Parents' Hearts (1955)
1h 51m
Running Time
April 21, 1955Release Date
Plot.
An opera troupe has to dissolve in view of the poor economy. Comedian star Sang Kwai-lei loses his job and he has no alternative but to play the lion character in the opera troupe of his former junior apprentice Chan Hau and pawn his stage costume. He aims at earning enough money to support the final year's secondary school studies of his elder son Chi-kuen. Kuen however refuses to continue his studies, seeing that his father has to put aside his dignity to earn money and his mother is worried. Lei is enraged and uses the money to support his younger son Chi-wai's studies.
Again, Lei loses his job and he resorts to giving street performances, his wife takes up sowing work in her spare time and she dies after a long illness. Kuen works to support himself through school, but Wai is less fortunate, he is forced to enrol in an opera troupe as an apprentice. Years later, the dying father joyfully embraces Chi-kuen's return from his studies.
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Cast & Crew.
Shizeng Ma
Husband
Wong Man-Lei
Mother
Ma Sze-Tsang
Sang Kwai-lei
Jiasheng Lin
Son
Lam Ka-Sing
Chi-kuen
Wong Cho-San
Pal
Gam Lau
Yu's wife
Chun Kim
Director
Lam Lo-ngok
leader
Suen Lun
Cinematographer
Lee Pang-Fei
Chan Hau
Yuen Siu-Fai
Youngest son
Lee Siu-fun
Kuen's classmate
Mok Hung
doctor
Chan Lap-Ban
Opera troup member
To Sam-Ku
Neighbour
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
father son relationship
grassroot
parental love
financial hardship