Lim Giong Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Composer (Music Score)

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Still Life

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Zhao Tao, Han Sanming, Wang Hong Wei, Li Zhubin, Xiang Haiyu, Zhou Lin

Synopsis: Jia Zhang Ke's haunting minimalist drama Still Life (aka Sanxia Haoren) takes as its focal point the real-life construction of the Three Gorges Hydro Project and it accompanying massive dam over the Yangtze River in China (allegedly the largest manmade dam in the world) -- a project that required Read More

1/18/08
24 City

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Joan Chen, Lu Liping, Zhao Tao

Synopsis: When the state owned factory 420 becomes a luxury apartment complex known as "24 City," the stories of three generations and eight characters meld together to offer an intimate glimpse into the history of China. Joan Chen, Lu Liping, and Zhao Tao star in director Jia Zhang Ke's entry into the 2008 Read More

2008
Shanghai Trance

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tygo Gernandt, Tian Yuan, Lu Yulai, Zhang Heng, Cheng Haofeng

Synopsis: A generation of young adults ponder their friendships, loves, expectations, and life ambitions while wandering the streets of a city that evolves at a faster rate than they mature in Dutch director David Verbeek's three-tiered look at life in the contemporary Chinese city of Shanghai. The first Read More

2008
Ten Years

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Zhao Tao, Tian Yuan, Liang Jing-dong

2007
Useless

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ma Ke

Synopsis: Having previously explored the art of Liu Xiao-dong in his 2006 documentary Dong, filmmaker Jia Zhang Ke turns his lens on the Chinese fashion industry in order to explore the toll that time and money have taken on creativity to offer a compassionate look at the world's largest exporter of Read More

2007
Do Over

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tuo Zong-hua, Wang Ching-guan, Shu An-an, Huang Chien-Wei, Ko Chia-yen

Synopsis: The poor choices made by five characters over the course of New Year's Eve and the first day on a fresh calendar offer a complex account of desire versus decision as filmmaker Cheng Yu-Chieh's cinematic meditation on the mysterious true nature of fate. Pang is a film production assistant who has Read More

2006
Dong

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke records an artist at work as well as the changing landscape of China in this documentary. Painter Liu Xiao-dong, who is well known for his large canvases and his leading role in China's "Cynical Realist" movement, travels to the city of Fengjie to work on a project, using Read More

2006
The World

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Zhao Tao, Chen Taisheng, Jing Jue, Jiang Zhong-wei, Wang Yi-qun

Synopsis: Chinese writer/director Jia Zhang Ke's The World is his fourth feature, but it's his first set in a major city, and the first film he's made with the cooperation of the Chinese government. The World is set at the eponymous amusement park in Beijing. Tao (Zhao Tao, who played the Mongolian King Read More

7/1/05
Millennium Mambo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Shu Qi

Synopsis: Master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien directs this look at life in modern Taipei, the first part of a planned series. The film opens with a vivacious lass named Vicky (Shu Qi) sauntering down a neon-lit tunnel as the voice-over describes how she is going to break up with her on and off boyfriend Hao Read More

12/19/03
Xingfu Jinxingqu

Actors: Lim Giong, Hsiao Shu-shen, Leon Dai, Chen Kun-chang, Grace Chen

Synopsis: Two young people begin a tragic love affair against a backdrop of political turmoil in Lin Cheng-sheng's Xingfu Jinxingqu. In 1945, Taiwan is under Japanese occupation and Yu (Hsiao Shu-shen), a merchant's daughter who is a member of a theater troupe, falls in love with a musician named Jin (Lim Read More

1999
Goodbye South, Goodbye

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jack Kao, Hsu Kuei-ying, Lim Giong

Synopsis: After spending much of the decade making films about Taiwan's complex and troubled history, Hou Hsiao Hsien turns his attention to its money-obsessed present with this gangster drama. Tattooed mobster, Kao (Jack Kao), and his quick-tempered, aptly named protégé, Flathead (Lim Giong), along with Read More

4/16/97
Good Men, Good Women

Actors: Annie Shizuka Inoh

Synopsis: Hou Hsiao Hsien rounds out his loose trilogy on Taiwanese history -- The Puppet Master dealt with Japan's occupation of the island and City of Sadness focuses on Chiang Kai-shek's bloody occupation immediately following the war -- with this mediation on the anti-Communist campaign during the Read More

1995
The Puppetmaster

Actors: Li Tian-lu, Yang Liyin

Synopsis: This Hou Hsiao Hsien masterpiece is a portrait of the childhood and adolescence of octogenarian Taiwanese puppet master and actor Li T'ien-lu, who narrates the film both off-screen and on-screen. In this second installment of a trilogy on Taiwanese life in the 20th century (City of Sadness is the Read More

1993