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Li Li Hua Boxset (DVD) (3-Disc) (Taiwan Version)

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Between Tears and Smiles (1963) Shaw Brothers utilized nearly every director and performer under contract to bring the epic melodrama Between Tears and Smiles to the silver screen. Fan Chia Soo (Kwan Shan, The Blue and The Black ) is a softhearted college student who finds himself in a curious romantic predicament - he has to make a decision involving three lovely women, all vying for his attention in their own special way. The first potential Mrs. Fan is the ridiculously spoiled daughter from a rich family (Li Li Hua). Chia Soo is more interested in the second girl, however, as his heart is captured by the siren song of Shen Feng Hsien (also Li Li Hua), a soft-spoken, poverty-stricken singer performing in a seedy nightclub. The third woman in this love rectangle is played by Ivy Ling Bor, a street performer acrobat who works with her father. Although Chia Soo has his heart set on Feng Hsien, it turns out that he's got some stiff competition. Zeng Miu ( The Mermaid ) plays General Chang, who has his henchmen abduct they sexy singer for his own personal plaything. The Grand Substitution (1965) Shaw Brothers studios' Huangmei Operas don't get more epic or cinematically lavish than The Grand Substitution , a musical costume epic that was crowned Best Picture at the 12th Asian Film Festival. With China under control of a weak Emperor, two officials compete to steer the future destiny of the land. Chiu believes the people are the future of China, while the diabolical Tu wishes to grind the people beneath an iron heel. Tu decides to take out Chiu's family, but one lone infant escapes. With that infant lies the hope of the fallen Chiu family, and perhaps even the future of China. Double-crosses, epic battles, tragic romances, and royal palace intrigue combine to make The Grand Subsitution one of the most dramatic and exciting Huangmei Operas in the Shaw Brothers library. Starring Li Li Hua, Yan Jun, and Ivy Ling Bor, in a cross-dressing, gender-bending role. Three Sinners (1962) Among Shaw Brothers' many The Water Margin adaptations, perhaps one of the most intriguing was one of its earliest, Three Sinners , helmed by Yan Jun. Based on one particular storyline in the larger work, Three Sinners weaves an intriguing story of romance, treachery, and death, all within the context of the traditional Huangmei Opera. Yan Jun casts his real-life wife, Li Li Hua, as one of the title characters, a woman who finds herself in the middle of a stormy love triangle involving her controlling husband (director Yan Jun serving double duty in a starring role) and a passionate lover (Chen Yan Yan).

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