|
|
|
雷雨 (1957)
Character: Chow Ping
The Thunderstorm is a 1957 Hong Kong drama film directed by Ng Wui and starring Bruce Lee based on the play Thunderstorm by Chinese dramatist Cao Yu.
|
|
|
黑妖婦 (1949)
Character: N/A
Drama / thriller from Sanxing Film Company.
|
|
|
滿江紅 (1962)
Character: Yu Sui Chun
A Hong Kong historical drama
|
|
|
茶花女 (1955)
Character: N/A
A Mandarin adaption of Camille directed by Chang Shan-Kun and Evan Yang.
|
|
|
|
馬來亞之戀 (1954)
Character: 張冠瑜
Malaya Love Afffair 马来亚之恋 was financed, written and directed by Tsi Lo-lin, and it broadly focused on the themes of education, assimilation (of Chinese immigrants in Malaya), romance, kinship and traditional values.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
人海八大仙 (1951)
Character: N/A
Eight Immortals in the World of Men
|
|
|
似水流年 (1962)
Character: N/A
Huang Xishijin, a university student, lost his father at a young age. His mother, frugal and hardworking, supported him through university, hoping he would become a successful person. However, Huang became involved with bad friends and developed bad habits of extravagance and indulgence. During the summer vacation, Huang met the girl Bai Suzhi. They instantly fell in love. Bai also had feelings for Huang, but her true feelings were not shown. They had previously agreed to meet at Lizhi Bay. Huang was waiting with a necklace for Bai, but Bai had to cancel due to some reason. Huang was disappointed and returned home. On the way, he met the school beauty, Mi Jinghua. Huang was attracted by Mi's beauty and gave her the necklace as a symbol of his affection. Greedy and vain, Mi believed that Huang was from a wealthy family and spent lavishly.
|
|
|
十兄弟怒海除魔 (1960)
Character: Brother Shrimp
The Ten Brothers return as the Lake Devil is plagued by a monster fish. To settle the old score, Marshal asks Shrimpy and his ten sons to exterminate the fish. Excelled on land, the ten brothers find themselves quite useless in the water.
|
|
|
|
一丈紅 (1952)
Character: N/A
Drama from Hong Kong directed by Lee Tit.
|
|
|
黛綠年華 (1957)
Character: Johnny Tan
Han Xiangying temporarily resides at her classmate Fan Daini's resplendent mansion. Mrs Fan eggs her on to attend a party at which she is raped by a rich businessman. It turns out that Mrs Fan is in fact a procuress exerting control over her three daughters of the ruined family. Han manages to escape the clutches of Mrs Fan with the assistance of the honest young man Gong Liqun.
|
|
|
珠江淚 (1950)
Character: Young Master Kwai
The film depicts the lives of Guangdong peasants who have gone through the suffering of the Sino-Japanese War only to experience home-grown oppression by a rapacious landlord in their village.
|
|
|
火窟幽蘭 (1961)
Character: To Chung-man
Cheung framed Chan For. Chan orders his wife not to tell this to their children, Ah Lan and Hung. His wife passes away. On her deathbed, she asked a neighbour, To Chung-man, to take care of her children. Claiming to be a good friend of their father, Chan For moves in to the bed next to Ah Lan to take care of his children. Hung likes this uncle because he always treats him generously. But Ah Lan finds "Uncle For" weird and enthusiastic. Ah Lan is forced to pay her mother's debt. Hung is suffering from acute appendicitis. To solve Ah Lan's financial problem, Chung-man returns to his rich family and accept an arranged marriage. Ah Lan decides to sell herself to the construction site foreman for one night. Chan For wants to stop his daughter from making this deal, so he agrees to work for Cheung again. The next day he carries out a robbery and is caught. Ah Lan and Chung-man visit him in jail, and hold their wedding ceremony in front of him. He looks forward to the days when he returns.
|
|
|
魂歸離恨天 (1957)
Character: N/A
Tso Kea was adroit in adapting film and literary classics from the West, organically transplanting stories and characters onto Chinese soil and nurturing them to glorious fruition. Love Lingers On is based on the gothic novel Wuthering Heights and Tso shepherds Emily Brontë's tale of profound passion, thwarted love and bitter vengefulness with a perfect balance of broad narrative strokes and delicate orchestration of mise-enscene. He wisely concentrates on the lead characters' simmering mental troubles, greatly enhanced by stars Cheung Ying and Mui Yee, who overcome glaring age differences with their characters to bring life to this saga of vivid emotions.
|
|
|
家家戶戶 (1954)
Character: N/A
The film features a conflict between a young wife and her mother-in-law, depicting the lives of ordinary people and their profound problems.
|
|
|
敗家仔 (1952)
Character: Kwong Sai-Cheung
A prodigal son is married to a woman his mother dislikes. The wife is then expelled from the family circle and forced to become independent.
|
|
|
刮龍博懵 (1977)
Character: N/A
No Money No Talk is a Hong Kong is a Hong Kong Drama starring Bill Tung
|
|
|
Nanhai yu ge (1950)
Character: N/A
The film tells the story of fishermen in a fishing village in the South China Sea, who have suffered from exploitation by Yan Jianping, the owner of the lucrative fish pens, who has driven down fish prices.
|
|
|
後窗 (1955)
Character: Yu Mong-yuen
Reporter Yu Mong-yuen is recovering from a leg injury in his fiancee Man-wah's apartment. Bored, he looks out the rear window and observes the life of the neighbouring building. Among the tenants are a sugar-daddy and his mistress, a middle-aged man wants to marry a young girl, but she is in love with his son. Finally, she hatches a plot and makes the man agree to her marrying his son ; a sly fortune-teller ; a lively gym, a rich widow quarrels with the trainer of a gymnasium because his dog has bitten her cat ; and an opera school, a woman signs, leaning on the balcony, and a man tries to strangle her. In fact they are rehearsing an opera…… One evening, Wah is on the night shift, and Yuen watches the opera troupe rehearse to the end. Under the influence of drugs, Yu mistakenly believes that a divorced man has murdered a taxi dancer. He alerts the police, but the whole thing is nothing more than a misunderstanding.
|
|
|
|
復活 (1955)
Character: Fan Chun-kit
Ah Hing is made pregnant by her master Fan Chun-kit. Fan soon leaves for his studies overseas while Ah Hing suffers gross prosecution and is reduced to becoming a prostitute. In a momentary slip of a struggle, Ah Hing commits manslaughter. Now a qualified lawyer, Fan acquits Ah Hing of the charge, and intends to marry her to redeem his negligence in the past. Ah Hing, however, is determined to pursue an independent life.
|
|
|
拳頭枕頭 (1972)
Character: N/A
Zhang Zhengchang, an honest businessman, lost his wife in his early years and his business has been miserable for many years. His son's friend teams up with gangsters to seek his property.
|
|
|
回魂夜 (1962)
Character: Lui Bo-Keung
A ghost tale very strongly inspired by Hitchcock's Vertigo.
|
|
|
鬼兇手 (1964)
Character: Cheung Kin
After a fatal traffic accident, a community is haunted by a phantom figure.
|
|
|
古墓冤魂 (1939)
Character: N/A
The movie is a horror movie with a deep moral. A number of ghosts appear in the movie, including a ghost that escaped from the Ghost Gate, an unjust ghost released from the City of Wasted Death, a sleazy ghost trapped in the Beauty Gate and a living hangman's neck.
|
|
|
鬼新娘 (1964)
Character: Chan Chi-Kong
Hong Kong ghost movie set during wartime. Not to be confused with the South Korean film of the same name from the previous year.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
鬼屋疑雲 (1963)
Character: Cheung Ying-kei
Hong Kong horror movie from 1963.
|
|
|
|
古屋行尸 (1963)
Character: N/A
Hong Kong horror movie from 1963.
|
|
|
老夫子奇趣錄 (1978)
Character: Mr. Zhao
The beloved king of Hong Kong comic book characters, Old Master Q, is back in live action again by popular demand. This hilarious sequel to Mr Funny-bone finds him, and his delightful sidekick "Big Potato", opening an Old-fashioned healing clinic - leading to a fun and fascinating clash (cultural and otherwise) when the old ways smack face first into ultra-modern Hong Kong. But, this being the great Mr Funny-bone, he triumphs in spite of himself and his large-cranium companion.
|
|
|
|
|
|
搖錢樹 (1973)
Character: Mr. Pi
Hong Kong comedy film.
|
|
|
擺錯迷魂陣 (1950)
Character: Broker Lai
When both sides of the family move in with a married couple, chaos reigns.
|
|
|
錢 (1959)
Character: Tong Na
A delicious comedy from Union Film, Money, traces the journey of a bag of cash from a bank robbery. The humour switches between the witty and the absurd, offering a biting examination of human nature when men and women are confronted with the chance of unearned wealth.
|
|
|
滾女搵老襯 (1977)
Character: N/A
A business man has an extra-marital affair with his secretary. When his wife suspects of his activities, he arranges for his entire staff to help him cover up the mess that he has made!
|
|
|
金山大少 (1959)
Character: Cheung Ka-Bo
After inheriting his father's estate, Cheung Ka-bo leads a life of debauchery after getting know Blackie Yuen, who profits at others' expense, and Yee-Wah, who working at a night club. As the family wealth diminishes, he always squabbles with his wife and finally separates from her. She returns a diamond bracelet, kept by Uncle Chan, to her mother-in-law. Bo's mother hides the bracelet in a chair. Later, Wah resides at Bo's home. To flatter Wah, Bo wants to get the bracelet by any means from his mother and give it to Wah. Later, Bo's mother falls ill. In the hospital, she tells Bo of the bracelet's whereabouts but the chair has already been sold to Uncle Chan by Wah. Bo, Wah and Yuen stealthily enter Chan's home to get the chair, but have a big fight when they try to take the bracelet. Knowing that Bo has huge debts, Wah intends to leave him after getting the bracelet. Wah exposes her gluttonous self in her pursuit of the treasure. Bo learns his lesson and returns to his wife.
|
|
|
狐天狐地 (1976)
Character: Boss Tai Kao Huo
Shaw Bros production
|
|
|
騙術奇中奇 (1973)
Character: N/A
Hong Kong comedy directed by Li Han-Hsiang.
|
|
|
扭計三星 (1977)
Character: Crazy Chang
Cheng Meng-chi (Liang Tian), celebrated for his cunning, embarks on a clever scheme to outwit his mischievous neighbour, Wu Tien-chuang (Wang Sha). Cheng’s ingenious trickery leads Wu and his mistress to believe that he possesses the extraordinary ability to turn chicken droppings into gold, resulting in comical confrontations and a string of stolen chickens. The narrative takes an entertaining twist as Cheng’s relationship with Crazy Ching (Chang Ying), the partner-in-crime of a gullible gold shop owner, transforms from playful neighbourly antics into an intense battle of wits, with Cheng consistently staying one step ahead of his adversary.
|
|
|
|
夫憑妻貴 (1962)
Character: Gao Guo-Mei
A Shaw Brothers comedy
|
|
|
|
|
|
天上人間 (1941)
Character: Chu Tse-Ching
A traitorous businessman conspires with commanding officers to sell military supplies to the enemy. The plan is discovered by a group of poor but righteous people led by Lui Pang (Cheung Ying), who join hands with the guerrilla group to foil the plot. While making a harsh statement on those who exploited the national crisis to get rich, Tang Xiaodan portrayed vividly the sorrow and joy of the working class as well as an altruistic utopianism. The film begins with a song by Leung Mo-sik that describes the severity of war and the hardships endured by common people, intercut with real footages from war zones. The anti-war sentiment of the film is less political in nature and imbued with grave and genuine concern for the poor.
|
|
|
|
|
鬼咁過癮 (1979)
Character: N/A
Comedy / fantasy involving ghosts.
|
|
|
|
|
驚弓鳥 (1964)
Character: N/A
Hong Kong horror drama movie from 1964.
|
|
|
千门八将 (1981)
Character: Chen Yunlong
A group of secret agent gambling heroes put the squeeze on some gangsters who are cheating the public now after having been involved with Japanese war criminals.
|
|
|
倚天屠龙记 (1963)
Character: N/A
The first movie adaptation of Jin Yong's novel.
|
|
|
阿牛入城記 (1974)
Character: Liu Ta-ming
A bittersweet comedy about a simple hick who arrives in the big city to seek his fortune, "The Crazy Bumpkins" is about Ah Niu, who leaves his native village to live with an uncle in Hong Kong, not realizing he is a crook. After taking on a hilarious series of illegal jobs with his uncle, he meets and falls for a single mother and decides to find some real work. However, bad luck and naivete soon conspire to keep him from true happiness.
|
|
|
同居 (1975)
Character: Manager Qin
Abortion, birth control and unwed cohabitation are social issues rarely associated with 1970's Hong Kong cinema. Cohabitation not only faces them head on but does so with insight, compassion and sex!
|
|
|
|
美人春夢 (1958)
Character: Siu Kar-wai
Songstress Mui Yee-wah falls head over heels for painter Wai Tik-fung despite their age difference. Because Wai is a married man, Mui's mother is against the match. Mui falls ill from grief. Rich heir Siu Kar-wai seizes the chance to successfully propose to Mui. However, Siu is unable to let go of Mui's past. In a fit of anger, he fires a deadly shot at Wai.
|
|
|
民族的吼聲 (1941)
Character: N/A
A wartime drama set in Hong Kong during the Second Sino-Japanese War, when people fled to Hong Kong from Mainland China.
|
|
|
半夜奇談 (1955)
Character: 4th Brother
Upon the death of an elderly master, a family has a dispute over the distribution of an inheritance / jewelry and are haunted by ghosts.
|
|
|
|
|
浣花洗劍 (1982)
Character: Chief of Huanhua Palace
In this film, there are 5 main clans ruling the martial world, each representing one of the 5 elements - fire, metal, water, wood and earth. Each year they hold a martial arts competition to decide which one of the 5 clans will rule the world. The story is centered around one of these tournaments, as a catastrophe arises when an evil samurai killer shows up 49 days before the start and tries to assassinate the current leader who happens to be from the Water clan.
|
|
|
風水奇譚 (1979)
Character: N/A
A Shaw Brothers produced film.
|
|
|
|
雞鳴狗盜 (1960)
Character: Cheung Wai-lim
Wong Chat is jobless. He is forced to become a burglar. He breaks into Han Siu-yu and her boyfriend Cheung Wai-lim's home, but it is just the time when they return. Wong hides in the closet. He eavesdrops that Han and Cheung are a couple, but Han is forced to become the tycoon Chan Koon-kau's mistress for a living. Suddenly, Chan returns, and Cheung hides into the closet too. Wong and Cheung meet in the closet and become friends. Wong is righteous and promises to help Han to escape from Chan's control. Wong and his neighbour Yeung Oi-lin disguise themselves as a pair of Singaporean rich couple and attend a banquet at Chan's home. They want to steal back the document that Chan threatens Han with. But they also find evidence of Chan's drug trafficking. When Chan find out about the stolen document, he confines Cheung and Han and kidnaps Wong's children. But Wong refuses to surrender. During their confrontation, the cops arrive after being informed by Yeung and arrests Chan on the spot.
|
|
|
|
書劍恩仇錄 (1960)
Character: Chan Ka-lok/ Kin-lung Emperor
Based on Louis Cha's novel The Book and the Sword.
|
|
|
午夜招魂 (1964)
Character: To Tak-Wah
After the passing of his wife, a man remarries and he and his new wife begin to suspect the old wife's spirit isn't at peace.
|
|
|
|
璇宮艷史 (1957)
Character: Ali
Vagabond singer Ali is embroiled in a dispute over love and is compelled to return to his own country. Ali is mistaken for the future queen's consort and chances to meet her majesty Law Yee. Law falls head over heels for Ali and they get married not long after. However, Ali finds royal formalities unbearable and decides to run away from the palace. Disregarding all rules, Law follows her man to wherever he goes.
|
|
|
妙妙女郎 (1975)
Character: N/A
A romantic Shaw Brothers musical.
|
|
|
正气歌 (1941)
Character: Ah Hong
A group of guerrillas fighting against Japanese invaders.
|
|
|
烛影照魂归 (1952)
Character: N/A
As the wealthy Ha Mung Shan nears death, he asks his son, Chung Ping, to marry his fiancée, Ng Yuk Keng. However, Yuk Keng loves Chung Ping’s brother, Bo Ming. To avoid upsetting his father, Chung Ping pretends that a singer, Su Qiu, is Yuk Keng and brings her home. Meanwhile, Yuk Keng’s aunt, Xing Hong, covets her father’s inheritance and attempts to kill Su Qiu, framing Chung Ping. Su Qiu survives, cared for by the Fu family. Later, Xing Hong kills Yuk Keng to live with Bo Ming, but he refuses. Taking the inheritance, Xing Hong stays with the Fu family and regrets her actions. Ha Mung Shan then arranges a new marriage for Chung Ping. Su Qiu, seeking revenge, disguises herself as a ghost on the wedding night, exposing the truth. Bo Ming confronts Chung Ping, and Xing Hong confesses her guilt. Mung Shan realizes Bo Ming is his son, and Chung Ping reunites with Su Qiu, leading to a happy ending.
|
|
|
|
白髮魔女傳(上集) (1959)
Character: Cheuk Yat-hong
The late Ming court is a corrupt regime. Lin Ngai-sheung, nicknamed the 'Jade Killer', inherits the swordplay book of Tianshan and becomes a bandit of the people to rob from the rich. Her feud with Wudang Sect's Cheuk Yat-hong rooted from the time she held up a corrupt official. Cheuk, instigated by others, sees Lin as his enemy. However, Lin slowly falls for him. When Cheuk learns the truth, he helps Lin to defeat her enemies.
|
|
|
|
|
慈母淚 (1953)
Character: N/A
This script was adapted from a Rediffusion Radio airwave novel, written by Lang Wun and read on-air by his wife Ngai Mun. Ngai Mun also acted in this film. Wang (Cheung Ying) worked himself to an early death. His wife Ching (Hung Sin Nui) raised their three children all by herself. Eldest son Kei (also played by Cheung Ying) was spoiled and grew up to be a robber. Middle child, daughter Ching-han, is materialistic and vain, and is later killed by Kei. Youngest son Leung (Yeung Fan) is diligent and ambitious, a great comfort to Ching. Hung Sin Nui played Ching from a young to an elderly woman, showing off her practiced, perfect acting skills. Chun Kim’s detailed portrayal of the relationship between the two generations set the stage for his later work Parents’ Hearts (1955).
|
|
|
扭计祖宗陈梦吉 (1975)
Character: Fong Tong-Geng
This 1975 comedy is about two tricksters, one who is bad and will work for the highest bidder and the other who works always for good, a Robin Hood in China film.
|
|
|
陆小凤传奇之绣花大盗 (1978)
Character: Serpent
The Embroidery Bandit is stealing treasures while blinding his victims. The hero Liu Xiaofeng is called in to solve the mystery. The evidence points to the all-woman Clan of the Red Shoes - but appearances can be deceptive.
|
|
|
苦海明燈 (1953)
Character: Chan Ying-kit
13-year old Bruce Lee plays San, a child up for adoption. Finally accepted by his surrogate parents, he is faced with a dilemma when his real parents show up and want him back.
|
|
|
Li Xiao Long di Sheng yu si (1973)
Character: Self
This documentary tells the story of Bruce Lee and his unsuccessful efforts to start a acting career in the U.S., he returned to Hong Kong where he became an international star, and his death at age 32.
|
|
|
豪門夜宴 (1959)
Character: N/A
This tale of familial warfare and sacrifice takes place in hard-pressed Shanghai at the end of the 1940s. Hu Zhiqing can barely support his wife and children, and his situation is worsened by the unexpected arrival of his mother, brother and sister-in-law. When he is fired by his unscrupulous boss, the whole family becomes embroiled in one emotional/economic struggle after another.
|
|
|
傾國傾城 (1975)
Character: Tutor Weng Tung Ho
This dragon lady of the Ching Dynasty was the power behind the throne for 50 years, and hew vast tapestry of palace intrigues is vividly brought to the screen in this memorable epic.
|
|
|
家 (1953)
Character: Ko Kok-wai
"Family" (1953), which launched the Union Film legacy, "Spring" (1953) and "Autumn" (1954) are adaptations of Ba Jin's highly regarded novel "Torrent Trilogy". In "Family", director Ng Wui skilfully condenses the voluminous first part of the novel into an emotionally powerful and intellectually focused story of youngsters struggling to survive oppression and repression in a feudalistic family. This well-received film quickly established the company's reputation.
|
|
|
乾隆下揚州 (1978)
Character: Fan Shi Xing
In the 18th century, Emperor Chien Lung makes a journey into Southern China.
|
|
|
發錢寒 (1977)
Character: Rich Chan
Ducky is hired by Rich Chen to transport the "diamonds" he stole from Uncle Pai Mary. Uncles Tough Guy and Mary would like to get the diamond from Ducky, so they volunteer to relieve Ducky of his responsibility.
|
|
|
|
駙馬艷史 (1958)
Character: Tailor/ Mok Lei-Si
Morris the Tailor seeks to get even with Gilbert, Earl of Chen who has stolen a set of expensive clothes from him. Morris bumps into Princess Jenna and the two fall in love at first sight. But the king voices his opposition since Morris is from the grassroots. Gilbert suggests that Jenna's aunt adopts him as her foster son. In a split second, Morris is elevated to a royal and becomes the king's son-in-law.
|
|
|
危樓春曉 (1953)
Character: N/A
This early leftist social drama from Hong Kong offers a panoramic portrait of a crumbling apartment complex and its down-and-out denizens, including a taxi driver, an unemployed teacher, a professional reduced to selling his blood and, of course, a venal landlord. In addition to establishing an omnipresent theme in Hong Kong cinema – the plight of the urban poor – the film is also a prime example of the popular melodramas of the time, which featured displaced Mainland film stars.
|
|
|
陳夢吉計破脂粉陣 (1975)
Character: Tricky Jing
The two lead roles (Liang Tien & Chang Ying) are in competition (never really explained why), teaching people lesson (including each other), but when the going gets tough, they join forces.
|
|
|
倚天屠龍記 (1978)
Character: Priest Chang San Fang
Director Chu Yuan's titanic teaming with respected, inspired author Chin Yung created this unforgettable saga. Set during the Yuan Dynasty, it tells the fascinating story of the "Sacred Fire" sect, the Wu Tang swordsmanship clan, the disciples of the O Mei group, The Book of Chu Yang, and the destruction of Shaolin - complete with a killer cliffhanger. And that's just the start of the fascinating intrigues and ingratiating characters found here.
|
|
|
浪子一招 (1978)
Character: Lord Yun's advisor
The plot deals with a search for a valuable pearl, dubbed the Buddha's Relic, which is sold to an unwitting Japanese emissary by a corrupt Ching Dynasty prince who seeks to steal it back for his own purposes.
|
|
|
陸小鳳之決戰前後 (1981)
Character: Fake Wax Man Jiang
This mystery-tinged 'Martial Arts World' epic was one of director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung's last together for the Shaw Studios, but it's another action-filled winner. Liu Yung and Sun Chien team to investigate the martial arts murders of a supposedly mortally wounded swordsman, only to find deception, death, double-dealings, imposters, and one deadly duel after another. No less than three choreographers are on hand to handle the multitude of magnificent martial arts.
|
|
