Biography

Born in Chaozhou, Pingtung in 1946, shortly after graduating from Shih Hsin University, Mi-Mi Lee joined the crew of The Story of a Deity (1969) as a script supervisor for Japanese director Yamanouchi Tetsuya, who she considered the first person to illuminate her path to filmmaking. She continued to work as a script supervisor on multiple films including Four Moods (1970), co-director by Lee Hsing. She was also the assistant director for directors Pan Lei and Wang Yu. Mi-Mi Lee made her first directorial film in 1972 with the Taiwanese-language film Pure Love and went on to direct and independently produce three feature films in the early 198...Read More