Wong Man-Lei

Wong Man-Lei

Born: January 1, 1913
Died: April 8, 1998

Movies for Wong Man-Lei...

Dream Lovers
Title: Dream Lovers
Character: Lei's blind granny
Released: April 25, 1986
Type: Movie
Chow Yun-Fat and Brigitte Lin have their incredible talents used to the hilt in this romantic mystery about a pair of tragic lovers from 2100 years before now reincarnated in modern Hong Kong.
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Title: Summer Kisses Winter Tears
Released: December 24, 1984
Type: TV
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Title: The Duke of Mount Deer
Character: 太皇太后
Released: July 9, 1984
Type: TV
The Duke of Mount Deer is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel The Deer and the Cauldron. It was first aired on TVB in 1984.
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Title: It's A Long Way To Home
Released: July 2, 1984
Type: TV
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Title: The Least Likely To Succeed
Released: June 19, 1984
Type: TV
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Title: Beyond the Rose Garden
Released: May 16, 1983
Type: TV
Orphan Ma Tianyou was raised by nuns in a Macau monastery, and grew up with Sister Connie, who knows the truth about his parents but kept it secret. At 19, Tianyou goes to HK to find his birth parents and ends up living with retired Dr. Fung. He meets the Wong family and falls in love with Ah Heung, but their relationship is complicated by their sibling-like bond. Back in Macau, Sister Connie reveals the painful truth that Tianyou's father is Fung's son, Fung Yue-lai, who had a complicated past with her and her friend who died giving birth to Tianyou. After struggling to accept his philandering father, Tianyou gradually reconciles with him.
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Title: The Adventurers
Released: November 24, 1980
Type: TV
The Adventurers is a TVB television series, premiered in 1980. Theme song "The Adventurer's", and the sub theme song "The Sentimental Debts" composition and arrangement by Joseph Koo, lyricist by Wong Jim, sung by Jenny Tseng.
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Title: Five Easy Pieces
Released: August 4, 1980
Type: TV
Five Easy Pieces is a TVB television series, premiered on 4 August 1980. Theme song "Five Easy Pieces" composition and arrangement by Joseph Koo, lyricist by Wong Jim, sung by Adam Cheng.
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Title: This Land Is Mine
Released: December 31, 1979
Type: TV
It tells about the new beginning of the 1980s, the rapid development of new towns in the New Territories, and the changes in the culture of the people in the New Territories due to urbanization. The center of the story is the Sun Kwong Village in Yuen Long, especially the protagonist Ho Man Tat (played by Lau Chung Yan), how to work hard In the end, she became unscrupulous and pursued the wealthy Yang Lijun (played by Feng Baobao), which finally became the main line of the play.
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Title: Over the Rainbow
Released: September 10, 1979
Type: TV
Over the Rainbow is a TVB television series, premiered on 29 January 1979. Theme song "Over the Rainbow" composition and arrangement by Joseph Koo, lyricist by Wong Jim, sung by Liza Wang.
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Title: The Passenger
Released: May 28, 1979
Type: TV
The Passenger is a TVB television series, premiered on May 28, 1979. Theme song "The Passenger" composition and arrangement by Joseph Koo, lyricist by Wong Jim, sung by George Lam.
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Title: 十二生肖
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: TV
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Title: Little Women
Released: October 6, 1975
Type: TV
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Title: Move On
Released: July 14, 1975
Type: TV
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Title: Dream Of The Red Chamber
Released: July 14, 1975
Type: TV
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Title: Tung Siu Yuen
Released: February 24, 1975
Type: TV
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Title: The God of Aqua
Released: December 30, 1974
Type: TV
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The Violet Girl
Title: The Violet Girl
Character: Jennie's mother
Released: August 17, 1966
Type: Movie
Working as a telephone operator on the nightshift, David Lau received some calls from a woman for a David and agrees to a blind date. Wearing a violet on his lapel, David mistakes someone else for his date. Jennie Lee, a stranger, comes calling at the hotel, addressing a bewildered David with an intimacy that is familiar and awkward. Mok Yu-fuk, the self-proclaimed Sherlock Holmes, follows Jennie but gets robbed. Lau received an invitation to Jennie's birthday party. The guests acting strange at the party. Jennie and Lau take a stroll along the beach. Jennie suddenly hurls herself into the sea in a run. Five years ago, when Jennie was having a heart-to-heart talk with her fiance David Wong on the beach, her neglected brother ran off to the sea and drowned himself. Suffering from a nervous breakdown ever since, Jennie was devasted by the departure of her fiance to America. The hopes Jennie's parents are pinning on the new David to boost their daughter's recovery are merely wishes.
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Between Man and Ghost
Title: Between Man and Ghost
Character: Suen Chan
Released: October 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Mo Yinhua fell in love with Lu Tianhe, but Hua was forced to marry Sun Ruochong as his concubine, and was later slandered by Chong's wife Chen Shi for having an affair with He. After Hua gave birth to Shaozong, she was pushed down the cliff, but fortunately survived, and turned into a Sheqing ghost to take revenge. Many years later, He finally reunited with Hua, and Shi Zong shot Hua in order to capture the green ghost, thus exposing the past, and the truth came out.
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Love Never Fades
Title: Love Never Fades
Character: Matriarch To
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: Movie
Orphan Lee Dan-hung is made a scapegoat by her cousin Chor Kwai-ping. Facing drug trafficking charges, Lee is released on parole with the doctor To King-chung as guarantor. Lee works as a sanatorium nurse. The modest caretaker, Matriarch To plays matchmaker for her son To Ngan-sing and Lee. Ashamed of her past, Lee listens to the doctor's advice and keeps the Tos in the dark. Chor returns and coerces Lee into colluding with smuggling ring by threatening to kill her newborn daughter. The reluctant Lee is arrested in a police raid together with the gang members but is later acquitted. With a reputation to defend, To toughens his heart and expels Lee. Lee leaves for Borneo with a touring opera troupe but a yearning for her daughter brings her back several years later. Feeling for the upset in-law, Matriarch To grants her stay until his son's return from business in a few months' time. When To returns, he decides to make up for the wasted time by bringing Lee and her daughter home.
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Secret of a Husband
Title: Secret of a Husband
Character: Fan's mother
Released: June 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Lawyer Fan Kam-man believes that his wife Chun Yuen-yung perished in a plane crash three years ago and walks down the aisle again with Yan Bik-kei. In fact, Chun survived a crash-landing on a deserted island with fellow passenger Wong Ah-lik, a biologist. Returning to civilisation, Chun sabotages their wedding night at the hotel. Overjoyed with her safe return, Fan pulls off a feat with his mother and wife to terrify Yan into divorcing him. However the lie is exposed when Wong shows up. Unyielding, the women settle to serve as wives to the same man. Mistaking Fan for the person Chun is going to see, the eavesdropping Yan goes to the date in her stead and unwittingly sleeps with Wong. Yan finally settles for Wong, putting an end to the topsy-turvy.
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A Mad Woman
Title: A Mad Woman
Character: Madam Wong
Released: December 23, 1964
Type: Movie
HK horror film.
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The Bloody Paper Man
Title: The Bloody Paper Man
Released: April 15, 1964
Type: Movie
HK horror film.
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The House of Murders
Title: The House of Murders
Character: Grandmother
Released: July 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Hong Kong horror movie from 1963.
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Cai feng jinghun
Title: Cai feng jinghun
Released: May 6, 1963
Type: Movie
Cantonese adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel Rebecca.
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Vampire Woman
Title: Vampire Woman
Character: Madam Chiu
Released: June 6, 1962
Type: Movie
Married and with a son on the way, Zhang takes shelter in a big old house haunted by a ghostly female vampire.
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Sunset on the River
Title: Sunset on the River
Character: To Chi's aunt
Released: February 28, 1962
Type: Movie
A Hong Kong historical drama
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Forsaken Daughter
Title: Forsaken Daughter
Character: Mrs. Lok
Released: March 22, 1961
Type: Movie
The Lok's family disperses when Japanese occupied China. Mrs. Lok's company prospers in Hong Kong. Her son Tin-yam looks after her business. She misses her daughter. Another daughter Chui-yin dates Kuk-tat. Mrs. Lok hopes that Tin-yam will find a good partner. Wan Yuk-yin works in Mrs. Lok's company and meets Tin-yam. They fall in love. Mrs. Lok asks Yuk-yin to leave Tin-yam. Facing his mother's objection, Tin-yam falls ill. Mrs. Lok let them marry. The wedding guests despised the bride, which makes Mrs. Lok uncomfortable. The couple lives happily, but Mrs. Lok and Chui-yin make Yuk-yin embarrassed. Kuk-tat covets the Loks' fortune. He steals their jewels. Mrs. Lok thinks Yuk-yin did it. Yuk-yin is innocent, but she is expelled. Tin-yam returns. Yuk-yin's parents seek justice at the Loks. Mrs. Lok's saw the Yuk-yin's birthmark. She realizes Yuk-yin is her lost daughter. Mrs. Lok decides to be a dutiful mother. Tin-yam is an adopted son of the Loks so the couple lives happily.
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Adventure on a Deadly Island
Title: Adventure on a Deadly Island
Released: September 28, 1960
Type: Movie
HK horror film.
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Human Relationships
Title: Human Relationships
Released: December 9, 1959
Type: Movie
Lee Sun-fung is renowned for adapting literary classics for the silver screen. To commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Union Film Enterprise known for producing quality films and co-founded by Lee, Human Relationships is adapted from writer Ba Jin's novel into film. The Yiu family moves into a manor. Mrs Yiu, while frustrated by the way her step-son is spoiled by her husband and mother-in-law, develops a friendship with a kid (Michael Lai) who steals flowers from the mansion's garden. She later learns that he is the son of the place's former owner whose downfall at middle age is the result of being spoiled when young. Lai was only a child but gained a foothold among seasoned veterans like Cheung Wood-yau, Ng Cho-fan and Pak Yin.
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The Chair
Title: The Chair
Character: Ka-Bo's mother
Released: October 14, 1959
Type: Movie
After inheriting his father's estate, Cheung Ka-bo leads a life of debauchery after getting know Blackie Yuen, who profits at others' expense, and Yee-Wah, who working at a night club. As the family wealth diminishes, he always squabbles with his wife and finally separates from her. She returns a diamond bracelet, kept by Uncle Chan, to her mother-in-law. Bo's mother hides the bracelet in a chair. Later, Wah resides at Bo's home. To flatter Wah, Bo wants to get the bracelet by any means from his mother and give it to Wah. Later, Bo's mother falls ill. In the hospital, she tells Bo of the bracelet's whereabouts but the chair has already been sold to Uncle Chan by Wah. Bo, Wah and Yuen stealthily enter Chan's home to get the chair, but have a big fight when they try to take the bracelet. Knowing that Bo has huge debts, Wah intends to leave him after getting the bracelet. Wah exposes her gluttonous self in her pursuit of the treasure. Bo learns his lesson and returns to his wife.
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Road
Title: Road
Character: Gao's wife
Released: July 29, 1959
Type: Movie
During the anti-Japanese war, truck driver Lee Sing's secret mission is to transport weapons and supplies for the resistance fighters. Sing has to deliver a signal gun to guerrillas at ten on that night for launching an attack against the Japanese soldiers. He works for the Ko's family and he has to send the gun to the provincial city to prevent it from being bombed. Sing carries on his vehicle a group of passengers including a Chinese traitor, a guerilla, a compassionate nurse, a comfort woman on the run, a teacher and his pregnant wife. Sing is given a hard time by the Japanese troops on the road. The Japanese ransack the vehicle and they find the signal gun. All the males on board are being interrogated with torture, but the passengers pool their efforts to subdue the traitor and accomplish their mission.
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Money
Title: Money
Character: Mrs. Chiu
Released: February 22, 1959
Type: Movie
A delicious comedy from Union Film, Money, traces the journey of a bag of cash from a bank robbery. The humour switches between the witty and the absurd, offering a biting examination of human nature when men and women are confronted with the chance of unearned wealth.
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Love Lingers On
Title: Love Lingers On
Released: May 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Tso Kea was adroit in adapting film and literary classics from the West, organically transplanting stories and characters onto Chinese soil and nurturing them to glorious fruition. Love Lingers On is based on the gothic novel Wuthering Heights and Tso shepherds Emily Brontë's tale of profound passion, thwarted love and bitter vengefulness with a perfect balance of broad narrative strokes and delicate orchestration of mise-enscene. He wisely concentrates on the lead characters' simmering mental troubles, greatly enhanced by stars Cheung Ying and Mui Yee, who overcome glaring age differences with their characters to bring life to this saga of vivid emotions.
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The Haunted Pot
Title: The Haunted Pot
Released: August 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Ghost story from Hong Kong directed by Ng Wui.
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The Wall
Title: The Wall
Character: Mrs. Kong
Released: April 18, 1956
Type: Movie
Kam Fan and Wong Ching-ping have a peaceful married life, until Ping's mother is serious ill. They desperately need a large amount of money. Fan tries in vain to raise money, he thus intends to use their daughter's school fees for the medical fees. Ping is against it and works as a song girl to earn money for her mother's medical expense. Her grudging husband Kam Fan uses a bed sheet to partition the bedroom into halves and even demands a divorce. After some mediation by their lawyer and neighbours, Wong finds a teaching job at an orphanage, but Fan still opposes it. Ping is so angry that she moves to live in the dormitory of the orphanage. Fan has to look after their daughter alone, making everything a mess. Later, their daughter catches a cold and has a high fever after an outing with Fan. Ping cannot set her mind at rest and goes home to take care of her daughter. The loving couple reconciles, for the sake of their daughter.
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Anna
Title: Anna
Character: To Lai-kuen
Released: November 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Though her marriage with rich businessman Chan Hak-lit is crumbling, Anna Poon refuses to accept her childhood sweetheart Wong Kei-shu's courtship. Anna's younger sister Mei-na has a crush on Shu and treats Lee Man coldly. When she sees Anna being with Shu, she taunts Anna with stealing who she likes. Anna is hurt and goes back to Chan's house. Chan holds a house party and invites business celebrities. Shu attends it and when tells Anna he loves her when they dance. Anna rejects him and tells him never to see her again. Chan goes to the racecourse. When Shu falls down from a horse, Anna faints. Chan asks Anna what her relationship with Shu is. He warns her not to have any wrongdoing and ruin his reputation. Shu is fine and asks Anna to meet for the last time. Anna cannot turn down him and goes to meets him. Lit miscomprehends the situation and files a divorce. He even forbids Anna to see their daughter. A distressed Anna becomes a victim of love in a conservative society.
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Eternal Love
Title: Eternal Love
Character: Yam Suk-kuen
Released: September 29, 1955
Type: Movie
Chan Sai-wah abides by his late father's word and marries the wealthy Yam Suk-kuen. They have a son, Kwok-leung. Though Wah is manager of the hotel owned by his father-in-law, Kuen is not a good wife. For all the years of their marriage, Wah has never been happy. Attracted to the humble and honest Carrie Mui, Wah decides to leave his domineering wife Kuen, but is stopped by his father-in-law. The lovers set off to Macau for a new start. Their life has become increasingly miserable under the pressure from Yam's family. When Wah leaves to seek help from his son in Hong Kong, Carrie decides she should leave so that Wah can go without feeling any guilt or burden. On the other hand, Wah is too ashamed to face his son, and returns to Macau. He lives his life in misery. Years pass, the lovers meet again. Wah is reduced to begging in the streets while Carrie becomes an opera diva.
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Backyard Adventures
Title: Backyard Adventures
Character: Widow
Released: July 12, 1955
Type: Movie
Reporter Yu Mong-yuen is recovering from a leg injury in his fiancee Man-wah's apartment. Bored, he looks out the rear window and observes the life of the neighbouring building. Among the tenants are a sugar-daddy and his mistress, a middle-aged man wants to marry a young girl, but she is in love with his son. Finally, she hatches a plot and makes the man agree to her marrying his son ; a sly fortune-teller ; a lively gym, a rich widow quarrels with the trainer of a gymnasium because his dog has bitten her cat ; and an opera school, a woman signs, leaning on the balcony, and a man tries to strangle her. In fact they are rehearsing an opera…… One evening, Wah is on the night shift, and Yuen watches the opera troupe rehearse to the end. Under the influence of drugs, Yu mistakenly believes that a divorced man has murdered a taxi dancer. He alerts the police, but the whole thing is nothing more than a misunderstanding.
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Parents' Hearts
Title: Parents' Hearts
Character: Lei's wife
Released: April 21, 1955
Type: Movie
An opera troupe has to dissolve in view of the poor economy. Comedian star Sang Kwai-lei loses his job and he has no alternative but to play the lion character in the opera troupe of his former junior apprentice Chan Hau and pawn his stage costume. He aims at earning enough money to support the final year's secondary school studies of his elder son Chi-kuen. Kuen however refuses to continue his studies, seeing that his father has to put aside his dignity to earn money and his mother is worried. Lei is enraged and uses the money to support his younger son Chi-wai's studies. Again, Lei loses his job and he resorts to giving street performances, his wife takes up sowing work in her spare time and she dies after a long illness. Kuen works to support himself through school, but Wai is less fortunate, he is forced to enrol in an opera troupe as an apprentice. Years later, the dying father joyfully embraces Chi-kuen's return from his studies.
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Cold Nights
Title: Cold Nights
Character: Man Suen's mother
Released: March 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Cold Nights features great performances by both Pak Yin as a tough minded “new woman”, Shusheng, and Ng Cho-fan as her weak husband, Wang Wenxuan, whose spirits have been crushed by the Sino-Japanese war.
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Malaya Love Affair
Title: Malaya Love Affair
Character: 梁成妻
Released: September 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Malaya Love Afffair 马来亚之恋 was financed, written and directed by Tsi Lo-lin, and it broadly focused on the themes of education, assimilation (of Chinese immigrants in Malaya), romance, kinship and traditional values.
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Neighbours All
Title: Neighbours All
Released: April 29, 1954
Type: Movie
The film features a conflict between a young wife and her mother-in-law, depicting the lives of ordinary people and their profound problems.
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Father and Son
Title: Father and Son
Character: Mrs Sek
Released: January 7, 1954
Type: Movie
After seeing a friend of his boss' son adopted over his promised promotion with connections, Shrimp's father, a minor white-collar worker Ng Kwun-sing, vows to get Shrimp a place in a prestigious school and a chance to make friends with the rich. However, Shrimpy is constantly bullied and discriminated against by his classmates. Ng has not the means to be a social climber and finally realises his mistake. He sends his son to a voluntary school so that he may grow up happily. This poignant father-son drama shows a parents' willingness to carve out a good future for their children by any means necessary.
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In the Face of Demolition
Title: In the Face of Demolition
Released: November 26, 1953
Type: Movie
This early leftist social drama from Hong Kong offers a panoramic portrait of a crumbling apartment complex and its down-and-out denizens, including a taxi driver, an unemployed teacher, a professional reduced to selling his blood and, of course, a venal landlord. In addition to establishing an omnipresent theme in Hong Kong cinema – the plight of the urban poor – the film is also a prime example of the popular melodramas of the time, which featured displaced Mainland film stars.
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The Guiding Light
Title: The Guiding Light
Character: Nanny
Released: April 30, 1953
Type: Movie
13-year old Bruce Lee plays San, a child up for adoption. Finally accepted by his surrogate parents, he is faced with a dilemma when his real parents show up and want him back.
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Family
Title: Family
Character: Lee Shui-kok
Released: January 7, 1953
Type: Movie
"Family" (1953), which launched the Union Film legacy, "Spring" (1953) and "Autumn" (1954) are adaptations of Ba Jin's highly regarded novel "Torrent Trilogy". In "Family", director Ng Wui skilfully condenses the voluminous first part of the novel into an emotionally powerful and intellectually focused story of youngsters struggling to survive oppression and repression in a feudalistic family. This well-received film quickly established the company's reputation.
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The Prodigal Son
Title: The Prodigal Son
Character: Mrs. Kwong
Released: December 12, 1952
Type: Movie
A prodigal son is married to a woman his mother dislikes. The wife is then expelled from the family circle and forced to become independent.
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The Life of Xiao Ming-Xing
Title: The Life of Xiao Ming-Xing
Released: April 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Drama from Hong Kong directed by Chun Kim.
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A Young Lady Sells Her Maid
Title: A Young Lady Sells Her Maid
Character: Wong Suk-Han
Released: November 3, 1951
Type: Movie
Comedy from Hong Kong directed by Yeung Kung-Leung.
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The Orphan's Rescue
Title: The Orphan's Rescue
Released: June 16, 1949
Type: Movie
A concubine and a cousin attempt to poison a rich man's son to gain the inheritance. But he survives and must fight back.
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Withered Bones of the Deep
Title: Withered Bones of the Deep
Released: October 25, 1939
Type: Movie
Hong Kong horror movie from 1939.
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Spirit of the Broom
Title: Spirit of the Broom
Released: July 16, 1939
Type: Movie
Hong Kong horror movie from 1939.
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The Walking Corpse
Title: The Walking Corpse
Released: April 5, 1939
Type: Movie
Hong Kong Horror movie from 1939.
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The Platinum Dragon (Part 2)
Title: The Platinum Dragon (Part 2)
Released: September 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Hong Kong romance.
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National Heroine
Title: National Heroine
Released: March 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Wai Kim-Fong stars in this ode to Chinese womanhood as a woman whose bravery and patriotism are equal to those of her male comrades.
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Cry of the Cuckoo in the Temple
Title: Cry of the Cuckoo in the Temple
Character: Chiu Ching-Ha
Released: May 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Historical drama from Hong Kong directed by Leung Siu-Bo.