Sihung Lung (; c. 1930 – 2 May 2002) was a Taiwanese actor. He appeared in over 100 films and TV series throughout his career and was best known for playing paternal roles in Ang Lee's films Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman. Life and career Lung enlisted in National Revolutionary Army as a teenager to fight the Chinese Communist Party. After the Communists 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.
Lung 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.
Lung was Roman Catholic.
Death 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.
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1974Chi qing yu nuJapanese colonel1974Da mo tian ling1975Meng hu1976Lang ya kou1976Eight Hundred Heroes1976Hei long hui1976Lao hu ya1978Di Di ri jiLin chou-kang1978Wu qing huang di you qing tian1979Xiang ye qi tan1979Zao an tai beiTein-lin's Father1979Wang yang zhong de yi tiao chuan1980Xiang ye renCommander Hsu1980Tian liang hao ge qiu1981Huang tian hou tu1981Long de chuan ren1982Xue zhan da er dan1986Hao xiao zi1986Tangshan guo Taiwan1987Bao gao ban zhang1987Kua yue shi kong de xiao zi1987Chung Gwok jui hau yat goh tai gam1991Pushing HandsMr. Chu1991Da tou bing shang zhan chang: Za pai jun1992Wu hu si haiUncle Tuan1993The Wedding BanquetMr. Gao1994Eat Drink Man WomanChu1994Qing ren de qing ren1994Zu sun qing1995Formosa SistersCaptain1996Tonight Nobody Goes HomeDr. Chen Pinyan1997The Opium WarHe Jingrong1997Hei jin1998FuyajoYang Weimin2000Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonSir Te2002Double VisionTaoist Expert2002The TouchThe Monk-Dun Huang(final film role)
See also
Manchu people in Taiwan
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