Kao Pao-Shu — Actor (32)
Double Bliss (1970) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
双喜临门
director: Chun Kim actor: Ching Li / Chin Feng
other title: 双喜临门
A musical comedy about two students returning home from abroad with plans to wed. However, their dads are bitter enemies and oppose the marriage.
Squadron 77 (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
七七敢死隊
director: Yan Jun actor: Li Li-Hua / Yan Jun
other title: 七七敢死隊
Spy thriller set in occupied Shanghai. Li Lihua stars as the woman who is thrust into the role of nationalist freedom fighter when she discovers that her husband is a collaborator with the Japanese.
The Midnight Murder (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
三更冤
director: Ho Meng-Hua actor: Pat Ting Hung / Lee Ting
other title: 三更冤
The heroine, Liu Yanniang, is a beautiful and virtuous woman who is in love with her husband, Wang Zhengtu. However, because of her disagreement with her sister-in-law, Yuhuan, who was unfortunately killed, Yaniang was mistakenly accused of murder by the king's mother and her husband's son-in-law. The governor of Suzhou, Mr. Yan Wentian, is very strict with the king, but just when he finds a clue, the witness is killed again. Yen is not satisfied with his efforts, but he realizes that the murderer has already come to his doorstep.
Spring Blossoms (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
春暖花開
director: Griffin Yueh Feng actor: Yang Fang / Shu Pei-Pei
other title: 春暖花開
Spring Blossoms is a parable about the Chinese youth culture and what's important to the younger generation when it comes to romance. It starred a new wave of seventies, Shaw's beauties, Lily Li, Shu Pei-pei and Essie Lin-chia as single women looking for love. It's a triple-decker romantic bus ride on a road to nowhere speeding toward a low bridge.
Return of the Phoenix (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
鳳還巢
other title: 鳳還巢
Return Of The Phoenix is yet another masterpiece from prolific director Li Han-hsiang. An imperial minister Cheng Pu (Ching Miao) is faced with a quandary. He's getting old and his daughters are still not married. Elder daughter Shueh-yeh (Elizabeth Chuang) is so ugly no one wants her. Younger daughter Shueh-wu (Li Hsiang-chun) is beautiful but Mrs Cheng refuses to let her marry before her elder sister. The drama unfolds when Cheng decides to marry Shueh-wu off.
King Drummer (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
青春鼓王
director: Umetsugu Inoue actor: Lily Ho / Ling Yun
other title: 青春鼓王
Ling Yun plays the replacement hired for a popular band whose egotistic drummer quit to join a rival group. When the new arrival becomes a hit, he earns the jealous wrath of the predecessor. Meanwhile, the young drummer's mother is fervently against his music career. With the gorgeous Lily Ho as the manageress of the band and some terrific drumming set pieces, the whole thing, needless to say, comes off with a bang.
Trapeze Girl (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
飛天女郎
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Fang Ying / Elliot Ngok Wah
other title: 飛天女郎
A young girl runs away from her abusive father to join a group of circus performance, expecting that one day she would be a greatest trapeze artist. Later, she falls in love with one of the members of the circus staff who used to be a trapeze performer in previous times.
That Tender Age (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
少年十五二十時
director: Doe Ching actor: Margaret Hsing Hui / Kiu Chong
other title: 少年十五二十時
Rich girl Chen Wen Chi starts a serious relationship with classmate Liu Ting Yi who comes from a poor family and whose elder sister is a dance hostess.
A Place to Call Home (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
玉女親情
director: Wu Chia-Hsiang actor: Li Ching / Margaret Hsing Hui
other title: 玉女親情
Li Ching plays one of three daughters, whose life is turned upside down when she discovers she is adopted. But things get even worse when she goes in search of her real mother. Finally, after almost a double tragedy, she realizes what so many knew all along: There's no place like home.
The Lark (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
小雲雀
director: Sit Kwan actor: Peter Chen Ho / Carrie Ku Mei
other title: 小雲雀
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.
Bitter Sweet (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
為誰辛苦為誰忙
director: Griffin Yueh Feng actor: Peter Chen Ho / Ding Ling
other title: 為誰辛苦為誰忙
A widow of four gave up two of her children to be raised by an uncle in Singapore. Many years later, just when the widow, now a house maid, is feeling contented by good news of her long gone son and daughter, she accidentally runs into his own son, now a lawyer, and ends up being looked down upon by him. It was a story about how traditional Chinese family and its value was impacted by the change of time. The movie depicted Macau in 1945 to Hong Kong in the mid-60s, moving from poverty after WWII to opulence. The human relationships became complicated and fragile. Many elements uniquely "Hong Kong", such as upper class Chinese, western religions, English speaking and a mixed-culture society are used to contrast the traditional, kind, enduring and forgiving love of a mother.
Love Parade (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
花團錦簇
director: Doe Ching actor: Linda Lin Dai / Peter Chen Ho
other title: 花團錦簇
The winning couple of Linda Lin Dai and Peter Chen Hu light up the screen in the delightful Shaw Brothers musical Love Parade. The manager of a dance company places a personal ad in the newspaper. He receives a response but has no idea the woman is his top dancer, with whom he has an antagonistic relationship.
Three Sinners (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
閻惜姣
director: Yan Jun actor: Li Li-Hua / Yan Jun
other title: 閻惜姣
Based on one particular storyline from The Water Margin, Three Sinners weaves an intriguing story of romance, treachery, and death, all within the context of the traditional Huangmei Opera. Yan Jun casts his real-life wife, the elegant Li Li Hua, star of such Shaw Brothers films as The Goddess of Mercy and Vermillion Door, as one of the title characters, a woman who finds herself in the middle of a stormy love triangle involving her controlling husband (director Yan Jun serving double duty in a starring role) and a passionate lover (Chen Yan Yan).
The Goddess of Mercy (1967) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
觀世音
director: Shin Sang-ok / Lim Won-Sik actor: Li Li-Hua / Kim Seung-ho
other title: The Buddhist Goddess of Mercy / 觀世音
With her elegant classic persona, Li Li-hua was the ideal performer for period aristocratic and imperial roles. The Goddess Of Mercy is a good example of her strong empathy and noble presence. The youngest daughter of a brutal king, the princess openly disapproves of the floggings and cruel treatment her royal family heaps on the peasants. As a result, the heartless king turns on his own daughter forcing her into exile.
The Adulteress (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
楊乃武與小白菜
director: Li Han-Hsiang / Ho Meng-Hua actor: Li Li-Hua / Guan Shan
other title: 楊乃武與小白菜
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 her rapist - the son of the local magistrate! And even that isn’t the end of her woes. It’s best to have a box of tissues nearby as two expert directors ratchet up the emotional suspense in this consummate tearjerker.