Lisa Lu

Lisa Lu
Date of Birth: 19 Jan 1927
Country: China
Total Credits at Criticker: 26 (Actor)
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Blindness
A blind Asian-American woman lives with her son and daughter-in-law. The two women barely tolerate one another and the son, a doctor simply turns himself off to avoid any confrontation with either. Into this environment, an armed intruder breaks in. He is eventually revealed to be an old family friend who was sent to prison for murdering his father, but he insists that the older woman's husband, now deceased, was the actual murderer.
The Joy Luck Club
The story of four remarkable friends whose extraordinary lives are filled with joy and heartbreak. Their lifelong friendship reveals a mosaic of the startling events and conditions that have shaped their lives -- and how these experiences have affected the hopes and dreams they hold for each of their children. (Hollywood Pictures)
Beauty Remains
Set in 1948 against the backdrop of Communism's rise, "Fei" is the story of two sisters--Fei and Ying--bound together by the will of their late father, a legendary business entrepreneur, and their shared love for a charismatic ex-boxer, Huang. They are two women whose paths have been dictated by the often cruel decrees of the men their lives--two women who must somehow transcend that influence...or lose everything. (imdb)
Demon Seed
A scientist creates Proteus--an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife. (imdb.com)
Hakuja den
The adventures of a cute little panda, a dragon god and an evil serpent. (imdb)
Invisible Target
An armoured truck is secretly transporting $100 million for a US bank when it is hijacked by a band of robbers calling themselves the 'Ronin Gang'. The gang blows up the truck and makes off with all the cash. Three young detectives, led by Chan Chun (Nicholas Tse), are soon assigned to thwart another massive bank robbery organised by the Ronin Gang. (imdb)
The Mountain Road
An American officer helps villagers against the Japanese during WWII. (TCM.com)
Dong fu ren
A period piece about a woman who sacrifices her love interests for social appearances.
Apart Together
iu returns to his native city Shanghai after 50 years spent in Taiwan. He has come to find the first love of his life, Qiao, who he left behind pregnant. In the meantime, Qiao has married and built a family. But Liu is determined to get the family's approval to take her away with him. (Celluloid Dreams)
Don\
The story centers around Brian Anderson, a soldier who is only out for his own neck, who ends up drawn into taking care of orphans in a nearby orphanage, keeping a promise to a friend who was killed in action. At first, he views the task with a degree of annoyance, then slowly begins to warm up to the orphans, risking his life and his career to protect them. Robert Englund played the role of Tripper. Susan Saint James played a doctor and the love interest to Brian Anderson. (wikipedia)
The 14 Amazons
When the oldest men of the Yang clan are killed in battle, the surviving female generals prepare to fortify their homeland while plotting vengeance against their enemies. A martial arts adventure starring Lilly Ho and Lisa Lu, The 14 Amazons is set during the Sing Dynasty. (allrovi.com)
Terror in the Wax Museum
This is a rehash of old movies, starring the sculptor and manager of a mysterious wax museum. You can see the wax figures breathing. (imdb)
The Empress Dowager
This dragon lady of the Ching Dynasty was the power behind the throne for 50 years, and her vast tapestry of palace intrigues is vividly brought to the screen in this memorable epic. Lisa Lu's passionate performance won her Taiwan's coveted Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, while the sumptuous costumes and sets won a Golden Horse for Best Colour Art Design, and the film was further awarded a statue for Superior Motion Picture. (hkcinemagic.com)
Dangerous Liaisons
As war looms in Shanghai, glamorous libertine Mo Jieyu runs into womanizer Xie Yifan, an ex boyfriend who's never stopped loving her, and persuades him to play a treacherous game. She must seduce the innocent and naïve Du Fenyu and then dump her. But the game becomes increasingly dangerous as Xie falls in love with Du. (quinzaine-realisateurs.com)
The Last Tempest
This sequel to The Empress Dowager equals, and, in some ways, surpasses its predecessor. The attention to historic detail in the sets and costumes is everything one expects from director Li Han-hsiang, the master of the costume drama. Variety hailed the production as "lavish, the script tightly packed," and concluded that the "filmmakers' efforts to try to make things perfect, to put his audience back in the days of the Empress Dowager and her son, have come off once again." (hkcinemagic.com)
Rider on a Dead Horse
Entertaining story about avaricious prospectors, angry Apaches, a cunning bounty hunter, and a desperate Asian woman who wants to go to San Francisco.
China: Beyond the Clouds
The documentary was purportedly shot over ten years in the Naxi autonomous region in Yunnan province, documenting a beautiful little town seemingly untouched by modern life, with irrigation channels flowing through the town for people to wash their clothes in. (imdb)
Guangdong Heroine
During the Japanese invasion of Northeast China a teenage Chinese girl and her friend are brutally gang raped by Japanese soldiers. After her friend commits suicide, the girl joins a notorious group of bandits, vowing to get revenge. Sublimating her own familial desires, she consequently directs her local army towards a vigorous and protracted resistive campaign with the enemy, whereby local communities mythically proclaim her as 'The Guangdong Heroine'. (Wu Tang Collection)
Have Gun - Will Travel
Professional gunfighter Paladin was a West Point graduate who, after the Civil War, settled into San Francisco's Hotel Carlton were he awaited responses to his business card: over the picture of a chess knight "Have Gun, Will Travel ... Wire Paladin, San Francisco.
Have Gun - Will Travel - Season 4
Rally Road Racers
Racers compete in a high-stakes rally along the famous Silk Road trade route.
The Big Valley - Season 4
The Big Valley - Season 3
Death and Other Details - Season 1
A Love So Beautiful
The ups and downs of school, family and growing up test the affection between a budding artist and her handsome but indifferent classmate and neighbor. (imdb)
Anna and the King
Plot. Anna Leonowens, a British widow, has come to Siam with her son Louis to teach English to Crown Prince Chulalongkorn, the heir of King Mongkut. (imdb)