Lee Lieh

Acting

Lee Lieh

Born 1958-03-29 · Taiwan

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.

Acting credits

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

Lady Piranha poster
6.3

Six female POWs lead an escape from a North Vietnamese prison camp, then join the local rebel forces to plan an attack to wipe out the camp and free the rest of the prisoners.

Lady Piranha

1982

That Day, on the Beach poster
7.6

Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.

That Day, on the Beach

1983

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

Starry Starry Night poster
6.3

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

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

No artwork available
7.0

The son of a wealthy businessman (Alan Tam) sees Yun Bai (Lin Feng-Jiao) at an art exhibition for the very first time and falls in love with her. Soon he finds out that Yun Bai doesn't like men who are lazy and who don't have to do anything for their money. Hsiao Chi (Alan Tam) wants to do whatever he has to do to get this wonderful girl and is lying to her that he's a poor artist. Yun Bai falls in love with him and now he wants to reveal his real identity. But how can he do it without losing her again?

A Girl Without Sorrow

1979

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

Survival of a Dragon poster
10.0

A warrior is transported 1,000 years into the present day and must fend for his life while adapting to modern society

Survival of a Dragon

1981

Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast poster
6.2

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

Salli poster
4.5

An online romance with a foreigner takes a lonely middle-aged chicken farmer to an unknown land. Despite everyone saying it is a romance scam, she wants to prove that her love indeed exists.

Salli

2024

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

Drifting Paradise poster
NR

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

Drifting Paradise

2006

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

The Story of a Small Town poster
8.3

An ex-convict came to a small town to learn a handcraft from an old sculptor. He came to know his mute daughter, and soon they fell in love. Then, one day, a hooligan came. He had a crush on the mute daughter and wanted to harass her.

The Story of a Small Town

1980

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

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

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

Unexpected Courage poster
NR

Senior talent manager Le-Fu and commercial director Po-En have been in love for years. Due to their age gap and traumas from original families, neither has been willing to commit to the relationship, until a big surprise hits Love on her 45-year-old birthday and both of them are forced to decide on what their future will be.

Unexpected Courage

2025

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

不愛練習曲

2008

Love Comes from the Sea poster
NR

Romantic drama by Karen Yang Chia-Yun

Love Comes from the Sea

1980

Desperate Love Bitter End poster
10.0

Shuihan and Taohwa's relationship causes deep jealousy in wicked Kinshuen. Kin gets Shuihan ousted from the village and abducts Taohwa.

Desperate Love Bitter End

1980

Good Morning, Taipei poster
7.0

A loose youth passes the time freely until he comes across a young, female broadcaster who works at a radio station.

Good Morning, Taipei

1979

Behind the camera

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

我在這邊唱 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

我在這邊唱

2009

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

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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

不愛練習曲

2008

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

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