Cora Miao

Acting

Cora Miao

Born

1958-08-21 (68)

Place of birth

Shanghai, China

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Cora Miao (born 21 August 1958) is a Hong Kong actress. During her career she was nominated for four Hong Kong Film Awards and four Golden Horse Film Festival awards, winning one. She is married to film director Wayne Wang.

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 15 titles

Terrorizers poster
7.4

An uncompromising look into urban life from the eyes of a voyeuristic photographer, a rebellious teenager, and a married couple teetering on the edge of adultery.

Terrorizers

1986

Boat People poster
7.6

A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the liberation to document the nation, and begins following and documenting the young children from a poor Vietnamese family.

Boat People

1982

Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart poster
5.9

San Francisco's Richmond District. A widow welcomes the Chinese New Year. 62 years old, she wants to make a trip to China to pay last respects to her ancestors. A fortune teller has told her this is the year she'll die, and a daughter, Geraldine, remains unmarried. Geraldine's boyfriend lives in Los Angeles and she's not sure she's ready for marriage, nor does she want to leave her mother alone in her declining years. Mrs. Tan's cheerful brother-in-law, Uncle Tam, tries to help out.

Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart

1985

The Story of Woo Viet poster
6.5

Wu Viet is a Vietnamese refugee who wants to leave his country behind and start over in the United States. First, he must make his way to Hong Kong, but as he passes through Thailand, he meets a beautiful woman who travels with him. Wu and his new love end up in a refugee camp in Thailand, where they discover many of their countrymen are disappearing under mysterious circumstances. As Wu tries to learn the truth about what's happening, he discovers his life is in danger, and he must flee to the Philippines for safety.

The Story of Woo Viet

1981

Passion poster
6.8

Sylvia and Cora Miao play two widowed mothers, best friends and confidants who spend their days reminiscing about times past. Over the course of a lazy weekend afternoon, the two women conjure memories of Cora's husband, his life, his death, and his passionate affair with Sylvia. A series of wistful flashbacks reveal the sometimes touching, sometimes painful circumstances around the women's deep friendship with one another, and their love for the same man.

Passion

1986

Women poster
7.0

Liang Pao-erh joins the carefree Spinsters' Club when she discovers her husband is having an affair. Despite the seemingly happy front that her sisters put on, beneath it all, each of them secretly yearns for a man in her life.

Women

1985

Love in a Fallen City poster
6.4

Taking place in 1941, Love in a Fallen City centers on Pai, a young woman who has been ostracized by her family for divorcing her rich husband. A local match-maker, Mrs. Hsu, takes pity on Pai and decides to bring her to Hong Kong, under the guise of employing her as the Hsu's nanny, but in reality to introduce her to Fan. Pai and Fan seem to hit it off, but Fan's refusal to marry Pai soon sours things. However, as the Japanese begin to invade Hong Kong, the two begin to realize their true feelings for each other.

Love in a Fallen City

1984

Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive poster
4.6

A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found. With no further instructions, he decides to take in the sights of Hong Kong, which consist of him taking part in a great deal of blood, sex and general weirdness, all while wearing a briefcase handcuffed to his arm.

Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive

1989

Eat a Bowl of Tea poster
5.6

An American-Chinese man brings over his wife from China to America, but the challenges of making a living and adjusting to a new life, plus the attentions of a gambler threaten their marriage.

Eat a Bowl of Tea

1989

The Other ½ & the Other ½ poster
8.7

Clara Law's debut feature deals with her common theme of emigration as two people, man and woman, from separate couples, have to room together while their spouses are in America to finalize the Canadian citizenship process.

The Other ½ & the Other ½

1988

Carry On Dancing poster
9.0

Cheung Sheung and Tze Ngor are twin sisters. Tze Ngor is a lunatic and stays in a mental hospital. But out of a madcap incident, Cheung Sheung is "cheated" into the hospital, exchanging identity with her insane sister. The mad house is lived by all kinds of weirdos. The "game" is that Cheung Sheung will stay in the hospital only for a while. But strangely enough, she gradually becomes more and more ease with the way of life in the hospital until one day, she's forgotten what life is like...

Carry On Dancing

1988

Running Mate poster
9.0

Running Mate is a Hong Kong Comedy directed by Stanley Ko Moon-Kai and starring Alex Man.

Running Mate

1989

狼来了 poster
NR

hong kong film

狼来了

1982

Joy to the World poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Joy to the World

1980

No artwork available
6.8

Dim Sum Take-Out shows how the heterogeneity and complexity of Asian American experiences can be erased. It was literally cut together from film that was shot for Dim Sum, which was conceived as a film about the ways in which five women of the Chinese diaspora—three American-born, a naturalized citizen, and a recent immigrant—try to balance their personal goals and the expectations of the Chinese American community in which they live. The original story line was thought to be too complicated and ambitious, and, ultimately, significant portions of Dim Sum were rewritten and reshot to focus on Geraldine, a second-generation Chinese American woman, and her relationship with her immigrant mother. However, footage that had already been shot for the film was edited together to create Dim Sum Take-Out, an eleven-minute film made up of narrative segments intercut with music video style segments, set to English- and Chinese-language versions of the song "My Boyfriend's Back."

Dim Sum Take-Out

1988

1970s · 5 titles

Series credits

American Playhouse poster
6.6

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

American Playhouse

1982

American Playhouse poster
6.6

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

American Playhouse

1982

Look Back at TVB Anniversary Awards Over the Years poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Look Back at TVB Anniversary Awards Over the Years

1968

Hotel poster
NR

Hotel is a TVB television series, premiered on 1 November 1976. Theme song "Hotel" composition and arrangement by Joseph Koo, lyricist by Wong Jim, sung by Susanna Kwan.

Hotel

1976

Vanity Fair poster
NR

Vanity Fair is a TVB television series, premiered on January 2, 1978. Theme song "Vanity Fair" composition by Joseph Koo, lyricist by Wong Jim, arrangement by Joseph Koo and Choi Tak Choi, sung by Paula Tsui.

Vanity Fair

1978

The Good The Bad The Ugly poster
9.0

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a TVB television series, premiered on 1 September 1979. Theme song "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" composition and arrangement by Joseph Koo, lyricist by Tang Wai Hung, sung by Teresa Cheung.

The Good The Bad The Ugly

1979

Luk Siu Fung (Series III) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Luk Siu Fung (Series III)

1978

When The Legend Dies poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

When The Legend Dies

1976

I Am Woman poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I Am Woman

1979

13 poster
NR

In "13," visionary Hong Kong New Wave director Patrick Tam delivers his final TV work, an 11-episode anthology series that dives into surreal and darkly comic narratives. Although originally slated for 13 episodes, each standalone story explores eerie undercurrents of everyday life. Highlights include a couple discovering a corpse in their apartment, a schoolteacher uncovering the unsettling truth about her hosts, and a strained summer romance influenced by a mysterious housekeeper. "13" mixes black comedy with Tam’s iconic strange flair, creating a thought-provoking exploration of the bizarre hidden beneath the surface.

13

1977

Disco Fever poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Disco Fever

1978

The Misfits poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Misfits

1979

P.R Daily poster
NR

Bo-wen and Dong-nuan work together at a hotel, where they are responsible for public relations. Although the two women are friendly, their different personalities often lead to humorous situations. Dong-nuan becomes jealous when Bo-wen is transferred to Hawaii for six months, causing a brief falling out between them. Meanwhile, their boss, Yao Xia-gu, is often at odds with her subordinates, including Bo-wen and Dong-nuan. When Xia-gu discovers Bo-wen and Dong-nuan working on a magazine, she initially becomes angry but eventually decides to let them stay with the company.

P.R Daily

1978

冤家路窄 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

冤家路窄

1978