The Pretty Tigress 1955
The Pretty Tigress
The Pretty Tigress
Adapted from a popular 'three dime novel' the story revolves around two down-and-out buddies, one streetwise and quick-witted the other naïve and kind-hearted. This oddball duo go through up and downs and eventually get their break in life.
Two orphan boys indulge in petty theft after the war. One, Chow, is caught but gets adopted by a policeman. He turns out a solid young citizen. Lee, the boy who escapes, grows up to be a triad. When the two re-meet, Lee is attracted to Chow’s stepsister. Some years later, Chow is now a cop and vows to smash Lee’s gang. After a struggle with his conscience, Lee agrees to help.
A sculptor and his girlfriend conspire to kill a rich young relative to take his family fortune but things don't go as planned.
Yu Sung Chi was separated from his wife and young daughter during the war. When he fled with his eldest daughter Yu pak Mei, he adopted the orphan Ho Chi Kwong. He cultivates light and becomes talented, and even wants to marry roses to Kwong. When Kwong was preparing to open a branch factory, he fell in love with his secretary Yu Bik Lin, and later decided to marry Lin. Mei wanted Lin to leave Kwong, Lin wanted Kwong's future, left a letter and left, but Kwong published a newspaper to search for her, but to no avail. On the day of Kwong and Mei's engagement, they received news from Lin. Kwong resolutely gave up everything to be with Lin. Yu visited Lin and asked her to leave Kwong, but when he saw a photo of Lin's mother, he realized that Lin was his lost daughter. Mei learns that Lin is her biological sister and decides to let Kwong go. A few years later, Kwong and Lin realized that Mei had a happy family.
A young woman returns home from a funeral and becomes embroiled in murder, missing money, a drug syndicate, a police investigation and a mysterious killer who goes by the name of "Vampire Wolf."
Centered around the seizure of a family's property, police investigate a series of knife murders.
Hong Kong thriller.