Kao Pao-shu
Birthday: 1939-02-02
Place of Birth: Suzhou, China
Biography: Kao Pao-shu or Gao Baoshu (Chinese: 高寶樹; 1932–2000) was a Chinese actress, producer, writer and film director who appeared in over 100 films during her career. Originally from China, Kao moved to Hong Kong in 1951, where she acted in minor role before joining Shaw Brothers Studio in 1958. Here, she starred in over 80 films, working alongside directors Yueh Feng and Cheng Kang, and she made her directorial debut in 1970 in Lady with a Sword. Later she started her own company, producing films throughout the 1970s before she retired in the 1980s. In July 2000, she died at the age of 68.
Movies
Vengeance Is a Golden Blade
Li Zhishan is a rich man, but wealth cannot keep the loyalties of his wife, who has been visiting th...
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The Golden Sword
Bai Yu Lung's father mysteriously disappears one night, and for 10 years Bai searches for him in vai...
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Temple of the Red Lotus
Jimmy Wang Yu plays a young kid who heads off to Dragon Valley to meet the childhood friend who was ...
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The Twin Swords
Gui Wu happens upon a kidnapping with his wife Gan Lian-zhu at the Red Lotus Temple. Lian-zhu sends ...
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The Girl with a Thousand Faces
Gu Lingxiu's dream of becoming an actress is opposed by her grandmother. Her father Zhongqi remains ...
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The Serpent and the Lovers
It was shot in year 1956 but only released in year 1961 Hong Kong-Thailand-Japan co-production....
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Oh Boys! Oh Girls!
A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Margaret Tu Chuan and Paul Chang Chung,...
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Mist over Dream Lake
A young woman moves to rural Taiwan to live with her extended family during her parents' divorce. Sh...
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Heart Break Well
The eldest daughter of an elderly couple, murders her lover and goes to jail. The youngest daughter,...
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Female Fugitive
The police close in on "Miss Big Boss," the leader of a large drug organization centered in the Gold...
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Trilogy of Swordsmanship
Three martial arts directors united for this unique anthology film. Yueh Feng writes and directs a c...
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Stranger Than Fiction
A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Grace Ting Ning....
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When the Poles Meet
A Shaw Brothers romantic comedy starring Peter Chen Ho and Patricia Lam Fung....
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How to Marry a Millionaire
A Shaw Brothers romantic comedy starring Margaret Tu Chuan and Peter Chen Ho....
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Rainstorm in Chinatown
Jiang Lizhen's husband, Wang Gensheng, went to Nanyang to make a living. After ten years of separati...
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The Jade Fox
In her bid for domination of the kingdom, a wicked woman invites opponents to their doom at her 'Fai...
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Spring Blossoms
Spring Blossoms is a parable about the Chinese youth culture and what's important to the younger gen...
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King Drummer
Ling Yun plays the replacement hired for a popular band whose egotistic drummer quit to join a rival...
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Trapeze Girl
A young girl runs away from her abusive father to join a group of circus performance, expecting that...
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The Midnight Murder
The heroine, Liu Yanniang, is a beautiful and virtuous woman who is in love with her husband, Wang Z...
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That Tender Age
Rich girl Chen Wen Chi starts a serious relationship with classmate Liu Ting Yi who comes from a poo...
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The Butterfly Chalice
The story revolves around Tian Yu Quan (Chin Feng) who rushes to the aid of an elderly fisherman who...
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Too Late for Love
Su Fen, a young and frail girl, looked forward to her wedding with her fiancé, Li Kuo-liang. The hap...
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The Blue and the Black 2
War and time change everything. Their love becomes more than reunion, it becomes a reckoning with wh...
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The Blue and the Black
It's a powerful melodrama about a thwarted romance in 1930s Tientsin, China, during the Japanese occ...
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The Monkey Goes West
THE MONKEY GOES WEST is the first entry in the studio’s epic, four-part screen adaptation of “Journe...
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Double Bliss
A musical comedy about two students returning home from abroad with plans to wed. However, their da...
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A Place to Call Home
Li Ching plays one of three daughters, whose life is turned upside down when she discovers she is ad...
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The Lark
A musical staring Carrie Ku Mei as a singer named Xiaoyun Shi, who comes to Hong Kong after a tour o...
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Sons of the Good Earth
The year is 1937, just prior to the Japanese invasion of China. Painters Ju Rui and Lao San stumble ...
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Between Tears and Smiles
Fan Chia-soo is a kind-hearted student whose heart is captured by the sweet song of Shen Feng-hsien....
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The Love Eterne
In this dreamy romance set in China during the fourth-century, a young woman convinces her parents t...
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Love Parade
The winning couple of Linda Lin Dai and Peter Chen Hu light up the screen in the delightful Shaw Bro...
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Love Without End
Li Qingqing, an orphan, just arrives in Hong Kong and becomes a singer who sacrifices everything for...
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Comedy of Mismatches
Comedy of Mismatches begins with widow Sun who single-handedly raises her son Yu Lang (Chin Feng) an...
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Three Sinners
Based on one particular storyline from The Water Margin, Three Sinners weaves an intriguing story of...
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Empress Wu
The renowned Li Li Hua plays Wu Ze Tian, the most famous woman in China's four thousand year history...
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Return of the Phoenix
Return Of The Phoenix is yet another masterpiece from prolific director Li Han-hsiang. An imperial m...
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The Adulteress
The noted actress Li Li-hua, star of more than sixty films since 1947, beautifully portrays the drug...
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The Dream of the Red Chamber
The Ching Dynasty novel The Dream of The Red Chamber is not only the most widely read, but also the ...
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The Goddess of Mercy
With her elegant classic persona, Li Li-hua was the ideal performer for period aristocratic and impe...
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The Pearl Phoenix
Huangmei Opera movies like The Pearl Phoenix are unique to 1960's Hong Kong culture, a product of th...
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Inside the Forbidden City
It seems that Li Zhenfei was once an imperial concubine, who often found herself competing with her ...
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Squadron 77
Spy thriller set in occupied Shanghai. Li Lihua stars as the woman who is thrust into the role of na...
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The Female Prince
The husband-and-wife team of Ivy Ling Po and Chin Han returned to another Huangmei Opera classic aft...
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The Story of Sue San
This gripping story centers on the romance between Wang Chin Lung and Sue San. Although they may be ...
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The Dancing Millionairess
Chen Hou is a chauffeur who gets caught in a mistaken identity scandal linking him to businesswoman ...
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Win Them All
Filial daughter seeks revenge on father's killer. She must associate with dishonest people to financ...
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Low Society
A misguided youth falls into the bad company of an underground brothel syndicate but redeems himself...
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The Joy of Spring
The film tells the story of Xing Yonghui, a rich girl who has fun with her painter boyfriend Du Shao...
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Lost Swordship
A golden-masked clan master, who had killed many top fighters, was determined to acquire an invincib...
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Les Belles
Linda Lin Dai and Fanny Fan join the dancing troupe of Kao Pao-shu. Linda and Kao's son Peter Chen, ...
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The Coin
The story of a self-disciplined singing girl who has different love endings and experiences....
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Bitter Sweet
A widow of four gave up two of her children to be raised by an uncle in Singapore. Many years later,...
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The Long Lane
The film focuses on a mother (Chen Yanyan) burdened by guilt after abandoning her newborn daughter i...
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