Lu Hsiao-Fen

Lu Hsiao-Fen

Born: October 9, 1956
in Taipei, Taiwan
Her name was sometimes Anglicized to "Fonda Lynn" in credits.

Movies for Lu Hsiao-Fen...

Don't Worry, Be Happy
Title: Don't Worry, Be Happy
Character: Zhang Baoxia
Released: June 14, 2024
Type: Movie
Wu You (played by Huang Xiaoming) lives a carefree life, as his name suggests. He is single and lives with his nearly 70-year-old mother Zhang Baoxia (played by Lu Xiaofen). He joined an organization called the Sunshine Club as a senior partner, but his mother suddenly fell ill. Wu You firmly believes that as long as the sun shines in his heart, there will always be miracles in life, and he takes his mother on a journey to find the sunshine.
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Day Off
Title: Day Off
Character: A Rui
Released: March 3, 2023
Type: Movie
A woman who has owned a barbershop for over 40 years determines to embark on a long journey to cut the hair of an old customer who has moved away and is too sick to travel.
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Taiwan Black Movies
Title: Taiwan Black Movies
Character: Self
Released: June 30, 2005
Type: Movie
Between 1979 and 1983, 117 violent and gritty social realist pictures were produced in Taiwan. Many of these found their way around the world courtesy of Hong Kong's IFD films.
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18
Title: 18
Character: Pearl / Ah-chiao (as Monica Lin)
Released: September 14, 1993
Type: Movie
A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with local residents all day. Sometimes he wins big, but sometimes he loses all. Feeling neglected and uncomfortable, his wife and daughter soon leave him and return home. He stays and wanders in this fishing village and gradually immerses himself in the surroundings—a place rife with immoral vagabonds, outlaws and weirdoes.
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Song of the Exile
Title: Song of the Exile
Character: Aiko
Released: April 27, 1990
Type: Movie
Set in the early 1970s, it tells the story of a Chinese-Japanese student who returns to her native Hong Kong after graduating from a university in London. Once she arrives back home, she and her family begins to fight, largely due to cultural and societal conflicts between her mother and herself.
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A Woman and Seven Husbands
Title: A Woman and Seven Husbands
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A widow by the name of Lee Jiu Jin, willingly sold herself to a farway outskirts village without knowing that she is to be shared by 7 men, so as to raise the money for her son's wedding. As these villagers are extremely poor, the men could not afford to keep a wife. This kind of transaction was common in China for women to be sold as brides, but the Government intend to put a stop to such practices by enforcing laws which results in the exile of lawbreakers. Bearing this in mind, Lee and her 7 husbands lived in constant fear of being caught and as for Lee the sufferings and hardships were more than she could bear. As the time passes, Lee grew to understand all 7 men's background, and her hatred for them turn into pity. This relationship at last ended in tragedy.
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Spring Swallow
Title: Spring Swallow
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The story depicts a dwarf who wanted to get married. Through the arrangement of his family, he was going to marry a girl, Peach. Peach rejected him in the beginning and gradually she was touched by his talents and thoughtfulness and finally accepted him.
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Boss No Balls
Title: Boss No Balls
Character: Chin-shui's wife
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
In a tiny fishing hamlet on an island off the coast of Taiwan, men find their balls are swelling. The entire village gets involved in diagnosis and treatment.
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The Digger The Suona Player
Title: The Digger The Suona Player
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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American Commando 3: Savage Temptation
Title: American Commando 3: Savage Temptation
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
After her father dies, Nora is caught up in a world of prostitution and robbery. Who will help her escape the criminal underworld?
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Ninja Knight: Brothers of Blood
Title: Ninja Knight: Brothers of Blood
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A Chinese couple move in together, but the boy secretly wants the daughter of a top business magnate, and when he tries to kill his current partner to get what he wants, she isn't happy.. in a co-joined storyline, a young tousled hair cop has his buddy cruelly shot down and swears revenge, but is forced to quit the police when his corrupt superior takes him 'off the case'. From then on we get random scenes of bad guys being sent to kill our renegade as he defeats them repeatedly. Neither storyline has anything to do with the other, and were obviously combined for reasons of padding
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Official Exterminator 4: Goddess Mission
Title: Official Exterminator 4: Goddess Mission
Character: Cindy (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Description not available
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Osmanthus Alley
Title: Osmanthus Alley
Character: Tai Hung
Released: April 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Ti Hung's parents die when she is twelve. When she is sixteen, she determines to change her fate, swearing to rise from her poverty. She becomes famous for her embroidery and eventually marries into a rich family, but tragedy ensues.
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The Woman and the Sea
Title: The Woman and the Sea
Released: July 23, 1986
Type: Movie
A pregnant woman’s husband dies at sea. She is desperate to leave the fishing village, but her grown son takes after his father.
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Drifters
Title: Drifters
Released: June 28, 1986
Type: Movie
Drifters directed by Kun-Hou Chen.
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Rosa
Title: Rosa
Character: Rosa
Released: June 20, 1986
Type: Movie
Hsia and Lei Kung are two bumbling cops assigned to protect the gorgeous Rosa, girlfriend to a missing informer named Lee. But Rosa's wanted by more than just the law - the bad guys want her for leverage, and Lei Kung just wants her to be his girlfriend! Meanwhile, Hsia attempts to romance Lei Kung's sister, and the bad guys prepare for a final blow-out fight sequence!
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Second Hand Goods
Title: Second Hand Goods
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Taiwanese comedy.
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The Scalper
Title: The Scalper
Character: Ku Shun Mei
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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.
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Love, Lone Flower
Title: Love, Lone Flower
Released: June 22, 1985
Type: Movie
Wau Fong and Pak Yuk are attractive hostesses in a cabaret with a great following. One of Wan's suitors, Or Ah Chun is a powerful and prominent figure with strong Japanese connections. But she is reluctant to accept his affection and offer of good life. A postgraduate returning from Japan, Lin San Lon is deeply in love with Pak. The musically talented Lin composes the song LOVE, LONE FLOWER for her. But an American bomber puts an end to their relationship, killing Or and Pak in the debris of the cabaret. Wan becomes "Chieftain" of May Flower Restaurant after the liberation. Among the girls under her supervision, she is surprised to see the late Pak...
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Inferno Thunderbolt
Title: Inferno Thunderbolt
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A young beautiful woman goes undercover into a wealthy powerful crime family to investigate and avenge her younger sister's tragic death. Cut-and-paste transformation of Taiwanese movie "The Anger" a.k.a. "Shi Jie" (original title; 1982) directed by Richard Chen Yao-Chi with new Hong Kong footage.
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Jesus in Nanking (China 1913)
Title: Jesus in Nanking (China 1913)
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Taiwanese director Jo Jo Wang's 1985 adaptation of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's short story "The Christ of Nanking". Taiwan's Government Information Office demanded cuts to the erotic scenes, objected to the poster (depicting lead actress Lu Hsiao-fen crucified nude), and demanded a change of the Chinese title.
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The Pawned Wife
Title: The Pawned Wife
Character: Yin-hua
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A young starving married couple leave their baby with mum to find better fortune. They stowaway on a train, but are caught by a guard. The husband kills the guard and is injured, then is shot by another railway employee. The couple find shelter and are helped by a young monk and hindered by his master. The young monk suggests that, in order to pay for medical treatment, that the woman follow the village custom and pawn herself. Presenting herself as having a sick brother instead of a husband, the woman is pawned to an ugly but sincere villager named Ox.
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Wu Nu
Title: Wu Nu
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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Breakout From Oppression
Title: Breakout From Oppression
Character: Fonda Chou (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A young woman is released from prison, after serving an eight-year sentence for murder, and wishes to start her life over. Getting a job at a newspaper through a friend, she tries to settle in despite the pressures of being an ex-convict. When bizarre incidents begin to occur both at work and at home, the woman suspects that someone has a vendetta against her. NOTE: This is the 1985 IFD (Godfrey Ho & company) re-edit (with English dubbing) of Karen Yang Taiwanese thriller, Exposed to Danger.
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The First Stitch
Title: The First Stitch
Released: December 9, 1984
Type: Movie
Set in the southern port of Kaohsiung, a comedy-romance between a shy young tailor and a 'tart with a heart', both of whom have their different dreams. Based on the short story by Yang Ching-chu.
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A Flower in the Rainy Night
Title: A Flower in the Rainy Night
Released: October 7, 1983
Type: Movie
A girl, who was sold by her stepfather at the age of 14, has had been a prostitute for 14 years. Her family, despite enjoying a comfortable life with her help, avoids her. She thus decides to have a son of her own and succeeds by sheer determination. She is now hopeful that her son will have a life better than hers.
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The Women Warriors of Kingmen
Title: The Women Warriors of Kingmen
Character: Yen Pi Tao
Released: August 20, 1983
Type: Movie
Action-war from Taiwan.
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Crisis
Title: Crisis
Character: Hsia Ya Ying
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A family implodes after the reading of a will. They fight over the inheritance, forming and re-forming alliances, and spend most of the film searching for a crucial key.
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The Anger
Title: The Anger
Released: July 29, 1982
Type: Movie
Drama-thriller from Taiwan.
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Exposed to Danger
Title: Exposed to Danger
Character: Chou Tien-chi
Released: July 9, 1982
Type: Movie
A young woman is released from prison and starts her life over. Getting a job at a newspaper, she tries to settle in. When bizarre incidents occur, the woman suspects that someone has a vendetta against her.
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Pink Thief
Title: Pink Thief
Character: Hsiao-Tieh Lan / Pink Thief
Released: March 25, 1982
Type: Movie
A group of young people are helped to illegally immigrate from China to Hong Kong by a local gang, but when they arrive they are immediately abused by the gang and paid little for the tasks they are given. Struggling to survive, the group turn to petty crime to make ends meet. When one of the group accidentally picks the pocket of a chief detective, he decides to use the group of desperate immigrants to help him infiltrate their gang.
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Kill for Love
Title: Kill for Love
Released: February 7, 1982
Type: Movie
Drama-thriller from Taiwan.
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The Sexy Lady Driver
Title: The Sexy Lady Driver
Character: Chao Mu-Lan
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Centers around a beautiful female taxi driver.
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The Lady Avenger
Title: The Lady Avenger
Character: Wendy Hsu (as Fonda Lynn)
Released: December 31, 1981
Type: Movie
The Lady Avenger is about a young woman who is raped by four men and then taken advantage by a fifth. Abandoned by her fiancé, she strikes back at the five wolves. Wild and exciting, filled with nasty violence and highly creative killing sequences, this is Taiwanese exploitation cinema at its furious finest.
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On the Society File of Shanghai
Title: On the Society File of Shanghai
Character: Li Li-fang
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
In Shanghai, Hai-nan, son of a Chinese official, is found stabbed on the street. But when the culprit, Li-fang, is apprehended, she refuses to reveal her motives. Meanwhile, a police officer grows suspicious of the officials’ rush to close the case. As he searches for leads in the case files, a shocking truth about Li-fang is revealed.
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Title: Golden Horse Awards
Character: Self
Released: October 31, 1962
Type: TV
The 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