thank you! 🙏

i loved hearing you mention this on the podcast!! i wanted to ask if you've seen The Singing Escort? a film shaw brothers made to cash in on the success of The Singing Thief.

not as good but still a pretty excellent swingin 60s adventure across hk and japan

www.filmarchive.gov.hk/en/web/hkfa/...

LOVE PARADE (1961)

doe chin - expert at crafting the shaw's response to the classic hollywood musical - directs peter chen ho and lin dai (both huge stars who died tragically young) in this breezy musical. not his best but worth checking out

youtu.be/mrs8CzsFo7c?...

LOVER'S ROCK (1963)

another early cheng pei-pei (think she was 18 when it filmed?) film and a melodrama set and shot in taiwan, directed by pan lei

moves between taiwan's 'healthy realism' style and full blown hong kong melodrama

youtu.be/wFZj2KY4XwI?...

OPERATION LIPSTICK (1966)

japanese polymath inoue umetsugu, best known for his cosmopolitan swinging-sixties musicals, does a cheng pei-pei fronted spy film

youtu.be/KHOj86oB8sY?...

very grateful for all the work you put into this video! it's led to a much more interesting start of the year for my film watching.

thank you for putting it together!