Wang Lai — Actor (21)
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The Magic Lamp (1964)
寶蓮燈 IMDb TMDB
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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Widow Warriors (1990)
虎膽女兒紅 IMDb TMDB
Johnny Wang Lung-Wei actor: Tien Niu / Elizabeth Lee Mei-Fung …
other title: 虎膽女兒紅
The males in a triad family are betrayed and gunned down by a rival gang and the women in the family - from the matriarch to the youngest - decide that rather than sit around and mourn their men that they will extract revenge.
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The Lady Killer (1977)
鬼馬姑爺仔 IMDb TMDB
Chu Mu actor: Sylvia Chang / Robert Lee Jan-Fai …
other title: 鬼馬姑爺仔
A popular singer named Ah Hui is approached by gangsters who want him to perform at their nightclub. When Ah Hui rejects, they set him up by making him believe he murdered an innocent man; Of course, Ah Hui falls for it. With nowhere to turn and the fear of being sent to jail, Ah Hui accepts help from the gangsters. In return he has to sign an exclusive singing contract with them. Little does Ah Hui know, they have other sleazy plans in store for him.
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Fist to Fist (1973)
除霸 IMDb TMDB
Jimmy L. Pascual actor: Henry Yu Yang / Huang Tsung-Hsun …
other title: Jen Ko - In seinen Fäusten brennt die Rache / Puño contra Puño …
A young police cadet graduates from the academy, and is sent to a small town run by gangsters - one of whom betrayed the hero's father and left him to die.
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Ripples (1970)
一池春水 IMDb TMDB
Lo Chen actor: Tsung Hua / Ching Li …
other title: 一池春水
A comic folk musical about two pairs of lovers and their romantic misadventures in a rural Hong Kong town.
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Tales of Larceny (1973)
牛鬼蛇神 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cheng Kang / Li Han-Hsiang actor: Cheng Kang / Chang Ti …
other title: 牛鬼蛇神
In “The Scholar and The Soldier”, Major Fang is obsessed with Yu Zhen by chance, knowing that she is the daughter of scholar Xu, he decided to enter their house in disguise with his page, and however, Yu Zhen's cousin comes back for the pre-arranged marriage at the same time. Li Han-hsiang both scripted and helmed “Tales of Larceny” about the scams cons worked and the games people played during the corrupt Chinese Warlord era, featuring a cast filled with the best of Shaw's exceptional character actors.
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The Greatest Circus on Earth (1957)
馬戲春秋 IMDb TMDB
Yan Jun actor: Lucilla Yu Ming / Yan Jun …
other title: 馬戲春秋
Circus trapeze artist Liu Xiaoniu runs away from the circus. While away, she's tricked by a playboy and then the police mistake her for a prostitute. She returns to the circus but her adoptive father, Liu Yingjie, suffers an accident.
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Cohabitation (1975)
同居 IMDb TMDB
Sun Chung actor: Tsung Hua / Lin Chen-Chi …
other title: 同居
Abortion, birth control and unwed cohabitation are social issues rarely associated with 1970's Hong Kong cinema. Cohabitation not only faces them head on but does so with insight, compassion and sex!
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Sexy Girls of Denmark (1973)
丹麦娇娃 IMDb TMDB
Lui Kei actor: Tsung Hua / Li Ching …
other title: Kineser paa sengekanten / 丹麦娇娃
This is a film about the movie industry, about favors, hooking up etc. It is mostly set in Copenhagen and the story begins with the son of a big producer going to Copenhagen from Hong Kong trying to seal a deal. He gets involved with the Denmark girls.
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Return of the Dead (1979)
銷魂玉 IMDb TMDB
Li Han-Hsiang actor: Choh Seung-Wan / Ku Feng …
other title: 銷魂玉
Three inmates in an asylum tell their stories. Story 1, a husband and wife discover they should be careful what they wish for. Story 2, a naked female ghost gets revenge from her watery grave. Story 3, a dead prostitute returns as a ghost.
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Moods of Love (1977)
风花雪月 IMDb TMDB
Li Han-Hsiang actor: Elliot Ngok Wah / Susan Shaw Yam-Yam …
other title: 风花雪月
Two stories are included in this erotic/romantic anthology. In the first, a Sung-Dynasty (10th-13th century) Buddhist monk is tricked into sexual relations with an unscrupulous female adventurer. He dies soon after with his misdeed on his conscience. In the second, the daughter of a woman who died in a brothel discovers that her mother died an unnatural death and seeks revenge.
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My American Grandson (1991)
上海假期 IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
许鞍华 actor: 午马 / 黄坤玄 …
other title: 上海假期 / 阿拉来的一个美国孙子
A 12-year-old boy from America experiences the clash of cultures and the generation gap when he visits his grandfather in Shanghai.
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The Magnificent Ruffians (1979)
賣命小子 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Chang Cheh actor: 鹿峰 / Lo Meng …
other title: Das tödliche Erbe des Shaolin / 賣命小子
Venom regulars Philip Kwok, Chiang Sheng, and Sun Chien star as a gang of unemployed martial artists who spend their days stuffing their faces at local restaurants and letting the staff beat them up instead of paying the bill. Their fortunes appear to improve when the head of a local security agency hires them to take out the competition, who their new employer insists is up to no good. But the boys are being played for fools, and after an unfortunate misunderstanding, they unite with their former adversary to take out the true villain.
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Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre (1978)
倚天屠龍記
Chor Yuen actor: Derek Yee Tung-Sing / Candice Yu On-on …
other title: 倚天屠龍記
Set during the Yuan Dynasty, this saga tells the fascinating story of the "Sacred Fire" sect, the Wu Tang swordsmanship clan, the disciples of the O Mei group, The Book of Chu Yang, and the destruction of Shaolin — complete with a killer cliffhanger. And that's just the start of the fascinating intrigues and ingratiating characters found here.