Margaret Tu Chuan
Also Known As: Xiaoping Peng, Tu Chuan, Juan Du, Chuen To, 杜鵑, 彭小萍, 杜鹃
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Adult: No
Birthday: November 12, 1942
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 30, 1969
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Her Sister's Keeper
Overview: To put her younger sister Huilan (Margaret Tu Chuan) through college, Huilian (Grace Ting Ning) became a taxi dancer and is despised by Huilan. Now married to a good husband (Guan Shan), the lonely Huilan falls for a man after her money. To protect her younger sister, Huilian puts herself at risk. Grace Ting Ning plays a sad role, as the noble sister who keeps her purity in a cesspool.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-05-18
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The Second Spring
Overview: Shaw Brothers drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-02-28
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The Magnificent Trio
Overview: A wandering swordsman named Lu Fang who is returning from battle discovers that several farmers have kidnapped the local magistrate’s daughter. He sides with them after learning that this is an act of desperation to improve their low standard of living.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-11-08
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Black Falcon
Overview: Zhang Shijie is an international spy, like James Bond, and has to seduce Julie Tan, the daughter of an organization’s leader in order to find their headquarters.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-05-03
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Tiger Boy
Overview: Tiger Boy, an itinerant young knight-errant bent on revenge for his father's death 15 years earlier rescues a young maiden after her brother is killed protecting her from the advances of a band of bandits. While the heroes escape the band's clutches and seek refuge in the forest, Tiger Boy discovers that her perpetrators are led by the son of his father's killer who also has a yen for the maiden. As fate would have it, she instead falls in love with our hero who pledges to return to her after vanquishing all his enemies. To accomplish this, he sets out to singlehandedly crash a large birthday party held in his father's killer's honor. Meanwhile, Tiger Boy's chivalric quest is complicated when the maiden also sets out after him straight into peril in the enemy's own stronghold.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-02-16
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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 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 Magic Touch
Overview: Early Shaw Brothers comedy
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1958-12-03
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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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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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The Lost Love
Overview: A romance film by the Shaw Brothers studio.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-07-06
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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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Stepmother
Overview: A Shaw Brothers drama starring Diana Chang Chung-Wen and Margaret Tu Chuan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-09-06
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All the Best
Overview: A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Ding Ling.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-02-14
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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 Fair Sex
Overview: A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho, Pat Ting Hung, Ding Ling, Fanny Fan Lai and Margaret Tu Chuan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-07-21
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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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Diary of a Lady-Killer
Overview: Diary of a Lady-Killer is a murder mystery mixed with erotica. Each time a local playboy has an affair, the lady shows up dead, making him the prime suspect.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-05-10
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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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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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Blue Skies
Overview: Hsiao Yun's rise to fame all results from a lucky break, as she's forced to substitute for another singer at the last second. The girl makes the most of her fortuitous opportunity, creating a huge splash in her debut as an entertainer, a fact which forever changes her life! However, this newfound meteoric rise to fame begins to take a toll on her personal life. For one thing, it starts to complicate her burgeoning romance with her pianist lover. And secondly, she soon finds herself the receiver of some sexual overtures from the producer of her show. What will poor Hsiao Yun do? And will blue skies be smiling at her by story's end?
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-09-13
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The Kingdom and the Beauty
Overview: This is a musical about a young emperor who is lured via stories told to a place called Kiang-Nan by his royal tutor. The empress mother has the tutor go to Kiang-Nan to bring him back.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1959-06-29
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Back Door
Overview: A middle-aged couple adopt a young girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-05-27
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The Black Forest
Overview: A musical set in a logging village in Taiwan. Romance and singing abound as a logger and a pretty girl from the village fall in love. A villain is there to make sure that the course of true love does not run smoothly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-09-19
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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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Malayan Affair
Overview: A Shaw Brothers production
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-04-28
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