Josephine Siao Fong-Fong

Acting

Josephine Siao Fong-Fong

Born 1947-03-13 · Shanghai, China

Josephine Siao Fong-Fong MBE is a Hong Kong film star who became popular as a child actress and continued her success as a mature actress, winning numerous awards including Best Actress at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival (for Summer Snow).[1] Since retiring from show business (partly due to her increasing deafness), she has become a writer and a psychologist, known for her work against child abuse. Was a member of Madame Fan Fok-Fa's The Spring And Autumn Drama School's Peking Opera.

Acting credits

The Legend poster
7.0

The secret Red Lotus Flower Society is committed to the overthrow of the evil Manchu Emperor and his minions. One of his Governors is sent on a mission to retrieve a list of members of that secret society. Meanwhile, Canton kung fu practitioner Fong Sai-Yuk falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a rich merchant.

The Legend

1993

The Legend II poster
6.7

The hero Fong Sai Yuk becomes involved in the secret brotherhood "The Red Flower", who are trying to overthrow the Manchurian emperor and re-establishing the Ming dynasty. The social upheaval is combined with Sai Yuk's personal moral conflict about how to conform to the rigid regime of the brotherhood and on top of that sort out his difficult love life, saddled with two presumptive wives.

The Legend II

1993

Fist of Fury 1991 poster
6.4

Lau Ching, a Mainlander with an incredibly powerful right arm, arrives in Hong Kong to find his cousin. He befriends with a drifter named Handsome, and a martial artist girl named Mandy. In order to woo her, Ching participates in a fighting competition in hopes of winning a $10 million prize, and must defeat his love rival, Wai, in the ring.

Fist of Fury 1991

1991

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hong kong film

甜甜蜜蜜的姑娘

1967

Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend poster
8.2

This documentary tells the story of Bruce Lee and his unsuccessful efforts to start a acting career in the U.S., he returned to Hong Kong where he became an international star, and his death at age 32.

Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend

1973

Teddy Girls poster
9.5

A revenge thriller unlike any other, Lung Kong confronts themes of reform and revenge by turning his focus to the subject of disaffected youth. Young Josephine, an audacious performance by a 22-year-old Josephine Siao, is sentenced to an all-girl reform school on the periphery of Hong Kong after a violent bar brawl. Along with a few accomplices, she escapes from the intolerable administration, only to find the streets an even more hostile environment, driving the girls to blood-soaked vengeance. An enthralling youth-in-revolt film from the rare perspective of its female protagonists, shot in indelible widescreen color photography, Teddy Girls is one of Lung Kong’s most enduring triumphs.

Teddy Girls

1969

Nobody's Child poster
7.0

Melodramatic film about a child prodigy.

Nobody's Child

1960

Fist of Fury 1991 II poster
5.6

After the total defeat of his love rival, Ching must now deal with the love rival's brother, Wan To, who seeks revenge against him. When Ching is ambushed by Wan To and his gang in the streets and is at risk, he is rescued and treated by an apprentice of his, Beef Skin, and his feisty sister, Beef Stew. It turns out those two are even harder to handle than Wan To.

Fist of Fury 1991 II

1992

電視先鋒群星會 poster
NR

As Hong Kong television entered the 1990s, this cross-network gala looked back over the industry's history from the founding of the territory's first subscription station in 1957 — the launch of TVB, the three-way rivalry between TVB, RTV and CTV, and the fierce ratings wars — with Sir Run Run Shaw and other key figures telling the story in person, and a star-studded line-up including Chow Yun-fat, Liza Wang, Sam Hui and Stephen Chow performing in tribute to the industry's finest.

電視先鋒群星會

The Wrong Couples poster
6.8

Upon returning home, sailor Yu (Richard Ng) is shock to discover that not only his wife left him, but the house has also been sub-letted to an old maid, May Wong (Josephine Siu). Both Yu and Wong have their own strange habits, and them living together under the same roof causes numerous hilarious incidents.

The Wrong Couples

1987

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9.0

Lung Kong’s first color feature expands on thematic concerns supplanted in The Story of a Discharged Prisoner made one year before, situating issues of social reform within an impassioned romantic melodrama. The relationship between a career criminal and a blind girl (a stunning performance by Josephine Siao) form a portrait of marginalized life in a rapidly-modernizing Hong Kong. The profound chemistry between Patrick Tse and Josephine Siao onscreen served as the primary inspiration for the famed hit man-blind girl pairing in John Woo’s award-winning film The Killer (1989).

The Window

1968

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hong kong film

七彩神火棒

1964

Hu-Du-Men poster
5.1

Cross the Hu-du-men - the demarcation between the back and front stage in Cantonese opera - and you leave yourself behind to totally absorb in your character. Lang Kim-sum is a charismatic Cantonese opera star who understands it's a point of no return once she crosses the Hu-du-men, on stage and in life. Respected by colleagues and friends, and about to retire, Lang has yet to face new, unexpected Hu-du-mens in domestic and professional life.

Hu-Du-Men

1996

A Patch of Love poster
NR

Kit-Fong was cultivated by composer Chun-Fai, who even invited her to perform in nightclubs. Kit-Fong's mother died of illness, and Chun-Fai sold her piano to help her tide over the difficulties. Kit-Fong couldn't bear it, so she borrowed money from the nightclub manager to buy a piano back, but she was almost cheated. Chun-Fai was so moved that he decided to marry Kit-Fong. Chun-Fai asks his brother for the money left to him by his father, but he wants to embezzle the inheritance, so he forces Kit-Fong to leave Chun-Fai, who has no choice but to go abroad. Chun-Fai always drank to drown his sorrows. Fortunately, he was encouraged by his friend and his sister Pik-Shan, who became famous in one song. Shan is very loyal to Fai, but unfortunately she is terminally ill. Fai marries Shan to repay her kindness. Fong returns and learns that Fai is married. While sad, Shan is missing and brings Fai and Fang together to renew their relationship.

A Patch of Love

1968

Summer Snow poster
7.5

Tells the story of the relationship between a widower with Alzheimer's disease and his daughter-in-law, May Sun, who is a housewife in her forties trying cope with the upheavals in her family.

Summer Snow

1995

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hong kong film

仙剑神魔(下集)

1963

Four Darling Daughters poster
NR

A father with four daughters, but has a conflicted relationship with his eldest one. Will they ever reconcile, despite their differences? A light-hearted romantic-comedy about a girl (Josephine Siao) who brought a boy home to get him a job at her father’s business but there’s only one problem; her younger sister has to stand-in and pretend to date her boyfriend.

Four Darling Daughters

1969

孫悟空三戲百花仙 poster
NR

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孫悟空三戲百花仙

1965

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NR

hong kong film

碧落紅塵(下集)

1966

The Killing Flag (Part 1) poster
NR

The master of the Soul-Snatching Banner has re-emerged in jiang hu to cause chaos and disruption. He leaves his mark - the killing flag - to show where he will strike next. The younger generation of swordsmen and women seek him out to end his rampage but each end up badly injured and dispirited. Part one of two.

The Killing Flag (Part 1)

1963

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hong kong film

劫火紅蓮(上集)

1966

Too Happy for Words poster
8.5

Stanley Kwan's 1992 short film starring Josephine Siao and Maggie Cheung

Too Happy for Words

1992

Romance of a Teenage Girl poster
NR

Hong Kong movie

Romance of a Teenage Girl

1967

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Hong Kong movie

To Crack the Dragon Gate

1970

Behind the camera