Hsia Meng

Acting

Hsia Meng

Born — Died

1933-02-13 — 2016-10-28

Place of birth

中国,上海

Known for

Acting

Credits

21 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 8 titles

1950s · 8 titles

新婚第一夜 poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

新婚第一夜

1956

Modern ‘Red Chamber Dream’ poster
NR

Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the big four of classic Chinese novels, has been adapted for film and television dozens of times over the past decades. Yet this sui generis Great Wall production daringly transposes the setting to modern-day 1950s. The contemporised story revolves nonetheless around the love triangle between Jia Baoyu and his two cousins. Both girls love him but his heart belongs to only one. The ending, however, is remarkably changed to separation of the lovers as a result of war—the war that was surely still haunting the minds of the filmmakers at the time when the film was made. Not only did Great Wall pour money into building extravagant sets just so to recreate down to the smallest detail the grandeur of the legendary Jia mansion, but the film also boasted of its lavish costume designs for the diverse female cast. (From Hong Kong Film Archive)

Modern ‘Red Chamber Dream’

1952

Feast of a Rich Family poster
9.0

This tale of familial warfare and sacrifice takes place in hard-pressed Shanghai at the end of the 1940s. Hu Zhiqing can barely support his wife and children, and his situation is worsened by the unexpected arrival of his mother, brother and sister-in-law. When he is fired by his unscrupulous boss, the whole family becomes embroiled in one emotional/economic struggle after another.

Feast of a Rich Family

1959

The Peerless Beauty poster
10.0

This is a story of how Ru Ji, a farm girl of Chao Kuo, who sacrificed her own life to save her country and people in the year 257 B.C.

The Peerless Beauty

1953

Sweet as Honey poster
8.0

Zhang Mingyang and Ding Huilan are newlyweds and very much in love. Yang's old lover, Wang Baozhu, pays a surprise visit and asks Yang to help her find her long-lost husband. In order to avoid the same mistake of his father-in-law being pestered by his jealous mother-in-law, Yang has to claim that Zhu is the mistress of his colleague, which causes the wives to be suspicious. After Lan learns the truth, she helps Zhu find her husband and exposes Yang's lies ......

Sweet as Honey

1959

Sunrise poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sunrise

1956

A Widow's Tears poster
NR

After her husband's death in a car accident, Fang must endure the fury of her mother-in-law.

A Widow's Tears

1956

Husband Hunters poster
9.0

In order to avoid young women being selected to enter the imperial palace, the parents hastily arrange marriages for their unmarried daughters with men they deemed suitable.

Husband Hunters

1958

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