Crystal Liu, better known by her stage name Liu Yifei, is a Chinese-American actress, singer, and model. She has appeared multiple times on Forbes’ China Celebrity 100 list and was named one of the New Four Dan actresses of China in 2009. She is widely known as “Fairy Sister” in China.
Best Liu Yifei TV Shows & Movies That Are Interesting
Liu Yifei has featured in a host of television series and dramas. She became more popular after starring in Chinese Paladin, a fantasy action drama adapted from the role-playing game The Legend of Sword and Fairy. Immediately following her admittance to Beijing Film Academy, Liu received offers to star in various television drama serials. Liu Yifei made her acting debut in The Story of a Noble Family.
She is globally known for starring as Mulan in the Disney live-action film Mulan. The role earned her nominations for a Critics’ Choice Super Award, a Kids’ Choice Award and a Saturn Award.
Chinese Paladin
The story takes place in a fantasy medieval China. Li Xiao Yao, a “Stinky Punk”, journeys to Dream Island to find a cure for his sick aunt. There he meets and marries the love of his life, Ling’er. On his way back home with the cure, he discovers that he’s been tricked by the Lunar Sect Cult so that they can kidnap Ling’er.
He awakens in his bed, having forgotten his entire trip to Dream Island, but having saved his aunt. He rescues Ling’er from the Lunar Sect Cult and is in turn rescued by a mysterious stranger who teaches him kung fu. Xiao Yao and Ling’er travel to the capital to meet her father. Along the way, they meet various people, get harassed by the Lunar Sect Cult, discover both of their histories, save the world and fall in love with each other all over again. It starts off sweet and lighthearted but ends with plenty of tears.
The Chinese Widow
It brings a realistic depiction of the atrocities committed during the Second World War. The story is told through the heart-wrenching romance between an American pilot who crash lands in China and the widow who saves him. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the American government ordered an airstrike on Tokyo.
Having completed their mission and completely depleted of gas, Captain Jack Turner and his team make an emergency landing in Zhejiang Province. Ying Zi and her daughter find an unconscious Jack Turner and save him in spite of the dangers that it can spell for themselves should the Japanese soldiers find out. From total strangers, the two eventually develop a relationship that crosses cultural and language barriers.
The Forbidden Kingdom
An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King.
With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself travelling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors from martial arts lore on a dangerous quest to free the imprisoned Monkey King.
Once Upon a Time
Three hundred years ago, Bai Qian stood on the Zhu Xian Terrace, turned around, and jumped off without regret. Ye Hua stood by the bronze mirror to witness with his own eyes her death.
Three hundred years later, in the East Sea Dragon Palace, the two meet unexpectedly. Another lifetime another world, after suffering betrayal Bai Qian no longer feels anything, yet she can’t seem to comprehend Ye Hua’s actions. Three lives, three worlds, her and him, are they fated to love again?
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