Wei Ping-ao

Wei Ping-ao

Wei Ping-ao (Chinese: 魏平澳, 29 November 1929 – 3 December 1989), also known as Paul Wei, was a Hong Kong-based Chinese actor who started his career in the Shaw Brothers Studio. He is best known for playing cunning interpreters in Bruce Lee's 1972 films Fist of Fury and Way of the Dragon, in which he dubbed his own voice, and also appeared in films such as Deaf Mute Heroine (1971), Hapkido (1972) and Fists of Bruce Lee (1978). He suffered from jaundice in his later years. He died on 3 December 1989 in Hong Kong.

  • Title: Wei Ping-ao
  • Popularity: 3.564
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1929-11-29
  • Place of Birth: Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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  • Also Known As: 魏平澳, Ping Ou Wei, Paul Wei Ping-ao, Ping-ao Wei
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Wei Ping-ao Movies

  • 1974
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    Naughty! Naughty!

    Naughty! Naughty!

    1 1974 HD

    Wu Te-chuan is a young man trying to make a living in an easy way. But now he is penniless and will being thrown out of his Macau hotel. Kind-...

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  • 1972
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    The Way of the Dragon

    The Way of the Dragon

    7.377 1972 HD

    Tang Lung arrives in Rome to help his cousins in the restaurant business. They are being pressured to sell their property to the syndicate, who will...

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  • 1961
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    Good Neighbors

    Good Neighbors

    8 1961 HD

    Dr. Huang runs a clinic. One day, Mr. Chen moves to next door and opens a Chinese medicine clinic. In the beginning, the two families get along fine...

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  • 1973
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    Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend

    Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend

    8.3 1973 HD

    This documentary tells the story of Bruce Lee and his unsuccessful efforts to start a acting career in the U.S., he returned to Hong Kong where he...

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  • 1970
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    The Winged Tiger

    The Winged Tiger

    6.5 1970 HD

    Famed screenwriter Shen Chiang got one of his very first chances to direct his own script with this exciting action adventure. His story is suitably...

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  • 1956
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    Journey to Kwan Shan

    Journey to Kwan Shan

    1 1956 HD

    Journey to Kwan Shan. A Taiwan-HK film by CMPC.

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  • 1960
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    Conscience and Guilt

    Conscience and Guilt

    1 1960 HD

    Conscience and Guilt

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  • 1974
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    The Snake Girl Drops In

    The Snake Girl Drops In

    1 1974 HD

    A young snake girl is kidnapped by raiders in the jungle. The local Gang Boss wants to torture her but his jailer will help her to escape.

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  • 1956
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    Life and Love of a Horse-Cart Driver

    Life and Love of a Horse-Cart Driver

    1 1956 HD

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  • 1966
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    Downhill They Ride

    Downhill They Ride

    1 1966 HD

    Northeastern China is infested with bandits. Hsiao Kai (Paul Chang Chung), a wandering knight, captures a white horse from thieves. His skilful...

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  • 1975
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    Dragon Gate

    Dragon Gate

    1 1975 HD

    King and prison escapee join forces. Hsu Feng & Carter Wong Play Yuan Loyalists who thwart an attack from the Mongol General and Mantis Master Chang...

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  • 1973
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    Spring in Pattaya

    Spring in Pattaya

    1 1973 HD

    Handsome and young, Shih Hsing flew to Bangkok with his close friend Ping Ho with the hope to find his father who was a rich merchant. However, he...

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  • 1979
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    The Marvelous Kung Fu

    The Marvelous Kung Fu

    5 1979 HD

    A troupe of comedians, including midgets, provide entertainment and kung fu trouble for the villains.

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  • 1970
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    Wrath of the Sword

    Wrath of the Sword

    6 1970 HD

    The last of the Bai Family seeks revenge of the death of her whole family.

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  • 1968
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    Divorce, Hong Kong Style

    Divorce, Hong Kong Style

    1 1968 HD

    A philandering business tycoon accuses his angelic wife of cheating. He learns the hard way he had it good and hopes to win his wife back.

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  • 1982
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    36 Super Kids

    36 Super Kids

    5.2 1982 HD

    Young students of martial arts must prove themselves worthy to their overbearing Master.

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  • 1976
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    The Legend of Bruce Lee

    The Legend of Bruce Lee

    6 1976 HD

    The young Bruce Lee (Ho Tsung-Tao AKA Bruce Li) has studied the philosophy and art of kung fu since boyhood, but his girlfriend says that he lives in...

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  • 1971
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    The Brave Young Generation

    The Brave Young Generation

    1 1971 HD

    A Shaw Brothers production that was filmed in Taiwan

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  • 1971
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    Deaf and Mute Heroine

    Deaf and Mute Heroine

    6.4 1971 HD

    Chang Cheh-influenced swordplay film puts a female spin on the genre with its titular heroine. Helen Ma stars as the “can’t hear,...

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  • 1988
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    Sex of the Imperial

    Sex of the Imperial

    1 1988 HD

    Life of Eunuchs and courtesans in the royal hinterland from an expert's point of view. Analyse of the life behind the scenes of the palace and...

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  • 1968
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    Hong Kong Rhapsody

    Hong Kong Rhapsody

    1 1968 HD

    There's nothing like a good, opulent, gaudy musical to lift the spirits, but when it's a 1960's Hong Kong musical orchestrated by a Japanese director...

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  • 1967
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    King Drummer

    King Drummer

    8 1967 HD

    Ling Yun plays the replacement hired for a popular band whose egotistic drummer quit to join a rival group. When the new arrival becomes a hit, he...

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  • 1967
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    Kiss and Kill

    Kiss and Kill

    5 1967 HD

    A military plane carrying a nuclear load explodes mid-air after being hit by mysterious electronic rays. Sculptor Liang Tien Hong (Paul Chang Chung)...

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  • 1966
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    Poisonous Rose

    Poisonous Rose

    1 1966 HD

    A drug smuggling ring is suspected of operating out of a posh Hong Kong nightclub called The Black Widow, where the sultry songbird Chiang Feng is...

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  • 1970
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    Valley of the Fangs

    Valley of the Fangs

    5.333 1970 HD

    Intrigue in the court means that the wife and daughter of framed scholar Sung have to travel to the capital in disguise, as court agents hunt them...

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  • 1970
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    Double Bliss

    Double Bliss

    1 1970 HD

    A melodrama about the blossoming love between two music students returning home from abroad and planning to wed. However, both of their parents...

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  • 1969
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    The Millionaire Chase

    The Millionaire Chase

    1 1969 HD

    Shaw Brothers musical about three Showgirls chasing millionaires.

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  • 1973
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    Tales of Larceny

    Tales of Larceny

    8 1973 HD

    In “The Scholar and The Soldier”, Major Fang is obsessed with Yu Zhen by chance, knowing that she is the daughter of scholar Xu, he...

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  • 1982
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    Can't Stop the War

    Can't Stop the War

    1 1982 HD

    In 1945, Japan had surrendered but the news did not reach a small village in China. The local guerrilla force still put up a hilarious fight with the...

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  • 1969
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    River of Tears

    River of Tears

    5.2 1969 HD

    Mysterious songstress Fang Biyu is loved by two brothers, Qiwei and Qijun. After freeing herself from the clutches of gangsters, she gives her heart...

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  • 1969
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    The Three Smiles

    The Three Smiles

    7 1969 HD

    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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  • 1967
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    Song of Tomorrow

    Song of Tomorrow

    1 1967 HD

    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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  • 1976
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    The Ghost

    The Ghost

    1 1976 HD

    Taiwanese horror film.

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  • 1972
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    Love Is an Elusive Wind

    Love Is an Elusive Wind

    1 1972 HD

    Taiwanese romance film.

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  • 1977
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    One Arm Chivalry Fights Against One Arm Chivalry

    One Arm Chivalry Fights Against One Arm Chivalry

    5 1977 HD

    The story centers on a secret society that plots to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and resume the Ming monarchy. The organization gains the support of...

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  • 1981
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    Three Funny Detectives

    Three Funny Detectives

    1 1981 HD

    Taiwanese comedy film.

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  • 1982
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    Calamity of Snakes

    Calamity of Snakes

    5.1 1982 HD

    During the construction of luxury apartment buildings a huge nest of thousands of snakes is discovered. Francis Chang (the boss) refuses to delay the...

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  • 1981
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    Spooky Kookies

    Spooky Kookies

    1 1981 HD

    Early ghost comedy from Cinema City.

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  • 1977
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    Golden Nun

    Golden Nun

    1 1977 HD

    This one has ghosts, hoppers and magic shennannigans!

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  • 1973
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    Adventure in Denmark

    Adventure in Denmark

    2 1973 HD

    Two Chinese men go to Copenhagen for some reason. While one of them philanders around with various Danish and Asian women, the other falls in love...

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  • 1978
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    Filthy Guy

    Filthy Guy

    7.2 1978 HD

    Sammo Hung is a poor village orphan called 'Filthy Guy' for his unwashed / diseased head whose ambitious landlord's son becomes king and wants to...

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  • 1972
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    Fist of Fury

    Fist of Fury

    7.257 1972 HD

    Chen Chen returns to his former school in Shanghai when he learns that his beloved instructor has been murdered. While investigating the man's death,...

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  • 1982
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    Raiders of the Shaolin Temple

    Raiders of the Shaolin Temple

    5.5 1982 HD

    The plot centers on Little Lu (Sonny Yu) who tends horses for the local Shaolin temple, and wants to learn skills that will help him defeat some...

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  • 1979
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    Fists Of Bruce Lee

    Fists Of Bruce Lee

    4.9 1979 HD

    Bruce Lee (Bruce Li) is assigned to go undercover as Lee Min-Chin to investigate a drug ring. The mob hires an assassin to kill him. They are both...

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  • 1975
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    The Phantom Lute

    The Phantom Lute

    1 1975 HD

    Chia Ling aka Judy Lee (SHAOLIN INVINCIBLES, QUEEN BOXER) stars as a woman summoned by a retired general to sing and play the lute for him, but as...

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  • 1982
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    Ninja in the Dragon's Den

    Ninja in the Dragon's Den

    7.7 1982 HD

    A Japanese master of ninjutsu and a Chinese expert in kung fu, put their differences aside after their master is killed by a mortal enemy.

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  • 1977
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    Duel with the Devils

    Duel with the Devils

    4 1977 HD

    As the daughter of the Chinese police chief, Angela secretly dresses up as a man to use her kung fu on Japanese troublemakers.

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  • 1982
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    Monkey War

    Monkey War

    1 1982 HD

    In the Chinese martial arts/fantasy opus Monkey War: New Pilgrims to the West - a sequel to the original Monkey War - the brave Monkey King launches...

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  • 1982
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    The Chinese Stuntman

    The Chinese Stuntman

    6.2 1982 HD

    The Chinese Stuntman was a Bruceploitation film released in 1981. Bruce Li (who also directs) plays an insurance salesman who ends up working as a...

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  • 1976
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    Laugh In

    Laugh In

    1 1976 HD

    A female extra-terrestrial (Chen Chen) appears on earth - in Hong Kong - to warn humankind of an impending catastrophe, but is arrested and...

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  • 1975
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    Shantung Man in Hong Kong

    Shantung Man in Hong Kong

    1 1975 HD

    When Shan Tung comes to Hong Kong for the first time, wanting to seek help from his countryman Lo San, however, Lo San refuses to give him a hand....

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  • 1977
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    The Prominent Eunuch Chen Ho

    The Prominent Eunuch Chen Ho

    1 1977 HD

    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...

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  • 1974
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    Tornado of Chu-chiang

    Tornado of Chu-chiang

    4 1974 HD

    In the early days of the Chinese Republic era, dockworkers in Macau are being mistreated by their Chinese overseers. An accident reveals that the...

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  • 1985
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    Secrets of the Inner Chamber

    Secrets of the Inner Chamber

    1 1985 HD

    The story is about a licentious emperor during the Tang Dynasty.

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  • 1972
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    Hapkido

    Hapkido

    6.6 1972 HD

    Yu Ying, Kao and Fan return to China to start a martial arts school but are bullied by the Japanese competitor who runs the Black Bear school. The...

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  • 1973
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    The Fate of Lee Khan

    The Fate of Lee Khan

    6.759 1973 HD

    Lee Khan, a high official under Mongolian Emperor Yuan of the Yuan dynasty procures the battle map of the Chinese rebel Chu Yuan-Chang's army. Rebel...

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  • 1984
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    The Last Night of Madam Chin

    The Last Night of Madam Chin

    7.5 1984 HD

    Set in Shanghai in the 1940s. Story of a ballroom girl Jolie Chan who falls in love with a student and becomes pregnant, but the student's family...

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  • 1982
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    The Flute Player of Wrath

    The Flute Player of Wrath

    1 1982 HD

    Taiwanese Kung Fu actor Yip Fei, (Snuff Bottle Connection) stars in this superb swordplay film from Taiwan. A swordsman known for his flute playing...

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  • 1979
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    The Art of War by Sun Tzu

    The Art of War by Sun Tzu

    1 1979 HD

    Excellent martial arts film depicts the exploits of the legendary Chinese scholar, Sun Tzu, the author of the world renowned book, "The Art of War by...

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  • 1977
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    What Price? - Stardom

    What Price? - Stardom

    1 1977 HD

    A Cantonese Comedy directed and written by Wei Ping-Ao.

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  • 1977
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    What Price? - Stardom

    What Price? - Stardom

    1 1977 HD

    A Cantonese Comedy directed and written by Wei Ping-Ao.

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