Lily Ho

Hong Kong cinemas had a wide range of glamorous female stars during the golden age of the 60's and 70's. The series will take the audience on a sentimental journey to the good old days and once again look at the expansive epic costume dramas and huangmei operas in which actresses played both the male and female roles. Rare interviews with Sir Run Run Shaw, stars Ivy Ling Po, Shaw Yin Yin, Tanny Tie Ni and Cheng Pei Pei are also featured.

The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.

Based on one of China's enduring epic novels, written in the 14th century, "All Men Are Brothers" continues the patriotic story of righteous warriors battling despotic leaders, featuring mythic characters familiar to every Chinese, and with a cast that has achieved an equally celebrated status among Shaw Brothers devotees.

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.

Accredited director of erotica and kung-fu films Chu Yuan, combines stars from both genres in Sex, Love And Hate, a masterpiece about Hong Kong society's differing emotional views on love and what women want when it comes to happiness in love. The provocative Ching Li (Chu Tai), the exotic Lily Ho (Pai Mei) and the princess of kung-fu films Hsu Feng (Yao Yao), play three women who live together and compare notes as to what would make them happy in love, in life, then go out to find it. Pai Mei wants money at all costs, Chu Tai will marry as soon as the opportunity arises and Yao Yao is saving her virginity for Mr. Right.

Set during a period of depression, the film chronicles the daily lives of a single urban building split up into several separate units, and the actual people that dwell within.

River Of Fury presents the self-discovery and awakening of a young man (Danny Lee), who has been exposed and fallen for the lucrative powers of wealth. Lily Ho played a role in sharp contrast with Lee, which has helplessly fallen prey to the irresistible temptations of wealth under the influence of her mother. Once again, Ho demonstrates her remarkable talent in Chinese opera following her Beijing-opera showcase in The Warlord (co-starring Michael Hui Kwun-man).

This story is centering around a Ming Dynasty brothel that steams with secret erotic myths, trysts and twists of pleasurable indulgence. A shaw production

판관의 아들 전청이 음식점 딸 시사를 귀찮게 쫓아다니자 이것이 싫은 시사는 아버지의 철궁을 쏠 수 있으면 응하겠다고 한다. 그는 실패하지만 병화가 대신 새를 맞춘다. 그럼에도 그가 새를 맞췄다고 계속 우기는데...

Lily Ho and Ling Yun are star-crossed lovers who suffer untold agonies before finally being united forever.

No list of the screen's comic geniuses would be complete without Michael Hui Kwun-man. He created a hilarious and lovable comic persona that was both uniquely Asian but also universally beloved. This, his first film, not only showcased his incomparable sense of humor but revolutionized Hong Kong comedy. Evoking Chaplin, he plays a warlord in early 20th Century China, but makes the role his own with both laughs and some of the sexiest ladies on the Shaw Brothers lot.

오랑캐 서하가 쳐들어오고 목숨을 걸고 나라를 지키는 양씨가문은 모든 남자들이 전쟁터에서 전사하고 마지막 남은 남자였던 양종보장군까지 장렬히 전사하게 되자 양장군의 아내 목계영(능파)과 할머니인 사태군(리사 루)은 여성만 남은 가족들을 이끌고 양장군의 원수를 갚고 나라를 지키기 위해서 출격합니다 숫적으로 불리한 목계영 일행은 적의 매복과 기습을 피해가며 천신만고끝에 원수가 있는 적진에 잠입하는데 성공하고 많은 희생과 치열한 전투를 치루면서 결국 남편의 원수를 갚고 오랑캐 서하를 섬멸하여 조국을 지켜내는데 기여합니다

18-year-old Ainu is kidnapped and sold to a brothel. Her good looks and wild personality make her very popular with the lustful clients, but also draw the lesbian attentions of brothel madam Chun Yi. Chun Yi teaches Ai nu the ways of lust and the ways of kung fu, and Ai nu becomes more and more similar to her captor. But rage at her treatment is still burning inside her.

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A handsome stranger strolls into a casino one evening and all but cleans out the house, beating 160-1 odds at dice by getting three of a kind. He informs beautiful proprietress Miss Cui that he actually came there for her and reveals himself as her betrothed, Luo Tianguang. The couple wed, but their bliss is interrupted when Luo agrees to help old friend Lun Liu defeat crooked gambler Hao Lishan, who uses rigged dice.

부조리한 관부를 상대로 일어선 양산박 영웅들의 활약상을 담고 있는 이 작품은 강대위, 적룡, 곡봉, 약화, 하리리, 우마 등 홍콩 영화계의 굵직한 배우들이 열연하고 있다. 양산의 조 천왕은 대명부의 상황을 살피러 갔다가 증두시의 사문공에게 치명상을 입고 숨을 거둔다. 이에 양산은 조 천왕의 복수를 결심하지만 경계가 삼엄하고 군사가 많은 증두시를 치기엔 역부족임을 느낀다. 결국 사문공의 동문 사형인 노 원외를 끌어들이기로 하고 양산의 책사인 오용이 급파된다.

Two sisters, Ching-ping (Irene Chen I-ling) and Pai-hung (Betty Ting Pei) struggle to find a workable act after their magician father and younger sister leave to try their luck in Taiwan. A good friend gets them cast in a new movie, and the rest is history....

영영은 아들 호두를 데리고 고개를 넘던 중 김연백일당을 만나 살해 당하고 호두는 외가에 가 이모인 비비에게 영영의 죽음을 말하자 영영의 복수를 다짐한다. 화살을 발견한 비비는 화살의 주인인 연백과 대결하던 중 연백이 자신과 정혼할 남자임을 알고는 그를 관가에 보내기로 작정하나 연백의 어머니 김부인의 방해로 호두가 연백에게 죽자 비비는 연백을 찌른다. 광란하던 김부인의 칼에 비비도 위기에 처하지만 두 집을 이간시키려는 숙표가 김부인을 죽인다. 이때, 연백의 아버지 개계와 비비의 부모 해웅부부가 나타나 숙표를 죽인다. 모든 보복은 끝나지만 한꺼번에 사위와 딸과 손자마저 잃은 해웅부부와 비비, 아들과 부인을 잃은 개계는 한없는 슬픔에 젖는다.

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.

The swordsman Zhang Zhen is injured in a misadventure and rescued by Eldest Sister of Changchun Sect, who has a crush on him. However, Zhang falls in love with the maid Yuenu instead, and conceives twins with her. The couple are killed by a group of evil pugilists later. The Eldest Sister is angry with Zhang Zhen for not accepting her and plans to make Zhang's children kill each other as revenge. The baby girl (Xiaolu'er) is saved by Zhang's friend, Lian Lanyan, while the male infant (Hua Yuchun) is taken away by the Eldest Sister. Lian Lanyan encounters the Ten Villains when he passes through Villains' Valley. He is overwhelmed by them and knocked out in a fight. The baby Xiaolu'er is taken away by the Villains, who surprisingly do not harm her, and instead intend to groom her to become the greatest villain ever. Eighteen years later, the twins meet each other by coincidence.

Legendary jewel thieves "Nocturnal Earl" (Ling Yun) and "Fragrant Night" (Lily Ho) are set on a collision course for destiny when both arrive in Japan to get their hands on the famous "Venus Tear Diamond." But sparks fly between the jewel thieves and the two fall instantly in love, without knowing that their beloved is after the very jewel each is seeking! To make matters worse, the diamond is in the possession of a randy widow who has her eye on the debonair male thief, and there's even a mystery man interested in the widow, too. Who's going to get the Venus Tear Diamond, and will it mean the end to a perfect love?

Lily Ho as a deadly assassin becomes the target of murder herself

A Time For Love features Shaw Brothers' darling Lily Ho in a Romeo and Juliet stylized love story that breaks the tradition of Hong Kong's "class distinction" love stories. It is a film ending with a Cinderella-esque love saving happiness happy ever other ending.

Romantic drama starring Lily Ho as a tourist in Singapore.

유비하가 아버지의 죽음이 무림 다섯 장문의 짓이라고 공언하던 차에 신공비결이 도난당한 사건이 발생하고 유비하가 혐의를 받는다. 동심문에 잡혀온 유비하는 결백을 주장하고 사건을 조사하러 가던 금의대협의 일원이 기습을 받아 죽자 악당들이 금의대협의 얼굴을 벗겨 가짜를 만든다. 동심문을 탈출하여 아버지의 원수를 찾아 소림사에 들어간 유비하는 자신을 가장하여 악행을 일삼던 복면여인 애청을 사로잡는다. 애청은 남장한 유비하에게 호감을 느끼고, 그녀에게 표를 얻어 상저장에 위장잠입한 유비하는 정체가 탄로나 사로잡히나 애청이 그를 구해낸다. 드디어 무림을 제패하려는 음모를 꾸미던 동심문 노장주의 정체가 드러나는데...

Lily Ho and Jimmy Lin Chong operate a travel agency specializing in Southeast Asian holidays, Tropicana Interlude. Lin Chong wears his trademark Nehru suits, tours the scenic sights of Malaysia and Singapore, and warbles a half-dozen hit tunes, making this one of Shaw Brothers most lively 1960’s musical romances.

Shaw Brothers musical about three Showgirls chasing millionaires.

A jewel thief decides to turn over a new leaf. He starts anew as a professional singer; but before long, the he becomes suspect again for a series of robberies. He sets up a trap to snare the copycat thief, but will it snare him instead?

Shaw Bros. romantic comedy.

A mad scientist wants to get his hands on a certain growth-accelerating serum developed by Hong Kong scientist Dr. Li Zong-Hua so that he can create an army of supermen and conquer the world.

Lily Ho, a secret agent out to thwart the sale of a powerful explosive to the wrong people. It’s a female, Chinese James bond.

The Silver Fox is a throwback, the last of its kind where the heroic swordsmen are women. Lily Ho (before she became one of Shaw Brothers' great erotica actresses) portrays the feared swordswoman Silver Fox, who as a child saw her father senselessly wounded and her mother raped. It's 18 years later and it's payback time.

There's nothing like a good, opulent, gaudy musical to lift the spirits, but when it's a 1960's Hong Kong musical orchestrated by a Japanese director and composer, it breaks through the ranks as a classic of campy kitsch. A follow-up to the previous year's megahit Hong Kong Nocturne, with the same Japanese creative team, Hong Kong Rhapsody follows the fortunes of an unemployed magician whose love life is so knotty it would take Houdini to unravel!

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.

The film tells a complicated love story. Carmen with Ke, Xiang Yi and Jiyuan. They start as a friend, but somehow a love triangle occur, and the outcome is very tragic.

Agent 009 has to break up a ring of Hong Kong counterfeiters who are shipping forged US dollars all over Asia.

Characters live through that Tender Age

A Shaw Brothers Musical Comedy.

원앙겁법으로 강호에 이름을 날리는 명우(왕우)와 연주(진평)는 명우의 고모이자 무림의 최고수로 불리는 홍부인(능파)에게서 봉황 거문고를 본가로 운반하라는 명령을 받게 된다. 명우 부부는 산중에서 산적들의 습격을 받는다. 대규모의 산적들과 대항하기 위해 명우는 홍부인의 엄명을 어기고 봉황 거문고를 사용하여 산적들을 퇴치한다. 그 광경을 목격한 산적패의 교두는 명우 부부를 쫒아가서 봉황 거문고를 훔쳐 내온다. 무림의 비보 거문고를 명우 때문에 악인의 손에 들어가게 된 것이다. 한편 명우와 연주의 말을 엿들은 교두는 봉황 거문고에서 발사된 바늘로 중상을 입은 두령의 아들을 구하기 위해 7성석을 찾으려고 하고, 돌을 찾으러 갈 것을 예상한 명우부부도 말을 달리게 되는데... (

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)

A musical about 3 sisters, singers and dancers, and their dad, a magician performing in nightclubs until they make their own life.

Via an IMDb reviewer: "The plot involves a high-tech gang of thieves, a legit jeweler (Tang Ching) caught up in their racket, and a female jewel buyer who's actually a police agent..."

The mythological tale of a quest from China to India to bring back Buddhist scriptures, famous for the adventures of Sun Wukong, the notorious Monkey King.

Six heroes are killed while investigating rampant lawlessness at Zhaoqing Temple where villains are posing as monks. The dead heroes’ senior brother Su-chen and his two apprentices pose as scholars in order to infiltrate the temple. When the life of the Emperor’s Inspector and his daughter are threatened, the trio leaps into battle as government troops prepare to storm the temple.

Jenny Wu is a singer who charms the well-to-do Peter Chen, but his parents object to a union between their only son and a lowly cabaret singer. He ignores their advice and marries her anyway, and for a time, they find some manner of wedded bliss. But the years are not entirely kind. He works hard to make ends meet, but his health pays the price.

Dr. Ho decides to move to a backward island off the coast of Taiwan to look for his missing father. He meets nurse Ya Lan (Cheng Pei-Pei) who falls in love with him. But dastardly doings are afoot as Dr. Ho's enemies plot against him.

The story centers on the passionate and turbulent romance between a tea-picker girl, Yu Lan, and a fisherman, Chun Yang.Complications soon arise when a love rival, Hu San Bao, appears.