Ling Yun — Actor (38)
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King Drummer (1967) IMDb TMDB
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.
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Gun Brothers (1968) IMDb TMDB
千面大盜
director: Cheng Kang / Wu Chia-Hsiang actor: Fang Ying / Ling Yun …
other title: 千面大盜
Welcome the "Bandit with a Thousand Faces" to the ranks of the great screen "outlaw heroes". Like Zorro, he uses a secret identity as a playboy to foil tyrannical Shan Yung county authorities. Bringing this swashbuckling adventure to the screen is a cast and crew fairly bursting with talent - including directors who were also popular actors and writers, and an actor (Ling Yun) - playing the lead dual role of twin brothers - who was also the director/ writer of some of the greatest martial art epics ever made!
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The Merry Wife (1972) IMDb TMDB
娃娃夫人
director: Kim Soo-yong actor: Li Ching / Ling Yun …
other title: 娃娃夫人
Under false pretenses, Zhenzhen marries Mr. Lin, who happens to be her teacher. She wants to still study and wants to enroll in his school in Hong Kong. The head of the school agrees to this under the condition that they conceal the fact that they are married. Zhenzhen finds out right away that her husband is fawned over by the girls, they all have a crush on him, as also does the spinster librarian. However, Mr. Lin finds that that the boys in the school (they are late teens, 17 or so) really like Zhenzhen. This leads to hurt feelings, questions about fidelity and even, in Zhenzhen's case, innocuous dates with one of the boys who rides a motorcycle.
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It's All in the Family (1975) IMDb TMDB
愛心千萬萬
director: Lo Chen actor: Ivy Ling Po / Ling Yun …
other title: Tout est dans la famille / 愛心千萬萬
Danny Lee is Hsu Chih-yuan, the youngest son of strict patriarch Hsu Hui-tang (Cheng Miu). A sailor, Chih-yuan incurs his father's wrath when he tells the latter of his girlfriend Susan's (Ai Ti) pregnancy. Pressured to leave her by his father, Chih-yuan finally agrees to continue his studies overseas. Eldest brother Chih-wen (Ling Yun) volunteers to raise money but ends up losing the family fortune in the stock market. It starts a roller coaster of tragedies for the family that ends with bitter disillusionment for Chih-yuan. It's a battle between tradition and youthful rebellion that leaves everyone a little poorer off.
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Sorrow of the Gentry (1974) IMDb TMDB
朱門怨
director: Chor Yuen actor: Ching Miao / Shih Chung-Tien …
other title: 朱門怨
In the waning days of China's feudal aristocracy, a powerful family crumbles under the weight of tradition, betrayal, and inner decay. The Yang household, ruled by the domineering patriarch Mr. Yang, is torn apart as each son struggles with personal misery: a forbidden love, a loveless marriage, a murderous rivalry, and class-defying passion. As secrets of smuggled arms and illicit affairs come to light, the once-mighty clan collapses amid death, scandal, and disgrace.
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Rose, Be My Love (1966) IMDb TMDB
玫瑰我愛你
director: Chun Kim actor: Pat Ting Hung / Lee Ting …
other title: 玫瑰我愛你
Not a love triangle but a love rectangle, Rose, Be My Love is a romantic drama that represents the high standards achieved by Shaw Brothers in both star power and technical polish. Set on the eve of Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong's invasion by the Japanese, the tragic romance takes on added poignancy in light of the future fate of leading lady Li Ting, the "Rose" of Rose, Be My Love who committed suicide a mere three months after the movie's release.
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Five Tough Guys (1974) IMDb TMDB
五大漢
director: Pao Hsueh-Li actor: Chen Kuan-Tai / Wai Wang …
other title: 五大漢
The plot follows the titular gang of misfits, gathered together by Chen Kuan Tai (a real life martial arts champion who starred in many films for the studio) in order to protect a patriotic general from a scheming usurper. To this end, the unlikely heroes act as the general’s escorts on a dangerous journey to a distant British consulate, beset by enemies and sinister Japanese interference along the way.
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We Love Millionaires (1971) IMDb TMDB
我愛金龜婿
director: Umetsugu Inoue actor: Lily Ho / Ling Yun …
other title: 我愛金龜婿
This is a film about three pretty young ladies from Hong Kong who work as sales agents who travel to a resort in Japan for the sole purpose of meeting and wooing millionaires.
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The Last Tempest (1976) WikiData IMDb TMDB
瀛台泣血
director: Li Han-Hsiang actor: Ti Lung / Lisa Lu …
other title: 瀛台泣血 / Ying tai qi xue
Despite Kuang Hsu's enthronement as the last reigning Emperor of China, his ability to rule effectively is overshadowed by the ever-present power of the Dowager Empress.
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My Blade, My Life (1978) IMDb TMDB
決鬥者的生命
director: Chen Ming-Hua actor: Chang Ling / Lo Lieh …
other title: 決鬥者的生命
After her entire family is wiped out by Swordsmen of various clans the young vagabond soon comes of age and sets out on her one woman vengeance trail. One by one she kills all the Swordsmen she dares to challenge with her trusted deadly blade. Her most feared and deadly foe is Peerless Swallow the top Swordsman in China Will she finally meet her match or will fate cast a dark shadow.
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Legend of the Bat (1978)
蝙蝠傳奇
director: Chor Yuen actor: Ti Lung / Ling Yun …
other title: Die Rückkehr der gelben Höllenhunde / L'Ile de la bête …
A group of swordsmen set out on a journey to the mysterious Bat Island to seek answers for their problems but things go south when they run into other parties along the way.
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Swift Sword (1980) IMDb TMDB Douban
情俠追風劍
director: Ho Meng-Hua actor: Wong Yu / Nau Nau …
other title: 情俠追風劍
Starring a menagerie of established Shaw Brothers' talent like kung-fu comedienne, Wang Yu, female kung-fu fighter Hui Ying-hung (the lady Michelle Yeoh tries to emulate) and perennial bad guy Lo Lieh, it's a movie about cross people and crossed swords where our heroes discover that gold is not as precious as friendship.
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The Deadly Knives (1972) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
落叶飞刀
director: Jang Il-ho actor: Ching Li / Ling Yun …
other title: 落叶飞刀
Plotting to obtain the Yen family's land, dastardly Japanese plutocrat Omura bribes Yen nephew Hsu Chien to steal the family seal and land deed. When Hsu Chien is caught in the act, he viciously beats elderly Master Yen to death to cover his actions. Determined to avenge the wrongs committed on his family and his country, young master Yen Tzu Fei blazes a knife-throwing path of revenge that leads him to his love Yue Hua's father, who has corrupt connections with the Japanese