Brigitte Lin

Born: 1954-11-03

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brigitte Lin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Chungking Express

as Woman in Blonde Wig
Released: 1994-07-14

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the...

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Police Story

as Selina Fong
Released: 1985-12-14

Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically...

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The Legend of the Swordsman

as Dung Fong Bat Bai
Released: 1992-06-26

Ling Wu Chung decides to hide from the chaotic world. Before leaving, he visits his friends, a...

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Ashes of Time

as Murong Yang / Murong Yin
Released: 1994-09-17

Ouyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days in the desert, connecting...

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Royal Tramp 2

as Divine Lady of Dragon Sect
Released: 1992-09-24

Following on from the Royal Tramp I, after discovering that the Empress is actually Lone-er, a...

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Swordsman III: The East Is Red

as Dung Fong Bat Bai
Released: 1993-08-04

A royal official accompanies a Portuguese warship to the Black Cliffs to see the site of the...

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The Eagle Shooting Heroes

as Third Princess
Released: 1993-02-05

A power struggle between the Queen's treasonous lover and a princess occurs amid musical...

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Peking Opera Blues

as Tsao Wan
Released: 1986-09-06

The film is set in 1913 Beijing, during Yuan Shikai's presidency of the Republic of China. It...

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Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain

as Ice Queen
Released: 1983-02-05

In the fifth century, constant civil war scars western China. To escape death, Ti, a young...

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Royal Tramp

as Divine Lady of Dragon Sect
Released: 1992-07-30

The story of Wilson Bond, a pimp who after saving Chan, the leader of the Heaven and Earth...

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Dragon Inn

as Yau Mo-yan
Released: 1992-08-22

During the Ming Dynasty, Tsao Siu-yan, a power-crazed eunuch who rules his desert region of...

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Fantasy Mission Force

as Lily
Released: 1983-02-13

A force of loners and fighters is put together to try and rescue the generals and save the war...

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The Bride with White Hair

as Lien Ni Chang
Released: 1993-08-26

The sensitive swordsman Cho Yi-Hang is tired of his life. He is the unwilling successor to the...

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The Thirty Million Dollar Rush

as Sister Maria
Released: 1987-07-02

Treasury employee Fatty (Eric Tsang) discovered that bags of used 30 million in Hong Kong...

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The Bride with White Hair 2

as Lien Ni Chang
Released: 1993-12-22

For ten years, Cho has been in the snow of Mount Shin Fung waiting for a rare flower to blossom...

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Deadful Melody

as Snow
Released: 1994-01-08

A young security man must prove himself worthy by defending the one object wanted by all the...

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Handsome Siblings

as More
Released: 1992-12-11

One hundred seventy years ago, a wise monk made a section of land known as the Villians Valley,...

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Red Dust

as Shen Shao-Hua
Released: 1990-11-23

Stretching across the canvas of the Sino-Japanese War of the 30s, the subsequent Japanese...

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Ashes of Time Redux

as Murong Yang / Murong Yin / Dugu Qiubai
Released: 2009-03-26

Ashes of Time Redux is inspired by Louis Cha's novel "The Eagle-Shooting Heroes." It centers on...

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Boys Are Easy

as Ching Siu Tung
Released: 1993-08-12

A man wants to see his three daughters get married.

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Peony Pavilion

as Narrator
Released: 2001-12-07

In the 1930s, a songstress courtesan finds herself in a confusing relationship with her cousin...

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The Black Panther Warriors

as Chin Chin
Released: 1993-11-18

A group of specialists are recruited to steal from a police station.

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One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2021-04-02

Tracing the beginnings of Jet Tone Films, which was founded in 1991 by Wong Kar Wai for the...

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Love Massacre

as Ivy
Released: 1981-03-26

The boyfriend of a young co-ed turns into a demented stalker after his sister's suicide.

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Bishonen

as Narrator
Released: 1998-08-14

Jet is a gay hustler who one night spots a young man walking with a woman, and falls for him...

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The Dream of the Red Chamber

as Jia Baoyu
Released: 1977-10-26

Pao-yu is in love with his cousin, Lin Tai-yu, but his family has other marital plans for him...

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Fire Dragon

as Lily
Released: 1983-09-02

A Team of Prisoners, famous thieves and great fighters are assembled by a shadowy government...

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Seven Black Heroines

as Black Fox
Released: 1983-05-19

A group of women with various criminal skills are thrown into prison during World War 2. They...

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The Three Swordsmen

as Ming Jian / Sword
Released: 1994-07-15

Samurai and Smiling Sam are two famous martial arts masters in Central China. On the night...

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The Unforgettable Character

as Tu Hsiao-Shuang
Released: 1975-06-05

The Unforgettable Character is a 1975 Taiwanese romantic drama film directed by Chang Mei-chun...

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The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains

as Li Chou-Shui / Li Chong-Hoi
Released: 1994-03-05

Legend has it that in a faraway place beyond the edge of the earth, there exists a...

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Web of Deception

as Jane Lin
Released: 1989-10-05

Jane is unknowingly being blackmailed by her co-worker May. When May's roommate Queenie needs a...

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Fire Dragon

as Ha / Fire Dragon
Released: 1994-08-13

Rebel fighter Yuen Ming (Max Mok) must protect an important letter with content that can expose...

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Dream Lovers

as Cheung Yuet-Heung
Released: 1986-04-25

Chow Yun-Fat and Brigitte Lin have their incredible talents used to the hilt in this romantic...

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Eight Hundred Heroes

as Yang Hui Min
Released: 1975-07-10

As battle rages in Shanghai, a single battalion of soldiers led by Xie Jinyuan is ordered to...

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Lady in Black

as May
Released: 1987-01-11

Kin Seng (Leung Ka Fai) falls into big debts in the gambling house. He persuades his loving...

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The Other Side of Gentleman

as Jo Jo
Released: 1984-06-28

As part of a sociology experiment, Brigitte Lin tries to get lower-class playboy Alan Tam to...

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Misty Drizzle

as uncredited
Released: 1975-03-28

A divorced entrepreneur (Yueh Yang) and his handsome partner (Charlie Chin) both fall for the...

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All the Wrong Spies

as Bridget
Released: 1983-03-31

In Hong Kong, Circa 1940s, World War II, private detective Yoyo and friend Inspector Teddy Robin...

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The Love Affair of Rainbow

as Xiao Hong
Released: 1977-01-01

The son of a wealthy man married a peasant’s daughter against his family’s objection . When he...

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Love, Love, Love

as Lin Chunchun
Released: 1974-06-28

Love, Love, Love is a Taiwanese film, released in 1974 by Central Motion Pictures Corporation...

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Magnificent 72

as uncredited
Released: 1980-06-11

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Starry Is the Night

as To Caimei
Released: 1988-10-13

As Cai Mei, a single 40 year old woman and a social worker starts a relationship with a...

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Long Way from Home

as uncredited
Released: 1974-02-20

A romantic melodrama starring Brigitte Lin.

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Love of the White Snake

as White Snake
Released: 1978-09-15

This early Brigitte Lin film is based on the same Chinese folk tale that Tsui Hark later used as...

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Gone with the Cloud

as uncredited
Released: 1974-02-06

After the death of her parents, a young woman (Tang Bao Yun) is forced to work as a barmaid to...

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By Love Obsessed

as uncredited
Released: 1979-10-25

While taking pictures in a remote forest, a young photographer encounters a beautiful,...

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Love Under a Rosy Sky

as Tsai Chin
Released: 1979-12-13

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Different Love

as Sung Hsiao Yu
Released: 1976-04-17

Brigitte Lin is Sung Hsiao Yu, a young girl in love with Wen Hsing Yu (Charlie Chin), a botanist...

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Cloud of Romance

as Tuan Wanlu
Released: 1977-02-20

TUAN Wan-lu is a naïve and carefree young woman raised in the family of a professor and doted on...

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Night Orchid

as Su-su
Released: 1983-01-01

A secret society is out to ruin a nobleman’s reputation and destroy those closest to him while a...

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Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land

as Yun Zhifan
Released: 1992-02-14

Two drama companies happened to share one auditorium for rehearsal. Friction was inevitable. One...

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Flag of Honor

as uncredited
Released: 1987-10-07

Hong Kong romance set in wartime

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Pink Force Commando

as Jackal
Released: 1982-01-01

In a world where cowboys coexist with Chinese thugs, Arab swordsmen, Nazi troops, Klansmen and...

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The Women Soldiers

as uncredited
Released: 1981-08-27

Four girls graduate from high school with the hope of joining the army, even though that may...

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Lily Under the Gun

as Lily
Released: 1982-01-01

In a valiant attempt to rescue her younger brother, a young woman goes head to head with a group...

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True Colours

as May
Released: 1986-12-18

Lung and Wong are buddies in their ferocious youth. Lung fled from his motherland to escape a...

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The Wild Goose on the Wing

as Tao Tan-feng
Released: 1979-03-24

After studying drama in the UK, Tan-feng returns to Taiwan to investigate her sister's death....

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My Funny Intern

as uncredited
Released: 1976-08-04

Alan Tang plays a famous soccer coach who comes down with the flu. He goes to a clinic for help...

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Be Careful Sweetheart

as uncredited
Released: 1984-01-25

Taiwanese martial arts drama starring Brigitte Lin.

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Outside the Window

as Chiang Yen Yung
Released: 1973-08-24

Brigitte Lin's debut film is a melodrama in which her character gets involved in a socially...

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Run Lover Run

as Hsu Li Ping
Released: 1975-10-24

Brigitte Lin stars as a young girl on the cusp of becoming a woman...a problem for her mother,...

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The Chasing Game

as uncredited
Released: 1976-08-25

Mandarin movie about the romance of an undergraduate with the prettiest girl on campus.

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The House for Love

as Xiao Yu
Released: 1974-11-08

Lo Wen (Chin Han) is enamored of his college sweetheart Xiao Yu (Brigitte Lin), and the two wish...

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Forever My Love

as uncredited
Released: 1976-03-27

Alan Tang plays an engineering student in Taipei, Taiwan who meets and falls in love with...

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Burn Phoenix Burn

as Wei Yen-jan
Released: 1982-01-25

A young lady sacrificed her first love when she discovered her boyfriend had a crush on her...

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Love By Post

as uncredited
Released: 1976-09-25

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Green Green Meadow

as uncredited
Released: 1974-12-20

An early Brigitte Lin Romance.

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He Loved Once Too Many

as uncredited
Released: 1975-08-30

An early drama starring Brigitte Lin.

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Birds Are Singing Everywhere

as uncredited
Released: 1978-07-08

Taiwanese romance film.

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An Unforgettable Day

as Tien Yu-Chiu
Released: 1979-11-29

Taiwanese romantic drama set in a mining town starring Brigitte Lin.

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The Autumn Love Song

as Zhi Jun
Released: 1976-01-31

When a rich guy met a poor gal and fell in love, his authoritative father disapproved of their...

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Moon River

as uncredited
Released: 1974-01-01

Romantic film starring Brigitte Lin.

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Love in My Heart

as uncredited
Released: 1977-06-21

Taiwanese romance film.

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Poor Chasers

as Shen Jung
Released: 1980-02-16

Pairs of best college friends, Shen Jung (Brigitte Lin) and Li Lun-mei (Chelsia Chan); Chen...

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Hot Wave

as Hsiao Shao-Yu
Released: 1975-06-06

A taiwanese romance set during the summer starring Brigitte Lin.

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The Forest of Forever

as Luo Ya-nan
Released: 1975-09-01

Among lofty mountains and valley, a family’s business successor, Luo Ya-nan, meets an engineer,...

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The Four Sheepish Dummies

as uncredited
Released: 1983-04-02

Taiwanese comedy.

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The Story of Green House

as uncredited
Released: 1978-06-14

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Return of Monsoon

as Wen Jiayi
Released: 1979-07-04

Chia Yi is already engaged but she still feels lonely deep in her heart. She has a tough...

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The Misty Moon

as uncredited
Released: 1978-02-07

Brigitte Lin and Charlie Chin star in this Taiwanese drama about a kindergarten teacher who...

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Off to Success

as uncredited
Released: 1979-01-01

A group of youths undergo the hardships of military training.

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Girl Friend

as Hsia Hsiao-tsan
Released: 1974-12-12

An early Brigitte Lin Romance.

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The Switch

as Shen Yin-Pai
Released: 1982-02-07

Taiwanese crime drama.

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Love's Many Faces

as uncredited
Released: 1978-08-12

An unusual tale about the love between a female cat-burglar and a university student.

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A Love Seed

as uncredited
Released: 1979-01-23

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Ghost of the Mirror

as Su-Su / Yau Ying
Released: 1974-10-04

A scholar falls in love with a beautiful girl, who may or may not be a ghost.

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Come Fly with Me

as Liu Yen-mei
Released: 1976-01-01

Charlie Chin is Cheng Chieh, an engineer obsessed with flying. Brigitte Lin is Liu Yen-mei, a...

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The Marigolds

as uncredited
Released: 1980-03-29

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Morning Fog

as uncredited
Released: 1978-07-30

In "Morning Fog", Brigitte Lin plays Tu Hsiao Meng, a spirited young woman who's had an...

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The Life God

as uncredited
Released: 1975-04-26

Tells the story of "Bao sheng da di"--A marvelous man who wanted to become a doctor so that he...

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True Love

as uncredited
Released: 1975-07-05

A romance.

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The Great Surprise

as Robber Robin
Released: 1983-09-25

Taiwanese comedy. A large diamond named "The Light of Shanghai" is given as a gift to the boss...

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The Beauty with Two Faces

as uncredited
Released: 1976-10-22

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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

as uncredited
Released: 1976-01-01

Taiwanese movie

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Golden Horse Awards

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-31

The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ...

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Midi Première

as Self
First aired: 1975-01-06

Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre...

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