Chan Lap-Ban
Also Known As: Lap Ban Chan, 陳立品, Chan Lap-Pun, Chan Lap-Bun, Chan Laap-Ban, Maria Chan, Chen Hui-Fang, Chen Li-Pin, 陈立品
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bangkok, Thailand
Birthday: January 01, 1911
Deathday: July 18, 1990
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Known For:
Three Love Affairs
Overview: Hong Kong was quickly becoming industrialised in the 1960s. The market was hungry for female labourers with a grasp of crafting skills. In addition to being wives and mothers, many women entered the labour market at that time. This ‘streamlined comedy' (as it was advertised) is called Three Love Affairs, but the main action is centred on the lovers played by Ting Ying and Cheung Yee. In order to make themselves more appealing, the factory girl pretends to be the daughter of a successful businessman, while the chauffeur pretends to be from a wealthy family. Their relationship is fraught with worry and anxiety, because they are confused about their own identities, and have not yet come to terms with themselves and their lives. With the support of the Manufacturers' Association, the film was shot on location at an actual factory, evidencing a prosperous period in Hong Kong's industrial history.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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My Mind, Your Body
Overview: shaw production
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-01-10
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Below the Lion Rock: Wild Child
Overview: A young boy explores Hong Kong after staying at with his sick Grandmother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Silk Factory Girl
Overview: The film commences with Ching (Tang Bik-wan) lamenting over her bleak life through singing: her mother died early and her stepmother (Lam Mui-mui) is wicked. The song precedes her appearance in the house while the cinematography helps to tug at the emotional heartstrings. Because of her debt-ridden father, Ching is forced by the stepmother to marry an old invalid. To prevent the marriage, Ching's lover Ho (Chan Kam-tong) raises money by agreeing to marry his own cousin (Fung Wong Nui). Ching's life is doomed, yet, when the stepmother absconds with the money. With all her hopes dashed to the ground, Ching decides to opt out of marriage for life. However, witnessing her 'self-combed' sworn sisters being bullied even to the point of committing suicide further devastates her. This tragic heroine comes to life through Tang's masterful performance both as a singer and an actor. The climatic and tear-jerking scene of Ching dying is definitely a highlight of the film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1955-01-07
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An Orphan's Tragedy
Overview: Rascal To Chai-yan brings a false charge of selling fake medicine against doctor Fan Tin-sang, who is sentented to a twenty-year imprisonment. Fan makes an escape after a decade, and secretly provides for the education of his son Fuk-kwan brought up by a poor blacksmith. Fuk-kwan grows up to be a doctor practising in the country. To again does harm to Fuk-kwan, only this time Fan intervenes. Both he and To die in the fight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1955-02-11
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An Old Kung Fu Master
Overview: A movie starring Simon Yuen Siu-Tin as a Kung Fu master.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1981-05-02
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Fong Tong Kan & Yin Ji Ma
Overview: Jing meets Hu Yanjuan, a woman who sells medicine, and gets mocked by her. Seeking revenge, he tricks her father and switches their medicine with rocks, causing them to be stopped from selling it. Yanjuan investigates and discovers Jing's deception. Jing pretends to ask her to teach him martial arts, and she uses this opportunity to teach him a lesson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1956-04-02
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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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The Great Devotion
Overview: Poor teacher Chan Chi-hong, his wife Lee Yuk-mei and their five children survive on his meagre pay. When he is laid off by two schools in a row, the family runs into difficulties. The children resort to begging on the streets to pay the mother's medical bills. Turning to writing, Chan's novel fails to find a publisher and, worse still, he comes down with tuberculosis. Dealt a further blow by the death of the youngest daughter and the pressures from the loan sharks, Chan contemplates killing himself and his family but changes his mind when he witnesses the sacrifices made by other parents for their children. He vows to be a dutiful father and tries his best to overcome their adversities. His novel is finally published and sells well. Through thick and thin, the family at last sees the light at the end of the tunnel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1960-04-08
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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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Phantom of the Jade Chamber
Overview: HK mystery film.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1962-10-17
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The Haunting Shadow
Overview: HK mystery film.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1962-10-03
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Bitter Fear
Overview: HK mystery drama film.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1966-11-03
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The Voyage of the Dead
Overview: HK historical drama.
Genres: History Drama Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1954-11-19
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Seven Women: Meg Lam
Overview: The sixth episode of Patrick Tam’s anthology series “Seven Women” (1976), which adapted from Pat Flower’s “The Tape Recorder”
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1976-11-04
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The Crazy Instructor
Overview: A bumbling martial arts teacher has the skills but lacks the confidence to use them. Run out of town by some ne'er-do-wells, he sets out on some comic adventures as he travels the countryside. Taking up some companions that are as bumbling as he is, the group seems to stumble into one misadventure after another. Will our hearty band eventually prove their worth with their skills and bring their enemies to justice?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-06-07
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The Tormented Beauty
Overview: Guerrilla member Ting Siu-yuen works as a playwright and Lee, the leader of an opera troupe. They conceal their identities in the troupe in order to gather military intelligence. Yuen gradually falls in love with the lead actress Mui Law-heung. Ting is unsettled to learn that County Chief Fong covets Mui. He sneaks into Fong's residence and is astounded by the sight of his old lover Pak Kuen, now Fong's wife. Fong colludes with the military chief in conducting vicious schemes. With Kuen's help, Yuen is able to get the intelligence. But as Heung is not an insider, she reports to the Governor about the illicit relationship between Yuen and Kuen. Kuen backs Yuen to eliminate the conspirators and bring about the union of Yuen and Heung.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1958-01-09
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Super Fool!
Overview: Kwong and Ming, two boys from rural China, sneak into Hong Kong to get quick rich. But they are instantly disillusioned and they get into messy situations. The superstar who looks exactly like Kwong has a nasty spill in a dangerous stunt and dies. Kwong is recruited to stand in. Money and all life's amenities become available to the pair. While Ming makes the best out of the situation by gambling and womanizing, Kwong realizes that his own amazement money is not everything.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1981-07-29
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This Man Is Dangerous
Overview: Cheng Tzu-hao and Kao Ying-wei, both wooing the same girl Ah Tzu, are transferred to the same Action Squad to help crack a number of robberies committed by a notorious robber/killer Ku Lung from Shantung. They inadvertently offend their immediate superior Beast King, and land themselves in a tight spot…
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-03-16
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The Winner Takes All
Overview: Directed by Sum Cheung.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-09-27
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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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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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The Dunce Attends a Birthday Party
Overview: Third Sister Tai marries Dunce Lau and her life has since been between laughter and tears. At the birthday party of Tai's father one year later, Lau's wit suddenly comes back to him. Lau turns the occasion into a stage for displaying his talents and makes fun of his two brothers-in-law who used to despise him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1956-12-06
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Fractured Follies
Overview: Joe, a reckless cab driver, accidentally hits someone with his taxi. The person he hit is May, a sweet girl who walks with a limp due to one of her legs being longer than the other. Joe mistakenly thinks that he's paralyzed May for life; so in order to make it up to her, he works for her family, helping them run their grocery store. Soon, Joe falls in love with May, but she's slow to return his affection.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-07-06
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The Kid
Overview: A 10-year-old Bruce Lee stars as Kid Cheung, an orphan boy who sells comics in a little stall in the slums to survive. He and his two siblings are looked after by his Uncle Ho, a teacher. When the wealthy Hung Pak-ho surveys the slums to build a school for orphans, he is robbed by the vicious Blade Lee and his gang. Cheung helps Blade Lee escape and earns his friendship, but Uncle Ho convinces him to return the gold necklace Lee stole. Hung rewards Ho by hiring him as his private secretary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1950-05-31
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Carry on Pickpocket
Overview: Hung Tai-Kong aka Rice Pot and Chan Yin-Tung aka Chimney are two friends who work with their master Kam Ming and his daughter Ann as a team of pickpockets.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-03-31
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Family
Overview: "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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1953-01-07
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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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Hearth and Home
Overview: Famous actress, Sharla Cheung, was first made known to the audiences prior to her fim debut with this story of Lee Nan (Sharla Cheung), who came to Hong Kong to be reunited with her husband, but later she depraved.
Genres: TV Movie Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-05-31
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Below the Lion Rock: New Life
Overview: After being released from prison, repeat offender Lam Sai-Song received neither compassion from his family nor acceptance by friends and relatives. Nevertheless he refused to give up on himself...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-11-17
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Silent Romance
Overview: Dumb Boy, a deaf and dumb, yet a brilliant and undiscovered cartoonist whose current publication has been gradually ignored by his readers. Consequently, the drop of the sale has promptly provoked his superior urging him to adopt a new style. During the midst of a mental struggle for new subjects, Cactus, a night club hostess, walked into his life, he silently and secretly falls in love with her. However, nurturing with an instinctive inferiority complex that had been fostered by his shortcomings all his life. Dumb Boy had not been able to get together his courage to reveal his love to Cactus.....
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-04
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The Matchmaker
Overview: Mr Wong falls head over heels for Lan, a beautiful waitress. He bugs her constantly to ask for her hand, and even goes as far as lying about his wife being dead and secretly planing to marry his wife off to a friend. Lan decides to play a prank on him to teach him a lesson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1959-09-30
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Rose in Tears
Overview: The creative person torn between ideals and reality is one of Chor Yuen's favourite characters in his 1960s films. Another favourite subject is the rose, not only featured in the title of several films but is also the name of the production company he formed with his future wife, Nam Hung, who also stars in most of its productions. Rose in Tears is in fact the company's inaugural project. The story features two painters, one famous and the other struggling but both infatuated with the same delicate rose of a woman, negotiating their ways through art, commerce and love. With this heart-tugging story, Chor finds a vehicle for his baroque impulses, relishing in lavish images and over-the-top emotions.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1963-12-04
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Return of the Con Men
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Adventure of a Blind Kid
Overview: The blind Yip Man-chiu was abandoned at birth. Following the death of his foster parents, the boy is sold by his uncle Ah Sam to a blind Taoist priest, an abusive man. Running away from home, Yip is hit by a car and sent to a school for the blind by the social security workers. His talents impress the musician Siu Kwong and wins him a place in a music school for the blind. There he is joined by fellow students Lung Kwok-kei, a runaway child with an abusive stepmother, Chow Kuen, an abandoned child found on a train, and Cheung Kin-ching, an avid music lover sent to the school by her loving well-to-do father. The four children blossom into accomplished musicians under the tutelage of Siu and his wife and together with the less fortunate others, form an orchestra which earns a reputation for excellence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1967-12-13
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A Sword and Nine Rings, Part Two
Overview: Lee Kap-lan, whose parents are slaughtered by the underling of the Qing court, Yan Sheung-kong, is rescued from the carnage by Leopard-faced Magic Nun. Nun imparts martial artistry to Lee, who will kill the old enmity when she grows into womanhood. Yan and his half-brother Luk Sun are assigned to capture the survivor. Fong-ping comes under the attack of an assassin dispatched by Sun when Butterfly comes to his help. Recruited to the Yan den, Ying Tin-lung summons the knights-errant of the martial world to the court. Lee infiltrates the congregation and has her eyes fixed upon Sun and strikes him with the Soul-snatching Tai Chi Dart which has mistakenly wounded Fong-ping. Butterfly puts Lee into a drug-induced coma to obtain the antidote to treat Fong-ping. Ying seizes the chance to capture the women. Fong-ping sustains another injury to rescue the hostages. Nun arrives in time and seizes the Lee family heirloom. Lee avenges her parents' death.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1961-06-29
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The Golden Cat
Overview: Scholar Yuen Man-lung leads a double life as Vigilante Golden Cat. Yuen is separated from his lover Tso Oi-lan by her snobbish father who promises her to Tsui Tai-fei, son of the magistrate and incriminates him as the wanted burglar. Yuen sneaks out of prison and wreaks havoc in Golden Cat's name; the exasperated magistrate has to release him. Before leaving for the imperial exams with the runaway Oi-lan, Yuen stages one final heist for his friend's sake. The officials trail Golden Cat to his house where his nocturnal costume is retrieved. His father is arrested as the criminal. Drawing a plan up her sleeves, Oi-lan's sister Oi-ling whisks the elder out of the execution ground. Despite failing at the exams presided over by corrupt examiners, Yuen saves the emperor on his homecoming journey, and returns triumphant as a duke.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1961-07-05
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Wedding Nights
Overview: An adult comedy produced by the Shaw Brothers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-04-03
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Delinquent Teenagers
Overview: Drama movie
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-05-03
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The Island
Overview: John Shum leads an expedition to an supposedly deserted island only to find out that it's inhabited by a group of seriously demented characters,lead by Peter Chan Lung.This is a family that stays together,slays together and when the youngest one is refused in marriage to one of the young girls of the troupe they turn into savage maniacs.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-10-11
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The Devil and Her Magic Needles, Part Two
Overview: 'Ghostly Mother Blue Flower' Chiu Choi-wan has abducted a group of virgin boys and girls for the nourishment of her mind and soul. Alarmed by the abduction, Yiu But-fan, Kau Suet-mui and Hung Tin-bo make a night raid on the Hanshan Temple to release the children and set a torch to the bandit lair. Fuming over the arson, Chiu casts a spell on Kau, who kills the father of Chuk Yuk-heung in her cross-dressing persona as Yiu. Confronted by the angry Chuk clansmen at the Chuk Fortress, Yiu tries futilely to defend his innocence. Believing that Chiu has masterminded the framed murder, the fugitive infiltrates the White-bone Yinyang Cave where he finds himself attacked by Kau and Chiu. Demon-vanquishing Magic Monk, Chuk and Hung helped Yiu wrestle Chiu, who fled. Kau is nursed back to health by the monk and joins the fellowship in their quest to annihilate the demon. With all her venomous needles forfeited to the monk, Chiu gets her comeuppance, slain by Chuk's flying dagger.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1964-01-15
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The Devil and Her Magic Needles, Part One
Overview: Yiu But-fan marries on the day his father Yan-kit retires as a distinguished swordsman when Yan-kit's nemesis 'Ghostly Mother Blue Flower' Chiu Choi-wan and her foster son Lai Chun-wah gatecrash the party, striking dead the elder and But-fan's wife with the White-bone Soul-thrashing needles. Having pledged his alliance to the anguished son, Taoist Tranquil of Emei vows to eradicate the menace at Mid-Autumn Festival when his junior disciple Kau Suet-mui is challenged to a duel with Chiu. Kau's fellow disciples Hung Tin-bo and Chuk Yuk-heung follow the orders of their master to roam the martial world and tumble into a bandit lair. Extricated from danger by the Taoist, the duo join hands with the passer-by Yiu to thwart Lai's assault on Kau by sorcery, again aided by the Taoist. Yiu, Kau and her peers head back to the Kau Fortress where a martial contest is being held to select a prospective groom for the daughter. Kau overwhelms Lai in the ring but concedes defeat to Chiu.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1964-01-08
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The Villains
Overview: A poor orphan seeks help from her wealthy uncle and his sons.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-03-09
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The Wickedness in Poverty
Overview: Two people in debt to loan sharks cooperate with each other to clear their debt and cheat other people out of their money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-08-23
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Split of the Spirit
Overview: A ghost takes over a dancer's body in order to find those who killed her, and thus her revenge.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1987-05-14
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I Love Lolanto
Overview: Nat chan finds a mentally retarded Pat Ha, who has run away from home. Her father is a millionare and wants her to have brain surgery which has a 50% chance of death. Pat runs away because her father girlfriends secret lover threatens her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-08-31
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Hex
Overview: Constantly mistreated by her cruel husband, the frail Chan Sau-ying awaits certain death from tuberculosis. The new servant girl, Yi-wah takes pity on her mistress' plight and the pair proceed to drown him one evening. They dump his body in a near-by pond but Sau-ying believes that the man's bloated corpse has risen from the bog to seek vengeance.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1980-07-09
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Spirit of the Raped
Overview: A Shaw Brothers production featuring a supernatural tale of revenge. Liu Miao-Li suffers a string of terrible events. Once pushed to her limit, she decides to take back control of her existence, but chooses an unlikely path to vengeance.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-03-13
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Big Brother Cheng
Overview: Shaw Brothers' number one action hit of 1975, and deservedly so. The character of one-man kung-fu dynamo Big Brother Cheng and kung-fu superstar Chen Kuan-tai were made for each other. A Robin Hood-like restaurant manager who socks it to the thugs in order to make the mean streets of Hong Kong a little less mean, Big Brother Cheng made his first appearance in the extremely popular The Tea House, the success of which spawned this even more successful sequel.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-07-16
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Cream Soda & Milk
Overview: Ling's parents has been separated when she was small, however, she always miss her brother, Ding. Ling's boyfriend is a social worker. One day, he sees a youngster who looks like Ling's brother and loves drinking cream soda and milk. Nevertheless, Ding doesn't want to meet his sister..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1981-07-01
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Mr. Virgin
Overview: When a young man ignores a feng shui master’s warning and decides to marry before turning 30, a series of mishaps begins to curse his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-07-08
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Ghost Eyes
Overview: Ghost Eyes concerns a female hair stylist who is seduced by the vampiric ghost of a former optometrist. Using supernatural contact lenses to control her mind, he gradually drains her life essence as she is forced to find new victims until tries to make a stand and rid herself of this terror once and for all.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-11-09
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The Secret Book II
Overview: Sequel of "The Secret Book"
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1961-04-10
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How The Ghosts Trapped Master Cheung the Exorcist
Overview: Hong Kong comedy horror from 1953.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1953-07-03
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House of the Lute
Overview: A young man takes a job as a house servant for a rich old man with an attractive younger wife and trouble ensues.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1980-03-27
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Dirty Tiger, Crazy Frog
Overview: Multi-Hand Chick asks Crazy Frog for protection after stealing someone's wallet at the casino. Foolishly he accepts, and even more foolishly he follows her home and removes his Invincible Armor when she pretends to be willing to sleep with him. Of course she steals it, and when he tries to follow her, he's stopped by Dirty Tiger who is on a mission to bring Crazy Frog back to his wife. However, Dirty Tiger would really like to have that armor himself...
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-07-21
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The Haunted Pot
Overview: Ghost story from Hong Kong directed by Ng Wui.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1956-08-17
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Miss Magic
Overview: When a woman suspects that her actor-husband has been fooling around with an actress, she commits suicide. Afterwards, she becomes a vengeful ghost and haunts her former husband and his co-workers. As a result, the actors seek the help of stagehand Uncle Fok, who practices Taoist magic.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-06-23
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The Encounter Between the Prince of Thieves and the Lovelorn Monk
Overview: Drama from Hong Kong directed by Chu Kei.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1952-10-10
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Paying Nocturnal Mourning to White Lotus
Overview: Musical from Hong Kong directed by Chow Sze-Luk.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1952-08-22
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Perfect Match
Overview: Comedy from Hong Kong directed by Cho Kei.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1952-03-09
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The Tough Kung Fu Kid
Overview: Shao Chan has the worst luck. It's so bad, he ends up in jail by accident. He escapes after learning of a buried fortune. He hopes finding it will change his luck. However, he learns it's another scheme, this one could cost him his life.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-09-06
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羊城殲霸戰
Overview: How Wong Fei-Hung Set Fire to Dashatou
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1956-01-28
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The Ghosts and I
Overview: Comedy / fantasy involving ghosts.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-08-24
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The Criminals, Part 5: The Teenager's Nightmare
Overview: Shaw Brothers Exploitation Flick, 5th installment in "The Criminals" series.
Genres: Drama Crime Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1977-11-11
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Bewitched
Overview: While possessed by an evil spirit, a man murders his daughter. A police detective investigating the case also becomes possessed. A good monk helps fight the evil spirit.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1981-09-11
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Hex After Hex
Overview: Hell may have no fury like a woman scorned, but hell, literally, really has no wrath like a lusting ghost scorned! Muscular "Venom" Lo Mang discovers just that when the demon arranges to have his true love killed in order to possess her. Chaos, revenge, insanity, violence, tragedy, and even romance ensue. Director Kuei Chih-hung, already famous for Bamboo House of Dolls, Killer Snakes, Ghost Eyes, Corpse, Hex, and many other cult classics, shoots the works with this amazing horror love story.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-06-23
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Curse
Overview: A woman tries to attract her reincarnated lover from her previous life but eventually turns to the aid of an evil sorcerer who rules over a tribe of cannibal midgets.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-01-14
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Yellow Emanuelle
Overview: In this sexpolitation effort, a British pilot is assaulted by a gang of hoodlums and left on the street. He's eventually taken to a hospital, where he is nursed back to health by Dr. Emy Wong, a beautiful Asian physician. As the pilot is restored to full health, he becomes increasingly infatuated with Emy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-01-07
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Strange Tale at Midnight
Overview: Upon the death of an elderly master, a family has a dispute over the distribution of an inheritance / jewelry and are haunted by ghosts.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1955-05-20
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The Ghost Snatchers
Overview: Vengeful spirits of Japanese soldiers from World War II haunt a new high-rise office building in Hong Kong.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-09-30
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The Night the Spirit Returns
Overview: A ghost tale very strongly inspired by Hitchcock's Vertigo.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1962-07-25
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Hex vs. Witchcraft
Overview: A compulsive gambler weds a ghost who helps and hinders him in both horrid and hilarious ways.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1980-11-19
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Wong Fei-Hung's Fierce Battle
Overview: Wong Fei Hung must stands up for people who are unable to stand up for themselves.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1958-02-13
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School on Fire
Overview: A young schoolgirl, Yuen Fong becomes caught in a tragic stranglehold of triad activity after she testifies in court over a triad beating. When this news reaches the triad leader Brother Smart, Yuen Fong must pay him protection money for what she has done as events begin to escalate.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-08-20
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The Legend of Purple Hairpin
Overview: An adaptation of Tong Tik-sang's now-legendary Cantonese Opera piece, the film features divas Yam Kim-fai and Pak Suet-sin (left with Yam), who play the story's lead lovers, and Lan Chi Pak, the sinister official who tries to break up the relationship. Leung Sing-po plays the pair's friend as well as the mysterious 'man in yellow' who exposes plans to separate the couple.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1959-02-18
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Neighbours All
Overview: The film features a conflict between a young wife and her mother-in-law, depicting the lives of ordinary people and their profound problems.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1954-04-29
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Unforgettable Fantasy
Overview: Thanks to the help of his uncle's (Stanley Fung) girlfriend (Wong Wan Si), Robert (Frankie Chan) gets to work as a creative assistant in an advertising agency, where he falls for the beautiful manager Cleopatra (Joyce Ni). His uncle brings home an antique mirror not knowing that it hides a fox fairy. Robert inadvertently takes the mirror to the office and by chance the fox fairy is freed and possesses Cleopatra! Hopelessly bedazzled by her vixen charm, Robert is killed in a car accident while looking for the mirror thrown away by his uncle...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-08-26
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The Seventh Heaven
Overview: Chan Siu-hung is forced to become a prostitute, with the police following hot on her heels. Ching Chi-ko comes to her defence by claiming to be her husband. Chan is put up at Ching's roof hut named the 'Seventh Heaven' and the two gradually fall in love. Soon the war breaks out. Ching is drafted to do hard labour by the Japanese army. When the war is over, the crippled Ching returns and lies to Chan that he is already a married man, hoping to persvade Chan to marry someone else. Nonetheless, Chan's devotion overwhelms Ching.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1956-08-09
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The Reincarnation of Golden Lotus
Overview: A woman is cursed with beauty in China and becomes prey for men. Raped by the prefect of her ballet school and sent to work camp, she escapes to decadent Hong Kong by marrying a wealthy banker. She finds herself drawn to sadomasochistic affairs and in flashbacks discovers she is the reincarnation of a famous courtesan of ancient China.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-09-21
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The Red Panther
Overview: A cop suffering from "posterior ulcers" tries to catch a serial killer who seeks out victims with medical problems. One suspect is a man who makes pies from guts, which the cop inadvertantly eats. Eventually the hero cop finds himself tied to an operating table with the killer preparing to deal with his "posterior ulcers"!
Genres: Horror Thriller Crime Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-10-27
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The Bride from the Grave
Overview: Hong Kong ghost movie set during wartime. Not to be confused with the South Korean film of the same name from the previous year.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1964-04-08
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The Chair
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1959-10-14
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Look Out, Officer!
Overview: After police officer Piao is murdered, his soul cannot be at rest for his murder has been written off as a suicide. Therefore the heavens send him back to Earth as a spirit to find his 'savior' who will help him clear his name. Hsing, a rookie officer, is the savior and in return for finding Piao's killer, Piao must get him a girlfriend and a promotion.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-07-27
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Mummy Dearest
Overview: A psychologically unstable man accidentally kills a junkie, sparking a cat-and-mouse game with a clever inspector who befriends the man's mother to expose the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-07-04
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Nomad
Overview: Four carefree lovers in Hong Kong enjoy their youth while danger looms on the edges.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-11-25
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For Whom to Be Murdered
Overview: Two young men from Singapore make holiday in Hong Kong. One of them dreams about a murder. After witnessing a murder they become the targets of some gangsters. Can they outfight the thugs or will the murder dream become a reality?
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-11-02
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The Lost Generation
Overview: The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-09-21
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Quake De Love
Overview: The story happened in the quaint peninsula, Macao. Given the incident of Sichuan Earthquake, a long hidden love story has now been revealed. This has become the source of inner conflicts between grandpa and grandma. Shocks come in no time. Will the situation be resolved as warm and pacifying as the setting sun?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Monkey Business
Overview: Hong Kong comedy film.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-01-07
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36 Secrets of Courtship
Overview: Three lotharios vie to become principal of the Macho Man Training School, an extremely non-monastic institution dedicated to extremely non Shaolin-types of physical exertion, in this strange and erotic farce of the classic 36th Chamber Of Shaolin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-03-12
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Behind the Yellow Line
Overview: Married boss Paul falls for his employee named Monica after running into her in a subway station and it makes all things uneasy for her.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-10-03
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Hong Kong 73
Overview: As the Heng Seng Index reaches unprecedented heights, people from all walks of life go stock speculation crazy. A security guard and his landlord learn firsthand that money is ‘Easy Come, Easy Go’ as their fast fortune disappears overnight in a Macau casino. Meanwhile, greedy neighbours and infidel couples cheat each other and even blue-collar workmen dive into the frenzy. Inevitably, the market tumbles as do the people’s bittersweet lives. A hilarious but ironic tale featuring some of Shaw’s biggest stars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1974-04-24
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Infatuation
Overview: A Hong Kong romance.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-09-06
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Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
Overview: 18-year-old Ainu is kidnapped and sold to a brothel. Her good looks and wild personality make her very popular with the lustful clients, but also draw the lesbian attentions of brothel madam Chun Yi. Chun Yi teaches Ai nu the ways of lust and the ways of kung fu, and Ai nu becomes more and more similar to her captor. But rage at her treatment is still burning inside her.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-07-09
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The Bund
Overview: After losing everything, a young man rebuilds his life and finds love in 1920s Shanghai -- all while rising to power in an organized crime syndicate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-01-20
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Lam Ah Chun
Overview: Looking for a job, Ah-chun is sent off into the countryside to a seemingly haunted mansion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-06-29
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Lam Ah Chun Blunders Again
Overview: Sequel to the comedy movie Lam Ah Chun
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-08-02
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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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How Liang Hongyu's War Drum Caused the Jin Army to Retreat
Overview: The Song Dynasty is in danger after being invaded by Jin soldiers. The geisha Liang Hongyu encourages her lover Han Shizhong to join the army and fight against Jin Zhong's superior, Wei Liangchen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1956-08-16
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Buddha's Palm
Overview: When Long Jian-fei is tossed from a cliff by the new sweetheart of his meanspirited ex-girlfriend, the friendly Dameng dragon-dog saves the hapless man's life, and brings him to Flame Cloud Devil, the blind master of the Buddha's Palm technique.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-08-20
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Daughter & Father
Overview: Daughter & Father is a Hong Kong Drama starring Kent Cheng.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1981-07-09
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The Utmost Greatness
Overview: The Utmost Greatness is a Hong Kong Comedy starring Kent Cheng.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-03-08
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God of Gamblers
Overview: Ko Chun is an extremely talented and well known gambler. On the eve of a big confrontation with a famous Singaporean gambler, Ko walks into a trap set by Knife, an avid but a so-so gambler, meant for an Indian neighbour. Struck on the head, Ko suffers from amnesia and regresses to a child-like state. Knife takes care of Ko and begins to exploit Ko's gambling talents.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-12-14
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The Criminals, Part 3: Arson
Overview: Part 1 : 'Gun Snatchers' - Two criminals wanted for murder are turned in by one of their own. Part 2: 'Arson' - A Triad revenge plan to burn down a nightclub goes wrong and results in the deaths of five people.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1977-02-04
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The Wrongly Accused Lover
Overview: The sophistication of 1950s Hong Kong cinema is vividly illustrated in this film of limited budget and resources. Cantonese opera star Sun Ma Si-tsang plays a country boy who looks exactly like Sun Ma and is asked by a rich girl to impersonate the star, to help her stage an opera. The self-reflexive humour generated by the absurd situation not only provides delicious parody of celebrity culture but also comments subtly on class inequality and the perils of urbanisation. Sun Ma, who also appears as himself in a stage performance, is complemented beautifully by the brilliant comedian Yee Chau-shui as his sidekick and Hung Sin Nui, another opera superstar, as the spoiled and precocious rich girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1951-08-11
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Lady Bond
Overview: Connie Chan Po-chu's character's father was killed by the triads, leaving behind two daughters. The elder sister makes a living as a singer at a nightclub, and is sometimes threatened by triad members. The younger sister (Connie Chan Po-chu), who knows karate, becomes an assassin who punishes villains.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1966-08-01
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The Killing Flag (Part 1)
Overview: The Killing Flag (Part 1) is a 1963 Hong Kong martial arts film direcred by Fung Chi-Kong.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1963-05-08
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Below the Lion Rock: Old Plough
Overview: Small rice shop proprietor old Plough is still unmarried despite being in his fifties. When he marries a Thai bride for just ten thousand-odd dollars, he discovers that his wife was pregnant prior to coming to Hong Kong.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-11-03
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Save Your Water Supply
Overview: Pak coek gung's family rents the third floor of a tenement building. Due to the water shortage, Pak's porridge stall is difficult to operate. At that time, Ah Seng, the son of Pak, owed money to Cheung, the fat man downstairs. Cheung saw that the porridge stall could not operate, so he took away the license of the porridge stall. In order to get the license back, Pak's daughter Miuying had to work as a dancer to pay off the debt. Then Pak's neighbors helped the porridge stall reopen and even reported Cheung for wasting water.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1954-11-06
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Eight Immortals in the World of Men
Overview: Eight Immortals in the World of Men
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1951-05-13
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Tai-Pan
Overview: The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the terrain unfriendly, it has a large port that both the British government and various trading companies believe will be useful for the import of merchandise to be traded on mainland China, a highly lucrative market.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-07
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Eighteen Marriages of a Smart Girl
Overview: Eighteen Marriages of a Smart Girl
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1954-07-03
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Girl with the Diamond Slipper
Overview: Two hopeless housebreaker brothers, Ah Chi and Fatty, steal a diamond that had already been earmarked by a criminal gang. Through a series of unfortunate and - frankly - unlikely events, the diamond ends up in the shoe of a rising star TV actress Cheung Man Ju. They pursue her all over Hong Kong until finally tracking her down at a charity ball where she must leave by midnight, and accidentally loses a shoe in the process.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-07-25
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My Darling Gals
Overview: My Darling Gals aka Kung Fu Stars is a Hong Kong Action movie starring Sammo Hung
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-06-07
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Games Gamblers Play
Overview: Michael Hui stars as Wen, a convict who's always out to make a quick dollar through gambling. Being behind bars doesn't stop him from making something off of his gambling skills. Samuel Hui co-stars as Chieh,a novice gambler who gets into trouble one day when he tries to steal casino chips from a crooked card dealer Dean Shek). Whilst in jail, Chieh meets Wen and the latter agrees to become his mentor. Can Wen and Chieh make a fortune from their combined skills or will the duo wind up back in prison?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1974-10-16
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Flaming Brothers
Overview: Two blood brothers (Chow Yun Fat and Alan Tang), who have grown up on the streets of Macau, are bound together by a special code of honour. However, this bond ultimately leads them into brutal conflict when they struggle to leave the violent world they live in.
Genres: Action Crime Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-07-30
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