Maiden Love

The Fisherman's Daughter

Dir/Scr: Richard Poh
Prod Co: Hsin Hwa
Co-starring: Yan Jun, Wang Lai, He Bin
1956 | B&W | DCP | Mandarin | Chinese Lyrics | 101min

Lin Dai’s early cinematic image as a tender and cheerful village maiden gained immediate success with Singing Under the Moon (1953), to be followed by a few other titles elaborating on this charming and sentimental maiden look. In this film, she plays a jolly and diligent daughter of a fisherman and by chance saves the life of a painter (Yan Jun) from drowning. The two then fall for each other. This short-term romance soon faces massive challenges as the painter's father is eyeing on his rich boss’s wealth and looking forward to his son marrying the boss’s daughter (Wang Lai). The painter rejects the planned marriage and chooses to try his luck in the city. Contempt and jealousy cause the rich lady to scheme on the love pair and use tricks to break them up, leading to a tragic ending. Director Richard Poh tactfully inherits the plot of his earlier work Daughter of the Fisherman (1943), readdressing the huge contrast between the idyllic seaside village and the sophisticated urban city, where money makes the world turns around.

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A Tribute to Lin Dai

1964 | B&W | Digital File | Mandarin | Chi & Eng Subtitles | 20min

The film world joined thousands of mourners in bidding farewell and paying tributes to the legendary star Lin Dai who passed away on 17 July 1964. Produced by Shaw Brothers, this documentary contained footages of Lin's wedding to Lung Shing-fan, the commemorative photo exhibition that attracted thousands of visitors, and the live reportage from the charity screening of Lin's posthumous work The Last Woman of Shang (1964), held by Shaw Brothers to raise funds for the Hong Kong Red Cross. 

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