Wang Lai
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1927-02-12
Locus Natus: Beijing, China
Et ut: 王萊, Wong Loi, Wong Lai, Wong Loy, Wang De-Lan, 王莱
Mad About Music
When a murder occurs in a nightclub, dancers Pak Lai Hung and Lam Yin Fei meet the murderer and run into a college to hide. The next day, they...
release : 1963.06.25popularis : 0.498
Naughty! Naughty!
Wu Te-chuan is a young man trying to make a living in an easy way. But now he is penniless and will being thrown out of his Macau hotel. Kind-...
release : 1974.07.18popularis : 2.285
Ladies First
Chen Liujin and Zhang Lihong have a chance encounter with Wang Shu and Li Rong during an outing to the beach. Chen admires Wang, but Wang has fallen...
release : 1962.08.02popularis : 1.821
Pushing Hands
Mr. Chu is an elderly widower who teaches tai chi chuan in Beijing. He moves to America to live with his son's family, but finds the cultural...
release : 1991.12.07popularis : 7.077
The Magnificent Ruffians
Venom regulars Philip Kwok, Chiang Sheng, and Sun Chien star as a gang of unemployed martial artists who spend their days stuffing their faces at...
release : 1979.09.20popularis : 3.036
The Dream of the Red Chamber
Pao-yu is in love with his cousin, Lin Tai-yu, but his family has other marital plans for him that will leave both broken-hearted.
release : 1977.10.26popularis : 5.773
The Lady Killer
A popular singer named Ah Hui is approached by gangsters who want him to perform at their nightclub. When Ah Hui rejects, they set him up by making...
release : 1977.07.08popularis : 3.099
It's Always Spring
Singaporean diva Li Ailian has arrived in Hong Kong to further her singing career. Xu Zhaofeng helps her land a job at Spring Wind Palace. Provoked...
release : 1962.02.22popularis : 2.036
The Golden Sword
Bai Yu Lung's father mysteriously disappears one night, and for 10 years Bai searches for him in vain. Finally, he decides to head to the far...
release : 1969.10.15popularis : 4.887
Blood Reincarnation
A horror anthology. In the first, a man and his pregnant wife help an old woman bury a covered pot in a field. Believing that the pot contains...
release : 1974.10.03popularis : 1.33
Hex vs. Witchcraft
A compulsive gambler weds a ghost who helps and hinders him in both horrid and hilarious ways.
release : 1980.11.19popularis : 5.976
The Tiger and the Widow
The movie is about an illegal salt smuggling ring run by Tanny and her male partner, who spend most of the movie arguing which one of them is going...
release : 1981.02.25popularis : 1.915
The Greatest Circus on Earth
Circus trapeze artist Liu Xiaoniu runs away from the circus. While away, she's tricked by a playboy and then the police mistake her for a prostitute....
release : 1957.03.16popularis : 0.736
The Frosty Night
Loosely based on Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths
release : 1957.07.04popularis : 0.909
All in the Family
A family gathers to be with its dying father. The reunion brings to the surface old rivalries.
release : 1975.02.08popularis : 4.96
Tragedy of Vendetta
The Feud 同 林 鳥 (1955) aka Tragedy of Vendetta is a Mandarin-language Hong Kong film of the drama genre, written by Wong Chik-Boh...
release : 1955.12.31popularis : 1.161
Meet Me After Spring
This is a drama about parents disapproving a young couple's relationship and the unfortunate consequences that it has.
release : 1956.05.04popularis : 2.266
Education of Love
.A young middle-class upstart Lin Ching Yi reluctantly takes on the task as understudy for her sick father who's a dedicated teacher to a band of...
release : 1961.08.03popularis : 1.768
Wedding Nights
An adult comedy produced by the Shaw Brothers.
release : 1976.04.03popularis : 2.506
Our Sister Hedy
The Kong family has four daughters. Hilda, the eldest sister, assumes the role of a mother and often lets romance slip by. Third sister Hedy...
release : 1957.11.14popularis : 3.394
Massage Girls
The film deals with the struggles of the workers and clients of a Hong Kong massage parlor.
release : 1976.09.23popularis : 1.786
Crusade Against Daddy
A HK comedy film starring Jeanette Lin Tsui and Hung Yeung.
release : 1962.02.03popularis : 0.416
Broken Oath
Lotus never had a chance. Her mother seethed with anger at being unjustly imprisoned for turning her attemped rapist into a cyclops. Mother...
release : 1977.12.03popularis : 6.265
Laughter and Tears
Tao Zutai, a bank employee, has five children. Tao's wife is addicted to gambling and spends too much and the eldest daughter Guiru is greedy for...
release : 1958.01.23popularis : 1.4
Between Tears and Laughter
This is the story of three ladies who live together in an apartment in Hong Kong and what happens to them. First, there is Shuxian, whose husband...
release : 1960.11.10popularis : 0.643
Back Alley Princess
Polly Shang Kwan and Sam Hui are con artists who befriend a family of street venders and entertainers. The group constantly faces financial problems...
release : 1973.02.17popularis : 0.906
The Story of Daisy
Part of Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films.
release : 1972.01.02popularis : 0.445
Sun, Moon and Star: Part 1
The film traces the relationships that develop between the protagonist Xu and the three women he meets, set against the backdrop of the Second World...
release : 1961.12.08popularis : 1.906
Passing Flickers
The main characters - the arrogant, harassed director, the sexy starlet, or naïve actors are familiar enough stereotypes. Along the way however,...
release : 1982.04.06popularis : 1.076
Curse of Evil
13 family members are murdered and then dumped in a well. 30 years later their descendants are cursed...
release : 1982.09.15popularis : 2.127
Judgement of an Assassin
Sun Chung was already a valued comedy, romance, and modern crime filmmaker, when, through this tale of the 100 Poison Clique's obsessive ambition to...
release : 1977.08.20popularis : 2.405
Emperor Chien Lung and the Beauty
The year is 1756 and the Emperor journeys to Soochow, where he encounters a famous courtesan and gets involved with in all sorts of un-emperor-like...
release : 1980.03.01popularis : 3.047
An Amorous Woman of Tang Dynasty
Rebellious Yu Yuan-gi becomes a Taoist priestess in order to avoid traditional roles designated to her as a woman by the society and focus on her...
release : 1984.06.01popularis : 10.619
Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre II
The thrills continue in this second part of this cherished adventure, created by the renowned director Chu Yuan and ingenious novelist Chin Yung....
release : 1978.10.27popularis : 2.906
Illicit Desire
Tang Dynasty emperors, Ming Dynasty scholars, assorted fortunetellers, and several Buddhist monks figure in a trio of erotic and mystical Chinese...
release : 1973.08.04popularis : 4.48
Legend of the Bat
Following "Clans Of Intrigue"'s success, director Chu Yuan, novelist Ku Lung, and superstar Ti Lung re-teamed for another adventure featuring sexy...
release : 1978.07.08popularis : 5.442
Moods of Love
Two stories are included in this erotic/romantic anthology. In the first, a Sung-Dynasty (10th-13th century) Buddhist monk is tricked into sexual...
release : 1977.01.01popularis : 8.716
Sexy Girls of Denmark
This is a film about the movie industry, about favors, hooking up etc. It is mostly set in Copenhagen and the story begins with the son of a big...
release : 1973.03.16popularis : 2.484
Tales of Larceny
In “The Scholar and The Soldier”, Major Fang is obsessed with Yu Zhen by chance, knowing that she is the daughter of scholar Xu, he...
release : 1973.01.01popularis : 2.085
Sentenced to Hang
After being fired by his penny-pinching boss, Wai and his two life-long friends decide to kidnap and ransom his son. The situation spirals out of...
release : 1989.11.02popularis : 3.226
Deadly Snake Versus Kung Fu Killers
Drama - The epic magical battle between fairies rages on as young martial artist Cheung risks his life to rescue the Sky Mussel Fairy. No good deed...
release : 1977.01.01popularis : 1.546
Snake Shadow, Lama Fist
Chi Kuan Chun's family is murdered by three crooks and he sets out to get revenge first by killing one and then attempting to frame the leader for...
release : 1979.05.18popularis : 2.362
Murder in the Night
Hong Kong crime horror movie from 1957.
release : 1957.04.11popularis : 0.876
Devotion
Devotion, should be grim enough a lesson for my teenager in love. Little Kitty Ting Hao suffers due to social evils that ruthlessly rob her of the...
release : 1960.04.21popularis : 1.011
The Bedside Story
A light-hearted comedy about a struggle between a maverick actress and her stubborn and conservative brother-in-law, which represents a debate...
release : 1960.06.23popularis : 1.182
Fairy, Ghost, Vixen
FAIRY, GHOST, VIXEN (1965) consists of three fanciful tales that may be loosely classified as ghost stories, but they're presented and designed more...
release : 1965.05.27popularis : 1.19
Father Takes a Bride
A young lady has taken the place of caring for her two younger brothers since the death of their mother. She is content with putting her life on hold...
release : 1963.10.02popularis : 0.753
The Call-Girls
A story of female sex workers across all social strata.
release : 1973.04.19popularis : 1.705
Arrest the Restless
Two juveniles get mixed up in a street gang, resulting in the murder of a rival gang leader. A crooked cop pins the murder on the boy, but a...
release : 1992.05.14popularis : 2.243
My American Grandson
A 12-year-old boy from America experiences the clash of cultures and the generation gap when he visits his grandfather in Shanghai.
release : 1991.11.07popularis : 1.984
The Mystery of Jewellery
On a rainy night, a robbery took place in a villa and some invaluable jewels were taken. One of the robbers was shot dead, the other wounded. The...
release : 1972.01.26popularis : 0.935
Cohabitation
Abortion, birth control and unwed cohabitation are social issues rarely associated with 1970's Hong Kong cinema. Cohabitation not only faces them...
release : 1975.05.23popularis : 2.007
Pei Shih
Lung Kong collaborated with accomplished novelist Meng Jun to pen the script for this tale of heartbreak and doomed romance. The mounting despair of...
release : 1972.03.29popularis : 0.953
Tiger Killer
TIGER KILLER (1982) is a straightforward adaptation of one story from the sprawling Chinese literary epic, "The Water Margin." It tells the tale of...
release : 1982.10.28popularis : 3.694
I Am in Love
The love bug strikes two young sisters at about the same time. Since the two sisters happen to be in love with the same person, chaos and confusion...
release : 1975.07.25popularis : 1.132
The Seven Coffins
Hsiao Tsui is the most beautiful girl in a prosperous prostitution house in a North China town. But every client of hers is chased and scared by...
release : 1975.04.10popularis : 1.776
Vampire's Breakfast
Story about a newspaper reporter who stumbles upon a nest of vampires living in contemporary hong kong.
release : 1987.04.16popularis : 1.989
Return of the Dead
Three inmates in an asylum tell their stories. Story 1, a husband and wife discover they should be careful what they wish for. Story 2, a naked...
release : 1979.12.21popularis : 3.42
The Wild, Wild Rose
Grace Chang delivers an eye-opening performance as a lusty nightclub singer climbing the social ladder in seedy Wanchai. Borrowing story and song...
release : 1960.05.09popularis : 3.368
The Magic Lamp
Adapted from one of China's most well-known fairy tales, the Goddess of Mount Hua falls in love with a young mortal scholar Liu Yanchang and gives...
release : 1964.01.23popularis : 2.477
Father and Son
Father and Son is a Hong Kong Drama starring Sammo Hung in a child role
release : 1963.08.14popularis : 3.114
Island of Loves
This film depicts the life of the 19th-century Portuguese writer Wenceslau De Moraes by means of nine ancient ballads from China. The writer married...
release : 1982.06.08popularis : 3.138
Iron Bones
Iron Bones, about a young lad that learns a secret Tai Chi type of style called the Wind Palm, where you can kill with chi blows. Sure, it's a little...
release : 1969.01.16popularis : 1.355
The Haunted
Three tales taken from author Pu Songling's collection of famous classical ghost stories. Pian Pian- A man shows no signs of repentance and continues...
release : 1967.08.17popularis : 1.719
Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre
Director Chu Yuan's titanic teaming with respected, inspired author Chin Yung created this unforgettable saga. Set during the Yuan Dynasty, it tells...
release : 1978.10.18popularis : 4.599
Hong Kong Emmanuelle
Fei-Fei, young and pretty, nearly breaks up a marriage but loses out to the wife in the end.
release : 1977.04.14popularis : 3.926
The Violet Mansion
Another Cathay Wu Xia flick featuring Melinda Chen Manling.
release : 1969.02.15popularis : 6.882
Centipede Horror
A crazed evil wizard uses his powers to take revenge on beautiful women by making them vomit up live centipedes, which then proceed to eat their...
release : 1982.10.29popularis : 3.908
Beauty Escort
This blood tale of a feud between two sword fighting clans is full of betrayal and intrigue, will most probably please the fans of samurai sword...
release : 1979.10.24popularis : 2.125
Crimes Are To Be Paid
A young innocent woman is raped by a gang of five men. Years later the young woman has matured into a sophisticated lady and singer. The five guys...
release : 1972.04.13popularis : 4.291
Immortal Warriors
Immortal Warriors is a Taiwanese Martial Arts movie.
release : 1978.09.25popularis : 1.758
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...
release : 1967.12.28popularis : 2.597
The Lost Generation
The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
release : 1983.09.21popularis : 1.787
The Star, the Rogue & the Kung Fu Kid
Bruce is an action director at a famous Hong Kong TV station, the lead actress falls in love with him much to the disgust of a Triad big boss, who...
release : 1977.01.01popularis : 0.594
Darling, Stay at Home
The misadventures of a beautiful but bored housewife Wang Yui-chuan and her chauvinistic salary-man husband Chang Wei-min reaches madcap proportions...
release : 1968.01.28popularis : 2.187
The Magic Fan
This was an adaptation of a ghost story, “A Xiu”. Liu Zigu is on his way to visit his uncle and is attracted by a beautiful girl, A Xiu....
release : 1967.10.03popularis : 2.124
Love, Love, Love
Love, Love, Love is a Taiwanese film, released in 1974 by Central Motion Pictures Corporation and spoken in Mandarin. It stars Charlie Chin as Li...
release : 1974.06.28popularis : 2.36
The Golden Lotus
Golden Lotus is based, in part, on Jin Ping Mei, a famous erotic novel of ancient China. Li Han-Hsiang adapted part of the story into this film,...
release : 1974.01.17popularis : 28.741
The Secret
A real murder case which was complicated by the ménage à trois relationship the victim had with the main suspects. As different...
release : 1979.10.31popularis : 3.856
The Playful Girl
1971 movie by Yang Su staring Chen Chen
release : 1971.09.15popularis : 1.236
Widow Warriors
The males in a triad family are betrayed and gunned down by a rival gang and the women in the family - from the matriarch to the youngest - decide...
release : 1990.03.10popularis : 1.508
The Voyage of Emperor Chien Lung
In the 18th century, Emperor Chien Lung makes a journey into Southern China.
release : 1978.10.06popularis : 2.038