

One Tree Three Lives
2012, CN. Directed by Angie Chen.
One Tree Three Lives, an intimate film on the novelist Hualing Nieh Engle, who has been a major influence on generations of writers in the Chinese Diaspora, and beyond. The director has known the author and her family since the Seventies. The film reveals a woman of unusual charisma, integrity and determination, and a person in continual exile. She is the author of 24 books. She also co-founded the International Writing Program in Iowa, USA, with her now deceased husband, the poet Paul Engle. One Tree Three Lives is also their love story.
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- 1h 38m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- CN
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- Released
- 1 March 2012
- Original title
- 三生三世 聶華苓
- Country
- Hong Kong
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One Tree Three Lives runs 98 minutes (1h 38m).
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One Tree Three Lives isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 March 2012. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed One Tree Three Lives?
One Tree Three Lives (2012) was directed by Angie Chen and stars Hualing Nieh Engle, Kenneth Pai Hsien-Yung, Lin Hwai-min.