Kao Li — Director (10)

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Let's Go to Bed (1972) IMDb TMDB
我们要洞房
director: Kao Li actor: Margaret Hsing Hui / Paul Chun Pui …
other title: 我们要洞房
A newlywed couple has trouble spending the night together on their wedding night because of a series of obstacles involving a toy dog, the police, plain clothes detectives and jewel thieves.

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It Takes a Man to Be Henpecked (1971) IMDb TMDB
怕老婆是大丈夫
director: Kao Li actor: Dean Shek Tin / Pai Yu …
other title: 怕老婆是大丈夫
A comedy about three henpecked men and how they cope with not only their wives but a society which says they should rule the roost. A comedy of errors complicates their already complicated lives and wives.

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Return of the Phoenix (1963) IMDb TMDB
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.

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The Perfumed Arrow (1966) IMDb TMDB
女秀才
director: Kao Li actor: Ivy Ling Po / Chin Feng …
other title: 女秀才
Ling Bor plays Wen Fei E who is both an excellent academic as well as martial arts expert. Since her childhood days fond of dressing up as a boy, she becomes a village scholar sharing classes with Tu Zi Zheng (Chin Feng) and Wei Zhun Zhi (Ho Fan). When Fei E's innocent father is framed and sent to prison, she rushes to his rescue saving Jing Fu Quan (Kam Fie) who is in the hands of robbers along the way. Mistaking Fei E to be a noble hero, Fu Quan has no greater wish than to get married to her savior...

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Dawn Will Come (1966) IMDb TMDB
魂斷奈何天
director: Kao Li actor: Ivy Ling Po / Li Hsiang-Chun …
other title: 魂斷奈何天
The lovely Li Hsiang-chun stars as a poor beauty who is drugged, ravished, lied to, locked in a burning store room, left to drown, and chased by sword-wielding ruffians, among other things. Her only hope is her betrayer's new wife, played by the strong and sensual Ivy Ling Po. Dawn may come, but the questions is: will it be too late? Director/writer Kao Li shows both restraint and sadism in this historical melodramatic tearjerker.

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The Mirror and the Lichee (1967) IMDb TMDB
新陳三五娘
director: Kao Li actor: Ivy Ling Po / Fang Ying …
other title: 新陳三五娘
Movie queen Ivy Ling Po is ideally cast as a male scholar in this historical Huangmei Opera romance. It’s a tragic love story between the scholar and a local beauty (played by Fang Ying). He polishes mirrors as a pretext to get closer to his love, who signals her approval by tossing him a bunch of lichees. From that point on the course of true love proves operatically rocky, complete with murder and suicide.

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The Mermaid (1965) IMDb TMDB
魚美人
director: Kao Li actor: Ivy Ling Po / Li Ching …
other title: 魚美人
A Huangmei opera produced by Shaw Brothers about a carp spirit who transforms into an identical copy of a beautiful woman to win the heart of a lonely male scholar.

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Inside the Forbidden City (1965) IMDb TMDB
宋宮秘史
director: Kao Li actor: Ivy Ling Po / Ching Miao …
other title: 宋宮秘史
It seems that Li Zhenfei was once an imperial concubine, who often found herself competing with her rival Madame Liu for the emperor's sole, undivided attention. When Li gives birth to the Emperor's child, the jealous Liu switches the boy with a cat and commands a servant named Kou Zhu to kill the baby. However, Kou Zhu ignores the order and gives the prince-to-be to the emperor's brother, a decision which eventually leads to the boy being adopted by the emperor himself! But as fate would have it, to go along with his new son, the emperor has a new wife as well - Madame Liu! As this strange new family unit is being constructed, poor Li Zhenfei has been confined to the forbidden palace, condemned to never see or speak to her son, the prince. But destiny reunites her with her son, but will this family reunion be a happy one? And will Madame Liu finally be punished for her treachery?