Movies: Ma Hsiao-Nung

  • 1966
    The Monkey Goes West

    The Monkey Goes West (1966)

    The Monkey Goes West

    61966HD

    THE MONKEY GOES WEST is the first entry in the studio’s epic, four-part screen adaptation of “Journey to the West,” a 16th-century novel recounting the efforts of a Buddhist monk and his magical companions to travel to India and bring back Buddhist s...

    The Monkey Goes West
  • 1967
    Susanna

    Susanna (1967)

    Susanna

    01967HD

    Nineteen-year old Li Ching scored a major success playing the title character, Susanna. Li's youthful exuberance is given free rein in a role that embraces rebellion, love, betrayal, tragedy, and ultimately, redemption....

    Susanna
  • 1961
    Education of Love

    Education of Love (1961)

    Education of Love

    01961HD

    .A young middle-class upstart Lin Ching Yi reluctantly takes on the task as understudy for her sick father who's a dedicated teacher to a band of mischievous working-class 3rd graders that initially proved to be much more than she can handle. Yet it ...

    Education of Love
  • 1963
    The Adulteress

    The Adulteress (1963)

    The Adulteress

    101963HD

    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 he...

    The Adulteress
  • 1960
    Death Traps

    Death Traps (1960)

    Death Traps

    01960HD

    Helen Li Mei plays the role of an alcoholic who, in a state of drunkenness, mistakenly hires a mafia boss to kill herself....

    Death Traps
  • 1964
    Comedy of Mismatches

    Comedy of Mismatches (1964)

    Comedy of Mismatches

    01964HD

    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 ...

    Comedy of Mismatches
  • 1960
    The Wild, Wild Rose

    The Wild, Wild Rose (1960)

    The Wild, Wild Rose

    7.51960HD

    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 H...

    The Wild, Wild Rose
  • 1967
    The Pearl Phoenix

    The Pearl Phoenix (1967)

    The Pearl Phoenix

    01967HD

    Huangmei Opera movies like The Pearl Phoenix are unique to 1960's Hong Kong culture, a product of the Swinging Sixties but considerably more in touch with their Chinese roots. This one is complete with a gender-bending tale where the male lead is pla...

    The Pearl Phoenix
  • 1962
    The Bride Napping

    The Bride Napping (1962)

    The Bride Napping

    6.51962HD

    The romance of a squire's daughter and a poor but refined scholar is thwarted when a loutish bandit is mistaken for the scholar by a confused servant and is given the idea that the daughter's hand in marriage is his for the asking. Rich in cross-dres...

    The Bride Napping
  • 1963
    The Second Spring

    The Second Spring (1963)

    The Second Spring

    01963HD

    Shaw Brothers drama....

    The Second Spring
  • 1965
    Vermilion Door

    Vermilion Door (1965)

    Vermilion Door

    5.21965HD

    The tragic love triangle of early 20th century Peking Opera star Chiu Hai-tang, his beautiful stage partner, and the warlord who forces himself between them, has been a favorite with Chinese audiences for decades....

    Vermilion Door
  • 1966
    The Joy of Spring

    The Joy of Spring (1966)

    The Joy of Spring

    01966HD

    The film tells the story of Xing Yonghui, a rich girl who has fun with her painter boyfriend Du Shaohua and her classmates. Chen Xiaoping and Guo Dawei fall in love and want to elope, but they are prevented from doing so; Du Shaohua and Li Zhongting ...

    The Joy of Spring
  • 1967
    Lady Jade Locket

    Lady Jade Locket (1967)

    Lady Jade Locket

    6.31967HD

    Love knows no limits in the grand period romance, Lady Jade Locket. A young fighter inadvertently falls for the spirit of a beautiful woman, who died years earlier avenging her own father's murder. The beautiful ghost is in fact the sister of his fia...

    Lady Jade Locket
  • 1967
    The Sword and the Lute

    The Sword and the Lute (1967)

    The Sword and the Lute

    5.41967HD

    The adventures of a young married swordfighting couple, Lianzhu and Gui Wu, and the swordfighting members of their different clans....

    The Sword and the Lute
  • 1958
    Laughter and Tears

    Laughter and Tears (1958)

    Laughter and Tears

    01958HD

    Tao Zutai, a bank employee, has five children. Tao's wife is addicted to gambling and spends too much and the eldest daughter Guiru is greedy for vanity. Tao is overjoyed when he is notified that he will be promoted to deputy manager....

    Laughter and Tears
  • 1967
    Too Late for Love

    Too Late for Love (1967)

    Too Late for Love

    01967HD

    Su Fen, a young and frail girl, looked forward to her wedding with her fiancé, Li Kuo-liang. The happy couple's bliss was cut short when war broke out. Kuo-liang was summoned to fight at the front lines. In his absence, Su Fen discovered she had tube...

    Too Late for Love
  • 1965
    Fairy, Ghost, Vixen

    Fairy, Ghost, Vixen (1965)

    Fairy, Ghost, Vixen

    61965HD

    FAIRY, GHOST, VIXEN (1965) consists of three fanciful tales that may be loosely classified as ghost stories, but they're presented and designed more along the lines of traditional fairy tales. They're beautifully staged and photographed and have a ti...

    Fairy, Ghost, Vixen
  • 1966
    Sweet and Wild

    Sweet and Wild (1966)

    Sweet and Wild

    01966HD

    Young love and its comedy of errors. Hsiao Fang, played by Li Ching, is a spunky young girl not afraid to fight back against hooligans. Unfortunately, she mistakes the handsome Ma Ta-hai, for one such hoodlum. The two are immediately attracted but re...

    Sweet and Wild
  • 1961
    Sun, Moon and Star: Part 1

    Sun, Moon and Star: Part 1 (1961)

    Sun, Moon and Star: Part 1

    6.81961HD

    The film traces the relationships that develop between the protagonist Xu and the three women he meets, set against the backdrop of the Second World War....

    Sun, Moon and Star: Part 1
  • 1964
    The Dancing Millionairess

    The Dancing Millionairess (1964)

    The Dancing Millionairess

    61964HD

    Chen Hou is a chauffeur who gets caught in a mistaken identity scandal linking him to businesswoman Lok Dai. Chen was supposed to audition for a job as her chauffeur, but a proposed musical show is far more attractive to the aspiring dancer. When a r...

    The Dancing Millionairess