Cheng Pei-Pei
Birthday: 1946-12-04
Place of Birth: Shanghai, China
Biography: Cheng Pei-Pei (Chinese: 鄭佩佩, December 4, 1946–July 17, 2024) was an actress best known for her performance in the seminal 1966 King Hu wuxia film Come Drink with Me. It made her a contender for one of the first female action star. She continued to play expert swordswomen in a number of films throughout the 1960s. In 2000, she returned to international attention with her role as Jade Fox in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. She followed this up with her portrayal of Long Po in the 2004 television miniseries Watery Moon, Hollow Sky, which was shown on Asian-American television as Paradise. She worked for Zhouyi Media in mainland China.
Movies
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physical...
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Naked Weapon
A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote ...
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Kung Fu Mistress
Kung Fu Mistress is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie starring Kara Hui....
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Kung Fu Killer
China is in unrest, as the Republic falls prey to Warlords like Kahn Xin, who holds an entire provin...
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Golden Swallow
Golden Swallow revolves around the further adventures of its title character. This time around, she ...
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Come Drink with Me
Golden Sparrow is a fighter-for-hire who has been contracted by the local government to retrieve the...
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Wing Chun
Martial arts expert Wing Chun battles bandits in this magical film that provides as many laughs as i...
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The Lady Hermit
A young Kung Fu student seeks a reclusive teacher so that she may learn to defeat the evil Black Dem...
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Fortune King Is Coming to Town!
"Here Comes Fortune" is about the God of Fortune coming down from heaven to spread some love and wea...
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Brothers Five
The 5 Kao brothers, separated since childhood, are unaware that the master Teng Lung Manor, Lung Che...
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Flirting Scholar
A scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich ...
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The Shadow Whip
This top ten box office hit reunites the star duo from Come Drink With Me in another classic action ...
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They Wait
Jason and his wife, Sarah, leave their adopted home of Shanghai and travel to Vancouver, British Col...
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Legendary Amazons
In 11th century China, the Emperor Renzong reigns his country poorly, neglecting state affairs while...
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Blood Ties
Many people believe when a person dies, his soul returns on the 7th night. After Shun was brutally m...
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Taishan Kung Fu
Liu Wenhu, the owner of the Liu's Martial Arts Hall in Mount Tai, sets up competitions every year wi...
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Dragon Swamp
After being implicated in the theft of the Jade Dragon Sword, Fan Ying (Cheng Pei-pei) is banished t...
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The Gods Must Be Funny in China
Hijinks ensue when N!xau the Bushman travels to Beijing, where he's recruited to accompany a track t...
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The Jade Raksha
A fearsome swordswoman known as The Jade Raksha appears in the martial arts world and begins killing...
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Lady of Steel
A young swordswoman named Fang Ying-qi (Cheng Pei-Pei) sets out to join a gathering of the martial w...
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Painted Faces
This is a story about the Peking Opera School that Jackie Chan, Samo Hung and Yuen Biao attended as ...
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The Golden Sword
Bai Yu Lung's father mysteriously disappears one night, and for 10 years Bai searches for him in vai...
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The Flying Dagger
The Yu family earn the ire of the Green Dragon clan when the daughter kills the clan chief's son. Th...
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Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio
Hong Kong cinemas had a wide range of glamorous female stars during the golden age of the 60's and 7...
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Cinema Hong Kong: Wu Xia
A full journey from the beginning of "Swordplay" movies in Shanghai, growth in Hong Kong cinemas in ...
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Hong Kong Nocturne
A musical about 3 sisters, singers and dancers, and their dad, a magician performing in nightclubs u...
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The Thundering Sword
A righteous clan’s effort to seek out and destroy the powerful Thundering Sword turns into a tragedy...
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That Fiery Girl
The bandits of Hulu Valley murder the chief of Mei Clan while searching for a treasure map. In retal...
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Raw Courage
After the Ming Emperor is overthrown and his infant son put in the care of the Black Dragon Society,...
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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...
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None But the Brave
Story is about how a revolutionist, played by Cheng Pei Pei, taking on the identity of a Captain's (...
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Love Under the Sign of the Dragon
In Singapore, successful businessman Alexander falls in love with his new assistant Li Lin. Their lo...
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Lilting
A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of f...
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The Yellow Muffler
Two sisters, Ching-ping (Irene Chen I-ling) and Pai-hung (Betty Ting Pei) struggle to find a workabl...
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Operation Lipstick
Li Bing, a nightclub entertainer and a reformed thief was caught up in a fight against a criminal sy...
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The Counting House
Four employees of Island Fisheries come to a sun-scorched, isolated island to negotiate fishing righ...
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The Truth About Jane and Sam
Sam, a fresh graduate from Singapore, works as a journalist in Hong Kong to gain wider exposure in l...
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Book and Sword
Follows the Battle against the Qing Dynasty and its Manchu ruler Chen Long, the opposition being a H...
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Book and Sword: The Final Battle
The followup to BOOK AND SWORD, detailing further conflict between the Red Flower Society and the Qi...
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The King of Wuxia Part 1
The life of the epoch-making master of martial arts cinema, King Hu....
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Fist Power
Cheuk is a mainland security officer who's thrown into a race against the clock when he discovers a ...
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Lover's Rock
In a tiny Chinese fishing village, two rival fishermen compete for a young woman's love. She does lo...
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Song of Orchid Island
Dr. Ho decides to move to a backward island off the coast of Taiwan to look for his missing father. ...
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The Lotus Lamp
The Goddess of Hua Mountain is imprisoned for falling in love with a mortal, meanwhile her son is ra...
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The Last Woman of Shang
In order to exact revenge upon him, a young woman (Lin Dai) marries the Emperor Chou (Shin Young-kyu...
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The Dragon Creek
Er Niu receives a note which was written by her father just before he was murdered. The note include...
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Flying Dragon, Leaping Tiger
Horse thief Luk Ching-Yang and his wife Liu Lu-Yian. After Luk was betrayed by his brother Kiu Hung,...
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The Guardsman
When internal strife leads to a conspiracy to assassinate the emperor, it is up to a group of loyal ...
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Whiplash
The Empress Dowager flees when the allied forces descend upon the capital. During an attack by bandi...
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Princess Iron Fan
The mythological tale of a quest from China to India to bring back Buddhist scriptures, famous for t...
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Blue Skies
Hsiao Yun's rise to fame all results from a lucky break, as she's forced to substitute for another s...
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How to Meet the Lucky Stars
How to Meet the Lucky Stars is a 1996 Hong Kong film and the final film in the Lucky Stars film seri...
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Goldstone
Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry...
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A Man Called Hero
After Hero Hua marries Jade and leaves her in China, he goes to America to work as a servant and reb...
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Good Take, Too!
An omnibus of 4 short stories, each of them occurring in different corners of our society, but all o...
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Singular Cay
A doctor moves his family into a mansion. His wife hears weird noises at midnight, then his daughter...
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The Miracle Box
Joanna wanted to become a physician. After she meets Albert, a cancer survivor and fellow doctor, he...
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Lady Piranha
Six female POWs lead an escape from a North Vietnamese prison camp, then join the local rebel forces...
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The Eyes of Dawn
A remake in part of his earlier "comfort women" film (Comfort Women, 1994), which explored the explo...
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Wong Fei Hung Series : The Final Victory
In late Qing, restless and upheavals occurred everywhere in China. So Hat Yee, the leader of a patri...
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Lost in Wrestling
Female Mongolian wrestler, Na Ren, was invited to participate in a women’s wrestling show in Japan. ...
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Meditation Park
A devoted wife and mother is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds anothe...
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A Century of Light and Shadow
Revisit 100 years of Chinese cinema through the RTHK TV program A Century of Light and Shadow. Aired...
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Dragon Girls!
Yves Montmayeur takes Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as the starting point for his study of the new ...
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Flirting Scholar from the Future
After using a new technological invention, three friends find themselves trapped inside the 1993 fil...
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The Joy of Spring
The film tells the story of Xing Yonghui, a rich girl who has fun with her painter boyfriend Du Shao...
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In a New York Minute
In A New York Minute follows three Asian women, each at a different stage in their life as they deal...
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Shanghai Baby
Coco leads an intense life in the lively subculture of the boomtown Shanghai. It revolves around end...
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Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong
Female characters in martial arts films from Hong Kong: the women who played them and the directors ...
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The Art of Action: Martial Arts in the Movies
Hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, this in-depth documentary offers viewers a behind-the-scenes look at th...
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Mulan
When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese...
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Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the ...
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Shadow Mask
Fu Tien-Ming is the subject of an experiment that turns him into the hero known as Shadow Mask. When...
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Coming Back
A comedic crime drama starring Echoes of the Rainbow actor Simon Yam. In Coming Back, which was shot...
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Speed Angels
After being recruited by a race car driver coach, a female taxi driver joins the Speed Angels racing...
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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
When a teenager, Chun-Li witnesses the kidnapping of her father by wealthy crime lord M. Bison. When...
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Flirting Scholar 2
Tang Bohu's mother sends him to study at Qingfeng Monastery, but he can't bear the austere and monot...
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Lavender
A young woman is devastated after her fiance's death. She lives in isolation and her only daily trea...
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Four Chefs and a Feast
Fifty years after partners in a prestigious Shanghai restaurant split, others try to restore it to i...
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From Zero to Hero
The young cartoonist Gao Dewei, played by Wu Zhenyu, has a cowardly character and a strict tutor. He...
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House of Harmony
A beautiful Chinese girl, Meiling, has a forbidden love affair with a young American man in Singapor...
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Bell Chamber
Based on a Thai ghost story of Kuman Thong, the film revolves around a woman who has caused the deat...
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My Wedding and Other Secrets
A journey through a cultural minefield, navigating the divide between the traditional values of immi...
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Basic Love
This is about a love triangle between Ling (Elanne Kwong), June (Janice Man) and Rex (Rex Ho). Ling ...
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Sex and the Beauties
We have Carina Lau has Selina the lead actress who is a psychoanalyst, who hang out with her friends...
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Chop Socky: Cinema Hong Kong
A look at the martial arts and kung fu cinema of Hong Kong...
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