Also Directed by Tang Huang
A country girl moves to the city in order to go to school. She has to overcome several obstacles.
Long-legged Hu Tingting is a quiet introvert while her younger sister Binbin is active and vivacious. True love has been eluding the haughty and arrogant Tingting. Their anxious mother Chen Jingfang forces her husband to take the daughters to a wealthy friend's birthday party in the hope of finding Tingting a respectable match. The sisters make the acquaintance of the wealthy heir Jin Queli, but Tingting falls for Xiaojin, a humble mechanic whom her snobbish mother disapproves of. Rejected by Tingting, Jin shifts his affection to Binbin instead and suffers her pranks. Xiaojin turns out to be the son of a car dealer and the mother no longer objects to their wedding.
Anatole France's The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife has been adapted into three different Hong Kong films in the 1950s alone. These two adaptations stray from the source material considerably in genre, characterisation and plot, turning a farce about married life into localised romantic comedies that emphasise family values. The Beauty and the Dumb follows the couple from their meet-cute to the misunderstandings they encounter before the inevitable happy ending. The heir of a bank (Huang He) falls in love at first sight with one of the employees' daughter (Li Lihua), but their burgeoning relationship is nearly derailed when the girl's father intervenes to help his dumb daughter land a rich husband.
Three tales taken from author Pu Songling's collection of famous classical ghost stories. Wu Qiuyue- Wang Ding falls in love with a ghost and fights with the guards of Hades to bring her back. Monk Lu Shan-A monk takes Wang Qi as pupil and teaches him the act of walking through walls. A Woman's Head- Li Sheng marries Rui niang only to discover that she is a headless ghost.
A Cathay Studios production starring Annette Chang Hui Hsien.
This Cathay Films release stars the beautiful Grace Chang in a musical romance from Hong Kong.
A comedy about a family with two sisters.
"This is considered one of the earliest pure gangster films in local cinema. It’s a fascinating plot about a boy raised by a triad kingpin in the 1930s. When the godfather dies, the young Xiang is given power over the gang and the master’s household. Trying to be faithful to the old man’s principles, Xiang finds himself unable to control his master’s widow and daughter, who are led astray by the widow’s worldly, greedy sister. At the same time, Xiang must ally with other triads to smuggle aid to the forces fighting the invading Japanese. He is torn between devotion to tradition and the need to adapt to modern materialism and the impending world war." (From David Borwdell's blog: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2014/04/15/genre-%E2%89%A0-generic/)
