Gua Ah-leh’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Gua Ah-leh has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 1990s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Eat Drink Man Woman.
Recurring themes

Home for the Holidays
1995
Comedy · Drama

Four Weddings and a Funeral
1994
Comedy · Drama

Waiting to Exhale
1995
Comedy · Drama

Steel Magnolias
1989
Comedy · Drama

Better Than Chocolate
1999
Drama · Romance

200 Cigarettes
1999
Comedy · Drama

As Good as It Gets
1997
Drama · Comedy

Muriel's Wedding
1994
Comedy · Drama

Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each daughter encounters a new man in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Lung Sihung, Yang Kuei-mei, Jacklyn Wu Chien-Lien

A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Gua Ah-leh, Lung Sihung, May Chin

A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.
Dir. Jackie Chan · With Jackie Chan, Anita Mui Yim-Fong, Gua Ah-leh
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