Gua Ah-leh

Gua Ah-leh

Birthday: 1944-06-02

Place of Birth: Changsha, Hunan, China

Biography: Grace Gua Ah-leh (traditional Chinese: 歸亞蕾; simplified Chinese: 归亚蕾) is a Taiwanese actress and singer born in China on June 2, 1944. She studied acting at the National Taiwan University of Arts. In 1965, she made her professional film debut in The Rain of Sorrow (煙雨濛濛), and received a Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress. She was the youngest Leading Actress winner in the Golden Horse history. The next year, she won another Best Leading Actress Golden Horse award for the movie Home, Sweet Home (家在台北). In 1978, she won the Best Supporting Actress Golden Horse award for her role in The Diary of Didi (蒂蒂日記). She has portrayed over 200 roles in film and television since her debut 1965.

Movies

Unmarried Mothers
Unmarried Mothers

Hsiao-Peng, an unmarried mother is sent to a maternity home for young single mothers. During her tim...

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Miracles: The Canton Godfather
Miracles: The Canton Godfather

A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. ...

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Evening News
Evening News

Shih-Yen is upset about Ko-Ching prioritizing her career over their marriage and even getting an abo...

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The Wedding Banquet
The Wedding Banquet

A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marr...

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Beneath the Banyan Tree
Beneath the Banyan Tree

After her son is jailed, a Chinese mother with high expectations struggles to protect her family's r...

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The Jade Badger
The Jade Badger

A marriage between nobles in Ancient China sets the stage for murder, monsters, and mutilation as t...

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Joyful Reunion
Joyful Reunion

Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China, the present day. Master chef Tang Shizhe (Kenneth Tsang) tells h...

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The Diary of Di-Di
The Diary of Di-Di

A young girl, her life in despair, finds confidence in life again through the encouragement of her l...

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Summer's Desire
Summer's Desire

Yin Xia Mo is torn between her rich boyfriend, Ou Chen, and the charismatic orphan Luo Xi, who would...

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Sergeant Hsiung
Sergeant Hsiung

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Tonight Nobody Goes Home
Tonight Nobody Goes Home

The Chen family contagiousness extends to taking on an extra-marital affair. Gua Ah-leh is at the mo...

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Journey Across the Mainland
Journey Across the Mainland

Joseph Kuo's final film....

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The Knot
The Knot

They fell in love; Chen Qiushui was 20. Wang Biyun was 18. When Qiushui fled Taiwan after the 228 Ma...

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20 Once Again
20 Once Again

A visit to the photographer's returns the physical looks of a 70-year-old grandmother back to her 20...

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Maiden Rosé
Maiden Rosé

To celebrate his newborn baby girl, an old wine brewer made a bottle of Maiden Rose for her future m...

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A Rescue from Hades
A Rescue from Hades

Three generations of the Luo family fasted and chanted Buddha's name. However, Mr. Luo died young. L...

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The Funny Couple
The Funny Couple

The Funny Couple is a Taiwanese Romantic Comedy starring Alan Tam...

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Flower Just Smile in the Spring Breeze
Flower Just Smile in the Spring Breeze

Flower Just Smile in the Spring Breeze is a Taiwanese Romance starring Alan Tam...

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Baby Steps
Baby Steps

Danny, a Taiwanese-American man, and his partner Tate want to have a baby, but the complex world of ...

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Everything Is Going My Way
Everything Is Going My Way

It tells the story of Long Baonian, an entrepreneur who owns tourist hotels and tour bus companies, ...

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The King of Gambler
The King of Gambler

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Love in Chilly Spring
Love in Chilly Spring

This wartime romantic melodrama set in the mountains of Yilan during the final days of WWII. Young a...

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Who Is the Killer?
Who Is the Killer?

Taiwanese movie...

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The Women Soldiers
The Women Soldiers

Four girls graduate from high school with the hope of joining the army, even though that may clash w...

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Flag of Honor
Flag of Honor

Hong Kong romance set in wartime...

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Intimates
Intimates

Foon escapes an arranged marriage by walking the road of a Ji Sor. After an affair with Shing, she b...

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Glass Eyeball
Glass Eyeball

Taiwanese horror movie from 1969....

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A Girl Without Sorrow
A Girl Without Sorrow

The son of a wealthy businessman (Alan Tam) sees Yun Bai (Lin Feng-Jiao) at an art exhibition for th...

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Devil yielded to God
Devil yielded to God

Taiwanese horror movie from 1970....

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Love's Many Faces
Love's Many Faces

An unusual tale about the love between a female cat-burglar and a university student....

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Walking in the Sunset
Walking in the Sunset

Taiwanese romance film....

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Errant Love
Errant Love

Kao Han (Kenny Bee) and Pan-yun (Xiu-ling Lu) meet for the first time as strangers in a pet shop. It...

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Phoenix the Raider
Phoenix the Raider

A story of two friends on the opposite side of the law....

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You Can't Tell Him
You Can't Tell Him

A girl who weds her love against her wishes repents after their daughter is born and her decision ma...

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Poor Chasers
Poor Chasers

Pairs of best college friends, Shen Jung (Brigitte Lin) and Li Lun-mei (Chelsia Chan); Chen Cheng-hs...

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Fleeing by Night
Fleeing by Night

Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters, e...

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Love Is Thicker Than Wine
Love Is Thicker Than Wine

A romance that was destined to be, becomes altered by a man's insecurity and a woman's pride. Will t...

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Rape and Die
Rape and Die

Ah-feng is a teenager who is raped by her Mother's boyfriend. Following her subsequent pregnancy she...

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The Rain of Sorrow
The Rain of Sorrow

Adaptation of Chiung Yao's novel "Fire and Rain"....

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Forbidden Imperial Tales
Forbidden Imperial Tales

Forbidden Imperial Tales is a Taiwan History movie...

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Mother Tragedy
Mother Tragedy

Taiwanese drama film....

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The True and False Wife
The True and False Wife

Taiwanese romantic comedy....

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Escape to Freedom
Escape to Freedom

A historical thriller directed by Cheng Kang....

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Love in the Storm
Love in the Storm

Taiwanese romance film....

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The Legend of Chu Liu Hsiang
The Legend of Chu Liu Hsiang

Taiwanese fantasy / adventure....

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Woman Police
Woman Police

Taiwanese crime drama....

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Man Ghost Fox
Man Ghost Fox

Tells the story of people, ghosts and foxes between a poignant love story....

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The Woman Who Eats People
The Woman Who Eats People

Taiwan horror....

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Phoenix the Ninja
Phoenix the Ninja

A female ninja avenges her mother's death....

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Immortal Warriors
Immortal Warriors

Immortal Warriors is a Taiwanese Martial Arts movie....

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The Winter
The Winter

The winters in Northern China could become rather bitter and harsh especially if one must endure it ...

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Home, Sweet Home
Home, Sweet Home

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A Title Rewon
A Title Rewon

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I Didn't Dare to Tell You
I Didn't Dare to Tell You

A student secretly works a night job to pay off his father’s gambling debts, and as a result constan...

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The Lost Generation
The Lost Generation

The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from ma...

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Inferno Thunderbolt
Inferno Thunderbolt

A young beautiful woman goes undercover into a wealthy powerful crime family to investigate and aven...

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The Casino
The Casino

Taiwanese crime film....

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Burn Phoenix Burn
Burn Phoenix Burn

A young lady sacrificed her first love when she discovered her boyfriend had a crush on her younger ...

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Consolidated Dougherty
Consolidated Dougherty

Taiwanese adventure film that reunites Ivy Ling Po with ex-Shaw stars Ching Li and Lisa Chiao Chiao....

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The Anger
The Anger

Drama-thriller from Taiwan....

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The Chinese Amazons
The Chinese Amazons

Taiwanese war film directed by Li Chia....

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Koali & Rice
Koali & Rice

Widow Lin Xiumei realizes that soon after both of her sons have left home, she changes into someone ...

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Last Eunuch In China
Last Eunuch In China

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Number One
Number One

In the context of China's urbanization, a young man faces existential difficulties and decides to re...

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The Coldest Winter in Peking
The Coldest Winter in Peking

Story of a US-educated scientist who returned to China, and suffered during the years of the Cultura...

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Somewhere My Love
Somewhere My Love

Taiwan Drama starring Ko Chun-Hsiung...

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Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year
Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year

Tang Yuan, Jiao Zi and their family enjoy Chinese New Year together, learning about traditions, and ...

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Migratory Bird
Migratory Bird

Fong, a Taiwanese woman has relocated to Canada with her husband Kwok. Fong suspects that Kowk is ch...

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Triumph Of Two Kung-Fu Arts
Triumph Of Two Kung-Fu Arts

For a movie with kung fu right there in the title this one sure takes it's time before we even get t...

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Portrait of a Fanatic
Portrait of a Fanatic

In 1949 when the Communist regime was established in China, the world-famed painter Ling Chen-kuang,...

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Once Upon A Lie
Once Upon A Lie

Online movie critic known for his sharp reviews, has now become an AI to dish the dirt on the latest...

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烟雨濛濛
烟雨濛濛

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The Ripening
The Ripening

The film depicts Ge Xiangting and Gui Yalei as an old couple with a psychological barrier between th...

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A Test of Love
A Test of Love

The story is about three nurses, Bai Jiejun, Huang Siman and Lu Xiaoya, who are in love and in pursu...

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Who is to Blame?
Who is to Blame?

A very good student, Stone helped his mother at the salt field. After the death of his mother, Stone...

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The Story of Daniel
The Story of Daniel

1980 Taiwanese Drama directed by Liu Wei-Bin. Gua Ah-Lei received a nomination for Best Supporting A...

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Eat Drink Man Woman
Eat Drink Man Woman

Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive da...

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One More Good Day
One More Good Day

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