Movies: Ho Fan

It's a powerful melodrama about a thwarted romance in 1930s Tientsin, China, during the Japanese occupation, and it stars Linda Lin Dai, one of the era's most popular stars. It was part of Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films....

Hong Kong 1972. Shiu Pang is a poorly paid photographer with a very jealous fiancee. One day he meet an innocent girl and he falls in love with her. His fiancee decides to give a lesson to the young girl by sending a bunch of youngsters beating her a...

"Wild at Heart" is a love film directed by Ho Fan and Qian Wenji, starring Shen Guanjun, Yang Yijia, Weng Xuehua, Liu Zhi, Xu Zhen, and Chen Zihong. It tells the story of a lascivious man carrying his wife around to provoke flowers, which was finall...

After a one night stand, a successful single mother helps her son find his father by placing an ad in the newspaper....

It seems that Li Zhenfei was once an imperial concubine, who often found herself competing with her rival Madame Liu for the emperor's sole, undivided attention. When Li gives birth to the Emperor's child, the jealous Liu switches the boy with a cat ...

Two blind swords women come to the aid of a swordsman tracking down a ruthless martial arts master....

Lung (Tony Poon), a rookie bodyguard falls in love with the first subject he's overseeing, May (May Cheung). She has come to Hong Kong with false hopes of being a singer but she's unwillingly set to enter the world of prostitution instead. Into this ...

Li Qingqing, an orphan, just arrives in Hong Kong and becomes a singer who sacrifices everything for her man....

Two Chinese men go to Copenhagen for some reason. While one of them philanders around with various Danish and Asian women, the other falls in love with his Chinese tour guide, but takes time to have various drawn-out kung fu battles with a seemingly ...

Before director Lo Wei helped to discover Bruce Lee and the king of kung-fu comedy Jackie Chan, in Madam Slender Plum, Lo perpetuates the career of yet another Shaw's non-action, femme fatale starlet; the sleek and sexy, puppy-eyed Eurasian Jenny Hu....

The psychotic son of a rich man continues to get away with raping young women, with the help of an unscrupulous lawyer. A journalist working for a women's magazine becomes involved when her friend becomes a victim. Because of her campaigning efforts,...

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 (...

Part two of the wartime love story...

Ling Bor plays Wen Fei E who is both an excellent academic as well as martial arts expert. Since her childhood days fond of dressing up as a boy, she becomes a village scholar sharing classes with Tu Zi Zheng (Chin Feng) and Wei Zhun Zhi (Ho Fan). Wh...

Hong Kong musical directed by Lo Chen....

Golden Rose, an informant for the resistance groups, kidnaps Miss Takamine, her Japanese counterpart who has received special training. Disguising herself as Miss Takamine, Golden Rose frequents the Japanese army barracks and gets information she nee...

One day, due to carelessness. Ah Chung is fired from his job as a toilet attendant. Out of sympathy, Ah Lien, a waitress who he secretly admires, gives him financial help. When the much indebted Ah Chung found another job, he went to return the money...

Wang, a womanising businessman miles away from home, makes it a sport to seduce young women. After one of his conquests got pregnant with his child and died after the abortion, one after another of his lovers are found murdered. It is only when he is...

Haunted by her past, an ailing young woman who recently lost her mother and the roof over her head is reluctant to accept the generosity of an older man who fell out with his own daughter whose affair with his boss's son cost him his job; her reasons...

A beautiful young unwed mother-to-be from Tainan arrives in Taipei city in search of the father is sidetracked by a smart-Aleck Hong Kong expatriate taxi driver who aids her search but eventually falls in love with the girl after her efforts to reuni...