Anita Mui
Also Known As: Mei Yanfang, 何加男, Madonna of Asia, Anita Mui, 梅艷芳, Anita Mui Yim-Fong, Mui Yim-Fong
Biography: Anita Mui Yim-Fong (Chinese: 梅艷芳, 10 October 1963 – 30 December 2003) was a popular Hong Kong singer and actress. During her prime years she made major contributions to the cantopop music scene, while receiving numerous awards and honours. She remained an idol throughout most of her career, and was generally regarded as a cantopop diva. Mui once held a sell-out concert at Hammersmith, London, England, where she was dubbed the "Madonna of Asia". That title has stayed with her throughout her career, and has been used as a comparison for both Eastern and Western media. In the 1980s the gangtai style of music was revolutionised by her wild dancing and femininity on stage. She was famous for having outrageous costumes and also high powered performances. Her fanbase reached far beyond Hong Kong, and into many parts of Asia including Taiwan, Mainland China, Singapore, Malaysia as well as the overseas market. In the Hong Kong entertainment industry where stars often come and go, Mui was able to remain a major star in the spotlight for 20 years. Her career only came to a stop in 2003 when she was suddenly diagnosed with cervical cancer, dying at the early age of 40. Even so, her music and film legacy continues to live on. Her success reached well beyond that of the entertainment circle with humanitarian work, donations and charities that played a major role in helping society even well into the present day. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anita Mui, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
Adult: No
Birthday: October 10, 1963
Age: 61 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 30, 2003
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Miracles: The Canton Godfather
Overview: A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-06-15
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The Legend of Drunken Master
Overview: Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-Hong is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-Hong must fight against the foreigners using his Drunken Boxing style, and overcome his father's antagonism as well.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-02-03
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Justice, My Foot!
Overview: An unscrupulous lawyer with an equally eccentric kung-fu sidekick wife tries to bring justice to the court.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-07-02
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Rumble in the Bronx
Overview: Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. One of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-01-21
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Eighteen Springs
Overview: In 1930s Shanghai, a young office girl falls in love with a factory worker in the same company.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1997-09-12
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A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
Overview: The year is 1974. A young Hong Kong Chinese, Mark, travels to Saigon to make his fortune. There, he encounters a mysterious femme fatale, the lovely Kit. As he becomes more involved in her various underworld deals, a tragic romance develops. On the eve of the outbreak of war, Kit's past returns to endanger her, and Mark must risk everything for the one true love of his life.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-10-20
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The Heroic Trio
Overview: While one tough woman with an invisible robe has stolen 18 babies for her powerful master, two other tough women and the cops try to stop her.
Genres: Action Fantasy Thriller Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-02-12
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Saviour of the Soul
Overview: A woman blinds a martial arts master and his pupil vows revenge on her. She is forced to abandon her loved ones without explanation in order to protect them from her ill-intentioned pursuer.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-12-19
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Fight Back to School 3
Overview: Chow Sing Sing returns, only this time he doesn’t go back to school. Instead, Chow goes undercover as the husband of a wealthy socialite, which doesn’t sit well with his fiancée, who tries to convince Chow to quit working as undercover.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-01-14
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The Enforcer
Overview: An undercover cop struggling to provide for his son and ailing wife, must infiltrate a ruthless gang. But things turn sour when another cop blows his cover and he quickly finds himself battling for his life and the lives of his family.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-02-08
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Rouge
Overview: Amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong, a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family fall in love and embrace death by suicide pact. Fifty years later, her ghost returns to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance Mystery
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-12-05
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Ultimate Fights from the Movies
Overview: In their second film compilation following their 'Boogeymen:The Killer Compilation' series, FlixMix takes you into the history of action movies from Hollywood to Hong Kong cinema that spans a 20-year period. This one features action scenes from 16 action-packed movies featuring action gurus, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Chow Yun-Fat, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme and many more.
Genres: Documentary Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-16
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Moon Warriors
Overview: A kind-hearted fisherman, content with simple life, is reluctantly drawn into helping a noble emperor regain his throne from his evil brother.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-12-19
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The Magic Crane
Overview: On his way to a congress of kung fu masters, an initiate falls from a high cliff, only to be rescued by lovely Tien Lam (Anita Mui), who rides a huge crane. The rest of the movie features a battle between warring martial arts factions, an equally fierce rivalry between the two daughters of the Crane Master, the accidental empowerment of an unprincipled master after having eaten half of a secret scroll, a battle with an immense tortoise whose spleeny vapors save a group of poisoned swordsmen, lots of great aerial fights against nearly invincible villains, and the usual blood spurting from assorted mouths.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-08-18
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July Rhapsody
Overview: High school teacher Lam Yiu-Kwok is in the midst of a midlife crisis. His wife, Man-Ching, has been unfaithful; his friends are reaping the rewards of successful business careers while he earns a comparatively meager salary at an unglamorous job; and one of his young students, Choy-Lam, has fallen for him. When Man-Ching leaves for a month to help her former lover, a jealous Yiu-Kwok is tempted to retaliate by pursuing an affair with Choy-Lam.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2002-03-14
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The Mad Monk
Overview: The gods in heaven complain to the Jade Emperor about the malicious practical jokes played on them by Dragon Fighter Lohan.
Genres: Action Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-07-29
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Heroic Trio 2: Executioners
Overview: The city has been devastated by a nuclear attack. An evil deformed villain controls the city's scarce water supply, exerting influence over a popular leader and a militarist colonel.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-09-30
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梅艷芳 Mui Music Show
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Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2001-12-09
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Anita Mui Fantasy Gig
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Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2002-03-28
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Shanghai Shanghai
Overview: Little Tiger (Yuen Biao) ventures from the sticks to the big city in search of his cop brother Big Tiger (Chi-cheung Lam), an honest cop working in a corrupt system. Surmising that life in the police force was not his cup of tea, Little Tiger joins the Swallow Acrobatic Troop, which he excels in because of his kung-fu prowess. When a band of thugs from Chin Hung-yun's (Sammo Hung) group attacks the troop, Little Tiger not only handily fights them back but also infiltrates their organization to destroy them from the inside. Meanwhile, Big Tiger's old flame Mary (Anita Mui) returns from America to join the revolutionaries. Big Tiger soon finds himself torn between his love of this girl and his orders to arrest all revolutionaries.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-01-20
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100 Ways to Murder Your Wife
Overview: Two men, Fat and Roberto, are both married and unhappy. Together they make diverse plans to murder their wives.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-06-05
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Kawashima Yoshiko
Overview: This film is based on the life of Kawashima Yoshiko, originally Manchu princess who was the 14th daughter of Emperor Xu, later brought up as a Japanese and served as a spy in the service of the Japanese Kwantung Army and Manchukuo during the Second World War.
Genres: Crime Drama History Romance War
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-07-28
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Inspector Chocolate
Overview: Inspector Chu is an idiot to rival Inspector Clouseau. After he fails to catch a car-park full of thieves he is demoted to the missing persons squad, only to be faced with the kidnapping of the son of the star of a TV cooking show. Inspector Chocolate bungles the case, fails to dance the tango and interferes with the Miss Hong Kong pageant in his attempts to solve the case
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-12-18
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Happy Din Don
Overview: Michael is a guitarist in a night club, but his indulgence in gambling costs him his job. He is kicked out of the band. Wandering in an alley, he accidentally overhears a gang of drug dealers plotting. He is caught as he tries to get away. Michael seeks the help of his roommate, Roger who is the manager of a girls band preparing to go on a performing tour to Thailand. Roger takes Michael as a band member so that he can get away. While in Thailand, Michael falls in love with the leading female singer of the band. He tries all sorts of ways to gain her attention and love, while keeping one jump ahead of pursuing gangsters...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-03-21
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Dance of a Dream
Overview: Namson Lau is a ballroom dancing instructor. On stage, he is a refined and suave gentleman, but in reality, he is cunning and greedy, and dancing has become a mean to strike fortune for him, without any other levels of significance.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2001-12-21
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Wu Yen
Overview: Lost in the woods, the Emperor Qi stumbles across local chief Wu Yen, his predestined bride, only to accidentally free a promiscuous fox fairy who promptly falls in love with both of them, changing between man and woman to clumsily woo each, setting the scene for a constantly shifting triangle with the emperor torn between both the fox fairy and Wu Yen and the fox fairy after whichever one will agree to marry her first.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2001-01-18
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The Banquet
Overview: Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung has secured the other two properties. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-11-30
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Au Revoir, Mon Amour
Overview: A tragic love story set against the always volatile and oftenviolent backdrop of Shanghai during the Japanese occupation and at the opening of the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. A nightclub singer becomes involved with both a member of the Chinese resistance and an officer of the Japanese army.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-03-28
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Behind the Yellow Line
Overview: Married boss Paul falls for his employee named Monica after running into her in a subway station and it makes all things uneasy for her.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-10-03
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Let's Make Laugh
Overview: The cheating husband goes bankrupt, and his house is soon to be taken by the government. A security guard is assigned to guard it while the husband goes missing. However, only the mistress stays alone in the house. Will the lonely, handsome guard and the sexy, heartbroken mistress hook up?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-09-02
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Mad, Mad 83
Overview: shaw production
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-08-20
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Midnight Fly
Overview: Michelle is a middle-aged Hong Kong woman who decides to take a trip to Southern France in order to find some inner resolution about her unhappy marriage. While touring the rainy country with a fairly depressing tour group, she befriends Miki, a quirky young Japanese woman who seems to have some problems of her own. After the end of the tour, the two women decide to extend their vacation by travelling to Morocco but things go horribly wrong when Miki is kidnapped by a modern slave-trader…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2001-07-12
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Who's the Woman, Who's the Man?
Overview: Music producer Sam and his cross-dressing protege Wing have finally professed their love for another, but now what?
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-08-15
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One Husband Too Many
Overview: Theater enthusiast Sun (Anthony Chan) is so passionate about drama that he sells his home to stage Romeo and Juliet. The plays turns out to be a complete failure however - and is the last straw for his wife (Anita Mui), who quietly leaves him. Marriage isn't working out too well for his friend Wa (Kenny Bee) either: Fed up with a husband who spends too much time at work and not enough at home, Wa's wife (Pat Ha) suddenly leaves. Things finally look up for Sun when he produces a popular play starring rich girl Hung (Cherie Chung) and the two begin dating. But it turns out Wa also has his eyes on Hung...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-03-31
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百變梅艷芳再展光華87‐88演唱會
Overview: Anita Mui Live in Concert "87-88
Genres: Music
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-12-01
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Scared Stiff
Overview: Alan and Halley are partners in a pest control company. Handsome Alan gets the girls and puffy Halley gets nothing. One night the two are injured in a car crash. Halley suffers slight injuries but Alan is dead for all purposes except his brain wave which still works actively.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-03-06
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Young Cops
Overview: A typical Hong Kong comedy about young inexperienced cops that get into a lot of silly antics. The film is notable for featuring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Anita Mui in early roles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-08-08
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The Musical Singer
Overview: Entertainment manager James Wong loses his lead singer Jannie Fong when she breaks her contract. Angered, he turns his efforts to making a young dancer named Russell, who has no singing experience, into an even more successful singer than Miss Fong. During his climb to success, Russell's girlfriend, Dionne, feels alienated from him.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-05-04
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Trouble Couples
Overview: Mui Da Hsien (Anita Mui), the eldest sister, is the only breadwinner in the family. She spends all her time in raising up and discipline her three sisters, Yee Hsien (Ann Bridgewater), Sarm Hsien (Charine Chan), and Sai Hsien (Fennie Yuen). They are aware of Da Hsien is becoming a spinster and they are not allowed to get married if Da Hsien remains single. So they decide to find her a husband. So all their boyfriends very anxious to give a helping hand. They find Tsang To Choy (Eric Tsang) who just has broken heart is the right man, but Tsang is scared away by Da Hsien's shrew temper...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-08-13
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The Top Bet
Overview: Sing and Mei are two siblings with special powers which the former uses to gamble. When both are unavailable, a gangster hires Fanny, a con artist, to compete in a gambling competition.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-03-07
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Let's Sing Along
Overview: Chu Wai Tak (Anita Mui), a timid and shy office lady, is embarrassed by her ex-boyfriend by enrolling her in a singing contest. Tak is in trouble as she can't sing when someone else is round. She asks King (Dayo Wong) a Karaoke fanatic, to train her and make her confident in performing in front of others. The time is coming, King decides to give Tak the final "confidence boost" session... Anita Mui must overcome stage fright by learning from the “King of Karaoke” in this musically-inclined comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2001-12-06
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From Ashes to Ashes
Overview: This medium length feature was produced by the HK TV station RTHK and the Government of HK within the anti smoking campaign. This is the first and unique film written and directed by Leslie Cheung. The movie was made in September 2000. Although many big stars appear in the movie, the budget was very modest: 700,000 HK$!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2000-08-01
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百變梅艷芳告別舞台演唱會 Anita Mui 1991 Final Concert Live
Overview: Anita Mui's final concert after announcing her retirement in 1991.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
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Happy Bigamist
Overview: Ah Sun of the drama society leads a dramatic private life off-stage as well as on. His ex-wife Kong loses her last cent in business; and after going bankrupt is left without a place to stay. As she is entitled to own half of Ah Sun's house, she moves back. Ching, Sun's girlfriend, is determined to show who's the mistress. Her exaggerated actions embarrass Kong, and Kong soon has a chance to hit back. Ah Sun's rich aunt returns for a visit and has not been told about their divorce...
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-04-17
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The Fortune Code
Overview: Set in China during the Japanese occupation. A young man breaks out of a POW camp to marry his sweetheart, but finds she is now a spy for the resistance, code-named "Number 3". With the help of "Number 2" he returns to the camp to find "Fortune", an agent who possesses the pass-code to a Swiss bank account with $500 billion intended for the Chinese army.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-01-19
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Anita Classic Moment Live
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2003-11-06
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梅艷芳 Mui Music Show
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Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2001-12-09
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Last Song in Paris
Overview: Louie (Leslie Cheung), a spoiled pop star, has a one-night stand with beautiful dancer, Anita (Anita Mui). When Anita tells Louie that she dreamed of becoming a singer, he brings her to the stage and becomes a star. Anita has fallen in love with Louie, but Louie loves Julia (Joey Wong). However, Louie later finds out that Julia is dating his father, Kent (Paul Chu). Louie then leaves Hong Kong and heads to Paris leaving his career behind. Then he meets, Yuan Yu-shih (Cecilia Yip), a Vietnamese refugee that suffers from a war wound. In Paris, Louie lives his new life happily as a dishwasher with his new lover. However, his past life starts to come back when Anita comes to pay a visit.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1986-04-10
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Lucky Diamond
Overview: Lucky Diamond is a Hong Kong Comedy directed by Yuen Cheung-Yan and starring Alex Man and Anita Mui.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-06-19
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Left Right Love Destiny
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Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1999-10-10
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The Greatest Lover
Overview: A delightful comedy about three illegal immigrants from China, one of whom (Chow) gets roped into a gentleman-training course - taught by Mui - in order to take revenge on some bitchy beauties who jilted a nasty fellow. Kinda like a gender-reversed My Fair Lady.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-07-30
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Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star
Overview: Angel of Nine Heavens is found to have fallen in love, and is banished to Earth. Windfall God is secretly in love with her, and begs the Jade Emperor to be given a chance with her. He is sent to Earth in human form, only able to use his godly powers three times per day. He has seven days to find the reincarnation of Angel of Nine Heavens and make her fall in love with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-02-29
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Three Wishes
Overview: Three Wishes is a Hong Kong Comedy starring Anita Mui
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-08-11
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Why, Why, Tell Me Why!!
Overview: Why, Why, Tell Me Why!! is a Hong Kong Drama starring Anita Mui
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-03-09
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The Sensational Pair
Overview: The Sensational Pair is a Hong Kong Drama Comedy starring Kent Cheng and Anita Mui
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-06-23
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梅艳芳红馆绝唱经典演唱会
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Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2003-11-01
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The Illustrated Guide to Hong Kong Stars
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-20
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Jackie Chan: My Story
Overview: Jackie Chan is one of the world's biggest action stars, famed for his wacky sense of humor, remarkable martial arts techniques, and willingness to perform incredible stunts without the use of doubles -- or a net. This video takes a personal look at Chan as he works on screen projects in Hollywood and Beijing and candidly discusses his life and work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-17
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半生缘
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Original Language: zh
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梅艳芳一个美丽的回响演唱会
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Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-06-06
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百變梅艷芳告別舞台演唱會
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Genres: Music
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-12-23
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