The best Wong Ching-Ho’s romance movies

Wong Ching-Ho

Wong Ching-Ho

23/09/1919- 01/01/2013
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Wong Ching-Ho’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Wong Ching-Ho.

The Dream of the Red Chamber

The Dream of the Red Chamber
6.7/10
Li Han-Hsiang's adaptation of the classic Qing Dynasty novel will take viewers to the heightened pleasures of love and the despairing depths of betrayal. Timeless beauty Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia appears as Chia Pao-yu in her first attempt at a gender-bending role, an art she will wield complete mastery over in later films. Pao-yu is in love with his cousin, Lin Tai-yu (Sylvia Chang), but his family has other marital plans for him that will leave both broken-hearted.

Love in a Fallen City

Love in a Fallen City
6.2/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 02/08/1984
  • Character: Pai's family servant
Taking place in 1941, Love in a Fallen City centers on Pai (Cora Miao), a young woman who has been ostracized by her family for divorcing her rich husband. A local match-maker, Mrs. Hsu (Helen Ma), takes pity on Pai and decides to bring her to Hong Kong, under the guise of employing her as the Hsu's nanny, but in reality to introduce her to Fan (Chow Yun-Fat). Pai and Fan seem to hit it off, but Fan's refusal to marry Pai soon sours things. However, as the Japanese begin to invade Hong Kong, the two begin to realize their true feelings for each other.

Sensual Pleasures

Sensual Pleasures
6.1/10
Sensual Pleasures features a collection of three, ghost story, sexual vignettes starring a viscerally sensual trio of hardcore experience with the well endowed Chen Ping, Chinese adult film legend Shirley Yu and the innocent doe-eyed Shaw Yin-yin.

Cohabitation

Cohabitation
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/05/1975
  • Character: Xu Zheng
An office girl and a writer who have taken the same commuter ferry to work and have ogled one another for a long time eventually get to meet. The two have a romance and then a live-in relationship, but the girl's parents are not content with this, and want to see her married.

Susanna

Susanna
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 16/10/1967
  • Character: Dr Wang
Film about Shan Shan and her life.

Auntie Lan

Auntie Lan
6.2/10
A young woman lost her fiancé from the plane clash , later she discover that she becomes pregnant with his baby.She question herself what should she do between keep the child safe until she give a birth or she abortion the child.

The Pearl Phoenix

The Pearl Phoenix
5.9/10
Huangmei Opera movies like The Pearl Phoenix are unique to 1960's Hong Kong culture, a product of the Swinging Sixties but considerably more in touch with their Chinese roots. This one is complete with a gender-bending tale where the male lead is played by female and the female lead poses as a man, plus movie queen Li Ching and the singing voices of Ivy Ling Po and Jing Ting. Sit back and enjoy!

Lady Jade Locket

Lady Jade Locket
6.6/10
Love knows no limits in the grand period romance, Lady Jade Locket. A young fighter inadvertently falls for the spirit of a beautiful woman, who died years earlier avenging her own father's murder. The beautiful ghost is in fact the sister of his fiancee. Experienced as an actor in many such romances, director Yen Chuan keeps the tone perfect. Plus, with period specialist Li Li-hua in the lead and the attractive and acclaimed Li Ching playing the ghost girl, he really can do no wrong.

The Ghost Lovers

The Ghost Lovers
5.3/10
  • Genre: HorrorRomance
  • Release: 01/12/1973
  • Character: Taoist Priest
Song dynasty lotus and Han Shilong before marry, Korea's home office, thedragon's heart ached. After lotus appeared dead, the dragon as the reunion was determined to marry, have a friend Zhang Tie strongly opposed, and find a Taoistspirits. The dragon the obstacles of their marriage, lotus to spend a night after the found.

Young Lovers

Young Lovers
5.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/03/1979
  • Character: Mr. Chiu
In the vein of "Romeo And Juliet", Hong Kong style, the small ensemble cast and little-known director Michihko do a big league job with their rendition of "Romeo And Juliet" in "The Young Lovers". Although poor boy (Derek Erh Tung-Sheng) and rich girl (Yu An-An) are from opposite ends of the spectrum, their undying love refuses to let anyone get in their way, including their parents. Shakespeare would be moved.

Pink Tears

Pink Tears
6.8/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 27/05/1965
  • Character: Dr Huang
The socialite Pai Li-Lan's life is disrupted when she contracts tuberculosis.

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