Guan Shan

Guan Shan

Born: April 20, 1933
Died: October 1, 2012
in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
Kwan Shan (Chinese: 關山, April 20, 1933 – October 1, 2012) was a Hong Kong film actor. Kwan appeared as a romantic lead actor in Mandarin-language films created in Hong Kong, especially during the 1960s. His roles included several Shaw Brothers Studio productions.

Movies for Guan Shan...

Wonder Seven
Title: Wonder Seven
Character: Chief of Wonder Seven
Released: April 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Wonder Seven, a secret group of well-trained government agents in China, has been assigned a case of a computer disc robbery. At first everything seems to go smooth, when a disastrous national conspiracy unravels. Seven gets caught and are forced to strike back. Meanwhile, the leader of Seven, Yip, develops a forbidden romance with a mysterious Japanese lady...
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The Heroic Trio 2: Executioners
Title: The Heroic Trio 2: Executioners
Character: President
Released: September 30, 1993
Type: Movie
Set some time after the original 'Heroic Trio,' 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.
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Red and Black
Title: Red and Black
Character: Lui
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
In 1941, during the Japanese occupation of mainland China, a man is infected by a Japanese vampire soldier. He manages to climb in to an underground cavern where he impales himself with a wooden stake. 25 years later, after the Mao communist Revolution, he's inadvertently ressurected by his unsuspecting son and returns long enough to infect the people's leader.
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Police Story 2
Title: Police Story 2
Character: Mr. Fung
Released: August 13, 1988
Type: Movie
The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.
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A Better Tomorrow II
Title: A Better Tomorrow II
Character: Go Ying Pui
Released: December 17, 1987
Type: Movie
A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.
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Lady in Black
Title: Lady in Black
Released: January 11, 1987
Type: Movie
Kin Seng (Leung Ka Fai) falls into big debts in the gambling house. He persuades his loving wife, May (Lin Ching Hsia), to embezzle a huge sum from working place to save him. They go to Thailand to seek help from Kin Seng's uncle but in vain. On their return Journey, May accidentally falls off the ferry and Kin Seng commits a deliberate murder. [...] What is going to happen next? -From the Fortune Star Legendary Collection DVD summary.
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Dream Lovers
Title: Dream Lovers
Character: Cheung Hark-Nam
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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The Millionaires' Express
Title: The Millionaires' Express
Character: Train Robber
Released: January 30, 1986
Type: Movie
What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards the small town of Hanshui, where escaping bank robbers, corrupt officials, and gamblers await? Well, let's just say the Titanic had a smoother maiden voyage.
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The Lost Generation
Title: The Lost Generation
Character: Hotel manager
Released: September 21, 1983
Type: Movie
The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
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Behind the Storm
Title: Behind the Storm
Released: March 5, 1982
Type: Movie
After an old rich man mysteriously falls to his death, a ghost returns to settle the score.
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Monkey Business
Title: Monkey Business
Character: Captain
Released: January 7, 1982
Type: Movie
Hong Kong comedy film.
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Naked Comes the Huntress
Title: Naked Comes the Huntress
Character: Abbot
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Three travellers in the snowy wastes of Mongolia are hunting for valuable ginseng. As they battle the elements and the threat of starvation they come across a woman lying naked (but very much alive) in the snow surrounded by the wild minks. The treasure-hunters approach her and fall into a trap which will ultimately tear them apart and lead to murder and betrayal.
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Broken Oath
Title: Broken Oath
Character: General Liu
Released: December 3, 1977
Type: Movie
Lotus never had a chance. Her mother seethed with anger at being unjustly imprisoned for turning her attemped rapist into a cyclops. Mother repeatedly asked her good friend and fellow prisoner, Pickpocket, to urge Lotus to take revenge for her as an adult. Lotus is given to a monastery and grows up there, but twenty years of peace and love make no impression on Lotus, who skips classes to practice pole and sword skills. Joining forces with Pickpocket and Big Rat, Lotus gets her chance at revenge.
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The Lady Killer
Title: The Lady Killer
Released: July 8, 1977
Type: Movie
A popular singer named Ah Hui is approached by gangsters who want him to perform at their nightclub. When Ah Hui rejects, they set him up by making him believe he murdered an innocent man; Of course, Ah Hui falls for it. With nowhere to turn and the fear of being sent to jail, Ah Hui accepts help from the gangsters. In return he has to sign an exclusive singing contract with them. Little does Ah Hui know, they have other sleazy plans in store for him.
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The Shaolin Plot
Title: The Shaolin Plot
Character: Ku Cheng Feng
Released: April 6, 1977
Type: Movie
When a terrible kung fu master seeks various martial arts manuals from around China to make himself even more evil, he must come to blows with a Wu Tang student sent to stop him.
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The Obsessed
Title: The Obsessed
Released: November 5, 1976
Type: Movie
A newlywed couple’s relationship turns into a nightmare when they start to witness paranormal activity. A “spiritualist” is hired to investigate the strange phenomenon, and discovers a deep, dark secret within the marriage that’s bringing back a vengeful spirit. A South Korean remake released under the title Fury of Soul (영노) in 1976 of the 1975 Hong Kong movie The Possessed (靈魔). Many actors from the original movie also appear in the movie.
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Chelsia My Love
Title: Chelsia My Love
Released: July 28, 1976
Type: Movie
For many years, Mr. Lee has been keeping a secret from his wife and two daughters that his elder daughter, Chelsia, is having some serious heart disease. Only his good friend, Dr. Fong, who made the diagnosis knows about it. Chelsia meets Ma, an overseas Chinese, at her secondary school graduation ball and gradually they fall in love with each other. Doctor Ma's son Chileung, who grows up with Lee's daughters, is fond of Chelsia while the younger daughter Chelwin loves him. However, neither of their affection is returned.
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The Himalayan
Title: The Himalayan
Character: Mr. Tseng
Released: February 20, 1976
Type: Movie
The Tseng family is one of the most noble and respected clans in a small village in Tibet. The patriarch of the Tseng family wants to marry off his daughter Ching Lan into the Kao clan. However, the cunning and deceitful eldest brother Kao Chu only wants his younger sibling Kao I-Fan to marry Lan so he can gain access to the Tseng family's considerable wealth and power.
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The Big Family
Title: The Big Family
Released: February 19, 1976
Type: Movie
Shek Kin plays the head of a large crime family. His sons get into all sorts of trouble with the other triad bosses. They both escalate the situation with drugs and murder and create a bitter feud with a rival family.
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Shantung Man in Hong Kong
Title: Shantung Man in Hong Kong
Released: November 13, 1975
Type: Movie
When Shan Tung comes to Hong Kong for the first time, wanting to seek help from his countryman Lo San, however, Lo San refuses to give him a hand. Shan Tung has no choice but to sell amphetamine in the street for living. A honest guy like him with pronunciation problem often causes embarrassing situations. He is laughed at by others because of his queer ideas. In later days, he makes a lot of friends because he never hesitate to do what is righteous. Therefore he has a better life than before.....
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Love Lock
Title: Love Lock
Released: August 30, 1975
Type: Movie
Li Ching, Szu Wei and Tsung Hua in an eternal romantic triangle in which a girl has to choose between two men: a poor but upright lad who will marry her for love or a handsome suitor who is after her father's money.
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The Seven Coffins
Title: The Seven Coffins
Character: Master Hung
Released: April 10, 1975
Type: Movie
Hsiao Tsui is the most beautiful girl in a prosperous prostitution house in a North China town. But every client of hers is chased and scared by ghosts. She is thus very poorly treated by the owner. House madame Chiao takes pity in Tsui and hides her in an abandoned inn. There are seven coffins in the inn, all results of unnatural deaths...
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The Obsessed
Title: The Obsessed
Released: March 18, 1975
Type: Movie
Hong Kong horror movie from 1975. Not to be confused the other movie with same name The Obsessed (영노). This one was produced in Hong Kong and released in March the 18th 1975.
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Hiroshima 28
Title: Hiroshima 28
Character: Imai Eisaku
Released: April 11, 1974
Type: Movie
Filmed on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Hiroshima 28 was the first all-Hong Kong crew to make a feature in Japan. Lung Kong anchors a bittersweet melodrama in the historical milieu in the months following the horrific events of August 6, 1945. Josephine Siao—a star whose career had become synonymous with the filmmaker’s work over the past decade—plays a young tour guide to a Hong Kong reporter researching the tragic effects of the atom bomb, their journey forming an odyssey through the city’s ruins.
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Gone with the Cloud
Title: Gone with the Cloud
Released: February 6, 1974
Type: Movie
After the death of her parents, a young woman (Tang Bao Yun) is forced to work as a barmaid to support the education of her younger brother (Liu Chia Chang) and sister (Brigitte Lin)...
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The Brutal Boxer
Title: The Brutal Boxer
Character: Chen Wu Sheng
Released: October 4, 1972
Type: Movie
The bloodiest Kung Fu battles ever fought. The subtitle says it all, as there is hardly any story, but all the more raw fighting.
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Pei Shih
Title: Pei Shih
Released: March 29, 1972
Type: Movie
Lung Kong collaborated with accomplished novelist Meng Jun to pen the script for this tale of heartbreak and doomed romance. The mounting despair of two solipsistic characters headed towards an emotionally shattering break-up is depicted through an elliptical series of flashbacks.
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The Peeper, the Model and the Hypnotist
Title: The Peeper, the Model and the Hypnotist
Released: March 9, 1972
Type: Movie
An anthology of tales from Hong Kong.
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Woman Guerrillero with Two Guns
Title: Woman Guerrillero with Two Guns
Released: February 19, 1971
Type: Movie
An exciting story of daring guerrilla warfare.
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Five Plus Five
Title: Five Plus Five
Released: January 26, 1971
Type: Movie
Comedy about five married couples — a pair of parents and their four daughters and sons-in-law. Li Li Hua plays the eldest girl, opposite her real-life husband Yean Chuan.
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Thunderstorm Sword
Title: Thunderstorm Sword
Released: April 13, 1970
Type: Movie
A swordsman and swordswoman fight to protect Lady Liu who is trying to return to power. She's traveling in a coffin, the heroes can only hope they all aren't sent home in one.
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Secret Agent Chungking 001
Title: Secret Agent Chungking 001
Released: April 4, 1970
Type: Movie
Taiwanese spy thriller. Agent No 1, a super sleuth from Chungking, is sent to Nanjing to investigate the murder of a Japanese general, which leads to even more intrigue and skullduggery.
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A Cause to Kill
Title: A Cause to Kill
Character: Chang Li De
Released: January 15, 1970
Type: Movie
Ivy Ling Po, star of The Temple of the Red Lotus, tears up the screen as a jealous, murderous movie star, who, like seemingly all "film noir" vixens, wants to kill off her husband. While she's infuriated that the hitman she hires bungles the job, she's delighted that her husband is found guilty for the killer's "murder".
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The Little Flowers in Tears
Title: The Little Flowers in Tears
Character: Chang Chi-Cheng
Released: December 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Wang Yan-ru is a very popular nightclub singer, she also teaches at the orphanage where she is brought up. She has always hoped that talents in the orphanage could form their own chorus and eventually stand on their own feet. Chang Chi-cheng is in Taiwan with a tour group from Malaysia. Much to his amazement, he finds out the dual identity of Yan-ru, both as a teacher and a singer. He quickly falls in love with her. He too is very fond of the children in the orphanage. He helps them to get what they want. Finally, he wins her affection. The affair is eventually brought to the attention of Chang's parents who are tipped off by his cousin Yu-ping. It so happens that Yu-ping is also in love with Chi-cheng...
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Farewell, My Love
Title: Farewell, My Love
Character: Liu Shi Ming
Released: November 14, 1969
Type: Movie
In Farewell, My Love Julie Yeh Feng plays a devoted wife and mother dying from an incurable illness. Her goal now is to find a new mother for her child and a new wife for her husband before she dies. Because of all her personal tragedies and on going hard life off camera, audiences associated with Julie, making her one of the most beloved actresses of her time.
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Dark Semester
Title: Dark Semester
Character: Tu Cheng Kang
Released: May 2, 1969
Type: Movie
Tu Cheng Kang (Guan Shan) teaches at the Ta Tap Middle School where pupils are delinquent. Tu’s class is the worst. As the headmaster and his fellow teachers are unable to cope with the unruly students, Tu is determined to win them over with kindness. He fails initially but does not despair. Kao Te Sheng (Chuen Yuen), nicknamed the One Eyed Dragon, is the chief troublemaker and leader. When Kao’s father, a coolie, faints at the wharf from over work, Tu takes him to the hospital and befriends him. The old man does not realize Tu is his son’s teacher and neither does Te Sheng realize that his teacher had saved his father, he continues to oppose Tu.
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Unfinished Melody
Title: Unfinished Melody
Character: Hu Zhong-Ning
Released: March 13, 1969
Type: Movie
A sensitive love triangle helmed by one of Shaw era's top directors, Chin Chien. A psychiatrist taking a room at an old friend's apartment soon discovers an insane woman living in a neighboring flat. As the doctor gradually heals the woman he also falls in love with her. The problem arises the friend's daughter confesses her love to him as well. Misunderstanding and mistaken passions soon lead to broken hearts and an emotional confrontation to the love triangle.
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Spring Blossoms
Title: Spring Blossoms
Character: Second sister's husband (Photo)
Released: April 18, 1968
Type: Movie
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.
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Susanna
Title: Susanna
Character: Lin Cheng Ting
Released: October 16, 1967
Type: Movie
Nineteen-year old Li Ching scored a major success playing the title character, Susanna. Li's youthful exuberance is given free rein in a role that embraces rebellion, love, betrayal, tragedy, and ultimately, redemption.
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Swan Song
Title: Swan Song
Character: Du Fan
Released: September 23, 1967
Type: Movie
Hong Kong drama directed by Lo Chen.
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The Mirror
Title: The Mirror
Character: Hu Chien
Released: August 11, 1967
Type: Movie
Property company chairman Hu Zian was attracted to his secretary Sun Yuxia's beauty and competence. One day after dinner when Hu was escorting Sun home, he received from a child on the street a box containing a mirror and two silver coins engraved with dragons.
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Sing High, Sing Low
Title: Sing High, Sing Low
Released: June 27, 1967
Type: Movie
A Shaw Brothers Musical Comedy.
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Too Late for Love
Title: Too Late for Love
Character: Li Guo-Liang
Released: March 29, 1967
Type: Movie
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.
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The Joy of Spring
Title: The Joy of Spring
Character: Himself (Cameo)
Released: December 21, 1966
Type: Movie
Hong Kong musical directed by Lo Chen.
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Rose, Be My Love
Title: Rose, Be My Love
Character: Ling Jia-Cong
Released: September 28, 1966
Type: Movie
Not a love triangle but a love rectangle, Rose, Be My Love is a romantic drama that represents the high standards achieved by Shaw Brothers in both star power and technical polish. Set on the eve of Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong's invasion by the Japanese, the tragic romance takes on added poignancy in light of the future fate of leading lady Li Ting, the "Rose" of Rose, Be My Love who committed suicide a mere three months after the movie's release.
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The Blue and the Black 2
Title: The Blue and the Black 2
Character: Zhang Xing-Ya
Released: July 20, 1966
Type: Movie
Part two of the wartime love story
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The Blue and the Black
Title: The Blue and the Black
Character: Zhang Xingya
Released: June 29, 1966
Type: Movie
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.
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Vermilion Door
Title: Vermilion Door
Character: Wu Yu-Qi
Released: August 26, 1965
Type: Movie
The tragic love triangle of early 20th century Peking Opera star Chiu Hai-tang, his beautiful stage partner, and the warlord who forces himself between them, has been a favorite with Chinese audiences for decades.
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The Shepherd Girl
Title: The Shepherd Girl
Character: Liu Da Long
Released: July 15, 1964
Type: Movie
Julie Yeh Feng stars as Hsiu Hsiu, a beautiful singing shepherdess who falls head over heels in love with a handsome boatman named Liu Ta Lung. Unfortunately, she can't afford to marry her new beau because her father has racked up numerous debts due to his uncontrollable gambling addiction. And to make matters even more complicated, there's a rival suitor who promises to pay off all of her no-good father's debts on the condition that he is given Hsiu Hsiu's hand in marriage. She initially declines his offer, but starts to get jealous when she sees Ta Lung getting a little too close for comfort with another woman. In retaliation, she starts flirting with her possible benefactor/husband-to-be. But what Hsiu Hsiu doesn't know is that her jealousy isn't based on any actual unfaithfulness, but on an unfortunate misunderstanding!
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The Coin
Title: The Coin
Character: Li Tzu Wen
Released: March 25, 1964
Type: Movie
1963 film
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Between Tears and Smiles
Title: Between Tears and Smiles
Character: Fan Jia Shu
Released: January 17, 1964
Type: Movie
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.
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The Adulteress
Title: The Adulteress
Character: Yang Nai-Wu
Released: August 8, 1963
Type: Movie
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.
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Her Sister's Keeper
Title: Her Sister's Keeper
Character: Fang Teh-Ming
Released: May 18, 1963
Type: Movie
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.
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The Love Eterne
Title: The Love Eterne
Character: Student
Released: April 3, 1963
Type: Movie
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.
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The Second Spring
Title: The Second Spring
Released: February 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Shaw Brothers drama.
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The Dream of the Red Chamber
Title: The Dream of the Red Chamber
Character: Master Jia Lian
Released: August 2, 1962
Type: Movie
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.
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Love Without End
Title: Love Without End
Character: Tang Peng Nan
Released: October 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Li Qingqing, an orphan, just arrives in Hong Kong and becomes a singer who sacrifices everything for her man.
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The Doctor and the Prima Donna
Title: The Doctor and the Prima Donna
Character: Doctor Zhang Zhongxian
Released: November 17, 1960
Type: Movie
Famous dancer and film actress Fong Nan (Mao Mei) desires both a career and a family after marrying an eminent doctor (Guan Shan), who, however, wants her to be a stay-at-home wife. They are on the brink of divorce when he finds out she secretly rehearses for her dance and movie…Taking inspirations from Hollywood musical films, the movie is beautifully directed and meticulously produced by Yuen Yang-an and his Sun Sun Film Enterprises. While most films at the time usually depict how grassroots people rise above adversity, this one tells the story of a famed actress who thrives for success and never gives up on her artistic ambition. This reflects that women's liberation and employment was a dominating theme in left-wing movies. The finale was shot in Eastman colour negative film, which was rare before mid-60s given the limited technical resources in Hong Kong film industry, and thus a valuable record in the city's cinematic history.
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The True Story of Ah Q
Title: The True Story of Ah Q
Character: Ah Q
Released: November 19, 1958
Type: Movie
A casual laborer in a small town is subjected to daily defeats and brutalities but somehow manages to achieve a spiritual sense of triumph.