Guan Shan
Also Known As: Kwan San, Kwan Shan, Kuan Shan, Guan Bo-Wei, 关伯威, 关铁骑, 關伯威
Biography: Kwan Shan (Chinese: 關山, April 20, 1933 – October 1, 2012) was a Hong Kong film actor. Kwan appeared as a romantic lead actor in Mandarin-language films created in Hong Kong, especially during the 1960s. His roles included several Shaw Brothers Studio productions.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
Adult: No
Birthday: April 20, 1933
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 01, 2012
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The Second Spring
Overview: Shaw Brothers drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-02-28
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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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The Doctor and the Prima Donna
Overview: Famous dancer and film actress Fong Nan (Mao Mei) desires both a career and a family after marrying an eminent doctor (Guan Shan), who, however, wants her to be a stay-at-home wife. They are on the brink of divorce when he finds out she secretly rehearses for her dance and movie…Taking inspirations from Hollywood musical films, the movie is beautifully directed and meticulously produced by Yuen Yang-an and his Sun Sun Film Enterprises. While most films at the time usually depict how grassroots people rise above adversity, this one tells the story of a famed actress who thrives for success and never gives up on her artistic ambition. This reflects that women's liberation and employment was a dominating theme in left-wing movies. The finale was shot in Eastman colour negative film, which was rare before mid-60s given the limited technical resources in Hong Kong film industry, and thus a valuable record in the city's cinematic history.
Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-11-17
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Hiroshima 28
Overview: Filmed on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Hiroshima 28 was the first all-Hong Kong crew to make a feature in Japan. Lung Kong anchors a bittersweet melodrama in the historical milieu in the months following the horrific events of August 6, 1945. Josephine Siao—a star whose career had become synonymous with the filmmaker’s work over the past decade—plays a young tour guide to a Hong Kong reporter researching the tragic effects of the atom bomb, their journey forming an odyssey through the city’s ruins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-04-11
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Chelsia My Love
Overview: For many years, Mr. Lee has been keeping a secret from his wife and two daughters that his elder daughter, Chelsia, is having some serious heart disease. Only his good friend, Dr. Fong, who made the diagnosis knows about it. Chelsia meets Ma, an overseas Chinese, at her secondary school graduation ball and gradually they fall in love with each other. Doctor Ma's son Chileung, who grows up with Lee's daughters, is fond of Chelsia while the younger daughter Chelwin loves him. However, neither of their affection is returned.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1976-07-28
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The Seven Coffins
Overview: Hsiao Tsui is the most beautiful girl in a prosperous prostitution house in a North China town. But every client of hers is chased and scared by ghosts. She is thus very poorly treated by the owner. House madame Chiao takes pity in Tsui and hides her in an abandoned inn. There are seven coffins in the inn, all results of unnatural deaths...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-04-10
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Sing High, Sing Low
Overview: A Shaw Brothers Musical Comedy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-06-27
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The Peeper, the Model and the Hypnotist
Overview: An anthology of tales from Hong Kong.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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Shantung Man in Hong Kong
Overview: When Shan Tung comes to Hong Kong for the first time, wanting to seek help from his countryman Lo San, however, Lo San refuses to give him a hand. Shan Tung has no choice but to sell amphetamine in the street for living. A honest guy like him with pronunciation problem often causes embarrassing situations. He is laughed at by others because of his queer ideas. In later days, he makes a lot of friends because he never hesitate to do what is righteous. Therefore he has a better life than before.....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-11-13
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The Big Family
Overview: Shek Kin plays the head of a large crime family. His sons get into all sorts of trouble with the other triad bosses. They both escalate the situation with drugs and murder and create a bitter feud with a rival family.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-02-19
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Her Sister's Keeper
Overview: To put her younger sister Huilan (Margaret Tu Chuan) through college, Huilian (Grace Ting Ning) became a taxi dancer and is despised by Huilan. Now married to a good husband (Guan Shan), the lonely Huilan falls for a man after her money. To protect her younger sister, Huilian puts herself at risk. Grace Ting Ning plays a sad role, as the noble sister who keeps her purity in a cesspool.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-05-18
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The Little Flowers in Tears
Overview: Wang Yan-ru is a very popular nightclub singer, she also teaches at the orphanage where she is brought up. She has always hoped that talents in the orphanage could form their own chorus and eventually stand on their own feet. Chang Chi-cheng is in Taiwan with a tour group from Malaysia. Much to his amazement, he finds out the dual identity of Yan-ru, both as a teacher and a singer. He quickly falls in love with her. He too is very fond of the children in the orphanage. He helps them to get what they want. Finally, he wins her affection. The affair is eventually brought to the attention of Chang's parents who are tipped off by his cousin Yu-ping. It so happens that Yu-ping is also in love with Chi-cheng...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-12-17
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Five Plus Five
Overview: Comedy about five married couples — a pair of parents and their four daughters and sons-in-law. Li Li Hua plays the eldest girl, opposite her real-life husband Yean Chuan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-01-26
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Gone with the Cloud
Overview: After the death of her parents, a young woman (Tang Bao Yun) is forced to work as a barmaid to support the education of her younger brother (Liu Chia Chang) and sister (Brigitte Lin)...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-02-06
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Dark Semester
Overview: Tu Cheng Kang (Guan Shan) teaches at the Ta Tap Middle School where pupils are delinquent. Tu’s class is the worst. As the headmaster and his fellow teachers are unable to cope with the unruly students, Tu is determined to win them over with kindness. He fails initially but does not despair. Kao Te Sheng (Chuen Yuen), nicknamed the One Eyed Dragon, is the chief troublemaker and leader. When Kao’s father, a coolie, faints at the wharf from over work, Tu takes him to the hospital and befriends him. The old man does not realize Tu is his son’s teacher and neither does Te Sheng realize that his teacher had saved his father, he continues to oppose Tu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-05-02
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The Obsessed
Overview: A newlywed couple’s relationship turns into a nightmare when they start to witness paranormal activity. A “spiritualist” is hired to investigate the strange phenomenon, and discovers a deep, dark secret within the marriage that’s bringing back a vengeful spirit. A South Korean remake released under the title Fury of Soul (영노) in 1976 of the 1975 Hong Kong movie The Possessed (靈魔). Many actors from the original movie also appear in the movie.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1976-11-05
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Secret Agent Chungking 001
Overview: Taiwanese spy thriller. Agent No 1, a super sleuth from Chungking, is sent to Nanjing to investigate the murder of a Japanese general, which leads to even more intrigue and skullduggery.
Genres: War Thriller Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-04-04
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Love Lock
Overview: Li Ching, Szu Wei and Tsung Hua in an eternal romantic triangle in which a girl has to choose between two men: a poor but upright lad who will marry her for love or a handsome suitor who is after her father's money.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-08-30
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Naked Comes the Huntress
Overview: Three travellers in the snowy wastes of Mongolia are hunting for valuable ginseng. As they battle the elements and the threat of starvation they come across a woman lying naked (but very much alive) in the snow surrounded by the wild minks. The treasure-hunters approach her and fall into a trap which will ultimately tear them apart and lead to murder and betrayal.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Behind the Storm
Overview: After an old rich man mysteriously falls to his death, a ghost returns to settle the score.
Genres: Drama Crime Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-03-05
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Woman Guerrillero with Two Guns
Overview: An exciting story of daring guerrilla warfare.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-02-19
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Pei Shih
Overview: Lung Kong collaborated with accomplished novelist Meng Jun to pen the script for this tale of heartbreak and doomed romance. The mounting despair of two solipsistic characters headed towards an emotionally shattering break-up is depicted through an elliptical series of flashbacks.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-03-29
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Thunderstorm Sword
Overview: A swordsman and swordswoman fight to protect Lady Liu who is trying to return to power. She's traveling in a coffin, the heroes can only hope they all aren't sent home in one.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-04-13
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The Lady Killer
Overview: A popular singer named Ah Hui is approached by gangsters who want him to perform at their nightclub. When Ah Hui rejects, they set him up by making him believe he murdered an innocent man; Of course, Ah Hui falls for it. With nowhere to turn and the fear of being sent to jail, Ah Hui accepts help from the gangsters. In return he has to sign an exclusive singing contract with them. Little does Ah Hui know, they have other sleazy plans in store for him.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1977-07-08
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The Mirror
Overview: Property company chairman Hu Zian was attracted to his secretary Sun Yuxia's beauty and competence. One day after dinner when Hu was escorting Sun home, he received from a child on the street a box containing a mirror and two silver coins engraved with dragons.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-08-11
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Police Story 2
Overview: The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-08-13
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A Better Tomorrow II
Overview: A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1987-12-17
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Heroic Trio 2: Executioners
Overview: The city has been devastated by a nuclear attack. An evil deformed villain controls the city's scarce water supply, exerting influence over a popular leader and a militarist colonel.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-09-30
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Lady in Black
Overview: Kin Seng (Leung Ka Fai) falls into big debts in the gambling house. He persuades his loving wife, May (Lin Ching Hsia), to embezzle a huge sum from working place to save him. They go to Thailand to seek help from Kin Seng's uncle but in vain. On their return Journey, May accidentally falls off the ferry and Kin Seng commits a deliberate murder. [...] What is going to happen next? -From the Fortune Star Legendary Collection DVD summary.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-01-11
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Broken Oath
Overview: Lotus never had a chance. Her mother seethed with anger at being unjustly imprisoned for turning her attemped rapist into a cyclops. Mother repeatedly asked her good friend and fellow prisoner, Pickpocket, to urge Lotus to take revenge for her as an adult. Lotus is given to a monastery and grows up there, but twenty years of peace and love make no impression on Lotus, who skips classes to practice pole and sword skills. Joining forces with Pickpocket and Big Rat, Lotus gets her chance at revenge.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-12-03
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Susanna
Overview: Nineteen-year old Li Ching scored a major success playing the title character, Susanna. Li's youthful exuberance is given free rein in a role that embraces rebellion, love, betrayal, tragedy, and ultimately, redemption.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-10-16
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Too Late for Love
Overview: Su Fen, a young and frail girl, looked forward to her wedding with her fiancé, Li Kuo-liang. The happy couple's bliss was cut short when war broke out. Kuo-liang was summoned to fight at the front lines. In his absence, Su Fen discovered she had tuberculosis.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-03-29
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The Blue and the Black
Overview: It's a powerful melodrama about a thwarted romance in 1930s Tientsin, China, during the Japanese occupation, and it stars Linda Lin Dai, one of the era's most popular stars. It was part of Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-06-29
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Rose, Be My Love
Overview: Not a love triangle but a love rectangle, Rose, Be My Love is a romantic drama that represents the high standards achieved by Shaw Brothers in both star power and technical polish. Set on the eve of Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong's invasion by the Japanese, the tragic romance takes on added poignancy in light of the future fate of leading lady Li Ting, the "Rose" of Rose, Be My Love who committed suicide a mere three months after the movie's release.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-09-28
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The Blue and the Black 2
Overview: Part two of the wartime love story
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-07-20
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Vermilion Door
Overview: The tragic love triangle of early 20th century Peking Opera star Chiu Hai-tang, his beautiful stage partner, and the warlord who forces himself between them, has been a favorite with Chinese audiences for decades.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-08-26
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The Obsessed
Overview: Hong Kong horror movie from 1975. Not to be confused the other movie with same name The Obsessed (영노). This one was produced in Hong Kong and released in March the 18th 1975.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-03-18
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Between Tears and Smiles
Overview: Fan Chia-soo is a kind-hearted student whose heart is captured by the sweet song of Shen Feng-hsien. However, he is not the only one who has eyes for Shen. The General's henchmen are also determined to present the songstress to their superior as a gift. Fan received help from an unexpected quarter to save the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-01-17
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Love Without End
Overview: Li Qingqing, an orphan, just arrives in Hong Kong and becomes a singer who sacrifices everything for her man.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-10-12
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The Adulteress
Overview: The noted actress Li Li-hua, star of more than sixty films since 1947, beautifully portrays the drugged, then disgraced wife of a peddler in the waning days of the Ching Dynasty. To make matters worse, she’s soon framed for her husband’s murder by her rapist - the son of the local magistrate! And even that isn’t the end of her woes. It’s best to have a box of tissues nearby as two expert directors ratchet up the emotional suspense in this consummate tearjerker.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-08-08
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A Cause to Kill
Overview: Ivy Ling Po, star of The Temple of the Red Lotus, tears up the screen as a jealous, murderous movie star, who, like seemingly all "film noir" vixens, wants to kill off her husband. While she's infuriated that the hitman she hires bungles the job, she's delighted that her husband is found guilty for the killer's "murder".
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-01-15
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Farewell, My Love
Overview: In Farewell, My Love Julie Yeh Feng plays a devoted wife and mother dying from an incurable illness. Her goal now is to find a new mother for her child and a new wife for her husband before she dies. Because of all her personal tragedies and on going hard life off camera, audiences associated with Julie, making her one of the most beloved actresses of her time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-11-14
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Unfinished Melody
Overview: A sensitive love triangle helmed by one of Shaw era's top directors, Chin Chien. A psychiatrist taking a room at an old friend's apartment soon discovers an insane woman living in a neighboring flat. As the doctor gradually heals the woman he also falls in love with her. The problem arises the friend's daughter confesses her love to him as well. Misunderstanding and mistaken passions soon lead to broken hearts and an emotional confrontation to the love triangle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-03-13
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The Shepherd Girl
Overview: Julie Yeh Feng stars as Hsiu Hsiu, a beautiful singing shepherdess who falls head over heels in love with a handsome boatman named Liu Ta Lung. Unfortunately, she can't afford to marry her new beau because her father has racked up numerous debts due to his uncontrollable gambling addiction. And to make matters even more complicated, there's a rival suitor who promises to pay off all of her no-good father's debts on the condition that he is given Hsiu Hsiu's hand in marriage. She initially declines his offer, but starts to get jealous when she sees Ta Lung getting a little too close for comfort with another woman. In retaliation, she starts flirting with her possible benefactor/husband-to-be. But what Hsiu Hsiu doesn't know is that her jealousy isn't based on any actual unfaithfulness, but on an unfortunate misunderstanding!
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-07-15
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The Brutal Boxer
Overview: A pair of highly skilled fighters and brothers looking for their missing uncle find unexpected help in their search from a crooked restaurant owner.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-10-04
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The Himalayan
Overview: The Tseng family is one of the most noble and respected clans in a small village in Tibet. The patriarch of the Tseng family wants to marry off his daughter Ching Lan into the Kao clan. However, the cunning and deceitful eldest brother Kao Chu only wants his younger sibling Kao I-Fan to marry Lan so he can gain access to the Tseng family's considerable wealth and power.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-02-20
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Wonder Seven
Overview: Wonder Seven, a secret group of well-trained government agents in China, has been assigned a case of a computer disc robbery. At first everything seems to go smooth, when a disastrous national conspiracy unravels. Seven gets caught and are forced to strike back. Meanwhile, the leader of Seven, Yip, develops a forbidden romance with a mysterious Japanese lady...
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-04-01
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Red and Black
Overview: In 1941, during the Japanese occupation of mainland China, a man is infected by a Japanese vampire soldier. He manages to climb in to an underground cavern where he impales himself with a wooden stake. 25 years later, after the Mao communist Revolution, he's inadvertently ressurected by his unsuspecting son and returns long enough to infect the people's leader.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Shaolin Plot
Overview: When a terrible kung fu master seeks various martial arts manuals from around China to make himself even more evil, he must come to blows with a Wu Tang student sent to stop him.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-04-06
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The Love Eterne
Overview: In this dreamy romance set in China during the fourth-century, a young woman convinces her parents to allow her to dress as a boy and attend university.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-04-03
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The Joy of Spring
Overview: Hong Kong musical directed by Lo Chen.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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Dream Lovers
Overview: Musician Song Yu and jewellery designer Yuet-heung, who barely know each other, meet in their dreams before finally uniting in person.
Genres: Drama Romance Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-04-25
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Swan Song
Overview: Hong Kong drama directed by Lo Chen.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-09-23
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The Dream of the Red Chamber
Overview: The Ching Dynasty novel The Dream of The Red Chamber is not only the most widely read, but also the most filmed book in Chinese history. The sprawling love story has proven a challenge to many filmmakers, but this version is acclaimed as the most successful. A sumptuous feature which took three years of planning and another for production, it was a hugely popular and critical hit which still stands out as a classic of both 18th century literature and 1960s moviemaking.
Genres: Drama History Romance Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1962-08-02
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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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The Coin
Overview: 1963 film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-03-25
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Millionaires' Express
Overview: What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards the small town of Hanshui, where escaping bank robbers, corrupt officials, and gamblers await? Well, let's just say the Titanic had a smoother maiden voyage.
Genres: Action Comedy Western
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-01-30
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The True Story of Ah Q
Overview: A casual laborer in a small town is subjected to daily defeats and brutalities but somehow manages to achieve a spiritual sense of triumph.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1958-11-19
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I dedicate my tenderness to you
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Coldest Winter in Peking
Overview: Story of a US-educated scientist who returned to China, and suffered during the years of the Cultural Revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-02-05
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Air Disaster
Overview: Hong Kong movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Gorgeous
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1985-04-27
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