---
name: "Hsin Shu-Fen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hsin-shu-fen"
fi1m_id: "hsin-shu-fen"
imdb_id: "nm0944554"
tmdb_id: 1719810
wikidata_id: "Q12357541"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "2 December 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T01:14:29.097025+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Hsin Shu-Fen

## Identity

Hsin Shu-Fen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hsin-shu-fen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hsin-shu-fen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0944554
- **TMDB ID:** 1719810
- **Wikidata ID:** Q12357541
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12357541, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0944554/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1719810

Actor. Born 2 December 1965 in Taipei, Taiwan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 2 December 1965, Taipei, Taiwan
- **Active:** 1985–1989
- **Also known as:** 辛樹芬, シン・シューフェン
- **Frequently works with:** [Chu Tien-Wen](https://film.one/person/chu-tien-wen.md), [Hou Hsiao-hsien](https://film.one/person/hou-hsiao-hsien.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12357541, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0944554/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1719810

## Biography

Hsin Shu-Fen (also credited as 辛樹芬) is a Taiwanese actress. She was born on 2 December 1965 in Taipei and studied at Hsing Wu University.

She was discovered by director Hou Hsiao-hsien while still at school and made her debut as Wu Shumei in his film *The Time to Live and the Time to Die* (1985). She went on to appear in several of his subsequent works, including the lead role of Jiang Suyun in *Dust in the Wind* (1986) and supporting parts in *Daughter of the Nile* (1987) and *A City of Sadness* (1989), in which she played Wu Kuan Mei / Hinome.

Hsin retired from acting after *A City of Sadness* and later moved to the United States.

*Sources: zh.wikipedia.org, mydramalist.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Time to Live and the Time to Die* (1985), Fi1m 90, as Wu Shumei — [page](https://film.one/film/the-time-to-live-and-the-time-to-die.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A City of Sadness* (1989), as Wu Kuan Mei / Hinome
- *Daughter of the Nile* (1987), as Hsiao-Fen
- *Be My Lovely Child Again* (1987), Actor
- *Dust in the Wind* (1986), as Jiang Suyun
- *The Time to Live and the Time to Die* (1985), as Wu Shumei — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/the-time-to-live-and-the-time-to-die.md)

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