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Parents' Hearts (1955)

ALL 04/21/1955 (cn) Drama 111 Min
  • Release
    04/21/1955
  • Production
    The Union Film Enterprise Ltd.
  • Rotten tomato
    62%
  • Original title
    父母心
  • Original language
    cn
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

An opera troupe has to dissolve in view of the poor economy. Comedian star Sang Kwai-lei loses his job and he has no alternative but to play the lion character in the opera troupe of his former junior apprentice Chan Hau and pawn his stage costume. He aims at earning enough money to support the final year's secondary school studies of his elder son Chi-kuen. Kuen however refuses to continue his studies, seeing that his father has to put aside his dignity to earn money and his mother is worried. Lei is enraged and uses the money to support his younger son Chi-wai's studies. Again, Lei loses his job and he resorts to giving street performances, his wife takes up sowing work in her spare time and she dies after a long illness. Kuen works to support himself through school, but Wai is less fortunate, he is forced to enrol in an opera troupe as an apprentice. Years later, the dying father joyfully embraces Chi-kuen's return from his studies.

  1. Chun Kim

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Leung Kung

    Editor

  4. Chu Tsi-Kwai

    Producer



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Parents' Hearts (1955) 111 Min

ALL 04/21/1955 (cn)
Drama
  • Release 04/21/1955
  • Production
    The Union Film Enterprise Ltd.
  • Original title 父母心
  • cn
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

An opera troupe has to dissolve in view of the poor economy. Comedian star Sang Kwai-lei loses his job and he has no alternative but to play the lion character in the opera troupe of his former junior apprentice Chan Hau and pawn his stage costume. He aims at earning enough money to support the final year's secondary school studies of his elder son Chi-kuen. Kuen however refuses to continue his studies, seeing that his father has to put aside his dignity to earn money and his mother is worried. Lei is enraged and uses the money to support his younger son Chi-wai's studies. Again, Lei loses his job and he resorts to giving street performances, his wife takes up sowing work in her spare time and she dies after a long illness. Kuen works to support himself through school, but Wai is less fortunate, he is forced to enrol in an opera troupe as an apprentice. Years later, the dying father joyfully embraces Chi-kuen's return from his studies.

  1. Chun Kim

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Leung Kung

    Editor

  4. Chu Tsi-Kwai

    Producer



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