Gua Ah-leh
출생 : 1944-06-02, Changsha City, Hunan Province, China
약력
Grace Gua Ah-leh (born 2 June 1944) is a Taiwanese actress and singer. Gua has portrayed over 200 roles in film and television since 1965. She has won the Golden Horse Awards 4 times and the Golden Bell Awards twice.
Gua Ah Leh is a well known award-winning actress. Also known as Kuei Ya-lei and Grace Gua, she was born in China in 1944. She studied acting at the National Taiwan University of Arts. In 1965, she made her professional movie debut in The Rain of Sorrow, and received a Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress. That award made her the youngest Leading Actress winner in the Golden Horse history. Next year, she was in the movie Home, Sweet Home. Her performance in that movie won the Best Leading Actress in the Asia Pacific Film Festival (Indonesia), and another Best Leading Actress Golden Horse award. In 1978, she won the Best Supporting Actress Golden Horse award for her role in "Didi's Diary".
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Jia-Rong Woo
After her son is jailed, a Chinese mother with high expectations struggles to protect her family's remaining reputation by parenting her independent daughter, whom she must seek shelter from in the U.S. with her son's two unmanageable adolescents.
Grandmother
Widow Lin Xiumei realizes that soon after both of her sons have left home, she changes into someone who was once “needed” to an “irrelevant” person, which causes a painful confusion for her. The sudden death of Qing Er, her only friend who is 10 years younger than her, sends yet another shockwave to her. She decides to prove her worth and importance once again in her 70s before she is taken by death. With the help from others, including the guidance from Qing Er’s ghost, and the instructions from the “Goddess”, Lin Xiumei takes on an impossible mission. Will she regain the care from her family? Will she successfully find her lost self?
Grandma
Tang Yuan, Jiao Zi and their family enjoy Chinese New Year together, learning about traditions, and sharing Peppa Pig stories.
Ma
Danny, a Taiwanese-American man, and his partner Tate want to have a baby, but the complex world of international surrogacy is further complicated by Danny's well-meaning but extremely meddlesome mother.
Shen Mengjun
아들 자랑이 유일한 낙인 까칠한 칠순 할매션명쥔은 가족들이 자신을 요양원으로 보내려 한다는 청천벽력 같은 사실을 알게 된다. 뒤숭숭한 마음을 안고 밤길을 방황하던 할매는 오묘한 불빛에 이끌려 ‘청춘 사진관’으로 들어간다. 난생 처음 곱게 꽃단장을 하고 영장사진을 찍고 나오는 길, 그녀는 버스 차창 밖에 비친 자신의 얼굴을 보고 경악을 금치 못한다. 여배우 뺨치는 뽀얀 피부, 날씬한 몸매... 주름진 할매에서 탱탱한 스무살꽃처녀의 몸으로 돌아간 것! 아무도 알아보지 못하는 자신의 젊은 모습에 그녀는 어릴 적 좋아하던 배우이자 가수’등려군(덩리쥔)”의 이름을 본따‘리쥔’이라는 가명으로, 빛나는 전성기를 즐겨 보기로 마음 먹는데…
Bai Ping
Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, the present day. Master chef Tang Shizhe (Kenneth Tsang) tells his two daughters, the careerist Wa'er (Huo Siyan) and teenage Xiaolan (Jiang Mengjie), that he has decided to sell his upscale vegetarian restaurant, the centre of his life for 30 years.
Chen's Mom
Fong, a Taiwanese woman has relocated to Canada with her husband Kwok. Fong suspects that Kowk is cheating on her on his regular business trips to Taiwan.
1930년대 중국. 극장주의 딸인 잉거와 미국에서 온 그녀의 약혼자 샤오둥, 그리고 경극배우의 스타 린청은 이제 막 만났다. 금융을 배우러 갔다가 첼리스트가 되어 돌아온 샤오둥은 오랫동안 편지를 주고받았던, 그러나 처음 만나는 잉거가 낯설지가 않지만 린청의 노래를 듣고는 순식간에 매혹당한다. 사랑과 우정이 엇갈린 상태로 엮인 것이다.
Auntie Foon - Aged Wan
Foon escapes an arranged marriage by walking the road of a Ji Sor. After an affair with Shing, she becomes pregnant. An attempted abortion nearly costs Foon her life. Wan, the young owner of a silk factory, rescues her. Wan and Foon share their romances, reflecting the experience of women during the 40's.
Mrs. Chen
The Chen family contagiousness extends to taking on an extra-marital affair. Gua Ah-leh is at the movie's centre: she shines as Lung's wife, who finds she has a thing or two to learn from the gigolo after Lung blithely. Lang Hisung plays old dentist for broad comedy he is sixty years old.
To celebrate his newborn baby girl, an old wine brewer made a bottle of Maiden Rose for her future marriage. Eighteen years later, the girl was already a beautiful woman and fall in love with a youngster. However, her father was unhappy with their romance, though she had been pregnant. Fifty years passed by, three women of three generations finally had a chance to drink that bottle of Maiden Rose.
Madame Liang
유명 호텔 요리사이자 아버지 '주사부' 기독교 신자 첫째 딸 '가진' 커리어우먼 둘째 딸 '가천' 패스트푸드 아르바이트생 막내 '가령' 주사부는 나이가 들면서 미각을 잃어감과 동시에 가족들과 흩어져 살게 된다. 결혼과 사랑을 위해 독립을 계획한 사랑하는 세 딸을 위해, 아버지는 오늘도 저녁 식사를 준비하고 가족들을 초대하는데...
Mrs. Gao
대만에서 뉴욕으로 건너와 부동산 딜러로 일하며 잘나가고 있는 웨이퉁(조문선)은 애인 사이먼과 동거하며 행복한 나날을 보내고 있다. 이 사실을 모르는 웨이퉁의 부모님은 그가 결혼하여 손주를 안겨주길 고대하고 있다. 이에 웨이퉁과 사이먼은 부모님과 자신 모두를 만족시킬 방안을 생각해낸다. 웨이퉁이 관리하는 건물의 세입자인 웨이웨이와 위장결혼을 하자는 것. 미국에 체류하기 위해 영주권이 필요했던 웨이웨이는 그들의 제안에 흔쾌히 수락한다. 아들의 결혼 소식에 뉴욕까지 찾아온 부모님은 대만의 전통 혼례식을 치를 것을 제안하고, 어쩔 수 없이 결혼 피로연까지 치르게 된다. 세 사람의 완벽한 연기로 위장결혼은 성공한 듯 보였지만, 결혼 피로연에서 발생한 예상치 못한 사고로 그들의 관계는 흔들리기 시작하는데…
Forbidden Imperial Tales is a Taiwan History movie
Madam Kao
마지막 잔돈을 털어 행운의 장미 한 송이를 산 시골총각 ‘곽진화’는 우연히 조직들의 싸움에 말려들어 얼떨결에 조직의 두목으로 추대된다. 그러던 어느 날 자신에게 장미를 판 여인의 딱한 사정을 듣게 된다. 장미여인에게는 상해에서 대학에 다니는 딸이 있는데, 그곳에서 갑부의 아들과 만나 결혼을 약속하고 홍콩으로 상견례를 오기로 했다는 것. 하지만 그에 비해 너무나도 가난한 자신의 처지가 딸에게 피해를 줄까 우려하여 몸져누운 장미여인의 모정에 감동한 ‘곽진화’는 그녀를 일류 호텔로 데려가 귀부인으로 둔갑 시킨다. 드디어 상견례가 있는 날, 모든 것이 순조롭게 진행되는 듯 하지만 곧 조직간의 싸움과 형사의 방해작전으로 모든 계획이 수포로 돌아갈 위기에 놓이는데…
Taiwanese drama film.
Lai Shi's Mother
청나라 마지막 황제 선통제 말엽 도처에서 반청의 물결이 일자 내시들이 앞을 다투어 은퇴한다. 세도가 당당한 내시 소덕장이 조상의 제사를 지내기 위해 고향에 내려오는데 가난하게 사는 마을 아이들은 소덕장의 당당한 모습을 보고 내시가 되면 출세길이 열리는 것으로 생각한다. 9살 내회는 내시가 되겠다고 아버지를 설득, 거세까지 했으나 청나라가 망한 것을 안 내회의 부모는 그를 북으로 보내 창을 배우게 한다. 내회는 '옥란'이라는 예명으로 무대에 오르는 어릴적 친구 초제를 만나게 되나 초제는 내회를 혁명당원으로 오해한다. 내회와 초제는 유흥가를 도망치기로 약속하나 내회가 내시임을 안 초제는 화를 내며 가버린다.
Hong Kong romance set in wartime
(archive footage)
"Cut-and-paste" transformation of Taiwanese movie "The Anger" (1982; directed by Richard Chen Yao-Chi) with new Hong Kong footage.
Taiwan Drama starring Ko Chun-Hsiung
Kuei Ya-mei
The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
Ah-feng is a teenager who is raped by her Mother's boyfriend. Following her subsequent pregnancy she decides to seek revenge.
Drama-thriller from Taiwan.
A young lady sacrificed her first love when she discovered her boyfriend had a crush on her younger sister whom she was guilt-ridden of her loss of eyesight since childhood days. Years later, when she found her new love, her relationship with her new boyfriend was again put to test when he saw her blind but beautiful sister...
Lady Shang
A marriage between nobles in Ancient China sets the stage for murder, monsters, and mutilation as the invited guests search for a secret hidden treasure. A search that leads them through dark evil forests, opulent palaces, and each other! When two sick and twisted killers enter the fray it is up to our hat wearing hero to straighten things out and put the warlords, henchmen, and evil ninja six feet under! But is he working for the law, or himself?
Taiwanese crime drama.
Taiwan horror.
A historical thriller directed by Cheng Kang.
Four girls graduate from high school with the hope of joining the army, even though that may clash with their parents' wishes...
Taiwanese crime film.
Taiwanese adventure film that reunites Ivy Ling Po with ex-Shaw stars Ching Li and Lisa Chiao Chiao.
Happy Fairy
A female ninja gets avenges her mother's death.
Story of a US-educated scientist who returned to China, and suffered during the years of the Cultural Revolution.
Chung Tsui-wei
Kao Han (Kenny Bee) and Pan-yun (Xiu-ling Lu) meet for the first time as strangers in a pet shop. It is destiny that they meet a second time and Kao Han takes a chance in this second meeting to pursue Pan-yun. Pan-yun is reluctant to get involved with Kao Han because she still thinks about and love her late-husband and also her late-husband's niece, Ko-hui (Lan-xi), is in love with Kao Han. Reluctantly and unwillingly Pan-yun falls for Kao Han but their love is not so easily obtained.
Lin Ko-Ching
Shih-Yen is upset about Ko-Ching prioritizing her career over their marriage and even getting an abortion without his knowledge. To express discontent, Shih-Yen moves in with his mistress. Despite feeling overwhelmed by her messy personal life, Ko-Ching manages to lead her company and delivers a successful fashion show. The film reflects on career women’s struggles between family and work, it also describes the gender role stereotypes in a marriage. Although the film demonstrates clearly women’s difficult role in society, it still chooses to show the possibility of women being independent, capable and charming to refute the status quo of patriarchy.
Taiwanese fantasy / adventure.
Madam Pai
Hsiao-Peng, an unmarried mother is sent to a maternity home for young single mothers. During her time in the maternity home, she slowly overcomes the depressive thoughts and builds strong bonds with Wen-Yueh, Ko-Hsin, and Madam Pai. After moving out the maternity home, Hsiao-Peng lives with Wen-Yueh and Ko-Hsin in an apartment where they continue to be each other’s support. The two main settings of the film, the maternity home and the apartment, build an atypical family model. It is a tender coming-of-age tale where women are empowered with the right to think for themselves.
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 Cheng-hsiung at a school concert, is smitten by his talents and looks. However, as fate would have it, Cheng-hsiung is after the studious and gentler Shen Jung.
Flower Just Smile in the Spring Breeze is a Taiwanese Romance starring Alan Tam
The son of a wealthy businessman (Alan Tam) sees Yun Bai (Lin Feng-Jiao) at an art exhibition for the very first time and falls in love with her. Soon he finds out that Yun Bai doesn't like men who are lazy and who don't have to do anything for their money. Hsiao Chi (Alan Tam) wants to do whatever he has to do to get this wonderful girl and is lying to her that he's a poor artist. Yun Bai falls in love with him and now he wants to reveal his real identity. But how can he do it without losing her again?
The Funny Couple is a Taiwanese Romantic Comedy starring Alan Tam
This wartime romantic melodrama set in the mountains of Yilan during the final days of WWII. Young and free-spirited Shiow-lan (Feng Fei-fei) falls in love at first sight with Charng-rong (Liang Hsiu-shen), a worker at her father’s lumber mill. She likes to sing, he likes to write music. With their parents' approval, the two decide to get married but their plans are thwarted by Japanese lieutenant Herng-shan who has set his eyes on Shiow-lan. Herng-shan drafts Charng-rong and sends him to war in Southeast Asia where almost certain death awaits.
Taiwanese romance film.
Immortal Warriors is a Taiwanese Martial Arts movie.
An unusual tale about the love between a female cat-burglar and a university student.
A young girl, her life in despair, finds confidence in life again through the encouragement of her lover and relatives.
For a movie with kung fu right there in the title this one sure takes it's time before we even get to any fight scenes. For the first half hour or so it's all heavy melodrama about a guy seeking revenge for his dead father and his mom's disappointment with him for not getting it and generally for being such a loser. When we finally get to some fighting there are some weird choices including one of the end fight scenes being just a series of stills shown over some music.
Taiwanese war film directed by Li Chia.
Taiwanese romance film.
Hsu Mu Cheng
Taiwanese romantic comedy.
A girl who weds her love against her wishes repents after their daughter is born and her decision makes her husband leave her. He returns 10 years later to see the child.
Tells the story of people, ghosts and foxes between a poignant love story.
A Chin
The winters in Northern China could become rather bitter and harsh especially if one must endure it alone. Hoping to spend his last winter in solitude, a timid man must declare his love for his sweetheart before her family forces her to be married off.
A student secretly works a night job to pay off his father’s gambling debts, and as a result constantly dozes off during classes in the day. When the teacher investigates, a series of family disputes ensues. This is MOU’s first film after graduating from Taiwan Art College. When it was first shown, it drew much criticism and debate.
Hsu Hsiao-Ching
A romance that was destined to be, becomes altered by a man's insecurity and a woman's pride. Will their love stand the test of time?
Lu Yi-ping
Adaptation of Chiung Yao's novel "Fire and Rain".
