Connie Chan Po-Chu

Acting

Connie Chan Po-Chu

Born

1946-12-10 (79)

Place of birth

Guangdong, China

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Both of her parents being Cantonese Opera stars - Chan Fei Nung and Kung Fan Hung. Connie Chan as an actor is of undoubted pedigree and to the manner born. She learned the skills of  Cantonese Opera from her parents and after that she became an apprentice under Peking Opera master Fen Ju Hua and Cantonese Superstar Yam Kim Fai. Hence she was trained in both the Southern and Northern styles of martial arts and operas. She made her screen debut with Chun Heung Lin in 1958 and then appeared with opera legend Yam Kim Fai in the Cantonese opera film The Unroyal Prince. She was one of the most popular actresses in the sixties. In 1967  alone, she played in 32 films. Chan is a versatile actress and…

Known for

A Century of Light and Shadow poster
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Revisit 100 years of Chinese cinema through the RTHK TV program A Century of Light and Shadow. Aired in 2005, this interesting and informative documentary traces the development of the Chinese film industry from the pioneering years to contemporary times. From the volley between Mandarin and Cantonese films to the rise of the New Wave, this program touches on all the major trends and developments that have helped define Chinese cinema and explores different genres and representative figures and films. From actors to directors, over 200 film industry names, including Jackie Chan, John Woo, Sammo Hung, Connie Chan, Andrew Lau, Peter Chan, and Lau Ching Wan, appear in the program, bringing their intimate knowledge of the industry and providing insight about what lies ahead for Chinese cinema.

A Century of Light and Shadow

2005

The Blonde Hair Monster poster
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Cheung Yan-Lai, framed by his elder brother Cheung Yan-Tsuen, is sent to jail. He manages to escape and plans to take revenge along with a sorcerer, who uses orangutan blood to turn the Yellow Hair Monster into a lethal weapon.

The Blonde Hair Monster

1962

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No synopsis available yet.

娘子軍封王

1960

Paragon of Sword and Knife poster
8.0

Paragon of Sword and Knife is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie starring Sammo Hung

Paragon of Sword and Knife

1967

Red Lamp Shaded in Blood poster
8.0

Red Lamp Shaded in Blood is a decent Martial World film of the type that Chu Yuan made famous for Shaw Brothers. These are often based on the works of Jin Yong and Ku Long. Red Lamp features all the requisite tropes of the genre: various sects of the Martial World, an evil sect scheming to rule the Martial World, an outcast orphan sent on a quest, mystically acquired Martial Arts, a mysterious hermit, a mysterious killer and , of course, star crossed lovers.

Red Lamp Shaded in Blood

1968

The Lizard poster
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He steals from the rich and gives to the poor! Like Robin Hood, the title hero of The Lizard is a philanthropic thief, except the Lizard makes his rounds in 1930s Shanghai. Corrupt police chief Chen Can (Law Lit) is assigned to bring down the Lizard to appease the sinister Japanese forces, but the Lizard constantly eludes his grasp. Little does Chen Can know that the wily thief actually works for him! The Lizard's true identity is the mousy Cheng Long (Ngok Wah), who dons a mask and takes to the streets to spread his righteous message.

The Lizard

1972

Film credits

1960s · 56 titles

The Blonde Hair Monster poster
8.0

Cheung Yan-Lai, framed by his elder brother Cheung Yan-Tsuen, is sent to jail. He manages to escape and plans to take revenge along with a sorcerer, who uses orangutan blood to turn the Yellow Hair Monster into a lethal weapon.

The Blonde Hair Monster

1962

No artwork available
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No synopsis available yet.

娘子軍封王

1960

Paragon of Sword and Knife poster
8.0

Paragon of Sword and Knife is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie starring Sammo Hung

Paragon of Sword and Knife

1967

Red Lamp Shaded in Blood poster
8.0

Red Lamp Shaded in Blood is a decent Martial World film of the type that Chu Yuan made famous for Shaw Brothers. These are often based on the works of Jin Yong and Ku Long. Red Lamp features all the requisite tropes of the genre: various sects of the Martial World, an evil sect scheming to rule the Martial World, an outcast orphan sent on a quest, mystically acquired Martial Arts, a mysterious hermit, a mysterious killer and , of course, star crossed lovers.

Red Lamp Shaded in Blood

1968

Colorful Youth poster
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In 1966, Connie Chan Po-chu and Josephine Siao Fong-fong starred in multiple contemporary films, cementing their onscreen persona as virtuous young women while becoming the hottest youth idols of their time. Colourful Youth remains the only contemporary film to feature both of them. Filmed in Eastmancolor, the song-and-dance spectacle keeps its fingers on the pulse of its era and presents the vigour of the modern times.

Colorful Youth

1966

中原奇俠 poster
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No synopsis available yet.

中原奇俠

1966

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hong kong film

玉楼三凤

1968

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8.0

Two children try to win their parents over through devotion and duty

Eternal Love

1966

The Sword and Knife (Conclusion) poster
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Hong Kong martial arts movie.

The Sword and Knife (Conclusion)

1968

Lady Black Cat Strikes Again poster
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Further adventures of Lady Black Cat.

Lady Black Cat Strikes Again

1967

The Black Killer poster
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A 1967 Cantonese language action film directed by Cheung Wai-Gwong, starring Connie Chan, Adam Cheng and Liu Chia-Liang. Ming-Wai & Ming-Sing, a brother and sister (dual roles played by Connie Chan) who must go undercover in a gang to rescue their uncle.

The Black Killer

1967

The Golden Hairpin Part 2 poster
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The Golden Hairpin Part 2 is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung in child roles.

The Golden Hairpin Part 2

1963

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Book Without Words is a 1965 Cantonese martial arts film directed by Chan Lit-Ban and starring Cheung Ching.

Book Without Words

1965

The Furious Buddha's Palm poster
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Iron Faced Asura creates his “mutilation-poison leg”. At the same time his disciple Little Dragon Girl (Josephine Siao) realized his cruelty. Despairing, she finally meets her bosom friend, the Ape Boy Yuan Tung (Connie Chan) and her benefactors Long & Qiu and pull together to wipe out her evil master.

The Furious Buddha's Palm

1965

成家立室 poster
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"Let's Build a Family" was made in memory of the late director Mok Hong-si in the name of the "Eight Brothers". Based on Mok's classic work "Crossroads" (1955), it features four households in a shared apartment, resulting in a series of hilarious events.

成家立室

1969

Return of Lady Bond poster
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In protecting a group of children from bullying and gang violence, the gallant 'Lady Bond' Kong Yin stays with the family of driver Lee Pak in order to give classes in self-defence to Pak's younger brother Calf and neighbours Tak, Ah-ling as well as the young woman Sheung, drilling them in the moves and techniques. Startled by her striking resemblance to his kidnapped girlfriend Tong Ching-yee, Tse Tsi-ming pleads with and convinces Kong to pose as the missing girl to visit her bedridden grandfather Chung-sau. The masterminds behind the abduction, Tong's stepmother and her nephew Chan Chi-biu capture also Tse and the children. Tse brilliantly manages to alert Kong. Fighting and apprehending her opponents, Kong frees the hostages and hands the criminals over to the authorities.

Return of Lady Bond

1966

The Snowflake Sword (Part 2) poster
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Fang Zhaonan meets Chen Xuanshuang and learns powerful kungfu, while the Monks of Shaolin gather the most powerful heroes of Jiang-hu to wage war against the Death Valley Mingyu Sect. Mei Jiangxue pleads with them to stop, but they ignore her, to disastrous consequences.

The Snowflake Sword (Part 2)

1964

The Black Centipede poster
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Enter the dragon villain, Shek Kin, is the Leader of the Black Centipede clan, a ruthless gang who terrorize the good people of Fuzhou, Walter Tso and Connie Chan are taught some tricks from---old Sam the Seed himself on how to bring down the Black Centipede clan.

The Black Centipede

1963

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hong kong film

玉女癡情

1968

Moslem Sacred Fire Decree, Part 2 poster
9.0

In the second part and conclusion to the story, the eight martial clans discover that there are two Sacred Fire weapons, Yin and Yang, and the siblings must uncover the facts of their parent's deaths in order to unite, wield the weapons, and defeat Nun Silence and her evil schemes.

Moslem Sacred Fire Decree, Part 2

1965

The White-Bone Sword (Part 1) poster
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The Thousand-Year-Old Wood Spirit has appeared again, and powerful martial artists both good and evil have gathered to defeat it, because its bones become the magical White-Bone Yin-Yang Swords. But the creature can only be defeated by black gold. Who will get the black gold dagger and win the swords?

The White-Bone Sword (Part 1)

1962

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hong kong film

劫火紅蓮(上集)

1966

The Snowflake Sword (Part 1) poster
8.0

The Blood Pool Map re-emerges in Jiang-hu, and all good and evil sects hunt for Fang Zhaonan, who is said to carry it. For his part, he simply hopes to trade it to the herbalist Lu Xuan for medicine he needs to free his sister, but fate has other plans.

The Snowflake Sword (Part 1)

1964

Master Cute poster
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The first appearance of the comic character Old Master Q and friends.

Master Cute

1965

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hong kong film

碧落紅塵(大結局)

1966

孫悟空三戲百花仙 poster
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No synopsis available yet.

孫悟空三戲百花仙

1965

The Black Rose poster
9.0

Chan sisters Chan Meiling and Chan Meiyu are respected high class, women in Hong Kong's more upscale neighborhoods. However, they both share an alter-ego called the Black Rose, a notorious cat burglar who dresses in a black leotard, and steals from the rich to give to the poor - taking on a Robin Hood-style mission. Even with their antihero status, the Black Rose has created uneasiness and tension in the high society; therefore, an insurance detective investigates the crimes and tries to unmask the woman behind the cat mask.

The Black Rose

1965

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Yuan Xiao is chased by the panther head monster, and starts a fierce fight. Wang Gunlong and Min Tianhu take the opportunity to capture the flute.

The All-powerful Flute: Part 2

1965

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Expert of lithographic plates and counterfeit banknotes Lee Lik-hang is hunted down by the hitman Ma Biu on the orders of the gang leader Chan Lung. Cheng Wai-lun, witness to the crime and the unwitting custodian of the plate, finds himself wanted both by the police and the criminals. Seeking to unweave the web of intrigue is Kong Yin, cousin of Cheng's fiancée Cheung Mei-ling and the famed 'Lady Bond' who poses as the gambler Judy and doubles as a singer at Chan's nightclub. Kong identifies the boss as the culprit but is forced to flee following a failed attempt to obtain the needed evidence. Both Ma and detective Chow To reach Cheng who chooses police detention over abduction by the gang. Cheng evades Chan's underlings and hands the hitmen over to the authorities. Cheung's abduction results in a fierce battle when Chow and his squad arrive at the criminal den, arresting the gang leader and retrieving the lithographic plate.

Dragnet of the Law

1967

Lady Black Cat poster
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A female thief who dresses as a cat, beats-up a lot of people, and robs from the rich.

Lady Black Cat

1966

Lady Black Cat poster
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A female thief who dresses as a cat, beats-up a lot of people, and robs from the rich.

Lady Black Cat

1966

The White-Bone Sword (Part 4) poster
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In the senses-shattering conclusion, our heroes search high and low for the White-Bone Swords, righting wrongs wherever they find them, at last discovering the swords are under the protection of a fierce dragon.

The White-Bone Sword (Part 4)

1963

Moslem Sacred Fire Decree, Part 1 poster
10.0

A loving couple are killed after drawing a map of the coveted Moslem Sacred Fire Decrees with their blood under coercion. The map is split into eight parts, placed separately in the custody of the eight leading martial sects. The children of the couple are adopted by Elderly Spirit from Hades and Nun Silence of Emei respectively. Growing up, the son Wan Tin-sau inherits from Hades all the skills he will need to know to take on the nun and her protegee in a duel 18 years later...

Moslem Sacred Fire Decree, Part 1

1965

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hong kong film

八大女俠鬧江湖(上集)

1962

The Tin Long Gang poster
7.5

A Hong Kong sword fighting film starring four Cantonese stars.

The Tin Long Gang

1968

Girl with Cat's Eye poster
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Secret Agents (Connie Chan and Kenneth Tsang) go undercover at a disco club trying to prevent two scientists from falling into the hands of a nefarious gang led by The Lady (Mang Lei) and the mysterious X707.

Girl with Cat's Eye

1967

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hong kong film

滿堂吉慶

1964

A Death Pass poster
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A series of murders are committed after the victims are served with a Death Pass. Connie Chan Po-chu is the "Jane Bond" on the case!

A Death Pass

1967

Spy with My Face poster
9.0

Continuing from the first Jane Bond film, Black Rose (1965), Mei-yu and Mei-yu infiltrate the underground group of Golden Yanluo (Chinese: Judge of the Underworld) to save Man-fu and Nanny back.

Spy with My Face

1966

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hong kong film

玉女英魂(上集)

1965

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hong kong film

劫火紅蓮(下集)

1966

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Yiu But-fan marries on the day his father Yan-kit retires as a distinguished swordsman when Yan-kit's nemesis 'Ghostly Mother Blue Flower' Chiu Choi-wan and her foster son Lai Chun-wah gatecrash the party, striking dead the elder and But-fan's wife with the White-bone Soul-thrashing needles. Having pledged his alliance to the anguished son, Taoist Tranquil of Emei vows to eradicate the menace at Mid-Autumn Festival when his junior disciple Kau Suet-mui is challenged to a duel with Chiu. Kau's fellow disciples Hung Tin-bo and Chuk Yuk-heung follow the orders of their master to roam the martial world and tumble into a bandit lair. Extricated from danger by the Taoist, the duo join hands with the passer-by Yiu to thwart Lai's assault on Kau by sorcery, again aided by the Taoist. Yiu, Kau and her peers head back to the Kau Fortress where a martial contest is being held to select a prospective groom for the daughter. Kau overwhelms Lai in the ring but concedes defeat to Chiu.

The Devil and Her Magic Needles, Part One

1964

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The New Tale of the Flying Crane (Part 2)

The Secret Book (New Series), Part 2

1963

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hong kong film

旺财嫂

1967

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Ting Cheuk-ting (Lee Hang), the accountant of a trading company, tries to borrow money from his employer, but in vain. The following day, the company finds that $30,000 has been stolen, and the missing money is recovered at Ting’s home. Ting’s daughter, Suk-wai (Connie Chan), takes the fall for her father. She admits to the theft and is given a one-year bind-over order, which infuriates Ting to the point of death. Suk-wai has to carry the burden of providing for her family, but constantly runs into walls due to her criminal record. She eventually disguises herself as a man to work as a typist at her father’s old trading company. The boss’s daughter, Mona Lui (Helena Law Lan), exposes her and calls the police upon discovering her secret. Suk-wai is left unable to defend herself.

You Do Me Wrong

1966

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hong kong film

相思甜如蜜

1969

Give Me a Kiss poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Give Me a Kiss

1968

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hong kong film

莫負青春

1967

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hong kong film

红叶恋

1968

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hong kong film

碧落紅塵(下集)

1966

The All-powerful Flute: Part 1 poster
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A powerful flute becomes the focus of all the fighters in the martial world, much blood is shed as they battle and scheme to get their hands on it.

The All-powerful Flute: Part 1

1965

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hong kong film

八大女俠鬧江湖(下集)

1962

Lady Bond poster
8.0

Connie Chan Po-chu's character's father was killed by the triads, leaving behind two daughters. The elder sister makes a living as a singer at a nightclub, and is sometimes threatened by triad members. The younger sister (Connie Chan Po-chu), who knows karate, becomes an assassin who punishes villains.

Lady Bond

1966

The Monkey King Stormed the Sea Palace poster
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The Monkey King, Sun Wu-Kong (Connie Chan), must fight her way into the Dragon Palace to gain a magic pearl that can help him free his master Tripitaka from the evil designs of the Albino Rat Spirit.

The Monkey King Stormed the Sea Palace

1962

Young, Pregnant and Unmarried poster
8.0

Young, Pregnant and Unmarried is a Hong Kong Comedy starring Stanley Fung.

Young, Pregnant and Unmarried

1968

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The agile and cerebral fighter Kong Yin is invited to join the police SWAT team. Kong is soon sent on an undercover mission to investigate the gang operating at the Happiness Rubber Plant to coerce female workers into prostitution. An indignant Kong joins hands with fellow worker Chow Mei-ha and factory head Wong Chi-kong to expel Blackie Kei whose ruthless and blatant exploitation of the workers has been going unpunished. Facing the loss of a lucrative source of income, Blackie and his underworld bigwig boss Wu Tin-hung intercept the love letters exchanged between Wong and the wife of the general manager Ting Yuk-lan and use the correspondence to extort money from the adulterers. The fearless Chow dons a maid disguise and ingratiates herself with the gangster, followed by a police raid masterminded by Kong to crack down on the notorious gang.

The Perilous Rescue

1967

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