René Liu
René Liu was born June 1, 1969. She is a Taiwanese actress and singer. She is the first to win Best Actress awards at the Asia Pacific Movie Festival in both television and film productions. She has several albums out including "I'm Fine". Description above from the Wikipedia article René Liu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors ... more
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A World Without Thieves
(2004)
Action, Drama
Two grifters, Wang Bo and Wang Li, a couple who've been arguing, board a train in rural China. He wants to fleece a peasant, nicknamed Dumbo for his naiveté, who's carrying 60,000 yuan and trusts everyone. She wants to protect the hick kid, an act of expiation brought on by prayer and a visit to a temple. Also on board are one of more ...
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Feng Xiaogang
Cast:
Andy Lau, René Liu, Wang Baoqiang, Li Bingbing, Ge You
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Double Vision
(2002)
Action, Mystery, Thriller
An FBI Agent pairs with a troubled Taiwan cop to hunt for a serial killer who's embedding a mysterious fungus in the brains of victims.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Chen Kuo-Fu
Cast:
David Morse, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, René Liu, Yang Kuei-Mei, Sihung Lung
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20 30 40
(2004)
Drama, Romance
Wise, reflective and bittersweet, director/actor Sylvia Chang's Taipei-set triptych weaves through the lives of a 40-year-old divorcée (Chang), a thirtysomething flight attendant (Rene Liu) and an aspiring pop singer (Angelica Lee). Co-written by the three principals, the script's meditations on love, friendship and life choices are as...
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Sylvia Chang
Cast:
Sylvia Chang, René Liu, Angelica Lee, Kate Yeung, Tony Leung Ka-Fai
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Hot Summer Days
(2010)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
In "Hot Summer Days" a hot summer heat wave engulfs the Chinese territory, while the movie covers the lives of various characters during that time. There's chaffeur Wah who tries to woo foot masseur Li Yan via text messages, air conditioner repairman Ah Wai interested in biker girl Ding Dong, a master sushi chef who spurns the love of ...
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Tony Chan, Wing Shya
Cast:
Jacky Cheung, René Liu, Vivian Hsu, Barbie Hsu, Yihong Duan
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The Personals
(1998)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
An attractive and successful doctor places a personal ad in a newspaper to try to meet (and eventually marry) Mr. Right. A succession of blind dates ensues, featuring men who are lonely, desperate, dangerous and perverted.
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Chen Kuo-Fu
Cast:
René Liu, Wu Bai, Chen Chao-jung, Bao-ming Gu, Chin Shih-Chieh
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Fleeing by Night
(2000)
Drama, Romance
Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters. Ing'er, the daughter of a theatre-owner, welcomes the return of Shao-dung, her fiancee and a fine cellist from America. Shao-dung soon finds himself captivated by the opera "Fleeing By Night" and its celebrated actor, Lin Chung, whose voi...
Runtime:
119 min
Director:
Li-Kong Hsu, Chi Yin
Cast:
René Liu, Huang Lei
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Siao Yu
(1995)
Drama, Romance
A young Taiwanese couple, newly arrived in New York City, are struggling to obtain a green card. The woman, Siao-yu, works as a seamstress in a sweatshop while her lover, Jiang Wei, is a student who works in a fish market. They meet a middle-aged New Yorker, Mario, who has racked up a large gambling debt. Jiang Wei agrees to give Mario...
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Sylvia Chang
Cast:
René Liu, Chung-Hua Tou, Daniel J. Travanti, Marj Dusay
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Happy Birthday
(2007)
Drama, Romance
Rene Liu successfully delivers the complex role of Mi, who chooses to remain single rather than risking the slightest chance of being dumped. She loves her friend Nan more than anyone, yet she asks him to be her best friend instead of boyfriend. For ten years, he wishes her a happy birthday no matter how far they are geographically apa...
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Jingle Ma
Cast:
Louis Koo, René Liu, Richard Ng, Richie Ren, Carl Ng
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Run Papa Run
(2008)
Run Papa Run is a 2008 Hong Kong comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Sylvia Chang, and based on a novel by Benny Li. It was produced by JCE Movies Limited, with Jackie Chan serving as an executive producer. Featuring an ensemble cast, the film stars Louis Koo as Lee Tin-Yun, a Triad boss who struggles to hide his criminal life...
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Sylvia Chang
Cast:
Louis Koo, René Liu
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Don't Cry, Nanking
(1995)
Drama, War
In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking shelter in the Capital during the Japanese invasion. The family faces the Rape of Nanking by the Imperial Japanese Army, with rapes, mass murder of priso...
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Wu Ziniu
Cast:
Chin Han, René Liu
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The Matrimony
(2007)
Drama, Horror, Thriller
A woman finds the key to a room in the attic that her husband forbids her from entering. When she opens the door, she is confronted with the haunting existence of the woman her husband refuses to forget.
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Hua-Tao Teng
Cast:
Fan Bingbing, Leon Lai Ming, René Liu, Songzi Xu
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Kidnap
(2007)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Three years ago, drama teacher Lam Hiu Yeung (Karena Lam) lost her younger brother in a kidnapping case, headed by female inspector Ho Yuen Chun (Rene Liu). Three years later, she is now on the verge of another great loss: her husband is in the late stages of cancer, and options are running out. To take him overseas for medical treatme...
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Law Chi-Leung
Cast:
Karena Lam, René Liu, Julian Cheung
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Love in Space
(2011)
Comedy, Romance
The film tells the stories of a mother and her three daughters about their own struggles in love. All the women had achieved progress in some way except in love. However, each of them found their own Mr.Right in the end. The woman named Mary (acted by XuFan) was a widow and came back to China from abroad. She was a generous woman and s...
Runtime:
100 min
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Tonight Nobody Goes Home
(1996)
Comedy, Drama
The Chen family contagiousness extends to taking on an extra-marital affair. Gua Ah-leh is at the movie's centre: she shines as Lung's wife, who finds she has a thing or two to learn from the gigolo after Lung blithely. Lang Hisung plays old dentist for broad comedy he is sixty years old.
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Sylvia Chang
Cast:
Sihung Lung, Kuei Ya-Lei, Winston Chao, René Liu, Jordan Chan
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The Peony Pavilion
(1995)
Drama
A high school student and a pop singer meld reality with fiction as they both fantasize themselves as characters in a Ming dynasty tale of seduction - "The Peony Pavilion."
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Chen Kuo-Fu
Cast:
René Liu
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Mr. & Mrs. Single
(2011)
Romance
In the romantic-comedy "Mr. and Mrs. Single," the movie tackles the Chinese social phenomenon of secret marriages for young couples looking for better jobs and higher income. A young man with high mortgage payments to fulfill takes the job of a personal-assistant to a female CEO under the condition that he is still single.
Runtime:
100 min
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Red Persimmon
(1997)
Drama, History
In 1949, the Communists take over mainland. The refugees and the military arrive in the Keelung Harbor in Taiwan. While the father holds secret meetings with other generals in attempt to recover the lost land, the kids still play games with their grandma who still enjoys the harmony and peace in hardship. Gradually, it seems that there...
Runtime:
168 min
Director:
Tung Wang
Cast:
René Liu, Chun Shih, Shih Chang, Tao Shu
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Starry Starry Night
(2011)
Drama
There was once a young girl named May who felt alienated from everyone around her. May is worried about her mother and father, whose marriage is on the rocks, and she yearns to return to the woods where her grandfather lives. One day, May befriends a boy as lonely as she is. When reality catches up, they run away to a beautiful world t...
Runtime:
99 min