
Acting
Diana Chang Chung-Wen
Born — Died
1936-08-10 — 2019-02-18
Known for
Acting
Credits
19 titles
Diana Chang Chung-Wen (Chinese: 張仲文, 10 August 1936 – 15 February 2019) was a Chinese actress.
Known for
6.7A woman in an arranged marriage falls in love with her husband's brother.
The Amorous Lotus Pan
1964
6.4The renowned Li Li Hua plays Wu Ze Tian, the most famous woman in China's four thousand year history.
Empress Wu
1963
8.0THE MONKEY GOES WEST is the first entry in the studio’s epic, four-part screen adaptation of “Journey to the West,” a 16th-century novel recounting the efforts of a Buddhist monk and his magical companions to travel to India and bring back Buddhist sutras.
The Monkey Goes West
1966
9.0Nineteen-year old Li Ching scored a major success playing the title character, Susanna. Li's youthful exuberance is given free rein in a role that embraces rebellion, love, betrayal, tragedy, and ultimately, redemption.
Susanna
1967
7.0The romance of a squire's daughter and a poor but refined scholar is thwarted when a loutish bandit is mistaken for the scholar by a confused servant and is given the idea that the daughter's hand in marriage is his for the asking. Rich in cross-dressing, mistaken identities, and reversals of gender roles, the film playfully subverts traditional Confucian values.
The Bride Napping
1962
8.0Long unemployed and stone-broke, Shen Jiaguang is dealt a further blow when his wife Lu Xiaoyin has fallen seriously ill and their son Xiaoguang has to quit school.
The Pistol
1961
Film credits
1960s · 15 titles
6.7A woman in an arranged marriage falls in love with her husband's brother.
The Amorous Lotus Pan
1964
6.4The renowned Li Li Hua plays Wu Ze Tian, the most famous woman in China's four thousand year history.
Empress Wu
1963
8.0THE MONKEY GOES WEST is the first entry in the studio’s epic, four-part screen adaptation of “Journey to the West,” a 16th-century novel recounting the efforts of a Buddhist monk and his magical companions to travel to India and bring back Buddhist sutras.
The Monkey Goes West
1966
9.0Nineteen-year old Li Ching scored a major success playing the title character, Susanna. Li's youthful exuberance is given free rein in a role that embraces rebellion, love, betrayal, tragedy, and ultimately, redemption.
Susanna
1967
7.0The romance of a squire's daughter and a poor but refined scholar is thwarted when a loutish bandit is mistaken for the scholar by a confused servant and is given the idea that the daughter's hand in marriage is his for the asking. Rich in cross-dressing, mistaken identities, and reversals of gender roles, the film playfully subverts traditional Confucian values.
The Bride Napping
1962
8.0Long unemployed and stone-broke, Shen Jiaguang is dealt a further blow when his wife Lu Xiaoyin has fallen seriously ill and their son Xiaoguang has to quit school.
The Pistol
1961
10.0Before director Lo Wei helped to discover Bruce Lee and the king of kung-fu comedy Jackie Chan, in Madam Slender Plum, Lo perpetuates the career of yet another Shaw's non-action, femme fatale starlet; the sleek and sexy, puppy-eyed Eurasian Jenny Hu. It's a melodrama with a touch of murder-mystery in the vein of an old Alfred Hitchcock movie where Diana Chang plays the mother with Jenny playing her oldest daughter.
Madam Slender Plum
1967
7.0The story of a self-disciplined singing girl who has different love endings and experiences.
The Coin
1964
9.0The Korean Intelligence Agency receives information that a huge amount of gold is being smuggled by North Korean spies, who has a secret organization in Hong Kong. To prevent this, Korea dispatches a secret agent to Hong Kong, who destroys their plan in advance and rounds up the mob.
Special Agent X-7
1966
NRA drama by the Shaw Brothers studio
Flames of Passion
1960
7.7A military plane carrying a nuclear load explodes mid-air after being hit by mysterious electronic rays. Sculptor Liang Tien Hong (Paul Chang Chung) discovers the ray was invented by his uncle and he must find it before Communist agents steal it for their own nefarious purposes.
Kiss and Kill
1967
7.0A romance film by the Shaw Brothers studio.
The Lost Love
1961
NRLee Ho Yin is a young musician turned advertising executive who is shy and tongue-tied when it comes to women. One day, Lee meets lovely Yiu Kit Ying on a bus. Lee's light-hearted attitude to live leads to a serious of humorous incidents.
Sing High, Sing Low
1967
NRA Shaw Brothers drama starring Diana Chang Chung-Wen and Margaret Tu Chuan.
Stepmother
1963
7.0A drama by the Shaw Brothers studio.
Twilight Hours
1960
1950s · 3 titles
One of Thai-Hong Kong co-production films during 1957-1962. The story was set in Thailand during the Sino-Japanese war. The Chinese overseas banker was mysteriously killed, then soon after the assassin was died a unnatural death. A series of subsequent incidents make the police suspect that it is related to the fake patriotic organization, Green Claw Gang.
Flame in Ashes
1958
No synopsis available yet.
The Blazing Charmer
1958
8.0Musician Sun Ping is estranged from his wife. Second daughter Yinzheng lives with Sun while eldest daughter Jinliu follows her mother. By coincidence, the sisters both enter the 'Calendar Girl' pageant but Jinliu deliberately lets her sister win the contest. Later, the sisters and Liu Bucheng perform in Sun's musical show. Though the show is a success, Yinzheng decides to quit in order to get married. Not wishing to disappoint their father, Jinliu devises a plan to make Yinzheng stay on, but the plan misfires. Yinzheng leaves angrily. She is at last brought back to the show due to Liu's mediation. The elders also reconcile as the sisters perform together on stage.
Calendar Girl
1959
