Ivy Ling Po
Huang Yu-chun (born 16 November 1939 in Shantou, Republic of China), known by her final stage name Ivy Ling Po (Chinese: 凌波), is a retired Hong Kong actress and Chinese opera singer. She is best known for a number of mega-hit Huangmei opera films in the 1960s, especially The Love Eterne (1963) which made her an Asian superstar overnight. She played an important role in the entertainment industry for preserving the Huangmei opera art form.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 8.844 |
| Birthday | 1939-11-16 |
| Place of Birth | Shantou, China |
| Also Known As | 凌波, |
1972
The 14 Amazons
6.588/17
The Yang family, men and women, have served their country loyally for generations. During the war General Yang is ambushed and killed. His widow and t...
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The 14 Amazons
1971
The Crimson Charm
6.2/7
A noble swordsman and a one-armed swordswoman go up against the vicious Crimson Charm gang of thieves and cutthroats. The lovely and lethal Ivy Ling P...
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The Crimson Charm
1971
Duel for Gold
7/13
Soon-to-be legendary director Chu Yuan had just joined the Shaw Brothers when he helmed this thriller of bickering bandits. Audiences loved watching t...
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Duel for Gold
1972
The Mighty One
6/3
The famed Ivy Ling Po (Temple Of The Red Lotus) stars as a mysterious swordswoman dedicated to keeping the five volume "Five Generations Fighting Meth...
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The Mighty One
2004
Rice Rhapsody
5.958/12
Fearing her son could be gay, a conservative mother takes in a French foreign exchange student, who ends up teaching the family a lot about life, acce...
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Rice Rhapsody
1967
The Sword and the Lute
5.4/6
The adventures of a young married swordfighting couple, Lianzhu and Gui Wu, and the swordfighting members of their different clans.
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The Sword and the Lute
1972
Finger of Doom
5.4/6
This creepy kung fu film fight-fest centers on the evil Madame Kung Sun and her poisonous "Finger of Doom", a unique supernatural power which allows...
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Finger of Doom
1964
Between Tears and Smiles
6.3/3
Fan Chia-soo is a kind-hearted student whose heart is captured by the sweet song of Shen Feng-hsien. However, he is not the only one who has eyes for...
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Between Tears and Smiles
1965
Temple of the Red Lotus
4.9/10
Jimmy Wang Yu plays a young kid who heads off to Dragon Valley to meet the childhood friend who was promised as his bride. When he gets there, he find...
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Temple of the Red Lotus
1965
The Twin Swords
5.3/8
Gui Wu happens upon a kidnapping with his wife Gan Lian-zhu at the Red Lotus Temple. Lian-zhu sends Wu to go for reinforcements while she stays to fig...
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The Twin Swords
2003
Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio
7/3
Hong Kong cinemas had a wide range of glamorous female stars during the golden age of the 60's and 70's. The series will take the audience on a sentim...
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Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio
1969
Raw Passions
3.3/3
Ivy Ling Po plays the dedicated wife of a man being blackmailed for an illicit love affair, who uncovers a pit of deceit, double-crosses, extortion an...
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Raw Passions
1965
Vermilion Door
5.2/6
The tragic love triangle of early 20th century Peking Opera star Chiu Hai-tang, his beautiful stage partner, and the warlord who forces himself betwee...
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Vermilion Door
1975
The Empress Dowager
7/1
This dragon lady of the Ching Dynasty was the power behind the throne for 50 years, and hew vast tapestry of palace intrigues is vividly brought to th...
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The Empress Dowager
1963
The Love Eterne
6.8/22
In this dreamy romance set in China during the fourth-century, a young woman convinces her parents to allow her to dress as a boy and attend universit...
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The Love Eterne
1975
It's All in the Family
0/0
Danny Lee is Hsu Chih-yuan, the youngest son of strict patriarch Hsu Hui-tang (Cheng Miu). A sailor, Chih-yuan incurs his father's wrath when he tells...
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It's All in the Family
1983
The Lost Generation
1/1
The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
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The Lost Generation
1965
The West Chamber
0/0
A scholar woos the daughter of an important family, while outwitting rebels who try to capture her.
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The West Chamber
1966
The Mating Season
0/0
The Weiss Advertising Co under manageress Lo Yu Chun (Pat Ting Hung) and the Jen An Advertising Co. managed by playboy Tsao Chung Nien (Peter Chen Ho)...
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The Mating Season
1970
The Younger Generation
5/3
The Younger Generation is an ultra-tragic tale about a young girl, played by Ivy Ling Po who gets married, has five kids, then she and her husband die...
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The Younger Generation
1967
Too Late for Love
0/0
Su Fen, a young and frail girl, looked forward to her wedding with her fiancé, Li Kuo-liang. The happy couple's bliss was cut short when war broke out...
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Too Late for Love
1963
A Maid from Heaven
0/0
Seventh sister of the celestial world goes down to earth to marry Dong Yong, a young man sold to servitude. However the Jade Emperor orders her to go...
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A Maid from Heaven
1971
The Silent Love
6/1
Ivy Ling Po gives a startling performance as an abused wife who suffers through all his adulterous and treacherous ways in The Silent Love, which beca...
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The Silent Love
1970
A Cause to Kill
6.3/3
Ivy Ling Po, star of The Temple of the Red Lotus, tears up the screen as a jealous, murderous movie star, who, like seemingly all "film noir" vixens,...
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A Cause to Kill
1969
The Three Smiles
7/2
The film tells the story of Tang Bohu, a famous scholar who spends most of his time wandering around the countryside.
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The Three Smiles
1968
Forever and Ever
0/0
In 1966, like in The Love Eterne, Ling Bo took up the male lead in Forever and Ever, despite Shaw Brothers' earlier plan of having her as the female l...
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Forever and Ever
1967
The Mirror and the Lichee
0/0
Movie queen Ivy Ling Po is ideally cast as a male scholar in this historical Huangmei Opera romance. It’s a tragic love story between the scholar and...
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The Mirror and the Lichee
1967
Song of Tomorrow
0/0
Ivy Ling Po was at the height of her fame in traditional Huangmei Opera films -- and chiefly as a male impersonator -- when she radically changed her...
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Song of Tomorrow
1966
The Perfumed Arrow
0/0
Ling Bor plays Wen Fei E who is both an excellent academic as well as martial arts expert. Since her childhood days fond of dressing up as a boy, she...
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The Perfumed Arrow
1966
Dawn Will Come
5/3
The lovely Li Hsiang-chun stars as a poor beauty who is drugged, ravished, lied to, locked in a burning store room, left to drown, and chased by sword...
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Dawn Will Come
1965
Inside the Forbidden City
0/0
It seems that Li Zhenfei was once an imperial concubine, who often found herself competing with her rival Madame Liu for the emperor's sole, undivided...
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Inside the Forbidden City
1987
Golden Swallow
4.3/3
A poor scholar named Lo Chih-Chiu, played by Anthony Wong Yiu-Ming, rescues a swallow from three mischievous boys, and frees the bird afterward. The b...
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Golden Swallow
1964
Lady General Hua Mulan
5.6/6
About a woman who disguises herself as a man to take her father's place in the army.
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Lady General Hua Mulan
1964
The Female Prince
5/1
The husband-and-wife team of Ivy Ling Po and Chin Han returned to another Huangmei Opera classic after Lady General Hua Mu-Lan. Helmed by Chow Sze-lok...
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The Female Prince
1964
The Crimson Palm
6/1
Ling Bo is Lin, a young man engaged to the daughter of a rich man, who now despises Lin because of his family's declining status. Lin visits his belov...
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The Crimson Palm
1965
The Grand Substitution
6/1
With China under control of a weak Emperor, two officials compete to steer the future destiny of the land. Chiu believes the people are the future of...
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The Grand Substitution
1965
The Mermaid
6.5/2
A Huangmei opera produced by Shaw Brothers about a carp spirit who transforms into an identical copy of a beautiful woman to win the heart of a lonely...
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The Mermaid
1987
Master Hui Neng
8/1
Taiwanese historical drama about the Buddhist monk Huineng.
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Master Hui Neng
1958
Murder in the Bath
0/0
Murder mystery.
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Murder in the Bath
1981
Three Funny Detectives
0/0
Taiwanese comedy film.
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Three Funny Detectives
1976
The Last Tempest
5.8/4
Despite Kuang Hsu's enthronement as the last reigning Emperor of China, his ability to rule effectively is overshadowed by the ever-present power of t...
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The Last Tempest
1973
Flight Man
0/0
Flight Man takes place in Taiwan in 1933, when the country was under Japanese occupation after the First Sino-Japanese War. The Taiwanese people have...
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Flight Man
1965
The Lotus Lamp
6/2
The Goddess of Hua Mountain is imprisoned for falling in love with a mortal, meanwhile her son is raised in secret until he can attempt to free her.
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The Lotus Lamp
1967
The Pearl Phoenix
0/0
Huangmei Opera movies like The Pearl Phoenix are unique to 1960's Hong Kong culture, a product of the Swinging Sixties but considerably more in touch...
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The Pearl Phoenix
1977
The Prominent Eunuch Chen Ho
0/0
Cheng Ho was a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral, and court eunuch during China's early Ming dynasty. This film depicts some of the a...
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The Prominent Eunuch Chen Ho
1980
The Imperious Princess
0/0
Taiwanese huangmei opera starring Ivy Ling Po.
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The Imperious Princess
1982
Imperial Matchmaker
0/0
Taiwanese huangmei opera film.
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Imperial Matchmaker
1978
Dream of the Red Chamber
3/1
Taiwanese huangmei opera film.
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Dream of the Red Chamber
1982
A Fairy to the World
0/0
The heavenly maiden comes to earth in the form of a mortal and with her kung fu skills stamps out some evil doers.
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A Fairy to the World
1982
New Pilgrims to the West
0/0
Chan Jun-Leung's 1982 film based on The Journey to the West.
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New Pilgrims to the West
1981
Consolidated Dougherty
4/1
Taiwanese adventure film that reunites Ivy Ling Po with ex-Shaw stars Ching Li and Lisa Chiao Chiao.
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Consolidated Dougherty
1976
Crossroad
0/0
Taiwanese drama film starring Ivy Ling Po.
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Crossroad
1963
Return of the Phoenix
6/1
Return Of The Phoenix is yet another masterpiece from prolific director Li Han-hsiang. An imperial minister Cheng Pu (Ching Miao) is faced with a quan...
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Return of the Phoenix
1975
The Chinese Amazons
0/0
Taiwanese war film directed by Li Chia.
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The Chinese Amazons
1974
My Father, My Husband, My Son
0/0
Taiwanese drama film directed by Pai Ching-jui.
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My Father, My Husband, My Son
1963
The Adulteress
10/1
The noted actress Li Li-hua, star of more than sixty films since 1947, beautifully portrays the drugged, then disgraced wife of a peddler in the wanin...
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The Adulteress
1962
The Dream of the Red Chamber
7/3
The Ching Dynasty novel The Dream of The Red Chamber is not only the most widely read, but also the most filmed book in Chinese history. The sprawling...
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The Dream of the Red Chamber
1966
The Joy of Spring
0/0
Hong Kong musical directed by Lo Chen.
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The Joy of Spring
1957
The Eight Immortals in Jiangnan
0/0
Hong Kong fantasy film directed by Chiu Shu-San.
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The Eight Immortals in Jiangnan
2003
Butterfly Lovers 40
0/0
Ivy Ling Po reprising her role as Liang Shanbo to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Love Eterne (1963).
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Butterfly Lovers 40
2016
The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse
0/0
In 2013, the Golden Horse Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary. The ministry of Culture commissioned director Yang Li-chou to make a document...
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The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse
1968
Spring Blossoms
0/0
Spring Blossoms is a parable about the Chinese youth culture and what's important to the younger generation when it comes to romance. It starred a new...
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Spring Blossoms
2012
顧嘉煇大師經典演唱會
0/0
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顧嘉煇大師經典演唱會
1982
A Rescue from Hades
0/0
Three generations of the Luo family fasted and chanted Buddha's name. However, Mr. Luo died young. Luo's mother complained and began to kill animals a...
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