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Tao li zheng chun

  • 19621962
  • 1h 38m
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  • Director
    • Wen Yi
  • Writers
    • Cheh Chang
    • Wen Yi
  • Stars
    • Julie Yeh Feng
    • Helen Li Mei
    • Kelly Lai Chen
  • Director
    • Wen Yi
  • Writers
    • Cheh Chang
    • Wen Yi
  • Stars
    • Julie Yeh Feng
    • Helen Li Mei
    • Kelly Lai Chen
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    Julie Yeh Feng
    Julie Yeh Feng
    • Li Ailianas Li Ailian
    Helen Li Mei
    Helen Li Mei
    • Tao Haiyinas Tao Haiyin
    Kelly Lai Chen
    Kelly Lai Chen
    • Tao Zhengshengas Tao Zhengsheng
    Roy Chiao
    Roy Chiao
    • Xu Zhaofengas Xu Zhaofeng
    Annette Chang Hui Hsien
    Annette Chang Hui Hsien
    • Li Xiaolianas Li Xiaolian
    • (as Huixian Zhang)
    Kuang-Chao Chiang
    Kuang-Chao Chiang
    • Man delivering flowersas Man delivering flowers
    Yuan Gao
    • Dongas Dong
    Enjia Liu
    Enjia Liu
    • Huangas Huang
    Xiaonong Ma
    Xiaonong Ma
    • Mrs. Taoas Mrs. Tao
    Chong Shen
    Chong Shen
    • Orchestra Conductoras Orchestra Conductor
    Ching Tien
    Ching Tien
    • Panas Pan
    Tian-Lin Wang
    Tian-Lin Wang
    • Manager of Gramophone Record Companyas Manager of Gramophone Record Company
    Chia-Hsiang Wu
    Chia-Hsiang Wu
    • TV Station Manageras TV Station Manager
    • Director
      • Wen Yi
    • Writers
      • Cheh Chang
      • Wen Yi
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      Hao di fang (A good place)
      Performed by Julie Yeh Feng

      Written by Min Yao and Wen Yi

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    IT'S ALWAYS SPRING - Hong Kong musical with good songs, engaging performers
    In the Hong Kong motion picture industry of the late 1950s and early '60s, Cathay Studios was a rival of the better-financed Shaw Bros. studio. While Shaw Bros. turned out impressive widescreen Hollywood-scale spectacles, Cathay tended to focus on intimate dramas and comedies focusing on the ordinary workaday people of Hong Kong and China. IT'S ALWAYS SPRING (1962), filmed in black-and-white, tells a simple, charming tale of two rival female singers in Hong Kong who wind up signed to contracts at the same nightclub and forced to work on alternate nights. The rivalry soon extends to record deals and TV productions. The singers are Ailian Li, played by Julie Yeh Feng, and Tao Haiyin, played by Helen Li Mei. In the course of it, we get nine musical numbers, seven of them performed on the nightclub stage, with the singers, elegantly dressed, backed by a band and singing their hearts out. We get two larger production numbers late in the film, one in a TV studio and one on board a yacht, both of which involve chorus lines of accompanying dancers. (But they're still smaller in scale than the average musical number on an American TV variety show of the time.) The two leads team up for a duet at the end, with Helen in a sarong and Julie decked out in a white tux (shades of Marlene Dietrich!). Adorable teen star Annette Chang Hui-Hsien (aka Zhang Huixian) makes her film debut here as Ailian's younger sister Xiaolian, who also sings in a couple of scenes.

    The simple production is filmed mostly on location, in Mandarin with sync sound (i.e. dialogue recorded on location, not post-dubbed). It's not a complicated story--a typical half-hour sitcom has more twists and turns--but the women look and sound great and the songs are generally very pleasant. (An exception is the silly "Won Ton Song," performed at the TV studio.) If you're the type that likes old Hollywood movies where actresses like Susan Hayward and Rita Hayworth would stop the show and sing a song, then you might find this enjoyable. I did.
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    • Release date
      • February 21, 1962 (Hong Kong)
    • Country of origin
      • Hong Kong
    • Language
      • Mandarin
    • Also known as
      • It's Always Spring
    • Production companies
      • Cathay Organisation
      • Motion Picture & General Investment
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      1 hour 38 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White

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