Cheng Pei-pei
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Cheng Pei-pei is an actress best known for her performance in the seminal 1966 King Hu
wuxia
film Come Drink with Me
. She continued to play expert swordswomen in a number of films throughout the 1960s. In 2000, she returned to international attention with her role as Jade Fox in Ang Lee
's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (which also marked the first time that she had been cast in a villain role in a martial arts film). She followed this up with her portrayal of Long Po in the 2004 television miniseries Watery Moon, Hollow Sky, which was shown on Asian-American television as Paradise. She continues to work for Zhouyi Media in mainland China.
King Hu
King Hu was a Hong Kong- and Taiwan-based Chinese film director whose Wuxia films brought Chinese cinema to new technical and artistic heights. His films Come Drink with Me , Dragon Gate Inn and A Touch of Zen inaugurated a new generation of wuxia films in the late 1960s...
wuxia
Wuxia
Wuxia is a broad genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of literature, its popularity has caused it to spread to diverse art forms like Chinese opera, manhua , films, television series, and video games...
film Come Drink with Me
Come Drink with Me
Come Drink with Me is a 1966 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by King Hu. Set during the Ming Dynasty, it stars Cheng Pei-pei and Yueh Hua as warriors with Chan Hung-lit as the villain, and features action choreography by Han Ying-chieh. It is widely considered one of the best Hong Kong films ever made...
. She continued to play expert swordswomen in a number of films throughout the 1960s. In 2000, she returned to international attention with her role as Jade Fox in Ang Lee
Ang Lee
Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman , Sense and Sensibility , Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , Hulk , and Brokeback Mountain , for which he won an Academy...
's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (which also marked the first time that she had been cast in a villain role in a martial arts film). She followed this up with her portrayal of Long Po in the 2004 television miniseries Watery Moon, Hollow Sky, which was shown on Asian-American television as Paradise. She continues to work for Zhouyi Media in mainland China.
Filmography
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| 1964 | Lovers' Rock Lovers' Rock (film) Lovers' Rock is a 1964 Taiwanese drama film written and directed by Lei Pan. The film was selected as the Taiwanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 37th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.-Cast:* Chuang Chiao as Chin Yu... |
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| 1965 | The Lotus Lamp | ||
| Song of Orchid Island | |||
| 1966 | Come Drink with Me Come Drink with Me Come Drink with Me is a 1966 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by King Hu. Set during the Ming Dynasty, it stars Cheng Pei-pei and Yueh Hua as warriors with Chan Hung-lit as the villain, and features action choreography by Han Ying-chieh. It is widely considered one of the best Hong Kong films ever made... |
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| Princess Iron Fan Princess Iron Fan (1966 film) Princess Iron Fan is a Hong Kong film, the second in a series of four Shaw Brothers productions based on the Chinese novel Journey to the West. It was directed by Ho Meng Hua.-External links:**... |
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| 1967 | Blue Skies | ||
| The Dragon Creek | |||
| Hong Kong Nocturne Hong Kong Nocturne Hong Kong Nocturne is a 1967 Hong Kong Shaw Brothers musical film directed by Umetsugu Inoue.-Cast:* Paul Chang * Chan Hei * Chao Hsin Yen * Cheng Kang-Yeh - Wang Ying* Cheng Pei-pei - Chia Chuen-Chuen... |
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| Operation Lipstick | |||
| The Thundering Sword | |||
| 1968 | Golden Swallow | ||
| The Jade Raksha | |||
| That Fiery Girl | |||
| 1969 | Dragon Swamp Dragon Swamp Dragon Swamp, also known as Dragon Run, is a stream in the U.S. state of Virginia, flowing through King and Queen, Essex, Middlesex, and Gloucester counties. It is the main freshwater tributary of the Piankatank River.-References:... |
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| The Flying Dagger | |||
| The Golden Sword The Golden Sword The Golden Sword, published in 1977, is the second title of the High Couch of Silistra series by Janet Morris.-Synopsis:Estri, the Well-Keepress of Astria and High Couch of Silistra, the highest office in the land, has continued her quest to locate her god-like "Shaper" father to his home planet,... |
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| Raw Courage | |||
| 1970 | Brothers Five Brothers Five Brothers Five is a 1970 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Lo Wei and produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. Cheng Pei-pei plays the role of Yen Lai, a woman who must reunite the Kao brothers to rid the Teng Lung Manor of killers whilst avenging the murder of their father.-Cast:*Cheng Pei-pei as Miss... |
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| Lady of Steel | |||
| 1971 | The Lady Hermit | ||
| The Shadow Whip | |||
| 1973 | None But the Brave None But the Brave None But the Brave, also known as in Japan, is a 1965 war film starring Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tommy Sands and Brad Dexter. This is the only film directed by Frank Sinatra, and the first Japanese-American co-production, produced by Sinatra for Warner Bros... |
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| 1974 | Whiplash | ||
| 1983 | All the King's Men All the King's Men All the King's Men is a novel by Robert Penn Warren first published in 1946. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. In 1947 Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men.... |
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| 1988 | Painted Faces Painted Faces Painted Faces , is a Hong Kong film directed by Alex Law. The movie was first released in 1988. The language spoken in this movie is Cantonese.... |
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| 1993 | Flirting Scholar Flirting Scholar Flirting Scholar is a 1993 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Lee Lik-Chi and starring Stephen Chow.A second installment, Flirting Scholar 2, was released in 2010. It is a prequel of the 1993 Hong Kong film with Lik-Chi returning as director.-Plot:... |
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| Kidnap Of Wong Chak Fai | |||
| 1994 | From Zero to Hero From Zero to Hero "From Zero to Hero" is a song by German singer–songwriter Sarah Connor from her fourth studio album, Naughty but Nice . Written and produced by Rob Tyger and Kay Denar, the song was released on 7 March 2005 as the album's second and final single... |
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| The Gods Must Be Funny in China | |||
| Kung Fu Mistress | |||
| Lover's Lover | |||
| Wing Chun Wing Chun (film) Wing Chun is a 1994 Hong Kong martial arts action comedy film directed by Yuen Woo-ping and stars Michelle Yeoh as the eponymous character Yim Wing-Chun, a tofu maker and martial artist who tries to protect her village's inhabitants from a group of bandits.The film was preceded by a 1994... |
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| 1996 | How to Meet the Lucky Stars How to Meet the Lucky Stars How to Meet the Lucky Stars is a 1996 Hong Kong film and the final film in the Lucky Stars film series. Featuring the "Lucky Stars" Sammo Hung , Eric Tsang, Richard Ng, Stanley Fung, Michael Miu and new cast member Vincent Lau as Hung's younger cousin and Françoise Yip as their love interest... |
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| Wong Fei Hung Series: The Final Victory Wong Fei Hung Series The Wong Fei Hung Series is a 1996 Hong Kong television series of five stories about Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung. The series was produced by Tsui Hark and starred Vincent Zhao, Maggie Shiu, Max Mok, Lau Shun, Kent Cheng, Hung Yan-yan, Power Chan and Cheung Chun-hung in the leading roles.-Wong... |
Beggar So | ||
| 1999 | Four Chefs and a Feast | (cameo) | |
| A Man Called Hero A Man Called Hero A Man Called Hero is a 1999 Hong Kong film based on the manhua series Chinese Hero: Tales of the Blood Sword by artist Ma Wing-shing. Directed by Andrew Lau, the film starred Ekin Cheng, Shu Qi, Kristy Yang, Nicholas Tse and Yuen Biao. The film's theme song Tin Sat Ku Hsing was performed by Ekin... |
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| The Truth About Jane and Sam The Truth About Jane and Sam The Truth About Jane and Sam is a 1999 Hong Kong film co-produced by Hong Kong's Film Unlimited and Singapore's Raintree Pictures... |
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| 2000 | Fist Power Fist Power Fist Power is a 2000 Hong Kong action film directed by Aman Chang, starring Vincent Zhao, Anthony Wong, Gigi Lai and Sam Lee. The film was first released in Hong Kong on January 21, 2000.-Plot:... |
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| Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film. An American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen... |
20th Hong Kong Film Awards Hong Kong Film Awards The Hong Kong Film Awards , founded in 1982, are the most prestigious film awards in Hong Kong and among the most respected in mainland China and Taiwan. Award ceremonies are held annually, typically in April. The Awards recognize achievement in all aspects of filmmaking, such as directing,... : Best Supporting Actress |
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| Lavender Lavender The lavenders are a genus of 39 species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. An Old World genus, distributed from Macaronesia across Africa, the Mediterranean, South-West Asia, Arabia, Western Iran and South-East India... |
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| 2001 | The Legend of Black Mask | ||
| Heroes in Black | |||
| Shadow Mask Shadow mask The shadow mask is one of two major technologies used to manufacture cathode ray tube televisions and computer displays that produce color images. The other approach is aperture grille, better known by its trade name, Trinitron. All early color televisions and the majority of CRT computer monitors... |
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| 2002 | Flying Dragon, Leaping Tiger | (also producer) | |
| Naked Weapon Naked Weapon Naked Weapon is a 2002 Hong Kong action-thriller film directed by action choreographer Tony Ching and starring Maggie Quigley, Anya Wu and Daniel Wu. Written by prolific film producer Wong Jing, Naked Weapon is similar in theme though unrelated to his earlier work Naked Killer... |
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| Book and Sword, Gratitude and Revenge Book and Sword, Gratitude and Revenge Book and Sword, Gratitude and Revenge is a television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel The Book and the Sword. The series was first broadcast on CTV in Taiwan in 2002.-Cast:*Vincent Zhao as Chen Jialuo*Esther Kwan as Huo Qingtong... |
Empress Dowager | ||
| 2004 | Sex and the Beauties | ||
| The Miracle Box | |||
| Chinese Paladin Chinese Paladin (TV series) -Track list:#Yongheng De Jiyi #Zhongyu Mingbai performed by Power Station#Xiaoyao Tan performed by Hu Ge#Shapolang performed by JS... |
Granny Jiang | ||
| 2005 | House of Harmony House of Harmony House of Harmony is a S$7 million German-Singaporean telemovie. Jointly produced by 4 parties - Germany's FFP Media and ZDF Pictures, together with Singapore's Oak 3 Films and Media Development Authority , the telemovie was shot in three languages - English, German, and Mandarin.It is based on... |
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| 2006 | Women of Times Women of Times Women of Times is a 30-episode Chinese drama telecast in Singapore in 2006.-Main cast:*Fann Wong as Marissa Wang Xiyi*Edmund Chen as Justin Jia Zengtu*Chen Hanwei as Ding Hanzhe*Cheng Pei-pei as Mrs... |
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| The Yang Sisters The Yang Sisters The Yang Sisters is a Singaporean sitcom on MediaCorp Channel 5. As Honey, the eldest of three sisters Pei Pei is a kungfu master whose No. 1 mission in life is to hook a husband for her tomboyish daughter Qing Qing... |
Honey Yang | ||
| 2007 | They Wait They Wait They Wait is a 2007 Canadian horror film It stars Jaime King as a mother attempting to find the truth and save her son, Regan Oey, when threatened by spirits during the Chinese tradition of Ghost Month. The other leading star is Chinese Canadian actor Terry Chen, who plays her husband... |
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| 2009 | Basic Love Basic Love -Synopsis:A romantic story symphonized with the song of a triangular relationship between Ling , June and Rex . Ling got leukemia since she was a child; she hides the true feeling and health condition from her best friends, Rex and June... |
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| Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is the second live-action film based on the Street Fighter series of video games. It follows the quest of Street Fighter character Chun-Li, who is portrayed by Kristin Kreuk. The story follows Chun-Li's personal history and her journey for justice. The film... |
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| Blood Ties Blood Ties -Film:* Blood Ties , a 1964 film directed by Mikhail Yershov and starring Vija Artmane and Evgeniy Matveyev* Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann, a 1994 documentary film-Television:... |
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| Shanghai Hotel | |||
| 2010 | Here Comes Fortune | ||
| Flirting Scholar 2 Flirting Scholar 2 Flirting Scholar 2 is a 2010 Chinese comedy film directed by Hong Kong director Lee Lik-Chi and starring Huang Xiaoming, Zhang Jingchu, Natalis Chan and Richie Ren. It is a prequel to the 1993 Hong Kong film Flirting Scholar which starred Stephen Chow and also directed by Lee.-Cast:-External... |
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| A Weaver on the Horizon A Weaver on the Horizon A Weaver on the Horizon is a Chinese television series based on the life story of Huang Daopo, one of the most inspirational figures in the history of China who revolutionized textile industry during the Mongol conquest of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty... |
Mrs. Fang | ||
| 2011 | Legendary Amazons Legendary Amazons Legendary Amazons is a 2011 Chinese film based on the stories of the Yang Clan Generals. The film is directed by Frankie Chan and stars Cecilia Cheung, Richie Ren, Liu Xiaoqing, Cheng Pei-pei, Kathy Chow, Chen Zihan and Jin Qiaoqiao... |