Lily Ho
Also Known As: Lily Ho, Lily Ho Li Li, 何莉莉
Biography: Lily Ho (何莉莉) was born on November 25, 1946 in Taiwan. She is an actress, known for Nu sha shou (1971), The Golden Knight (1970) and Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (1972).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: 中国,江苏,南京
Adult: No
Birthday: November 25, 1946
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Female
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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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The Water Margin
Overview: The corruption in the Sung Dynasty of 11th century China is so rampant that it inspires a band of Oriental Robin Hoods - the Honorable 108. Mountain bandits who nevertheless live by a scrupulous code of conduct, the Honorable 108 pledge to end the repression of the brutal overlords.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-03-17
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The Golden Knight
Overview: Respected veteran Yueh Feng made this “Martial Arts World” saga of a masked master of the “Black Sand Hand Technique,” while Lily Ho, the star of "Princess Iron Fan" and "Angel With The Iron Fists", excels in a delightful dual leading role. When she teams up with Shu Pei-pei as a fellow swordswoman to vanquish a murdering robber, the comparisons to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" are obvious, even though it came three decades later.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-04-17
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Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
Overview: 18-year-old Ainu is kidnapped and sold to a brothel. Her good looks and wild personality make her very popular with the lustful clients, but also draw the lesbian attentions of brothel madam Chun Yi. Chun Yi teaches Ainu the ways of lust and the ways of kung fu, and Ainu becomes more and more similar to her captor. But rage at her treatment is still burning inside her.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-07-09
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River Of Fury
Overview: River Of Fury presents the self-discovery and awakening of a young man (Danny Lee), who has been exposed and fallen for the lucrative powers of wealth. Lily Ho played a role in sharp contrast with Lee, which has helplessly fallen prey to the irresistible temptations of wealth under the influence of her mother. Once again, Ho demonstrates her remarkable talent in Chinese opera following her Beijing-opera showcase in The Warlord (co-starring Michael Hui Kwun-man).
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-05-03
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All Men Are Brothers
Overview: Based on one of China's enduring epic novels, written in the 14th century, "All Men Are Brothers" continues the patriotic story of righteous warriors battling despotic leaders, featuring mythic characters familiar to every Chinese, and with a cast that has achieved an equally celebrated status among Shaw Brothers devotees.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-05-10
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The Sword and the Lute
Overview: The adventures of a young married swordfighting couple, Lianzhu and Gui Wu, and the swordfighting members of their different clans.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-04-20
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Angel with the Iron Fists
Overview: A father whose daughter is killed by the Devil Girl's Gang, goes in search of justice.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-01-11
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The Jade Faced Assassin
Overview: The swordsman Zhang Zhen is injured in a misadventure and rescued by Eldest Sister of Changchun Sect, who has a crush on him. However, Zhang falls in love with the maid Yuenu instead, and conceives twins with her. The couple are killed by a group of evil pugilists later. The Eldest Sister is angry with Zhang Zhen for not accepting her and plans to make Zhang's children kill each other as revenge. The baby girl (Xiaolu'er) is saved by Zhang's friend, Lian Lanyan, while the male infant (Hua Yuchun) is taken away by the Eldest Sister. Lian Lanyan encounters the Ten Villains when he passes through Villains' Valley. He is overwhelmed by them and knocked out in a fight. The baby Xiaolu'er is taken away by the Villains, who surprisingly do not harm her, and instead intend to groom her to become the greatest villain ever. Eighteen years later, the twins meet each other by coincidence.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-04-09
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The Knight of Knights
Overview: Six heroes are killed while investigating rampant lawlessness at Zhaoqing Temple where villains are posing as monks. The dead heroes’ senior brother Su-chen and his two apprentices pose as scholars in order to infiltrate the temple. When the life of the Emperor’s Inspector and his daughter are threatened, the trio leaps into battle as government troops prepare to storm the temple.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-05-17
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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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Tropicana Interlude
Overview: Lily Ho and Jimmy Lin Chong operate a travel agency specializing in Southeast Asian holidays, Tropicana Interlude. Lin Chong wears his trademark Nehru suits, tours the scenic sights of Malaysia and Singapore, and warbles a half-dozen hit tunes, making this one of Shaw Brothers most lively 1960’s musical romances.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-07-09
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Hong Kong Nocturne
Overview: A musical about 3 sisters, singers and dancers, and their dad, a magician performing in nightclubs until they make their own life.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-02-07
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The Lady Professional
Overview: Lily Ho as a deadly assassin becomes the target of murder herself
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-01-06
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The Silver Fox
Overview: The Silver Fox is a throwback, the last of its kind where the heroic swordsmen are women. Lily Ho (before she became one of Shaw Brothers' great erotica actresses) portrays the feared swordswoman Silver Fox, who as a child saw her father senselessly wounded and her mother raped. It's 18 years later and it's payback time.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-03-13
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King Drummer
Overview: Ling Yun plays the replacement hired for a popular band whose egotistic drummer quit to join a rival group. When the new arrival becomes a hit, he earns the jealous wrath of the predecessor. Meanwhile, the young drummer's mother is fervently against his music career. With the gorgeous Lily Ho as the manageress of the band and some terrific drumming set pieces, the whole thing, needless to say, comes off with a bang.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-11-15
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Trilogy of Swordsmanship
Overview: Three martial arts directors united for this unique anthology film. Yueh Feng writes and directs a clever love-and-kung-fu triangle, Cheng Kang both writes and directs kung-fu courtesans battling brigands, and the "godfather of the kung-fu film," Chang Cheh, creates a cliff-hanging, swashbuckling mini-movie with maxi-action.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-11-05
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Divorce, Hong Kong Style
Overview: A philandering business tycoon accuses his angelic wife of cheating. He learns the hard way he had it good and hopes to win his wife back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-12-28
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The Brain-Stealers
Overview: A mad scientist wants to get his hands on a certain growth-accelerating serum developed by Hong Kong scientist Dr. Li Zong-Hua so that he can create an army of supermen and conquer the world.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-12-21
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Song of Orchid Island
Overview: Dr. Ho decides to move to a backward island off the coast of Taiwan to look for his missing father. He meets nurse Ya Lan (Cheng Pei-Pei) who falls in love with him. But dastardly doings are afoot as Dr. Ho's enemies plot against him.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-05-05
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My Dream Boat
Overview: The film tells a complicated love story. Carmen with Ke, Xiang Yi and Jiyuan. They start as a friend, but somehow a love triangle occur, and the outcome is very tragic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-09-27
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That Tender Age
Overview: Characters live through that Tender Age
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-07-19
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The Warlord
Overview: No list of the screen's comic geniuses would be complete without Michael Hui Kwun-man. He created a hilarious and lovable comic persona that was both uniquely Asian but also universally beloved. This, his first film, not only showcased his incomparable sense of humor but revolutionized Hong Kong comedy. Evoking Chaplin, he plays a warlord in early 20th Century China, but makes the role his own with both laughs and some of the sexiest ladies on the Shaw Brothers lot.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-08-17
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Flower in the Rain
Overview: Lily Ho and Ling Yun are star-crossed lovers who suffer untold agonies before finally being united forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-09-22
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Of Wives and Mistresses
Overview: shaw production
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-05-26
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The Millionaire Chase
Overview: Shaw Brothers musical about three Showgirls chasing millionaires.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-05-20
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A Time for Love
Overview: A Time For Love features Shaw Brothers' darling Lily Ho in a Romeo and Juliet stylized love story that breaks the tradition of Hong Kong's "class distinction" love stories. It is a film ending with a Cinderella-esque love saving happiness happy ever other ending.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-10-16
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Facets of Love
Overview: This story is centering around a Ming Dynasty brothel that steams with secret erotic myths, trysts and twists of pleasurable indulgence. A shaw production
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-04-05
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The Angel Strikes Again
Overview: Lily Ho, a secret agent out to thwart the sale of a powerful explosive to the wrong people. It’s a female, Chinese James bond.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-05-29
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The Casino
Overview: A handsome stranger strolls into a casino one evening and all but cleans out the house, beating 160-1 odds at dice by getting three of a kind. He informs beautiful proprietress Miss Cui that he actually came there for her and reveals himself as her betrothed, Luo Tianguang. The couple wed, but their bliss is interrupted when Luo agrees to help old friend Lun Liu defeat crooked gambler Hao Lishan, who uses rigged dice.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-03-30
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We Love Millionaires
Overview: This is a film about three pretty young ladies from Hong Kong who work as sales agents who travel to a resort in Japan for the sole purpose of meeting and wooing millionaires.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-08-18
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Sex, Love and Hate
Overview: Accredited director of erotica and kung-fu films Chu Yuan, combines stars from both genres in Sex, Love And Hate, a masterpiece about Hong Kong society's differing emotional views on love and what women want when it comes to happiness in love. The provocative Ching Li (Chu Tai), the exotic Lily Ho (Pai Mei) and the princess of kung-fu films Hsu Feng (Yao Yao), play three women who live together and compare notes as to what would make them happy in love, in life, then go out to find it. Pai Mei wants money at all costs, Chu Tai will marry as soon as the opportunity arises and Yao Yao is saving her virginity for Mr. Right.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-03-23
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Hong Kong Rhapsody
Overview: There's nothing like a good, opulent, gaudy musical to lift the spirits, but when it's a 1960's Hong Kong musical orchestrated by a Japanese director and composer, it breaks through the ranks as a classic of campy kitsch. A follow-up to the previous year's megahit Hong Kong Nocturne, with the same Japanese creative team, Hong Kong Rhapsody follows the fortunes of an unemployed magician whose love life is so knotty it would take Houdini to unravel!
Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-01-29
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The Yellow Muffler
Overview: Two sisters, Ching-ping (Irene Chen I-ling) and Pai-hung (Betty Ting Pei) struggle to find a workable act after their magician father and younger sister leave to try their luck in Taiwan. A good friend gets them cast in a new movie, and the rest is history....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-01-15
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Sing High, Sing Low
Overview: A Shaw Brothers Musical Comedy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-06-27
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The Venus Tear Diamond
Overview: Legendary jewel thieves "Nocturnal Earl" (Ling Yun) and "Fragrant Night" (Lily Ho) are set on a collision course for destiny when both arrive in Japan to get their hands on the famous "Venus Tear Diamond." But sparks fly between the jewel thieves and the two fall instantly in love, without knowing that their beloved is after the very jewel each is seeking! To make matters worse, the diamond is in the possession of a randy widow who has her eye on the debonair male thief, and there's even a mystery man interested in the widow, too. Who's going to get the Venus Tear Diamond, and will it mean the end to a perfect love?
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-02-05
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Sex of the Imperial
Overview: Life of Eunuchs and courtesans in the royal hinterland from an expert's point of view. Analyse of the life behind the scenes of the palace and detailed explanation of the life of the Chinese court!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1988-05-14
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Inter-Pol
Overview: Agent 009 has to break up a ring of Hong Kong counterfeiters who are shipping forged US dollars all over Asia.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-08-26
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Auntie Lan
Overview: The contemporary issue of single mothers is sensitively handled in this melodrama as a young woman must decide whether she will tell the new man in her life the real truth or forever remain the child's auntie Lan? (Celestial Pictures sypnosis)
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-03-02
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The Singing Thief
Overview: A jewel thief decides to turn over a new leaf. He starts anew as a professional singer; but before long, the he becomes suspect again for a series of robberies. He sets up a trap to snare the copycat thief, but will it snare him instead?
Genres: Music Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-02-13
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Princess Iron Fan
Overview: The mythological tale of a quest from China to India to bring back Buddhist scriptures, famous for the adventures of Sun Wukong, the notorious Monkey King.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-08-09
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Till the End of Time
Overview: Jenny Wu is a singer who charms the well-to-do Peter Chen, but his parents object to a union between their only son and a lowly cabaret singer. He ignores their advice and marries her anyway, and for a time, they find some manner of wedded bliss. But the years are not entirely kind. He works hard to make ends meet, but his health pays the price.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-03-15
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Five Tough Guys
Overview: The plot follows the titular gang of misfits, gathered together by Chen Kuan Tai (a real life martial arts champion who starred in many films for the studio) in order to protect a patriotic general from a scheming usurper. To this end, the unlikely heroes act as the general’s escorts on a dangerous journey to a distant British consulate, beset by enemies and sinister Japanese interference along the way.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-11-15
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Songfest
Overview: The story centers on the passionate and turbulent romance between a tea-picker girl, Yu Lan, and a fisherman, Chun Yang.Complications soon arise when a love rival, Hu San Bao, appears.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-02-19
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Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio
Overview: Hong Kong cinemas had a wide range of glamorous female stars during the golden age of the 60's and 70's. The series will take the audience on a sentimental journey to the good old days and once again look at the expansive epic costume dramas and huangmei operas in which actresses played both the male and female roles. Rare interviews with Sir Run Run Shaw, stars Ivy Ling Po, Shaw Yin Yin, Tanny Tie Ni and Cheng Pei Pei are also featured.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2003-01-03
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The House of 72 Tenants
Overview: Set during a period of depression, the film chronicles the daily lives of a single urban building split up into several separate units, and the actual people that dwell within.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1973-09-21
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The Orchid
Overview: Romantic drama starring Lily Ho as a tourist in Singapore.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-09-24
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The Lost Generation
Overview: The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-09-21
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Heiße Ware aus Hong Kong
Overview: Made for German TV documentary about the early craze of Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema. While critical on the subject and not too well informed, it nevertheless offers some interesting insights into the Hong Kong film industry of that days.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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