Lily Ho

Lily Ho

Nascimento : 1946-11-25, 中国,江苏,南京

História

Lily Ho (何莉莉) was born on November 25, 1946 in Taiwan. She is an actress, known for Nu sha shou (1971), The Golden Knight (1970) and Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (1972).

Perfil

Lily Ho

Filmes

Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio
(archive footage)
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 Lost Generation
Concert guest
The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
All Men Are Brothers
Lady Hu San Niang
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.
Os 5 Implacáveis
Courtesan Hsiao Feng-Hsien
A equipe do campeão de kung-fu da vida real Chen Kuan-tai e do diretor Pao Hsueh-li foi sensacional, resultando em sucessos clássicos como "The Boxer From Shantung", "Man Of Iron" e "Iron Bodyguard". Esta poderosa saga é uma das últimas juntos, bem como uma das mais arrebatadoras. Ele fala sobre a batalha entre um usurpador do trono e os patriotas, liderados por Chen, que apóia um governador de Yunnan logo após a revolução. Um poderoso executivo quer controlar o estado, todavia deve assumir o o trono do Imperador, contudo para que isso aconteça ele deve tirar um famoso general de seu caminho. Porém, entre ele e o general existe um bando de cinco guerreiros desajustados, liderados por um artista marcial, determinado a levar o oficial para a proteção de um distante consulado Britânico. Uma longa e perigosa jornada se inicia, com duelos violentos contra homens do usurpador e a interferência de espiões japoneses, em mais uma grande aventura de Artes Marciais.
Sex, Love, and Hate
Bai Mei
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.
The House of 72 Tenants
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
Ge Yi-Qing
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).
Facets of Love
This story is centering around a Ming Dynasty brothel that steams with secret erotic myths, trysts and twists of pleasurable indulgence. A shaw production
Heiße Ware aus Hong Kong
Self
Trilogy of Swordsmanship
Shih Chung Yu
Three martial arts directors united for this unique anthology film. Yueh Feng writes and directs a clever love-and-kung-fu triangle, Cheng Kang both writes and directs kung-fu courtesans battling brigands, and the "godfather of the kung-fu film," Chang Cheh, creates a cliff-hanging, swashbuckling mini-movie with maxi-action.
Flower in the Rain
Yu Ching
Lily Ho and Ling Yun are star-crossed lovers who suffer untold agonies before finally being united forever.
The Warlord
Hsiao Lan Fang
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.
As 14 Amazonas
Yang Wen Kuan
Após a morte do patriarca em batalha e sem poder contar com o suporte do exército imperial, viúvas chinesas se unem para defender a sua terra de novos ataques, enquanto planejam uma vingança contra seus inimigos.
Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
Ai Nu
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.
Of Wives and Mistresses
Li Yu-ju
shaw production
The Casino
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.
The Water Margin
Tigress, Lady Hu San Niang
The corruption in the Sung Dynasty of 11th century China is so rampant that it inspires a band of Oriental Robin Hoods - the Honorable 108. Mountain bandits who nevertheless live by a scrupulous code of conduct, the Honorable 108 pledge to end the repression of the brutal overlords.
The Yellow Muffler
Singer
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....
Lady with a Sword
Feng Fei Fei
Feng Fei Fei, an excellent swordswoman, seeks revenge with her nephew for the murder of her old sister, who got killed by some rogues on her way home. She soon finds out that the murderer is the son of her father's best friend and her future husband.
We Love Millionaires
Nancy Ho
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 Jade Faced Assassin
Xiao Lu Er
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.
The Venus Tear Diamond
Irene Chan
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?
The Lady Professional
Ge Tianli
Lily Ho as a deadly assassin becomes the target of murder herself
A Time for Love
Pearl Lau
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.
The Orchid
Romantic drama starring Lily Ho as a tourist in Singapore.
The Golden Knight
Yu Feixia
Após o assassinato de seu pai nas mãos da organização Golden Knight, Yu Fei-Hsia é acusada de matar um membro do clã em vingança. Para provar sua inocência, ela precisa rastrear o verdadeiro assassino.
Tropicana Interlude
Su Yong Lan
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.
The Millionaire Chase
Ye Fang / Yip Fang
Shaw Brothers musical about three Showgirls chasing millionaires.
The Singing Thief
Fang Darling
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?
Divorce, Hong Kong Style
Dreamgirl
Shaw Bros. romantic comedy.
The Brain-Stealers
Li Chiu-Lan
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.
The Angel Strikes Again
Ai Si (Agent 009)
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
Ching Ching / Silver Fox
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.
Hong Kong Rhapsody
Herself
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!
King Drummer
Huang Li-Chen
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.
My Dream Boat
Tang Ke-Shin
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.
Inter-Pol
Guest appearence at airport
Agent 009 has to break up a ring of Hong Kong counterfeiters who are shipping forged US dollars all over Asia.
That Tender Age
Tanny Shen
Characters live through that Tender Age
Sing High, Sing Low
[Guest] Singer
A Shaw Brothers Musical Comedy.
A Espada e o Alaúde
Wei Mei-Er
O Pequeno Wu "Jimmy Wang Yu" e sua companheira Lianzhu "Chin Ping" estão voltando para casa com a missão de destruir o "Alaúde da Fênix", uma arma mortal que atira agulhas venenosas com precisão de até 500 passos e só pode ser destruída por uma espada especial, "A Espada Invencível".
Auntie Lan
Mr Liang's cousin
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)
Hong Kong Nocturne
Chia Tsui Tsui
A musical about 3 sisters, singers and dancers, and their dad, a magician performing in nightclubs until they make their own life.
Angel with the Iron Fists
Lona / Ai Si / Agent 009
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..."
Princess Iron Fan
White Bone Demon's sister
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.
The Knight of Knights
Lin Hong Yu
Um templo, protegido por um cem número de armadilhas, abriga uma gangue de facínoras. Eles precisam ser detidos. Mas a qual custo? Após a morte de seis companheiros seus, Wen Suchen infiltra-se com dois auxiliares como um inofensivo estudioso para descobrir os segredos sombrios do lugar.
Till the End of Time
Huang Yi-Hua
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.
Song of Orchid Island
Donna Pai
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.
Songfest
Ying Hua
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.