Movies: Chin Han

Based on the tragic true story of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu, chronicling her rise to fame as a movie actress in Shanghai during the 1930s. Nicknamed the 'Chinese Garbo', Ruan Lingyu began her career at 16 and committ...

Stretching across the canvas of the Sino-Japanese War of the 30s, the subsequent Japanese surrender in 1945, and the onslaught of Communism, this film depicts an ill-fated romance between a talented lady novelist and a Chinese traitor working with th...

A young Taiwanese man after being released from prison starts his life as a gangster. He goes to Hong Kong to do some business with the Triads....

In 2013, the Golden Horse Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary. The ministry of Culture commissioned director Yang Li-chou to make a documentary about the history of Golden Horse. What is unique to this film is that it's not an ode to celebr...

As battle rages in Shanghai, a single battalion of soldiers led by Xie Jinyuan is ordered to hold back the Japanese forces at the Sihang warehouse. Girl scouts risk their lives to deliver food and medicine to the defenders....

A C.I.A. agent is assigned to go to Beijing to look for a hidden "treasure," which turns out to be a woman who has supernatural powers, and is the National Treasure of China....

Chia-wen and Hsiao-fen are childhood friends. Chia-wen is the son of a rich landlord and Hsiao-fen is the daughter of a poor couple who works on the rich lanlord's land. Even as children Chia-wen and Hsiao-fen love each other deeply. Chia-wen is sent...

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Classic romance with a documentary approach based on the life of a historical figure - Liu Rushi, courtesan and poet. She will get married with famous scholar Quian Qianyi and together with him will oversee the fall of the Ming dynasty....

Towards the end of the Vietnam war, the US is running low on drivers for their supplies so they bring in a new lot of recruits and have to train them to survive in the dangers of wartorn Vietnam. The recruits are trained briefly by an American office...

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 Wa...

Brigitte Lin's debut film is a melodrama in which her character gets involved in a socially unacceptable relationship and then forced into marriage....

Miss Bowie is more or less happily raking in the cash until her life is complicated by the sudden reappearance, after 20 years, of her first (and presumably true) love. To this is added Miss Bowie's annoying teenage niece and a strange disease....

Sex For Sale is a sexual journey of desire where Chin Han plays a male model thrust into sexual situations he's not prepared for....

In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking shelter in the Capital during the Japanese invasion. The family fa...

Have no other info than it was part of Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films....

The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China....

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

1985 film by Li Hao...

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 Chen...