
Acting
René Liu
Born
1969-06-01 (57)
Place of birth
Taipei, Taiwan
Known for
Acting
Credits
49 titles
René Liu was born June 1, 1969. She is a Taiwanese actress and singer. She is the first to win Best Actress awards at the Asia Pacific Movie Festival in both television and film productions. She has several albums out including "I'm Fine". Description above from the Wikipedia article René Liu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
9.0The 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
Golden Horse Awards
1962
NRAfter his release from prison, Luo Jianjun marries terminally ill Jiang Xin and struggles to win over her hostile son, ultimately forging a true father-son bond through perseverance and love.
He and His Sons
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Double Sounding Cannon
2004
8.1Chien Ching-fen, having attained all her life goals, begins to question the true nature of happiness. Realizing that achieving happiness often involves suffering, she seeks out new challenges. Her curiosity about her former rival, Rebecca, leads her to explore whether suffering is the path to lasting fulfillment.
Imperfect Us
2024
7.0No synopsis available yet.
新结婚时代
2006
7.7On her wedding day, "Marriage Maniac" is heartbroken when her groom flees with debts, shattering her dreams and causing a financial crisis. Alongside her friend "Tomboy," who is burdened with debt from a wedding project, and "Ten Thousand Year Old Fox," who tries to help, they find themselves caught in a whirlwind of trouble. The mysterious "Naive Girl" joins their group, and the four women seek refuge in a villa, where they face new challenges in love, friendship, and their careers.
Pink Ladies
2003
Film credits
2020s · 4 titles
NRSenior 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
刘若英&苏慧伦&丁当&白安 好好线上演唱会
2023
7.0This is a short film about women with a great influence in a Chinese family. In this mother-and-daughter relationship hides a cycle of love, life and hurting each other.
Welcome Home
2022
NRNo synopsis available yet.
TME live 刘若英“陪你”线上演唱会
2020
2010s · 11 titles
6.2May 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
5.0After being recruited by a race car driver coach, a female taxi driver joins the Speed Angels racing team.
Speed Angels
2011
7.5When Huiying hears that her mother's dying wish is to be buried next to her husband, she discovers that his remains are in the countryside and cared for by his first wife. A conflict ensues, and Huiying's daughter, an intrepid reporter, breaks the story as the three women search for proof of love.
Love Education
2017
6.1A chauffeur and a foot masseuse romance through text messages, unaware of each other's identities. An innocent factory girl asks her admirer to stand outside in the heat for 100 days to prove his love. A sushi chef prepares the perfect meal so that the food critic he loves will stay with him. A blinded photographer must locate the beautiful model he insulted...
Hot Summer Days
2010
8.5To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Rock Records in Taiwan, the music label put together an unprecedented concert in the history of Taiwan music, supported by more than 60 performing units. The show toured through Asia and many cities in the Mainland, and finally drew its curtains in Taipei Arena in November 2011. The massive lineup posed an array of challenges in terms of scheduling, lightning, sound and stage design for the crew, but in the end everything came together and resulted in a grand five-hour spectacle. Some of the artists who appeared in the finale include Wu Bai and China Blue, Mayday, Emil Chau, Alex To, Karen Mok, Fish Leong, A-Yue Chang, Rene Liu, Winnie Hsin and Richie Jen who brought to fans classic ballads like "Moment of Awakening," "Don't Leave Me If You Love Me," "Soft-Hearted," "A Tearful Decision," "Happy Paradise" and more.
Happy Paradise Rock Records 30th Anniversary Live In Taipei
2010
5.0The film tells the stories of a mother and her three daughters about their own struggles in love. All the women had achieved progress in some way except in love. However, each of them found their own Mr.Right in the end.
Love in Space
2011
8.0Billed as a "concept film" MAYDAY 3DNA combines play from the group's DNA concert tour in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and China 2010 and interweaves that with three fictional stories. The fictional sequences include a vignette about a Guangzhou father and daughter; another about a Taiwan taxi driver and passenger; and a third about a Shanghai delivery boy. All are affected by the lure of a Mayday gathering and the three separate stories intersect at one particular Mayday concert in Shanghai. Established in Taiwan in the late 1990s, Mayday has remained popular for over a decade by tuning into a Taiwan youth beat and pushing rock music in Greater China. Most songs are performed in Mandarin with some Taiwanese Hokkien tracks by band.
Mayday 3DNA
2011
5.0In the romantic-comedy "Mr. and Mrs. Single," the movie tackles the Chinese social phenomenon of secret marriages for young couples looking for better jobs and higher income. A young man with high mortgage payments to fulfill takes the job of a personal-assistant to a female CEO under the condition that he is still single.
Mr. & Mrs. Single
2011
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Rene Liu Renext I dare 2017 world tour
2017
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Renext "I Dare" World Tour
2016
NRNo synopsis available yet.
One Night Stand by Rene
2012
2000s · 12 titles
6.6An FBI Agent pairs with a troubled Taiwan cop to hunt for a serial killer who's embedding a mysterious fungus in the brains of victims.
Double Vision
2002
5.6A woman in her 20s, another in her 30s and a third in her 40s must each find a way to navigate the challenges they face in life and love.
20 30 40
2004
7.3A con-team couple head west after taking a city businessman for his BMW. But an encounter with a naive young carpenter traveling home with his life savings challenges their fate as thieves.
A World Without Thieves
2004
5.8A woman finds the key to a room in the attic that her husband forbids her from entering. When she opens the door, she is confronted with the haunting existence of the woman her husband refuses to forget.
The Matrimony
2007
5.4A lawyer falls in love with a gang boss, gets knocked up and drags him to the altar. One evening, cradling the crying infant, he metamorphoses into a doting daddy, and henceforth devotes his life to keeping her from finding out his true identity. His light and joy grows into a teenager, and alas, falls for the son of a cop, while rival gangs move in on his turf.
Run Papa Run
2008
4.9Three years ago, drama teacher Lam Hiu Yeung (Karena Lam) lost her younger brother in a kidnapping case, headed by female inspector Ho Yuen Chun (Rene Liu). Three years later, she is now on the verge of another great loss: her husband is in the late stages of cancer, and options are running out. To take him overseas for medical treatment, she needs money, and a lot of it. Using what she learned from her brother's tragic incident, she calmly masterminds the kidnapping of a tycoon's son, a case that again falls into the laps of workaholic detective and divorced mother Yuen Chun. These two strong-minded women square off in a high-stakes battle of wits, but plans and composure melt away on both sides when they realize that Hiu Yeung has nabbed the wrong kid - Yuen Chun's son.
Kidnap
2007
7.0Rene Liu successfully delivers the complex role of Mi, who chooses to remain single rather than risking the slightest chance of being dumped. She loves her friend Nan more than anyone, yet she asks him to be her best friend instead of boyfriend. For ten years, he wishes her a happy birthday no matter how far they are geographically apart or who they are with. However, this year his greeting arrives 42 hours late...
Happy Birthday
2007
6.1Set 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.
Fleeing by Night
2000
4.7Fong, 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.
Migratory Bird
2001
7.3An animated re-telling of the classical Chinese story of two lovers, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. Zhu Yingtai was a girl born into an upper-class family during China's Eastern Jin Dynasty. Since women were not allowed to attend school, she begged her family to let her go, and they consented as long as she pretended to be a young man. There she met a handsome young upper-class man named Liang Shanbo. They instantly became friends and vowed to be sworn brothers forever. Yingtai hid her real identity from "Brother Liang" through the three years they studied together at Hangzhou. Her love for him grew to consume her, and she thought of nothing else but spending all of her days with Brother Liang.
The Butterfly Lovers
2003
7.0No synopsis available yet.
新十字街头
2001
NRNo synopsis available yet.
劉若英 單身日誌演唱會LIVE全紀錄
2003
1990s · 10 titles
6.7An attractive and successful doctor places a personal ad in a newspaper to try to meet (and eventually marry) Mr. Right. A succession of blind dates ensues, featuring men who are lonely, desperate, dangerous and perverted.
The Personals
1998
7.0A British businessman operating in Hong Kong has feelings of inferiority and turns to murder when he faces bankruptcy.
Cracker: White Ghost
1996
7.8In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking shelter in the Capital during the Japanese invasion. The family faces the Rape of Nanking by the Imperial Japanese Army, with rapes, mass murder of prisoners of war and civilians including women, children and elders, and disrespect of international conventions.
Don't Cry, Nanking
1995
4.2Cop action movie clumsily inter-cut with slapstick. Dumb cop befriends triad guy who wants to go straight but is being set up by his unscrupulous drug dealing colleagues.
Thunder Cop
1996
7.0In 1949, the Communists take over mainland. The refugees and the military arrive in the Keelung Harbor in Taiwan. A father holds secret meetings with other generals in attempt to recover the lost land, his kids still play games with their grandma who enjoys the harmony in hardship.
Red Persimmon
1996
9.4A high school student and a pop singer meld reality with fiction as they both fantasize themselves as characters in a Ming dynasty tale of seduction - "The Peony Pavilion."
The Peony Pavilion
1995
7.0The 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.
Tonight Nobody Goes Home
1996
6.1A rather dejected Mei-li Chen lives with her extended family in the suburbs. She drops out of college when the boy she has a crush on finds a girlfriend. Mei-li eventually ends up selling tickets in a movie theatre. A great camaraderie then builds up between the two cashiers in the small ticket booth.
Murmur of Youth
1997
7.0Xia-dou and Ji-dan left their families and friends in Thief Village to sit in a dungeon as subsitute prisoners in exchange for favor from the local law enforcer. The warden, knowing they are good in physical skills, sent them on a side job. The kids broke in a heavily guarded examination ground, swapped two exam papers for the client and stole a pair of golden eyes from a big lion chop for themselves. The missing gold detoured the detective's trail to the master schemer. As the conspiracy unfolded, the governor decided to eradicate the whole village to cover up his involvement with the master schemer. Life in Thief Village has never been easy. But fate never mocked them so hard. It turned out that the gold they so cherished was fake. So were many other things they believed in. In despair, Xia-dou's Great grandfather, the 125-year old personage called upon the sky and recevied a most fantastic answer.
Accidental Legend
1995
7.3Siao Yu needs a green card. Mario Moretti needs his debts paid. Getting married could solve their problems, or multiply them.
Siao Yu
1995
Series credits
9.0The 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
Golden Horse Awards
1962
NRAfter his release from prison, Luo Jianjun marries terminally ill Jiang Xin and struggles to win over her hostile son, ultimately forging a true father-son bond through perseverance and love.
He and His Sons
2014
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Double Sounding Cannon
2004
8.1Chien Ching-fen, having attained all her life goals, begins to question the true nature of happiness. Realizing that achieving happiness often involves suffering, she seeks out new challenges. Her curiosity about her former rival, Rebecca, leads her to explore whether suffering is the path to lasting fulfillment.
Imperfect Us
2024
7.0No synopsis available yet.
新结婚时代
2006
7.7On her wedding day, "Marriage Maniac" is heartbroken when her groom flees with debts, shattering her dreams and causing a financial crisis. Alongside her friend "Tomboy," who is burdened with debt from a wedding project, and "Ten Thousand Year Old Fox," who tries to help, they find themselves caught in a whirlwind of trouble. The mysterious "Naive Girl" joins their group, and the four women seek refuge in a villa, where they face new challenges in love, friendship, and their careers.
Pink Ladies
2003
7.0No synopsis available yet.
似水年华
2003
8.0No synopsis available yet.
April Rhapsody
2000
NRNo synopsis available yet.
日落紫禁城
1998
Behind the camera
7.6Ten years ago, on a train home during the busy Spring Festival travel period, fate brings Xiaoxiao and Jianqing together. Like many young couples, they meet, fall in love, and strive to make it work, but eventually, the harsh realities of life make them drift apart. Ten years later, they run into each other again. Will they make the most of this second chance and rekindle what they once lost?
Us and Them
2018
7.6Ten years ago, on a train home during the busy Spring Festival travel period, fate brings Xiaoxiao and Jianqing together. Like many young couples, they meet, fall in love, and strive to make it work, but eventually, the harsh realities of life make them drift apart. Ten years later, they run into each other again. Will they make the most of this second chance and rekindle what they once lost?
Us and Them
2018
7.0Rene Liu successfully delivers the complex role of Mi, who chooses to remain single rather than risking the slightest chance of being dumped. She loves her friend Nan more than anyone, yet she asks him to be her best friend instead of boyfriend. For ten years, he wishes her a happy birthday no matter how far they are geographically apart or who they are with. However, this year his greeting arrives 42 hours late...
Happy Birthday
2007
