Zhao Lei — Actor (18)
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The Magic Lamp (1964) IMDb TMDB
寶蓮燈
director: Wong Tin-Lam / Lo Wei … actor: Grace Chang / Doreen Chien Rong-Rong …
other title: 寶蓮燈
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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An Appointment After Dark (1958) IMDb TMDB
人約黃昏後
director: Ho Meng-Hua actor: Lucilla Yu Ming / Zhao Lei …
other title: 人約黃昏後
Wan Jialiang, a factory worker, and Lu Xiuzhen fall in love and live together. Hou Liang is supported by Dong Yaqin, his cousin, and their lives improve. Desperate to get rid of Jane, who is pregnant, Jialiang plans to make her fall into the sea and die.
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The Mid-Nightmare (1962) IMDb TMDB
夜半歌声 上集
director: Yuan Qiu-Feng actor: Zhao Lei / Betty Loh Ti …
other title: 夜半歌声 上集
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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Madam White Snake (1962) WikiData IMDb TMDB
白蛇傳
director: Griffin Yueh Feng actor: Linda Lin Dai / Zhao Lei …
other title: 白蛇傳
This Classic Seductive tale of two snakes who assume human forms will send chills of pleasure down viewers' backs. The Lovely Linda Lin Dai (Les Belles, The Kingdom And The Beauty) and margaret Tu Chuan (The Dream of The Red Chamber) play the two sister serpents, Pak Su-cheng and Ching Ching. Su-cheng meets Hsu Hsien (Chao Lei) one day and recognizes him as her savior in another life 1,000 years ago. She marries him to reward him but the snake-human union brings about problems beyond imagination.
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The Story of Sue San (1964) IMDb TMDB
玉堂春
director: King Hu actor: Betty Loh Ti / Zhao Lei …
other title: 玉堂春
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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Diau Charn (1958) WikiData IMDb TMDB
貂蟬
director: Li Han-Hsiang actor: Linda Lin Dai / Zhao Lei …
other title: 貂蟬 / Diao Charn
Based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Diau Charn is a sublime retelling of a familiar tale with iconic actress Linda Lin Dai (Lam Doi) in the titular role of Diau Charn, one of the four storied beauties of ancient China.
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The Kingdom and the Beauty (1959) IMDb TMDB
江山美人
director: Li Han-Hsiang actor: Linda Lin Dai / Zhao Lei …
other title: Le Royaume et la beauté / 江山美人
This is a musical about a young emperor who is lured via stories told to a place called Kiang-Nan by his royal tutor. The empress mother has the tutor go to Kiang-Nan to bring him back.
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Immortal Warriors (1978) IMDb TMDB
百戰保山河
director: Tsai Yang-Ming / Lo Wei … actor: Ko Chun-Hsiung / Lo Lieh …
other title: 百戰保山河
Immortal Warriors is a Taiwanese Martial Arts movie.
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The Circus (1958) TMDB
大馬戲團
director: Ma Jun-Doi actor: Sek Ying / Zhao Lei …
other title: 大馬戲團
A Shaw and Sons production
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The Enchanting Shadow (1960) WikiData IMDb TMDB
倩女幽魂
director: Li Han-Hsiang actor: Betty Loh Ti / Zhao Lei …
other title: L'Ombre enchanteresse / 倩女幽魂 …
A young scholar spends the night in a creepy temple that is said to be haunted. He doesn't believe in the rumors, but after running into a Taoist swordsman, he meets a beautiful lady ghost.
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Beyond the Great Wall (1964) IMDb TMDB Douban
Wang zhao jun
director: 李翰祥 actor: 林黛 / Zhao Lei …
other title: 王昭君 / Wang zhao jun
Beyond the Great Wall is a true story based on how Wang Chao-chun sacrificed her love and life for the good of the Chinese people during war time fears between China and the Huns.
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The Valiant Ones (1975)
忠烈圖
director: King Hu actor: Roy Chiao / Pai Ying …
other title: Die Mutigen / Pirates et Guerriers …
A righteous husband-and-wife swordfighting duo struggle to protect China from the machinations of Japanese pirates and corrupt officials.
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Creation of The Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (2023)
封神第一部：朝歌风云
★ 5.7 (21 ratings) director: Wuershan actor: Kris Phillips / Li Xuejian …
other title: Creation of the Gods I / La creación de los dioses: el reino de las tormentas …
Based on the most well-known classical fantasy novel of China, Fengshenyanyi, the trilogy is a magnificent eastern high fantasy epic that recreates the prolonged mythical wars between humans, immortals and monsters, which happened more than three thousand years ago.