Angela Yu Chien

Angela Yu Chien

Born: May 25, 1942
Died: April 10, 2000
in Beijing, China

Movies for Angela Yu Chien...

Journey to the West: Legends of the Monkey King
Title: Journey to the West: Legends of the Monkey King
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
English language production introducing characters from China's most popular animated television series of 1999.
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All's Well, Ends Well '97
Title: All's Well, Ends Well '97
Character: Suen's Mother
Released: February 6, 1997
Type: Movie
Old Mr. Lo has three sons and the youngest one Lo Kung is his favorite. However, Kung does nothing but fool around all day long. Old Mr. Lo is very annoyed about this. The relationship between father and son is thus affected. So on Kung's birthday, his two brothers decide to play a joke on him. They trick him into believing he has won the lottery. Kung is so happy that he spends a tremendous amount of money. When he realizes he is in huge debt, he pretends to go insane and the whole family believes him.
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Angel Delight
Title: Angel Delight
Released: January 9, 1992
Type: Movie
Follows the story of two sisters working in a brothel in 1930's Hong Kong.
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Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
Title: Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
Character: Blue Velvet
Released: September 15, 1989
Type: Movie
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.
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The Last Conflict
Title: The Last Conflict
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Interpol officer Dickson Kwan is sent to Hong Kong to investigate in a fake passport forgery case and collaborates with officer Pau Sei and Lau Ting Kin. Due to different approaches on investigating, Dickson and Sei often get into conflicts. Later during an arrest operation, Dickson saves Sei's life and they forget about their bygones. Sei has a daughter Eva, who opposes his father to be a cop. Dickson falls in love with Eva and pursues her, however she does not like Dickson's dangerous profession and although she has feelings for him, she still rejects him.
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Tragic Hero
Title: Tragic Hero
Character: Boss Chu's Wife
Released: February 20, 1987
Type: Movie
After being released from prison, Tang Kat-Yung exacts revenge on Li Ah Chai, in this sequel to Rich and Famous.
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Where's Officer Tuba?
Title: Where's Officer Tuba?
Released: March 20, 1986
Type: Movie
Tuba is a fainthearted cop who prefers to play in the brass section of the police band to pounding the streets. One day, he finds himself caught up in an extortion case with trigger-happy detective Rambo Chow. When Rambo gets fatally wounded, he makes a half-hearted vow to avenge his death. Tuba is more than a little surprised when Rambo's spirit returns to make sure the timid cop makes good on his promise. Backed up by his hotshot partner Cheung, Tuba eventually summons the gumption to track down the baddies.
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Dead Curse
Title: Dead Curse
Released: November 21, 1985
Type: Movie
Inspector Ma raids a ceremony of the worshipers of Carla, as they are about to sacrifice a young girl. Ma shoots the witch, but she places a blood curse on his family. July 1985. Ma is now wheelchair-bound, and his family begins to suffer. Younger sister and photojournalist Mimi begins to see the witch, and even photographs her. Mimi's fiancee and cop Tse Ah Chiu doesn't believe in ghosts ... at first. Then two child ghosts come for Ma's young daughter Siu Yuk. She calls them "brother and sister E T"...
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My Name Ain't Suzie
Title: My Name Ain't Suzie
Character: Little Lin Yuk
Released: October 24, 1985
Type: Movie
The Suzie in the title refers to The World Of Suzy Wong, a great novel by British author Richard Mason which was made into a terrible Hollywood movie in 1960. Like Suzy, Shu Mei goes to work in a bar in Wanchai around the late 1950s, where sailors and foreign money are plentiful. But there isn't much similarity beyond this.
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Hong Kong 1941
Title: Hong Kong 1941
Character: Fei's Aunt
Released: November 2, 1984
Type: Movie
Years later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She's Nam, young, attractive, daughter of a wealthy rice merchant, and prey to painful, disabling seizures. Her boyhood friend is Coolie Keung, whose family used to have wealth; he's now impoverished, a tough kid, a leader, in love with her. Into the mix steps Fay, cool and resourceful, an actor from the north, intent on getting to Gold Mountain in the US or Australia. They form a threesome, but the day they are to leave Hong Kong, the invasion stops them. Fay must rescue Keung from collaborators, Nam falls in love with Fay, and danger awaits their next attempt to escape.
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Bruce Vs. Bill
Title: Bruce Vs. Bill
Character: Singer
Released: March 16, 1981
Type: Movie
The two fighters of the title clash due to a gang boss playing them off against each other. The boss is hoping to steal a million dollars of the country's money, and when the two fighters realise this they combine forces to defeat the gangster, and his accomplice, a man whom they had both formerly respected.
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Bionic Heroes
Title: Bionic Heroes
Character: (listed as Yu Chien)
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Sombat Metanee stars as an army captain who teams up with a coalition of spook agencies to bust open a global heroin ring run by bad gangsters who think nothing of blowing up an army base to secure an opium route through the mountains.
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The Web of Death
Title: The Web of Death
Character: 5 Venom Clan chief's wife
Released: October 28, 1976
Type: Movie
Lo Lieh is the ringleader of the Snake Sect, intent on reviving a deadly faction known as the "Five Poison Web." In order to do so, he has an affair with the sexy ringleader of the Scorpion Sect, Angela Yu Chien. However, there is also the Centipede Sect to contend with, as well as other assorted martial artists, among them played by Shaw Brothers talents Yueh Hua, Ching Li, and Lily Li.
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The Oily Maniac
Title: The Oily Maniac
Character: Lam Yu Nian
Released: September 18, 1976
Type: Movie
A cripple takes revenge on criminals by using a magic spell that transforms him into an oily monster/superhero.
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Erotic Nights
Title: Erotic Nights
Released: April 29, 1976
Type: Movie
plot is unknown
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The Sexy Killer
Title: The Sexy Killer
Character: Margaret
Released: February 12, 1976
Type: Movie
A nurse decides to take justice in her own hands to fight the crime-syndicates of Hong Kong after her sister is drugged and abused by some local drug dealers.
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Shantung Man in Hong Kong
Title: Shantung Man in Hong Kong
Released: November 13, 1975
Type: Movie
When Shan Tung comes to Hong Kong for the first time, wanting to seek help from his countryman Lo San, however, Lo San refuses to give him a hand. Shan Tung has no choice but to sell amphetamine in the street for living. A honest guy like him with pronunciation problem often causes embarrassing situations. He is laughed at by others because of his queer ideas. In later days, he makes a lot of friends because he never hesitate to do what is righteous. Therefore he has a better life than before.....
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That's Adultery!
Title: That's Adultery!
Character: Mistress
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Renowned director Li Han-hsiang writes and directs the anthology film of four sexy , salacious and scandalous stories . There’s a general’s sedan-chair bearer who dallies with each of the soldier’s four wives until he suffers the fate of Samson , a Japanese pot maker molds his wife’s lover , a courtesan who fools her drunken husband , and a scissors shop owner’s wife who has too many lovers to cut . It is four helpings of lascivious , lewd and libidinous pleasures .
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Oriental Vixen
Title: Oriental Vixen
Character: Susuki
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A group of tourists on the flight back home remembers on their sexual adventures they had in several nightclubs at their vacation in Bangkok.
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The Winged Tiger
Title: The Winged Tiger
Character: Yin Cai Hua
Released: February 18, 1970
Type: Movie
Famed screenwriter Shen Chiang got one of his very first chances to direct his own script with this exciting action adventure. His story is suitably thrilling: if villains "Winged Tiger" Teng Fei and "Underworld King" Yin Te-lung combine their kung-fu knowledge, the "Martial Arts World" will be plunged into chaos. That evil union is set to occur at the marriage of Yin's sister to Teng. Can this dangerous duo be stopped before one says "I do"?
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Dark Rendezvous
Title: Dark Rendezvous
Character: Lok Lu No
Released: December 11, 1969
Type: Movie
Private eye Chang Wen Chiang receives a telephone call from his girlfriend Li Lan Hsing. He rushes over and finds her dying in a pool of blood.
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Torrent of Desire
Title: Torrent of Desire
Character: Mona Lin
Released: November 6, 1969
Type: Movie
David (Qiao Zhuang) and Mona (Yu Qian) are a spoiled brother-and-sister duo who carelessly use the family fortune to while away their time. David's friend Hanming (Yang Fan) introduces him to the lovely Danfeng (Jenny Wu), and despite Hanming's quiet infatuation with her, David moves in quickly. David and Danfeng get married, but lasting bliss is not in the cards. Mona develops a serious case of jealousy against Danfeng for snatching her brother AND being the object of Hanming's affection. Her barbed tongue and feminine wiles prove powerful enough to sow seeds of discord among the quartet of friends and lovers. Can this wicked web of love, lust and jealousy end happily for anyone?
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Dead End
Title: Dead End
Character: Mary
Released: July 12, 1969
Type: Movie
In the mid-sixties Chang Cheh changed the face of female dominated films with his male dominated, violent kung-fu films. Dead End was the start of a new force that lasted 6 years, the first film to star David Chiang and Ti Lung under director Chang's discerning eye. The trouble all begins when Chen Hung-lieh's character disapproves of Ti Lung's character courting his sister.
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The Millionaire Chase
Title: The Millionaire Chase
Character: Liu Wen Ying
Released: May 20, 1969
Type: Movie
Shaw Brothers musical about three Showgirls chasing millionaires.
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Death Valley
Title: Death Valley
Character: Chiu Jien Ying
Released: October 11, 1968
Type: Movie
A hired assassin unknowingly makes friends with the man he's been sent to murder.
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Hong Kong Rhapsody
Title: Hong Kong Rhapsody
Character: Li Tan Ni
Released: January 29, 1968
Type: Movie
There's nothing like a good, opulent, gaudy musical to lift the spirits, but when it's a 1960's Hong Kong musical orchestrated by a Japanese director and composer, it breaks through the ranks as a classic of campy kitsch. A follow-up to the previous year's megahit Hong Kong Nocturne, with the same Japanese creative team, Hong Kong Rhapsody follows the fortunes of an unemployed magician whose love life is so knotty it would take Houdini to unravel!
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King Drummer
Title: King Drummer
Character: Julie
Released: November 15, 1967
Type: Movie
Ling Yun plays the replacement hired for a popular band whose egotistic drummer quit to join a rival group. When the new arrival becomes a hit, he earns the jealous wrath of the predecessor. Meanwhile, the young drummer's mother is fervently against his music career. With the gorgeous Lily Ho as the manageress of the band and some terrific drumming set pieces, the whole thing, needless to say, comes off with a bang.
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The Cave of the Silken Web
Title: The Cave of the Silken Web
Character: Third sister
Released: August 21, 1967
Type: Movie
Monkey King, Pig and Friar Sand must rescue his master Buddhist monk from seven witches / spiders who believe themselves to be immortal if they eat the monk's flesh. The third part of the Shaw Brothers film series about Monkey King after the novel "Journey to the West."
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That Tender Age
Title: That Tender Age
Character: Nightclub singer
Released: July 19, 1967
Type: Movie
Characters live through that Tender Age
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Madam Slender Plum
Title: Madam Slender Plum
Character: Yuan's lover
Released: February 23, 1967
Type: Movie
Before director Lo Wei helped to discover Bruce Lee and the king of kung-fu comedy Jackie Chan, in Madam Slender Plum, Lo perpetuates the career of yet another Shaw's non-action, femme fatale starlet; the sleek and sexy, puppy-eyed Eurasian Jenny Hu. It's a melodrama with a touch of murder-mystery in the vein of an old Alfred Hitchcock movie where Diana Chang plays the mother with Jenny playing her oldest daughter.
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Sweet Is Revenge
Title: Sweet Is Revenge
Character: Mrs Zheng
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Some 40 years ago when warlords rode rough-shod over the Chinese people, circus acrobat Pao Te-cheng took to the hills and began robbing the rich to help the poor. His daring feats earned him the nickname of “The Masked Robber”. Trying to intercept a large sum of money to be turned over to public security chief Cheng Kuan-hsi, he is nearly caught. Partner Hsiao Chung is jubilant over his safe return. But in the government office, chief detective Ma Pu-yun frantically plots his arrest. Ma Chien-li, son of the chief detective, devises a clever trap set for Ma Pu-yun’s birthday party. Among the guests is Huang Tan-ping who is engaged to Doctor David Lee. Ma Chien-li proposes to her without knowing this.
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The Joy of Spring
Title: The Joy of Spring
Released: December 21, 1966
Type: Movie
Hong Kong musical directed by Lo Chen.
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The Blue and the Black 2
Title: The Blue and the Black 2
Character: Ji Hui-Ya
Released: July 20, 1966
Type: Movie
Part two of the wartime love story
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The Blue and the Black
Title: The Blue and the Black
Character: Ji Hui-Ya
Released: June 29, 1966
Type: Movie
It's a powerful melodrama about a thwarted romance in 1930s Tientsin, China, during the Japanese occupation, and it stars Linda Lin Dai, one of the era's most popular stars. It was part of Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films.
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Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore
Title: Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore
Character: Yeh Feng
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Shaw Brothers comedy.
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The Story of Sue San
Title: The Story of Sue San
Character: Chung Ching/Chun Jin
Released: September 30, 1964
Type: Movie
This gripping story centers on the romance between Wang Chin Lung and Sue San. Although they may be perfectly matched when it comes to their love for one other, the two come from remarkably different social ranks. While Chin Lung is the son of a respected government official, Su San is a prostitute, albeit a famous one.
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The Last Woman of Shang
Title: The Last Woman of Shang
Character: Dancing girl
Released: September 12, 1964
Type: Movie
Admist a rebellion during the Shang Dynasty in ancient China, a nurse flees the palace with a young prince. As an adult, he convinces the daughter of the usurper to betray her father and to assist in restoring him as the rightful monarch.
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Coffin from Hong Kong
Title: Coffin from Hong Kong
Character: Lee Lai
Released: August 21, 1964
Type: Movie
A private detective finds the limp body of a young Chinese beauty in his office, shot with his own gun.
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The Dancing Millionairess
Title: The Dancing Millionairess
Character: Ms Xia
Released: February 12, 1964
Type: Movie
Chen Hou is a chauffeur who gets caught in a mistaken identity scandal linking him to businesswoman Lok Dai. Chen was supposed to audition for a job as her chauffeur, but a proposed musical show is far more attractive to the aspiring dancer. When a rumor gets out that the two are involved in an affair, she's angry and confronts him, but his charms overwhelm her, and it's revealed that she too desires to dance. Soon she's bankrolling the affair, the sets are being built, and the singing and dancing begin!
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Stepmother
Title: Stepmother
Character: Ai-Lan
Released: September 6, 1963
Type: Movie
A Shaw Brothers drama starring Diana Chang Chung-Wen and Margaret Tu Chuan.
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The Adulteress
Title: The Adulteress
Character: Magistrate Liu's concubine
Released: August 8, 1963
Type: Movie
The noted actress Li Li-hua, star of more than sixty films since 1947, beautifully portrays the drugged, then disgraced wife of a peddler in the waning days of the Ching Dynasty. To make matters worse, she’s soon framed for her husband’s murder by her rapist - the son of the local magistrate! And even that isn’t the end of her woes. It’s best to have a box of tissues nearby as two expert directors ratchet up the emotional suspense in this consummate tearjerker.
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Love Parade
Title: Love Parade
Character: Swim suit model
Released: January 21, 1963
Type: Movie
The winning couple of Linda Lin Dai and Peter Chen Hu light up the screen in the delightful Shaw Brothers musical Love Parade. The manager of a dance company places a personal ad in the newspaper. He receives a response but has no idea the woman is his top dancer, with whom he has an antagonistic relationship.