Backyard Adventures
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.
Casts & Crew
Cheung Ying
Chow Kwun-Ling
Tsi Law-Lin
Lo Dun
Lee Hoi-Chuen
Ma Sze-Tsang
Yung Siu-Yi
Wu Fung
Leung Sing-por
Lai Cheuk-Cheuk
Pak Suet-Sin
Ng Cho-Fan
Wong Cho-San
Fong Yim-Fen
Lee Ching
Chan Lap-Ban
Yuen Biu-Wan
Lai Man
To Sam-Ku
Tai Sang-Po
Lee Kwok-Wai
Kong Yat-fan
Lisa Mok
Ho Chi
Lo Kau
Wong Man-Lei
Gam Lau
Wong Chiu-Miu
Cheung Wood-Yau
Chu Yat-Hung
Ho Chak-Chong
Hung Sin-Nui
Yam Kim-Fai
Lee Yuet-Ching
Kwan Bik-Sang
Sek Kin
Cheng Pik-Ying
Chan Chui-Bing
Lam Kau
Hui Ying-Ying
Lee Yim-Yeung
Yiu Yee-Wan
Wong Sau-Han
Lam Yau-Leung
Siu Hon-Sang
Chow Gat
Sai Gwa-Pau
Lam Yuen
Fung Ming
Leung Chun-Mat
Yuen Siu-hoi
Leung Yuk-Kwan
Mak Bing-Wing
Ma Siu-Ying
Chan Yim-Lung
Au-Yeung Kim
Wong Hok-Sing
Ho King-Fan
Yue Ming
Ling Mung
Leung Siu-Mui
Tam Wing-Chau
Woo Yik
Yuen Siu-Fai
Chan Kam-Tong
Chung Lai-Yung
Lee Bo-ying
Lai Man-Soh
Lee Wai-Ha
Mui Chun
Ng Tung
Chow Luen
Wong Kung-Miu
Lee Keng-Ching
Lee Tsui-Ping
Jia Na
Wong Tak
Wong Oi-Ming
Keung Chung-Ping
Cheung Chok-Chow
Poon Siu-Chau
Lam Yuk
Kwong Siu-Loi
Yu Oi-Lin
Poon Bing-Kuen
Cheung Chi-Suen
Lam Fei
Mok Hung
Ho Keng-Bo
Wong Wai
Cheung Chau-Sang
Cheng Lau-Kuen
Tam On
Cheung Tit
Yuen Lap-Cheung
Ng Wui
Chun Kim
Tsui Siu-Ying
Go Chiu
Heung Hoi
Law Kim-Long
Mui Yee
Kam Ping
Siu Man-Luen
Leung Lai-Ha
Kwok Hong
Hoh San
Lam Liu-Ngok
Tang Man
Wong Lam
Fung Fung
Cheng Wai-Sum
Fung Ying-Seung
Also Directed by Ng Wui
No Money No Talk is a Hong Kong is a Hong Kong Drama starring Bill Tung
Ghost story from Hong Kong directed by Ng Wui.
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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.
Directed by Wui Ng.
As the Cantonese 'Jane' Bond films evolved, the genre became less Bond-like, cutting down on the staging of fights and the flaunting of secret weapons. The heroine(s) remained an action figure, complete with quick wits and agile prowess, but the stories increasingly took on the jewel theft plot and the twilight world of decadent deviance. The Mysterious Sisters is no exception as director Ng Wui renders high class thefts in the style of the classic French film Rififi, and long stretches of action that unfold without dialogue.
Hong Kong comedy film.
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.
After seeing a friend of his boss' son adopted over his promised promotion with connections, Shrimp's father vows to get Shrimp a place in a prestigious school and a chance to make friends with the rich. This poignant father-son comedy shows a parents' willingness to carve out a good future for their children by any means necessary.
Also Directed by Chu Kei
Family Doctrine is a drama film directed by Chu Kei and stars Wu Fung, Man Lan, Pearl Au Ka-Wai, Ma Siu-Ying, and Kitty Ting Hao.
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.
Family Doctrine is a drama film directed by Chu Kei and stars Wu Fung, Man Lan, Pearl Au Ka-Wai, Ma Siu-Ying, and Kitty Ting Hao.
Drama from Hong Kong directed by Chu Kei.
A man kills his wife then frames his sister-in-law for the murder.
A young Bruce Lee, stars as an orphan, who meets and befriends an escaped convict, that he will cross paths with again and bring about a series of fateful events that reveals a secret about the boy's past.
"Red and White Azaleas" (alias "重訂今生未了緣"), a Hong Kong film produced by the Red and White Film Company, was released in 1951.
This rare gem features the extraordinary stellar cast of two comedy giants on the same screen and the two Ma's (Ma Si-tsang and Sun Ma Si-tsang) performing together. Leung Sing-por as the wealth-feigning Au and Ma Si-tsang as penny pincher Ma already set the stage for laughter. Ma Si-tsang dons a hilarious moustache and adds panache to the character whenever he complacently twists his moustache, making his greediness almost lovable. The film features a zany plot 'twist' when the two Ma's, as father and son, try to attend a charity gala by having Sun Ma Si-tsang teach Ma Si-tsang to sing ‘Yu Hap-wan Expresses His Inner Feelings', one of the elder Ma's most popular repertoire. Ma Si-tsang gives a commanding seven-minute solo performance that captures the heart of the audience now and forever.
Also Directed by Chan Pei
Chinese Opera from Hong Kong directed by Chan Pei.
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Iron-Beaked Hen and Fatso Bo on their way to the city to help a relative out of some trouble, they run into a band of robbers. They stop over an allegedly haunted house where they save the lovers To Lok-yin and Yu Mei-yung from their attemped suicide. Hen learn their story and decide to help them out. Yin comes from a rich family, he lost his father when he was very young and was brought up by his uncle. Now that he is old enough to claim his inheritance, the guardian, his uncle, in order to keep the fortune under control, forces him to marry a girl of his choosing. The couple cannot face separation and resolve to end their lives together. Hen thinks of a way to help them, which involves Yin pretending to comply; that is, to go ahead with the marriage arrangement. On the wedding day, they swap the bride with Yung. Disguised as a matchmaker and a county official respectively, Hen and Bo reprimand To's uncle who schemes to seize To's family fortune. To and Yu marry.