Backyard Adventures
5.5
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.
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Cast
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Cheung Ying
Yu Mong-yuen
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Chow Kwun-Ling
Man Wah
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Luolian Zi
Taxi Dancer
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Lo Tun
Mr. Mok
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Lee Hoi-Chuen
Fortune-teller
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Ma Sze-Tsang
Conservative Father
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Yung Siu-Yi
Daughter
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Woo Fung
Boyfriend
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Leung Sing-por
Patron
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Lai Cheuk-Cheuk
Patron's Wife
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Pak Suet-Sin
Actress
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Ng Cho-Fan
Actor
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Ng Wui Director · Chu Kei Director Chan Pei Director
First release July 12, 1955 · Original title 後窗
Production
Liangyou Film Company
Production
Languages
Original title
後窗
Original language
Cantonese
Spoken on screen
Cantonese
Release dates
Hong Kong SAR China · July 12, 1955
Theatrical · Adapted from Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear window" (1954). A film dedicated to the late Yee Chau-shui, with opera and screen stars participating voluntarily in the production, including Leung Sing Po, Hung Sin Nui, Pak Suet Sin, Yam Kim Fai, Ng Cho Fan, Yung Siu-yi, Cheung Wood Yau, Law Kim Long, and Mui Yee. Proceeds went to Yee's family. Fung Ying-seong was cast to play a fitness instructor but died from an illness before he could take up the role. Shown together with documentary footage of Yee Chau-shui's funeral.
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