Mei Fang
Also Known As: Fang Mei, 梅芳, Mui Fong, Mooi Fong, Liao Chun-Mei
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Taichung, Taiwan
Birthday: May 30, 1936
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Gender: Female
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Three Times
Overview: In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2005-05-20
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Golden Fists of a Duo
Overview: A crime drama directed by Cheung Chi-Chiu.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Good Men, Good Women
Overview: An actress preparing to play in a historical epic is terrorized by someone faxing her pages from her stolen diary; has colorful flashbacks of her affair with a now-deceased man; and imagines black-and-white film-within-a-film scenes of the movie she is about to appear in.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-05-13
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Dust in the Wind
Overview: A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, and so do they. They fail to see time and fate are beyond their control.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1986-05-09
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Nature Is Quietly Beautiful
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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North South West East
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Digger The Suona Player
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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A Flower in the Rainy Night
Overview: A girl, who was sold by her stepfather at the age of 14, has had been a prostitute for 14 years. Her family, despite enjoying a comfortable life with her help, avoids her. She thus decides to have a son of her own and succeeds by sheer determination. She is now hopeful that her son will have a life better than hers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1983-10-07
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10 Plus 10
Overview: 10+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are invited to make a 5-minute short film each on the theme of the “Uniqueness of Taiwan,” but allowed total freedom in all other aspects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-11-04
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Play While You Play
Overview: A photographer travels with her boyfriend to a seaside village in Penghu. There she strikes up a relationship with a blind man. When they reencounter one another back in Taipei, where he is preparing to undergo an operation to restore his sight, their connection intensifies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-11-18
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Cute Girl
Overview: The daughter of a wealthy man takes French lessons so she can go to France with her fiancée, but ends up falling for a poor man who studies civil engineering.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Green, Green Grass of Home
Overview: A substitute teacher from Taipei arrives in a country village to teach a class of mischievous students. He soon falls in love with nature, country life and a fellow teacher at the school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Jiaoren Of The South China Sea
Overview: On Chen Ah Shui's wedding night, his bride was kidnapped by a jiaoren, the merpeople from Chinese mythology who produce pearls from tears. He promises the village chief to capture one alive. He sets sail to a small island in the South China Sea and finds out the true reason for the jiaoren's violence toward humans.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-17
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Love Comes from the Sea
Overview: Romantic drama by Karen Yang Chia-Yun
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-11-22
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Farewell to the Channel
Overview: A young man is pulled into crime and then murder. He falls in love with a beautiful young prostitute who sells herself to a brothel to pay off his debts. When the young man tries to buy her contract from the brothel owner, he kills one of the bosses' thugs in a fight. A crime syndicate that the young man willingly affiliated himself with failed. Now on the run from both criminals and the police, the star-crossed lovers flee through Taiwan. A powerful morality tale, the film exposes the dangers of the underworld economy, and the ubiquity of crime and violence on the island.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1987-04-01
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A City of Sadness
Overview: The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror", mainland China's political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government in the late 1940s.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1989-10-21
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The Assassin
Overview: 9th century China. Ten year old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed in a task, she is sent back by her mistress to the land of her birth, with orders to kill the man to whom she was promised – a cousin who now leads the largest military region in North China. After 13 years of exile, the young woman must confront her parents, her memories and her long-repressed feelings.
Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-08-27
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A Centennial of Railways of ROC
Overview: A film produced by Taiwan Film Studio, which celebrated for the centenary of Chinese railroading.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-07-01
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Orz Boyz
Overview: More than just naughty, they play tricks on classmates, tease girls at school, fight with other boys, and lie to everyone until their teacher breaks down. They are named Liar No. 1 and Liar No. 2. The most important act planned in their life is to go to the mysterious water park, where they can leap through the portal at the end of the water slide to the fairy-tale world OZ and live as grown-ups happily ever after. However, the commitment is torn by a careless betrayal.
Genres: Fantasy Family Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2008-09-05
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A Summer at Grandpa's
Overview: A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1984-11-24
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The Time to Live and the Time to Die
Overview: An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's memories of his youth growing up in Taiwan after emigrating from mainland China.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1985-08-03
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The Warning of Taiwan Strait War
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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That Day, on the Beach
Overview: Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1983-04-11
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Drunken Fish, Drunken Frog, Drunken Crab
Overview: Rare drunken film, featuring Alan Liu and Hsu Buh Liao: as two likable swordsmen, who get injured by the white haired general whilst trying to save a young damsel in distress. As they recoup they invent seafood boxing to prepare them for the inevitable duel with the white haired general
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-12-22
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An Unforgettable Day
Overview: Taiwanese romantic drama set in a mining town starring Brigitte Lin.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-11-29
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The Missing People
Overview: An insight into the lives of young prostitutes and a drug addict.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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棒槌萝卜狗
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-02-22
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Rail Truck
Overview: A tale of two islands and growing up as a stranger in a strange land, told with an artistry that recalls Hou Hsiao-Hsien at his best. Based on Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story of the same title (1922), Kawaguchi’s film moves the original early 20th-century Izu Peninsula to present-day Taiwan, where the strength of family ties is singularly put to the test. Yumiko (Machiko Ono), who married against her parents' wishes, has struggled on in stubborn determination since her husband’s death, moving her family from their Tokyo home to the verdant, rural Taiwan village of her in-laws. Her son Atsushi, strongly conscious that in ethnocentric Japan he is "different," is in a state of rebellion against both the society in which he has grown up and his mother. In their new home the family rediscovers the bonds that unite it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-22
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Somewhere I Have Never Travelled
Overview: Color blind girl A-Kuei feels alienated and misunderstood. She is raised by her grandmother who would rather believe she is possessed than hear her feelings. The only person in the village who understands her is her bookworm cousin A-Hsien. He tells her that there is an island far away in the South Pacific where everyone is also color blind due to a genetic mutation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-09-11
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Laugh for 24 Hours
Overview: Bong-tshio is your ordinary countryside grandma, raising four kids in an impoverished environment; however, the kids that grew up and started their own families do not respect her, fostering her in turns for one month, while bargaining with each other about the number of days in different months. But the optimistic Bong-tshio always just laughed it off. Until one day, she got lost and wandered into a police station, and then accidentally won the top prize of the lottery. Her children began to look for her desperately, rushing back to their old place in the countryside, and kicked off a ridiculous competition of filial piety.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-04-23
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Cop Abula
Overview: Cop Abula arrests a pregnant illegal immigrant, Xiao Qing, who came from mainland China to look for the father of her baby. Upon arrest, Xiao Qing gives birth to a baby girl in the police station, causing disorder in the place. Abula takes care of her and even helps to search for the father. On the other hand, Abula has to face other worries, like the problem between him and his son, Ah Yi. In addition, there is the Mafia who makes life difficult for Abula as he refuses to accept bribery. In the end, Abula resorts to the improper way of solving the problem, resulting in a hilarious ending to the story.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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