--- name: "Sihung Lung" canonical: "https://film.one/person/lung-sihung" fi1m_id: "lung-sihung" imdb_id: "nm0485950" tmdb_id: 1623 wikidata_id: "Q716792" roles: ["Actor"] born: "23 December 1930" died: "2 May 2002" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 84 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-10-04T04:28:06.512137+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." --- # Sihung Lung ## Identity Sihung Lung - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lung-sihung - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** lung-sihung - **IMDb ID:** nm0485950 - **TMDB ID:** 1623 - **Wikidata ID:** Q716792 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sihung_Lung, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q716792, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485950/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1623 Actor. Born 23 December 1930 in Suqian, Jiangsu, China. Died 2 May 2002. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 23 December 1930, Suqian, Jiangsu, China - **Died:** 2 May 2002 - **Active:** 1993–2000 - **Also known as:** Lung Sihung, Lung Hsiung, Lang Shiung, Lang Sihung, Lung Si-hung, Lang Hùng, Lang Xiong, Lang Hi-Sung, Long Hung, Lang Hsiung - **Frequently works with:** [Ang Lee](https://film.one/person/ang-lee.md), [James Schamus](https://film.one/person/james-schamus.md), [Hsu Li Kong](https://film.one/person/hsu-li-kong.md), [Wang Hui-ling](https://film.one/person/wang-huiling.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 82 (2), 2000s 90 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 84 to 81 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 2 of 3 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 3, Comedy 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Fantasy 1 - **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $262m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sihung_Lung, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q716792, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485950/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1623 ## Streaming the US now - **Tubi:** [*Eat Drink Man Woman*](https://film.one/film/eat-drink-man-woman.md) (82), [*The Wedding Banquet*](https://film.one/film/the-wedding-banquet.md) (81) - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*](https://film.one/film/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon.md) (90) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Sihung Lung > Lung Sihung makes paternal authority difficult to dismiss because we can feel the affection behind it. His work with Ang Lee is quietly persuasive, especially when a family's efforts to keep everyone happy are making everyone uncomfortable. In *The Wedding Banquet* (1993), Lung Sihung's Mr. Gao helps make keeping a parent happy look like hard work. Alongside Gua Ah-leh's Mrs. Gao, he gives the parental expectations enough tenderness that a simple refusal would feel cruel. We were moved by the effort this family puts into appearing comfortable with the arrangement, because Lung and Gua make the affection behind that effort credible. The comedy occasionally labours when it turns to broader farce, but these two give us a reason to stay with it. The difficulty for an actor in such a part is making the father matter without making the son's discomfort seem trivial. Winston Chao keeps Wai-Tung's unease visible, and Lung gives us enough feeling on the other side to understand why pleasing his parents matters. That is where we value Lung most: he lets us understand a demand without asking us to approve of it. Lee can make jokes about the arrangement without making the parents merely figures of fun. This gentleness was a change from a career that had included frequent casting as tough men and heavies in Chinese-language films and Taiwanese television. Lee brought him out of retirement for *Pushing Hands* (1991), beginning the collaboration that also produced *The Wedding Banquet* and *Eat Drink Man Woman* (1994). The latter cast him as a master chef and widowed father, another variation on the paternal roles that came to define his international reputation. Those parts give only a partial account of the work he had done before Lee. His preparation for *Pushing Hands* was exacting: he took tai chi classes at five in the morning despite having no previous experience. That preparation matters when we are tempted to assume he was simply being himself. His understated performances avoid pushing us towards sentimentality, though the tenderness is there. In *The Wedding Banquet*, that restraint lets the humour survive without making the family's feelings seem negligible. The temptation is to remember only the authority, particularly when so much of his later reputation rests on fathers. Start with *The Wedding Banquet* for the feeling beneath it, and for the way he and Gua make parental pressure feel personal. Forgive the broader jokes; the family is worth staying for. ## Biography Sihung Lung (also credited as Lung Sihung or Lang Sihung) was a Taiwanese actor who appeared in over 100 films and television series. He was born in 1930 in Suqian, Jiangsu, and died on 2 May 2002 in Taipei. Lung began his career after enlisting in the Nationalist army as a teenager and later joining an army-sponsored acting troupe in Taiwan. He became known for paternal roles in Ang Lee's films, including Mr Chu in *Pushing Hands* (1991) and *Eat Drink Man Woman* (1994), Mr Gao in *The Wedding Banquet* (1993), and Sir Te in *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon* (2000). He received several Golden Horse Awards, including for best supporting actor in *The Wedding Banquet* and a lifetime achievement award in 2002. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, latimes.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon* (2000), Fi1m 90, as Sir Te — [page](https://film.one/film/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon.md) - *Eat Drink Man Woman* (1994), Fi1m 82, as Mr. Chu — [page](https://film.one/film/eat-drink-man-woman.md) - *The Wedding Banquet* (1993), Fi1m 81, as Mr. Gao — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wedding-banquet.md) ## Complete filmography (33) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Double Vision* (2002), as Taoist Expert - *The Touch* (2002), as The Monk-Dun Huang - *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon* (2000), as Sir Te — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon.md) - *Four Chefs and a Feast* (1999), Actor - *Sleepless Town* (1998), as Yang Weimin - *The Opium War* (1997), as 何敬容 - *Tonight Nobody Goes Home* (1996), as Dr. Chen Pinyan - *Grandpa's Love* (1995), as Grandpa - *Lover's Lover* (1994), Actor - *Eat Drink Man Woman* (1994), as Mr. Chu — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/eat-drink-man-woman.md) - *The Wedding Banquet* (1993), as Mr. Gao — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-wedding-banquet.md) - *Requital* (1992), as Uncle Tuan - *Pushing Hands* (1991), as Mr. Chu - *末代儿女情* (1990), series, as 赫天禄 - *A Home Too Far* (1990), Actor - *天山英雄传* (1988), series, as 孟神通 - *Last Eunuch In China* (1987), Actor - *7 Lucky Ninja Kids* (1987), Actor - *Master Hui Neng* (1987), Actor - *绛雪玄霜* (1986), series, as 罗玄 - *家和萬事興* (1986), series, as 老山東 - *Woman Who Lives On Nights* (1985), Actor - *A Man of Immortality* (1981), Actor - *The Coldest Winter in Peking* (1981), Actor - *Spring in Autumn* (1980), Actor - *Story of a Repentant Juvenile* (1979), Actor - *An Unforgettable Day* (1979), as Chin Lao-Ta - *Chu Lien* (1979), Actor - *Lantern Festival Adventure* (1979), Actor - *Good Morning, Taipei* (1979), as Tein-lin's Father - *The Diary of Di-Di* (1978), as Lin chou-kang - *Spy Ring Kokuryukai* (1976), Actor - *The Venturer* (1976), Actor ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won - Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor 1991: Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actor (won), for *Pushing Hands* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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