Yi Fung

Yi Fung

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Hong Kong 73
Title: Hong Kong 73
Character: Policeman
Released: April 24, 1974
Type: Movie
As the Heng Seng Index reaches unprecedented heights, people from all walks of life go stock speculation crazy. A security guard and his landlord learn firsthand that money is ‘Easy Come, Easy Go’ as their fast fortune disappears overnight in a Macau casino. Meanwhile, greedy neighbours and infidel couples cheat each other and even blue-collar workmen dive into the frenzy. Inevitably, the market tumbles as do the people’s bittersweet lives. A hilarious but ironic tale featuring some of Shaw’s biggest stars.
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Scandal
Title: Scandal
Character: Policeman / Guard
Released: April 12, 1974
Type: Movie
Director Li Han-hsiang teams up with Michael Hui in this tongue in cheek tale of extramarital affairs and corruption. Michael Hui and Wang Sheng are two loafers who prove they are good for something after all.
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The Golden Lotus
Title: The Golden Lotus
Released: January 17, 1974
Type: Movie
Golden Lotus is based, in part, on Jin Ping Mei, a famous erotic novel of ancient China. Li Han-Hsiang adapted part of the story into this film, which starts with Hsi Men Ching, a successful merchant, wooing Pan Chin Lien, the beautiful wife of one of the townspeople.
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The Fate of Lee Khan
Title: The Fate of Lee Khan
Character: Spy disguised as bandit
Released: December 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Lee Khan, a high official under Mongolian Emperor Yuan of the Yuan dynasty procures the battle map of the Chinese rebel Chu Yuan-Chang's army. Rebel spies, aided by treachery within Khan's ranks, strive to corner him in an inn.
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The Sugar Daddies
Title: The Sugar Daddies
Character: Wu
Released: November 29, 1973
Type: Movie
During the day, Hu Tien lives as a respectable office employee, but when night falls, he unashamedly plunges headlong into an exciting world of lust and sex as a high-class Hong Kong pimp! Thanks to his uncanny knack for setting up prostitutes with "sugar daddies," Hu Tien starts living the high life. Things take an even more dramatic turn when the drop-dead gorgeous Irene (Betty Pei Ti from The Delinquent and Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan) enters the fray. Thanks to Hu Tien's involvement, this rough and tumble new vixen soon finds herself being the center of attention among all the wealthy sugar daddies. But is his relationship with Irene merely business or is there more to it?
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The Pirate
Title: The Pirate
Released: July 27, 1973
Type: Movie
Pirate Chang Pao-Chai springs a leak after an otherwise successful raid on a foreign ship. He goes ashore to get materials to patch his ship up, where he encounters corrupt Qing officials and poor, oppressed peasants. Being a good man at heart, he decides to help out and becomes an even bigger outlaw in the process.
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The Cub Tiger from Kwang Tung
Title: The Cub Tiger from Kwang Tung
Character: Dock Foreman
Released: March 31, 1973
Type: Movie
Hsiao Hu has been secretly training in martial arts, as his father (Tien Feng) has forbidden him. Later, some local store owners ask Ah to help protect them from a greedy Chinese extortion ring. Ah discovers that the crime lord behind the extortion had killed his father years before and is determined for revenge.
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The Villains
Title: The Villains
Character: Traveling Trader
Released: March 9, 1973
Type: Movie
A poor orphan seeks help from her wealthy uncle and his sons.
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The Bastard
Title: The Bastard
Character: Inn waiter/whoremonger
Released: February 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Little Bastard searches for the parents who abandoned him as an infant, with the help of Little Beggar. He finds his father, who is a powerful and wealthy manl and is taken in by him and his family. Before long Little Bastard is seduced by his attractive cousin, making Little Beggar very jealous. However, the seduction and family welcome are all part of a nefarious plan.
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The Black Tavern
Title: The Black Tavern
Released: December 16, 1972
Type: Movie
This sword-filled thriller centers on the title location--an inn where the down and dirty meet to plot nefarious doings. Award winning actor Ku Feng stars as the "Whip Devil," while the luminous and lethal Shih Szu plays "The Lady Hermit" who has a surprise in store for all the double-crossing masters of mayhem.
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The Imperial Swordsman
Title: The Imperial Swordsman
Character: Fu's official
Released: October 5, 1972
Type: Movie
Chuan Yuan is the noble, powerful hero and Shu Pei-pei, one of Shaw’s top swordswoman, is a reluctant bride who comes upon a rebellion plot. They are joined by a large cast of expert fighters and actors all keeping the intrigue and adventure foremost in the film. There’s even a nice surprise ending amidst all the action.
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Hapkido
Title: Hapkido
Character: Black Bear Student
Released: October 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Yu Ying, Kao and Fan return to China to start a martial arts school but are bullied by the Japanese competitor who runs the Black Bear school. The harassment leads to intense conflicts between them.
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Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
Title: Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
Character: Constable
Released: July 9, 1972
Type: Movie
18-year-old Ainu is kidnapped and sold to a brothel. Her good looks and wild personality make her very popular with the lustful clients, but also draw the lesbian attentions of brothel madam Chun Yi. Chun Yi teaches Ai nu the ways of lust and the ways of kung fu, and Ai nu becomes more and more similar to her captor. But rage at her treatment is still burning inside her.
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The Boxer from Shantung
Title: The Boxer from Shantung
Character: Train Passenger (extra)
Released: February 11, 1972
Type: Movie
Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection is his famed fighting technique.
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The Golden Knight
Title: The Golden Knight
Character: Li's Man
Released: April 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Respected veteran Yueh Feng made this “Martial Arts World” saga of a masked master of the “Black Sand Hand Technique,” while Lily Ho, the star of "Princess Iron Fan" and "Angel With The Iron Fists", excels in a delightful dual leading role. When she teams up with Shu Pei-pei as a fellow swordswoman to vanquish a murdering robber, the comparisons to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" are obvious, even though it came three decades later.
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Spring Blossoms
Title: Spring Blossoms
Character: Postman
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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Wife of a Romantic Scholar
Title: Wife of a Romantic Scholar
Released: October 26, 1967
Type: Movie
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Lucky Purse
Title: Lucky Purse
Character: Xue's servant
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Film version of Suo Lin Nang, the popular Peking opera written by Weng Ouhong.
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Fairy, Ghost, Vixen
Title: Fairy, Ghost, Vixen
Released: May 27, 1965
Type: Movie
FAIRY, GHOST, VIXEN (1965) consists of three fanciful tales that may be loosely classified as ghost stories, but they're presented and designed more along the lines of traditional fairy tales. They're beautifully staged and photographed and have a timeless quality about them with a moral at the end of each.
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Passion
Title: Passion
Released: February 12, 1965
Type: Movie
A Cathay Studio production
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A Beggar's Daughter
Title: A Beggar's Daughter
Character: Gao Sheng
Released: January 29, 1965
Type: Movie
This is an adaptation of the folk story, “Jin Yu Nu beats her heartless groom with a cane”. Jin Yu Nu, a beggar’s daughter, is a beautiful and kind girl. On a snowy day she saves the life of a poor scholar, Mo Ji. When Mo recovers, he marries Jin with love and gratitude. Mo wins the third place in the imperial examinations, but now he is looked down upon because his wife is a beggar's daughter. Extremely embarrassed and ashamed, Mo wants to divorce but has no excuse. Jin then jumps into the river and Mo has deep regrets but it is too late. Later, Mo’s senior Ambassador Lin appreciates his talents and wants to marry him his daughter. On the wedding night, the bride orders Mo to kneel in her room and beats him hard with a cane. Not until then does Mo know his bride is actually Jin, who has been saved by Lin. At the end, Lin knows Jin still loves Mo and helps the couple reunite.
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The Story of Sue San
Title: The Story of Sue San
Character: Brothel worker
Released: September 30, 1964
Type: Movie
This gripping story centers on the romance between Wang Chin Lung and Sue San. Although they may be perfectly matched when it comes to their love for one other, the two come from remarkably different social ranks. While Chin Lung is the son of a respected government official, Su San is a prostitute, albeit a famous one.
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The Story of Qin Xiang-Lian
Title: The Story of Qin Xiang-Lian
Character: Employee
Released: July 18, 1964
Type: Movie
The Story of Qin Xiang-Lian is a Hong Kong Chinese Opera musical starring Jackie Chan in a child role.
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Lady General Hua Mulan
Title: Lady General Hua Mulan
Character: Inn waiter
Released: June 15, 1964
Type: Movie
About a woman who disguises herself as a man to take her father's place in the army.
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The Magic Lamp
Title: The Magic Lamp
Character: Court staff
Released: January 23, 1964
Type: Movie
Adapted from one of China's most well-known fairy tales, the Goddess of Mount Hua falls in love with a young mortal scholar Liu Yanchang and gives birth to a baby son, Chenxiang. When Chenxiang grows up, he seeks to unravel the mystery surrounding his mother whom he has never met.
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Three Sinners
Title: Three Sinners
Character: Jiang's colleague
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: Movie
Based on one particular storyline from The Water Margin, Three Sinners weaves an intriguing story of romance, treachery, and death, all within the context of the traditional Huangmei Opera. Yan Jun casts his real-life wife, the elegant Li Li Hua, star of such Shaw Brothers films as The Goddess of Mercy and Vermillion Door, as one of the title characters, a woman who finds herself in the middle of a stormy love triangle involving her controlling husband (director Yan Jun serving double duty in a starring role) and a passionate lover (Chen Yan Yan).
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Her Sister's Keeper
Title: Her Sister's Keeper
Character: Friend
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 Second Spring
Title: The Second Spring
Released: February 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Shaw Brothers drama.
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Love Parade
Title: Love Parade
Character: Mr Ying
Released: January 21, 1963
Type: Movie
The winning couple of Linda Lin Dai and Peter Chen Hu light up the screen in the delightful Shaw Brothers musical Love Parade. The manager of a dance company places a personal ad in the newspaper. He receives a response but has no idea the woman is his top dancer, with whom he has an antagonistic relationship.
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The Mid-Nightmare
Title: The Mid-Nightmare
Released: December 20, 1962
Type: Movie
Essentially an adaptation of Gaston Leroux's classic The Phantom of the Opera, Mid-Nightmare is set in a Huangmei diao teahouse theatre, which an embittered and horribly disfigured ex-performer ‘haunts', looking to extract revenge on his enemies and falling in love with a talented and beautiful, but ultimately unattainable, ingénue.
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The Dream of the Red Chamber
Title: The Dream of the Red Chamber
Character: Servant
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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The Golden Trumpet
Title: The Golden Trumpet
Released: August 30, 1961
Type: Movie
A Hong Kong wenyi drama.
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A Shadow over the Chateau
Title: A Shadow over the Chateau
Released: March 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Hong Kong crime drama thriller film.