Hui Fan
Also Known As: 許芬, Hui Fun, Hsu Fan, 许芬, 樊晖
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Female
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Whampoa Blues
Overview: Chung and Kin grow up together at Rennie Mill Area with quite different characters. They were admitted into the Whampoa Military Training School at Taiwan. On the way to School, Kin and Chung met with other schoolmates in a train - Cheng, Lin and Wu. The mischievous kin got into trouble with other schoolmates and was punished on the first day of their arrival. The Training Officer, Lam was so strike with his training programme that everyone suffered. Under the mutual care and help, everyone got promoted. However, Cheng was advised not to take part in the field practice for his feebleness. Cheng insisted on trying. At the field practice, Wu, Chung, Kin and Cheng incidentally discovered an ammunition smuggling, this led them to fatal attack.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-10-06
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The Tigers
Overview: Cops find their careers and their lives in jeopardy when they spend a gangster's bribe money after releasing him from custody during a drug bust.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-07-02
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I Am Sorry
Overview: Carole and Mandy have just become neighbors in a luxury apartment complex. Mandy is a successful career woman, educated and independent. Carole is a kept woman, dreaming of the day when her businessman lover will divorce his wife to marry her. Through Mandy, Carole meets Edgar, a neurotic headwaiter. She breaks off her affair with the businessman, but Edgar is still masochistically involved with his old girlfriend Alice. Carole realizes that she still has a lot to learn about life. And nothing is going to stop her from learning it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-05-10
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Tears and Triumph
Overview: Sai Ming Jun (Anita Yuen) is a single mother who works as an office administrator. But when the company gets taken over, her road suddenly becomes an uphill one. The controlling family's son (Sean Lau Ching Wan) takes an immediate shine to her, and begins to woo her, but she resists. Things get worse when his half-brother (Frankie Lam) shows up. He happens to have a controlling interest in the company - and is the father of Ming Jun's child! Will Ming Jun be able to make it through this twisted maze of family politics and hidden agendas? And will she be able to find a true, honorable love?
Genres: Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-09-17
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Troublesome Night
Overview: Tales of the supernatural include encounters with ghosts and a man's communication with his dead wife.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1997-05-10
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It's a Wonderful Life
Overview: This 1994 Chinese New Year offering takes place over a period of time between one Christmas and Chinese New Year's eve. We are introduced to thirteen "Big Rich" people, learn of their particular dispositions and dilemmas, are witness to the former either getting changed or developed and see the latter (re)solved. Teresa Mo as the daughter just returned from studying in France; Leslie Cheung as the friend who came in tow; Tony Leung Kar Fai as the cartoonist son who can only speak normally when he is anxious; Anita Yuen as the woman who Tony Leung's character falls in love with; Carol "Do Do" Cheng as her flat-chested, disciplinary-cum-art teacher sister; Raymond Wong as the eldest son who cannot handle alcohol well; Petrina Fung Bo Bo as his estranged wife; Sean Lau as the marriage-minded cousin; and Kwan Tak Hing as the eccentric-but-definitely-not-senile grandfather.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-02-06
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I Will Wait for You!
Overview: A Hong Kong version of the 1978 American film Same Time, Next Year, I Will Wait For You stars the winning screen pair of Anita Yuen and Tony Leung Ka Fai. So Yau Shing (Tony Leung Ka Fai) is a married salesman who meets the spirited and lovely Cheung Wai Sum (Anita Yuen) two weeks before she's due to be married. But love can't be denied, no matter the circumstance. The two fall passionately into bed, but the reality of their lives won't allow for everlasting happiness. They agree to meet at the same place and at the same time every year to consummate their love...but can they - and their initially unaware spouses - handle the long term love affair?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-03-31
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Troublesome Night 2
Overview: The second chapter of the "Troublesome Night" series, this movie consists of three stories. The first story is about a girl that called a radio show for advice and comfort after her boyfriend died tragically. One of the station DJs unconsciously suggested that she should commit suicide if she wants to be reunited with her beau. Unfortunately, the girl takes the suggestion and the DJ becomes racked with guilt as the girl's ghost returns to haunt him. The second story is about a group of friends voyage to the sea. During the trip, they encountered mysterious events after they rescued an eerie woman from a boat wreckage. The third story is about another DJ that quit his job after the untimely deaths of his co-workers. To escape the pain, he becomes a street racer. But, his thrill rides were hindered when he stumbled upon a sinister spirit by the roadside
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1997-09-13
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Wind Beneath the Wings
Overview: Valerie Chow plays Ling, an attractive young lass studying to be a stewardess. Ling struggles to maintain her studies while being harried by her rich, lecherous classmates and a powerful old man who is hell-bent on having her marry his geeky son (Yu Rongguang). Of course, she eventually meets hunky flight steward Chan Kai-ming (Moses Chan Ho) and true love blooms in the friendly skies.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-06-24
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Kung Fu Master Is My Grandma!
Overview: A juvenile delinquent is sent to live with her grandmother after being paroled from the Girls' Penitentiary, only to find that the frail old woman could be her only hope for survival after getting mixed up in some seriously shady business. When Gucci (Isabel Chan) was tossed into lock-up, her father had already been dead for years. Gucci always thought that her mother would live forever, but upon getting out of prison she discovers that her mother, too, has passed away. Now Gucci's sole guardian is Wong Fei Hung (Helena Law), an old fashioned woman who isn't accustomed to change. At first aghast at the prospect of living with the crusty old woman, Gucci soon finds her life changed for the better thanks to grandma's wisdom and compassion. Later, when Gucci lands in trouble once again, grandma Wong Fei Hung leaps into action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-19
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The Magic Touch
Overview: Hui Wai Tak tells people's fortunes by feeling their bones. In reality though, he is a scam artist who gathers information on his clients in advance and uses it to milk them for money. When the wife of Commissioner David Ho of the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) comes to see him, he reveals that her husband is cheating on her. After facing the wrath of his wife, Ho decides to get revenge and sends junior assessor Yau Ho Kay to investigate Hui's income. During the investigation, Hui sustains a brain injury and slips into a coma. After he wakes up, he suddenly discovers that he has gained the real ability to see people's futures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-01-24
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The Umbrella Story
Overview: Determined to hold onto the past, the owner of a handmade-umbrella factory struggles to keep the business running.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-10-05
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One of the Lucky Ones
Overview: This is apparently a true story about Ching Man Fei, played by the very pretty Alice Lau, who has been blind since six months old and lives with her family in Canton, China. She is about 17 in the role, though Ms. Lau looks older. Ching wants to study, to learn, but her family does not really want that. Throughout the first part of this film, people say to and about her that she is a burden, that she had to do something evil in a past life etc. The family maid Wo becomes the one person who truly believes in her, taking her around the city and answering her questions about everything and eventually being instrumental in her being able to study. The scenes together of Ching and Wo are terrific, you feel the love and trust between them. There are people who pass by in Ching's life, a blind beggar street girl named Jade and a radio actor, who helps her, but their characters are underdeveloped, as if they really were blips in this person's life (perhaps they were).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-11-17
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Eat a Bowl of Tea
Overview: An American-Chinese man brings over his wife from China to America, but the challenges of making a living and adjusting to a new life, plus the attentions of a gambler threaten their marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-21
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F***/Off
Overview: Two absolute strangers both desperately struggling to find themselves make a hilariously funny partnership for money. Their plan - a bank robbery! Meet Ah Lee, a well-educated middle-class professional who is deep in debt because of a so-called friend. Then there's PaPa, an inexperienced and very outdated crook who is heartbroken by the recent break-up with his girlfriend. When PaPa decides to teach Ah Lee the art of robbing a bank, the two men discover more than just a thing or two about themselves!
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1998-02-28
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Chinese Box
Overview: The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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Remember M, Remember E
Overview: Chu (Mickey Chu Kin-Kwan) is a young fellow who's made it big in the business world, and makes headlines when he offers a large reward for a special $1000 bill with a personal inscription on it. The bill is a memento of his adolescent friendship with Ching (Athena Chu) and Ricky (Nicky Wu), who were once the best of friends. The three have since gone their separate ways, but Chu holds onto the bittersweet memories of their youth, when the three were inseparable, and saw only bright futures ahead of them. But misplaced emotions and the painful trials of youth split them apart, and now that Chu has finally made it big, he wants nothing more than to see the three reunited. Will the two respond to his impassioned plea to find them once again?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-05-19
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World Too
Overview: A large family decide that they must find a bigger place because their current flat is too cramped and triads are threatening to burn them down to pass a message on to somebody down the corridor. So after being mucked around by an agent selling a house in the country, they move into a dilapidated house. They then discover that it is going to be torn down and a huge shopping centre erected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-02-27
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World II
Overview: After losing their lottery winnings during the bank's closure, the Biu family's luck changes again as Bill's job promotion and daughters' education and work careers sent them and the entire family to lead their new lives in Canada, where new misadventures await.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-02-13
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Walk In
Overview: The "walk in" of the title refers to one person allowing another's soul to take possession of his body at the time of death.
Genres: Action Crime Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1997-04-19
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As Tears Go By
Overview: Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-06-09
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Love, Guns and Glass
Overview: Simon Yam, gang boss, turns himself in to the cops in order to spare his buddies. He spends ten long years in jail during which his no good wife gambles away all his money and raises his little daughter into an ungrateful slutty teen with an attitude. When he returns to his former life. He generously loans money to a high class gal, Cecilia Yip with financial troubles. His wife and daughter leave him. In despair over the mess he has made of his life, he proposes to Cecilia hoping to start over and go straight. In spite of their different class status, the two fall for each other and make a go of her failing factory.
Genres: Action Romance Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-09-02
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World
Overview: Bill, a TV news reporter, tries to make ends meet to support himself, his wife and three daughters in urban Hong Kong. In the mist of the misadventures of Bill and his family, their luck and lives ultimately change when Bill's wife suddenly wins the lottery.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-01-28
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