Backyard Adventures (1955)
Overview
Reporter Yu Mong-yuen is recovering from a leg injury in his fiancee Man-wah's apartment. Bored, he looks out the rear window and observes the life of the neighbouring building. Among the tenants are a sugar-daddy and his mistress, a middle-aged man wants to marry a young girl, but she is in love with his son. Finally, she hatches a plot and makes the man agree to her marrying his son ; a sly fortune-teller ; a lively gym, a rich widow quarrels with the trainer of a gymnasium because his dog has bitten her cat ; and an opera school, a woman signs, leaning on the balcony, and a man tries to strangle her. In fact they are rehearsing an opera…… One evening, Wah is on the night shift, and Yuen watches the opera troupe rehearse to the end. Under the influence of drugs, Yu mistakenly believes that a divorced man has murdered a taxi dancer. He alerts the police, but the whole thing is nothing more than a misunderstanding.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | cn |
| Popularity | 0.808 |
Directed By
Chan Pei
Ng Wui
Chu Kei
Crew
Lo Ka-Chi
Ng Cho-Fan
Cheung Tit
Yam Kim-Fai
Chan Pei
Yip Feng-Tin
Wu Da
Ng Wui
Lee Yuen-Man
Pang Yin-nung
Chu Yat-Hung
Ng Wui
Chu Kei
Lam Kam
Cheng Kang
Lee Wing-Chiu
Yu Leung
Pang Yin-nung
Cheung Shun
Lai Chu
Chu Tsi-Kwai
Hung Sin-Nui
Lee Hoi-Chuen
Ma Sze-Tsang
Lee Sau-Kei
Cheung Man
Choi Cheong
Cheung Ying
Lai Siu-Wah
Chan King-Sam
Tsui Kam-Lun
Lee Ying-Yeung
Chan Ki-Yui
Tse Tsak-Yuen
Ma Tsan
Leung Hoi-Shan
Tam Wang-Yuen
Lam Kwok-Kai
Fung San
Cheung Tit
Peng Yen-Lien
Kan Kuen
Leung Ho Yin
Peter Chen Ho
Siu Leung-Ming
Woo Ching
Ngai Hoi-Fung
Ruan Zengsan
Tsui Siu-Kui
Wong Ming
TOP CAST
Cheung Ying
Yu Mong-yuen
Chow Kwun-Ling
Man Wah
Tsi Law-Lin
Taxi Dancer
Lo Duen
Mr. Mok
Lee Hoi-Chuen
Fortune-teller
Ma Sze-Tsang
Conservative Father
Yung Siu-Yi
Daughter
Woo Fung
Boyfriend
Leung Sing-por
Patron
Lai Cheuk-Cheuk
Patron's Wife
Pak Suet-Sin
Actress
Ng Cho-Fan
Actor
Wong Cho-San
Wong Kwok Tung
Fong Yim-Fen
Lover
Lee Ching
Lover
Chan Lap-Ban
Fortune-teller's Servant
Yuen Biu-Wan
Fortune-teller's Shill
Lai Man
Fortune-teller's Customer
To Sam-Ku
Fortune-teller's Customer
Tai Sang-Po
Customer's Servant
Lee Kwok-Wai
Mr Mok's Son
Kong Yat-fan
Mong-Yuen's Cousin
Lisa Mok
Cousin's Wife
Ho Chi
Worker
Lo Kau
Worker Bringing Wheelchair
Wong Man-Lei
Widow
Gam Lau
Servant / Gatekeeper
Wong Chiu-Miu
TV Director
Cheung Wood-Yau
Lorry Driver
Chu Yat-Hung
Servant
Ho Chak-Chong
Godfather
Hung Sin-Nui
Blind Singer
Yam Kim-Fai
Blind Singer
Lee Yuet-Ching
Musician for Blind Singers
Kwan Bik-Sang
Musician for Blind Singers
Sek Kin
Fitness Teacher
Cheng Pik-Ying
Fitness Student
Chan Chui-Bing
Fitness Student
Lam Kau
Fitness Student
Hui Ying-Ying
Fitness Student
Lee Yim-Yeung
Fitness Student
Yiu Yee-Wan
Fitness Student
Wong Sau-Han
Fitness Student
Lam Yau-Leung
Fitness Student
Siu Hon-Sang
Fitness Student
Chow Gat
Fitness Student
Sai Gwa-Pau
Fitness Student
Lam Yuen
Fitness Student
Fung Ming
Fitness Student
Leung Chun-Mat
Fitness Student
Similar Movies
Lolita
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
The Phantom of the Opera
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
Man on Fire
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
Mean Machine
Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. When these prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards during a prison football match, Danny takes the lead.
No Way Out
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.
You Are the Apple of My Eye
A group of close friends who attend a private school all have a debilitating crush on the sunny star pupil, Sun-ah. The only member of the group who claims not to is Jin-woo, but he ends up loving her as well.
Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake
14-year old Erik gets sent to live with his older brother, Henry, during the summer as his mother is dying in cancer. Henry starts dating Ewa, who is married to Berra. A few days after Ewa shows up battered and bruised from an altercation with Berra, he is found dead on a nearby parking lot.
One Piece: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventure in Alabasta
The Straw Hat Pirates are on a quest to save the desert kingdom of Alabasta. A civil war brews among the sands, one started and stirred by the hand of none other than Crocodile and his corrupted Baroque Works gang. The stakes run ever higher as Princess Vivi's homeland threatens to tear itself apart. More than lives are on the line.
The Silent Partner
Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch located in a shopping mall, accidentally learns that the place is about to be robbed when he finds a disconcerting note on one of the counters.
Country Gold
An aging country singer becomes irritated with the success of a popular young country singer. However, she is not yet ready to become yesterday's news.
Sexual Intrigue
Charlie Taylor gets a surprise release from jail after a year for a crime he denies committing. His songwriter girlfriend Randi is glad he's back and calls on an ex-boyfriend, Carl Olsen, to get Charlie a job. Carl, now a district attorney in the Malibu area, hooks Charlie up with Emma De Layle, the sultry wife of an ill but still-powerful rich man. She wants Charlie to be the middleman in a fake kidnapping of her step-daughter, Melissa, who's in on the plot because she wants cash to break free of dad and Emma is happy to have her leave. Things are bound to go wrong, and Charlie may be left holding the bag yet again. Who's pulling all the strings in this web of intrigue?
Last Holiday
The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been an overly cautious life. With weeks to live, she withdraws her life savings, sells all her possessions and jets off to Europe where she lives it up at a posh hotel. Upbeat and passionate, Georgia charms everybody she meets, including renowned Chef Didier. The only one missing from her new life is her longtime crush Sean Matthews.
The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka
Michalina Wislocka, the most famous and recognized sexologist of communist Poland, fights for the right to publish her book, which will change the sex life of Polish people forever.
Mixed Nuts
The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.
Streetwalker
A roughneck music hall owner grooms a charmnig yet haggard belly dancer to be his new star headliner, but she falls in love with a pianist also in his employ.
Murder
To escape a secure but stifling life with her workaholic husband Sudhir, bored housewife Simran begins an affair with Sunny, an ex-boyfriend from her college days. However, when Sudhir grows suspicious and hires a private detective, the infidelity soon comes to light.
Graveyard of Honor
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
Naked
An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.
Awarapan
A loyal henchman is ordered by his boss to keep an eye on his mistress, and trouble begins when he refuses to kill her.
Josée
Young-seok, who feels overwhelmed and lonely in what should be his glorious youth, meets a woman who introduces herself as Josée, and they share a once-in-a-lifetime romance.