Acting
Taiwan
Bai Lan
Acting
Biography
Bai Lan, born in 1938, originally named Fu Jinman. She was admitted to the China Film Company in 1955. Later, the China Film Company had financial difficulties, so she was loaned to an Asian Company. There her first Taiwanese language film "Zhu Hongwu" was filmed. Since then The China Film Company often loaned her to other companies, which led to her nickname "rental star".
Feature Films (14)
Taiwanese language film. Qiren and Bilian are a couple who are bullies by the Japanese during the occupation. Qiren wounds one officer and is sent to the labor service team to serve in prison. Will they eventually see each other again after the Japanese are defeated?
Reluctantly Seeing My Lover Off
Made as Taiwan’s economy took off in the 1960s, Early Train from Taipei is a classic country-to-city melodrama of development. To save her bankrupt rural family, Xiulan takes the train to Taipei to earn money. Boyfriend Huotu is horrified to find she has been tricked into becoming a dancer in a nightclub when he visits, and tries to persuade her to leave the next morning on the early train from Taipei. Tragedy piles upon tragedy in this cautionary tale, which touched a nerve with audiences and inspired a raft of sequels.
Early Train From Taipei
A psychologically unstable man accidentally kills a junkie, sparking a cat-and-mouse game with a clever inspector who befriends the man's mother to expose the truth.
Mummy Dearest
Ah Wei used to be a policeman but his many battle scars and bullet wounds have demoted him to the daily grind of a sercurity guard. His existence is anything but boring, however, as this Hong Kong film like all the others, thrives on shoot-outs, chases, and enough violence to keep an audience awake.
The Security
Pilot Mitarai Ken is mistaken for a murder suspect after a dying man leaves his name. Sent to fly to Taipei with journalist Xiang-lan, he discovers a corpse on board and killers waiting at Songshan Airport. Co-produced by Ninjin Productions and Taiwan's Kuo Kuang Motion Picture Company, the film turns planes, cars, streets, and nightclubs into the machinery of a transregional thriller. Bai Lan shifts from her familiar tragic persona to an active reporter in a Japanese–Taiwanese genre production.
The Kamikaze Guy
The story is based on a play written by famous playwright Yao Yiwei whose work takes adaptation from the novel in Sung Dynasty. The film describes Xiuxiu, a daughter of an aristocrat,who falls in love with her cousin who is a talented sculptor. Nevertheless they experience all kinds of difficulties during the process of trying to get married.
The Jade Goddess
Hokkien language cinema. As a child Yuchun was betrothed to Sanliu, who has physical and mental disabilities. Both of Dongshan's parents died, and he grew up with Yuchun and Sanliu. With help, Dongshan left his hometown and went to Keelung to complete his studies. After graduation he is offered a job, but decides to return to take care of the family. Soon their uncle dies, and Yunchun collects her courage to show her feelings to Dongshan - she is hopin the two would go far away. But Dongshan thinks this would be cruel to Sanliu....
悲情鴛鴦夢
A paratrooper Kiyohio meets a beautiful tour guide Shumei. The two hit it off and fall in love, but she'd already promised engagement to a childhood friend off at war.
Since Your Departure
Comedy about five married couples — a pair of parents and their four daughters and sons-in-law. Li Li Hua plays the eldest girl, opposite her real-life husband Yean Chuan.
