Chin Han (actor, born 1946)

For other people named Chin Han, see Chin Han (disambiguation).

In the stage name, the surname is Chin.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Sun.

Chin Han
秦はた漢かん
Born	Sun Siang-chong (1946-07-10) 10 July 1946 Shanghai, Republic of China
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1966–present
Spouse	Shao Chiao-ying ​ ​ (m. 1971; div. 1984)​
Partner	Brigitte Lin (1972–1991)
Children	Sun Shi Wen (daughter) Richard Sun (son)
Father	Sun Yuanliang
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	秦はた漢かん
Simplified Chinese	秦はた汉
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Qín Hàn
Sun Siang-chong
Traditional Chinese	孫まご祥さち鐘かね
Simplified Chinese	孙祥さち钟
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Sūn Xiángzhōng}

Chin Han (秦はた漢かん; born 24 April 1946), is a Taiwanese actor whose birth name is Sun Siang-chong (孫まご祥さち鐘かね), and got his first stage name Kang Kai (康かん凱) from Li Han-Hsiang (李り翰祥) at the beginning of his acting career. He changed his stage name to Sun Ge (孫まご戈ほこ) during the shooting of Five Brothers from Tangshan (唐山からやま五ご兄弟きょうだい; 1972). It was director Yao Feng-Pan (姚鳳磐いわ) who gave him the stage name Chin Han, which he kept ever since. In Chin’s long acting career, he is best known for starring in literary romantic (愛情あいじょう文藝ぶんげい) films and TV series, adaptations from novels by Qiong Yao (瓊瑤) and other writers in the 1970s and 1980s. With Charlie Chin(秦はた祥さち林りん), Brigitte Lin and Joan Lin (林はやし鳳おおとり嬌), the four eventually became known as the "Two Chins, Two Lins" (二に秦しん二に林りん) for their extensive roles in the genre of literary romantic film.

Life and career

Chin’s father is Sun Yuan-liang (孫まご元良げんりょう), a general who fought against the Japanese in WWII. Chin completed the training program of CMPC Film Academy (中ちゅう影かげ訓練くんれん班はん) in 1966 and joined Grand Motion Pictures Co., Ltd. (國くに聯れん) as a basic actor. He had to serve in the army after making his first film, Smiles from the Distant Mountains. After he completed his military service three years later, Grand Motion Pictures Co., Ltd. was already closed for business. He turned to TTV (台だい視し) to act in a TV drama.

Chin's gentle and elegant appearance with a scholarly temperament has always been the best interpretation of the leading actor in literary films. After he role in Sung Tsun-Shou's (宋そう存そん壽ことぶき) Story of a Mother (母親ははおや三さん十じゅう歲さい) and Outside the Window (窗まど外がい), both released in 1973, Chin was acclaimed as a promising star. When director Li Hsing (李り行こう) was casting for his adaptation of Qiong Yao’s novel The Heart with a Million Knots (心こころ有ゆう千せん千結ちゆい), he approached Chin for the lead role. Due to his contract to star in Sung Tsun-Shou’s Where Have the Lovers (晨星) Chin had to turn down Li’s invitation and work in Hong Kong. Li Hsing instead cast Charlie Chin (秦はた祥さち林りん) for his film, which made Charlie Chin an overnight star. Chin Han and Charlie Chin became the two household names for the extremely popular genre of Literary Romantic Film (愛情あいじょう文藝ぶんげい片へん) , which mainly are adaptations of Qiong Yao’s novels. Together with two other female stars of the genre, Brigitte Lin (林はやし青あお霞かすみ) and Joan Lin (林はやし鳳おおとり嬌), they are called “Two Chins and Two Lins” (二に秦しん二に林りん). Li Hsing once jokingly said, "If Chin Han had come to play The Heart with a Million Knots, there would not have been ‘Two Chins and Two Lins’ later.”

Chin Han later starred in quite a few films directed by Li Hsing, among them the biographical film adapted from the best-selling autobiography of Zheng Fengxi (鄭てい豐喜とよき), He Never Gives Up (汪洋おうよう中ちゅう的てき一いち條じょう船せん; 1978), which won Chin the Best Actor award at the 15th Golden Horse Awards.

After Literary Romantic Film lost its audience In the early 80's, Qiong Yao turned to the small screen of TV to produce popular dramas adapted from her films and novels. In the TV series You Can’t Tell Him (庭にわ院いん深深しんしん), originally a film directed by Sung Tsun-shou in 1971, Chin Han was paired with Leanne Liu (劉りゅう雪ゆき華はな). The series was an instant hit.

Chin Han has continued to act in the 1990s and afterwards both in films and on TV.

Personal life

Sun married Shao Chiao-ying in 1971 and has a daughter Sun Shi-wen (孫まご詩し雯) and a son Richard Sun (孫まご國こく豪ごう). The marriage ended in 1984.

The triangle relationships in life among Chin Han, Brigitte Lin, and Charlie Chin is similar to their relationship in the literary romantic films based on Qiong Yao's novels, such as Cloud of Romance (我わが是ぜ一いち片雲へんうん; 1976). Chin Han and Brigitte Lin were close when making Outside the Window, but due his marriage Chin kept a distance with Lin. After working Lin on Cloud of Romance, Charlie Chin began to passionately pursue Brigitte Lin, who eventually accepted his proposal and was engaged to him in San Francisco in 1980. However, after Chin Han's divorce, Brigitte Lin found that she was still deeply in  loved with Chin and chose to break off her engagement with Charlie Chin in 1984, which caused a scandal. They were romantically related again through the help of Qiong Yao, but eventually broke up because Chin Han was unwilling to marry her.

Filmography

Film

As actor

Year	English Title	Chinese Title	Role	Notes
1966	Smiles from the Distant Mountains	遠山とおやま含笑	Zong Qi
	How Many Sunsets	幾度いくど夕陽ゆうひ紅べに
1967	Sister's Lover	姐あね姐あね的てき情人じょうにん	Wah
1968	A Time for Reunion	春曉しゅんぎょう人じん歸き時じ
1969	Betrayer	殺氣さっき嚴げん霜しも		also screenwriter
1971	The Mad Killer	瘋狂殺ころせ手しゅ
1972	Everybody Is Laughing	天下てんか一いち大だい笑わらい
	Dangerous Game	慾よく火ひ焚身
	Five Brothers from Tangshan	唐山からやま五ご兄弟きょうだい
	Heart Wish	心願しんがん
1973	Outside the Window	窗まど外がい	Li Liwei
	Story of Mother	母親ははおや三さん十じゅう歲さい	Zhu Qingmao
	Gui Fen	桂かつら芬
1974	The House of Love	愛あい的てき小屋こや	Luo Wen
	First Come, First Love	近きん水みず樓台ろうだい	Cai Dawei
	Where the Seagull Flies	海うみ鷗飛處しょ	Ou Shihao
	Spring Comes Not Again	不ふ再さい有春ありはる天てん	Zhi Cheng
	Sex For Sale	面めん具ぐ	Lin Weibin
	News Hen	女おんな記者きしゃ	Xue Xiaonan
	Rhythm of the Wave	海うみ韻いん	Jiang Tao
	Love Camp	愛情あいじょう集中しゅうちゅう營
1975	Girl School	春はる滿まん女おんな學府がくふ	Lei Guangming
	Hot Wave	熱ねつ浪なみ	Ho Ta-fung
	He Loved Once Too Many	水雲もずく	Kiu Yee
	The Unforgettable Character	在ざい水みず一方いっぽう	Lu Yu-wen
	Eight Hundred Heroes	八はち百ひゃく壯士そうし	Jin Jian
	Land of the Undaunted	吾われ土ど吾われ民みん	Li Yueh-ting
	Where Have the Lovers Gone	晨星
	A Chilled Spring	春はる天てん裡うら的てき秋あき天たかし	Xu Weiming
	Dream Lake	夢ゆめ之の湖みずうみ
	Posterity and Perplexity	碧雲へきうん天てん	Gao Haotian
1976	Coffee, Wine, Lemonade	咖啡，美酒びしゅ，檸檬レモン汁じる	Lin Fan
	Love Forever	海うみ誓ちかい山やま盟めい	Xu Changwen
	A Misty Love	小雨こさめ絲いと絲いと	Pan Jiawang
	Deep Autumn Love	落葉らくよう飄飄ひょうひょう	Di Chao
	Love in the Twilight Zone	陰陽いんよう有情うじょう天てん
	Erotic Nights	色香いろか味あじ
	Painted Waves of Love	浪花なにわ	He Zijian
	The Sang Sisters	桑園そうえん	Mo Dika
	The Valley of Butterfly	蝴蝶こちょう谷だに	Liu Wenbin
	The Spring Lake	翠みどり湖こ寒さむ	Hu Weikang
	Wild Pigeons in the Evening	野の鴿どばと子こ的てき黃昏たそがれ	Meng Wei
1977	My Sweet Love	霧きり濛濛もうもう情じょう濛濛もうもう	Xiao Zhangyun
	The Love Offensive	愛情あいじょう大だい進擊しんげき
	My Beloved	雲くも愛あい，雲くも愛あい	Du Dazhong
	Love in the Shadow	愛あい有明ありあけ天てん	Yi Siyin
	True Love	真ま真しん的てき愛あい	Xu Dawei
	The Smiling Face	微笑びしょう	Chen Yunyang
	The Glory of the Sunset	煙けむり水すい寒かん	Ye Yicheng
	Cloud of Romance	我わが是ぜ一いち片雲へんうん	Gu Youlan
	Confused Love	變色へんしょく的てき太陽たいよう	Hou Shiwen
	Love Rings a Bell	風鈴ふうりん，風鈴ふうりん	Wei Dekai
	We Are the Youth	我わが們是年ねん輕けい的てき
	The Lost Dream	荒あら園えん草くさ夢ゆめ	Jiang Xinhan
	Melody from Heaven	白しろ花はな飄雪花はな飄	Shao Yulin
	The Love Corridor	愛情あいじょう走はし廊ろう	Chu Yun
	We Feel the Wind Again	又また是ぜ起おこり風ふう時じ	Xu Kewei
1978	Morning Fog	晨霧	Tai Yalun
	Wild Flower in the Storm	花はな非ひ花はな
	Sea-Wave in Sunset and Love	夕陽ゆうひ浪花なにわ愛あい	Meng Nan
	Love is Burning	愛情あいじょう火ひ辣辣	Du Ping (Du Ziping)
	Hi, Honey	嗨親愛あい的てき	Hao Keai
	The Diary of Di-Di	蒂蒂日記にっき	Fan Xijun
	Love on a Foggy River	煙波えんぱ江上こうじょう	Du Xihao
	Lover on the Wave	我わが踏浪而來	Zhao Darong
	A Journey of Love	無情むじょう荒地あれち有情うじょう天てん	Lin Lei
	Ask My Love from God	此情可か問とい天てん	Chen Yuncheng
	He Never Gives Up	汪洋おうよう中ちゅう的てき一いち條じょう船せん	Zheng Fengxi
	The Story of Green House	綠色みどりいろ山莊さんそう	Lei Wen
	Mountains Under the Setting Sun	夕陽ゆうひ山やま外山とやま	Huang Shaokui
	Love in the Blossoming Mountain Flowers	滿まん山花やまはな開ひらく一片いっぺん情じょう	Xu Guowei
1979	A Sorrowful Wedding	悲之秋あき	Du Jiawen
	Love Under a Rosy Sky	彩あや霞かすみ滿天まんてん	Chiao Shu-pei
	The Wild Goose on the Wing	雁かり兒じ在ざい林はやし梢こずえ	Jiang Huai
	Love Seed	一いち顆紅豆まめ	Liang Zhiwen
	By Love Obsessed	情じょう奔	Zhi Gang
	Dash	衝刺
1980	My Native Land	原鄉はらごう人じん	Chûng Lî-fò
	Another Spring	又また見み春はる天てん	Yang Wei-han
	Flying Home	雁かり兒じ歸き	Li Junping
	Poor Chasers	一いち對たい傻鳥	Chen Cheng-hsiung
	Lotus Triangle	情じょう網もう
	Reunion in the Rain	蘭らん花はな草そう	Liang Hanzhong
	The Marigolds	金盞花きんせんか	Lawyer Zhou
	Flying Rainbow	飛躍ひやく的てき彩いろどり虹にじ	Lu Changfeng
	A Girl Who Comes from the Country	我わが從したがえ山中さんちゅう來らい	Lu Jun
	Love in a Big Land	大地だいち親ちかし情じょう
	The Lotus Triangle	荷葉かよう、蓮花れんげ、藕はす	Ye Yi
	Twin Troubles	愛情あいじょう躲避球だま	Long Kedong & Long Youdong
1981	My Cape of Many Dreams	夢ゆめ的てき衣裳いしょう	Sang Erxuan
	The Land of the Brave	龍りゅう的てき傳つて人じん	Lin Chao-hsing
	Love You Till I Die	愛あい你入骨こつ
	Once Again With Love	又また見み春はる天てん	Yang Weihan
	Coming with a Gun	帶おび槍やり過か境さかい	Ban Jie
	Clouds, Please Stay	雲くも且留住じゅう	Li Jianwen
1982	Girls' School	女子じょし學校がっこう	Mei Yixin
	The Girl Robber and I	小しょう妞．大盜たいとう．我わが	Fei Shaohua
	Marianna	賓まろうど妹いもうと
	Pigeons in the Evening	鴿どばと子こ的てき黃昏たそがれ
	The Drug Busters	鐵血てっけつ勇いさみ探さがせ	Tang Keyuan	also director
1983	The Lost Generation	風水ふうすい二に十じゅう年ねん	Mr. Tsun
1984	Holy War	聖戰せいせん千秋せんしゅう
	Impending War	戰爭せんそう前ぜん夕ゆう
1985	Last Breath	血ち染しみ風采ふうさい
1986	Loves of a Small Town Doctor	小しょう鎮醫生せい的てき愛情あいじょう	Wang Liyi
1990	Promising Miss Bowie	祝福しゅくふく	Ko Man-kit
	Red Dust	滾たぎ滾たぎ紅べに塵ちり	Chang Neng-tsai
1991	Center Stage	阮玲玉だま	Tong Gwai-saan
1992	Requital	五ご湖こ四海しかい	Fan Dai-kuay
1994	Treasure Hunt	花はな旗はた少しょう林はやし	Tong Ling
1995	Don't Cry, Nanking	南京なんきん1937	Shing Yin
2000	Feeling by Night	夜よる奔	De shun
2006	The Knot	雲水うんすい謠うたい	Wang Ting-wu
2012	Threads of Time	柳やなぎ如是にょぜ	Qian Qianyi

As director

• The Drug Busters (鐵血てっけつ勇いさみ探さがせ) – also actor

As writer

• Betrayer (殺氣さっき嚴げん霜しも) – also actor

Television series

Year	English title	Chinese title	Role	Notes
1971	Rainbow Bridge	七なな色しょく橋きょう	Mu Yuande
1985	How Many Sunsets	幾度いくど夕陽ゆうひ紅べに	Ho Mu-tien
1986	Lovers Under the Rain	煙雨えんう濛濛もうもう	Ho Shu-huan
	I Am a Chinese	我わが是ぜ中國人ちゅうごくじん
1987	Deep Garden	庭にわ院いん深深ふかぶか	Po Pei-wen
1988	One Side of the Water	在ざい水みず一方いっぽう	Chu Shih-yao	remake of The Unforgettable Character
1989	Seagulls Soaring In Iridescent Clouds	海うみ鷗飛處しょ彩雲さいうん飛ひ	Yu Muhuai
1991	Love in Venice	情じょう定てい威い尼あま斯
1995	Secular Romance	情愛じょうあい紅べに塵ちり	Geng Haoran
1996	Flowers Gone, Flowers Bloom	花落はなおち花はな開ひらく	Xia Haimo
1997	Flying with the Iridescent Clouds	我わが伴とも彩雲さいうん飛ひ
2000	Give Daddy A Kiss	親しん親おや老ろう爸	Fang Nien-tsu
2002	Cash Is King	勝かち券けん在ざい握にぎ	Qi Ren
2004	Son From the Past	子こ是ぜ故人こじん來らい	Seng Ming
	Wealthy Family's Shocking Dream	豪ごう門もん驚おどろき夢ゆめ	Chiao Cheng-tien
2005	Purple Jade, Golden Clay	紫むらさき玉たま金砂きんしゃ	Pan Tianci
2007	Niu Lang and Zhi Nu	牛うし郎ろう織女しょくじょ	Jade Emperor
2009	Dragon-Phoenix Luck	龍りゅう鳳おおとり呈てい祥さち	Long Jiandong
2014	Moment in Peking	新しん京きょう華はな煙けむり雲くも	Yao Siyuan
2017	The Glory of Tang Dynasty	大だい唐から榮耀えいよう	Emperor Xuanzong
	Cambrian Period	寒さむ武紀たけのり	Zhan Shili
	Dear My Friends	親愛しんあい的てき她們	Song Shuhao
2018	Flesh And Spirit	靈れい與あずか肉にく	Xu ingyou
	Twenties Once Again	重じゅう返かえし20歲さい	Xiang Dahai
2020	New World	新しん世界せかい	Shen Shichang

Awards and honors

Year	Awards	Category	Work
1976	22nd Asia Pacific Film Festival	Most Popular Actor
1978	15th Golden Horse Awards	Best Leading Actor	He Never Gives Up
1979	25th Asia Pacific Film Festival	Best Actor For Tragic Films

Further reading

• Daw-Ming Lee. "Chin, Han". Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema. (2013) ISBN 978-0-8108-6792-5. pp. 118–120.

External links

• Han Chin at IMDb
• Chin Han at the Hong Kong Movie Database