Tsao Chien
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Tsao Chien.
Born: September 8, 1922
Place of Birth: Taiwan
Known For
Shadow Girl
A young woman whose kung fu has reached the point where she can turn invisible runs afoul of a powerful family when she disrupts a wedding. She must fight off kung fu masters and even a poisonous centipede ring!
Justice Pao
Justice Bao is a 236-episode television series from Taiwan, first airing on Chinese Television System from February 1993 to January 1994. The show stars Jin Chao-chun as the Chinese official Bao Zheng in the Song Dynasty. It was hugely popular in Greater China as well as many other countries in the Far East. The series was originally scheduled for just 15 episodes. However, the show garnered high ratings when the initial episodes aired. Due to its popularity, CTS expanded the show to 236 episodes. The TVB and ATV Home networks in Hong Kong both bought the series in an attempt to gain viewers. Competition between the two networks during the showing of the series was so severe that identical episodes were shown on both channels on the same night. It was also one of the first dramas that used NICAM technology.
A Touch of Zen
Gu Sheng-zhai, an artist in his early 30s, still lives with his mother, but he is suddenly shaken by the arrival of Yang Hui-zhen, a mysterious princess on the run. Yang brings Gu into her circle of protectors, including a nameless monk whose spiritual guidance transforms him into a valiant fighter.
The Last Night of Madam Chin
Set in Shanghai in the 1940s. Story of a ballroom girl Jolie Chan who falls in love with a student and becomes pregnant, but the student's family force her to have an abortion.
Dragon Inn
China, year 1457. The Minister of Defense is executed, and his children are sentenced to exile by order of the tyrannical Tsao. Fearful of future revenge from the young people, Tsao sends cruel soldiers to murder them, but a brave group of swordsmen can change the course of the battle at the Dragon Inn.
The Wheel of Life
Jointly and respectively directed by King Hu, Lee Hsing, and Pai Ching-Jui, three major Taiwan directors of the 1970s, this film consist of three shorts with the same cast of two actors and one actress, who through reincarnation meet in three different times.
Growing Up
The story follows a young man as he changes from an intelligently aware youth, to a teenager with much less confidence than he once had, and finally, to a stable adult.
Beauty of Beauties
Hsi Shih: The Beauty of Beauties was one of the most ambitious films made in the Taiwan film industry in the 1960s. After leaving The Shaw Brothers studio in Hong Kong and moving to Taiwan, filmmaker Li Han-hsiang mounted this historical epic. Told through the story of Xishi (Hsi Shih), one of the 'Four Great Beauties' of Chinese history, the film portrays the war between two Chinese Kingdoms during the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C). After the kingdom of Yue is defeated by the kingdom of Wu, King Goujian of Yue takes pains to prepare for his revenge and rebuild his country. Knowing that King Fucha of Wu is lewd and lustful, he offers Xisi to the court of Wu to serve as Fucha’s concubine, with Fucha unaware that she is also a spy. She uses her charm to draw Fucha away from his office and governance, while King Goujian rallies his forces together to attempt to reclaim his lands.
The Escape
Everyone seems to want to stop General Tsai from leaving Peking.
All the King's Men
It's the 10th century BC, the emperor is not well, and the medicines he is receiving from con artist "Immortal Li" are in reality only making him worse.
Filmography
as 王延龄
as Fong's Father
as General Lei
as Ninja Sensei
as Mr. Zhu
as Lu Zizhen, part 1
as Agent
as Mr. Ho
as President Her
as Healing Master
as Lord Ho
as Chancellor Pu
as Prof. Lu
as Chi Yun's Father
as Court Official
as Chow Yi To/Chu
as Master Fung
as Commander Hsiao
as Taoist priest
as Dr. Chau
as Manager Tiao
as Mr. Yeung
as Tea House Waiter (uncredited)
as Chow Chang's Father
as Bridegroom's father
as Magistrate Xu Zheng-qing
as Hsin Tsan
as Father Huang
as Yun Chung-Chun
as General Wu Ning
as Chen A-fa