''Beautiful Duckling'' is a 1965 Taiwanese film directed by

Li Hsing Lee Hsing, or Li Hsing (; born ; 20 May 1930 – 19 August 2021) was a Taiwanese film director. He directed more than 30 films between 1959 and 1986. Li Zida was born in Shanghai in 1930, and settled in Taiwan in 1948, studying at National Tai ...

. It tells the story of a duck man Lin Tsai-tien (

Ko Hsiang-ting Ko Hsiang-ting (; 8 August 1916 – 16 May 2010) was a Taiwanese actor. Born in Suzhou, China on 8 August 1916, Ko became a member of the National Revolutionary Army corp of entertainers. He moved to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War, and started ...

) and his adopted daughter Hsiao-yue. Hsiao-yue (

Tang Pao-yun Tang Pao-yun (; 1944 – 14 May 1999) was a Taiwanese actress. She was born in 1944, and attended an acting school run by the Central Motion Picture Corporation. After ending her studies in 1961, she appeared in her first films the next year. Tan ...

) knows nothing about her real descent, which Lin has designedly disguised. Her natural brother Chao-fu (

Ou Wei Ou Wei (; 16 September 1937 – December 1973) was a Taiwanese actor. Ou Wei was born Huang Huang-chi () in present-day Xinhua District, Tainan, on 16 September 1937. His father, a billboard painter, died when Huang was five years old. His formal ...

) is a

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actor, he keeps asking Lin for money. He brings Hsiao-yue to the theatrical troupe to follow himself, where Hsiao-yue learns about her natural parents. Lin has to sell all his ducks, entrust Hsiao-yue to Chao-fu, and gives him money to let him start his own business. At the end of the film, Lin's son comes back, and Chao-fu repents his behavior and returns the money to Lin. The film is one of the representative works of Healthy Documentary Film in Taiwan, the traditional Chinese ethics. It received three

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including wins for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography.寇立光,李玉芝:《台湾香港电影名片欣赏》,山西教育出版社,1993,. p.75.

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* * 1965 films Taiwanese drama films Films set in Taiwan Films whose director won the Best Director Golden Horse Award Films with screenplays by Chang Yung-hsiang Films directed by Li Hsing Central Motion Picture Corporation films {{Taiwan-film-stub