Writing
Chiung Yao
Born April 20, 1938 · Chengdu, China
Died December 4, 2024 · aged 86
Qiong Yao (simplified Chinese: 琼瑶; traditional Chinese: 瓊瑤) is a contemporary Chinese writer. She was born in Chengdu, China on April 4th, 1938 as Chen Che (simplified Chinese: 陈喆; traditional Chinese: 陳喆). In 1949, she moved to Taiwan with her father. She has used Xinru (simplified Chinese: 心如) and Fenghuang (simplified Chinese: 凤凰) as pen names.
Known For
The Marigolds · 1980The Marigolds
1980
MovieRomance
A Love Seed · 1979A Love Seed
★ 5.01979
MovieRomance
Birds Are Singing Everywhere · 1978Birds Are Singing Everywhere
1978
MovieRomance
Taiwanese romance film.
Love Rings a Bell · 1977Love Rings a Bell
★ 7.01977
Movie
Story from Qiong Yao's novella collection "Shui Ling"
Outside the Window · 1973Outside the Window
★ 6.01973
MovieRomanceDrama
Brigitte Lin's debut film. A young girl gets romantically involved with a teacher twice her age.
Cloud of Romance · 1977Cloud of Romance
★ 5.01977
MovieRomance
TUAN Wan-lu is a naïve and carefree young woman raised in the family of a professor and doted on by her protective older brother and childhood friend KU Yu-lan. Though Wan-lu is deeply attracted to MENG Chiao, their romance is thwarted by the taunts of MENG Chiao’s mother. At the same time, she discovers she is actually the illegitimate daughter of a club hostess. In the face of this double blow, she decides to marry Yu-lan, the one who has always been there for her. Caught between MENG Chiao’s persistent wooing and her own wavering heart, how will Wan-lu will find her way out?
Errant Love · 1981Errant Love
★ 7.01981
MovieRomance
Kao Han (Kenny Bee) and Pan-yun (Xiu-ling Lu) meet for the first time as strangers in a pet shop. It is destiny that they meet a second time and Kao Han takes a chance in this second meeting to pursue Pan-yun. Pan-yun is reluctant to get involved with Kao Han because she still thinks about and love her late-husband and also her late-husband's niece, Ko-hui (Lan-xi), is in love with Kao Han. Reluctantly and unwillingly Pan-yun falls for Kao Han but their love is not so easily obtained.
Painted Waves of Love · 1976Painted Waves of Love
★ 7.01976
Movie
A talented woman painter falls in love with a gallery owner, who is married. His son falls in love with her niece at first sight. The painter gets along well with the gallery owner's grown son and daughter. In order to keep their family united, his son and daughter ask her to withdraw from her love relationship, and she promises to do so to save the gallery owner's marriage.
Movies
The Marigolds · 1980The Marigolds
1980
MovieRomance
A Love Seed · 1979A Love Seed
★ 5.01979
MovieRomance
Birds Are Singing Everywhere · 1978Birds Are Singing Everywhere
1978
MovieRomance
Taiwanese romance film.
Love Rings a Bell · 1977Love Rings a Bell
★ 7.01977
Movie
Story from Qiong Yao's novella collection "Shui Ling"
Outside the Window · 1973Outside the Window
★ 6.01973
MovieRomanceDrama
Brigitte Lin's debut film. A young girl gets romantically involved with a teacher twice her age.
Cloud of Romance · 1977Cloud of Romance
★ 5.01977
MovieRomance
TUAN Wan-lu is a naïve and carefree young woman raised in the family of a professor and doted on by her protective older brother and childhood friend KU Yu-lan. Though Wan-lu is deeply attracted to MENG Chiao, their romance is thwarted by the taunts of MENG Chiao’s mother. At the same time, she discovers she is actually the illegitimate daughter of a club hostess. In the face of this double blow, she decides to marry Yu-lan, the one who has always been there for her. Caught between MENG Chiao’s persistent wooing and her own wavering heart, how will Wan-lu will find her way out?
Errant Love · 1981Errant Love
★ 7.01981
MovieRomance
Kao Han (Kenny Bee) and Pan-yun (Xiu-ling Lu) meet for the first time as strangers in a pet shop. It is destiny that they meet a second time and Kao Han takes a chance in this second meeting to pursue Pan-yun. Pan-yun is reluctant to get involved with Kao Han because she still thinks about and love her late-husband and also her late-husband's niece, Ko-hui (Lan-xi), is in love with Kao Han. Reluctantly and unwillingly Pan-yun falls for Kao Han but their love is not so easily obtained.
Painted Waves of Love · 1976Painted Waves of Love
★ 7.01976
Movie
A talented woman painter falls in love with a gallery owner, who is married. His son falls in love with her niece at first sight. The painter gets along well with the gallery owner's grown son and daughter. In order to keep their family united, his son and daughter ask her to withdraw from her love relationship, and she promises to do so to save the gallery owner's marriage.
Last Night's Light · 1983Last Night's Light
★ 7.01983
MovieRomance
Taiwanese romance film.
The Young Ones · 1973The Young Ones
★ 5.01973
MovieRomance
Meng Yun Lao, a college student originally from Hong Kong, stays at a family friend’s house and falls in love with their daughter, Hai Ni. Hai Ni is born with a serious heart defect. When she is notified that Yun Lao is heading back to Hong Kong, she suffers depression and dies. Yun Lao leads his life in despair until he meets a pop singer Hsiao Mei, who looks exactly like Hai Ni.
Dodder Flowers · 1965Dodder Flowers
★ 7.01965
MovieDramaRomance
Taiwanese romance film.
The Love Affair of Rainbow · 1977The Love Affair of Rainbow
1977
MovieRomance
The son of a wealthy man married a peasant’s daughter against his family’s objection . When he became a successful author, his wife felt belittled and fearsome as their social status gap had widen . Thus she willingly accepted his sister’s proposal to change her appearance so as to match his current status...
Dreaming Fist with Slender Hands · 1980Dreaming Fist with Slender Hands
★ 9.01980
Movie
Thrown out by their masters for disobedience, the two rascals Sun and Ho yearn to be Kung Fu giants. Through a series of incredible adventures, they toughen up and develop into powerhouse Kung Fu Kids, both feared and revered. Watch their fists fly in some of greatest action packed martial arts fighting you'll ever see.
Play While You Play · 1981Play While You Play
★ 6.41981
MovieDramaRomance
A photographer travels with her boyfriend to a seaside village in Penghu. There she strikes up a relationship with a blind man. When they reencounter one another back in Taipei, where he is preparing to undergo an operation to restore his sight, their connection intensifies.
Wells up in My Heart · 1982Wells up in My Heart
★ 5.01982
MovieRomance
A new secretary for the Hsiao family met an office boy on her first day at work. She was puzzled when he asked if she would marry into Hsiao family. Upon understanding the fact that all the Hsiao secretaries had married the Hsiao sons, she assertively assured that she would not follow the trend, they started dating and soon fall in love. Then one day an angry man stormed into the office and revealed the true identity of the office boy. He was actually the youngest son of the Hsiao family…
Posterity and Perplexity · 1976Posterity and Perplexity
★ 7.01976
MovieRomance
The Wild Goose on the Wing · 1979The Wild Goose on the Wing
★ 9.01979
MovieDrama
After studying drama in the UK, Tan-feng returns to Taiwan to investigate her sister's death. She suspects that her sister committed suicide because her boyfriend, Huai, jilted her. Out of bitterness, Tan-feng begins to plot her revenge by seducing Huai and his childish brother. However, things don't go to plan as she falls crazily in love with the enemy.
Burn Phoenix Burn · 1982Burn Phoenix Burn
1982
MovieRomanceDrama
A young lady sacrificed her first love when she discovered her boyfriend had a crush on her younger sister whom she was guilt-ridden of her loss of eyesight since childhood days. Years later, when she found her new love, her relationship with her new boyfriend was again put to test when he saw her blind but beautiful sister...
The Purple Shell · 1967The Purple Shell
★ 3.31967
MovieDrama
Hui Pui-ching, a gentle and fragile woman, endures relentless abuse from her violent husband Fan Pak-nan. By chance, she meets Ha Mon-hin, a cultured and compassionate businessman trapped in his own loveless marriage. Drawn together by loneliness and understanding, their relationship unfolds quietly along seaside walks, where a simple purple shell becomes a symbol of tenderness and fragile hope. As suspicion, jealousy, and blackmail close in, their impossible love spirals toward devastating consequences.
The Unforgettable Character · 1975The Unforgettable Character
★ 5.01975
MovieRomanceDrama
The Unforgettable Character is a 1975 Taiwanese romantic drama film directed by Chang Mei-chun and written by Chiung Yao.
Girl Friend · 1974Girl Friend
★ 8.01974
MovieDramaRomance
An early Brigitte Lin Romance.
Love Is Thicker Than Wine · 1967Love Is Thicker Than Wine
★ 8.01967
MovieDramaRomance
A romance that was destined to be, becomes altered by a man's insecurity and a woman's pride. Will their love stand the test of time?
The Misty Moon · 1978The Misty Moon
1978
Movie
Brigitte Lin and Charlie Chin star in this Taiwanese drama about a kindergarten teacher who falls in love with a divorcee but leaves him because she thinks he's still in love with his ex-wife.
The Rain of Sorrow · 1965The Rain of Sorrow
★ 10.01965
MovieDrama
Adaptation of Chiung Yao's novel "Fire and Rain".
TV Shows
My Fair Princess · 1998My Fair Princess
★ 7.71998
SeriesDramaComedy
Centers around the legend of Princess Huanzhu during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
New My Fair Princess · 2011New My Fair Princess
★ 3.82011
SeriesDrama
Green Green Grass By The River · 1992Green Green Grass By The River
★ 8.01992
SeriesDrama
Xiao Cao is a young orphan living with her cruel aunt and uncle. She has a sisterly bond with her neighbour, Qing Qing, who is being forced into a marriage with a much older man by her older brother. Desperate to escape their unfortunate circumstances, the two girls manage to run away together on the day of Qing Qing's wedding. During their escape they coincidentally meet He Shiwei, a young university student who is also running away from his family due to an arranged marriage. After a few initial misunderstandings the three decide to travel together. However, things become complicated when they encounter the Fu family, and the family matriarch mistakes He Shiwei for her son, Fu Yuankai, who died 10 years ago.
又见一帘幽梦 · 2007又见一帘幽梦
★ 5.02007
SeriesDrama
Zi Ling is a dreamer who has always been overshadowed by her perfect older sister Lu Ping. For a long time, she's secretly been in love with Chu Lian, who also happens to be Lu Ping's boyfriend. Lu Ping is busy with her own dream of becoming a successful professional dancer and has little time for Chu Lian. Conflict arises when Chu Lian realizes that the one he truly loves is Zi Ling. An unfortunate accident forces a guilt-ridden Chu Lian to enter an unhappy marriage with Lu Ping, but he is unable to forget Zi Ling. Fei Yun Fan is a mysterious, wealthy, and much older man who loves Zi Ling with all his heart. Hoping to move on with her life, Zi Ling gradually reciprocates Fei Yun Fan's affection.
Romance in the Rain · 2001Romance in the Rain
★ 7.62001
SeriesDrama
Lu Yiping, one of many children of a retired general with nine wives, is banished from her family home due to Wang Xueqin. Driven by resentment, she plots revenge by targeting her stepsister's love interest, He Shuhuan. But as Yiping navigates life with her mother, she unexpectedly finds forgiveness and love through the people she meets, transforming her journey of vengeance into one of self-discovery and healing.
Lovers Under the Rain · 1986Lovers Under the Rain
★ 8.01986
SeriesDrama
还珠格格2还珠格格2
★ 6.6
SeriesDramaComedy
Flowers in Fog · 2013Flowers in Fog
★ 7.02013
SeriesDramaMystery
Deep Garden · 1987Deep Garden
★ 7.01987
Series
真爱一世情 · 2004真爱一世情
2004
SeriesFamilyDrama
Princess Xinyue · 1994Princess Xinyue
1994
SeriesDrama
Xue Ke · 1990Xue Ke
★ 5.01990
SeriesDramaFamily
Mute Wife · 1990Mute Wife
1990
SeriesDrama
One Side of the Water · 1988One Side of the Water
1988
Series
在水一方 · 1986在水一方
1986
SeriesDrama