Lo Duen
Also Known As: 卢敦, 盧敦, Lou Dun, Lo Dun, Chui Gon Ji, Lee Lin, Go Saan, Wong Gaai, Lu Dun, Lo Tun, Gao Shan, Wong Kai
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: March 20, 1911
Age: 114 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 23, 2000
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A Night of Romance, A Lifetime of Regret
Overview: Two people have a one-night stand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1938-11-20
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Family
Overview: "Family" (1953), which launched the Union Film legacy, "Spring" (1953) and "Autumn" (1954) are adaptations of Ba Jin's highly regarded novel "Torrent Trilogy". In "Family", director Ng Wui skilfully condenses the voluminous first part of the novel into an emotionally powerful and intellectually focused story of youngsters struggling to survive oppression and repression in a feudalistic family. This well-received film quickly established the company's reputation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1953-01-07
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The Pretty Tigress
Overview: The Pretty Tigress
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1955-12-30
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A Mad Woman
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Genres: Horror Drama History
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1964-12-23
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The Mad Woman
Overview: Hong Kong drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1937-05-16
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Nothing Compares to You
Overview: After spending seven years apart due to warfare, childhood sweethearts meet each other again and fall in love, yet tragic fate awaits.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1947-11-15
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A Goddaughter's Secret
Overview: Hong Kong drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1937-11-25
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Sex and Zen
Overview: A recently married scholar goes on a quest for knowledge of other people's wives, based on his philosophical differences with the Sack Monk. He encounters the Flying Thief, who agrees to help him find women, but only if he attains a penis as big as a horse's. The scholar has a surgeon attach said unit, and he's off and running on his mission, only to find that there are obstacles to his new lifestyle, such as jealous husbands and treacherous females.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-11-30
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At This Crucial Juncture
Overview: The film is divided into seven episodes, each episode directed by a different director. The film was selected as one of the top hundred Chinese films by film historian Du Yunzhi (HKFA).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1938-03-02
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The Immortality Pagoda
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1955-09-16
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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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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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The Prodigal Son
Overview: A prodigal son is married to a woman his mother dislikes. The wife is then expelled from the family circle and forced to become independent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1952-12-12
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Beauty Raised from the Dead
Overview: Lau Mung-mui chances on To Lai-leung and their encounter transcends to a rendezvous in their dreams. They admire each other, but they do not know each other's names and addresses. They keep on thinking of each other and decide to take each other as their future husband and wife. Mui's father wants his son to get married, but he pays no attention to his father's wishes. Mui leaves home to look for Leung. Leung's father forces his daughter to marry her rich and powerful cousin. Leung becomes despondent and dies, following an arranged marriage with her cousin. Mui sought everywhere for Leung for three years, but to no avail. He locates the home of Leung, but the household has moved out. The house is guarded by an old servant. Mui, chasing Leung's spirit, has a brief romance with her. Acknowledging that their union will be hindered by their incompatibility as a mortal and a spirit, Leung reincarnates as a mortal so that their love may be rekindled.
Genres: Horror Romance Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1956-08-02
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The Wall
Overview: Kam Fan and Wong Ching-ping have a peaceful married life, until Ping's mother is serious ill. They desperately need a large amount of money. Fan tries in vain to raise money, he thus intends to use their daughter's school fees for the medical fees. Ping is against it and works as a song girl to earn money for her mother's medical expense. Her grudging husband Kam Fan uses a bed sheet to partition the bedroom into halves and even demands a divorce. After some mediation by their lawyer and neighbours, Wong finds a teaching job at an orphanage, but Fan still opposes it. Ping is so angry that she moves to live in the dormitory of the orphanage. Fan has to look after their daughter alone, making everything a mess. Later, their daughter catches a cold and has a high fever after an outing with Fan. Ping cannot set her mind at rest and goes home to take care of her daughter. The loving couple reconciles, for the sake of their daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1956-04-18
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A Myriad Homes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1953-10-08
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The Good, the Bad and the Beauties
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-12-22
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The Stunt Woman
Overview: After moving to Hong Kong from China, a young martial artist starts a promising career as a stuntwoman. She begins to feel accepted in the business, but a passionate affair with a playboy ends up breaking her heart and unleashing her wild side.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-10-10
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I Am Sorry
Overview: Carole and Mandy have just become neighbors in a luxury apartment complex. Mandy is a successful career woman, educated and independent. Carole is a kept woman, dreaming of the day when her businessman lover will divorce his wife to marry her. Through Mandy, Carole meets Edgar, a neurotic headwaiter. She breaks off her affair with the businessman, but Edgar is still masochistically involved with his old girlfriend Alice. Carole realizes that she still has a lot to learn about life. And nothing is going to stop her from learning it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-05-10
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The Witty Bus Girl
Overview: Industrialist Tam Kar-cheung knowingly puts the lives of his workers at risk so as to line his pocket with insurance payments. The chivalrous Bus Money gets into fisticuffs with Tam's chauffeur, Tam Biu, who bears a grudge against the assailant. When Money catches wind of Kar-cheung's vicious plot to set fire to a squatter area to clear the path for a property development project, she moves in and watches vigilantly for signs of arson. Soon, she saves Ah-hau, Biu's girlfriend and a young victim of drug rape, from her suicidal attempt by drowning. Money pursues fragments of clues which lead her to the victim's boss, Taipan Cheung who sucks up to his master Kar-cheung by drawing his prey to her trap. Money then organises squatter residences into fire brigade to guard against arson attacks and exposes Kar-cheung's evil. Realising he has been exploited for his blind loyalty, Biu teams up with Money to dispense justice.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1966-02-09
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The Chauffeur Was a Lady
Overview: Directed by Wui Ng.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-02
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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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In the Face of Demolition
Overview: This early leftist social drama from Hong Kong offers a panoramic portrait of a crumbling apartment complex and its down-and-out denizens, including a taxi driver, an unemployed teacher, a professional reduced to selling his blood and, of course, a venal landlord. In addition to establishing an omnipresent theme in Hong Kong cinema – the plight of the urban poor – the film is also a prime example of the popular melodramas of the time, which featured displaced Mainland film stars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1953-11-26
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Revenge of the Haunted Souls
Overview: On a stormy night, a rich man is murdered, doused in acid and dumped at sea. Luckily, the young wife of the rich man is helped by an old knight-errant who has been in hiding for many years to track down the murderer. It turns out that the murderer is a longtime friend of the rich man, and he has killed him because of his greed.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1939-12-05
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The Girl in the Bus
Overview: Bus Money dons various disguises on public buses to protect the defenceless from the bullies and receives heroic praise. Money meets Tai Ngau, a righteous journalist, when they bear witness to the callous response of Manager Mo to the death of his servant Ah-kwai. Tai writes to redress grievances of the deceased. When visiting the family of orphans, he chances on his kindred spirit giving the eldest daughter Ah-yin a gift of gold. Money exploits the weakness of Mo and her connection with his son Sze-fu to swindle a fortune out of the lewd man for the benefits of the fatherless children. Her rage grows learning that Mo's friend Fong Hak-sang has pulled off a lucrative fraud on returned overseas Chinese and forces Ah-yin to pledge herself in paying off her father's debts. Money, who has all kinds of tricks up her sleeve, teams up with Tai and gives Mo and Fong their comeuppance before setting off on her next mission.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1965-09-29
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Long and Winding Road
Overview: Two different men each find their true meanings in life. Leslie and Tony, two lower middle-class bachelors, are bosom friends. Leslie is a wandering soul who seems unable to settle down. He give got fired and his girlfriend left him. Tony is a frustrating musician and a part-time worker at an elderly home. He doesn't like old people, but works there only to get close to his dream girl WAI.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-08-04
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Feast of a Rich Family
Overview: This tale of familial warfare and sacrifice takes place in hard-pressed Shanghai at the end of the 1940s. Hu Zhiqing can barely support his wife and children, and his situation is worsened by the unexpected arrival of his mother, brother and sister-in-law. When he is fired by his unscrupulous boss, the whole family becomes embroiled in one emotional/economic struggle after another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1959-07-14
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