Cherie Chung Cho-Hung
Also Known As: Cherie Chung Cho-Hung, 鍾楚紅, 종초홍, 钟楚红, Chuhong Zhong, Cherie Chung, Chung Cho-Hung
Biography: Cherie Chung Cho-Hung (born February 16, 1960) is a retired Hong Kong actress arguably considered the queen of '80s Hong Hong cinema. After being the third runner-up in the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant, she was scouted by producer director Johnnie To and cast in his film The Enigmatic Case (1980). Her beauty and charm quickly led to her becoming one of the top actresses in Hong Kong at the time and earned her the nickname "the Marilyn Monroe of Hong Kong". She retired in 1991 to focus on her marriage and family, and has been very active in promoting environmental protection since then.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hong Kong, China
Adult: No
Birthday: February 16, 1960
Age: 65 years old
Gender: Female
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Winners & Sinners
Overview: Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. While trying to mind their own business (and run their 5-Star Cleaning Service), they are caught up in a war between rival Triad gangs fighting for control of the counterfeit currency market.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-07-07
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Sayonara Goodbye
Overview: Sayonara Goodbye is a China-Japan Co-Production starring Cherie Chung.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Cherie
Overview: The beautiful Cherie Chung plays the title character, an exercise teacher who is wooed by a rich, older businessman and a young photographer. You watch Cherie as she bounces between these two, not really liking the businessman, while the photographer is more in love with her image as his model than as a true love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-12-22
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An Autumn's Tale
Overview: Hong Kong native Lee Kay moves to NYC's Chinatown while attending college. When she learns that her boyfriend's cheating, her cousin comforts her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-07-16
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Descendant of the Sun
Overview: Celebrated director Chu Yuan helms "Descendant Of The Sun", a Superman meets Hercules a la old style martial art film. Derek Yee is a magic solar baby sent Earthbound by a benevolent god, raised by an old carpenter, has martial art superpowers and "green kryptonite" loses them during solar eclipses. That's when the evil baby counterpart shows up. Demon-paced martial arts action by Jackie Chan's kung-fu classmates Yuan Pin and Yuen Hua compliments Toho Studio style special optical effects.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1983-12-16
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Peking Opera Blues
Overview: In 1913 Beijing, three fierce women—disguised rebel Tsao Wan, jewel-seeking Sheung Hung, and opera heiress Pat Neil—embark on a daring quest filled with intrigue and betrayal, challenging societal norms amidst political turmoil and the vibrant world of Peking Opera.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-09-06
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Once a Thief
Overview: Three orphans grow up to become art thieves under the tutelage of a crime boss. Romance complicates matters when the trio are double-crossed.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-02-02
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The Dead and the Deadly
Overview: Wah Li, known as Fat Boy to his friends, lives with his great-uncle the priest (Uncle). Together with his oddball friends Lai Li and Momo, Wah Li helps Uncle to run the local funeral services. When the body Ma Lun Chio is brought back to the village by a new wife and her "brother", Wai Li is suspicious. He sets out to find out how his friend died, but things are not what they seem.
Genres: Comedy Horror Fantasy Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-12-22
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Eclipse
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Heaven Can Help
Overview: Mak is an optimist. He is driven to despair after a series of depressing events and got himself into a car accident. As he passed out, his spirit went to hell where the devils told him that he will die after the deaths of the Millionaire Wong, Ms Pao and Mr. Shek. At the same, a big bag is thrown at him from a passing car. In it is the dead body of Millionaire Wong. Mak turns to Shek's sister for help...
Genres: Comedy Horror Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-05-05
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The Eighth Happiness
Overview: Three oddball brothers go looking for love but unfortunately, their out-there personalities get in the way!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-02-11
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The Postman Strikes Back
Overview: Four heroes embark on a secret mission for Dr Sun Yat Sen's Nationalist Guard. Relentlessly pursued by the warriors of notorious Warlord Yue Sai Hoi, they have seven days to reach the Lo Yang Pass with their secret cargo.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-06-04
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Sunset in Paris
Overview: The story of "Sunset Paris" tells that Leslie Cheung, who plays Leslie, and Maggie Cheung, who plays Maggie, are a couple. Leslie gets an opportunity to study at the University of Paris, so he leaves Hong Kong to go abroad to pursue his ideals, but has to separate from his girlfriend Maggie for a short time. While living in Paris, Leslie meets a painter, Cherie, played by Cherie Chung, and develops a relationship with her. Things get complicated when Maggie comes to Paris on a visit and realizes that things are not the same...
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1989-06-14
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The Enigmatic Case
Overview: An imprisoned swordsman is accused of killing three men. He probably would have already been executed for his crimes but is kept alive because he knows the whereabouts of hidden gold.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1980-06-11
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Bet on Fire
Overview: Cherie Chung and Cheung Man are two young women forced into a life of prostitution. Mostly, it's a sensitive melodrama about loyality and female bonding.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-06-04
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Happy Din Don
Overview: Michael is a guitarist in a night club, but his indulgence in gambling costs him his job. He is kicked out of the band. Wandering in an alley, he accidentally overhears a gang of drug dealers plotting. He is caught as he tries to get away. Michael seeks the help of his roommate, Roger who is the manager of a girls band preparing to go on a performing tour to Thailand. Roger takes Michael as a band member so that he can get away. While in Thailand, Michael falls in love with the leading female singer of the band. He tries all sorts of ways to gain her attention and love, while keeping one jump ahead of pursuing gangsters...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-03-21
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Last Romance
Overview: Best friends So-so and Nancy fall in love with the same handsome Japanese boy, who cannot fulfill both girls' destinies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-12-08
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Double Fixation
Overview: A femme fatale and a photographer embark on a romantic adventure surrounding a mysterious marble.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-09-18
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The Story of Woo Viet
Overview: Wu Viet is a Vietnamese refugee who wants to leave his country behind and start over in the United States. First, he must make his way to Hong Kong, but as he passes through Thailand, he meets a beautiful woman who travels with him. Wu and his new love end up in a refugee camp in Thailand, where they discover many of their countrymen are disappearing under mysterious circumstances. As Wu tries to learn the truth about what's happening, he discovers his life is in danger, and he must flee to the Philippines for safety.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1981-04-23
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Zodiac Killers
Overview: Hong Kong student Ben Lee becomes friends with his mainland Chinese classmate Chang Chih while studying abroad in Japan. Ben is unmotivated to study and only cares about money and on the other hand, whenever Chih encounters a Chinese person, he would ask whereabouts of his childhood sweetheart. Ming is also from Hong Kong and in order to elevate his social status, he becomes involved with a bar hostess and owner Yuriko, hoping to become Yakuza leader Yamada Ishikawa's brother in-law.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-07-20
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Women
Overview: Liang Pao-erh joins the carefree Spinsters' Club when she discovers her husband is having an affair. Despite the seemingly happy front that her sisters put on, beneath it all, each of them secretly yearns for a man in her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-06-12
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One Husband Too Many
Overview: Theater enthusiast Sun (Anthony Chan) is so passionate about drama that he sells his home to stage Romeo and Juliet. The plays turns out to be a complete failure however - and is the last straw for his wife (Anita Mui), who quietly leaves him. Marriage isn't working out too well for his friend Wa (Kenny Bee) either: Fed up with a husband who spends too much time at work and not enough at home, Wa's wife (Pat Ha) suddenly leaves. Things finally look up for Sun when he produces a popular play starring rich girl Hung (Cherie Chung) and the two begin dating. But it turns out Wa also has his eyes on Hung...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-03-31
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Maybe It's Love
Overview: A thrilling “whodunit” that weaves in and out of the lives of the residents of a small village. Sex and subterfuge bubble to the surface when the young coquettish Mrs. Wang disappears.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-03-09
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Prince Charming
Overview: Chen Li is the son of an enormously wealthy Hong Kong businessman and is vacationing in Hawaii, experiencing typical girl problems. His lothario friend Lolanto flies in from Hong Kong and is determined to find Chen Li a girl within a few days. After a series of hijinks, Chen Li and Lolanto are back in Hong Kong and investigating high-level embezzling in Chen's father's corporation. It also turns out that Kitty and May are employed there as well, with Kitty being the secretary of the supposed embezzler. Because Chen has been notoriously inconspicuous and no one knows what he looks like, he is able to assume to role of a limousine driver for Lolanto, who takes on the persona of Chen Li himself. While tracking down the corruption, Lolanto and Chen also are trying to win the hearts of the two women, but are they looking for true love or only money?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-04-18
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Hong Kong Playboys
Overview: Fu Sheng plays Sheng, a playboy who has all the latest cars and technology along with all the tricks for courting the ladies. Sheng’s mom (Lee Heung Kam) along with her personal nurse, Mei (Cherie Chung), arrive in Hong Kong with the intentions of getting Sheng to marry a woman of her liking. While searching for Ms. Right, Sheng is challenged by a couple of lady killers, Lolento (Natalis Chan) and Valentine (Hsieh Hsien) in his quest to get girls. Eventually, little does Sheng know that the girl he happens to love is near him everyday at home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-06-18
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Golden Swallow
Overview: A poor scholar named Lo Chih-Chiu, played by Anthony Wong Yiu-Ming, rescues a swallow from three mischievous boys, and frees the bird afterward. The bird then magically takes the form of a beautiful lady named Hsiao-Hseuh, played by Cherie Chung, who falls in love with the scholar because he had saved her life. She returns the deed by rescuing him from a ruthless band of warlords. She and her sister, Hsiao-Shang, are both originally swallows, but can change into human forms due to witchcraft and wizardry. Hsiao-Hseuh later confronts Chih-Chiu, and later reveals she is a servant of an evil witch queen, who feeds on human blood. When the witch discovers their friendship and bond, she was on the verge of destroying him, but Hsiao-Hseuh pleads for his life in exchange for their separation. After being back in the custody of the witch queen, Hsiao-Hseuh sneaks out and reunites with Chih-Chiu, but posing as a different person to hide her identity.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Action Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-12-16
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The Hidden Power of the Dragon Sabre
Overview: The story concerns the efforts of the emperor to obtain the Dragon Sabre and it's companion magic sword so the "martial world" will be forced to respect him. He enlists a bad guy who plots a massacre of the Mongolians to blamed on the "Ming cult" so that the Mongolian hero played by Ti Lung will attack and steal the sabre from the cult and then give it to the bad guy who has in the meantime stolen a powerful magic sutra from Budhhist nuns, kidnapped a Mongolian Princess and is trying to become a Yin/Yang fighter which looks like ... wait, none of this makes much sense, but that's the film. Derek Yee plays the hero of the Ming cult who is trying to find out who is framing the cult for the massacre.
Genres: Action Drama Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1984-06-19
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My Darling Genie
Overview: Out of the Shaw Brothers vaults comes My Darling Genie, an amiable early-eighties comedy starring the enchanting Cherie Chung. Derek Yee is Cheng, a brusque construction worker who discovers a magical umbrella on a routine dig. When the umbrella is opened and sprinkled with water, a 200 year-old genie arrives to grant the owner's wishes. As if that weren't enough, this genie happens to look like Cherie Chung! Cheng has been given a virtual ticket to Heaven, but he's more annoyed than grateful, and uses the Genie to perform mostly menial tasks.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-05-11
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The Yuppie Fantasia
Overview: Marital ups and downs and extramarital flings provide the background to this uproarious tale of life in an advertising agency. Yuppie ad-man Leung Foon separates from his similarly career-focused wife Ann, tries to get back together with his former girlfriend, and flirts with his woman boss, before questioning whether he was better off where he started.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-05-20
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Goodbye Darling
Overview: Tai (Raymond Wong), a loving and caring husband and Josephine (Cherrie Chung), his sweet and darling wife, are a young, merry couple. Tai has a close lawyer friend, funny but kind-hearted Choi Sum (John Sum) who often offers his help whenever Tai needs it. Tai works in a De Luxe hotel's top management. He brings his wife to the hotel's annual ball in which all his colleagues are fascinated by the beauty of Josephine. Among the colleagues, there is a notorious seducer who is execptionally keen in seducing the wives of his friends. Tai, with the help of Choi Sum, makes every effort to protect his wife. They bring themselves into a series of hilarious and comic situations. Due to a complicated misunderstanding, Tai learns that he has got an incurabl cancer. He worries about his wife and plans for her future happiness. Joe Yeung (Mark Cheng), a nice and smart guy has proved to be an ideal potential husband for Josephine. Tai tries his best to match Joe and his wife...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1987-10-22
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Banana Cop
Overview: Two owners of a gambling club in London’s Chinatown are killed by an unknown killer. Edward (Lam), a policeman of heads the investigation. He arrives in Hong Kong to enlist the help of a prison convict, FM (Teddy Robin), who is a former friend of the two dead men.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-04-19
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Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Overview: Hong Kong, Hong Kong is the story of a young woman, Man Si Sun, who has arrived illegally in Hong Kong from mainland China, and Kong Yuen Sang, a young man who is a gambler and wannabe boxing champion.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-07-21
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Spiritual Love
Overview: This is a story about a triad enforcer who is a loser in love. He brings home a desk, which causes his place to be possessed by a ghost, played by the beautiful Cherie Chung. He saves her from a fate brought on by her past and they fall in love. The question is, can they stay in love.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-10-15
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Stars & Roses
Overview: Hong Kong photo-journalist Lau and Vietnamese translator Yuen Hung become friends when Lau is arrested for a traffic accident. Yuen wants Lau to find out the whereabouts of her brother. Lau is later thrown into prison again due to being mistakenly as a demonstrator and sentenced to three years of hard labor. With help of Yuen, Lau and Yuen's brother escape to China but Yuen's brother is killed on the way. Lau flees to freedom. Yuen cannot go to China and Lau has to let her go...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-12-21
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Moon, Star and Sun
Overview: A story combined by the lives of three night clubs girls in. Porsche is a once-famous aging night club girl; May is forced to work in a night club in order to pay her step-father's debt; and GiGi needs a huge amount of money in order to help her fiancé. They all know Night Club Girl is not a good reputation job, and they expect to start over again someday. However, it seems they cannot break the "curse" that "Bad girls never have fortune"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-07-08
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Happy Together
Overview: Kenny Bee works for a large Hong Kong corporation who's business practice is not exactly honorable. But he is being promoted to upper management with all its perks. Cherie Chung is a woman reporter working for Hong Kong TV station who is trying to expose the corrupt practice of the company Kenny works at. By chance they get together by being shoved into the same taxi while they're totally drunk. They again meet while grocery shopping, but they get robbed and Kenny can't go back to his home without money for the ferry. This starts a relationship between them, and from conscience, Kenny decides to expose the corruption within his company. Vivian Chow plays a secondary role as semi love triangle between Cherie and Kenny.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-08-19
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Fatal Love
Overview: Leslie Cheung picks up a girl while driving his car in a remote location and offers her a ride back home.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-08-11
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Wild Search
Overview: While conducting a raid of an illegal arms deal, detective Mew Mew discovers the body of a dead woman and her daughter who witnessed the murder. Believing that the girl may be in danger, Mew Mew seeks out her aunt Cher, and the three develop a bond, but Cher's ex-husband and a vengeful gunrunner soon show up to disrupt their short-lived peace.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-06-03
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Walk on Fire
Overview: Sergeant Kwok Wah (Andy Lau) and Ho Lung (Ray Lui) are both colleagues and best friends. Ho Lung has developed hatred with a gang leader Dick. Dick sends Hung (Cherie Chung) as a bait to kill Ho Lung. Swore to take revenge for his best friend, Kwok Wah works with Ho Lung's partner Mother (Kent Cheng) to unveil the enemy. Kwok Wah saves Hung during an operation and Hung starts to like Kwok Wah. Kwok Wah and Mother follow their plan to capture Dick, but it ends in vain and both of them get into a gunfight. Hung is killed for saving Kwok Wah during the gunfight. Though heart-broken, Kwok Wah and Mother go on fighting the villain...
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-06-24
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Chaos By Design
Overview: Controversial director Angela Chan explores the "La Cage Aux Folles" demi-monde that thrives in today's Hong Kong, but which has never before been portrayed in a major movie. Alex To plays a handsome fashion designer trapped in a tangle of ambiguous relationships that becomes even more complex when he falls for a beautiful D.J. (Cecilia Yip) who, with the help of her best friend (Cherie Chung), is trying to get out of an arranged marriage. This film looks and sounds like a comedy, but has some serious comments about a veiled segment of Hong Kong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-04-29
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Couples, Couples, Couples
Overview: Couples, Couples, Couples is a largely broad comedy about the vagaries of romance and babymaking.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-05-20
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Mr. Mistress
Overview: Ivan is a sales manager and enjoying couple life with his charming, sexy wife called Mimi, but the appearance of Alice crushes their relationship. Alice is the Vise President of one of the biggest Aerobics Equipment company, looking for appointed agent in Hong Kong. Coincidently, Alice's manager Peter is Ivan's old schoolmate, he promises Ivan to put him into the group. In order to chase Mimi, Peter sets up tricks to ruin her relationship with Ivan. He makes chance for Ivan and Alice to meet, and they fall in love gradually. Mimi discovered their relationship and decided to leave Hong Kong. A courtship cannot exists three people, Alice chooses to explain to Mimi that all things are set up by Peter, then she leaves and Mimi and Ivan back to their perfect couple life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-05-17
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Carry on Hotel
Overview: Mr. Lau (Kent Cheng) is a seedy detective who sets up cameras to record an illicit affair. Things go awry however when a hideously glam rock band checks into Lau’s room, and gets a free show via his hook-up. Meanwhile, silly thief Donald Ng (Richard Ng) uses ninjitsu to fool the locals while a womanizing tour guide (Eric Tsang) gets stalked by not one, but two pretty women (Cherie Chung and Pat Ha). And Buddy Cheung (Jacky Cheung) is a lowly mechanic at the hotel who lusts after gorgeous executive Sunflower (Joey Wong). But his tomboy co-worker Boy George (Cecilia Yip) secretly pines for him.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-07-02
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The Good, The Bad & The Beauty
Overview: Director-actor Frankie Chan does multiple duty in the action comedy vehicle The Good, The Bad & The Beauty. Frankie Chan is Inspector Hor Sun Chun, a tough cop investigating a smuggling operation in which airline stewardess Ko Sau Ping (sultry Cherie Chung) is possibly involved. Realizing that she may be in danger, Sau Ping feigns amnesia, and uses Sun Chun's smitten partner Tang Tat Kit (Kent Cheng) as a possible smokescreen. Meanwhile there's action, and plenty of it! A seasoned director, actor, composer and action director, Frankie Chan uses his myriad talents to the nth degree as he combines gunplay, stunts, and laugh-a-minute hijinks in true Hong Kong Cinema action-comedy style!
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1987-10-21
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Overview: This is an extremely rare example of science fiction, Hong Kong style, but, fittingly, it's unlike any sci-fi flick you've ever seen. Alien abductions, suicide pacts, superstardom, and the reality of science fiction itself is spotlighted in this bright, crazy, truly out of this world epic -- one of the more unusual movies in the Hong Kong cinema of the early 1980s. And if you know 80's Hong Kong cinema at all, you know that's really saying something!
Genres: Music Comedy Science Fiction Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-02-12
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The Flying Mr. B
Overview: A professor accidentally creates a pill that essentially makes him Superman. Soon everybody, from a soccer team to a gang boss, wants those pills and the clever complications compound until it's up to a fast-thinking "Super Girl" to save the day.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-03-28
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18 Times
Overview: Gigi is a young woman with no shortage of potential husbands to choose from. The big problem: every single one of her husbands dies after becoming wealthy! As a result, Gigi is obscenely rich, but she can't seem to find a "Mr. Right" that won't die! Numbers one through seventeen all get shuffled off the mortal coil, making Gigi promise to never love again. But when charming Jack Wong shows up, will Gigi risk love for the eighteenth time?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-11-03
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It Takes Two
Overview: It Takes Two is a 1982 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Karl Maka and starring Dean Shek and Richard Ng.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-07-15
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Fascinating Affairs
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-06-22
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Salt and Pepper
Overview: A humorous contemporary comedy about Chen, a miserly and scheming restaurant owner and his employee Zhong who compete to win a girl's attention.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1983-05-12
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The Spring Outside the Fence
Overview: The rebellious and free-spirited Li Lin and the introverted Wu Ai-hua are best friends who grow up together in the military dependents' village. However, they both fall in love with pilot He Kang, their mutual childhood friend. After He Kang is killed in a crash, the village only reminds the heartbroken girls of the tragedy. They escape to Taipei and work as hostess and accountant, earning a living from American soldiers on leave from Vietnam. The girls reunite with Michael, an American flight instructor, at the club. Michael ardently pursues Li Lin, but struggling to forget He Kang, Li Lin rejects Michael' s proposal. Having taken different paths, the two girls eventually return to their childhood village, reminiscing about the bonds of the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1985-08-10
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