Gua Ah-leh
Birthday: Born in 1944-06-02 in Changsha City, Hunan Province, China
Deathday: Alive
Grace Gua Ah-leh (traditional Chinese: 歸亞蕾; simplified Chinese: 归亚蕾) is a Taiwanese actress and singer born in China on June 2, 1944. She studied acting at the National Taiwan University of Arts. In 1965, she made her professional film debut in The Rain of Sorrow (煙雨濛濛), and received a Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress. She was the youngest Leading Actress winner in the Golden Horse history. The next year, she won another Best Leading Actress Golden Horse award for the movie Home, Sweet Home (家在台北). In 1978, she won the Best Supporting Actress Golden Horse award for her role in The Diary of Didi (蒂蒂日記). She has portrayed over 200 roles in film and television since her debut 1965.
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大宋宫词
Character: Empress Dowager Xiao
Orphaned as a child, Liu E travels to the capital Kaifeng, and later catches the eye of Zhao Heng. Though she was a concubine, Liu E was perceptive to state affairs, and often discussed politics with Zhao Heng. This tradition continued when he became emperor in 997. Liu E is crowned empress after adopting the son of a concubine (later Emperor Renzong), and serves as regent of the Song Dynasty during the last two years of her husband’s reign. Liu E would continue to rule until her death twelve ...
娘心计
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我和丈母娘的十年战争
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秦王李世民 (2005)
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梦断江南
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大明宫词
Character: 武则天
Palace of Desire, also known as Da Ming Gong Ci, is a Chinese television series based on the life story of Princess Taiping, a daughter of China's only female emperor Wu Zetian. Directed by Li Shaohong and Zeng Nianping, the series starred Chen Hong, Zhou Xun, Gui Yalei and Winston Chao in the leading roles. It was first broadcast on CCTV-8 in mainland China on March 30, 2000....
刘海戏金蟾
Character: 刘母
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摩西密码
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天天有喜
Character: 刘张氏
A wealthy fox family (in human appearances)have nine daughters. The father of daughters is a known king in their world. One day the father decides to get her youngest daughter married through an arranged marriage. The youngest daughter love going to the muggle (human world) and enjoys everything-food, clothing, games, shopping. Therefore to avoide the marriage she does a make marriage contract with a muggle without letting him knowing her real identity, which leads to many intereting and crazine...
重返20岁
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A story about rekindling the romance as an old married couple find themselves in their twenties once more and the hilarious hijinks that arise from adjusting to life as young people. Shen Meng Jun has too many problems…...
金馬獎
Character: Self
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Kim-má iáⁿ-tián) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is usually held in November or December in Taipei, although the event has also been held in other locations in Taiwan in recent times...
麻辣婆媳
Character: Qin Si Ping
This is a drama about the everyday ups and downs of life and the complex network of relationships within a family. The story begins with Ou Da Liang's marriage to psychiatrist Wu Rui. Da Liang's mother strongly disapproves of her new daughter-in-law and always laments about how great Da Liang's ex-girlfriend was......
红楼梦
Character: Madam Wang
Jai Baoyu is a male heir who grew up in a wealthy feudal clan dominated by women. His love affairs with his cousins Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai happened in the midst of his family's struggle to remain influential....
天和局
Character: 竺自萍
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汉武大帝
Character: 窦太后
The Emperor in Han Dynasty,[1] also released under the title The Emperor Han Wu in some countries, is a 2005 Chinese historical television series based on the life of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty. It uses the historical texts Records of the Grand Historian and Book of Han as its source material. The series covers the life of Emperor Wu from his early childhood to his death and some events in the reign of Emperor Jing (Emperor Wu's father and predecessor), such as the Rebellion of the Seven Sta...
橘子紅了
Character: First Wife of Yaohua
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四千金
Character: 白𬞟/白姨（母亲）
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见字如面
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烟花三月
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青青河邊草
Character: 静芝
Xiao Cao is a young orphan living with her cruel aunt and uncle. She has a sisterly bond with her neighbour, Qing Qing, who is being forced into a marriage with a much older man by her older brother. Desperate to escape their unfortunate circumstances, the two girls manage to run away together on the day of Qing Qing's wedding. During their escape they coincidentally meet He Shiwei, a young university student who is also running away from his family due to an arranged marriage. After a few initi...
浪子回头
Character: 杜老太太
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肥猫寻亲记
Character: 华老太
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Unmarried Mothers
Character: 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 com...
Miracles: The Canton Godfather
Character: Lady Rose / Ms. Kao
A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit....
Evening News
Character: 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...
The Wedding Banquet
Character: Mrs. Gao
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding....
Beneath the Banyan Tree
Character: 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....
The Jade Badger
Character: 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?...
Joyful Reunion
Character: 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....
The Diary of Di-Di
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A young girl, her life in despair, finds confidence in life again through the encouragement of her lover and relatives....
Summer's Desire
Character: Dean of Luoxi Welfare Institute
Yin Xia Mo is torn between her rich boyfriend, Ou Chen, and the charismatic orphan Luo Xi, who would do anything to win her heart....
Sergeant Hsiung
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Tonight Nobody Goes Home
Character: 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....
Journey Across the Mainland
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Joseph Kuo's final film....
The Knot
Character: 王碧云（老年）
They fell in love; Chen Qiushui was 20. Wang Biyun was 18. When Qiushui fled Taiwan after the 228 Massacre, Biyun gave him a gold engagement ring and they promised to meet again. Qiushui served as an army doctor during the Korean War, where he met Wang Jindi, a nurse from Shanghai who fell in love with him instantly. Years had gone by, Qiushui married Jindi and settled in Tibet. While in Taiwan, Biyun buried Qiushui's mother and continued to pray for his return. Flashback to modern time, Biyun ...
20 Once Again
Character: Shen Mengjun
A visit to the photographer's returns the physical looks of a 70-year-old grandmother back to her 20s. Things get even stranger when his grandson asks her to join his band, and his best friend begins to fall for her....
Maiden Rosé
Character: 周花雕（老年）
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....
A Rescue from Hades
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Three generations of the Luo family fasted and chanted Buddha's name. However, Mr. Luo died young. Luo's mother complained and began to kill animals and eat meat. When Luo Bu grew up, her family property was wiped out by her uncle. Oppose and remarry someone else. After Luo's mother died, she went to hell. Luo Bu received God's instructions and followed Pratyekabuddha to practice, and his Dharma name was Mulian. However, because he could not bear the suffering of his mother in hell, he broke int...
Flower Just Smile in the Spring Breeze
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Flower Just Smile in the Spring Breeze is a Taiwanese Romance starring Alan Tam...
The Funny Couple
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The Funny Couple is a Taiwanese Romantic Comedy starring Alan Tam...
Baby Steps
Character: 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....
Everything Is Going My Way
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It tells the story of Long Baonian, an entrepreneur who owns tourist hotels and tour bus companies, from his youth to old age and his recollections of the past....
The King of Gambler
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Love in Chilly Spring
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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...
The Women Soldiers
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Four girls graduate from high school with the hope of joining the army, even though that may clash with their parents' wishes......
Flag of Honor
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Hong Kong romance set in wartime...
Intimates
Character: 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....
Glass Eyeball
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Taiwanese horror movie from 1969....
Devil yielded to God
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Taiwanese horror movie from 1970....
Love's Many Faces
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An unusual tale about the love between a female cat-burglar and a university student....
Errant Love
Character: 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....
Phoenix the Raider
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A story of two friends on the opposite side of the law....
Poor Chasers
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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....
Fleeing by Night
Character: Wei's Mother
Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters, each involved with a performance of the opera Fleeing by Night in a local theatre....
Love Is Thicker Than Wine
Character: 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?...
Rape and Die
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Ah-feng is a teenager who is raped by her Mother's boyfriend. Following her subsequent pregnancy she decides to seek revenge....
The Rain of Sorrow
Character: Lu Yi-ping
Adaptation of Chiung Yao's novel "Fire and Rain"....
Forbidden Imperial Tales
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Forbidden Imperial Tales is a Taiwan History movie...
Eat Drink Man Woman
Character: Madame Liang
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 whom are unattached. Soon, each of the daughters encounter new men in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes....
Mother Tragedy
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Taiwanese drama film....
The True and False Wife
Character: Hsu Mu Cheng
Taiwanese romantic comedy....
The Legend of Chu Liu Hsiang
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Taiwanese fantasy / adventure....
Man Ghost Fox
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Tells the story of people, ghosts and foxes between a poignant love story....
Woman Police
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Taiwanese crime drama....
The Woman Who Eats People
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Taiwan horror....
Phoenix the Ninja
Character: Happy Fairy
A female ninja avenges her mother's death....
Immortal Warriors
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Immortal Warriors is a Taiwanese Martial Arts movie....
The Winter
Character: 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....
Home, Sweet Home
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A Title Rewon
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I Didn't Dare to Tell You
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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....
The Lost Generation
Character: Kuei Ya-mei
The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China....
Inferno Thunderbolt
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A young beautiful woman goes undercover into a wealthy powerful crime family to investigate and avenge her younger sister's tragic death. Cut-and-paste transformation of Taiwanese movie "The Anger" a.k.a. "Shi Jie" (original title; 1982) directed by Richard Chen Yao-Chi with new Hong Kong footage....
Burn Phoenix Burn
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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......
Consolidated Dougherty
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Taiwanese adventure film that reunites Ivy Ling Po with ex-Shaw stars Ching Li and Lisa Chiao Chiao....
The Anger
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Drama-thriller from Taiwan....
The Chinese Amazons
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Taiwanese war film directed by Li Chia....
Koali & Rice
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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 fro...
Last Eunuch In China
Character: Lai Shi's Mother
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Number One
Character: Grandmother
In the context of China's urbanization, a young man faces existential difficulties and decides to rewrite his life....
The Coldest Winter in Peking
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Story of a US-educated scientist who returned to China, and suffered during the years of the Cultural Revolution....
Somewhere My Love
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Taiwan Drama starring Ko Chun-Hsiung...
Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year
Character: Grandma
Tang Yuan, Jiao Zi and their family enjoy Chinese New Year together, learning about traditions, and sharing Peppa Pig stories....
Migratory Bird
Character: 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....
Triumph Of Two Kung-Fu Arts
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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....
Portrait of a Fanatic
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In 1949 when the Communist regime was established in China, the world-famed painter Ling Chen-kuang, believing his conviction for a new-born society had come true on his motherland, returned anxiously from the U.S., whither he had fled apprehension by lawmen when cracking down on rebellious activities he had actively engaged in out of cynicism and hostility – the feelings evolved from constant haunting by the memories of his childhood miserableness – to the then existing institutions in China. A...
Once Upon A Lie
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烟雨濛濛
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