Kao Hsiang
Also Known As: Hsiang Kao, Ko Cheung, Gao Xiang, 高翔
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: October 29, 1935
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Female
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Marriage Angle
Overview: Marriage Angle is a Hong Kong Mandarin-language feature film of the drama genre, written and directed by Wang Yin, produced by Shaw Brothers Studio, Liu Chi and Chow Sze-Ching were the cinematographers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1954-01-27
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The Pistol
Overview: Long unemployed and stone-broke, Shen Jiaguang is dealt a further blow when his wife Lu Xiaoyin has fallen seriously ill and their son Xiaoguang has to quit school.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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Lady in Distress
Overview: A Shaw Brothers production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-03-28
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A Marriage for Love
Overview: A Shaw and Sons production.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-11-07
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The Orphan Girl
Overview: Loosely based on Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-06-13
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The Dances of Charm
Overview: A Shaw and Sons production.
Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-04-18
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The Angel
Overview: Angel is a pretty young girl who debates in a furious manner at a Women's Day Meeting against the unequal law of the Ching Dynasty which permits Chinese males to have concubines. This leads to a series of complications that affects those close to her including her younger sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1958-08-08
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Crusade Against Daddy
Overview: A HK comedy film starring Jeanette Lin Tsui and Hung Yeung.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1962-02-03
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Twilight Hours
Overview: A drama by the Shaw Brothers studio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-04-14
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Rendezvous in the South Sea
Overview: A Shaw Brothers drama starring Peter Chen Ho and Ding Ling. It was filmed on location in Malaysia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-03-17
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Husband's Lover
Overview: A romantic comedy by the Shaw Brothers studio starring Peter Chen Ho, in his first starring role in a SB film, and Pat Ting Hung, in her film debut.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1959-08-28
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Kiss for Sale
Overview: A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Fanny Fan Lai.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-05-18
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All the Best
Overview: A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Ding Ling.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-02-14
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An Appointment After Dark
Overview: Wan Jialiang, a factory worker, and Lu Xiuzhen fall in love and live together. Hou Liang is supported by Dong Yaqin, his cousin, and their lives improve. Desperate to get rid of Jane, who is pregnant, Jialiang plans to make her fall into the sea and die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1958-07-04
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Laughter and Tears
Overview: Tao Zutai, a bank employee, has five children. Tao's wife is addicted to gambling and spends too much and the eldest daughter Guiru is greedy for vanity. Tao is overjoyed when he is notified that he will be promoted to deputy manager.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1958-01-23
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Between Tears and Laughter
Overview: This is the story of three ladies who live together in an apartment in Hong Kong and what happens to them. First, there is Shuxian, whose husband left her and has a son in the hospital who can't walk. Then, there is Meifen, a romance novelist who pines for a deceased lover and, finally Manli, a young lady with some sass who is expecting a visit from Mr. Zheng, a man she has been a pen pal with for a year. She also has been dating someone else, not happily. The film goes through all three lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-11-10
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The Girl with a Thousand Faces
Overview: Gu Lingxiu's dream of becoming an actress is opposed by her grandmother. Her father Zhongqi remains ambivalent. Years ago, Zhongqi was in love with a Peking opera diva Hua Yanhong, but the lovers were separated by the matriarch. Regretful of the mistake, the matriarch discards her prejudice and allows Lingxiu to pursue her career. She also urges Zhongqi to look for Hua.
Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1959-11-19
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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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Back Door
Overview: A middle-aged couple adopt a young girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-05-27
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Murder in the Night
Overview: On her mother's order, Luk Wai Wai goes to the Shi family to serve her eccentric aunt, Mrs. Shi, but she accidentally witnesses a murder and is almost killed by the murderer, Tam Pak Lam. The murderer, Tam Pak-lam, is almost killed by her. In order to avenge his father's death, Tam Pak-lam sneaks into the Shi family to carry out his murderous plan.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-04-11
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Dreams Come True
Overview: Ostensibly a romantic comedy about mistaken identity, this film stars Kitty Ting Hao in two roles, the first as poor flower girl Fangfang and rich relation of a family in Hong Kong, who arrived in Hong Kong to see if she can feel better with the warmer climate. She meets Xihong, played by Kelly Lai Chen, who is the son in the family in Hong Kong. He is, of course, smitten with her, but when the secret is out, will he still feel the same?
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-08-27
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Sister Long Legs
Overview: Woo Ting-ting (Julie Yeh Feng) is a smart, tall, introverted and snobby young girl who embodies the idea of the unattainable beauty. On the other end of the spectrum, Ting's younger sister Bin (Jeanette Lin Tsui) is an outgoing, fun and bright girl-next-door type who exudes youthful energy. Ting's cold demeanor makes a lot of boys give pause about pursuing her, but the arrival of car dealership employee Kam (Roy Chiao) changes everything. Meanwhile, Bin's flirty nature attracts too many boys, and it finally becomes trouble when the wealthy Li (Tian Qing) grows obsessed with her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-02-06
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Forever Diamonds
Overview: Shaw production
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-07-07
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Golden Lotus
Overview: A Hong Kong historical drama
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-02-14
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A Night in Hong Kong
Overview: Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who meets and falls in love with Wu Li Hung (Ming). He proposes to Wu Li but she rejects him because of her distaste for mixed marriages (her mother was Japanese but deserted her family and returned to Japan during WWII). Tanaka locates Wu Li’s mother and unsuccessfully tries to reunite them, but eventually Wu Li accepts his proposal. A joyous Tanaka flies off to Laos to finish an assignment but on the eve of his wedding he is killed there.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-07-01
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Fairy, Ghost, Vixen
Overview: FAIRY, GHOST, VIXEN (1965) consists of three fanciful tales that may be loosely classified as ghost stories, but they're presented and designed more along the lines of traditional fairy tales. They're beautifully staged and photographed and have a timeless quality about them with a moral at the end of each.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-05-27
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The Deformed
Overview: Nurse Leng Shuxian is forced by family circumstances to marry Long Yusheng (King Hu), a grossly disfigured Quasimodo with a heart of gold. Shuxian tries but is unable to accept his deformity and they remain a couple in name only. With the appearance of Yusheng's cousin, she has to make a choice between personal happiness and family duty. From the start, Loh's character and drove the action, evoking a great intensity of emotions along the way: suffering, resignation and loneliness. Loh was lauded as the "Queen of Tragedy" after her heart-wrenching portrayal in this film. Winner of two Golden Harvest Awards – for best screenplay and best black-and-white cinematography – at the 8th Asian Film Festival in 1961.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-02-19
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The Peerless Beauty
Overview: This is a story of how Ru Ji, a farm girl of Chao Kuo, who sacrificed her own life to save her country and people in the year 257 B.C.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1953-09-21
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Mambo Girl
Overview: A young woman in search of a lost identity, her long lost mother who abandoned her soon after her birth.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-03-06
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Air Hostess
Overview: Back in 1959, air hostess was considered one of the most glamorous and privileged occupations for young girls with a dream. This first colour production of MP & GI details the ins and outs of the profession and takes the three lead actresses, Ge Lan (Grace Chang), Julia Ye Feng and Dolly Su Feng through a series of tough training. After their graduation, the film then brings them, and the audience, to exotic places like Bangkok, Singapore and Taiwan.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1959-06-04
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Devotion
Overview: Devotion, should be grim enough a lesson for my teenager in love. Little Kitty Ting Hao suffers due to social evils that ruthlessly rob her of the inalienable right to marry Chang Yang, the man she loves. Her incidental misbehaviour with Chang, which leads to the birth of a fatherless baby, does the final nailing of her coffin. Fortunately their daughter is intelligent and strong enough to be the master of circumstances and fights for her own love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-04-21
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