Lee Lieh

Acting

Lee Lieh

Born

1958-03-29 (68)

Place of birth

Taiwan

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Lee Lieh was born on March 29, 1958 in Taiwan. She is an actress and producer, known for Together (2012), Touch of the Light (2012) and Starry Starry Night (2011). She was previously married to Lo Ta-Yu and David Mao.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

2010s · 11 titles

Detention poster
6.8

In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school.

Detention

2019

Starry Starry Night poster
6.2

May is worried about her mother and father, whose marriage is on the rocks, and she yearns to return to the woods where her grandfather lives. One day, May befriends a boy as lonely as she is. When reality catches up, they run away to a beautiful world that belongs only to them.

Starry Starry Night

2011

10 Plus 10 poster
5.7

10+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are invited to make a 5-minute short film each on the theme of the “Uniqueness of Taiwan,” but allowed total freedom in all other aspects.

10 Plus 10

2011

Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast poster
6.3

Wan returns home with an enormous debt after her modelling career fails, only to find that her family's restaurant has dwindled down to a single noodle stand. The situation is hopeless until a master chef decides to help her family return to glory.

Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast

2013

My Egg Boy poster
5.5

Even in modern-day Taipei, women feel the societal pressure to get married and have children before the clock runs out. Thankfully, there is a solution: freeze your eggs and prolong your fertility until the right one comes along! Starring Ariel Lin, the film is a glimpse of what millions of working women struggle with: finding the balance between pursuing a career and marriage.

My Egg Boy

2016

When Yesterday Comes poster
1.0

Following the success of The Long Goodbye, the Taiwan Catholic Foundation of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia has embarked on a second documentary film dealing with the plight of elderly people suffering from conditions like Alzheimer’s and other degenerative disorders resulting in memory loss. When Yesterday Comes takes the route of a compendium of four shorts by different directors.

When Yesterday Comes

2012

The Laundryman poster
4.9

A-Gu enlists a group of contract killers in the disguise of laundry service. One of them, code-named "No.1 Qingtian Street", is haunted by the ghosts of his victims. He seeks help from Lin Hsiang, a psychic.

The Laundryman

2015

Onstage Appearance poster
NR

Director A-Shun is doing everything he can to capture the golden era of Taiwanese-language cinema in his new film. Despite encountering one problem after another that push him to the brink of collapse, everybody still says to him, "You can do it!"

Onstage Appearance

2019

Partners in Crime poster
5.9

An ordinary day in an ordinary campus, a girl who was loved by everyone killed herself. Everyone is asking why, but no one knows the truth, except these three: a good student, a bad student, and a weird student. For they know the truth of this incident, they decide to do something unordinary for her, as a revenge. They are the partners in crime. However, with the discovery of the girl’s secret diary, we are about to journey back to our high school lives. As an old saying goes, “High school never ends!”

Partners in Crime

2014

Touch of the Light poster
7.4

The story revolves around a blind music student who excels at piano but faces hardships due to his disability, and an aspiring dancer who works at a bubble tea store. Their friendship becomes mutually uplifting as they pursue their dreams.

Touch of the Light

2012

Together poster
5.5

Everyone around Xiao Yang, a 17-year-old high school boy, keeps secrets and suffers from heartbreak. His father runs a print shop and meets a girl next door, Li who is about to get married soon. Meantime, his shopkeeper mother gets close to her neighbor tailor, Shian. Yang tries to set up a date for his sister Lang who just got dumped. Also, Yang needs to cover his friend Mao who has a lovers’ quarrel to girlfriend Tian. As the only one who’s alone, Yang quietly witnesses the romances from a distance and secretly reads those love letters he helps deliver…

Together

2012

2000s · 10 titles

The Most Distant Course poster
5.6

Three young souls, with different purposes, comes to the coast and search for the meaning of their life, a journey considerably longer than any of them has taken before.

The Most Distant Course

2007

Drifting Paradise poster
NR

A drifting soul is searching for meaning and connection after leaving home.

Drifting Paradise

2006

The Girl Dances poster
6.0

This is a story of two girls whose lives for 16 to 30 intertwined. With flashbacks, they went through the maze of memories and the fog of emotions and realized the moving power of sincerity in depressions and sufferings. Father and daughter, female bonds, straight and homosexual romances are all in this profound story of life.

The Girl Dances

2002

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

不愛練習曲

2008

Drop Me a Cat poster
7.0

It's the year 1999, Hei-shu, a long-term unemployed man, finally gets a job in a local musical band, performing at funerals and weddings. One day, Hei-shu's cat is missing. He later suspects that the cat has turned into a woman.

Drop Me a Cat

2003

Summer, Dream poster
NR

College student Hsiao Chih has been dreaming of studying abroad and having foreign affairs. His plan to fulfill this dream in the summer is, however, discouraged by economic down turn in Taiwan. Just as he feels depressed about the need to spend a long summer back home, taking care of his old grandma and her grocery store, here comes a Western girl named Elisa. One thing leads to another, Hsiao Chih and two women - his grandma and Elisa a girl from afar - spend a whole summer under the same roof...

Summer, Dream

2001

No artwork available
8.0

Somewhere Over the Dreamland adopts a portmanteau form to provide a realistically poetic depiction of the sad fate of two generations of aboriginals as alienated laborers in Taipei city.

Somewhere Over the Dreamland

2003

Great Thing in One's Life poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Great Thing in One's Life

2003

The Wall-Passer poster
5.9

In the not-too distant future, 17 year-old Tye and his family move to the burgeoning metropolis of Real City, where, bored with classes, he spends his time daydreaming until one day he finds a magic stone that allows him to pass through walls. On a field trip to a museum, Tye meets NoNo, a deaf girl with bionic ears who is working as a museum docent. The two grow closer, until Tye discovers she has a boyfriend and demands she chooses between them. NoNo tells him to come and see her again in twenty years and then disappears from his life, leaving him only with a photo of her in front of a signpost saying Elsewhere. Tye uses the magic stone to go to Elsewhere, but he discovers a desolate world full of discarded things, among them an attractive blind girl, Ya-hung. Two worlds, two realities, two girls, what will Tye’s choice be ?

The Wall-Passer

2007

Wadan's Wine Bottle poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Wadan's Wine Bottle

2002

1980s · 10 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

A Foggy Tale poster
7.7

Yue's brother was executed by the government. Determined to bring his body back home, Yue goes to Taipei alone and finds help in Chao Kung-tao, a discharged soldier. Two people with no relations become friends in need, embarking on a journey that could cost them their lives.

A Foggy Tale

2025

Monga poster
6.6

Set in the 1980s, “Monga” centers on five boys (Mosquito, Monk, Dragon, White Monkey and A-Lan) who join the "Gang of Princes" who are tired of being pushed around. As the "Gang of Princes" rise in stature, they come into conflict with other gangs jealous of their rising power.

Monga

2010

The Village of No Return poster
6.7

In a remote village, a con man disguised as a Taoist priest introduces a memory-erasing device to residents — but a dangerous plot looms.

The Village of No Return

2017

My Missing Valentine poster
6.9

Xiao Chi, a driven girl who's been looking for love, gets asked out by a hot guy on the eve of Valentine's Day. As she anticipates her first date, she wakes up the next morning and finds that the Valentine's Day has mysteriously passed.

My Missing Valentine

2020

The Laundryman poster
4.9

A-Gu enlists a group of contract killers in the disguise of laundry service. One of them, code-named "No.1 Qingtian Street", is haunted by the ghosts of his victims. He seeks help from Lin Hsiang, a psychic.

The Laundryman

2015

我在這邊唱 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

我在這邊唱

2009

Meeting Dr. Sun poster
5.1

Two factions of Taipei's poorest high school students both plot to steal their school's iconic statue of the famed philosopher Dr. Sun to make some much-needed money-but when their plans clash and they find themselves at war, they have to question: what are they really fighting for?

Meeting Dr. Sun

2014

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

不愛練習曲

2008

Sent From Above poster
6.0

A tightwad bought a luxury house just for selling it at the higher price. However, someday, a corpse appeared in the house...

Sent From Above

2020

City of Lost Things poster
2.0

16-year-old teenager Leaf runs away from home, skipping classes and ending up in a peculiar place called City of Lost Things. There he meets Baggy, a 30-year-old plastic bag. Baggy never sees himself as just another piece of junk. He has a purpose in his life - to lead his tribe to flee City of Lost Things. But he needs the help from Leaf to fight the dreadful army of the Armors.

City of Lost Things

2021