Ivy Ling Po — Actor (26)
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The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse (2016) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
我們的那時．此刻
director: Yang Li-chou actor: Gwei Lun-Mei / Ivy Ling Po …
other title: 我們的那時．此刻 / The Moment
In 2013, the Golden Horse Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary. The ministry of Culture commissioned director Yang Li-chou to make a documentary about the history of Golden Horse. What is unique to this film is that it's not an ode to celebrities but about the role cinema plays in ordinary people's lives. It's a love letter to cinema, filmmakers and audiences.
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Rice Rhapsody (2005) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
海南雞飯
director: Kenneth Bi actor: Sylvia Chang / Martin Yan …
other title: Hainan Chicken Rice / 海南雞飯
With her elder two sons being gay, a traditionally-minded mother fears her youngest son could be too, thereby losing her last chance to have any grandchildren. With help from a friend she takes in a female French foreign exchange student, who ends up teaching the family a lot about life, acceptance, and love.
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Song of Tomorrow (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
明日之歌
director: Doe Ching actor: Ivy Ling Po / Kiu Chong …
other title: 明日之歌
Ivy Ling Po was at the height of her fame in traditional Huangmei Opera films -- and chiefly as a male impersonator -- when she radically changed her image, taking on an ultra-contemporary semi-musical role in Song Of Tomorrow. Ivy plays a dance hostess and leading man Chiao Chuang is a jazz drummer, but with a difference. Chiao is a heroin addict, and Ivy learns that heroin is a far more lethal adversary than "the other woman" when trying to keep their marriage intact.
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Flight Man (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
馬蘭飛人
director: Ting Shan-Hsi actor: Wang Yong / Ivy Ling Po …
other title: 馬蘭飛人
Flight Man takes place in Taiwan in 1933, when the country was under Japanese occupation after the First Sino-Japanese War. The Taiwanese people have signed a petition to have the Japanese establish a Taiwan council, but instead this merely provokes the Japanese police to hunt down and round up everyone who signed the petition.
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The Mating Season (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
不是冤家不聚頭
director: Wu Chia-Hsiang actor: Peter Chen Ho / Pat Ting Hung …
other title: 不是冤家不聚頭
The Weiss Advertising Co under manageress Lo Yu Chun (Pat Ting Hung) and the Jen An Advertising Co. managed by playboy Tsao Chung Nien (Peter Chen Ho) are business rivals. The former works hard but without much success. The latter, with most of his staff perusing racing form or yellow journals, gets far more business. The anticipated arrival of a business tycoon from Malaya starts another battle and Lo Yu Chun goes all out to win over the prospective customer.
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The Silent Love (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
啞吧與新娘
director: Griffin Yueh Feng actor: Chin Feng / Ivy Ling Po …
other title: 啞吧與新娘
Ivy Ling Po gives a startling performance as an abused wife who suffers through all his adulterous and treacherous ways in The Silent Love, which became an allegorical, tragic love story that reflected the unspoken truths inherent in Chinese society. Lead actor Chin Feng received the 1971 Golden Horse Outstanding Performance award for his portrayal as The Mute, a man that secretly loves Ivy and does all he can to make her life better, except that it backfires on him.
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The Younger Generation (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
兒女是我們的
director: Griffin Yueh Feng actor: Ivy Ling Po / Yang Fang …
other title: 兒女是我們的
The Younger Generation is an ultra-tragic tale about a young girl, played by Ivy Ling Po who gets married, has five kids, then she and her husband die forcing one child sold to prostitution to feed the other four. Chinese culture dictates that great respect is given to the elders and in The Younger Generation, it is an elder that is the hero, telling audiences that although sadness abounds, they can return home happy with their Confucius mindset.
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The Perfumed Arrow (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
女秀才
director: Kao Li actor: Ivy Ling Po / Chin Feng …
other title: 女秀才
Ling Bor plays Wen Fei E who is both an excellent academic as well as martial arts expert. Since her childhood days fond of dressing up as a boy, she becomes a village scholar sharing classes with Tu Zi Zheng (Chin Feng) and Wei Zhun Zhi (Ho Fan). When Fei E's innocent father is framed and sent to prison, she rushes to his rescue saving Jing Fu Quan (Kam Fie) who is in the hands of robbers along the way. Mistaking Fei E to be a noble hero, Fu Quan has no greater wish than to get married to her savior...
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Forever and Ever (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
金石情
director: Lo Wei actor: Ivy Ling Po / Lin Yu …
other title: 金石情
In 1966, like in The Love Eterne, Ling Bo took up the male lead in Forever and Ever, despite Shaw Brothers' earlier plan of having her as the female lead. Facing opposition from fans, they finally arranged for her to star as a male student named Xiaowen. Wicked rich man Liu, portrayed by Lo Wei, the director of this film, wants Xiaowen to marry his daughter (Lin Yu) who is suffering from leprosy, thinking that marriage will take away her disease. Although Xiaowen discovers Liu's plan, he is still in love with her and hopes that a miracle will cure her disease...
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Dawn Will Come (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
魂斷奈何天
director: Kao Li actor: Ivy Ling Po / Li Hsiang-Chun …
other title: 魂斷奈何天
The lovely Li Hsiang-chun stars as a poor beauty who is drugged, ravished, lied to, locked in a burning store room, left to drown, and chased by sword-wielding ruffians, among other things. Her only hope is her betrayer's new wife, played by the strong and sensual Ivy Ling Po. Dawn may come, but the questions is: will it be too late? Director/writer Kao Li shows both restraint and sadism in this historical melodramatic tearjerker.
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It's All in the Family (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
愛心千萬萬
director: Lo Chen actor: Ivy Ling Po / Ling Yun …
other title: Tout est dans la famille / 愛心千萬萬
Danny Lee is Hsu Chih-yuan, the youngest son of strict patriarch Hsu Hui-tang (Cheng Miu). A sailor, Chih-yuan incurs his father's wrath when he tells the latter of his girlfriend Susan's (Ai Ti) pregnancy. Pressured to leave her by his father, Chih-yuan finally agrees to continue his studies overseas. Eldest brother Chih-wen (Ling Yun) volunteers to raise money but ends up losing the family fortune in the stock market. It starts a roller coaster of tragedies for the family that ends with bitter disillusionment for Chih-yuan. It's a battle between tradition and youthful rebellion that leaves everyone a little poorer off.
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Vermilion Door (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
紅伶淚
director: Lo Chen actor: Li Li-Hua / Guan Shan …
other title: 紅伶淚
The tragic love triangle of early 20th century Peking Opera star Chiu Hai-tang, his beautiful stage partner, and the warlord who forces himself between them, has been a favorite with Chinese audiences for decades.
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The Mirror and the Lichee (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
新陳三五娘
director: Kao Li actor: Ivy Ling Po / Fang Ying …
other title: 新陳三五娘
Movie queen Ivy Ling Po is ideally cast as a male scholar in this historical Huangmei Opera romance. It’s a tragic love story between the scholar and a local beauty (played by Fang Ying). He polishes mirrors as a pretext to get closer to his love, who signals her approval by tossing him a bunch of lichees. From that point on the course of true love proves operatically rocky, complete with murder and suicide.
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A Cause to Kill (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
殺機
director: Mitsuo Murayama actor: Ivy Ling Po / Guan Shan …
other title: 殺機
Ivy Ling Po, star of The Temple of the Red Lotus, tears up the screen as a jealous, murderous movie star, who, like seemingly all "film noir" vixens, wants to kill off her husband. While she's infuriated that the hitman she hires bungles the job, she's delighted that her husband is found guilty for the killer's "murder".
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Raw Passions (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
裸血
director: Lo Chen actor: Ivy Ling Po / Kao Yuen …
other title: 裸血
Ivy Ling Po plays the dedicated wife of a man being blackmailed for an illicit love affair, who uncovers a pit of deceit, double-crosses, extortion and murder after murder.
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The Twin Swords (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
火燒紅蓮寺之鴛鴦劍俠
director: Hsu Tseng-Hung actor: Jimmy Wang Yu / Chin Ping …
other title: 火燒紅蓮寺之鴛鴦劍俠
Gui Wu happens upon a kidnapping with his wife Gan Lian-zhu at the Red Lotus Temple. Lian-zhu sends Wu to go for reinforcements while she stays to fight the kidnappers. Fortunately, the mysterious Scarlet Maid is surreptitiously helping her.