Hsia Meng

The Fair Ladies (1967)

Love stories of three different female characters. ...

Garden of Repose (1964)

Yang Mengchi is a spoiled, rich do-nothing whose habit of smoking opium has cost him his entire fortune and the family mansion, the Garden of Repose, now due to be sold to Yao Guodong. Fearing that Yao's spoiled and unruly son Siaofu will follow in Yang's ...

My Darling Princess (1964)

Tung Hsiaowen (1963)

The Eternal Love (1960)

Tragedy strikes two pairs of lovers and a family, just three days after a happy marriage. ...

Rendezvous (1960)

Romance in the Boudoir (1960)

A woman in a loveless marriage is visited by her former lover. In this version, her husband is a miserly doctor who wants the lover, Qin, to help him get a hospital post. Qin's presence in the household rekindles the old romance and the couple hover on the ...

Feast of a Rich Family (1959)

This tale of familial warfare and sacrifice takes place in hard-pressed Shanghai at the end of the 1940s. Hu Zhiqing can barely support his wife and children, and his situation is worsened by the unexpected arrival of his mother, brother and sister-in-law. ...

Sweet as Honey (1959)

Zhang Mingyang and Ding Huilan are newlyweds and very much in love. Yang's old lover, Wang Baozhu, pays a surprise visit and asks Yang to help her find her long-lost husband. In order to avoid the same mistake of his father-in-law being pestered by his jea ...

A Widow's Tears (1956)

After her husband's death in a car accident, Fang must endure the fury of her mother-in-law. ...

Sunrise (1956)

The Peerless Beauty (1953)

This is a story of how Ru Ji, a farm girl of Chao Kuo, who sacrificed her own life to save her country and people in the year 257 B.C. ...

Modern ‘Red Chamber Dream’ (1952)

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 con ...

Homecoming (1984)

Coral, a Hong Kong woman tortured by city life, went back to her home town to visit her two old friends. They all found that some precious things in life which disappear through the years could never be recovered. ...

Young Heroes (1983)

The film opens in a 19th century river town under lockdown by government troops. Word has reached the emperor that a band of rebels have hidden their families, including the leader's son Erh Mao, in the town. Rebel supporters are spiriting the children to ...

Boat People (1982)

A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the liberation to document the nation, and begins following and documenting the young children from a poor Vietnamese family. ...