Movies and TvShows featuring "hong-kong-child-actor" theme.
Rascal To Chai-yan brings a false charge of selling fake medicine against doctor Fan Tin-sang, who is sentented to a twenty-year imprisonment. Fan makes an escape after a decade, and secretly provides for the education of his son Fuk-kwan brought up by a poor blacksmith. Fuk-kwan grows up to be a doctor practising in the country. To again does harm to Fuk-kwan, only this time Fan intervenes. Both he and To die in the fight.
Hau is a hard-working fast food restaurant staff. Despite his hectic schedule, he plays basketball on a public basketball court early in the morning. He has not taken part in any matches ever since he was bullied back in high school. One day, a group of young men forcefully take over the public basketball court. Angered by their behaviour, Bo randomly picks Hau, Leung and Tak to form a team to play against the young men. At first, the group of strangers have absolutely no chemistry at all. However, with their unique styles and Bo’s coaching, they manage to defeat their opponents. While they get a sense of achievement on the basketball court, the trio each have their own problems and feel lost when they are off court. Basketball is their only way to escape reality.
A schoolteacher re-lives painful childhood memories after discovering concerning information about an at-risk student. %s High school teacher Cheng looks back to his repressed childhood memories, as he finds an anonymous suicide note in his classroom. While at the same time he is facing a series of family problems, he strives hard to prevent the tragedy from happening. %s
Echoes of the Rainbow is a heartwarming movie set in 1960s Hong Kong that follows the lives of a close-knit family. The story revolves around a young boy, his mischievous brother, and their journey through childhood, school, and family relationships. Filled with comedy, drama, and romance, this film captures the essence of the era and explores themes of love, friendship, and resilience.
Painted Faces follows the journey of a young boy who enters a Peking Opera school and must navigate the challenges of show business and the complexities of adolescence. Through mentorship and martial arts training, he learns valuable life lessons and discovers his true passion.
A 10-year-old Bruce Lee stars as Kid Cheung, an orphan boy who sells comics in a little stall in the slums to survive. He and his two siblings are looked after by his Uncle Ho, a teacher. When the wealthy Hung Pak-ho surveys the slums to build a school for orphans, he is robbed by the vicious Blade Lee and his gang. Cheung helps Blade Lee escape and earns his friendship, but Uncle Ho convinces him to return the gold necklace Lee stole. Hung rewards Ho by hiring him as his private secretary.
After This Our Exile tells the story of a young boy who is forced to navigate the chaos of his parents' failing marriage. As his father fights his own demons, the boy must come to terms with the loss of his loved ones and the impact it has on his own life. Through moments of foreplay, kisses, and conflicts, the film explores the complexities of mother-child and husband-wife relationships, ultimately questioning the boundaries of leaving one's family.
Wait 'Til You're Older follows the story of a young boy who experiences various challenges and adventures as he grows up. From his schoolboy crush to dealing with family secrets and facing his father's infidelity, he navigates through the ups and downs of life with humor and resilience.
For his project under the lauded First Feature Film Initiative programme, director Ka Sing-fung tells the heartrending journey of a woman whose life is forever changed by the children she takes in as a temporary foster carer. In a career-best performance, Sammi Cheng stars as Mei, a woman trying to get over the death of her young son through the children she welcomes into her home. Each ward offers Mei a different challenge and a newfound appreciation for the difficulties of motherhood, but when her dedication to the job causes her marriage to turn sour, Mei is forced to make a choice.
A young man dreamed of a career in comics and movies. But his father would rather gave up all he had in order to let him receive formal education.
When Maise's husband walks out on her, she leaves her baby son in a luxury yacht, hoping that he'll be adopted by affluent parents. Little did she know that its owner Daniel has lost everything in derivative speculation that very day. Four years later, Maise has pulled herself together...
An aspiring dancer takes on a summer teaching job while practicing for an important audition. With the help of handsome and charming gym teacher Aaron Kwok, she trains a group of scrappy, less-than-perfect kids for a singing competition.
Tien-You has recently taken on a job as a security guard in an old mansion, and on the first night he takes his friends Nam and Priscilla along to keep him company. While exploring, they discover a mummy hidden away in the basement, which Tien-You accidentally breaks. The next day, Tien-You finds to his horror that his body is becoming dried out and transforming due to a curse from the mummy.
This early leftist social drama from Hong Kong offers a panoramic portrait of a crumbling apartment complex and its down-and-out denizens, including a taxi driver, an unemployed teacher, a professional reduced to selling his blood and, of course, a venal landlord. In addition to establishing an omnipresent theme in Hong Kong cinema – the plight of the urban poor – the film is also a prime example of the popular melodramas of the time, which featured displaced Mainland film stars.
After her husband's death, Sally takes over. She works and helps educate her 10-year-old son Andy. Andy is rather weak in character. That worries Sally. One day out of the blue comes the thunderbolt. Sally is to be found to have leukemia and has only six months to live. Turning a deaf ear to Andy's cries, she sends him to an orphanage to learn to be independent. Andy is extremely anguished.
A confrontation between two Hong Kong immigrants – one a cab driver from Mainland China, the other a lawyer and refugee from Pakistan – spells disaster for their families, especially the lawyer's young son.
13-year old Bruce Lee plays San, a child up for adoption. Finally accepted by his surrogate parents, he is faced with a dilemma when his real parents show up and want him back.
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