Fong Yim-Fen
Also Known As: Fong Yim-Fun, Katie Yang, 芳艷芬
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1928
Age: 97 years old
Gender: Female
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Backyard Adventures
Overview: Reporter Yu Mong-yuen is recovering from a leg injury in his fiancee Man-wah's apartment. Bored, he looks out the rear window and observes the life of the neighbouring building. Among the tenants are a sugar-daddy and his mistress, a middle-aged man wants to marry a young girl, but she is in love with his son. Finally, she hatches a plot and makes the man agree to her marrying his son ; a sly fortune-teller ; a lively gym, a rich widow quarrels with the trainer of a gymnasium because his dog has bitten her cat ; and an opera school, a woman signs, leaning on the balcony, and a man tries to strangle her. In fact they are rehearsing an opera…… One evening, Wah is on the night shift, and Yuen watches the opera troupe rehearse to the end. Under the influence of drugs, Yu mistakenly believes that a divorced man has murdered a taxi dancer. He alerts the police, but the whole thing is nothing more than a misunderstanding.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1955-07-12
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All the Love Heaven Allows
Overview: A shoe salesman and a tailor respectively fall in love with two sisters, Yuk-sin and Yuk-ling, both reputed singers on the radio. The men devise various schemes to meet the two women. Fourth Aunt, the sisters' mother, treats the two women as commodities to be traded off to the highest bidder, greedily making money off their talents by arranging lucrative concerts. The shoe salesman and the tailor disguise themselves as rich men to get close to their dream lovers. Finally, the sisters are won over by true love.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1952-04-19
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Love Follows Fortune
Overview: Impoverished scholar Leung (Yam Kim-fai) became a widower and his in-laws give him 30 taels of silver to find a new wife. He gives the money away to help an old man, a kindness witnessed by the young woman To (Fong Yim-fun), who is impressed and smitten. Needing to introduce his ‘new wife' to the in-laws, Leung seeks help from his cousin (Tam Sin-hung), whose husband Wong (Poon Yat On) had just bought To as maid, lusting after her. The cousin loans the maid to pose as Leung's wife but the jealous Wong poses as their servant to keep watch, creating hilarious havoc that fails to hinder the love developing between the scholar and the maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1959-02-07
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Red Maid, the Matchmaker
Overview: Production company Taoyuan chose for its inaugural film a comedy and Fong Yim-fun gets to take a break from playing long-suffering roles and showcase her talents in making us laugh! She plays the spritely titled character, brandishing a fresh image. The film is an adaptation of the literary classic Romance of the Western Chamber, in which the Prime Minister's daughter (Law Yim-hing), under siege from rebel soldiers, is rescued by a plan formulated by a poor scholar (Law Kim-long), with whom she is in love. But her mother (Poon Yat On) reneges afterwards on her promise to let the rescuer marry the daughter, and the clever Red Maid steps up as go-between, devising a series of sharp-witted tactics to help the lovers.
Genres: History Music Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1958-10-29
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Resurrection
Overview: Ah Hing is made pregnant by her master Fan Chun-kit. Fan soon leaves for his studies overseas while Ah Hing suffers gross prosecution and is reduced to becoming a prostitute. In a momentary slip of a struggle, Ah Hing commits manslaughter. Now a qualified lawyer, Fan acquits Ah Hing of the charge, and intends to marry her to redeem his negligence in the past. Ah Hing, however, is determined to pursue an independent life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1955-04-01
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A Couple in Love
Overview: Musical comedy from Hong Kong directed by Chiang Wai-Kwong.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1952-06-27
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Charming Night
Overview: Comedy from Hong Kong directed by Chiang Wai-Kwong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1952-12-20
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Beautiful Matching
Overview: Comedy from Hong Kong directed by Chow Sze-Luk.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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Spring Is in Town
Overview: Drama from Hong Kong directed by Mok Hong-See.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1952-10-17
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Paying Nocturnal Mourning to White Lotus
Overview: Musical from Hong Kong directed by Chow Sze-Luk.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1952-08-22
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A Perfect Match
Overview: Drama from Hong Kong directed by Mok Hong-See.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1952-04-19
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A Second Visit to the City of Love
Overview: Comedy from Hong Kong directed by Yam Wu-Fa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1952-01-05
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Romantic Spell
Overview: Comedy from Hong Kong directed by Chiang Wai-Kwong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1953-04-16
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Mysterious Murder, Part One
Overview: Fong Yim-fun puts on a tour de force as an ill-fated woman, separated from her lover through an arranged marriage to the terminally ill and impotent son of a warlord. The power struggle within the family led to an inevitable murderous consequence. Seven years later, the heroine's ex-lover, now an ambitious detective, is keen to solve this almost forgotten case, only to discover that he is also part of the enigma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1951-10-04
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Mysterious Murder, Part 2
Overview: Fong Yim-fun puts on a tour de force as an ill-fated woman, separated from her lover through an arranged marriage to the terminally ill and impotent son of a warlord. The power struggle within the family led to an inevitable murderous consequence. Seven years later, the heroine's ex-lover, now an ambitious detective, is keen to solve this almost forgotten case, only to discover that he is also part of the enigma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1951-10-09
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