Lin Jing
Also Known As: 林靜 , Lin Ching, Lam Ching, Lam Jing , 林静
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Gender: Female
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Calendar Girl
Overview: Musician Sun Ping is estranged from his wife. Second daughter Yinzheng lives with Sun while eldest daughter Jinliu follows her mother. By coincidence, the sisters both enter the 'Calendar Girl' pageant but Jinliu deliberately lets her sister win the contest. Later, the sisters and Liu Bucheng perform in Sun's musical show. Though the show is a success, Yinzheng decides to quit in order to get married. Not wishing to disappoint their father, Jinliu devises a plan to make Yinzheng stay on, but the plan misfires. Yinzheng leaves angrily. She is at last brought back to the show due to Liu's mediation. The elders also reconcile as the sisters perform together on stage.
Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1959-03-04
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Love in the Bloom
Overview: An early Drama by the Shaw Brothers Film Company
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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The Rainbow
Overview: A young tutor, miss Chen, is sent to home school in a dysfunctional household head by a wealthy patriarch. She befriends his ambulatory disabled young daughter Ming Chu and becomes embroiled in her struggle to walk again. She also has problems and with her angst ridden artist brother, they search for their birth mother and their cruel spoiled half-brother. Meanwhile at home, the tutor's own fellow border house mates (a single mother Shen Chiu Meng and her nightclub singer son Chiang Hui) also possess guarded secrets that gradually resurface as Chen unwittingly becomes a catalyst for those in her life as they all converge towards the bridging of deep rooted familial gaps and resolving past estrangements.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-07-11
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Pink Tears
Overview: The socialite Pai Li-Lan's life is disrupted when she contracts tuberculosis.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-05-27
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Camille
Overview: A Mandarin adaption of Camille directed by Chang Shan-Kun and Evan Yang.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1955-06-03
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Miss "O"
Overview: A young woman suffering amnesia is separated from her husband and abducted by the owner of a brothel.
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Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-04-28
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The Magnificent Boxer
Overview: A top martial arts champion returns home after winning a contest only to find his family have been sucked into a feud with a Japanese bushido expert forcing the champ to take on the entire gang.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-07-01
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Bright Day
Overview: 1953 drama film written and directed by Doe Ching. It is one of the earliest known productions by the Shaw Brothers credited as Shaw and Sons. The film is also known as Tomorrow and To-Morrow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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The Serpent and the Lovers
Overview: It was shot in year 1956 but only released in year 1961 Hong Kong-Thailand-Japan co-production.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-10-18
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The Ghost
Overview: HK drama fantasy film.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-04-27
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A Shadow over the Chateau
Overview: Hong Kong crime drama thriller film.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-03-10
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A Ghost's Moaning
Overview: HK horror film.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-01-17
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Black Tulip
Overview: Black Tulip
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-11-30
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The Mortal Wind
Overview: Xu Ning meets secret agents Bai Ping and Mei Haozi and falls in love with Ping. Bai Ping becomes involved in a plot to steal confidential documents and faces subsequent danger...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1954-05-21
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Our Good Daughter
Overview: A Shaw and Sons production
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-08-17
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The Young Rebel
Overview: When Ti Lung and David Chiang left Shaw Brothers, they returned a year later after learning directing and defied their former studio heroics making films with social leanings. Directed by Ti, The Young Rebel is one such film. Fatherless as a child, Hsiang (Chiang) supports his mother. When gangsters kill his mother, he kills in revenge. Unlike his swordplay heroes, Hsiang admits guilt, expresses sorrow and is imprisoned
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-02-08
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Flyer & Magic Sword
Overview: Flyer & Magic Sword is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie starring Stanley Fung.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1971-06-23
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Sun, Moon and Star: Part 1
Overview: The film traces the relationships that develop between the protagonist Xu and the three women he meets, set against the backdrop of the Second World War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-12-08
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Tiger Over Wall
Overview: Based on actual events that took place in Shanghai 1919, Hwang Jang Lee portrays a ruthless Police Captain, who will stop at nothing in his quest for power even framing an innocent man and sending him mad. The Man's family can not tolerate the injustice and fight back with some of the meanest Kung Fu techniques ever witnessed, without doubt one of the best films from the two kings of Kung Fu: Hwang Jang Lee & Phillip Ko.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-05-25
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Lady with a Sword
Overview: After a trio of rogues murder her sister and leave her nephew for dead, a skilled swordswoman seeks revenge upon them and soon discovers she has a dismaying connection to the main culprit.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-10-14
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My Son
Overview: Jimmy Wang Yu gets to flex his dramatic muscles in this contemporary Lo Chen drama. Wang is a detective's son whose attempt to punish a swindler leaves him and his father in a thrilling final face-off.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-06-26
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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
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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
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Nobody's Child
Overview: Melodramatic film about a child prodigy.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-02-17
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The Magnificent Concubine
Overview: Perhaps the most notorious concubine in Chinese history, Yang Guifei set a pudgy standard of beauty in her days of glory during the Tang dynasty. The Emperor Minghuang was so besotted with the woman that when An Lushan stages his rebellion against the empire, the ruler takes Yang Guifei along with his imperial entourage in an escape to the mountainous area of modern-day Sichuan, and sanctuary of sorts. But the concubine had roused the jealousy of the court and unfortunately for her and to the great sorrow of the king, her brother and others among the king's retainers demanded she be strangled to death while they were still in the mountains. This is the story told in this interesting Taiwanese adaptation by director Li Han-hsiang (Li Hanxiang).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1962-05-31
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The Generation Gap
Overview: Ling Xi (David Chiang) is a rebellious youth whose liaison with underage girlfriend Cindy (Agnes Chan) is the spark which lights the eventual flame of his rebellion. Against the wishes of her parents, Ling Xi and Cindy move in together, and the two find a measure of bliss in their shared life. However, rumors circulate that Ling Xi is using Cindy as a means of financial support. After his brother Ling Zhao (Di Lung) returns Cindy to her parents, Ling Xi is branded an outcast. His anger only leads to spiraling bitterness, and finally employ in a triad gang which gives him the ability to release his frustration - which he does until the bitter end.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-04-20
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Her Secret Past
Overview: Hong Kong horror movie from 1952.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1952-12-16
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Na Cha the Great
Overview: Na Cha stars Fu Sheng as the prodigal son of a wealthy local official. When obnoxious sea dragons take on human form and cause trouble on the land, he realizes that the common people need help and takes up his mantle as their protector, fighting the dragons and their flunkies with the aid of supernatural powers.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-09-27
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The Prodigal Son
Overview: A rich man's son believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of an actor in a traveling theatre company, the son resolves to find a better teacher.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1981-11-10
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Secret of My Millionaire Sister
Overview: Choo died in South America and left a legacy of US Dollars two million to the younger daughter, Pei Fun, of his old friend Chang in Hongkong. The second beneficiary in the will, should Pei Fun die, was Nana, the young widow. Nana returned to Hongkong and conspired with her lover Johnny to wrest the fortune from the Chang family...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-08-12
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The Window
Overview: Lung Kong’s first color feature expands on thematic concerns supplanted in The Story of a Discharged Prisoner made one year before, situating issues of social reform within an impassioned romantic melodrama. The relationship between a career criminal and a blind girl (a stunning performance by Josephine Siao) form a portrait of marginalized life in a rapidly-modernizing Hong Kong. The profound chemistry between Patrick Tse and Josephine Siao onscreen served as the primary inspiration for the famed hit man-blind girl pairing in John Woo’s award-winning film The Killer (1989).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1968-10-04
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Maria
Overview: Romantic tragedy based on John Lo Mar's story "Love Under the Cross".
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-05-06
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The One-armed Magic Nun
Overview: 1969 Kung-fu film featuring Suet Nei in the lead role.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1969-11-19
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The Dream of the Red Chamber
Overview: Pao-yu is in love with his cousin, Lin Tai-yu, but his family has other marital plans for him that will leave both broken-hearted.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-10-26
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The Secret
Overview: A tangled murder mystery unfolds amid a complex love triangle. As conflicting witness accounts emerge, the truth about the victim and key suspects is revealed, leading investigators down a dark and twisty path where nothing is as it seems.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-10-31
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Sorrows of the Forbidden City
Overview: The film focused on a conflict between Empress Dowager Cixi, her son Guangxi (the nominal emperor) and his wife, Zhenfei.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1948-11-10
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Fist to Fist
Overview: A young police cadet graduates from the academy, and is sent to a small town run by gangsters - one of whom betrayed the hero's father and left him to die.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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Sun, Moon and Star: Part 2
Overview: Part 1 ended with Jianbai and Su Yanan among the students fleeing the invading Japanese. Part 2 follows the efforts of all four characters to participate in the war effort. Su Yanan joins the army and fights. Jianbai enlists to be near her. A-Lan becomes a nurse at a battlefront hospital and Qiuming entertains the troops. (Grace Chang, Cathay's leading musical star at the time, performs some rousing patriotic numbers in these scenes.) Jianbai is reunited with Su in the battlefield, but...
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-12-30
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Women of Desire
Overview: Shaw production
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-11-01
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The 14 Amazons
Overview: The Yang family, men and women, have served their country loyally for generations. During the war General Yang is ambushed and killed. His widow and the entire family set out to avenge his death and defend the country.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-07-27
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Twelve Deadly Coins
Overview: An escort team was on a perilous journey to transport some gold taels. When they fell into the ambush set up by a gang of thieves and their gold shipment was robbed, a formidable student of the escort agency set off to the bandits’ hideout to retrieve the goods…
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-03-13
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The Sword of Swords
Overview: A noble swordsman fights to recover the magical blade that has protected his country for centuries after being blinded and betrayed by a ruthless villain. A cunning killer has blinded the brave warrior chosen to defend his country with an enchanted sword, and murdered his family. After recovering, the sightless defender sets out to recover the weapon, and seek revenge against his murderous nemesis.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1968-08-23
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The Assassin
Overview: Yu is a two-armed swordsman who is betrayed by a jealous rival, but initially seeks a life of simple pleasures until an accidental meeting with another patriot sets him back on the road to bloody, brutal vengeance.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1967-12-22
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The Silent Swordsman
Overview: A young swordsman is tasked to lead a patriotic secret society to fight a traitorous general who conspired with the enemy to invade their country. In due course, he meets two pretty sisters from a rural tribe and is caught between the affections of the two girls...
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-09-13
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The Twin Swords
Overview: Gui Wu happens upon a kidnapping with his wife Gan Lian-zhu at the Red Lotus Temple. Lian-zhu sends Wu to go for reinforcements while she stays to fight the kidnappers. Fortunately, the mysterious Scarlet Maid is surreptitiously helping her.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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Temple of the Red Lotus
Overview: Jimmy Wang Yu plays a young kid who heads off to Dragon Valley to meet the childhood friend who was promised as his bride. When he gets there, he finds that the family of the bride might not be an entirely honest bunch of people though. What is the story behind their feud with the monks at the Temple Of The Red Lotus, for a start?
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-01-10
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