Lee Hsing

Lee Hsing

Birth : 1930-05-20, Shanghai, China

Death : 2021-08-19

History

Emigrated to Taiwan in 1948 during the Kuomintang retreat. Until 1962, Li worked primarily on Hokkien films, despite being unable to speak Taiwanese Hokkien. His first Mandarin film, was Our Neighbors. Oyster Girl, which Li co-directed with Lee Chia was the first Taiwanese feature film to be shot in color.

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Lee Hsing

Movies

Keep on Walking: The Man and His Higher Course
Himself
In Taiwan, director Lee Hsing's films have become a reflection of society and a collective memory of many. His dedication to film not only launched the careers of many movie stars and crew, but was also the foundation of the prestigious Golden Horse Awards. This documentary offers Lee Hsing's personal perspective on family, films, fate and beliefs, giving us a glimpse of the glory and rebirth of Taiwanese cinema.
The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse
Himself
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 celebrities but about the role cinema plays in ordinary people's lives. It's a love letter to cinema, filmmakers and audiences.
Dragon Eye Congee: A Dream of Love
Producer
Dragon Eye Congee tells the story of a second-generation Taiwanese American, Shaun Tam, who, since childhood, has repeatedly dreamt about the same woman in the same scenes, complete with a haunting melody and the fragrant smell of rice congee with dried longan.
Dragon Eye Congee: A Dream of Love
Church pastor
Dragon Eye Congee tells the story of a second-generation Taiwanese American, Shaun Tam, who, since childhood, has repeatedly dreamt about the same woman in the same scenes, complete with a haunting melody and the fragrant smell of rice congee with dried longan.
Heroic Pioneers
Director
Taiwan's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986. In the story, the kindly and very efficient Chinese settlers are distrusted by the natives until they show that they are able and willing to cure an outbreak of plague. The daughter of the native Taiwanese chief has her own peace plan for the region, which involves finding the most eligible Chinese bachelor and marrying him.
Finding the Way
Director
The Wheel of Life
Director
Jointly and respectively directed by King Hu, Lee Hsing, and Pai Ching-Jui, three major Taiwan directors of the 1970s, this film consist of three shorts with the same cast of two actors and one actress, who through reincarnation meet in three different times.
The Land of the Brave
Director
The "Lost Generation" is an obsolete term against the Land of the Brave, in which the younger generation awakens to the fact that their community and their nation are in need of their dedication for brighter prospects. Permeated with enchanting music and campus folk songs, the film will surely animate lofty sentiments of movie-goers.
Spring in Autumn
Producer
Spring in Autumn
China, My Native Land
Director
The Story of a Small Town
Director
The film revolves around a family living in a small town. Kenny Bee plays the male family member who is released from prison and falls in love with a mute woman (Lin Feng-jiao).
He Never Gives Up
Director
Have no other info than it was part of Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films.
Good Morning, Taipei
Director
A loose youth passes the time freely until he comes across a young, female broadcaster who works at a radio station.
Melody from Heaven
Director
Love Rings a Bell
Director
Story from Qiong Yao's novella collection "Shui Ling"
Posterity and Perplexity
Director
Painted Waves of Love
Director
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 along well with the gallery owner's grown son and daughter. In order to keep their family united, his son and daughter ask her to withdraw from her love relationship, and she promises to do so to save the gallery owner's marriage.
Rhythm of the Wave
Director
Land of the Undaunted
Director
The Three Tales
Director
Where the Seagull Flies
Director
A journalist meets three girls with the same appearance but different identities. Finally, it turns out that these girls are the same person. Why does she use different identities? As the journalist tries to get the answer, he falls into the labyrinth of love.
The Marriage
Director
A film by Lee Hsing
The Heart with a Million Knots
Director
The Young Ones
Director
Meng Yun Lao, a college student originally from Hong Kong, stays at a family friend’s house and falls in love with their daughter, Hai Ni. Hai Ni is born with a serious heart defect. When she is notified that Yun Lao is heading back to Hong Kong, she suffers depression and dies. Yun Lao leads his life in despair until he meets a pop singer Hsiao Mei, who looks exactly like Hai Ni.
Story of Mother
Producer
A young boy witnesses his mother’s cheating ways and, after the death of his sick father, grows to despise her. When he’s adopted by another family, the road to reconciliation proves achingly difficult.
Love Is an Elusive Wind
Director
Taiwanese romance film.
Execution in Autumn
Director
Peigang, his family's only son for three generations running, is to be executed on account of larceny, but not without the intervention of his grandmother.
Love Styles XYZ
Director
Life with Mother
Director
The Fake Tycoon
Production Manager
A detective writer and his girlfriend are involved in a mysterious case when he watches at his neighbor's house.
Four Moods
Director
Directed by some of most well known Chinese-language directors of the time, the portmanteau film Four Moods was an attempt to alleviate Li Han-hsiang’s financial troubles during the late 1960s. Arguably one of his best works, King Hu’s short Anger is an adaptation of the famous Peking opera San Cha Kou; set to opera instrumentation and stylishly shot, the film deftly captures the tense showdown between political schemers, avengers and vagabonds inside an inn. Li Han-hsiang’s Happiness, inspired by the Strange Tales of Liaozhai, tells a tale of reprieve for a kind-hearted ghost, while Pai Ching-Jui’s Joy and Lee Hsing’s Sadness both explore the fateful encounters between mortal men and ghostly women.
From Home with Love
Director
Stardust
Director
The Melody of Love
Director
The Jade Goddess
Director
The story is based on a play written by famous playwright Yao Yiwei whose work takes adaptation from the novel in Sung Dynasty. The film describes Xiuxiu, a daughter of an aristocrat,who falls in love with her cousin who is a talented sculptor. Nevertheless they experience all kinds of difficulties during the process of trying to get married.
The Road
Director
Sunrise, Sunset
Director
英雄烈女
Director
The Warring States Period was a time of regional conflict as warlords sought to annex their neighbors and consolidate power across China. Set amidst this backdrop, "Fire Bulls" is an epic tale of the survival of a people and the heroism of one man. As the Yen army gathers on the outskirts of Chi seeking to gobble up its neighbor, the people of Chi are faced with the fall of the capital.
The Monument of Virtue
Director
Ya nu qing xin
Director
Taiwan's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Lanugage Film in 1965
Four Loves
Director
This film is based on a short story by Qiong Yao whose film adaptions took the world by storm in the 1960s. The time of the story sets in the 1920s, the first decade after the country was founded. This is a bitter love story among three brothers and their beautiful cousin. The film reveals the struggles of a woman facing modern liberation and stereotypes of traditional culture.
Beautiful Duckling
Director
Hsiao-yueh and her widowed father receive a flock of genetically-improved ducks from the state agricultural council to participate in a breeding experiment.
New Wife Mirror
Director
Our Neighbor
Director
An orphaned girl in a poverty-stricken neighborhood is adopted by a kindly neighbor. He struggles to support her honestly, despite opportunities to participate in a neighbor’s scurrilous get-rich-quick schemes. Invoking the pain of Chinese exiles living in Taiwan, or missing relatives still in China, the touching film posits an in-between historical period during which it is crucial for displaced residents to maintain virtue as a bedrock of identity.
Brother Wang and Brother Liu Pass Five Difficult Traps
Director
Brother Wang and Brother Liu Pass Five Difficult Traps
Oyster Girl
Director
Oyster-gatherer Ah-lan is in love with the often-absent fisherman Chin-shui, but a bout of premarital sex leaves her pregnant and vulnerable to malicious gossip.
The Liar Ah Chi, Part II
Director
金鳳銀鵝
Director
A Taiwanese opera (koa-á-hì) tiayupian by Lee Hsing
The Liar Ah Chi
Director
Brother Liu and Brother Wang Have a Good New Year
Director
Good Neighbors
Director
Dr. Huang runs a clinic. One day, Mr. Chen moves to next door and opens a Chinese medicine clinic. In the beginning, the two families get along fine and Chen’s son and Huang’s daughter like each other. But when Mrs. Chen proposes the marriage to Dr. Huang, the conflicts between the families explode.
Pigsy Rescues vs Leopard
Director
Zhu Bajie jiu mei da zhan jin qian bao
Director
豬八戒與孫悟空
Director
Brother Wang And Brother Liu Tour Taiwan-Part 2
Director
Brother Wang And Brother Liu Tour Taiwan-Part 1
Director
Overweight shoeshiner Brother Wang (Wang Ge) and skinny rickshaw driver Brother Liu (Liu Ge) are best friends and roommates. One day, they come across a fortune teller who offers a peculiar forecast: that Wang will become very wealthy in three days but that Liu will die in 44 days. When Wang strikes gold by winning the lottery, just as predicted, the celebratory mood is soon eclipsed by the reminder that Liu’s death also has been forecast. With his newfound wealth, Wang decides to reward his dying buddy with the trip of a lifetime. Carrying around a suitcase full of cash, the working-class twosome embark on a road trip around the beautiful island of Taiwan. Enjoying a lavish lifestyle as inexperienced big spenders, they find themselves in unexpected situations and amusing predicaments, one after another.
沒有女人的地方
A Place Without Woman