Kao Pao-shu
Also Known As: 高寶樹 , Pao-Shu Kao, Go Bo-Shu, Kao Pau-Shiu, Ko Pai-Shu, Kau Pau-Shu, Kuo Po-Shu, 高寶樹, Ke Jin Xing, Baoshu Gao, Bo Shu Go, Pao Shu Kao
Biography: Kao Pao-shu or Gao Baoshu (Chinese: 高寶樹; 1932–2000) was a Chinese actress, producer, writer and film director who appeared in over 100 films during her career. Originally from China, Kao moved to Hong Kong in 1951, where she acted in minor role before joining Shaw Brothers Studio in 1958. Here, she starred in over 80 films, working alongside directors Yueh Feng and Cheng Kang, and she made her directorial debut in 1970 in Lady with a Sword. Later she started her own company, producing films throughout the 1970s before she retired in the 1980s. In July 2000, she died at the age of 68.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Suzhou, China
Birthday: February 02, 1939
Deathday: July 20, 2000
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Gender: Female
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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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Vengeance Is a Golden Blade
Overview: Li Zhishan is a rich man, but wealth cannot keep the loyalties of his wife, who has been visiting the bed of a rival. She helps plot against him, and the Vicious Long Brothers invade his home and steal the Golden Dragon Blade - a sword that makes its wielder unbeatable. Zhishan, crippled in the attack, and his young daughter are whisked away by a devoted servant, and the trio soon find shelter in the home of an herbalist. Years pass, the daughter grows up to be a lovely young woman and a powerful fighter, and the Long Brothers use the Golden Dragon Blade to gain power in the region. Zhishan's family of sorts has managed to stay well hidden, but a trip into the city - the daughter's first - sets off an old power struggle as Zhishan's wife discovers her daughter is quite alive.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-07-19
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The Thirteen That Go Astray
Overview: No known plot
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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The Golden Sword
Overview: Bai Yu Lung's father mysteriously disappears one night, and for 10 years Bai searches for him in vain. Finally, he decides to head to the far northern part of the country with the hope that he can find a clue in that region. There, he falls in love with a beggar (Cheng Pei-pei) and they continue the search together.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-10-15
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Temple of the Red Lotus
Overview: Jimmy Wang Yu plays a young kid who heads off to Dragon Valley to meet the childhood friend who was promised as his bride. When he gets there, he finds that the family of the bride might not be an entirely honest bunch of people though. What is the story behind their feud with the monks at the Temple Of The Red Lotus, for a start?
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-01-10
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The Twin Swords
Overview: Gui Wu happens upon a kidnapping with his wife Gan Lian-zhu at the Red Lotus Temple. Lian-zhu sends Wu to go for reinforcements while she stays to fight the kidnappers. Fortunately, the mysterious Scarlet Maid is surreptitiously helping her.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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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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The Serpent and the Lovers
Overview: It was shot in year 1956 but only released in year 1961 Hong Kong-Thailand-Japan co-production.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-10-18
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Black Tulip
Overview: Black Tulip
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-11-30
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Oh Boys! Oh Girls!
Overview: A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Margaret Tu Chuan and Paul Chang Chung,
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-05-12
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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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Mist over Dream Lake
Overview: Shaw Production
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-01-05
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Heart Break Well
Overview: The eldest daughter of an elderly couple, murders her lover and goes to jail. The youngest daughter, Yin Ni, is taken to her hometown to escape the scandal. While there, Yin Ni becomes involved with a painter, Xu Liang, and tragedy also falls upon her...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1955-12-31
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Female Fugitive
Overview: The police close in on "Miss Big Boss," the leader of a large drug organization centered in the Golden Triangle. Meanwhile, two kids find themselves on the run after witnessing the murder of an undercover police officer.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: th
Release Date: 1975-08-07
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A Lonely Heart
Overview: A Shaw and Sons production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-04-13
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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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Stranger Than Fiction
Overview: A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Grace Ting Ning.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-02-14
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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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When the Poles Meet
Overview: A Shaw Brothers romantic comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Patricia Lam Fung.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1961-11-29
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How to Marry a Millionaire
Overview: A Shaw Brothers romantic comedy starring Margaret Tu Chuan and Peter Chen Ho.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-08-05
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The Tryst
Overview: A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Pat Ting Hung.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1962-11-08
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Rainstorm in Chinatown
Overview: Jiang Lizhen's husband, Wang Gensheng, went to Nanyang to make a living. After ten years of separation, there was no news. Jane took her daughter to find her husband, but found out that she was born into a wealthy family.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-09-18
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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 Jade Fox
Overview: In her bid for domination of the kingdom, a wicked woman invites opponents to their doom at her 'Fairyland' estate.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-03-10
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雙雄奪美
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
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Spring Blossoms
Overview: Spring Blossoms is a parable about the Chinese youth culture and what's important to the younger generation when it comes to romance. It starred a new wave of seventies, Shaw's beauties, Lily Li, Shu Pei-pei and Essie Lin-chia as single women looking for love. It's a triple-decker romantic bus ride on a road to nowhere speeding toward a low bridge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-04-18
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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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Trapeze Girl
Overview: A young girl runs away from her abusive father to join a group of circus performance, expecting that one day she would be a greatest trapeze artist. Later, she falls in love with one of the members of the circus staff who used to be a trapeze performer in previous times.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-10-25
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The Midnight Murder
Overview: The heroine, Liu Yanniang, is a beautiful and virtuous woman who is in love with her husband, Wang Zhengtu. However, because of her disagreement with her sister-in-law, Yuhuan, who was unfortunately killed, Yaniang was mistakenly accused of murder by the king's mother and her husband's son-in-law. The governor of Suzhou, Mr. Yan Wentian, is very strict with the king, but just when he finds a clue, the witness is killed again. Yen is not satisfied with his efforts, but he realizes that the murderer has already come to his doorstep.
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-09-05
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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 Butterfly Chalice
Overview: The story revolves around Tian Yu Quan (Chin Feng) who rushes to the aid of an elderly fisherman who is bullied by an arrogant relative of the Qiu Shan ministry. In the heat of the ensuing battle he kills the said man and is hence chased by the district's officials. Trying to use the waterway to shake off his enemies, Yu Quan finds a true friend in the old fisherman's bark-stearing daughter, Hu Feng Lian (Ting Hung) who becomes his loyal accomplice. As symbol for his gratitude, Yu Quan bestows Feng Lian with a Butterfly Chalice to reflect their eternal friendship bond...
Genres: Action Drama Music History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-03-10
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Too Late for Love
Overview: Su Fen, a young and frail girl, looked forward to her wedding with her fiancé, Li Kuo-liang. The happy couple's bliss was cut short when war broke out. Kuo-liang was summoned to fight at the front lines. In his absence, Su Fen discovered she had tuberculosis.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-03-29
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The Blue and the Black 2
Overview: Part two of the wartime love story
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-07-20
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The Blue and the Black
Overview: It's a powerful melodrama about a thwarted romance in 1930s Tientsin, China, during the Japanese occupation, and it stars Linda Lin Dai, one of the era's most popular stars. It was part of Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-06-29
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The Monkey Goes West
Overview: THE MONKEY GOES WEST is the first entry in the studio’s epic, four-part screen adaptation of “Journey to the West,” a 16th-century novel recounting the efforts of a Buddhist monk and his magical companions to travel to India and bring back Buddhist sutras.
Genres: Music Fantasy Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-01-18
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Double Bliss
Overview: A melodrama about the blossoming love between two music students returning home from abroad and planning to wed. However, both of their parents don't know about it and when they find out, all bliss blasts away as social gaps become an issue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-02-04
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A Place to Call Home
Overview: Li Ching plays one of three daughters, whose life is turned upside down when she discovers she is adopted. But things get even worse when she goes in search of her real mother. Finally, after almost a double tragedy, she realizes what so many knew all along: There's no place like home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-04-11
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The Lark
Overview: A musical staring Carrie Ku Mei as a singer named Xiaoyun Shi, who comes to Hong Kong after a tour of other Asian countries, hoping to develop her career.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-07-28
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Sons of the Good Earth
Overview: The year is 1937, just prior to the Japanese invasion of China. Painters Ju Rui and Lao San stumble upon He Hua, a woman sold into the sex industry at a local brothel.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-03-19
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Between Tears and Smiles
Overview: Fan Chia-soo is a kind-hearted student whose heart is captured by the sweet song of Shen Feng-hsien. However, he is not the only one who has eyes for Shen. The General's henchmen are also determined to present the songstress to their superior as a gift. Fan received help from an unexpected quarter to save the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-01-17
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The Love Eterne
Overview: In this dreamy romance set in China during the fourth-century, a young woman convinces her parents to allow her to dress as a boy and attend university.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-04-03
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Love Parade
Overview: The winning couple of Linda Lin Dai and Peter Chen Hu light up the screen in the delightful Shaw Brothers musical Love Parade. The manager of a dance company places a personal ad in the newspaper. He receives a response but has no idea the woman is his top dancer, with whom he has an antagonistic relationship.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-01-21
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Love Without End
Overview: Li Qingqing, an orphan, just arrives in Hong Kong and becomes a singer who sacrifices everything for her man.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-10-12
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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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Three Sinners
Overview: Based on one particular storyline from The Water Margin, Three Sinners weaves an intriguing story of romance, treachery, and death, all within the context of the traditional Huangmei Opera. Yan Jun casts his real-life wife, the elegant Li Li Hua, star of such Shaw Brothers films as The Goddess of Mercy and Vermillion Door, as one of the title characters, a woman who finds herself in the middle of a stormy love triangle involving her controlling husband (director Yan Jun serving double duty in a starring role) and a passionate lover (Chen Yan Yan).
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-11-23
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Empress Wu
Overview: The renowned Li Li Hua plays Wu Ze Tian, the most famous woman in China's four thousand year history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-06-23
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Return of the Phoenix
Overview: Return Of The Phoenix is yet another masterpiece from prolific director Li Han-hsiang. An imperial minister Cheng Pu (Ching Miao) is faced with a quandary. He's getting old and his daughters are still not married. Elder daughter Shueh-yeh (Elizabeth Chuang) is so ugly no one wants her. Younger daughter Shueh-wu (Li Hsiang-chun) is beautiful but Mrs Cheng refuses to let her marry before her elder sister. The drama unfolds when Cheng decides to marry Shueh-wu off.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-07-24
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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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The Dream of the Red Chamber
Overview: The Ching Dynasty novel The Dream of The Red Chamber is not only the most widely read, but also the most filmed book in Chinese history. The sprawling love story has proven a challenge to many filmmakers, but this version is acclaimed as the most successful. A sumptuous feature which took three years of planning and another for production, it was a hugely popular and critical hit which still stands out as a classic of both 18th century literature and 1960s moviemaking.
Genres: Drama History Romance Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1962-08-02
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The Goddess of Mercy
Overview: With her elegant classic persona, Li Li-hua was the ideal performer for period aristocratic and imperial roles. The Goddess Of Mercy is a good example of her strong empathy and noble presence. The youngest daughter of a brutal king, the princess openly disapproves of the floggings and cruel treatment her royal family heaps on the peasants. As a result, the heartless king turns on his own daughter forcing her into exile. This humanistic tale will inspire and hearten even the most cynical viewer.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-03-21
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The Pearl Phoenix
Overview: Huangmei Opera movies like The Pearl Phoenix are unique to 1960's Hong Kong culture, a product of the Swinging Sixties but considerably more in touch with their Chinese roots. This one is complete with a gender-bending tale where the male lead is played by female and the female lead poses as a man, plus movie queen Li Ching and the singing voices of Ivy Ling Po and Jing Ting. Sit back and enjoy!
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-02-04
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Inside the Forbidden City
Overview: It seems that Li Zhenfei was once an imperial concubine, who often found herself competing with her rival Madame Liu for the emperor's sole, undivided attention. When Li gives birth to the Emperor's child, the jealous Liu switches the boy with a cat and commands a servant named Kou Zhu to kill the baby. However, Kou Zhu ignores the order and gives the prince-to-be to the emperor's brother, a decision which eventually leads to the boy being adopted by the emperor himself! But as fate would have it, to go along with his new son, the emperor has a new wife as well - Madame Liu! As this strange new family unit is being constructed, poor Li Zhenfei has been confined to the forbidden palace, condemned to never see or speak to her son, the prince. But destiny reunites her with her son, but will this family reunion be a happy one? And will Madame Liu finally be punished for her treachery?
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-10-16
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Squadron 77
Overview: Spy thriller set in occupied Shanghai. Li Lihua stars as the woman who is thrust into the role of nationalist freedom fighter when she discovers that her husband is a collaborator with the Japanese.
Genres: War Thriller Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-12-02
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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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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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The Dancing Millionairess
Overview: Chen Hou is a chauffeur who gets caught in a mistaken identity scandal linking him to businesswoman Lok Dai. Chen was supposed to audition for a job as her chauffeur, but a proposed musical show is far more attractive to the aspiring dancer. When a rumor gets out that the two are involved in an affair, she's angry and confronts him, but his charms overwhelm her, and it's revealed that she too desires to dance. Soon she's bankrolling the affair, the sets are being built, and the singing and dancing begin!
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-02-12
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Corpse-Drivers of Xiangxi
Overview: Hong Kong horror.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-05-10
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Win Them All
Overview: Filial daughter seeks revenge on father's killer. She must associate with dishonest people to finance her mission.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-06-28
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Low Society
Overview: A misguided youth falls into the bad company of an underground brothel syndicate but redeems himself on discovering that his mother was murdered by the syndicate's female boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1976-12-30
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The Joy of Spring
Overview: Hong Kong musical directed by Lo Chen.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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Lost Swordship
Overview: A golden-masked clan master, who had killed many top fighters, was determined to acquire an invincible sword manual so as to rule the martial world. Hence, he pursued a swordsman who possessed the manual, but the latter managed to escape and discovered a cave whereby he met two martial arts masters who taught him the invincible sword skills...
Genres: Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Les Belles
Overview: Linda Lin Dai and Fanny Fan join the dancing troupe of Kao Pao-shu. Linda and Kao's son Peter Chen, manager of the troupe, have misunderstandings and dislike each other.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-02-25
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The Coin
Overview: 1963 film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-03-25
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Bitter Sweet
Overview: A widow of four gave up two of her children to be raised by an uncle in Singapore. Many years later, just when the widow, now a house maid, is feeling contented by good news of her long gone son and daughter, she accidentally runs into his own son, now a lawyer, and ends up being looked down upon by him. It was a story about how traditional Chinese family and its value was impacted by the change of time. The movie depicted Macau in 1945 to Hong Kong in the mid-60s, moving from poverty after WWII to opulence. The human relationships became complicated and fragile. Many elements uniquely "Hong Kong", such as upper class Chinese, western religions, English speaking and a mixed-culture society are used to contrast the traditional, kind, enduring and forgiving love of a mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-07-10
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The Long Lane
Overview: The film focuses on a mother (Chen Yanyan) burdened by guilt after abandoning her newborn daughter in a long lane 17 years earlier, so that she could adopt a son to fulfil the traditional belief that only a male heir could continue the family line. However, when her adopted son (King Hu) becomes a disappointment, the mother’s regret deepens. On her deathbed, she confesses her secret to her husband (Wang Yin), who resolves to find their lost daughter.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-10-26
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