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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brigitte Lin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Chungking Express
as Woman in Blonde WigTwo melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the...
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Police Story
as Salina FongOfficer 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 BaiLing Wu Chung decides to hide from the chaotic world. Before leaving, he visits his friends, a...
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The Bride with White Hair
as Lien Ni ChangThe sensitive swordsman Cho Yi-Hang is tired of his life. He is the unwilling successor to the...
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Swordsman III: The East Is Red
as Dung Fong Bat BaiA 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 PrincessA power struggle between the Queen's treasonous lover and a princess occurs amid musical...
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Royal Tramp 2
as Divine Lady of Dragon SectFollowing on from the Royal Tramp I, after discovering that the Empress is actually Lone-er, a...
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Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
as Ice QueenIn the fifth century, constant civil war scars western China. To escape death, Ti, a young...
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Dragon Inn
as Yau Mo-yanDuring the Ming Dynasty, Tsao Siu-yan, a power-crazed eunuch who rules his desert region of...
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Royal Tramp
as Divine Lady of Dragon SectThe story of Wilson Bond, a pimp who after saving Chan, the leader of the Heaven and Earth...
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Ashes of Time
as Murong Yang / Murong YinOuyang Feng is a heartbroken and cynical man who spends his days in the desert, connecting...
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Peking Opera Blues
as Tsao WanIn 1913 Beijing, three fierce women—disguised rebel Tsao Wan, jewel-seeking Sheung Hung, and...
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Deadful Melody
as SnowA young security man must prove himself worthy by defending the one object wanted by all the...
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Handsome Siblings
as MoreOne hundred seventy years ago, a wise monk made a section of land known as the Villians Valley,...
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Fantasy Mission Force
as LilyA 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 2
as Lien Ni ChangFor ten years, Cho has been in the snow of Mount Shin Fung waiting for a rare flower to blossom...
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The Dream of the Red Chamber
as Jia BaoyuPao-yu is in love with his cousin, Lin Tai-yu, but his family has other marital plans for him...
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The Black Panther Warriors
as Chin ChinA group of specialists are recruited to steal from a police station.
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Bishonen
as NarratorJet is a gay hustler who one night spots a young man walking with a woman, and falls for him...
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The Thirty Million Dollar Rush
as Sister MariaTreasury employee Fatty (Eric Tsang) discovered that bags of used 30 million in Hong Kong...
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One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart
as Self (archive footage)Tracing the beginnings of Jet Tone Films, which was founded in 1991 by Wong Kar Wai for the...
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Red Dust
as Shen Shao-HuaStretching across the canvas of the Sino-Japanese War of the 30s, the subsequent Japanese...
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Peony Pavilion
as NarratorIn 1930s Suzhou, the fifth wife of an opium-addicted aristocrat, her husband's female cousin,...
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Boys Are Easy
as Ching Siu TungA man wants to see his three daughters get married.
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All the Wrong Spies
as BridgetIn Hong Kong, Circa 1940s, World War II, private detective Yoyo and friend Inspector Teddy Robin...
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The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains
as Li Chou-Shui / Li Chong-HoiLegend has it that in a faraway place beyond the edge of the earth, there exists a...
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Outside the Window
as Chiang Yen YungBrigitte Lin's debut film is a melodrama in which her character gets involved in a socially...
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Lady in Black
as MayKin Seng (Leung Ka Fai) falls into big debts in the gambling house. He persuades his loving...
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Dream Lovers
as Cheung Yuet-HeungMusician Song Yu and jewellery designer Yuet-heung, who barely know each other, meet in their...
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Eight Hundred Heroes
as Yang Hui MinAs battle rages in Shanghai, a single battalion of soldiers led by Xie Jinyuan is ordered to...
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The Women Soldiers
as uncreditedFour girls graduate from high school with the hope of joining the army, even though that may...
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True Colours
as MayLung and Wong are buddies in their ferocious youth. Lung fled from his motherland to escape a...
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The Three Swordsmen
as 名剑Samurai and Smiling Sam are two famous martial arts masters in Central China. On the night...
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Fire Dragon
as LilyA Team of Prisoners, famous thieves and great fighters are assembled by a shadowy government...
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Seven Black Heroines
as Black FoxA group of women with various criminal skills are thrown into prison during World War 2. They...
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The Other Side of Gentleman
as Jo JoAs part of a sociology experiment, Brigitte Lin tries to get lower-class playboy Alan Tam to...
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Pink Force Commando
as JackalIn a world where cowboys coexist with Chinese thugs, Arab swordsmen, Nazi troops, Klansmen and...
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Ghost of the Mirror
as Su-Su / Yau YingAdapted from a Tang Dynasty fantasy tale, Sung Chuen-sau used the story of a scholar meeting a...
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Cloud of Romance
as Tuan WanluTUAN Wan-lu is a naïve and carefree young woman raised in the family of a professor and doted on...
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Fire Dragon
as Ha / Fire DragonRebel fighter Yuen Ming (Max Mok) must protect an important letter with content that can expose...
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Night Orchid
as Su-suA secret society is out to ruin a nobleman’s reputation and destroy those closest to him while a...
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Starry Is the Night
as To CaimeiAs Cai Mei, a single 40 year old woman and a social worker starts a relationship with a...
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Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land
as Yun ZhifanTwo drama companies happened to share one auditorium for rehearsal. Friction was inevitable. One...
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Web of Deception
as Jane LinJane is unknowingly being blackmailed by her co-worker May. When May's roommate Queenie needs a...
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Long Way from Home
as uncreditedA romantic melodrama starring Brigitte Lin.
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An Unforgettable Day
as Tien Yu-ChiuTaiwanese romantic drama set in a mining town starring Brigitte Lin.
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Misty Drizzle
as uncreditedA divorced entrepreneur (Yueh Yang) and his handsome partner (Charlie Chin) both fall for the...
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Poor Chasers
as Shen JungPairs of best college friends, Shen Jung (Brigitte Lin) and Li Lun-mei (Chelsia Chan); Chen...
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Love Massacre
as IvyThe boyfriend of a young co-ed turns into a demented stalker after his sister's suicide.
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My Funny Intern
as uncreditedAlan Tang plays a famous soccer coach who comes down with the flu. He goes to a clinic for help...
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There's No Place like Home
as uncreditedTaiwanese romance film released to commemorate the 9th anniversary of First Films' founding.
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Forever My Love
as uncreditedAlan Tang plays an engineering student in Taipei, Taiwan who meets and falls in love with...
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Be Careful Sweetheart
as uncreditedTaiwanese martial arts drama starring Brigitte Lin.
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He Loved Once Too Many
as uncreditedAn early drama starring Brigitte Lin.
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The Autumn Love Song
as Zhi JunWhen a rich guy met a poor gal and fell in love, his authoritative father disapproved of their...
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By Love Obsessed
as uncreditedWhile taking pictures in a remote forest, a young photographer encounters a beautiful,...
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Off to Success
as uncreditedA group of youths undergo the hardships of military training.
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Love of the White Snake
as White SnakeThis early Brigitte Lin film is based on the same Chinese folk tale that Tsui Hark later used as...
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Burn Phoenix Burn
as Wei Yen-janA young lady sacrificed her first love when she discovered her boyfriend had a crush on her...
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Different Love
as Sung Hsiao YuBrigitte Lin is Sung Hsiao Yu, a young girl in love with Wen Hsing Yu (Charlie Chin), a botanist...
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The Great Surprise
as Robber RobinTaiwanese comedy. A large diamond named "The Light of Shanghai" is given as a gift to the boss...
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The Misty Moon
as uncreditedBrigitte Lin and Charlie Chin star in this Taiwanese drama about a kindergarten teacher who...
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The Chasing Game
as uncreditedMandarin movie about the romance of an undergraduate with the prettiest girl on campus.
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Return of Monsoon
as Wen JiayiChia Yi is already engaged but she still feels lonely deep in her heart. She has a tough...
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The Life God
as uncreditedTells the story of "Bao sheng da di"--A marvelous man who wanted to become a doctor so that he...
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The Unforgettable Character
as Tu Hsiao-ShuangThe Unforgettable Character is a 1975 Taiwanese romantic drama film directed by Chang Mei-chun...
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The Forest of Forever
as Luo Ya-nanAmong lofty mountains and valley, a family’s business successor, Luo Ya-nan, meets an engineer,...
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The Wild Goose on the Wing
as Tao Tan-fengAfter studying drama in the UK, Tan-feng returns to Taiwan to investigate her sister's death....
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The House for Love
as Xiao YuLo Wen (Chin Han) is enamored of his college sweetheart Xiao Yu (Brigitte Lin), and the two wish...
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Run Lover Run
as Hsu Li PingBrigitte Lin stars as a young girl on the cusp of becoming a woman...a problem for her mother,...
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Love's Many Faces
as uncreditedAn unusual tale about the love between a female cat-burglar and a university student.
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The Love Affair of Rainbow
as Xiao HongThe son of a wealthy man married a peasant’s daughter against his family’s objection . When he...
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Phoenix the Raider
as uncreditedA story of two friends on the opposite side of the law.
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Gone with the Cloud
as uncreditedAfter the death of her parents, a young woman (Tang Bao Yun) is forced to work as a barmaid to...
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Love, Love, Love
as Lin ChunchunLove, Love, Love is a Taiwanese film, released in 1974 by Central Motion Pictures Corporation...
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Lily Under the Gun
as LilyIn a valiant attempt to rescue her younger brother, a young woman goes head to head with a group...
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Hot Wave
as Hsiao Shao-YuA taiwanese romance set during the summer starring Brigitte Lin.
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Come Fly with Me
as Liu Yen-meiCharlie Chin is Cheng Chieh, an engineer obsessed with flying. Brigitte Lin is Liu Yen-mei, a...
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Morning Fog
as uncreditedIn "Morning Fog", Brigitte Lin plays Tu Hsiao Meng, a spirited young woman who's had an...
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Golden Horse Awards
as SelfThe Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ...
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Midi Première
as SelfMidi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre...
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