Yuen Siu-Fai
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Spring
1953-12-22
Spring
Overview: Ko Suk-ying is saddened over her arranged marriage as manipulated by her father Hak-ming. Ko Kok-sun's Cousin Chow Wai's spends the Mid-Autumn Festival before her marriage with the Kos. She has been in love with Sun. Sun finds out about her love for him when she is about to be married off, he is too weak to oppose to Wai's betrothal to another man. Sun's son, Hoi-sun, falls ill. Fearing the displeasure of his elders, Sun dares not consult a western doctor. Meanwhile, another dispute arises among members of the family over the ancestral land. When accused of being incompetent in his management, Sun takes the blame silently. Wai dies of grief while Hoi-sun becomes a victim of mistreatment. Sun is devastated at this double blow. Hak-ming instructs Sun to arrange for Ying's wedding. Knowing the kind of man Ying's fiancee is, Sun is reluctant. Not wanting to follow in Wai's footsteps, Ying fights for her own rights, and backed by an enlightened Sun, she leaves for a new start.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1953-12-22
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Murder Case in Chinatown
1961-12-26
Murder Case in Chinatown
Overview: Based on a real murder case in 1930s New York Chinatown
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1961-12-26
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Backyard Adventures
1955-07-12
Backyard Adventures
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1955-07-12
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ICAC: Two Stories “Fire”
1978-03-01
ICAC: Two Stories “Fire”
Overview: The second story of “Two Stories” from Ann Hui and Yim Ho’s “ICAC” series (1978)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-03-01
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Parents' Hearts
1955-04-21
Parents' Hearts
Overview: An opera troupe has to dissolve in view of the poor economy. Comedian star Sang Kwai-lei loses his job and he has no alternative but to play the lion character in the opera troupe of his former junior apprentice Chan Hau and pawn his stage costume. He aims at earning enough money to support the final year's secondary school studies of his elder son Chi-kuen. Kuen however refuses to continue his studies, seeing that his father has to put aside his dignity to earn money and his mother is worried. Lei is enraged and uses the money to support his younger son Chi-wai's studies. Again, Lei loses his job and he resorts to giving street performances, his wife takes up sowing work in her spare time and she dies after a long illness. Kuen works to support himself through school, but Wai is less fortunate, he is forced to enrol in an opera troupe as an apprentice. Years later, the dying father joyfully embraces Chi-kuen's return from his studies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1955-04-21
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Torrents of Spring
1960-01-21
Torrents of Spring
Overview: Sojourning in Macau, Su Erning by chance helps Pan Meiniang resuscitate his younger brother and fends off the thug. In her admiration, Pan calls off the engagement arranged by her mother to exchange vows with Su despite having known him for only three days. To raise the money for the wedding, Su plans to sell his family yacht to the rich wife of his classmate Lu Zuhua in Hong Kong and promises to buy Pan a pearl necklace. The promiscuous Mrs Lu seduces Su on the yacht and then dumps him. 18 years later, Pan's daughter is getting married. Su prepares a wedding gift—a stolen pearl necklace—for the bride but is too ashamed to show himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1960-01-21
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Disco Bumpkins
1980-02-15
Disco Bumpkins
Overview: The film is about Fen, who hangs out with four total losers who are in "Macho Man" tank tops and what happens. Ching Li plays Selina, who is a commercial director who hires him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-02-15
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Madam White Snake's Reincarnation
1959-05-08
Madam White Snake's Reincarnation
Overview: A fantasy film with an appearance from Huang Fei-hong
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1959-05-08
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Father and Son
1954-01-07
Father and Son
Overview: After seeing a friend of his boss' son adopted over his promised promotion with connections, Shrimp's father, a minor white-collar worker Ng Kwun-sing, vows to get Shrimp a place in a prestigious school and a chance to make friends with the rich. However, Shrimpy is constantly bullied and discriminated against by his classmates. Ng has not the means to be a social climber and finally realises his mistake. He sends his son to a voluntary school so that he may grow up happily. This poignant father-son drama shows a parents' willingness to carve out a good future for their children by any means necessary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1954-01-07
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The Snowflake Sword (Part 1)
1964-07-15
The Snowflake Sword (Part 1)
Overview: The Blood Pool Map re-emerges in Jiang-hu, and all good and evil sects hunt for Fang Zhaonan, who is said to carry it. For his part, he simply hopes to trade it to the herbalist Lu Xuan for medicine he needs to free his sister, but fate has other plans.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1964-07-15
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The King Fa Fairy
1970-03-27
The King Fa Fairy
Overview: A Chinese fantasy drama
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1970-03-27
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Wong Fei-Hung and the Lantern Festival Disturbance
1956-02-28
Wong Fei-Hung and the Lantern Festival Disturbance
Overview: Wong Fei-Hung and the Lantern Festival Disturbance is a 1956 Wong Fei-Hung movie directed by Wu Pang.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1956-02-28
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