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My Young Auntie

Original title: Zhang bei
  • 19811981
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 2h 1m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
758
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POPULARITY
65,669
3,227
My Young Auntie (1981)
ActionComedy
Cheng Tai-Nan (Kara Hui) is an honest and faithful servant of a dying patriarch who wants nothing more than to protect his vast wealth from his selfish, conniving nephew, Yung-Sheng. Tai-Nan... Read allCheng Tai-Nan (Kara Hui) is an honest and faithful servant of a dying patriarch who wants nothing more than to protect his vast wealth from his selfish, conniving nephew, Yung-Sheng. Tai-Nan is young enough to be his granddaughter, but still agrees to marry her master so that all... Read allCheng Tai-Nan (Kara Hui) is an honest and faithful servant of a dying patriarch who wants nothing more than to protect his vast wealth from his selfish, conniving nephew, Yung-Sheng. Tai-Nan is young enough to be his granddaughter, but still agrees to marry her master so that all of his wealth will be lawfully safe with her so she can then transfer it to Ching-Chuen (... Read all
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
758
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
65,669
3,227
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    • Director
      • Chia-Liang Liu
    • Writer
      • Chia-Liang Liu(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Chia-Liang Liu
      • Kara Wai
      • Hou Hsiao
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Chia-Liang Liu
    • Writer
      • Chia-Liang Liu(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Chia-Liang Liu
      • Kara Wai
      • Hou Hsiao
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    • 12User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Hou Hsiao, Kara Wai, Chia-Hui Liu, and Te-Lo Mai in My Young Auntie (1981)
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    Chia-Liang Liu
    Chia-Liang Liu
    • Yu Ching-Chuen
    Kara Wai
    Kara Wai
    • Cheng Tai-Nan
    • (as Kara Hui)
    Hou Hsiao
    • Charlie Yu Tao
    Lung-Wei Wang
    Lung-Wei Wang
    • Yu Yung-Sheng
    Tung-Kua Ai
    Tung-Kua Ai
    Kwok Keung Chan
      Wing-Hon Cheung
      Wing-Hon Cheung
      Yeong-moon Kwon
        Hsing-Chao Lai
        • Boat passenger
        King-Chu Lee
        King-Chu Lee
        Ta Lei
        Ta Lei
        • Boat passenger
        Hsueh-Ming Liao
        Hua Lin
        • Spectator
        Hui-Huang Lin
        Hui-Huang Lin
        Ke-Ming Lin
        Ke-Ming Lin
        Chia-Hui Liu
        Chia-Hui Liu
        • James
        Hua-Chang Lu
        Te-Lo Mai
        Te-Lo Mai
        • Robert
        • Director
          • Chia-Liang Liu
        • Writer
          • Chia-Liang Liu(screenplay)
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        Storyline

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        • Trivia
          Kara Hui shot the rickshaw scene while recovering from an appendectomy. She had to move very carefully or risk tearing out the stitches.
        • Connections
          Featured in Films of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Movie (2011)

        User reviews12

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        Top review
        3/10
        It lacks Jackie Chan (or Sammo Hung) badly...
        ...and these words are NOT from a Jackie/Sammo fan. The point is that, for instance, Mr Jackie Chan is able to give us a perfect mixture of comedy and drama (well, not always of course) and here the young actor ("Student") can deliver neither comedy nor drama, at least he cannot do it properly (but mostly in a nauseating, even repulsive way). "Auntie" is very impressive as the movie starts but further on she gets more and more manipulative, becoming a kind of rag doll who gets in corny situations. Some parts of the flick are too prolonged, stupid and simply awful (like "the musketeers masquerade fight" - it's so bad that my urge was to shut the whole cinema down, or "the serenade dance" in front of "Auntie" - the Chinese actors were pathetic and it was painful to watch this dancing-singing schlock).

        The story had sucked me in to watch this one and the beginning looked promising, but soon it all turned out to be a mediocre kung-fu flick of a dubious quality. The funny moments are very scanty and the fights (tons of them here, but... in vain) don't feel impressive to me (because the director failed to build up the story and the characters). It's very sad that the leading actress, being so beautiful and knowing how to kick some rear, falls flat because of poor direction and because her overacting colleague ("student") looks and sounds embarrassing. Besides, the main villain's character is very underdeveloped. What do we know about him apart from wanting to get the property and having a bunch of henchmen?

        Just a 3 out of 10 for this third rate flick from the past (the IMDb rating here was absolutely misleading to me, and these Chinese actors ruined my evening when my plan had been to enjoy a kung-fu cinema of good quality). Thanks for attention.
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        • AndreiPavlov
        • Feb 17, 2016

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        • Release date
          • 1981 (Hong Kong)
        • Country of origin
          • Hong Kong
        • Languages
          • Cantonese
          • Mandarin
        • Also known as
          • Fangs of the Tigress
        • Production company
          • Shaw Brothers
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        • Runtime
          2 hours 1 minute
        • Color
          • Color
        • Sound mix
          • Mono
        • Aspect ratio
          • 2.35 : 1

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