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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1964
    Comedy of Mismatches

    Comedy of Mismatches (1964)

    Comedy of Mismatches

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    Comedy of Mismatches begins with widow Sun who single-handedly raises her son Yu Lang (Chin Feng) and daughter Zhu Yi (Li Hsiang Chun). One day, Mother Sun sends her children to the temple, where Yu Lang encounters Hui Niang (Pat Ting). Artist Xu Ya ...

    Comedy of Mismatches
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1967
    That Man in Chang-An

    That Man in Chang-An (1967)

    That Man in Chang-An

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    A romantic Han Dynasty adventure epic of a dying Emperor, an Evil Queen, a beautiful Princess, a dastardly royal nephew, and a masked hero, with plots and counterplots galore, complete with cliffhangers and last-second rescues....

    That Man in Chang-An
  • 1960
    The Wild, Wild Rose

    The Wild, Wild Rose (1960)

    The Wild, Wild Rose

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    Grace Chang delivers an eye-opening performance as a lusty nightclub singer climbing the social ladder in seedy Wanchai. Borrowing story and song elements from Georges Bizet’s CARMEN, this Wong Tin-Lam directed musical has flair and polish to rival H...

    The Wild, Wild Rose
  • 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
    Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong

    Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong (1963)

    Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong

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    The third and final chapter of MP & GI's Toho Trilogy expands the geographical reach of the franchise, taking stars Lucilla You Min and Takarada Akira across the Pacific to Hawaii, where scenic travelogue passages add to the cross-cultural affair. Al...

    Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong
  • 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
  • 1964
    The Coin

    The Coin (1964)

    The Coin

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    1963 film...

    The Coin
  • 1962
    Her Pearly Tears

    Her Pearly Tears (1962)

    Her Pearly Tears

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    Her Pearly Tears
  • 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
  • 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