Hsu Shu-Yuan
Actor · b. 1959 · Taiwan
A celebrated model renowned for her tall frame and cool outlook. Hsu turned up the heat when she posed provocatively on the cover of 'Playboy' magazine's Taiwanese edition, following the footsteps of local celebrities as Guo Jing-chun, Yeung Sze-man, Carol Cheng, Luo Wan-yi, Yu Ke-xin and Xu Le-mei. Hsu moved to Hong Kong in 1985 and starred in various films such as 'Twisted Love', 'Hong Kong Godfather', 'The Missed Date' and 'The Seventh Curse'. She had also appeared in drama serials for Taiwan Television Enterprise (TTV). She married in 1998, withdrew from the limelight and lives in the United States.
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Movie6.7ActionAdventureWhen Dr. Yuen attempts to rescue a girl about to be sacrificed by the Worm Tribe in the middle of a jungle in Thailand, he is damned with seven deadly "blood curses" and must return there to find a permanent cure.
Movie7.9DramaEach member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.
Movie2.5DramaA wealthy businessman gives his wife everything she wants, besides one thing, a passionate sex life. The sexually frustrated woman soon gets into several other relationships and soon also learns why her husband is so uninterested with her in bed.
Movie6.7HorrorComedyEvery 50 years, a member of the Cheung family must kill a cat demon until its nine lives are up. However, Master Cheung is worried cancer will kill him before he can complete his task and decides to give a newcomer the power to defeat the demon.
Movie6.9ActionCrimeAfter receiving a life imprisonment sentence for a NY Chinatown massacre, Jia Shi Lan obtains a pardon through the Mafia's influence.
Movie6.0ComedyHorrorVengeful spirits of Japanese soldiers from World War II haunt a new high-rise office building in Hong Kong.
Movie9.0ActionFantasyIn the Chinese martial arts/fantasy opus Monkey War: New Pilgrims to the West - a sequel to the original Monkey War - the brave Monkey King launches out on a quest to build a new life for himself. But as he marches westward, he encounters a series of nearly insurmountable foes (including a pig demon and a horde of angry demonic spirits who attempt to eat his monastic tutor) and trials that he must overcome to reach a state of tranquility. (Rotten Tomatoes)
Movie7.0ComedyHorrorStory about a newspaper reporter who stumbles upon a nest of vampires living in contemporary Hong Kong.
Movie6.3DramaHorrorA ghost takes over a dancer's body in order to find those who killed her, and thus her revenge.
Movie7.0DramaRomanceGlamorous Mei builds her entire life around husband Philip, an advertising executive and faithless twerp. She suspects him of fooling around when he pleads working late and having to entertain important clients, and talks this over with Ling, who has a 'modern' relationship with lawyer Ben. Mei is flattered by the attention of Ling's suave cousin Peter, but resists his advances, until confronted by seeing Philip with a lecherous female client. Will Mei retaliate in kind?
Movie9.0RomanceAming travels to his home from America to take some photos for a company but finds a girl named Chiang Jo Ping (Joey Wang), falls in love with her, but actually it turns out that Jo Ping is a ghost.
Movie7.3DramaSet in Shanghai in the 1940s. Story of a ballroom girl Jolie Chan who falls in love with a student and becomes pregnant, but the student's family force her to have an abortion.
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MovieFantasyHorrorThe film is composed of four unconnected Chinese myths, including how Pangu opened the sky, Nuwa created man, Kuafu chased the sun, and when Huangdi fights Chiyou, of which the latter occupies the longest section. Between the stories, the director connects them with narrations "full of sensibility and philosophy", thus forming a "picture of the founding of the ancestors" imagined by the director.
Movie7.0HorrorComedyThe oriental answer to USA's Fright Night movie, but there's more concentration on the high school motif similiar to the Hong Kong Happy Ghost series.
Movie3.4DramaActionTwo groups of knife-wielding and kicking women in bikinis join forces to kill a gang boss responsible for killing their fathers. But they're not very effective. After three attacks on the culprit, the worst damage he suffered was having his ankle run over by a motorbike. Closer co-operation with a casino boss may help.
Movie7.5CrimeComedyThe lives of two young thieves, a mob hitman and a film producer are entangled when the two thieves steal a car that had already been previously stolen to been used as a getaway car.
MovieCrimeDramaCrime drama.