Amber Kuo is a Taiwanese singer and actress born in Taipei, Taiwan, on February 19, 1986. She first got a break in the entertainment industry when she appeared in 2006 music videos for singers Tank, Stefanie Sun, and Real. The following year she released her debut solo album “Invisible Superman.” She made her movie debut in “Au Revoir Taipei” (2010), and later the same year voiced the character Astrid in the Taiwanese version of “How to Train Your Dragon.” She starred in “Tiny Times 1.0” and “Tiny Times 2.0” in 2013, and also appeared in the subsequent installments in the series, “Tiny Times 3.0” in 2014, and “Tiny Times 4.0” in 2015. More recently, she has appeared in the movies “Lord of Shanghai” (2017) and “Always Miss You” (2019).

Amber Kuo

2/6/2015

Chinese New Year is a time to reflect on relationships and family.

Wedding planner Jia Yi (Amber Kuo) is planning her 100th wedding, and the her sentimentality makes her want to get married. But her boyfriend (Rhydian Vaughan) is not committing.

Nana (Zhao Li Ying) goes into labor on New Year's Eve. But her husband, superstar Jing Ming (Jam Hsiao), must choose between being by her side for this important family event and his professional commitment to appear on a countdown show. 

Zhong Wei (Xia Yu) and Ya Lun (Gordon Lam) are overworked police officers. After capturing the suspect Hou Zi (Zhang Yi), they agree to let him say goodbye to his grandmother before being taken away. Zhong Wei and Ya Lun begin to think about their own families.

“Crazy New Year's Eve” is a 2015 Chinese film directed by Eva Jin and Pan An Zi.

Crazy New Year's Eve

H&R Century Pictures

Picking up where “Tiny Times 1.0” left off, fashion magazine assistant editor Lin Xiao (Yang Mi) is still best friends with high school buddies and fellow Shanghai fashion aspirants Gu Li (Amber Kuo), Nan Xiang (Bea Hayden), and Tang Wanru (Evonne Hsieh).

However, a fateful birthday party takes an unpleasant turn when one of the friends unearths a skeleton in the closet – a romantic secret that threatens to divide the group. What’s more, a death in the family then leaves Gu Li in charge of the family firm – with rival businesspeople already taking aim at the company.

Things are also getting complex for Lin Xiao, who is still struggling to please her perfectionist boss – and developing doubts about the fidelity of her long-term boyfriend. Meanwhile, workmate Zhou Chong Guang (Cheney Chen) is starting to catch her eye…

Can the quartet get their friendship back on track, or is their relationship now soured beyond repair? Will Gu Li keep the business vultures away from the family business? And will Lin Xiao stick with her long-time lover, or take a chance on a new flame?

The movie is the second of four “Tiny Times” movies, based on a hit series of novels.

“Tiny Times 2.0” is a 2013 Chinese movie written, produced, and directed by Guo Jingming.

Tiny Times 2.0

What Lasts Forever?

Lin Xiao (Yang Mi) is a recent graduate of Shanghai University. She still lives with her college roommates, three friends she has known since her high school days. The group includes the super-organized Gu Li (Amber Kuo), aspiring designer Nan Xiang (Bea Hayden), and serial worrier Tang Wanru (Evonne Hsieh).

Lin Xiao is also still dating her high school boyfriend.

But life starts to change pace when she takes a job as an editorial assistant at a popular fashion magazine. She soon finds that her demanding and aloof manager Gong Ming (Rhydian Vaughan) is a very hard person to please.

It looks like adjusting to the high-pressure world of high fashion may be harder than Lin Xiao first thought.

Can she really make it in the fashion world? Will the job take its toll on her love life? Or will her friendship with her three best friends help her pull through?

“Tiny Times 1.0” is a 2013 Chinese movie written, produced, and directed by Guo Jingming.

Tiny Times 1.0

True Friendship

Huayi Brothers

Love comes in many forms, it shapes our lives in ways we can’t even begin to comprehend. Never was this truth more evident than when eight lonely souls, in search of the one who can make their life complete, find themselves entangled in an ever-evolving story of life and love.

Devoted to her family in every way, Yi Jia (Ivy Chen) is the ideal daughter. A member of her college cycling team and frequent helper at her family’s restaurant, she is everything her parents could ever hope for in a daughter. Unfortunately, she has no real personality of her own. Unexceptional in every way, Yi Jia blends in wherever she goes, an overlooked nobody who is often outshone by her flamboyant best friend, Xiao Min (Amber Kuo). Talented, confident, and assertive, Xiao Min is the exact opposite of Yi Jia, but that has never gotten in the way of their friendship. Even when Xiao Min starts dating the aspiring film director, Ah Kai (Eddie Peng), Yi Jia is always there to support her friend and is happy to count Ah Kai as a friend. But when Yi Jia finds herself caught up in an ill-fated love affair, this intrepid trio’s friendship is put to the test.

Meanwhile, successful entrepreneur and flippant playboy, Mark (Mark Chao) is in the process of moving to Beijing. As his feisty real estate agent, Xiao Ye (Zhao Wei), shows him some of the city’s most lavish homes, he finds himself strangely drawn to her. A single mother who takes no sass, Xiao Ye is nothing like the women he’s been chasing all these years. As he spends more time with her, he begins to wonder if he might have been looking for love in all the wrong places.

At the same time, wealthy businessman, Chao Ping (Doze Niu) and his materialistic mistress, Rou Yi (Shu Qi), are going through a rough patch in their relationship. After one particularly ugly fight, Rou Yi finds herself being rescued from Chao Ping’s rage by Xiao Kuan (Ethan Juan), an innocent soul with a friendly, boy-next-door personality. Offering her a place to escape her hectic life in the limelight, Rou Yi accepts Xiao Kuan’s hospitality and eventually his friendship. During their time together, Rou Yi has time to contemplate her life and begins to wonder if it isn’t time to make some serious life changes.

The story of eight souls interwoven by fate, “Love” is a 2012 Taiwanese-Chinese romance film directed by Doze Niu.

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