Philosopher-eccentric Chuang Tsi comes across a woman fanning the newly built grave of her dead husband because she desires to marry again. On returning home, Chuang Tsi decides to put his wife to the test - he fakes his own death; the wife is grief-stricken and goes into mourning. While funeral arrangement are in progress, a handsome young man come to call on Chuang Tsi. Later, there is talk of marriage between Chuang Tsi wife and the man. However, the young man falls ill; his servant says that taking the human brain is the only medicine to cure him.
Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong Kong. Fast-paced with lots of wisecracking. The first film to star Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
This Traveltalk series short takes a look at Hong Kong.
Driver Ko Wah (Lee Ching) refuses to transport ammunitions for the enemy, and is sent to jail after a scuffle with his traitorous boss. Although down and out, Ko takes in Siu-fung (Yung Siu-yi), an unwilling erotic dancer who has fled the war to Hong Kong. They may lead destitute lives, but their conscience remains intact. Director Cai Chusheng co-founded the National Salvation Association of Cinema. When Ko makes a uproar at the dance parlour and rips apart his friend's zombie costume, it represents Cai's criticism on the muddling-along attitude of Hong Kong society at the time. The characters' decision to return to the mainland to join the resistance effort also foretells Cai's decision to do the same in real-life.
Three American vaudeville entertainers become involved with spies in Hong Kong, just before Pearl Harbor.
Four sisters, each with their different characters, embark on their separate roads to romance. Elder sister has vast experience of romance; second sister is predisposed to vampiness and wantonness; third sister is righteous and of noble character; fourth sister is just reaching puberty and experiencing the pangs of first love. Being sentimental, flirtatious and amorous, the four sisters form a backdrop conducive to songs and tripping the light fantastic.
A robber named Zhang Kui hid in a coffin to avoid the authorities before being transported to another associate. Instead of joining his friend in a major robbery, Zhang Kui ran away together with wife and daughter. Zhang failed to escape, but his daughter would train as a marital artist until she can take revenge for her father.
An adventurer about to lose his sloop and diving equipment agrees to dive for illegal gold.
Yankee soldiers-of-fortune smash a spy plot aimed at seizing Hong Kong.
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to align with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.
Cuando el fotógrafo Louis Hoyt (Gene Barry) desaparece en la China comunista, su mujer Jane (Susan Hayward) contrata en Hong Kong a Hank Lee (Clark Gable), un simpático contrabandista, para encontrarlo. A partir de entonces, ambos vivirán una serie de vicisitudes que los unirán cada vez más.
Un corresponsal de guerra norteamericano (Holden) es enviado al este de Asia para cubrir la guerra de Corea (1950-1953). En Hong Kong, conoce a una bella médico euroasiática (Jones). A pesar de las dificultades que supone la diferencia de raza y cultura, entre ambos surgirá una apasionada relación.
In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of a rusty cargo ship Kaiyo Maru. One is a troublemaker with bad attitudes, Senkichi Nomura, who pursues an enemy in order to take revenge for his father's death. The other is Keizo Sasaki, a buff, eagle-eyed man on board for a certain mission.
A romantic melodrama about a handsome Korean composer who falls for a Hong Kong singer
Un vagabundo soñador ayuda a un capitán de barco en peligro. Película con trama humorística con un reparto encabezado por Orson Welles y la bella Sylvia Syms.
Grace Chang delivers an eye-opening performance as a lusty nightclub singer climbing the social ladder in seedy Wanchai. Borrowing story and song elements from Georges Bizet’s CARMEN, this Wong Tin-Lam directed musical has flair and polish to rival Hollywood, and a superstar leading lady that would any film industry would have a tough time matching! A key film from the celebrated Cathay Film Studios.
Un maduro pintor norteamericano que se encuentra en Hong Kong conoce a una joven prostituta china. Lo que parecía un encuentro ocasional se va convirtiendo poco a poco en una historia de amor.
Un piloto entra clandestinamente en la China comunista para rescatar a una chica norteamericana atrapada en el país, pero ella quiere llenar el avión con más refugiados chinos.
En el Hong Kong de 1910 es asesinada la hija de un capitán de un barco británico por miembros de la sociedad Tong del Dragón Rojo. Ante la incapacidad de la policía por dar con la solución, el capitán iniciará una investigación para descubrir a los asesinos de su hija.
Li Qingqing, an orphan, just arrives in Hong Kong and becomes a singer who sacrifices everything for her man.