Yang Chia-Yun

Directing

Yang Chia-Yun

Yang Chia-Yun (Karen Yang), born March 1947 and originally from Qingdao, Shandong Province, is one of the second generation directors in Taiwan. She is also regarded as a pioneer female film director of commercial Taiwanese film during the 1970s and 1980s.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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Taiwanese martial arts movie by Karen Yang Chia-Yun

The Magic Ring

1976

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9.0

Action-war from Taiwan.

The Women Warriors of Kingmen

1983

Morning Fog poster
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In "Morning Fog", Brigitte Lin plays Tu Hsiao Meng, a spirited young woman who's had an unenviable life full of hard knocks. The daughter of a single parent, Hsiao Meng had to give up school and enter the work force to make ends meet. She finds a job as a nursemaid to an invalid boy, and charms everyone around her with her gorgeous smile and agreeable personality. But not everyone is a fan of Hsiao Meng. She makes an enemy out of Shih Mei Ni, who happens to be Hsiao Meng's rival for the affections of Tai Ya Luen (Chin Han). She's also wealthy and higher in station than Hsiao Meng, which is yet another strike against the lovely, but lower class working girl. Can Hsiao Meng rise above her situation and triumph over the odds?

Morning Fog

1978

Morning Fog poster
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In "Morning Fog", Brigitte Lin plays Tu Hsiao Meng, a spirited young woman who's had an unenviable life full of hard knocks. The daughter of a single parent, Hsiao Meng had to give up school and enter the work force to make ends meet. She finds a job as a nursemaid to an invalid boy, and charms everyone around her with her gorgeous smile and agreeable personality. But not everyone is a fan of Hsiao Meng. She makes an enemy out of Shih Mei Ni, who happens to be Hsiao Meng's rival for the affections of Tai Ya Luen (Chin Han). She's also wealthy and higher in station than Hsiao Meng, which is yet another strike against the lovely, but lower class working girl. Can Hsiao Meng rise above her situation and triumph over the odds?

Morning Fog

1978

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5.3

The Lady Avenger is about a young woman who is raped by four men and then taken advantage by a fifth. Abandoned by her fiancé, she strikes back at the five wolves. Wild and exciting, filled with nasty violence and highly creative killing sequences, this is Taiwanese exploitation cinema at its furious finest.

The Lady Avenger

1981

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A young woman is released from prison, after serving an eight-year sentence for murder, and wishes to start her life over. Getting a job at a newspaper through a friend, she tries to settle in despite the pressures of being an ex-convict. When bizarre incidents begin to occur both at work and at home, the woman suspects that someone has a vendetta against her. NOTE: This is the 1985 IFD (Godfrey Ho & company) re-edit (with English dubbing) of Karen Yang Taiwanese thriller, Exposed to Danger.

Breakout From Oppression

1985

Exposed to Danger poster
9.0

A young woman is released from prison and starts her life over. Getting a job at a newspaper, she tries to settle in. When bizarre incidents occur, the woman suspects that someone has a vendetta against her.

Exposed to Danger

1982

Misty Rain Knocking My Window poster
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Taiwanese movie

Misty Rain Knocking My Window

1979

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A film by Karen Yang Chia-Yun

The Wayward Angels

1982

A Secret Buried for 50 Years: The Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women" poster
10.0

This is Taiwan's first documentary about comfort women. The audience gets a glimpse of history as 13 "grandmothers" speak of their unspeakable past, unknown even to their family, in front of the camera.

A Secret Buried for 50 Years: The Story of Taiwanese "Comfort Women"

1998

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The Three Tales

1974

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A Saturday Date

1976

The Unsinkable Miss Calabash poster
5.0

An adaptation of Xuan Xiaofo’s novel of the same name

The Unsinkable Miss Calabash

1981

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Romantic drama by Karen Yang Chia-Yun

Love Comes from the Sea

1980

Who Dare Challenge Me poster
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A thriller by Karen Yang Chia-Yun

Who Dare Challenge Me

1981