Chin Tsi-Ang
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- DramaLove in a Fallen City
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- ActionMy Young Auntie
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- ActionThe Mighty Peking Man
- ActionThe Lady Hermit
- ActionTales of a Eunuch
- ActionHouse of Traps
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- DramaLove in a Fallen City
- ActionPursuit of Vengeance
- ActionThe Boxer from Shantung
- ActionThe Duel of the Century
- ActionHeroes of the East
- ActionThe Kung Fu Instructor
- HorrorHuman Lanterns
- DramaDeath Duel
- DocumentaryCinema Hong Kong: Wu Xia
- HorrorBlood Reincarnation
- ActionThe Swordswoman of Huangjiang
- ComedyMoney Is Lovely
- DramaCrazy Blood
- DramaMidnight Whispers
- ComedyMy Kung Fu Master
- DramaThe Blade
- ComedyGhost Fever
- ActionMantis Combat
- DramaThe Rainbow
- ActionAll for the Winner
- ComedyMy Wife Is 18
- ComedyThe Occupant
- CrimeItchy Fingers
- CrimeThe Criminals, Part 3: Arson
- MusicMadam White Snake
- ComedyTo Miss with Love
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- ActionThe Blue Jean Monster
- ActionThe Killer
- MusicThe West Chamber
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- DramaToo Late for Love
- ComedyA Bride's Nightmare
- DramaThe Devil's Skin
- MusicThe Amorous Lotus Pan
- ComedyHeartbeat 100
- ActionDescendant of the Sun
- HorrorThe Killer Snakes
- MusicThe Pearl Phoenix
- DramaMaybe It's Love
- ComedyComedy of Mismatches
- DramaFairy, Ghost, Vixen
- DramaCasino Tycoon
- ComedyThe Human Goddess
- ActionTemple of the Red Lotus
- CrimeThe Criminals
- ComedyBehind the Yellow Line
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- DramaThe Golden Lotus
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- RomanceThe Dream of the Red Chamber
- ComedyThe 82 Tenants
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Chin Tsi-Ang
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Chin Tsi-Ang (February 22, 1908 – October 15, 2007), also romanized as Qian Siying, was one of the earliest martial arts actors of Chinese cinema and its first female star. She debuted in South China Dream in 1925 at the age of 17. Chin's supporting roles in Langhua Movie Studio's successful first three movies launched what would become a long movie career. In 1928 she joined the Fudan Film Company, her first role for that studio being the female lead in The Swallow Heroine, after which she starred in three more for Fudan the following year. In 1930 she moved up a level to the Great Wall Film Company, making what would become her representative work, Southern Heroine, directed by Yang Xiaozhong. Chin's performance impressed audiences in a film that came out just as Shanghai studios discovered the potential of marketing their product to Southeast Asia's Chinese community; Chin's emerging popularity amongst this group brought a steady stream of theater owners to Shanghai to buy copies of her films, regardless of the cost. She went on to make nine more action films for Great Wall and other studios, and since some of these were multi-parters, the actual number totaled about twice that. The last of these was released in 1931, by which time the fervor for martial arts movies had cooled, so Chin moved into other genres, including sound films. Having become a star in Shanghai, Chin and her husband, Hung Chung-Ho, moved to Hong Kong. While there, they formed the Sanxing Film Company, which specialized in wuxia and produced the first Fong Sai-Yuk film in 1938. The company continued in business until 1963, when the Hong Kong government requisitioned its properties. Chin's husband died not long afterwards, following which she felt the urge to resume making movies, but when the matter of her age (now 53) came up, she replied that she just wanted to make movies again, and would be happy to take "green leaf" roles (bit parts or extras). She specialized in playing women her own age, often the mother or grandmother of a lead character. In this second stage of her career, she worked in more than 180 theatrical films over five decades, one of the more recent and well-known being Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love at age 92.
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- Shanghai, China
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