---
name: "Lisa Yang"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lisa-yang"
fi1m_id: "lisa-yang"
imdb_id: "nm0946026"
tmdb_id: 150162
wikidata_id: "Q65054224"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 October 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T02:10:34.444594+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."
---

# Lisa Yang

## Identity

Lisa Yang

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lisa-yang
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lisa-yang
- **IMDb ID:** nm0946026
- **TMDB ID:** 150162
- **Wikidata ID:** Q65054224
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65054224, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0946026/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/150162

Actor. Born 24 October 1975 in Taiwan.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 October 1975, Taiwan
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65054224, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0946026/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/150162

## Fi1m on Lisa Yang

> Lisa Yang makes Ming’s wish to be liked difficult to read: we can see the charm without knowing how much is calculated. Her sole screen performance deserves close attention, not speculation about what else she might have done.

Lisa Yang’s Ming has learnt how to be liked by whoever happens to be nearby. In *A Brighter Summer Day* (1991), we cannot quite decide how much she is calculating, and Yang does not settle the question for us. That uncertainty makes this a performance worth attending to, even in a film with so many people to follow. Ming could easily become someone we judge by what the boys think of her. Yang gives us reason to hesitate before accepting their judgement.

Edward Yang sets the film in Taipei at the start of the 1960s, with schoolboys, families and gangs sharing its attention. Chang Chen’s Xiao Si’r watches, his feelings emerging through small physical shifts; Lisa Yang’s Ming adjusts to the company around her. We were unsettled by Ming, because her efforts to be liked leave us unsure whether she is calculating or simply trying to get through the day. Neither actor has to announce that difference. Both benefit from a director willing to let us watch without explaining them.

Her only screen appearance was a female lead, made with a largely non-professional cast over roughly two years. There is no progression through supporting parts to trace, and no later performance against which to test our judgement. The production involved extensive rehearsal, and her dialogue required post-dubbing because of her accent. Those details matter when calling the acting natural: what looks unforced here was still worked on. Credit belongs to Lisa Yang, but also to the director and the practical work that helped shape the performance.

We would not use this one role to claim she could do anything; the evidence is for Ming, and it is persuasive enough. Nor is every uncertainty about the character an acting achievement, since Edward Yang is careful about what he lets us know. Her particular strength is to remain hard to read without seeming to ask us to admire the difficulty. See *A Brighter Summer Day* for the whole ensemble, then pay attention to how much we assume about Ming before she has confirmed any of it.

## Biography

Lisa Yang is a Taiwanese actress. She played the role of Ming in Edward Yang’s 1991 film *A Brighter Summer Day*.

The performance earned her a nomination for the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress. She has no other film credits and later worked as an accountant in the United States.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Brighter Summer Day* (1991), Fi1m 90, as Ming — [page](https://film.one/film/a-brighter-summer-day.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *A Brighter Summer Day* (1991), as Ming — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/a-brighter-summer-day.md)
- *One Life to Live* (1968), series, as St. Ann's Doctor

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