Amazing Fact: The Late Li Li-Feng Filmed Her Final Project In 2018, But That Project Only Came Out In 2024?

As I was watching Teresa Teng: Wish We Last Forever — I thought SOMEONE had to look super familiar! Yes, it was Li Li-Feng who died on November 21, 2018. She died sometime after her 67th birthday on November 9 that same year. She was 67 years old when she died of pancreatic cancer. That would put her in the same category as the late famous Japanese actress Soga Machiko. Soga died of cancer in May 7, 2006, of cancer at 67 years old.

People who watched Chiung Yao dramas may notice Li-Feng playing characters older than her. What was amazing was that Li-Feng was actually YOUNGER than Chin Han. Chin Han was actually born on July 10, 1946. Let that sink in: Li-Feng was actually born in 1951, making her FIVE YEARS YOUNGER than Chin Han. It might be funny, BTS, but she played in several extremely tearjerking dramas like How Deep is the Courtyard, where she played Bo Peiwen's unreasonable mother. I even wonder if she was considered to be cast as Daoming Feng in Meteor Garden — given that she would be 10 years older than Zhen Xiuzhen and 27 years older than Jerry Yan! 

I thought about the low-budget days. The drama Unforgettable Character had Li-Feng play as Chin Han's mother AGAIN. What was funny was that Angie Tang was only 10 years older than Li-Li Feng yet Angie was the MOTHER-IN-LAW. Angie would be only five years older than Chin Han yet she was his grandmother. To my mother, it wasn't much of a deal, raising the issue that it happens in a school play. She considered the lower-budget Taiwanese dramas of the 1980s to be "school plays that go on air". 

The old lady went out with a BOW. I was reminded of people who worked until they died. Anita Mui made several concerts before she died of late-stage cervical cancer. Raul Julia filmed Street Fighter while he was dying of stomach cancer. Yuka Motohashi (who was Natsumi in Gekisou Sentai Carranger) was still doing theatrical work before she died of cancer in 2024.

Overall, I still want to say kudos to thiis amazing woman for giving all her best. A waste that Teresa Teng: Wish We Last Forever took some time before it finally premiered!