Brigitte Lin
Date of Birth: 03 Nov 1954
Country: Taiwan
Total Credits at Criticker: 59 (Actor)
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Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color (imdb)
Kevin Chan (aka Jackie) is a Hong-Kong cop, who scores his first big hit by virtually single-handedly capturing and arresting a big drug- lord... (imdb)
With an entirely new set of actors, this movie continues the story from Swordsman (1990) (imdb)
A talented lady novelist falls in love with a Chinese traitor working with the Japanese during the WWII. (imdb)
This big hit at the Sundance Film Festival had audiences cheering. Set during the Ming Dynasty, this acclaimed production tells the story of a power hungry eunuch who employs an evil sect in his quest to rule China (imdb)
Ou-yang Feng (Leslie Cheung) lives in the middle of a desert, where he acts as a middle man to various swordsmen in ancient China... (imdb)
Chinese soldiers in an ancient civil war get caught up in a fantastical quest to save the universe. (imdb)
The sensitive swordsman Cho Yi-Hang is tired of his life. He is the unwilling successor to the Wu-Tang clan throne and the unsure commander of the clan's forces in a war against foreign tribes and an evil cult (imdb)
A parody of Louis Cha's novel The Eagle Shooting Heroes (thats the literal translation). (imdb)
The movie is set in chaotic 1920's China, when warlords fought each other for power while Sun Yat-Sen's underground movement tried to establish a democratic republic (imdb)
All the masters of the various martial arts clans desperately want to possess the magic lyre - an item which, in the right hands, has devastating power. The item is placed in the hands of a young security man by a mysterious woman who knows how to harness the power it holds. However, the delivery of the lyre is not her true goal, rather she is out for vengeance on all the masters, and is merely using the poor man as a stalking goat, to catch those who go after him and the lyre.
Similar to "The Dirty Dozen" or one of that nature. Japan is trying to take over the world and the generals of the allied forces trying to stop the Japanese have been taken prisoner (imdb)
For ten years, Cho has been in the snow of Mount Shin Fung waiting for a rare flower to blossom that will cure his wife who, back in Chung Yuan, is slowly killing all of the members of the Eight Big Clans. (imdb)
A broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings.
Andy Lau plays the son of Eva/Yee Fa (Cheung Man), who was raised by eight of the Ten Untouchable Villains after Eva's husband divorces her and becomes a vegetable in the ensuing fight. Andy goes off to become the Supreme of the Martial World and to prove the people who raised him innocent by catching the Twin Villains who really committed the crimes. (Sazuma.com)
A royal official accompanies a Portuguese warship to the Black Cliffs to see the site of the defeat of the evil Invincible Asia, who attained supernatural abilities by following the sacred scroll and castrating himself. The official discovers that the Portuguese are actually after the sacred scroll, and then finds Invincible Asia him/herself, who is not actually dead. (imdb)
Following on from the Royal Tramp I, after discovering that the Empress is actually Lone-er, a member of the St Dragon Sect, and that she imprisoned the real empress. Lone-er is bent on eliminating the person who disclosed her true identity, Wilson Bond. But more complications ensues when Lone-er is assigned to protect the Prince, whose servant is none other than Wilson Bond. (imdb)
Dazzling swordplay and eye-poping battles highlight this story of the top three swordsmen in central China; Samurai, Smiling Sam and Big Knife who become involved in a plot to recover the Holy Sword and also avenge the murder of the Empress. (imdb)
Jet is the star gigolo in Hong Kong. Arrogant, sexy, everyone falls in love with him, but he falls in love with no one... (imdb)
A man wants to see his three daughters get married. The eldest is a hard-nosed cop who needs a hard-nosed lover. The middle daughter is a wall flower who yearns for a gangster. The youngest daughter has a crush on a boy she can't completely trust. (imdb)
Black Cougar is a mercenary who is being paid a huge sum of money by an unknown person to recover a top secret file. Realizing the enormity and complexity of the task, he enlists the help of a dummy-sucking computer hacker, a sex-maniacal weapons specialist, and a charismatic 'God of Gamblers' to help him out. When he gets double-crossed by the unknown person. He sets out to seek and destroy him, with the help of his friends... (imdb)
Set in a time-warp fantasyland wherein World War II somehow co-exists with punk rock fashions, wu xia plot twists, and trappings from James Bond, Tarzan and samurai movies, this opens with notorious freedom fighter Black Fox (Brigitte Lin...very chic in a wooly hat and eye-patch)...dragged into a P.O.W. camp run by Chinese Nazis. Fox is first in our crack squad of nutty, gorgeous women, introduced with mini-bios listing their names, ages and crimes... (The Spinning Image)
Lung (Ti Lung) and Wong (Raymond Wong) are buddies in their ferocious youth. Lung fled his motherland to escape a physical assault. Lung returns after five years and runs into Wong, who becomes a priest in charge of an orphanage. One of the orphans, James (Gary Lim), is a troublemaker and is reckless of the consequences that Wong reckons he is the replica of their teens. Lung and Wong try to discipline James but in vain. (hkcinemagic.com)
A private detective gets mixed up with stolen Nazi atomic bomb formulas. (imdb)
Legend has it that in a faraway place beyond the edge of the earth, there exists a broken-hearted man with infinite power. Abandoned by his loved ones, the inheritance of the old man's chi power becomes a battleground for evil outsiders. (imdb)
Noted art director Tony Au Ding-ping helms this acclaimed romantic fantasy featuring Chow Yun-fat and Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia. Sony Yu (Chow) is a famous orchestra conductor who recently suffers from a series of bizarre visions of a beautiful woman and a Qin dynasty era terracotta statue. (allrovi.com)
Chu Yin-Ping directs the Hong Kong martial arts action film Faster Blade Poisonous Darts. Brigitte Lin stars as a woman who is kidnapped. Adam Chang plays the adventurer who attempts to rescue her. (allrovi.com)
Attempting to vie for power the evil Prince Six and his masked assassin the Flame Devil plot to kill the Prime Minister. Amidst fire and destruction the Fiery Dragon Team and the Imperial guard team together to extinguish the flame of the evil prince. [from the Tai Seng Catalog] Ah Hsia is a mercenary working for the evil Sixth Prince, who sent her on a mission to destroy evidence of the prince's betrayal to the emperor. The only thing standing in Hsia's way is a young man who has the evidence. (hkmdb.com)
Set in a surprisingly minimalist San Francisco, Patrick Tam's stylish slasher movie manages to evoke both Antonioni and Mario Bava in this tale of a ravishing young co-ed (Brigitte Lin) whose studly boyfriend (Chang Kuo-chu) turns into a demented stalker after the suicide of his sister. (UCLA Film & Television Archive)
Lady in Black portrays Sang [Tony Leung Ka-Fai] as a worker in a building firm and May [Lin Ching Hsia] as his devoted wife, as well as "working mom". The first one is affected by social climbing obsessions and, in order to gain wealth and power, tries to ingratiate himself with his boss and also gambles big sums of money. However, things start going amiss when he loses $440.000 in the games. May, unaware of the reasons, generously helps the husband in trouble by forging her boss' signature... (imdb)
Two drama companies happened to share one auditorium for rehearsal. Friction was inevitable. One of them played 'Peach Blossom', a comedy in medieval costume. Another played 'Secret Love', a sad story with contemporary setting. Though unreconciled in all aspects, they find themselves telling the same story: the story of Chinese people forced to leave home. (imdb)
The plot revolves about two almost identical women and their many almost identical male friends and partners whom they hang out with. Somebody's boyfriend has been murdered, and one of the women suspect the other for killing him. Then she gets some help from some police-friends, whom I can't tell apart (all medium-sized Asian guys with ugly mullets). (imdb)
The story takes place in a beautiful pavilion in 1930's Suzhou. Jade is a famous songstress courtesan, marrying into the noble house. She develops a dubious relationship with a female cousin of the family and also being admired secretly by her butler. LAN, the cousin, is a modern woman who wants to be independent and serves her country, but when she meets the charismatic Shing, an official from the North, all her plans go astray. (themoviedb.org)
A suspense thriller revolving around BRIGITTE LIN CHING HSIA as a successful attorney with a deep dark secret. The secret leads to extortion and murder when JOEY WANG and PAULINE WONG step into the picture. (hkmdb.com)
The last Huangmei offering from Shaw studio is finally here! It was a very shrewd decision to cast Brigitte Lin, the reigning queen of the 70s Qiong Yao romances as Pao Yu and under the meticulous direction of Li Han Hsiang, she managed to pull it off and made this version of Pau Yu uniquely her own. Sylvia Chang has the esteemed role of Dai Yu but seemed miscast and tried too hard to make herself a tragic figure... (imdb)
Brigitte Lin's debut film is a melodrama in which her character gets involved in a socially unacceptable relationship and then forced into marriage. (letterboxd)
After the death of her parents, a young woman (Tang Bao Yun) is forced to work as a barmaid to support the education of her younger brother (Liu Chia Chang) and sister (Brigitte Lin)... (letterboxd)
To help his ailing mother, an un-named young man agrees to copy the Buddhist scriptures in a quiet place, bathe regularly, and avoid the company of beautiful women. With his slave boy, Ching, he goes to live at an abandoned estate believed to have a haunted well. Though he disbelieves at first, he discovers it is haunted by Su-Su, a ghost of a drowned girl merged with an enchated mirror spirit called Yau Ying. (imdb)
Lo Wen (Chin Han) is enamored of his college sweetheart Xiao Yu (Brigitte Lin), and the two wish to get married as soon as they possibly can. But Lo Wen's uncle and Xiao Yu's parents are opposed to an immediate union, both thinking that the couple is too young to properly make a life for themselves. Determined to prove the adults wrong, the young couple create their "House of Love", a cheap home the two plan to renovate into their dream residence... (letterboxd)
Mr. and Mrs. Ho are longing for a grandson. Their son, Ho Chieh and daughter-in-law, Wan Ping, come home from abroad. Wan Ching, the little sister-in-law, is a nurse and comes with Mrs. Ho to meet her sister. At the airport, old Mrs. Ho mistakenly hears that her daughter-in-law is pregnant. After that, Ho Chieh has to attend a business party. However, his wife is not free for it so he begs his little sister-in-law to go as his wife. Wan Ching turns out to be a hit with the guests... (The Movie Database)
This early Brigitte Lin film is based on the same Chinese folk tale that Tsui Hark later used as his source for The Green Snake. It is the story of two sister snakes that want to feel what it is to be human and one of them needs to know what it is to feel human love. It is a sweet magical but ultimately tragic tale of breaking societal taboos. (letterboxd)
Billionaire Suen falls seriously ill, he hopes to find his only son who has been missing for twenty years to inherit his fortune. Meanwhile, he tells his butlers to find a killer, to kill him when he is joyful, so that he won't suffer too much from his illness. Suen meets a woman and asks her to move in, in return he promises to pass his fortune to her. Thief Yee, Scammer Tao, and Single Fong all flood in and assert that they are the son of Suen. (The Movie Database)
In a world where cowboys coexist with Chinese thugs, Arab swordsmen, Nazi troops, Klansmen and spandex-bearing superheroines. Brigette Lin is the "Jackal", a renegade mercenary who betrayed her gang to his Nazi Commander lover and stealing a cache of gold. A year later reunited her gang led by "Cat", a golden sword costumed woman. (Wu Tang Collection)
Love, Love, Love is a Taiwanese film, released in 1974 by Central Motion Pictures Corporation and spoken in Mandarin. It stars Charlie Chin as Li Ai-fang and Brigitte Lin as Lin Chuen-chuen. Chin Chuan is co-starring in this film. It was written, composed, and directed by Liu Chia-chang. (Wikipedia)
Tells the story of "Bao sheng da di"--A marvelous man who wanted to become a doctor so that he could save his mother's life. (worldcat.org)
September 18,1931, Japanese invaded Northeast China, to form puppet state of Manchukuo. Later they attacked China itself. August 1937, Japanese forces combined to attack capital of Central China: Shanghai. 3 months on, Shanghai was occupied. Movie portrays true event during the attack. 500 soldiers under Commander Xie Jinyuan, covered the retreat of Chinese National Revolutionary Army. Tho facing Japanese on 3 sides, they fought for 4 days and 1 night.
Here's an ultra-obscure Taiwanese comedy directed by schlockmeister Chu Yen-ping (Fantasy Mission Force, Island of Fire) in which the great Brigitte Lin (Chungking Express) teams up with four Charlie Chaplins to find lost treasure. The Charlies are goofy fellows who get into slapstick shenanigans and appear to have a Three Stooges-like bond with each other. - Review by Will Sloan
Chia Yi (Brigitte Lin) is already engaged but she still feels lonely deep in her heart. She has a tough decision to make when her cousin (Charlie Chin) confesses his admiration for her...
As Cai Mei, a single 40-year-old woman and a social worker starts a relationship with a teenager Tian-Ah, she remembers her relationship when she was young with her professor, a married man older than her.