Lung Sihung (Actor)

Reviews of Lung Sihung Movies

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Movies starring Lung Sihung have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 76%.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - released in 2000 - is Lung Sihung's highest rated movie, with a score of 83% based on 729 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Lung Sihung is 7 Lucky Ninja Kids - released in 1987 - with a score of 64% based on 10 reviews.

Actor Biography

Sihung Lung (born 1930 – May 2, 2002) was an actor in the cinema of Taiwan who appeared in over 100 films and was best known for playing paternal roles in films including Eat Drink Man Woman and The Wedding Banquet. He frequently collaborated with award-winning director Ang Lee, notably cast in films such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Pushing Hands.

Lung enlisted in Chiang Kai-shek's army as a teenager to fight the Chinese Communist Party. After they seized control of mainland China, he escaped to Taiwan, where he was selected to join an army-sponsored acting troupe. Acting later became his career. His experience playing an array of roles for the army troupe later led his being cast in over 100 Chinese-language films and in Taiwanese soap operas, typically playing criminals or tough guys.

He had already retired from films when Ang Lee began casting for his first full-length film, 1992's Pushing Hands, and the director, who recalled watching Mr. Lung as a child, asked him to play a father in the film. Lung's sensitive portrayal of an elderly man faced with change turned him into an international star and he became famous for playing fathers struggling with modernity and adult children in the movies known to some fans as the Father Knows Best trilogy.

By the time he appeared as "Sir Te," guardian of a mystical sword in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Lung's health had deteriorated due to diabetes. He died of liver failure in 2002 at the age of 72.

Lung Sihung has acted in films with Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen.

Lung Sihung has worked with these film directors: Ang Lee and Chen-kuo Chao.