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name: "Lim Giong"
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roles: ["Composer"]
born: "7 June 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
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updated: "2026-09-17T12:39:17.585734+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."
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# Lim Giong

Composer. Born 7 June 1964 in Changhua, Taiwan.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 7 June 1964, Changhua, Taiwan
- **Also known as:** Giong Lim, 林強 , Lam Keung, Chong Lin, Chung Lin, Giang Lin, Giong Lin, Chiang Lin, Qiong Lim, Qiang Lin
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lim_Giong, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q710475, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0510533/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/25472

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- **Apple TV:** [*The Assassin*](https://film.one/film/the-assassin.md) (82)

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## Biography

Lim Giong (Chinese: 林強; also credited as Giong Lim or Lin Chiang) is a Taiwanese composer, musician and DJ. Born on 7 June 1964 in Changhua, he began his recording career in 1990 with the album *Marching Forward*.

He has composed original scores for films directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jia Zhangke and Bi Gan, including *Millennium Mambo* (2001), *Still Life* (2006), *Three Times* (2005), *The World* (2004), *A Touch of Sin* (2013), *The Assassin* (2015), *Kaili Blues* (2016), *Ash Is Purest White* (2018), *Long Day's Journey Into Night* (2018) and *Caught by the Tides* (2024). He received the Cannes Soundtrack Award for *The Assassin* and several Golden Horse Awards for best original film score.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, eyeontaiwan.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Assassin* (2015), Fi1m 82, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-assassin.md)

## Complete filmography (73)

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

- *Faith* (2026), Music
- *Fly! Mountain Hawk-Eagle* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *Paper Life* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Paper Houses and Horses* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Girl* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *A Chip Odyssey* (2025), Music
- *I'M NOT THERE* (2025), Original Music Composer
- *Caught by the Tides* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Cherry Ferry* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *The Unseen Sister* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Karst* (2024), Music
- *Be with Me* (2023), Music
- *Eighth Avenue* (2023), Music
- *Caring for Black-Faced Spoonbill* (2023), Music
- *Salute* (2022), Music Co-Supervisor
- *Twisted Strings* (2022), series, Music
- *Enigma: The Chinese Crested Tern* (2021), Music
- *Another Brick On The Wall* (2021), Music
- *Miss* (2021), Music
- *Thé Lumière* (2021), as Lim Giong, Sound
- *Nina Wu* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *The Boat Burning Festival+* (2019), Music
- *Jinpa* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Long Day's Journey Into Night* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Looking for Kafka* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2018: Journey* (2018), Music
- *Ash Is Purest White* (2018), Music
- *Last Year When the Train Passed By* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Is LIFE a Movie* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Missing Johnny* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *The Foolish Bird* (2017), Music Producer, Original Music Composer
- *Return* (2017), Music
- *Revive* (2017), Music
- *The Gangster's Daughter* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Small Talk* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *The Road to Mandalay* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Kaili Blues* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *City of Jade* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Fly, Kite Fly* (2015), Music
- *De Lan* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *The Assassin* (2015), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-assassin.md)
- *Smog Journeys* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *A Touch of Sin* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Venice 70: Future Reloaded* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Sock'n Roll* (2013), Music
- *Forgetting to Know You* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Liu Xiaodong: Hometown Boy* (2011), Music
- *A Year in the Clouds* (2011), Original Music Composer
- *I Wish I Knew* (2010), Music
- *Judge* (2010), Music
- *Yang Yang* (2009), Original Music Composer
- *24 City* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Useless* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Our Ten Years* (2007), Music
- *Reflections* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Xiao Jia Going Home* (2007), Original Music Composer
- *Still Life* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Do Over* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Three Times* (2005), Original Music Composer
- *The World* (2004), Original Music Composer
- *Robinson's Crusoe* (2003), Music
- *Summers* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *Millennium Mambo* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *A Man Staying at a Hotel* (2001), Acting
- *March of Happiness* (2000), as A Jin
- *Goodbye South, Goodbye* (1996), as Flatty, Music
- *Good Men, Good Women* (1995), as Zhong Haodong
- *The Puppetmaster* (1993), as Li Tien-Lu
- *Treasure Island* (1993), as Chen Chih-Fong
- *Dust of Angels* (1992), as Club Singer, Original Music Composer
- *Blood and Warriors* (1991), Acting
- *The Exiles*, Original Music Composer
- *The Voice of Algal Reefs*, Music

## Gallery

- ![​林強 (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/695551/gallery-1ef2bc310219.jpg) ​林強 (2015) — 佛空靈, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Lim_Giong.jpg/1280px-Lim_Giong.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![​Amitabha (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/695551/gallery-4e13d1a80478.jpg) ​Amitabha (2015) — 佛空靈, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Lim_giong_2.jpg/1280px-Lim_giong_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Wikimania 2007 Welcome Party: Blaireko & Lim Giong (林強).](https://film.one/media/person/695551/gallery-fc13f6dd4da9.jpg) Wikimania 2007 Welcome Party: Blaireko & Lim Giong (林強). — Rico Shen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/WM2007_WelcomeParty_Blaireko_LimGiong.jpg/1280px-WM2007_WelcomeParty_Blaireko_LimGiong.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Wikimania 2007 Welcome Party: Lim Giong (林強).](https://film.one/media/person/695551/gallery-7dede2eea99d.jpg) Wikimania 2007 Welcome Party: Lim Giong (林強). — Rico Shen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/WM2007_WelcomeParty_LimGiong-2.jpg/1280px-WM2007_WelcomeParty_LimGiong-2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Lim Giong](https://film.one/media/person/695551/gallery-92b26710ac89.jpg) Lim Giong — Rico Shen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/WM2007_WelcomeParty_LimGiong.jpg/1280px-WM2007_WelcomeParty_LimGiong.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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