Yiu Kwang-Chao
Also Known As: 尤光照, Yu Kwong-Shiao, Yu Kuang-Chao, You Guang-Zhao, You Guangzhao, Yu Kwong-Chao, Yiu Kwang-Chao, K. C. Yu, Yau Gwong Chiu
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: March 30, 1908
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 16, 1967
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The Moon-Blanch'd Land
Overview: An early Musical by the Hsin Hwa Motion Picture Company.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1952-04-13
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Smash Up
Overview: Smash Up (1952 film) (Chinese 蛇蝎美人) also known by the aliases: The Vicious Beauty and Destroy; is a Hong Kong drama film directed by Bu Wan-Cang and produced by Shaw Brothers Studio. It starred Bai Guang, Wong Ho and Yiu Kwang-Chao.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Happy Encounter
Overview: An early Drama by the Daai Wa (Da Hua) Film Company
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1952-06-12
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A Double-Faced Man
Overview: During a night when Mei Liang and his girlfriend, Sima Qiu-Hong are on the same stage during a play for the Dajiang Theater Company, they receive a visit from Qiu-Hong's former classmate, Xie Yu-Lan. Under Yu-Lan's insistence, Mei Liang decides to break up with Qiu-Hong.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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The Thirteen That Go Astray
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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It's Always Spring
Overview: Singaporean diva Li Ailian has arrived in Hong Kong to further her singing career. Xu Zhaofeng helps her land a job at Spring Wind Palace. Provoked by jealousy, Xu's long-time girlfriend Tao Haiyin, a local diva, insists on performing at the Palace, too. And when two divas strut their stuff, it's great tunes and hot action. Haiyin's brother Zhengsheng, the bandleader, has fallen out with his sister due to his infatuation with Li. Li misunderstands Zhengsheng's intentions initially but his devotion speaks volumes. Haiyin and Xu also reconcile.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1962-02-22
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The Night
Overview: Yuerong is an downtrodden orphan girl. She is taken in by Erhe, a rickshaw driver, whose neighbors, recognizing her intelligence and singing talent, recommend her for opera lessons. However, the manager Liu soon begins to take advantage of her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Sorrowful Glory
Overview: This is a historical drama that was produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1953-01-09
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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 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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A Midsummer Night's Love
Overview: A Midsummer Night's Love is about a couple, Li Yuqin and Zhang Tianshi, who faked their marriage but the lies became real, unleashing a series of comic situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1953-02-13
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Meal Time
Overview: Meal Time is a comedy film about all the mess with housework that director Yan and his wife had to go through after the maid gave up her job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1953-03-05
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The Blazing Charmer
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1958-10-15
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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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The Frosty Night
Overview: Loosely based on Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-07-04
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The Greatest Circus on Earth
Overview: Circus trapeze artist Liu Xiaoniu runs away from the circus. While away, she's tricked by a playboy and then the police mistake her for a prostitute. She returns to the circus but her adoptive father, Liu Yingjie, suffers an accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-03-16
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Tears of Songstress
Overview: A Songstress Called Hong Lingyan (歌女紅菱艷) aka Tears of Songstress is a 1953 Hong Kong musical drama film directed by Tu Kuang-Chi. The film was a co-production by Shaws Film Company and Far East Motion Picture Company, and is based on the screenplay by Pan Liu-Dai.
Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1953-01-22
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Nightmare
Overview: Nightmare is a 1953 Hong Kong thriller film written and directed by Yin Wang. The film was produced by Runde Shaw for Shaw and Sons.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Peach Blossom Lake
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Little Angels of the Streets
Overview: Li Han-Hsiang directed film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-04-30
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The Lady of Mystery
Overview: Spies, Military Documents and Traitors.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-12-22
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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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Springtime in Paradise
Overview: A Shaw and Sons production
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-04-25
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Autumn Affair
Overview: A Shaw and Sons production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-11-23
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Miss Evening Sweet
Overview: A Shaw and Sons production.
Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-06-19
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He Has Taken Him for Another
Overview: A Shaw and Sons production.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-09-19
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A Kiss for Me
Overview: A Shaw and Sons production
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1958-04-24
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You Are My Soul
Overview: A Shaw and Sons production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1958-12-31
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To Catch a Murderer
Overview: A Shaw Brothers crime film starring Paul Chang Chung and Pat Ting Hung.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-01-10
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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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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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Where Is My Bride?
Overview: A Shaw Brothers romantic drama
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1958-12-18
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The Young Mistress' Fan
Overview: Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde's play on moral values, is adapted for a setting in Shanghai. Young wife Meilin mistakenly believes her husband is having an affair with a social butterfly and decides to leave for a suitor. Her reputation, about to be ruined because of a misplaced fan, is saved by the social butterfly who turns out to be …Unlike typical Chinese scripts on parental love, the understated familial love in the original play is aligned with Li's preference for the undramatic. Motherly love is portrayed indirectly while emotions run strong yet subdued in the film. Poking fun at social culture of the times, this is Li's earliest extant feature film in a modern setting and a showcase of his modernistic and crisp directorial approach.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Oriole, the Heroine
Overview: This is a Shaw Brothers production
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1960-06-19
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The Pink Murder
Overview: A Shaw Brothers production
Genres: Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1959-10-29
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Song of Romance
Overview: Sweet Song For You (勾魂艷曲) aka Song of Romance is a 1952 Hong Kong musical romance film directed by Yin Wang. The film was produced by Runde Shaw for Shaw and Sons and is based on the screenplay by Tan Liu.
Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1952-12-31
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The Crimson Palm
Overview: Ling Bo is Lin, a young man engaged to the daughter of a rich man, who now despises Lin because of his family's declining status. Lin visits his beloved fiancee before he heads towards the imperial city to participate in the civil service examination, only to find her maid lying dead in blood. Lin is then accused of murder. How can Judge Bao prove his innocence?
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-10-28
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Comedy of Mismatches
Overview: Comedy of Mismatches begins with widow Sun who single-handedly raises her son Yu Lang (Chin Feng) and daughter Zhu Yi (Li Hsiang Chun). One day, Mother Sun sends her children to the temple, where Yu Lang encounters Hui Niang (Pat Ting). Artist Xu Ya is also at the temple, praying that his daughter Wen Gu (Carrie Ku) will find a good husband. Soon after, Wen Gu encounters nobleman's son Pei Zheng (Wai Mao) and the two fall in love at first sight.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-05-14
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Madam White Snake
Overview: This Classic Seductive tale of two snakes who assume human forms will send chills of pleasure down viewers' backs. The Lovely Linda Lin Dai (Les Belles, The Kingdom And The Beauty) and margaret Tu Chuan (The Dream of The Red Chamber) play the two sister serpents, Pak Su-cheng and Ching Ching. Su-cheng meets Hsu Hsien (Chao Lei) one day and recognizes him as her savior in another life 1,000 years ago. She marries him to reward him but the snake-human union brings about problems beyond imagination.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Drama Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1962-10-02
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The Story of Sue San
Overview: This gripping story centers on the romance between Wang Chin Lung and Sue San. Although they may be perfectly matched when it comes to their love for one other, the two come from remarkably different social ranks. While Chin Lung is the son of a respected government official, Su San is a prostitute, albeit a famous one.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-09-30
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A Soul at Night
Overview: A female ghost appeared in a barren mound near Yangjiazhuang, wailing every night and terrifying the villagers. The feathered priest of the God of Wealth Temple tells the villagers to offer food and paper money to the female ghost, and the female ghost is indeed much quieter, but she only takes food and not paper money. When a young man, Wang Yuan Sheng, comes back from a trip, he does not see his child bride, Xiu Fang. His mother tells him that Xiu Fang has been having an affair with someone since he left and is pregnant, so she has already run away from home. Knowing that Xiu Fang is pregnant with her own child, Yuan Sheng does not believe his mother's story. Mother Wang is frightened by the ghost's screams and falls ill. Yuan Sheng becomes suspicious of the ghost's true identity because the ghost only takes food.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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Horror Night
Overview: After a flood, the Sea Charity Association sends Liu Hao Ming to a village to direct the burial of corpses. Hao Ming meets the singer Ruyun and her father there, and advises Ruyun not to sing a beautiful song, but to sing “The Beauty of Yu” instead, which Ruyun obeys to the full applause of the audience, but arouses the displeasure of a butcher, Sa-zuo, and others. When the flood comes again, the village people go to Shanghai to evacuate. Sa-zuo and the others ask Hao-ming for help, and Hao-ming leads them to an empty mansion to spend the night, where they run into Ruyun's father and learn that Ruyun has been separated. A female ghost haunts the house and they all escape from the house. Hao Ming does not see Ruyun's father and goes back to look for him, but he sees that the female ghost is Ruyun.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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The Birth of the Monkey King
Overview: Historical Drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1962-05-30
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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 Maid from Heaven
Overview: Seventh sister of the celestial world goes down to earth to marry Dong Yong, a young man sold to servitude. However the Jade Emperor orders her to go back to the immortal world.
Genres: Drama Romance Music Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-12-11
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The Female Prince
Overview: The husband-and-wife team of Ivy Ling Po and Chin Han returned to another Huangmei Opera classic after Lady General Hua Mu-Lan. Helmed by Chow Sze-loke and written by Chang Cheh, the story revolved around two intellectual siblings, Ching Feng-sheng (Chin Feng) and Ching Feng-hsiao (Ivy Ling Po), who were constantly abused by their stepmother Hsia (Kao Pao-shu). Feng-hsiao was engaged to Li Ru-lung (Chin Han) since birth, but the greedy Hsia forced him to forfeit the marriage. When Ru-lung refused, Hsia framed him for thievery and put him behind bars. To rescue her lover, Feng-hsiao dressed as a young man and went to the capital. She then used Ru-lung's name to enter the national exam and was ranked first place. Impressed by Feng-hsiao, the Emperor decided to let her wed the Princess (Fang Ying). On the wedding night, Feng-hsiao revealed the truth to the Princess...
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-12-10
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Lucky Purse
Overview: Film version of Suo Lin Nang, the popular Peking opera written by Weng Ouhong.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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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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When the Peach Blossoms Bloom
Overview: The Shen couple had six children. For years Mr Shen had been the only one to support the family. One day, Mr Shen was on a crashed plane in Singapore and everyone believed he had died. Mrs Shen then went to Singapore to prepare for his funeral and the eldest daughter took charge of the family. However, the brothers and sisters would never listen to their eldest sister. The second brother was extremely bad-tempered and always beat the others up when they did not listen to him. The fourth sister was extremely gluttonous who would never help with any housework. The eldest sister was annoyed and could do nothing.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-10-13
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Mulan Joins the Army
Overview: This movie is based on the famous Chinese folklore that is more than one and a half millennium old. The same folklore was what the Disney animation Mulan is based on, and similarly, it was what many Chinese movies/operas/plays based on.
Genres: War History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1939-02-01
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The Angel
Overview: This is one of the rare gems in early Chinese musical films that still exists today. Nancy Chan plays a naïve young woman who can sing and dance. Under the arrangement of her stepfather, she becomes a star and indulges in the glitz and glamour of the entertainment world before getting married to a wealthy heir in Nanyang. Yet her husband is cruel and unfaithful, leading her to divorce and return to her parents in Shanghai. She is set for a comeback to the stage. Her young daughter suffers from a serious illness. A remake of the Bu Wanchang’s silent film The Light of Maternal Instinct (1933), this film takes cues from Hollywood musicals, resulting in an elegant and lively fusion of camera movement and musical numbers. The film also reflects the harsh reality of China in the 1930s and the pathos of popular literature by combining morals, entertainment and social commentary to show that changes in the idea of femininity is a symbol of progress.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Unchanged Heart in Life and Death
Overview: Probably the most sheerly entertaining of all the films made in 1930s Shanghai by 'underground' leftists, this riff on The Prisoner of Zenda is funny and engaging from first to last. The irresistible Yuan Muzhi (director of Street Angel the following year) plays both Li Tao, a revolutionary on the run, and Liu Yuanjie, an American-Chinese teacher visiting China with his fiancée. Liu is mistaken for Li and thrown into jail; Li teams up with the fiancée (Chen Bo'er, Yuan's real life wife) to get him out of prison and into the spirit of revolution. Ying Yunwei (who started out playing female roles in Chinese opera) uses chiaroscuro lighting, highly mobile camerawork and zippy pacing to give it maximum impact, but it's Yuan who really keeps you watching.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1936-11-29
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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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The Story of Qin Xiang-Lian
Overview: The Story of Qin Xiang-Lian is a Hong Kong Chinese Opera musical starring Jackie Chan in a child role.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-07-18
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