Beautiful Duckling
Original title: Yang ya ren jia
1965 · 1 h 51 min
Lee HsingCast
Wen-Wen Chang 
Kuo-Chun Chen 
Ming Chiang Su-chen Hsieh Yi-Kung Hsu Ming Hung
Credits
Written by: 
Yung-Hsiang Chang
Plot
A poor girl in rural Taiwan, who is seen as ugly, is adopted by a kind man and her life changes, in a gentle, moral film of "healthy realism".
Sinekatalog’s take
A gentle and moral Taiwanese classic.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.1 / 10 (182 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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