#barbie hsu

[dangermousie]

Oh my God.

Oh my God.

She was the first drama actress I ever loved oh my God.

Rest in Peace.

Oh my God.

I've seen various celebs die and normally it's all "sad" and that's about it but this is just...

[old-dramas]

Can you kiss me? What I mean is the kind of kiss that happens between friends abroad.

Mars (2004)

[romchat]

Absolutely devastated. She was so young!

Meteor Garden was my first non-American show and I have such fond memories of watching her there and in Mars. She was THE original idol actress.

RIP Barbie 💙

[theofficialdramallama]

As an Irish girl in college discovering Asian dramas for the first time, Boys Over Flowers was the first series that caught my attention. Originally from the anime, and then to the various live action drama adaptations.

Meteor Garden (the smash hit 2001 Taiwanese adaptation) was one of the first Asian dramas that really captured my heart. I remember watching all of the episodes on YouTube with English subtitles, and falling for the story all over again. Both Barbie Hsu and Jerry Yan as Shan Cai and Dao Ming Si gave their all over the two seasons, and they led me into watching other dramas that they appeared in - especially Barbie Hsu as Qi Luo in the Taiwanese drama Mars with Vic Chou of F4 and Meteor Garden fame.

Today I woke up to the news that Barbie Hsu has died at the age of 48 due to pneumonia caused by complications from influenza.

I'll never forget the impact that Barbie Hsu's acting had on my love of Asian dramas, and I know others will not forget her either.

RIP Barbie Hsu - this one really hurts 💔

[sweetnekoheart]

Helen's Gang Are Sad Over Barbie Hsu's Death

I Cannot Believe This, Barbie Hsu, (A.K.A. Hsu Shiyuan) A Host And Actress From Taiwan Has Passed Away At The Age Of 48, Her Family Just Said That In A Statement That Cause Her Death Was Pneumonia Trigged By Influenza, The Entertainer Known As 'Big S' Was Travelling In Japan When She Got Contracted By The Virus, She Was Knowed For Her Starring Role In The 2001 Taiwanese TV Drama, Meteor Garden

To Barbie Hsu, I Would Like To Say, Thank You For Being The Best Host And Actress Ever, And All The Happiness That You And Your Sisters Brought, May You Rest In Peace

I Had A Feeling I Should Make Her In Hellpark Style...

[ricisidro]

Rest in Peace 🕊️

Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and Meteor Garden lead star, dies at 48 due to pneumonia caused by influenza complications.

https://focustaiwan.tw/culture/202502030003

Lee Joo-sil, a South Korean actress best known for her appearances in Squid Game Season 2 and Train to Busan, dies at the age of 80 due to stomach cancer.

https://deadline.com/2025/02/lee-joo-sil-dead-squid-game-train-to-busan-actress-1236275689/

[paranasloc]

I wasn’t exactly such a big fan of Barbie hsu or of meteor garden but she was the shancai of my childhood and this feels like an end of an era. RIP.

[wild-butterfly]

Too Sudden 🥹🤍🕊️

RIP Barbie Hsu 🥹

You will always be my San Chai and Turquoise. 🫶

[essentialmoviegifs]

Motorway / 車手 (2012, dir. Soi Cheang)

[therandomwind]

Manga recommendation: Mars by Fuyumi Soryo

If you miss Taiwanese drama, you may also watch the 2004 Live Adaptation of Mars. I know you know the lead actors.

[dangermousie]

For a drama that was clearly filmed on a shoestring budget, they have some really pretty shots - the way QL is shot looking at Ling snap and then come out of it, is gorgeous.

And it's so telling that her main reaction is not fear of him but worry for him. In many another set-up, I'd call her naive but for her, with her issues, it is normal people that is terrified of and also while she has never snapped the way he does, she can understand going after a tormentor because that is what she wishes she could have done. His violence is not off putting for her because she wishes she could be like that.

One of the things I like about Mars is what they do with Qing Mei, who'd be the insane secondary girl in many a drama - she tried and she snapped and then she got over it. And here she is giving QL Ling's address. She is CAPABLE OF MOVING ON.

Ling's hovel is definitely a hovel and it's an unpretty dump. I love that it's almost aggressively ugly - more shows should do that for their broke characters. But also, here is QL who started the show literally flinching from anyone in any proximity, feeling safe enough to wait for Ling as he showers right there. It's both progress for her character (we earlier saw her stand up to girls in school) and because she feels safe with him.

Oooofff! This is a convo they have where he says his father never lifted a hand to him/lost his temper at him and she comments he's a good man and Ling responds that is not the case, he's just afraid of him and QL is incredulous, how can a man be afraid of his own son. I really really like that they both have severe trauma but it's a very different one and that is why they react differently and their triggers are different. And then they come to the crux of it. This is the MOST vulnerability and honesty we've seen him show anyone by a factor of a 100:

And then being himself, he tries to go "psych!"

And you can see her be relieved "what kind of parent would treat their kid that way" and the thing is, he could have just left it at that but he cannot. She is past all his shields and he's rather desperate.

God, I love this! And it makes so much sense, as I mentioned before, that she's afraid of "normal," not of someone genuinely out there because she's been abused over and over by normal. (And she doesn't mention her stepfather but she clearly wants to, and he's smart enough to catch she's omitting something.)

OK, I don't remember stuff about his mom that well but if I remember correctly, she tried to kill him at some point. And it's so interesting that Ling doesn't remember that (between his age and suppressing the trauma), but his subconscious does somehow...

Notice something - he leans in, she is uncomfortable and suggests going for a walk and he just pulls back, no hesitation or word of complaint. The violent kid who was involuntarily committed respected her boundaries the way all those praiseworthy members of community did not.

Watching them on a date is such a delight. They don't just talk out issues, they genuinely have so much fun together.

This is only barely related to the above but I wanted to talk about it - I love that always in their relationship, they meet each other where the other person is at, they don't try to change the other person, they just decide if they can live with it or not - sometimes they can't (when she decides to agree to live with her abuser, he goes "I am out,") but they don't really try to change each other - they do change each other and for each other, but this is organic and voluntary. They grow tremendously, but they never force the other to do so.

It really comes to a head with Ling's choice of being a motorcycle racer - it's an insanely dangerous profession. His bio father died from it. The whole story opens with his visiting a mentor who just lost a leg doing so. QL is very much aware how dangerous this is. And for her, Ling is her whole life - her family are dead or monsters. When he almost dies (from other stuff), she loses it. And yet, she never not once asks him to quit or even thinks about how good it would be if it was. Her father even posits it to her and she rejects it. She could get him to quit for her - I mean later on, he agrees to his father's demands in order to save her, and that wasn't even her asking. And she knows that but she won't. Because she loves him the way he is and she wants him to do what makes him happy, not to constrain himself for her. He set her free and she cannot constrain him as a return. They are both their best and their freest and their truest to themselves with each other and I love it so.

God, I love them so so so much!

[thepastisalreadywritten]

𝗝𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗹𝘂 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟵 😷

At the end of 2024, Japan recorded an unprecedented 𝟯𝟭𝟳,𝟴𝟭𝟮 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘇𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀, as reported by the country’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, its highest number of cases since 1999.

In terms of average cases per medical institution, it now reached 𝟲𝟰.𝟯𝟵 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀, exceeding both the government's warning threshold of 30 cases and previous high of 57.09 cases in January 2019.

The 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 ��𝗶𝘁𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗝𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗻, recording 104.84 average cases, followed by the other prefectures in the Kyushu region.

There are several factors that led to this massive influenza outbreak in Japan.

According to Osaka University’s Satoshi Kutsuna, a professor of epidemiology, the 𝗳𝗹𝘂 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 and has been in increasing trend ever since.

There are also signs of decreasing herd immunity. During the pandemic, widespread mask-wearing and rigorous hand hygiene significantly reduced influenza transmission.

However, 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘅𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗱, 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘇𝗮 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱.

Influenza can lead to severe complications such as viral pneumonia and secondary bacterial infections, most especially in 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹𝘀.

To prevent complications due to influenza, it’s important to always 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗵𝘆𝗴𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗲, 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝗸𝘀 especially while in crowded places, 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱, and 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 once experiencing influenza-like symptoms.

Yesterday, the world was shocked after learning the news about the unfortunate death of Taiwanese star Barbie Hsu due to influenza-induced pneumonia.

She was on vacation to celebrate the holidays in Tokyo.

According to Kyodo News, Hsu previously revealed that she had a history of mitral valve prolapse and epilepsy. She was 48.

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲, 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗶𝗲 𝗛𝘀𝘂 (1976-2025), 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗶 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻. 🕊️

4 February 2025

✍️ Jan Luis Antoc

[hug-kiss-marry-kill]

[thencomethecherryblossoms]

Barbie Hsu :(

[neocelticavalon]

My fav song from Meteor Garden🥺😢💕💕💕

I just found of their translated lyrics version of Penny Tai's The Love You Want song into english and its beautiful, im crying😭😭😭😭😭😭 you guys can read it by clicking the link below👇👇👇

and also RIP to my fav taiwanese actress of Meteor Garden, Barbie Hsu 🥺😢😭😭😭💐💐💐💕💕💕💔💔💔💔 you will be be missed💌💌💌

[sweetnekoheart]

Barbie Hsu In Hellpark Style

I Tried Making The Skirt Looking Like The Taiwanese Flag, If She Guest Starred In The Hellpark TV Series On The Episode, A Taiwanese Actress Who Is A Fallen Angel, I Can Imagine Her Being Voiced By Nicole Oliver (Her Voice Will Sound Like Princess Celestia From My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)