Wen Ying

Acting

Wen Ying

Born 1936-09-09 · Taipei, Taiwan

Wen-Ying (1936-2009; 文英) was a Taiwanese actress.

Acting credits

Banana Paradise poster
8.0

A young man and his friend move to Taiwan, believing it to be a land of possibilities, but it's not long before they're accused of being spies.

Banana Paradise

1989

Lao ke de zui hou yi ge chun tian poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lao ke de zui hou yi ge chun tian

1988

That Vital Organ poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

That Vital Organ

1991

Grandma and Her Ghosts poster
6.5

A 5-year-old kid moves to stay with his grandma in a small town in Taiwan. Soon after, he discovers that not only is his grandma a food vendor, but she's also good at catching spectres. One day, he accidentally releases the most ferocious ghost, who sets loose the others...

Grandma and Her Ghosts

1998

Hill of No Return poster
7.4

In 1920s Taiwan, Jou, a controversial woman with a tragic past, seeks to change her life after falling for a man named Che. Meanwhile, a man named Wei seeks to buy the freedom of Fumiko, a dying young woman.

Hill of No Return

1992

Spring Daddy poster
7.0

Zang Guang-xing is a veteran soldier from Mainland China who married a young Taiwanese woman. He has been working as a supervisor in a construction company for seven years. Everyday he rides the same motorbike to work. He suffers enough misery from riding that motorbike, and dreams of buying a car. So he asks around for decent second-hand cars. His son doesn't like any car he chooses. His wife, a typical Taiwanese woman who lives frugally, shaves any penny she can. She is the one who pays for the family's new car. They go out on trips happily, and become the envy of the neighborhood. Zhang thus gets the new car he's always dreamed of, but he starts to worry about it getting dirty, because it's simply too new, too nice for him. The car thus becomes his son's vehicle. He rides the old bike to work again, just like he has during all these years.

Spring Daddy

1985

Ownership of Nagen poster
6.0

1991 Taiwanese film.

Ownership of Nagen

1991

A Heroic Fight poster
8.0

The granddaughter of a Taiwanese triad boss becomes a victim of a kidnapping attempt, but she's saved by a team of movie stuntmen. They become friends and work together to fend off one of the boss' underlings who goes rogue when he's overlooked for a promotion.

A Heroic Fight

1986

Strawman poster
7.1

In 1940s Taiwan, during the last days of Japanese rule, an impoverished farming village is less concerned with colonial politics than with feeding their families. One day, an American bomb falls onto a field, where it lies unexploded.

Strawman

1987

Tropical Fish poster
7.9

When a daydreaming Taipei teenager tries to save a kidnapped boy, he ends up being kidnapped himself and transported to the Taiwanese countryside. There, among an eccentric family of criminals, he embarks on an unexpected journey that is by turns hilarious, surreal, and deeply humane.

Tropical Fish

1995

Kuei-mei, a Woman poster
7.0

Arriving in Taiwan in the 1950s, Kuei-mei makes a disadvantageous marriage to a widower with three unruly kids and a bad gambling habit. Beautifully portrayed by celebrated actress Yang, she weathers pregnancies, her husband's infidelity, her daughter's resentment, a stint as servant in Japan, divorce, and illness while struggling to keep the family restaurant business afloat.

Kuei-mei, a Woman

1985

A Way We Go poster
7.0

For the past forty years, Ah Long has headed up a traditional Chinese musical troupe. But times are changing, and the troupe members leaving one by one, Ah Hui, is an aimless slacker with no plans for the future. Ah Hui’s best friend is Ah Gou, a young man who works as a welder making metal gates.

A Way We Go

2002

No artwork available
NR

The 'scalper' is a cinema ticket-tout skirting the law and police harassment to make a living for herself and her three children in downtown Taipei.

The Scalper

1986

Sheng Goes to Taiwan poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sheng Goes to Taiwan

1987

My Favorite Season poster
10.0

Bi Bao-Liang is a 29 year-old man who believes that he will have bad luck if he touches a woman before he turns thirty. Liu Xiang-mei is a beautiful woman who had a love affair with her married boss, and now she is pregnant. In order to give her child a family name, she decides to find a man to have a one-year marriage contract. Bi Bao-Liang is the perfect man she is looking for because he is afraid of women. However, their marriage does not follow what they've planned...

My Favorite Season

1985

The Digger The Suona Player poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Digger The Suona Player

1988

Human Sentiment Law poster
NR

Hsiung is an honest inspector who finds his career jeopardised by his mother, prostitute Fung's presence in the district he polices. The ambitious Hsiung finds himself torn between duty and love.

Human Sentiment Law

1988

Old Mao's Second Spring poster
7.5

The story of Lao Mo, a Taiwanese veteran who does not want to live a lonely life as an old man.

Old Mao's Second Spring

1984

My Father Is Not a Thief poster
7.0

The family of a man falsely accused of car theft goes through tremendous abuse and turmoil in an attempt to free him from imprisonment.

My Father Is Not a Thief

1987

Heartbreak Island poster
6.5

In Taiwan, a young woman, Lin-Lang, is released from prison after serving ten years for terrorist activity. She had turned to bomb making in grief after her mentor and lover, An Rong, who was also her university professor, was arrested for political activity and, she presumed, executed. In prison, she learns Rong is alive, and she maintains her spirits and sanity for the years in her cell by holding imaginary conversations with him. When she is released, she discovers he is married, has a child, and lives conventionally. She finds him; he's not happy to see her. How she reacts to losing the center of her life becomes the subject of the film.

Heartbreak Island

1995

The Missing People poster
NR

An insight into the lives of young prostitutes and a drug addict.

The Missing People

1987

Behind the camera