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Zhao Lei

Zhao Lei (simplified Chinese: 赵雷; traditional Chinese: 趙雷) was a Chinese actor born in 1928 as Wang Yumin (王育民). He moved to Hong Kong in 1947, joined the Shaw Brothers Studio in 1953. He was one of the most popular male leads in the cinema of Hong Kong and Taiwan in the 1950s and 60s. He frequently played the role of an Emperor and is often called the "Film Emperor". He died in Hong Kong on 24 June 1996. Born : 1st-Jan-1928

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Passion

Film directed by Chia-hsiang Wu
Released : 31st-Mar-1967

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Wife of a Romantic Scholar


Released : 26th-Oct-1967

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The Stolen Love

Early Shaw Brothers drama
Released : 12th-Mar-1959

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Marriage Angle

Marriage Angle is a Hong Kong Mandarin-language feature film of the drama genre, written and directed by Wang Yin, produced by Shaw Brothers Studio, Liu Chi and Chow Sze-Ching were the cinematographers.
Released : 27th-Jan-1954

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Capture of Seven Tigers

An investigative team that wants to foil the evil plans of a group of criminals.
Released : 1st-Jan-1972

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The Valiant Ones

A righteous husband-and-wife swordfighting duo struggle to protect China from the machinations of Japanese pirates and corrupt officials.
Released : 19th-Feb-1975

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The First Sword

During a battle with Wu Qiong, the king of poison, Xie Wuyang, the chief of the Golden Dragon Clan is poisoned. His junior, Tong Wanling risks her life to save him and becomes poisoned herself. At his wit's end, Wuyang seeks Wanling's grandparents for help. Meanwhile, Yan Zongqi plots to overthrow Wuyang as the chief of the Golden Dragon Clan and schemes with Wu Qiong to obtain the secret manual of the Clan.
Released : 28th-Dec-1967

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Jade Dragon

Old school weepy sword fighting epic with Melinda Chen Man Ling, Cathay's answer to Cheng Pei Pei.
Released : 16th-Oct-1968

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The Third Life

Wu Dehua is a frustrated young man who has experienced abandonment and crime and starts having suicidal thoughts. However, with the help of the nurses who cared for him, he's understanding the meaning of helping others and dedicating himself to them.
Released : 1st-Jan-1953

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Monkey King with 72 Magic

Shaw Brothers star Ting Hwa Chung plays the legendary and mythical Monkey King in this lavish and epic action classic.
Released : 1st-Jan-1976

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The Pistol

Long unemployed and stone-broke, Shen Jiaguang is dealt a further blow when his wife Lu Xiaoyin has fallen seriously ill and their son Xiaoguang has to quit school.
Released : 1st-Nov-1961

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Beyond the Grave

This is a Historical Drama that was written and directed by Doe Ching. It was produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio.
Released : 26th-Nov-1954

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Girls in Transformation

Girls in Transformation is about an experiment conducted by assistant professor at the Shi Liangde University to demonstrate her "non-hereditary human theory," in transforming rural girls into modern women.
Released : 1st-Jan-1954

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Shadow in Her Heart

Temptation (誘惑) is a 1954 Hong Kong drama film directed by Doe Ching. The film was produced by Runde Shaw for Shaw & Sons Co. Ltd. and is based on the screenplay by Doe Ching and the original story by Hsu Hsu.
Released : 1st-Jan-1954

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Forever Goodbye

Forever Goodbye 自 君 別 後 (1955) aka Since You Went Away is a Hong Kong Mandarin-language drama film directed by Wang Yin, filmed in Australia and produced by Shaw Brothers Studio. It stars Sek Ying, Chao Lei, Yang Chi-Ching and Wu Chia-Hsiang. This is loosely based on John Luther Long's "Madame Butterfly".
Released : 31st-Dec-1955

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Beauty of Beauties

Hsi Shih: The Beauty of Beauties was one of the most ambitious films made in the Taiwan film industry in the 1960s. After leaving The Shaw Brothers studio in Hong Kong and moving to Taiwan, filmmaker Li Han-hsiang mounted this historical epic. Told through the story of Xishi (Hsi Shih), one of the 'Four Great Beauties' of Chinese history, the film portrays the war between two Chinese Kingdoms during the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C). After the kingdom of Yue is defeated by the kingdom of Wu, King Goujian of Yue takes pains to prepare for his revenge and rebuild his country. Knowing that King Fucha of Wu is lewd and lustful, he offers Xisi to the court of Wu to serve as Fucha’s concubine, with Fucha unaware that she is also a spy. She uses her charm to draw Fucha away from his office and governance, while King Goujian rallies his forces together to attempt to reclaim his lands.
Released : 22nd-Oct-1965

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The Kingdom and the Beauty

This is a musical about a young emperor who is lured via stories told to a place called Kiang-Nan by his royal tutor. The empress mother has the tutor go to Kiang-Nan to bring him back.
Released : 29th-Jun-1959

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The Enchanting Shadow

A young scholar spends the night in a creepy temple that is said to be haunted. He doesn't believe in the rumors, but after running into a Taoist swordsman, he meets a beautiful lady ghost.
Released : 18th-Aug-1960

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The Rivals

The Northern and Southern Champion swordsmen discover the Tartars have murdered their families and the only thing on their minds is revenge.
Released : 14th-May-1970

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In The Beginning

Fantasy film from Taiwan, featuring the Chinese creation mythology of Pangu and Nüwa.
Released : 1st-Jan-1979

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Lady in Distress

A Shaw Brothers production.
Released : 28th-Mar-1957

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Beyond the Blue Horizon

A Shaw and Sons production
Released : 7th-Sep-1956

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A Mellow Spring

A Shaw Brothers production
Released : 15th-Aug-1957

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Fruit of Marriage

A woman is fired from her job because she's pregnant. The husband, who's a teacher, needs to get another part-time job as a waiter, to cover the expenses which causes problems at his school. He starts to resent children but there's hope as the husband is able to get another job and start to appreciate his family...
Released : 11th-Feb-1956

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A Lonely Heart

A Shaw and Sons production.
Released : 13th-Apr-1956

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Meet Me After Spring

This is a drama about parents disapproving a young couple's relationship and the unfortunate consequences that it has.
Released : 4th-May-1956

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Springtime in Paradise

A Shaw and Sons production
Released : 25th-Apr-1957

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Beauty in the Maelstrom

A Shaw and Sons production about a couple who loves each other but end up marrying different people because of parental pressures.
Released : 10th-Oct-1956

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Miss Evening Sweet

A Shaw and Sons production.
Released : 19th-Jun-1957

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He Has Taken Him for Another

A Shaw and Sons production.
Released : 19th-Sep-1957

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The Circus

A Shaw and Sons production
Released : 28th-Feb-1958

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A Kiss for Me

A Shaw and Sons production
Released : 24th-Apr-1958

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A Rescue from Hades

Three generations of the Luo family fasted and chanted Buddha's name. However, Mr. Luo died young. Luo's mother complained and began to kill animals and eat meat. When Luo Bu grew up, her family property was wiped out by her uncle. Oppose and remarry someone else. After Luo's mother died, she went to hell. Luo Bu received God's instructions and followed Pratyekabuddha to practice, and his Dharma name was Mulian. However, because he could not bear the suffering of his mother in hell, he broke into the underworld to rescue his mother. After all the hardships, he finally felt the Buddha's will. Let Mother Luo be reincarnated.
Released : 29th-Jul-1982

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East Flows the River

A film drama by the Shaw Brothers studio.
Released : 7th-Jul-1960

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Stepmother

A Shaw Brothers drama starring Diana Chang Chung-Wen and Margaret Tu Chuan.
Released : 6th-Sep-1963

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An Appointment After Dark

Wan Jialiang, a factory worker, and Lu Xiuzhen fall in love and live together. Hou Liang is supported by Dong Yaqin, his cousin, and their lives improve. Desperate to get rid of Jane, who is pregnant, Jialiang plans to make her fall into the sea and die.
Released : 4th-Jul-1958

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The Lady of Mystery

Spies, Military Documents and Traitors.
Released : 22nd-Dec-1957

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The Swallow

The hunt for The Swallow Thief.
Released : 25th-Apr-1961

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The Mid-Nightmare

Essentially an adaptation of Gaston Leroux's classic The Phantom of the Opera, Mid-Nightmare is set in a Huangmei diao teahouse theatre, which an embittered and horribly disfigured ex-performer ‘haunts', looking to extract revenge on his enemies and falling in love with a talented and beautiful, but ultimately unattainable, ingénue.
Released : 20th-Dec-1962

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Modern ‘Red Chamber Dream’

Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the big four of classic Chinese novels, has been adapted for film and television dozens of times over the past decades. Yet this sui generis Great Wall production daringly transposes the setting to modern-day 1950s. The contemporised story revolves nonetheless around the love triangle between Jia Baoyu and his two cousins. Both girls love him but his heart belongs to only one. The ending, however, is remarkably changed to separation of the lovers as a result of war—the war that was surely still haunting the minds of the filmmakers at the time when the film was made. Not only did Great Wall pour money into building extravagant sets just so to recreate down to the smallest detail the grandeur of the legendary Jia mansion, but the film also boasted of its lavish costume designs for the diverse female cast. (From Hong Kong Film Archive)
Released : 26th-Jan-1952

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Passion

A Cathay Studio production
Released : 12th-Feb-1965

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雙雄奪美


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Empress Wu

The renowned Li Li Hua plays Wu Ze Tian, the most famous woman in China's four thousand year history.
Released : 23rd-Jun-1963

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Madam White Snake

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.
Released : 2nd-Oct-1962

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The Story of Three Loves: Part 2

Continuing the story of Part I, the plots follows the tragic fate of teahouse songstress Shen, who is forced to become the mistress of the evil warlord Liu. When the latter discovers that she has had a secret rendezvous with her lover Fan, he tortures her to insanity. A fine melodrama, indeed the best a studio can offer in its time, The Story of Three Loves is also the last film of screen diva Grace Chang who plays two roles, the tender and affectionate Shen, and the arrogant and spoiled He...
Released : 26th-Feb-1964

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Travels with a Sword

Travels with a Sword is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie starring Sammo Hung
Released : 9th-Apr-1968

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Immortal Warriors

Immortal Warriors is a Taiwanese Martial Arts movie.
Released : 25th-Sep-1978

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Diau Charn

Based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Diau Charn is a sublime retelling of a familiar tale with iconic actress Linda Lin Dai (Lam Doi) in the titular role of Diau Charn, one of the four storied beauties of ancient China.
Released : 28th-May-1958

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The Imperious Princess

Taiwanese huangmei opera starring Ivy Ling Po.
Released : 1st-Jul-1980

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Dream of the Red Chamber

Taiwanese huangmei opera film.
Released : 18th-May-1978

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Red Plum Pavilion

Li is a beautiful young woman who is engaged to a handsome scholar, Pei Shunqing. However, a rich evil man, Jia Sidao, is attracted by Li's beauty and wants to take Li as his concubine. Pei and Li then come to discuss the matter and decide to flee, but they are kidnapped by Jia's men before they can escape. Jia threatens to kill Pei, and Li finally yields but requests to see Pei for the last time. During their short conversation Li tries to persuade Pei to leave, but he insists that he will not leave without her. Li tells him that she has promised to be Jia’s concubine. Pei has to depart, angry and disappointed. Later, Li tries to kill Jia with his sword before their wedding but she is stabbed to death instead. Li's ghost then returns to avenge Jia and his men by burning them until only ashes remain.
Released : 10th-Oct-1968

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TV Credits

金馬獎

Self - The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Kim-má iáⁿ-tián) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is usually held in November or December in Taipei, although the event has also been held in other locations in Taiwan in recent times
Released : 31st-Oct-1962

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