Movie: Parents' Hearts

Top 10 Billed Cast

Wong Cho-San
黃楚山

Chu-kot Yu

Wong Man-Lei
Wong Man-Lei

Lei's wife

Yuen Siu-Fai
Yuen Siu-Fai

Chi-wai

Ma Sze-Tsang
Ma Sze-Tsang

Sang Kwai-lei

Lam Ka-Sing
Lam Ka-Sing

Chi-kuen

Gam Lau
Gam Lau

Yu's wife

Lam Lo-ngok
Lam Lo-ngok

leader

Lee Pang-Fei
Lee Pang-Fei

Chan Hau

Lee Siu-fun
Lee Siu-fun

Kuen's classmate

Mok Hung
Mok Hung

doctor

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    父母心

  • 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.

  • Release Date

    1955-04-21

  • Average

    6.2

  • Rating:

    3.1 starts
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  • Languages:

    广州话 / 廣州話
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