Yiu Kwang-Chao

Lucky Purse (1966)

Film version of Suo Lin Nang, the popular Peking opera written by Weng Ouhong. ...

The Female Prince (1964)

The husband-and-wife team of Ivy Ling Po and Chin Han returned to another Huangmei Opera classic after Lady General Hua Mu-Lan. Helmed by Chow Sze-loke and written by Chang Cheh, the story revolved around two intellectual siblings, Ching Feng-sheng (Chin F ...

The Crimson Palm (1964)

Ling Bo is Lin, a young man engaged to the daughter of a rich man, who now despises Lin because of his family's declining status. Lin visits his beloved fiancee before he heads towards the imperial city to participate in the civil service examination, only ...

The Story of Sue San (1964)

This gripping story centers on the romance between Wang Chin Lung and Sue San. Although they may be perfectly matched when it comes to their love for one other, the two come from remarkably different social ranks. While Chin Lung is the son of a respected ...

The Story of Qin Xiang-Lian (1964)

The Story of Qin Xiang-Lian is a Hong Kong Chinese Opera musical starring Jackie Chan in a child role. ...

Comedy of Mismatches (1964)

Comedy of Mismatches begins with widow Sun who single-handedly raises her son Yu Lang (Chin Feng) and daughter Zhu Yi (Li Hsiang Chun). One day, Mother Sun sends her children to the temple, where Yu Lang encounters Hui Niang (Pat Ting). Artist Xu Ya is als ...

A Maid from Heaven (1963)

Seventh sister of the celestial world goes down to earth to marry Dong Yong, a young man sold to servitude. However the Jade Emperor orders her to go back to the immortal world. ...

The Adulteress (1963)

The noted actress Li Li-hua, star of more than sixty films since 1947, beautifully portrays the drugged, then disgraced wife of a peddler in the waning days of the Ching Dynasty. To make matters worse, she's soon framed for her husband's murder by her rapi ...

To Catch a Murderer (1963)

A Shaw Brothers crime film starring Paul Chang Chung and Pat Ting Hung. ...

Madam White Snake (1962)

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 se ...

The Birth of the Monkey King (1962)

Historical Drama ...

It's Always Spring (1962)

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 by jealousy, Xu's long-time girlfriend Tao Haiyin, a local diva, insists on performing at the Palace, too. A ...

The Pistol (1961)

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. ...

Kiss for Sale (1961)

A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Fanny Fan Lai. ...

When the Peach Blossoms Bloom (1960)

The Shen couple had six children. For years Mr Shen had been the only one to support the family. One day, Mr Shen was on a crashed plane in Singapore and everyone believed he had died. Mrs Shen then went to Singapore to prepare for his funeral and the elde ...

Oriole, the Heroine (1960)

This is a Shaw Brothers production ...

The Girl with a Thousand Faces (1959)

Gu Lingxiu's dream of becoming an actress is opposed by her grandmother. Her father Zhongqi remains ambivalent. Years ago, Zhongqi was in love with a Peking opera diva Hua Yanhong, but the lovers were separated by the matriarch. Regretful of the mistake, t ...

The Pink Murder (1959)

A Shaw Brothers production ...

You Are My Soul (1958)

A Shaw and Sons production. ...

Where Is My Bride? (1958)

A Shaw Brothers romantic drama ...

The Blazing Charmer (1958)

An Appointment After Dark (1958)

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. ...

A Kiss for Me (1958)

A Shaw and Sons production ...

The Lady of Mystery (1957)

Spies, Military Documents and Traitors. ...

He Has Taken Him for Another (1957)

A Shaw and Sons production. ...

The Frosty Night (1957)

Loosely based on Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths ...

Miss Evening Sweet (1957)

A Shaw and Sons production. ...

Little Angels of the Streets (1957)

Li Han-Hsiang directed film. ...

Springtime in Paradise (1957)

A Shaw and Sons production ...

The Dances of Charm (1957)

A Shaw and Sons production. ...

The Greatest Circus on Earth (1957)

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. She returns to the circus but her adoptive father, Liu Yingjie, suffers an accident. ...

Golden Lotus (1957)

A Hong Kong historical drama ...

Autumn Affair (1956)

A Shaw and Sons production. ...

Marriage Angle (1954)

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. ...

Meal Time (1953)

Meal Time is a comedy film about all the mess with housework that director Yan and his wife had to go through after the maid gave up her job. ...

A Midsummer Night's Love (1953)

A Midsummer Night's Love is about a couple, Li Yuqin and Zhang Tianshi, who faked their marriage but the lies became real, unleashing a series of comic situations. ...

Tears of Songstress (1953)

A Songstress Called Hong Lingyan (歌女紅菱艷) aka Tears of Songstress is a 1953 Hong Kong musical drama film directed by Tu Kuang-Chi. The film was a co-production by Shaws Film Company and Far East Motion Picture Company, and is based on the screenpl ...

Sorrowful Glory (1953)

This is a historical drama that was produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. ...

Nightmare (1953)

Nightmare is a 1953 Hong Kong thriller film written and directed by Yin Wang. The film was produced by Runde Shaw for Shaw and Sons. ...

Song of Romance (1952)

Sweet Song For You (勾魂艷曲) aka Song of Romance is a 1952 Hong Kong musical romance film directed by Yin Wang. The film was produced by Runde Shaw for Shaw and Sons and is based on the screenplay by Tan Liu. ...

Happy Encounter (1952)

An early Drama by the Daai Wa (Da Hua) Film Company ...

The Moon-Blanch'd Land (1952)

An early Musical by the Hsin Hwa Motion Picture Company. ...

Smash Up (1952)

Smash Up (1952 film) (Chinese 蛇蝎美人) also known by the aliases: The Vicious Beauty and Destroy; is a Hong Kong drama film directed by Bu Wan-Cang and produced by Shaw Brothers Studio. It starred Bai Guang, Wong Ho and Yiu Kwang-Chao. ...

A Double-Faced Man (1952)

During a night when Mei Liang and his girlfriend, Sima Qiu-Hong are on the same stage during a play for the Dajiang Theater Company, they receive a visit from Qiu-Hong's former classmate, Xie Yu-Lan. Under Yu-Lan's insistence, Mei Liang decides to break up ...

The Thirteen Grand Tutors (1951)

No known plot ...

Sorrows of the Forbidden City (1948)

The film focused on a conflict between Empress Dowager Cixi, her son Guangxi (the nominal emperor) and his wife, Zhen Fei. ...

Peach Blossom Lake (1941)

A Soul at Night (1941)

A female ghost appeared in a barren mound near Yangjiazhuang, wailing every night and terrifying the villagers. The feathered priest of the God of Wealth Temple tells the villagers to offer food and paper money to the female ghost, and the female ghost is ...

The Night (1941)

Yuerong is an downtrodden orphan girl. She is taken in by Erhe, a rickshaw driver, whose neighbors, recognizing her intelligence and singing talent, recommend her for opera lessons. However, the manager Liu soon begins to take advantage of her. ...

Mulan Joins the Army (1939)

This movie is based on the famous Chinese folklore that is more than one and a half millennium old. The same folklore was what the Disney animation Mulan is based on, and similarly, it was what many Chinese movies/operas/plays based on. ...

The Young Mistress' Fan (1939)

Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde's play on moral values, is adapted for a setting in Shanghai. Young wife Meilin mistakenly believes her husband is having an affair with a social butterfly and decides to leave for a suitor. Her reputation, about to be ru ...

The Angel (1939)

This is one of the rare gems in early Chinese musical films that still exists today. Nancy Chan plays a naïve young woman who can sing and dance. Under the arrangement of her stepfather, she becomes a star and indulges in the glitz and glamour of the ente ...

Lady Meng Jiang (1939)

Horror Night (1938)

After a flood, the Sea Charity Association sends Liu Hao Ming to a village to direct the burial of corpses. Hao Ming meets the singer Ruyun and her father there, and advises Ruyun not to sing a beautiful song, but to sing "The Beauty of Yu" instead, which ...

Crossroads (1937)

Four students in Shanghai have recently finished university. All are unemployed. Xu contemplates suicide but his friend Zhao talks him out of it. Zhao lives in a shabby room with just a flimsy wall of planks separating him from the room behind. Miss Yang, ...

Unchanged Heart in Life and Death (1936)

Probably the most sheerly entertaining of all the films made in 1930s Shanghai by 'underground' leftists, this riff on The Prisoner of Zenda is funny and engaging from first to last. The irresistible Yuan Muzhi (director of Street Angel the following year) ...

The Classic for Girls (1934)

A hostess in Shanghai invites her secondary schoolmates to a reunion. They each reminisce about their lives, with some having difficulties in marriage or career. Some led destructive lives, while others contributed to the country. ...