Movies: Ma Hsiao-Nung

  • 1966
    The Monkey Goes West

    The Monkey Goes West (1966)

    The Monkey Goes West

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    THE MONKEY GOES WEST is the first entry in the studio’s epic, four-part screen adaptation of “Journey to the West,” a 16th-century novel recounting the efforts of a Buddhist monk and his magical companions to travel to India and bring back Buddhist s...

    The Monkey Goes West
  • 1965
    Vermilion Door

    Vermilion Door (1965)

    Vermilion Door

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    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....

    Vermilion Door
  • 1962
    The Bride Napping

    The Bride Napping (1962)

    The Bride Napping

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    The ethereal Lok Dai plays a pivotal role in the 1962 Shaw Brothers screwball costume comedy The Bride Napping. Based on a chapter of author Shi Naian's The Water Margin (AKA: Outlaws of the Marsh), the action kicks off when Liu Yuen Ying (Ding Nung)...

    The Bride Napping
  • 1962
    Star of Hong Kong

    Star of Hong Kong (1962)

    Star of Hong Kong

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    Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru. The two meet again and fall in love in Hokkaido when Wang and her best friend Sugimoto Kanako are going...

    Star of Hong Kong
  • 1965
    Fairy, Ghost, Vixen

    Fairy, Ghost, Vixen (1965)

    Fairy, Ghost, Vixen

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    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 ti...

    Fairy, Ghost, Vixen
  • 1961
    Education of Love

    Education of Love (1961)

    Education of Love

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    .A young middle-class upstart Lin Ching Yi reluctantly takes on the task as understudy for her sick father who's a dedicated teacher to a band of mischievous working-class 3rd graders that initially proved to be much more than she can handle. Yet it ...

    Education of Love
  • 1959
    Our Dream Car

    Our Dream Car (1959)

    Our Dream Car

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    A gem in every sense of the word, Our Dream car features popular idols Ge Lan (Grace Chang) and Chang Yang as a couple of newlyweds who struggle hard to acquire the latest symbol of middle class affluence: a motor car, but only find themselves in ali...

    Our Dream Car
  • 1966
    The Joy of Spring

    The Joy of Spring (1966)

    The Joy of Spring

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    Hong Kong musical directed by Lo Chen....

    The Joy of Spring
  • 1967
    The Pearl Phoenix

    The Pearl Phoenix (1967)

    The Pearl Phoenix

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    Huangmei Opera movies like The Pearl Phoenix are unique to 1960's Hong Kong culture, a product of the Swinging Sixties but considerably more in touch with their Chinese roots. This one is complete with a gender-bending tale where the male lead is pla...

    The Pearl Phoenix
  • 1963
    The Adulteress

    The Adulteress (1963)

    The Adulteress

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    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 he...

    The Adulteress
  • 1966
    The Blue and the Black 2

    The Blue and the Black 2 (1966)

    The Blue and the Black 2

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    Part two of the wartime love story...

    The Blue and the Black 2
  • 1963
    Father Takes a Bride

    Father Takes a Bride (1963)

    Father Takes a Bride

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    A young lady has taken the place of caring for her two younger brothers since the death of their mother. She is content with putting her life on hold whilst she cares for them until one day......

    Father Takes a Bride
  • 1965
    The Lark

    The Lark (1965)

    The Lark

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    A musical staring Carrie Ku Mei as a singer named Xiaoyun Shi, who comes to Hong Kong after a tour of other Asian countries, hoping to develop her career....

    The Lark
  • 1967
    The Sword and the Lute

    The Sword and the Lute (1967)

    The Sword and the Lute

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    The adventures of a young married swordfighting couple, Lianzhu and Gui Wu, and the swordfighting members of their different clans....

    The Sword and the Lute
  • 1967
    Susanna

    Susanna (1967)

    Susanna

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    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....

    Susanna
  • 1966
    Sweet and Wild

    Sweet and Wild (1966)

    Sweet and Wild

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    Young love and its comedy of errors. Hsiao Fang, played by Li Ching, is a spunky young girl not afraid to fight back against hooligans. Unfortunately, she mistakes the handsome Ma Ta-hai, for one such hoodlum. The two are immediately attracted but re...

    Sweet and Wild
  • 1961
    Kiss for Sale

    Kiss for Sale (1961)

    Kiss for Sale

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    A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Fanny Fan Lai....

    Kiss for Sale
  • 1967
    Lady Jade Locket

    Lady Jade Locket (1967)

    Lady Jade Locket

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    Love knows no limits in the grand period romance, Lady Jade Locket. A young fighter inadvertently falls for the spirit of a beautiful woman, who died years earlier avenging her own father's murder. The beautiful ghost is in fact the sister of his fia...

    Lady Jade Locket
  • 1965
    A Beggar's Daughter

    A Beggar's Daughter (1965)

    A Beggar's Daughter

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    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 wit...

    A Beggar's Daughter
  • 1967
    Moonlight Serenade

    Moonlight Serenade (1967)

    Moonlight Serenade

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    A sweet inn-keeper's daughter falls in love with a woodcutter, but witnesses the woodcutter's brother raping her sister. Tragically, the sister commits suicide in shame, and the rapists turn his attentions to the witness, leading to more danger than ...

    Moonlight Serenade