Yang Li-Hua

This romantic family melodrama reworks the Madame Butterfly story in Anping, the port attached to Tainan city in southern Taiwan. Xiuqin falls for a Dutch ship’s doctor called Daley, and becomes pregnant. When he has to leave, he promises to return, but never does. Xiuqin brings up her red-haired daughter, Kimby herself. Kim falls for a medical student from Taipei, Zhiqiang, who is about to go to the USA for his studies. Is destiny about to repeat itself?

A young couple desperately try to keep their love alive, while living in a haunted house.

In the prelude to this martial arts film, bandits kill a former sheriff and his wife. A servant carries their three little daughters to safety, but they grow up apart. Fifteen years later, each girl sets out to seek revenge. Eldest sister Xiufeng disguises herself as a man, performing acts of chivalry as she seeks out the bandits. Along the way, she runs across her sisters, Qingfeng and Zhifeng. They are entranced by the handsome stranger. Will Qingfeng and Zhifeng figure out he is in fact their sister, Xiufeng? Will the three "feng" girls (phoenixes) find the bandits and avenge their parents?

Lin Zemin and his wife Xiugu move to Taiwan from Fujian. At the same time, the Japanese invade Taiwan, leading Zemin to die during the war of resistance. His son Yongyuan grows up and goes to Japan to study medicine were he makes three friends, one of whom is a Japanese girl named Sadako.

Convinced of infidelity, the scholar Wang Yulin refuses to consummate his marriage to Xiuying, the only daughter of the Secretary of Defense, subjecting her to constant humiliation. After enduring a long period of mistreatment by Yulin, Xiuying finally uncovers the plot behind the hairpin with help from her father, and a guilt-ridden Yulin crawls back for forgiveness. This film marks the first co-starring appearance of Yang Li-hua and Ye Qing, two legends of televised Gezaixi (Gezai opera). Yang delivers memorable performances of classic pieces, and her distinctive artistry is further showcased during her first outdoor filming experience, which captures the journey to the capital examinations.

Fellow villagers ZHANG Di and A-zu are in love with each other, however, there is a long-running feud between their parents. In addition, a love rival from a rich family tricks ZHANG Di into gambling away the gold necklace A-zu gave him, driving a wedge between the lovers. A-zu heartbrokenly leaves for Taipei to stay with her relatives. Regretting his action, ZHANG Di sets out with his buddy to look for his love. From the countryside to the city, the lovers encounter one difficulty after another, and their parents keep fighting. Throughout the film, musical theater star ZHANG Di and famous female Taiwanese opera singer YANG Li-hua sing 19 beautiful songs written by the renowned lyricist YE Jun-lin. Zhang Di Seeks A-Zu is the earliest existing modern film that YANG starred in. It became a box-office hit, defying the decline of Taiwanese-language cinema.

The film tells the story of how, before Taiwan’s liberation, anti-Japanese patriot Qin Bingzhong led five brave national soldiers to Taiwan and conspired to cooperate with the Allied fleet to destroy the Japanese “Kamikaze Special Attack Force”.