Griffin Yueh Feng — Director (17)
When the Peach Blossoms Bloom (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
一樹桃花千朶紅
director: Griffin Yueh Feng actor: Betty Loh Ti / King Hu
other title: 一樹桃花千朶紅
The Shen couple had six children. For years Mr Shen had been the only one to support the family. One day, Mr Shen was on a crashed plane in Singapore and everyone believed he had died. Mrs Shen then went to Singapore to prepare for his funeral and the eldest daughter took charge of the family.
However, the brothers and sisters would never listen to their eldest sister. The second brother was extremely bad-tempered and always beat the others up when they did not listen to him. The fourth sister was extremely gluttonous who would never help with any housework. The eldest sister was annoyed and could do nothing.
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.
The Silent Love (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
啞吧與新娘
director: Griffin Yueh Feng actor: Chin Feng / Ivy Ling Po
other title: 啞吧與新娘
Ivy Ling Po gives a startling performance as an abused wife who suffers through all his adulterous and treacherous ways in The Silent Love, which became an allegorical, tragic love story that reflected the unspoken truths inherent in Chinese society. Lead actor Chin Feng received the 1971 Golden Horse Outstanding Performance award for his portrayal as The Mute, a man that secretly loves Ivy and does all he can to make her life better, except that it backfires on him.
The Younger Generation (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
兒女是我們的
director: Griffin Yueh Feng actor: Ivy Ling Po / Yang Fang
other title: 兒女是我們的
The Younger Generation is an ultra-tragic tale about a young girl, played by Ivy Ling Po who gets married, has five kids, then she and her husband die forcing one child sold to prostitution to feed the other four. Chinese culture dictates that great respect is given to the elders and in The Younger Generation, it is an elder that is the hero, telling audiences that although sadness abounds, they can return home happy with their Confucius mindset.
The Deformed (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
畸人艷婦
director: Griffin Yueh Feng actor: King Hu / Betty Loh Ti
other title: 畸人艷婦
Nurse Leng Shuxian is forced by family circumstances to marry Long Yusheng (King Hu), a grossly disfigured Quasimodo with a heart of gold. Shuxian tries but is unable to accept his deformity and they remain a couple in name only. With the appearance of Yusheng's cousin, she has to make a choice between personal happiness and family duty. From the start, Loh's character and drove the action, evoking a great intensity of emotions along the way: suffering, resignation and loneliness. Loh was lauded as the "Queen of Tragedy" after her heart-wrenching portrayal in this film. Winner of two Golden Harvest Awards – for best screenplay and best black-and-white cinematography – at the 8th Asian Film Festival in 1961.
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.
Auntie Lan (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
蘭姨
director: Griffin Yueh Feng actor: Fang Ying / Lily Ho
other title: 蘭姨
The contemporary issue of single mothers is sensitively handled in this melodrama as a young woman must decide whether she will tell the new man in her life the real truth or forever remain the child's auntie Lan? (Celestial Pictures sypnosis)
The Young Avenger (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
小毒龍
director: Griffin Yueh Feng actor: Shih Szu / Elliot Ngok Wah
other title: 小毒龍
After a career spanning more than forty years and dozens of films as director or writer, Yueh Feng used everything he learned on a final few martial arts epics, of which this is one of the most memorable. It's not easy to forget a hunchbacked, one-armed protagonist, nor the "Poisonous Dragon Sword" style, nor the luminous and lethal Shih Szu as the title swordswoman, who is out to avenge her father's death at the mid-autumn festival.
Madam White Snake (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
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.
A Taste of Cold Steel (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
武林風雲
director: Griffin Yueh Feng actor: Chang Yi / Yau Ching
other title: 武林風雲
It's a no-holds-barred battle to the death for possession of the invaluable Purple Sword. Assistant director Wang Po-yi also wrote this entertaining and exciting adventure which could have also been called "The Five Tigers" since there's no doubt that this quintet is the highlight of the action. Huang Tsung-shun is "Fierce Tiger," Hung Liu is "Drunk Tiger," Hsu Erh-niu is "Lame Tiger," award-winning actor Ku Feng is "One-eyed Tiger" and respected director/actor Wu Ma is "Sick Tiger" in a tangle of tussles and thrills
Rape of the Sword (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
盜劍
director: Griffin Yueh Feng actor: Li Li-Hua / Li Ching
other title: 盜劍
Experienced heroine Li Li-Hua plays a swordswoman out to reclaim her murdered husband's "Green Sword," the sharpest blade in the world. The lovely Li Ching plays the role of Li Li-hua's student, who must take up the fight when her teacher falters.