Member Iron_Leopard Posted May 24, 2020 Member Share Posted May 24, 2020 I did a thread on actors a couple years ago. So how about one on the legendary females of Shaw Brothers? I'm not familiar enough with the ladies to make a list. The only ones that I'm slightly familiar with are Cheng Pei Pei, Kara Hui, Lily Li, and Ching Li. I need some Shaw experts to educate me on this topic 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShawAngela Posted May 24, 2020 Member Share Posted May 24, 2020 In no particumar order and from all genre of Shaws' movies : Ivy Ling Po Ching Li Lily Li Shih Szu Li Ching Chen Ping Tina Chin Fei Angela Yu Chien Jenny Hu Chen Pei Pei 10 is not enough, I couldn't mention Kara Hui, Yeung Jing JIng, Essie Lin Chia, Ouyang Shafei, Wang Lai, Chiao Chiao...!! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Iron_Leopard Posted May 24, 2020 Author Member Share Posted May 24, 2020 36 minutes ago, ShawAngela said: In no particumar order and from all genre of Shaws' movies : Ivy Ling Po Ching Li Lily Li Shih Szu Li Ching Chen Ping Tina Chin Fei Angela Yu Chien Jenny Hu Chen Pei Pei 10 is not enough, I couldn't mention Kara Hui, Yeung Jing JIng, Essie Lin Chia, Ouyang Shafei, Wang Lai, Chiao Chiao...!! Ten is perfect though. It makes it more challenging. Otherwise people would just list every actress ever. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member sym8 Posted May 25, 2020 Member Share Posted May 25, 2020 I can only speak from a martial arts point of view because that’s all I watch really so I would say, Lily Li And Kara Hui.Lily Li looks more of a martial artist than Kara but Kara has been in more memorable fight scenes so that’s my reasoning. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest khuu_2000 Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 I think for Lily Li , Shih Szu , Ching Li ,Chen Pei Pei , Li Ching ,Wang Ping ,kara Hui ,Lily Ho, chen Ping,Lau Wai Ling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Iron_Leopard Posted May 25, 2020 Author Member Share Posted May 25, 2020 Was Li Ching in more modern Shaw Brothers movies as opposed to the period martial arts movies? I'm looking at her filmography and I haven't seen much of anything shes done. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShawAngela Posted May 25, 2020 Member Share Posted May 25, 2020 Well, I put her movies into three big categories : the martial arts ones (even if she doesn't fight in them), the Huangmei ones and the "other" ones. There is maybe a title that is mentioned as a thriller that I put into the martial arts ones. So : Martial arts : 22 movies Huangmei : 13 movies Others (includes dramas, musicals other than Huangmei) : 36 movies If I didn't make any mistake... 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator thekfc Posted May 25, 2020 Moderator Share Posted May 25, 2020 I am heavily into drama and have seen a lot of the Shaws movies from the 60's (and earlier) so I cannot pick just 10 as I would leave out some whom I think are deserving to be in the 10 even if they had non fighting roles but were very supportive in Martial Arts movies and help the story moving and without them we would just have boring/repetitive action movies. Li Li-Hua Ivy Ling Po Li Ching Betty Loh Ti Linda Lin Dai Cheng Pei-pei Kara Wai Shih Szu Lily Li Ching Li Hui-Ling Liu Jenny Tseng Jenny HU Lily Ho Chen Ping Ping Chin/Qin Lydia Shum Margaret Hsing Hui Kao Pao-Shu Candy Wen 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Tex Killer Posted May 26, 2020 Member Share Posted May 26, 2020 On 5/24/2020 at 11:25 PM, ShawAngela said: Essie Lin Chia Her role as seducing 1000 hands king in "return of one-armed swordsman" guarantees her place in top#10 if would try to make such list.. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Chu Liu Hsiang Posted May 28, 2020 Member Share Posted May 28, 2020 No specific order: Cheng Pei Pei, Li Ching, Lily Ho, Ching Li, Ivy Ling Po, Lily Li, Chin Ping, Tanny Tien Ni, Shih Szu, Chiao Chiao. Same as with male actors, I am reluctant to stop now but 10 was the limit 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Iron_Leopard Posted May 30, 2020 Author Member Share Posted May 30, 2020 Surprised there has been no mention of Candice Yu. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShawAngela Posted May 30, 2020 Member Share Posted May 30, 2020 20 minutes ago, Iron_Leopard said: Surprised there has been no mention of Candice Yu. That's what I said, 10 isn't enough. I'm not very familiar with Candice Yu in the Shaws' movies, I'm more used to see her in series... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Iron_Leopard Posted May 31, 2020 Author Member Share Posted May 31, 2020 7 hours ago, ShawAngela said: That's what I said, 10 isn't enough. I'm not very familiar with Candice Yu in the Shaws' movies, I'm more used to see her in series... Any idea what happened to this actress and why she didn't have a longer career? http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=4224&display_set=eng 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member morpheus Posted June 9, 2020 Member Share Posted June 9, 2020 On 5/30/2020 at 6:27 PM, Iron_Leopard said: Any idea what happened to this actress and why she didn't have a longer career? http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=4224&display_set=eng I see a long gap of 30 years between her last 2 appearances. It could be that she got married and left the industry to start a family. It was not unusual for stars to do that during that time period. I really respect that in a way -to place a great importance on family. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Iron_Leopard Posted June 11, 2020 Author Member Share Posted June 11, 2020 On 6/9/2020 at 1:34 PM, morpheus said: I see a long gap of 30 years between her last 2 appearances. It could be that she got married and left the industry to start a family. It was not unusual for stars to do that during that time period. I really respect that in a way -to place a great importance on family. That's unfortunate. Shes a cutie. I saw her in "The Jade Tiger" and looked up her filmography to see if I saw anything else she'd been in. Was shocked her career was so short. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member ShawAngela Posted June 13, 2020 Member Share Posted June 13, 2020 On 5/30/2020 at 10:42 PM, Iron_Leopard said: Surprised there has been no mention of Candice Yu. In the bonuses of one of my Wildside dvd, she said that she had a romance with Derek Yee while shooting the movie Young Lovers, but it didn't last for long, from what I remember, and she married Chow Yun Fat in 1983, and divorced on the same year ! Here is her wikipage ; it seems that she appeared in a few movies in the 2000's : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice_Yu 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member morpheus Posted June 13, 2020 Member Share Posted June 13, 2020 1 hour ago, ShawAngela said: In the bonuses of one of my Wildside dvd, she said that she had a romance with Derek Yee while shooting the movie Young Lovers, but it didn't last for long, from what I remember, and she married Chow Yun Fat in 1983, and divorced on the same year ! Here is her wikipage ; it seems that she appeared in a few movies in the 2000's : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice_Yu Dang, that marriage lasted the term of a typical pregnancy - nine months. Here's a picture of...happier times. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Iron_Leopard Posted July 19, 2020 Author Member Share Posted July 19, 2020 (edited) Ok my knowledge of Shaws actresses has grown tremendously in the last month and a half. This is my list. 1. Chang Pei Pei 2. Li Ching 3. Chin Ping 4. Shih Szu 5. Ching Li 6. Lily Li 7. Kara Hui 8. Candace Yu 9. Candy Wen 10. To be announced. Edited July 19, 2020 by Iron_Leopard 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member TibetanWhiteCrane Posted July 19, 2020 Member Share Posted July 19, 2020 That's a tough one... In alphabetical order Candy Wen Cheng Pei Pei Ching Li Jenny Hu Kara Hui Li Ching Lily Ho Lily Li Lisa Chiao Chiao Tina Chin Fei 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Yihetuan Posted June 28, 2023 Member Share Posted June 28, 2023 She won't make this list but just want to say Happy Birthday to Essie Lin Chia. Turned 76 today. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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