Yang Fang
Also Known As: 楊帆, Yang Fan, Yang Feng, Sherman, Yang Kuang-Hsi
Biography: Yang Fang was born Yang Guangxi in Sichuan in 1943 and raised in Taiwan, where he graduated from the National Film & Theater College. He joined Shaw Brothers in 1966 and had his first major role in My Dream Boat, the movie that propelled him to stardom. Among his most famous films are When The Clouds Roll By, Torrent Of Desire, and Love Song Over The Sea. Upon the completion of his Shaw Brothers contract in 1970, he had returned to Taiwan to continue his acting career.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Neijiang，Sichuan Province，China
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1943
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 01, 2006
Popularity:
Known For:
Spring Blossoms
Overview: Spring Blossoms is a parable about the Chinese youth culture and what's important to the younger generation when it comes to romance. It starred a new wave of seventies, Shaw's beauties, Lily Li, Shu Pei-pei and Essie Lin-chia as single women looking for love. It's a triple-decker romantic bus ride on a road to nowhere speeding toward a low bridge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-04-18
Popularity:
Summer Heat
Overview: A gripping drama about a seductive woman with three men in her life: a rich husband ; a sexy playboy, and a sensitive intellectual. That two of her lovers are brothers further complicates the story.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-08-31
Popularity:
King Drummer
Overview: Ling Yun plays the replacement hired for a popular band whose egotistic drummer quit to join a rival group. When the new arrival becomes a hit, he earns the jealous wrath of the predecessor. Meanwhile, the young drummer's mother is fervently against his music career. With the gorgeous Lily Ho as the manageress of the band and some terrific drumming set pieces, the whole thing, needless to say, comes off with a bang.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-11-15
Popularity:
My Dream Boat
Overview: The film tells a complicated love story. Carmen with Ke, Xiang Yi and Jiyuan. They start as a friend, but somehow a love triangle occur, and the outcome is very tragic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-09-27
Popularity:
The Bride from Hell
Overview: Yunpeng and his servant stay at a country inn one dark evening to escape potential robbers and ghosts. But Yunpeng chances into something far more dangerous! He accidentally happens upon the comely Anu naked in bed, and to make up for his rudeness he has to marry her. Because of her beauty, the request is not too difficult to fulfill...until she is introduced to his aunts and uncles, who notice her ghastly green glow and deduce that she's a spirit from the netherworld. But there's something even darker about her appearance, and it may be revenge on his in-laws.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-03-24
Popularity:
Apartment for Ladies
Overview: Betty Ting Pei plays the lead, a Taiwanese singer searching in Hong Kong for her younger sister, who disappears after coming to HK to be discovered as a nightclub singer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-11-20
Popularity:
Love Song Over the Sea
Overview: Romantic musical comedy.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-08-30
Popularity:
The Younger Generation
Overview: The Younger Generation is an ultra-tragic tale about a young girl, played by Ivy Ling Po who gets married, has five kids, then she and her husband die forcing one child sold to prostitution to feed the other four. Chinese culture dictates that great respect is given to the elders and in The Younger Generation, it is an elder that is the hero, telling audiences that although sadness abounds, they can return home happy with their Confucius mindset.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-03-12
Popularity:
When the Clouds Roll by
Overview: Susu (Ching Li) is an emotionally troubled young woman still tortured by the loss of boyfriend in a plane crash. Things change when she meets the dashing Yifei (Yang Fang), a handsome intern who strives to heal Susu of her emotional scars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-11-22
Popularity:
Young Lovers
Overview:
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-05-29
Popularity:
Torrent of Desire
Overview: David (Qiao Zhuang) and Mona (Yu Qian) are a spoiled brother-and-sister duo who carelessly use the family fortune to while away their time. David's friend Hanming (Yang Fan) introduces him to the lovely Danfeng (Jenny Wu), and despite Hanming's quiet infatuation with her, David moves in quickly. David and Danfeng get married, but lasting bliss is not in the cards. Mona develops a serious case of jealousy against Danfeng for snatching her brother AND being the object of Hanming's affection. Her barbed tongue and feminine wiles prove powerful enough to sow seeds of discord among the quartet of friends and lovers. Can this wicked web of love, lust and jealousy end happily for anyone?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-11-06
Popularity:
The Orchid
Overview: Romantic drama starring Lily Ho as a tourist in Singapore.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-09-24
Popularity:
Our Neighbor
Overview: An orphaned girl in a poverty-stricken neighborhood is adopted by a kindly neighbor. He struggles to support her honestly, despite opportunities to participate in a neighbor’s scurrilous get-rich-quick schemes. Invoking the pain of Chinese exiles living in Taiwan, or missing relatives still in China, the touching film posits an in-between historical period during which it is crucial for displaced residents to maintain virtue as a bedrock of identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-11-08
Popularity: