If Cai Liang didn't go to her café for coffee that day, she might still be quietly opening her café in Taipei, calling her own name Lu Xiaolin
She is Lu Yijing, just sixty years old, if she entered the show business circle at a very young age, then she should be the same generation as Lin Qingxia
Before the age of 32, Lu Yijing lived the life of an ordinary Taiwanese woman, opening a café in Taipei and quietly brewing coffee. One day, a film director came to her shop for coffee and said he was looking for her to make a movie, so she went to shoot it
That short film, called "My English Name Is Mary", the director was called Cai Mingliang, he was still a small director without a feature film, still waiting for the opportunity
Two years later, Cai Liangliang's first feature film, "Youth Nezha", won the Tokyo International Film Festival Youth Film Competition Youth Film Cherry Blossom Bronze Award, which is internationally renowned
In that movie, there were Chen Zhaorong and Wang Yuwen, who were extremely young at the time, and Li Kangsheng, the royal actor of Cai Liangming
The film is about the lives of young people in Taiwan in the early 1990s
This is also the first time Lu Yijing is on the big screen, and he and Taiwanese veteran actor Miao Tian play Li Kangsheng's parents, the performance is very natural, and he is not afraid at all in front of the big star Miao Tian
After this film, Lu Yijing entered the film industry, although the Taiwanese films at that time had decayed beyond recognition
That year, Lu Yijing also starred in the Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film "The Wordless Hill", which was also the winner of the highest gold medal at the first Shanghai International Film Festival
But she made her debut again, two years later, in 1994
Or Cai Liang's movie "Long Live Love", the protagonist of this movie is still Cai Liang's royal users Li Kangsheng, Chen Zhaorong and Yang Guimei, Lu Yijing's role is not much, is a waiter
"Long Live Love" has brought a high international reputation to Cai Liangming, because he won the Golden Lion Award, the highest glory in Venice, which made Cai Liangming enter the ranks of international famous directors from then on
But three years later, in 1997, Cai Liangming had "River", a film about the relationship between gay father and son, starring Li Kangsheng and Miao Tian, which won the Silver Bear Award of the Jury Award at the Berlin Film Festival
In "River", Lu Yijing's role is obviously the female number one, playing the mother of Xiaokang
This is the first time that Lu Yijing has really shouldered the responsibility of a heroine
With the role of Xiao Kang, Lu Yijing was nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress for the first time, but unfortunately lost to Liao Huizhen of the Taiwanese movie "Love Is Coming"
Cai Liangming's film is relatively slow, sometimes it takes several years to prepare in the middle, and after four years, that is, in 2001, he launched "What Time Is Your Side", which was shortlisted for the main competition unit of Cannes, and the starring role of this film is still Cai Liangliang's royal use, Li Kangsheng, Chen Xiangqi, Lu Yijing, Miao Tian, etc
Lu Yijing, as usual, played the mother of XiaoKang, and was once again nominated for the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress, that year she lost to Hong Kong actress Luo Huiying, but this actress did not act after acting in "Fall in Love with Me"
Lu Yijing continued to cooperate with Cai Mingliang in the Taiwanese film industry, which was very difficult at that time, and in 2002, she also acted in the 22-minute sequel "What Time Are You Over there", "The Flyover Is Gone".
In 2003, Cai Liangming supervised the production, Li Kangsheng's first time as a director of "Gone", Lu Yijing became an absolute heroine this time, and was also shortlisted for the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, that year Lu Yijing lost to Wu Junru of "Golden Rooster"
Lu Yijing is really a natural actor, on the screen, there is no trace of performance at all, you will feel, that is life
In 2005, she made Cai Liangliang's "A Cloud in the Sky", a very large-scale film, and Lu Yijing even had a "sacrifice" performance in the film
This year, Lu Yijing also tried to get out of Cai Mingming and make films by other directors
For example, she filmed the cutting-edge director Chen Zhengdao's "House Change", which is an early work of Chen Zhengdao, who later developed in the mainland very successfully
She also filmed Taiwan's Mesozoic representative director Zheng Wentang's "The Deep Sea", and cooperated with Su Huilun to play a pair of friends who had forgotten their lives, this movie made Lu Yijing shortlisted for the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress again, the luck was too bad, she lost to the Yuan Qiu of "Kung Fu"
This year, she also starred in "Alice's Mirror" produced by Hou Xiaoxian, which made Xie Xinying win the Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress
After a two-year break, in 2007, Lu Yijing participated in the film "Heaven's Mouth", which was her first film in the mainland, but the role was quite small
However, after this year, Lu Yijing, who was in her fifties, suddenly began to shoot more scenes, because many directors found her unique performance charm
In "Summer Tail", she played the mother of Zheng Yinong, the daughter of director Zheng Wentang
Fantasy movie "The Chosen One", she is one of the main actors
Taiwan's famous lace edge director Zhou Meiling's "Drifting Youth", she boldly challenged the image of the elderly lace edge girl
In the horror film "Fierce Charm", she is also one of the heroines
In 2009, Cai Liangming made a French film "Face", which used Lu Yijing again, which was very artistically experimental, and this film was also shortlisted for the main competition unit of Cannes that year
In 2009, director Lu Hong made a film "Life Unlimited Company", Lu Yijing finally became the heroine, and she began to cooperate with different young and cutting-edge directors
In the 2009 Taiwanese movie "A Place", starring Mo Ziyi and Lu Jiaxin, Lu Yijing actually played a lot of scenes, playing Gao Jie's wife, she also used this role to once again be shortlisted for the Golden Horse Female Supporting Actress, and lost to Hui Yinghong of "Heart Demon"
In 2010, let Ruan Jingtian get the Golden Horse Film Emperor, Zhao Youting and Feng Xiaoyue became famous in the movie "MengJiao", Lu Yijing played a mother Sang who had very little role, but there were more opponents with Zhao Youting Ke Jiahui
In 2010, Lu Yijing really played a mother Sang in the movie "Black Cat Hostel", which was very stylish
In 2011, Wu Kangren, a brother in Taiwanese film and television, starred in his teacher Li Qiyuan's "Blowfish", and Lu Yijing played a blind woman with a small goldfish
In 2012, the mainland made a tourism promotion film "Dream Back to Sanjiang", starring Zhu Xiaotian and Lu Yijing, which is one of the few mainland films she has ever made
She also doesn't mind playing her mother in TV and movies, like the TV movie The Princess and the Prince.
In 2013, in the Taiwanese movie "It Turns Out You're Still Here", Lu Yijing is the heroine, playing a mother who has lost her son
Of course, Lu Yijing is the preferred middle-aged and elderly female actor for many niche art films
This is the "Appearance of the Clouds" filmed by Huang Lu, the goddess of mainland literary and art films, in Taiwan, and Lu Yijing plays Huang Lu's mother
Finally, in 2013, the old partner Cai Liangming opened for business, filmed an "Outing", the royal actors all returned, including Lu Yijing, she and Cai Liangming cooperated for twenty years this year, the acting skills have become more and more mature, it can be seen that Cai Liangliang's eyesight is poisonous
In fact, Cai Liangming, Li Kangsheng and Lu Yijing have become relatives for many years, for example, they opened the Cai Li Lu Cafe in Taiwan a few years ago, it is really good to think, Lu Yijing was originally because of coffee and Cai Liangming
In 2013, Lu Yijing played Guo Caijie's mother in the mainland movie "Unexpected Love Time"
In 2014, Taiwan's aboriginal theme of "Mountain Pig Hot Spring" gave Lu Yijing considerable room to play
In 2016, she made "Divine Kitchen", which has also been played in commercial films
The shape of "Divine Chef" is avant-garde
In 2016, she collaborated with Golden Horse Film Queen Gui Lunmeng in "Debusi Forest", they played a mother and daughter, and a lot of stories happened in a forest
Walking the red carpet with Gui Lunmeng, this role was also shortlisted for the Golden Horse Female Supporting, but lost to the powerful Jin Yanling ("A Thought of Ignorance")
In 2017, she starred again in Cai Mingliang's film "Home in Lan Ruo Temple", which was the world's first VR Chinese film
That year she also starred in the film "Teacher, Will You Come Back" about rural teachers, playing the former principal, which was released in the mainland this month, but the box office was bleak
Li Qiyuan filmed "Thief" in 2017 and still looked for Lu Yijing to cooperate
In the past two years, Lu Yijing's works have begun to become more numerous and richer
For example, with the "Solo" of Wu Kangren, a brother of Taiwanese film and television, it is very challenging to take the son with a problem in his mind to see the mother of another genius son who plays music
In 2018, she also starred in the new director Lee Kwon Yang's "Grandma's Fart Car", although it was a short film, but her acting skills exploded
Wu Kangren starred in the period detective drama "The Wrath of the Bodhisattva", Lu Yijing also starred, which is one of the TV series she rarely acts in
Gui Lunmeng did the short film "Little Death" as a supervising producer, and also found Lu Yijing to play the heroine
Lu Yijing is mostly a one-man show, but it is quite exciting
In recent years, she has acted in several short films with emerging directors, such as "Floating Sun" with the theme of falling into the water and dying mother.
The TV movie "Three Days and Two Nights" once again plays a mother
In the 2019 TaiwanEse New Year box office champion "HanDan", she played Zheng Renshuo's mother, the role is not much, but she was shortlisted for the Best Supporting Actress at the Taipei Film Festival, and may also be shortlisted for this year's Golden Horse Awards
The recent basketball movie "The Second Half" in Taiwan, Lu Yijing also has a performance, and this movie may have a chance to be released on the mainland
Lu Yijing's latest work is Taiwan's rare legal film "Blind Lawyer", and she is the female number one this time
Although Lu Yijing is a literary and artistic film actress, her performance in commercial films is also remarkable, thanks to her natural and natural smooth acting skills from her non-science class, and because of Cai Liangming's films, she is also the most well-known actress in the world in Taiwan
Moreover, her artistic life seems to have just begun