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Parents' Hearts

7.0(5)19551h 51m0

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.

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Language
Cantonese
  • father son relationship
  • grassroot
  • parental love
  • financial hardship

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Director

Chun Kim

Writers

Chun Kim

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Hong Kong

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  • Hong KongHK

    • TheatricalFeatures the opera excerpts "The judge goes to pieces" and "The coquettish beauty" performed and made famous by Ma Si-tsang. Famed opera stars Law Kar-kuen (father of Law Ka-ying) and Chan Tit-ying starred in a cameo part.21 Apr 1955

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Parents' Hearts was released on 21 April 1955.

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