Sylvia Chang
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1953-07-22
Locus Natus: Chiayi, Taiwan
Et ut: Chang Ai-chia, Sylvia Chang Ai-Chia, 张艾嘉, 실비아 창, Aga Chang, Chang Aga, Sylvia Chang, 張艾嘉
Aces Go Places
King Kong, a clever thief who steals a cache of diamonds from some gangsters, frames another thief called White Glove for the crime. That's when the...
release : 1982.01.16popularis : 6.557
Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street
A master thief is duped by lookalikes for James Bond and the Queen of England into stealing a valuable gem from a heavily guarded location then must...
release : 1984.01.25popularis : 5.894
Aces Go Places II
An assassin called Filthy Harry is hired by a shady figure and charged with killing the heroes. The men are framed twice for different robberies by...
release : 1983.11.11popularis : 7.479
Aces Go Places IV: You Never Die Twice
Baldy and King Kong shuttle between New Zealand and Hong Kong to recover a hi-tech prism that can impart superhuman powers.
release : 1986.07.24popularis : 9.088
The Red Violin
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria,...
release : 1998.09.10popularis : 14.833
Lucky Stars Go Places
Lucky Stars Go Places, also known as The Luckiest Stars, is a 1986 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Eric Tsang. It is the fourth film in the...
release : 1986.06.20popularis : 7.953
Buddha Mountain
In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a...
release : 2010.10.24popularis : 2.847
The Go Master
The life of Go master Wu Qingyuan from his meteoric rise as a child prodigy to fame and fortune as a revolutionary strategic thinker, as well as the...
release : 2007.05.24popularis : 3.704
The Dream of the Red Chamber
Pao-yu is in love with his cousin, Lin Tai-yu, but his family has other marital plans for him that will leave both broken-hearted.
release : 1977.10.26popularis : 5.773
Chicken and Duck Talk
A witty and thoroughly engaging send-up of both the fast food business and the cut-throat techniques often employed by conglomerates to crush...
release : 1988.07.14popularis : 4.276
Twin Dragons
Twins, separated at birth, end up as a Hong Kong gangster and a New York concert pianist. When the pianist travels to Hong Kong for a concert, the...
release : 1992.01.15popularis : 19.317
Leave It to Destiny
A TV movie and part of groundbreaking Taiwan TV series “Eleven Women”
release : 1981.12.05popularis : 0.815
Leaving a Relationship
A TV movie and part of groundbreaking Taiwan TV series “Eleven Women”
release : 1981.10.31popularis : 1.271
All About Ah-Long
Ah-Long, a father living a low-class lifestyle, while trying to raise his son, Porky. The strong bond between father and son is tested when a chance...
release : 1989.03.16popularis : 7.029
20 30 40
A woman in her 20s, another in her 30s and a third in her 40s must each find a way to navigate the challenges they face in life and love.
release : 2004.03.05popularis : 5.207
Rice Rhapsody
Fearing her son could be gay, a conservative mother takes in a French foreign exchange student, who ends up teaching the family a lot about life,...
release : 2004.10.11popularis : 2.774
That Day, on the Beach
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...
release : 1983.04.11popularis : 5.329
C'est La Vie Mon Cheri
Unable to make it as a commercial success because he staunchly refuses to sell out, a struggling Hong Kong musician rediscovers his love of music and...
release : 1993.11.11popularis : 4.461
Shanghai Blues
In 1937 Shanghai, a soon-to-depart soldier meets a young woman under a bridge during a Japanese air raid. They vow to meet after the war ends, but...
release : 1984.10.11popularis : 4.883
Lucky Encounter
Two inventors encounter a friendly little ghost, and stumble onto a plot to capture the ghost's uncle who was responsible for his untimely death....
release : 1992.06.10popularis : 3.023
The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon
Lam Bo Sun, the richest man in Hong Kong, is expected to marry the ditziest of socialites in a matter of weeks. On a whim, he leaves everything...
release : 1990.01.18popularis : 3.47
Seven Years Itch
An introverted businessman who doesn't get out much, Willie Ng recently celebrated his seventh anniversary, but his marriage seems to be hitting a...
release : 1987.03.05popularis : 1.135
Immortal Story
Set in the then Portuguese colony of Macau, IMMORTAL STORY depicts the story of the love affair between a small time chanteuse and her Japanese beau....
release : 1986.11.06popularis : 2.967
The Secret
A real murder case which was complicated by the ménage à trois relationship the victim had with the main suspects. As different...
release : 1979.10.31popularis : 3.856
Eight Taels of Gold
An ex-pat travels from New York to his home village in rural China after a long absence. On his way, he meets a familiar girl.
release : 1989.12.21popularis : 1.741
Chinatown Capers
Ever the pair of do-gooding drifters, Embroidered Pillow and Chili Boy always come to the aid of Hong Kong's downtrodden and oppressed - even if it...
release : 1974.04.04popularis : 2.393
Boundless
As Hong Kong's foremost filmmaker, Johnnie To himself becomes the protagonist of this painstaking documentary exploring him and his Boundless world...
release : 2013.11.02popularis : 5.054
In Between
Three flatmates share a luxury flat. A philandering hairdresser meets his match. A young stockbroker meets his boss's soon-to-be-ex-wife. A pregnant...
release : 1994.01.06popularis : 1.645
Passion
Sylvia and Cora Miao play two widowed mothers, best friends and confidants who spend their days reminiscing about times past. Over the course of a...
release : 1986.07.24popularis : 3.008
Full Moon in New York
Three Chinese women with vastly different backgrounds get acquainted and become friends amid the social desolation of New York.
release : 1989.11.18popularis : 2.504
Legend of the Mountain
A travelling scholar, intent on translating a Buddhist sutra, loses his way in the mountains. Time and space collapse around him as he continues his...
release : 1979.10.04popularis : 5.186
Tempting Heart
A female director decides to make a autobiographical film on her love life and we see it through the use of flashbacks and brilliant intercutting.
release : 1999.09.23popularis : 3.309
In Our Time
Four vignettes, each set in different decades from the 1950s through the 1980s, deal with protagonists at different stages of life between childhood...
release : 1982.08.28popularis : 4.462
Soursweet
Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen...
release : 1988.05.15popularis : 0.754
He Lives by Night
A killer wears women's clothing and stalks women that wear white fish-net stockings
release : 1982.05.08popularis : 3.499
Send in the Clowns
Two sisters are part of a cabaret act that is rapidly declining in attendance, and although the older sisteris constantly trying to push her younger...
release : 1983.04.01popularis : 0.936
My Mother's Teahouse
A brothel disguised as a teahouse is staffed with old ladies long past their prime. However, things begin to change and become chaotic when the owner...
release : 1988.04.01popularis : 0.817
Mitra
Mitra was the first Hong Kong film to be made in Iran and the last of Lung Kong’s directorial works to be released theatrically. Made in an act...
release : 1977.04.07popularis : 0.41
Queen of Temple Street
Wah (Sylvia Chang) runs a brothel and has a daughter, Yan (Rain Lau), on the loose, born and bred in the same underworld. The two finally go on an...
release : 1990.04.21popularis : 1.348
Daughter's Daughter
Jin is in her 60s. Her husband gone, her concern is for daughter Zuer, in New York trying out IVF with her partner Michelle. When Jin receives news...
release : 2024.09.05popularis : 6.04
I Want to Go on Living
A woman stops waiting for her med student boyfriend and marries a rich man so she can pay her grandmother's medical bills.
release : 1995.08.24popularis : 6.005
Kidnapped
After her six year old son is kidnapped, a successful fashion designer must work with a detective to clear up the terrifying mystery and get her son...
release : 1983.04.01popularis : 1.514
Mountains May Depart
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
release : 2015.10.30popularis : 8.509
Office
Two assistants, Lee Xiang and Kat, start new jobs at the financial firm Jones & Sunn. Lee Xiang is an earnest young man who naively enters the world...
release : 2015.09.24popularis : 2.799
Sisters of the World Unite
Two sisters seek diversion after repeat disappointments with men.
release : 1991.12.05popularis : 1.652
Eat Drink Man Woman
A retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu and his family live in modern day Taipei, Taiwan. He lives with his three attractive daughters, all of...
release : 1994.08.03popularis : 15.748
Double Trouble
To help his sister with her debts, John goes to a pawnshop when robbers rush in. John draws suspicion from the police and only escapes from them with...
release : 1984.09.07popularis : 2.663
Attack Force Z
Tim Burstall directs then-up-and-comers Mel Gibson and Sam Neill in this action-packed Cannes Film Festival selection about the grim realities of...
release : 1982.06.01popularis : 6.422
Deep Autumn Love
The complex twist of love and hatred, birth and death, between two couples who struggle to find happiness.
release : 1975.01.01popularis : 1.564
American Fusion
Yvonne is a divorced middle-aged Chinese immigrant who thinks her life is over, and she is doomed to spend the rest of her days as a slave to her...
release : 2005.01.01popularis : 1.486
The Tattooed Dragon
Written and directed by Lo Wei for Golden Harvest, this feature stars Wang Yu as a guy known only as The Dragon – he’s got super sharp...
release : 1973.12.21popularis : 1.833
Slaughter in San Francisco
A Chinese-American cop, skilled in martial arts, battles the most powerful criminal gang in San Francisco that is responsible for the death of his...
release : 1974.08.16popularis : 6.459
The Lady Killer
A popular singer named Ah Hui is approached by gangsters who want him to perform at their nightclub. When Ah Hui rejects, they set him up by making...
release : 1977.07.08popularis : 3.099
Painted Waves of Love
A talented woman painter falls in love with a gallery owner, who is married. His son falls in love with her niece at first sight. The painter gets...
release : 1976.10.07popularis : 0.496
Forever and Ever
Based on a true story, Xiao Fu was contracted HIV virus through blood transmission due to hemophilia. He made his difference by writing a book before...
release : 2001.03.08popularis : 0.624
The Rocking Sky
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of WWII, this documentary film describes the eight years of dauntless air-force fighting of the...
release : 2015.11.12popularis : 2.132
The Game They Call Sex
The whole story revolves around a woman from marriage, marriage to divorce encounter sexual problems as the main axis, reflecting the Taiwan society...
release : 1987.11.05popularis : 0.559
Eight Hundred Heroes
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....
release : 1975.07.10popularis : 5.075
Hong Kong Superman
Hong Kong Superman is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie.
release : 1975.06.25popularis : 2.396
King of Stanley Market
Self-styled ladies man Richard Ng gets depressed when all those around him are finding love while he remains single.
release : 1988.09.10popularis : 1.246
It Takes Two
It Takes Two is a 1982 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Karl Maka and starring Dean Shek and Richard Ng.
release : 1982.07.15popularis : 1.396
The Banquet
Developer Tsang Siu-Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung has secured the other two properties....
release : 1991.11.30popularis : 4.424
My Favorite Season
Bi Bao-Liang is a 29 year-old man who believes that he will have bad luck if he touches a woman before he turns thirty. Liu Xiang-mei is a beautiful...
release : 1985.03.05popularis : 1.087
The Story in Sorghum Field
A touching story about a strong-willed woman who endures much pain and suffering in caring for her feeble husband and new born child. Her gallant...
release : 1984.01.01popularis : 3.786
A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation
A young man falls in love with a ghost and must avoid a variety of ghostbusters out to eliminate her and each other.
release : 1997.07.26popularis : 3.079
Love Education
When Huiying hears that her mother's dying wish is to be buried next to her husband, she discovers that his remains are in the countryside and cared...
release : 2017.11.03popularis : 4.906
Let the Wind Carry Me
Focusing on Mark Lee Ping-bin, one of the most talented and prolific cinematographers in Asia, the movie details the itinerant lifestyle of a deeply...
release : 2009.11.23popularis : 3.022
The Juvenizer
A comedy about the advertisement business, set in modern Taiwan.
release : 1981.08.27popularis : 1.787
Long Day's Journey into Night
Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years ago. He begins the search for the woman he loved and whom he has never been...
release : 2018.12.31popularis : 15.809
A Pirate of Love
A Pirate of Love is a taiwanese Romance starring Charlie Chin and Sylvia Chang
release : 1977.09.17popularis : 1.119
Shuttle Life
A poor family struggles to cope with tragedy and mental illness in a fractured society.
release : 2017.10.12popularis : 4.808
My Grandfather
After suffering a breakdown at his wife’s funeral, a grief-stricken older man finds that he can only recognize his daughter-in-law. The...
release : 1981.11.14popularis : 0.885
Our Time, Our Story
Richly illustrated with film clips and interviews, OUR TIME, OUR STORY tells the still-evolving story of the Taiwanese "new wave," from its rise in...
release : 2002.10.25popularis : 2.323
The Imperious Princess
Taiwanese huangmei opera starring Ivy Ling Po.
release : 1980.07.01popularis : 3.126
A Rascal's Tale
A story about the adventures of two rebellious teenage buddies and their fathers' struggle to keep them on the right path.
release : 1991.05.04popularis : 3.396
The Flying Tiger
A jobless university graduate joins a Hell's Angels motorcycle gang to discover that they are in fact controlled by a narcotic smuggler.
release : 1973.08.16popularis : 3.469
Crazy Romance
Hung is a street-wise smart aleck and Mak is his dumb sidekick. They are partners, mostly in unlawful jobs. One night, the two are spotted by Zaza in...
release : 1985.08.01popularis : 1.528
The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse
In 2013, the Golden Horse Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary. The ministry of Culture commissioned director Yang Li-chou to make a...
release : 2016.03.04popularis : 3.563
No. 7 Cherry Lane
Set in Hong Kong in 1967 — a time of complex politics when it was still a British colony — No. 7 Cherry Lane revolves around a love...
release : 2019.09.02popularis : 3.006
The Garden of Evening Mists
A woman seeking a quiet life in post-World War II British Malaya finds love and a common interest in gardening with a mysterious Japanese man.
release : 2019.11.29popularis : 2.047
Victory
Victory is a 1976 Taiwanese war film directed by Liu Chia-chang, set in the Second Sino-Japanese War. The film won 5 awards at the 1976 Golden Horse...
release : 1976.05.28popularis : 2.074
The Great Surprise
Taiwanese comedy. A large diamond named "The Light of Shanghai" is given as a gift to the boss of Shanghai Beach, a local gang, and it triggers a...
release : 1983.09.25popularis : 0.724
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
On a dark night, Xueming hits a pedestrian with his car and flees the scene. Desperate to escape his feelings of guilt, he decides to approach the...
release : 2021.06.12popularis : 4.251
A Light Never Goes Out
Accomplishing her late husband's wish of remaining a mysterious neon sign, a depressed middle-aged widow and the neon signmaker's...
release : 2023.04.13popularis : 2.681
Keep Rolling
One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung's directorial debut. A...
release : 2020.12.03popularis : 2.693
Before Next Spring
Where is home? For a group of Chinese students studying and working in Tokyo, it might be the Nankokute restaurant whose manager has been in Japan...
release : 2022.03.11popularis : 2.311