the Mafia's influence. Returning to Hong Kong, Hei Lan attempts to use the stature and fortitude of Brother Han, an elder, but good-natured underworld boss, to gain power and spread the Mafia's influence throughout Southeast Asia. After a deadly double cross leaves many of Han's society dead, two former members, one a cop, the other a florist, and the sole remaining loyalist join forces to bring down the criminal empire of Hei Lan.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-10-27
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Twisted Love
Overview: A wealthy businessman gives his wife everything she wants, besides one thing, a passionate sex life. The sexually frustrated woman soon gets into several other relationships and soon also learns why her husband is so uninterested with her in bed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1985-09-26
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Split of the Spirit
Overview: A ghost takes over a dancer's body in order to find those who killed her, and thus her revenge.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1987-05-14
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Love Me Vampire
Overview: The oriental answer to USA's Fright Night movie, but there's more concentration on the high school motif similiar to the Hong Kong Happy Ghost series.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-11-27
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Vampire's Breakfast
Overview: Story about a newspaper reporter who stumbles upon a nest of vampires living in contemporary hong kong.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-04-16
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The Ghost Snatchers
Overview: Vengeful spirits of Japanese soldiers from World War II haunt a new high-rise office building in Hong Kong.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-09-30
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Monkey War
Overview: In the Chinese martial arts/fantasy opus Monkey War: New Pilgrims to the West - a sequel to the original Monkey War - the brave Monkey King launches out on a quest to build a new life for himself. But as he marches westward, he encounters a series of nearly insurmountable foes (including a pig demon and a horde of angry demonic spirits who attempt to eat his monastic tutor) and trials that he must overcome to reach a state of tranquility. (Rotten Tomatoes)
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-08-14
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Virago
Overview: Two groups of knife-wielding and kicking women in bikinis join forces to kill a gang boss responsible for killing their fathers. But they're not very effective. After three attacks on the culprit, the worst damage he suffered was having his ankle run over by a motorbike. Closer co-operation with a casino boss may help.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The Imperial Sword Killing the Devil
Overview: Five men venture into a hidden cave to find a treasure map. After they have encountered the dangers of the cave (body melting acid, a flying mini-dragon, living skeletons...), the two last survivors finally find the treasure map inside a golden Buddha. One of them falls into a pit and the other gets caught by ninjas as he tries to escape with the map while the cave explodes. After escaping from the ninjas, he meets a princess to learn the imperial sword technique in order to defeat the devil!
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Funny Face
Overview: A comedy about a couple of poor-looking people who take part in a TV matchmaking programme.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1984-07-21
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Young Soldiers
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1989-07-08
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