Tam Sin-Hung
Also Known As: Sin Hung Tam, 谭丽荷, 谭倩红, 谭倩虹, 譚倩紅, Tam Sin-Hung
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Macau, China
Birthday: August 28, 1931
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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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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Seven Years Itch
Overview: An introverted businessman who doesn't get out much, Willie Ng recently celebrated his seventh anniversary, but his marriage seems to be hitting a slump. His wife is a Cantonese opera aficionado who often complains that her husband is boring and doesn't appreciate the arts. Willie himself is also eager for some action to break the monotony. When he goes to Singapore on a business trip, he encounters cute pickpocket Siu Hung at the airport, triggering off a series of events that puts his marriage in jeopardy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-03-05
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Hu-Du-Men
Overview: The "Hu-Du-Men" (loosely translated as "stage door") is an imaginary line separating the stage from reality, and a line that must be crossed each and every night by Sum (Josephine Siao), the aging star of a Cantonese Opera troupe. Nearing the twilight of a storied career, Sum must face a variety of challenging new obstacles, including the possible emigration of her family come 1997, the appearance of a promising young actress (Anita Yuen), the hiring of a Western-schooled stage director (David Wu), the surprising revelation of her daughter's sexuality, and finally the reappearance of a shocking secret from her past. Through it all, Sum must retain her professionalism and dignity, as the "Hu-Du-Men" between the stage and her life begins to blur. Emotional, intimate direction and Raymond To's intelligent, relevant screenplay make Hu-Du-Men worthwhile cinema, but it's Josephine Siao's brilliant, emotionally dynamic performance that sets this film above the rest.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-04-03
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Lee Rock
Overview: The film chronicles the rise and fall of a corrupt police force that Lee Rock becomes a part of.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-09-18
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Goodbye Darling
Overview: Tai (Raymond Wong), a loving and caring husband and Josephine (Cherrie Chung), his sweet and darling wife, are a young, merry couple. Tai has a close lawyer friend, funny but kind-hearted Choi Sum (John Sum) who often offers his help whenever Tai needs it. Tai works in a De Luxe hotel's top management. He brings his wife to the hotel's annual ball in which all his colleagues are fascinated by the beauty of Josephine. Among the colleagues, there is a notorious seducer who is execptionally keen in seducing the wives of his friends. Tai, with the help of Choi Sum, makes every effort to protect his wife. They bring themselves into a series of hilarious and comic situations. Due to a complicated misunderstanding, Tai learns that he has got an incurabl cancer. He worries about his wife and plans for her future happiness. Joe Yeung (Mark Cheng), a nice and smart guy has proved to be an ideal potential husband for Josephine. Tai tries his best to match Joe and his wife...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1987-10-22
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Lost Souls
Overview: Like many Hong Kong people, the Ling family are hoping to immigrate to Canada - but then they all die in a gas poisoning accident. Something wimpy like dying isn't going to stop them from their Canadian dreams, but it turns out migrating in the next life takes money, too. In order to raise funds to head west, the Lings return to the mortal world and get to work making money through various jobs, raising plenty of hilarious havoc and misunderstandings along the way.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-08-09
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Summer Snow
Overview: Tells the story of the relationship between a widower with Alzheimer's disease and his daughter-in-law, May Sun, who is a housewife in her forties trying cope with the upheavals in her family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-05-04
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Love Follows Fortune
Overview: Impoverished scholar Leung (Yam Kim-fai) became a widower and his in-laws give him 30 taels of silver to find a new wife. He gives the money away to help an old man, a kindness witnessed by the young woman To (Fong Yim-fun), who is impressed and smitten. Needing to introduce his ‘new wife' to the in-laws, Leung seeks help from his cousin (Tam Sin-hung), whose husband Wong (Poon Yat On) had just bought To as maid, lusting after her. The cousin loans the maid to pose as Leung's wife but the jealous Wong poses as their servant to keep watch, creating hilarious havoc that fails to hinder the love developing between the scholar and the maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1959-02-07
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The Lion's Roar
Overview: Chan Kwai-sheung visits the brothel with So Tung-bo while his wife, Lau Yuk-ngo, is sleeping. As this is the first time Sheung did this, Ngo wants him to suffer and so makes him wear a lamp on his head. During the Lantern Festival, the Emperor has fun with his officials. After a few drinks, Bo says that Ngo has lost the virtues of a woman. Ngo immediately appeals to the Emperor. All the women there, including the Empress, say that Bo should be punished. Bo is unhappy and invites his cousin, Kam Cho, seduce Sheung to make Ngo unhappy. Sheung, a philanderer, schemes to take Cho as his concubine. Ngo finds out and beats him. Bo urges Sheung to divorce Ngo. Ngo is furious and lodges a complaint with the imperial court. The Emperor allows Sheung to have a concubine. Ngo pleads that she would rather drink poison than let Sheung take a concubine. Feeling remorseful, Sheung drinks the poison after his wife. Fortunately, the queen has switched the poison with vinegar. The couple reconciles.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1959-06-30
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Encounters of the Spooky Kind II
Overview: Impoverished teahouse worker (and martial-arts student) Abao is engaged to his boss' daughter, Little Chu, and fights to protect her from the lecherous advances of the wealthy but repulsive Master Shi. The two men's romantic rivalry escalates into full-scale supernatural warfare after Shi enlists the aid of a wicked sorcerer, and Abao encounters a benevolent female ghost.
Genres: Action Comedy Fantasy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-02-09
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Lung Fung Restaurant
Overview: Dragon, an ex-triad member, gets out jail and decides to go straight. However, his old friend Rubbish Pool and old boss Kent usually settles disputes with other gang leaders there, so Dragon has a hard time getting pass his old ways.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-04-26
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Women's Prison
Overview: A young woman about to get married discovers all too late that her spouse has mafia connections, when violence breaks out during her wedding. Caught up in the crossfire Lynn gets arrested and thrown into a women's prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-08-11
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Moon, Star and Sun
Overview: A story combined by the lives of three night clubs girls in. Porsche is a once-famous aging night club girl; May is forced to work in a night club in order to pay her step-father's debt; and GiGi needs a huge amount of money in order to help her fiancé. They all know Night Club Girl is not a good reputation job, and they expect to start over again someday. However, it seems they cannot break the "curse" that "Bad girls never have fortune"
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-07-08
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Now You See Love... Now You Don't
Overview: This is a screwball-comedy in Hong Kong style. Chow Yun Fat plays the spoiled village hetman of a tiny village in Hong Kong. The plot revolves around his love interest who has run off to work in downtown Hong Kong and many culture clashes between the peasants and urban life are highlighted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-02-01
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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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The Witch
Overview: Hong Kong martial arts / horror.
Genres: Horror Adventure
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1967-04-11
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All About Ah-Long
Overview: Ah-Long, a father living a low-class lifestyle, while trying to raise his son, Porky. The strong bond between father and son is tested when a chance encounter from Ah-Long's ex-girlfriend changes the course of their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-03-16
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Scarlet Boy
Overview: He is sent by the gods to do battle with the monkey King who is up to more magical mischief than is good for him.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Fantasy History
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1962-09-12
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The Fragrant Sword
Overview: The Fragrant Sword is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie starring Stanley Fung. Yu Lap-chung has been executed for the murders of martial alliance members when the black-clad assailant to blame is still roaming free. Apprehended by the murder threats to the helmsman of Emei and Xueshan, Golden-clad Ambassador of the alliance solicits help from the security escort master Wai To, Yu in disguise spared from execution by his master who had a rapist stand in his place. The fake scholar ingratiates himself with Ai Ching-yee, daughter of the Mulberry Pillar Fortress helmsman Ai Pak-chuen and exposes the father's conspiracy with his sworn brother to rule the martial world by dispatching Ching-yee's senior disciple Sze-hung Ying to commit atrocities against the martial alliance. Yu cajoles Ching-yee into assisting in Sze-hung's capture and with the culprit handed over to the alliance, the young lovers wander away.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1969-01-22
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Mr. Coconut
Overview: Lovable Mr. Coconut arrives in town from Hainan China where he lived with his coconuts. Here in the sophisticated urban jungles of Hong Kong. He has finally reunited with his family, as he endures Hong Kong Streets of the late 1980s, filled with stock and property gamblers, heavy mobile phones and others.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-01-21
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Man of the Times
Overview: A look at the life and times of Chan Chi Chiu--an ambitious cop's journey to become the highest ranking officer in Hong Kong.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-08-28
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Fight Back to School 2
Overview: Star Chow, an officer in the elite police unit, resigns when he is made a scapegoat for a botched investigation. He goes undercover at a school to complete the case and realizes a bumbling detective is also undercover as a student.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-04-09
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The Snowflake Sword (Part 1)
Overview: The Blood Pool Map re-emerges in Jiang-hu, and all good and evil sects hunt for Fang Zhaonan, who is said to carry it. For his part, he simply hopes to trade it to the herbalist Lu Xuan for medicine he needs to free his sister, but fate has other plans.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1964-07-15
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Hong Kong Gigolo
Overview: Cheng, Wai & Joe are Gigolos. Cheng, once very popular, is losing his fame due to age. Wai’s profession brings to his family lots of bad luck and destruction. Joe is persuaded to betray his client by videotaping their intercourse for the client’s husband and get involved in a murder case. The life of gigolos with the good things and the wrong side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-11-10
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Book Without Words
Overview: Book Without Words is a 1965 Cantonese martial arts film directed by Chan Lit-Ban and starring Cheung Ching.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-29
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Changing Partner
Overview: Two mismatched Hong Kong police detectives, Yau and Yue, were assigned to work undercover as a live-in couple to track down a serial killer accused of murdering adulterers. In the meantime, Yau (Anthony Chan) is coping with his girlfriend having left him, and Yue (Sandra Ng) is losing her boyfriend to a college girlfriend of his.
Genres: Thriller Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-01-23
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Eighteen Marriages of a Smart Girl
Overview: Eighteen Marriages of a Smart Girl
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1954-07-03
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Second to None
Overview: Businessman marries his company's mainland representative. Trouble is, he already has a wife and family back in Hong Kong!
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Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-10-08
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The Snowflake Sword (Part 2)
Overview: Fang Zhaonan meets Chen Xuanshuang and learns powerful kungfu, while the Monks of Shaolin gather the most powerful heroes of Jiang-hu to wage war against the Death Valley Mingyu Sect. Mei Jiangxue pleads with them to stop, but they ignore her, to disastrous consequences.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-22
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The Snowflake Sword (Part 3)
Overview: The Evil Cult Master discovers Mei Jiangxue has betrayed her by rescuing her fiancé, Fang Zhaonan, and orders her to jump to her death into a volcanic pit. Then they lay siege to the Shaolin Temple, with the help of a devoted cultist on the inside.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-15
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The Snowflake Sword (Grand Finale)
Overview: Finally, our heroes arrive at the Blood Pool to learn the Snowflake Sword stances required to counter the evil Cult's power. But the cult has gotten there first, and soon Fang Zhaonan and Chen Xuanshuang are at their mercy.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-22
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The Bachelor's Swan Song
Overview: Kenny and Maggie, lovers of long standing, have been scrimping and saving for their marriage. One day Maggie suspects that she is pregnant, and suggests an early wedding. Kenny is thunder struck as he has just lost his every cent in the stock market.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-03-18
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