
Ivy Ling Po
Huang Yu-chun (born 16 November 1939 in Shantou, Republic of China), known by her final stage name Ivy Ling Po (Chinese: 凌波), is a retired Hong Kong actress and Chinese opera singer. She is best known for a number of mega-hit Huangmei opera films in the 1960s, especially The Love Eterne (1963) which made her an Asian superstar overnight. She played an important role in the entertainment industry for preserving the Huangmei opera art form.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.024 |
Birthday | 1939-11-16 |
Place of Birth | Shantou, China |
Also Known As | 凌波, |

1972

The 14 Amazons
6.6/19
The Yang family, men and women, have served their country loyally for generations. During the war General Yang is ambushed and killed. His widow and t...
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The 14 Amazons

1971

The Crimson Charm
6.2/7
A noble swordsman and a one-armed swordswoman go up against the vicious Crimson Charm gang of thieves and cutthroats. The lovely and lethal Ivy Ling P...
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The Crimson Charm

1971

Duel for Gold
7/13
Soon-to-be legendary director Chu Yuan had just joined the Shaw Brothers when he helmed this thriller of bickering bandits. Audiences loved watching t...
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Duel for Gold

1972

The Mighty One
6/3
The famed Ivy Ling Po (Temple Of The Red Lotus) stars as a mysterious swordswoman dedicated to keeping the five volume "Five Generations Fighting Meth...
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The Mighty One

1964

The Female Prince
5/1
The husband-and-wife team of Ivy Ling Po and Chin Han returned to another Huangmei Opera classic after Lady General Hua Mu-Lan. Helmed by Chow Sze-lok...
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The Female Prince

1967

The Sword and the Lute
5.4/6
The adventures of a young married swordfighting couple, Lianzhu and Gui Wu, and the swordfighting members of their different clans.
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The Sword and the Lute

2004

Rice Rhapsody
6/12
With her elder two sons being gay, a traditionally-minded mother fears her youngest son could be too, thereby losing her last chance to have any grand...
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Rice Rhapsody

1972

Finger of Doom
5.8/8
This creepy kung fu film fight-fest centers on the evil Madame Kung Sun and her poisonous "Finger of Doom", a unique supernatural power which allows...
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Finger of Doom

1965

Temple of the Red Lotus
4.9/10
Jimmy Wang Yu plays a young kid who heads off to Dragon Valley to meet the childhood friend who was promised as his bride. When he gets there, he find...
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Temple of the Red Lotus

1965

The Twin Swords
5.3/8
Gui Wu happens upon a kidnapping with his wife Gan Lian-zhu at the Red Lotus Temple. Lian-zhu sends Wu to go for reinforcements while she stays to fig...
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The Twin Swords

2003

Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio
7/3
Hong Kong cinemas had a wide range of glamorous female stars during the golden age of the 60's and 70's. The series will take the audience on a sentim...
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Cinema Hong Kong: The Beauties of the Shaw Studio

1969

Raw Passions
3.3/3
Ivy Ling Po plays the dedicated wife of a man being blackmailed for an illicit love affair, who uncovers a pit of deceit, double-crosses, extortion an...
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Raw Passions

1965

Vermilion Door
5.2/6
The tragic love triangle of early 20th century Peking Opera star Chiu Hai-tang, his beautiful stage partner, and the warlord who forces himself betwee...
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Vermilion Door

1964

Lady General Hua Mulan
5.6/6
About a woman who disguises herself as a man to take her father's place in the army.
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Lady General Hua Mulan

1975

The Empress Dowager
7/1
This dragon lady of the Ching Dynasty was the power behind the throne for 50 years, and hew vast tapestry of palace intrigues is vividly brought to th...
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The Empress Dowager

1963

A Maid from Heaven
0/0
Seventh sister of the celestial world goes down to earth to marry Dong Yong, a young man sold to servitude. However the Jade Emperor orders her to go...
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A Maid from Heaven

1965

The Grand Substitution
6/1
With China under control of a weak Emperor, two officials compete to steer the future destiny of the land. Chiu believes the people are the future of...
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The Grand Substitution

1969

The Three Smiles
7/2
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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The Three Smiles

1987

Golden Swallow
4.2/4
A poor scholar named Lo Chih-Chiu, played by Anthony Wong Yiu-Ming, rescues a swallow from three mischievous boys, and frees the bird afterward. The b...
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Golden Swallow

1963

The Love Eterne
6.8/22
In this dreamy romance set in China during the fourth-century, a young woman convinces her parents to allow her to dress as a boy and attend universit...
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The Love Eterne

1982

A Rescue from Hades
0/0
Three generations of the Luo family fasted and chanted Buddha's name. However, Mr. Luo died young. Luo's mother complained and began to kill animals a...
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A Rescue from Hades

1975

It's All in the Family
0/0
Danny Lee is Hsu Chih-yuan, the youngest son of strict patriarch Hsu Hui-tang (Cheng Miu). A sailor, Chih-yuan incurs his father's wrath when he tells...
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It's All in the Family

1983

The Lost Generation
1/1
The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
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The Lost Generation

1965

The West Chamber
0/0
A scholar woos the daughter of an important family, while outwitting rebels who try to capture her.
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The West Chamber

2012

Joseph Koo Master Classical Concert
0/0
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Joseph Koo Master Classical Concert

1966

The Mating Season
0/0
The Weiss Advertising Co under manageress Lo Yu Chun (Pat Ting Hung) and the Jen An Advertising Co. managed by playboy Tsao Chung Nien (Peter Chen Ho)...
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The Mating Season

1967

Too Late for Love
0/0
Su Fen, a young and frail girl, looked forward to her wedding with her fiancé, Li Kuo-liang. The happy couple's bliss was cut short when war broke out...
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Too Late for Love

1964

Between Tears and Smiles
6.3/3
Fan Chia-soo is a kind-hearted student whose heart is captured by the sweet song of Shen Feng-hsien. However, he is not the only one who has eyes for...
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Between Tears and Smiles

1970

The Younger Generation
5/3
The Younger Generation is an ultra-tragic tale about a young girl, played by Ivy Ling Po who gets married, has five kids, then she and her husband die...
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The Younger Generation

1964

The Crimson Palm
6/1
Ling Bo is Lin, a young man engaged to the daughter of a rich man, who now despises Lin because of his family's declining status. Lin visits his belov...
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The Crimson Palm

1971

The Silent Love
6/1
Ivy Ling Po gives a startling performance as an abused wife who suffers through all his adulterous and treacherous ways in The Silent Love, which beca...
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The Silent Love

1970

A Cause to Kill
6.3/3
Ivy Ling Po, star of The Temple of the Red Lotus, tears up the screen as a jealous, murderous movie star, who, like seemingly all "film noir" vixens,...
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A Cause to Kill

1968

Forever and Ever
0/0
In 1966, like in The Love Eterne, Ling Bo took up the male lead in Forever and Ever, despite Shaw Brothers' earlier plan of having her as the female l...
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Forever and Ever

1967

The Mirror and the Lichee
0/0
Movie queen Ivy Ling Po is ideally cast as a male scholar in this historical Huangmei Opera romance. It’s a tragic love story between the scholar and...
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The Mirror and the Lichee

1966

Dawn Will Come
5/3
The lovely Li Hsiang-chun stars as a poor beauty who is drugged, ravished, lied to, locked in a burning store room, left to drown, and chased by sword...
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Dawn Will Come

1967

Song of Tomorrow
0/0
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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Song of Tomorrow

1966

The Perfumed Arrow
6/1
Ling Bor plays Wen Fei E who is both an excellent academic as well as martial arts expert. Since her childhood days fond of dressing up as a boy, she...
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The Perfumed Arrow

1965

Inside the Forbidden City
0/0
It seems that Li Zhenfei was once an imperial concubine, who often found herself competing with her rival Madame Liu for the emperor's sole, undivided...
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Inside the Forbidden City

1965

The Mermaid
6.5/2
A Huangmei opera produced by Shaw Brothers about a carp spirit who transforms into an identical copy of a beautiful woman to win the heart of a lonely...
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The Mermaid

1987

Master Hui Neng
8/1
Taiwanese historical drama about the Buddhist monk Huineng.
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Master Hui Neng

1958

Murder in the Bath
0/0
Murder mystery.
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Murder in the Bath

1981

Three Funny Detectives
0/0
Taiwanese comedy film.
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Three Funny Detectives

1965

The Lotus Lamp
6/2
The Goddess of Hua Mountain is imprisoned for falling in love with a mortal, meanwhile her son is raised in secret until he can attempt to free her.
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The Lotus Lamp

1976

The Last Tempest
5.8/4
Despite Kuang Hsu's enthronement as the last reigning Emperor of China, his ability to rule effectively is overshadowed by the ever-present power of t...
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The Last Tempest

1973

Flight Man
0/0
Flight Man takes place in Taiwan in 1933, when the country was under Japanese occupation after the First Sino-Japanese War. The Taiwanese people have...
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Flight Man

1967

The Pearl Phoenix
0/0
Huangmei Opera movies like The Pearl Phoenix are unique to 1960's Hong Kong culture, a product of the Swinging Sixties but considerably more in touch...
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The Pearl Phoenix

1977

The Prominent Eunuch Chen Ho
0/0
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 a...
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The Prominent Eunuch Chen Ho

1980

The Imperious Princess
0/0
Taiwanese huangmei opera starring Ivy Ling Po.
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The Imperious Princess

1978

Dream of the Red Chamber
3/1
Taiwanese huangmei opera film.
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Dream of the Red Chamber

1982

Imperial Matchmaker
0/0
Taiwanese huangmei opera film.
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Imperial Matchmaker

1982

A Fairy to the World
0/0
The heavenly maiden comes to earth in the form of a mortal and with her kung fu skills stamps out some evil doers.
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A Fairy to the World

1982

New Pilgrims to the West
0/0
Chan Jun-Leung's 1982 film based on The Journey to the West.
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New Pilgrims to the West

1981

Consolidated Dougherty
4/1
Taiwanese adventure film that reunites Ivy Ling Po with ex-Shaw stars Ching Li and Lisa Chiao Chiao.
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Consolidated Dougherty

1976

Crossroad
0/0
Taiwanese drama film starring Ivy Ling Po.
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Crossroad

1963

The Adulteress
10/1
The noted actress Li Li-hua, star of more than sixty films since 1947, beautifully portrays the drugged, then disgraced wife of a peddler in the wanin...
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The Adulteress

1966

The Joy of Spring
0/0
Hong Kong musical directed by Lo Chen.
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The Joy of Spring

1957

The Eight Immortals in Jiangnan
0/0
Hong Kong fantasy film directed by Chiu Shu-San.
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The Eight Immortals in Jiangnan

1962

The Dream of the Red Chamber
7/3
The Ching Dynasty novel The Dream of The Red Chamber is not only the most widely read, but also the most filmed book in Chinese history. The sprawling...
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The Dream of the Red Chamber

1963

Return of the Phoenix
6/1
Return Of The Phoenix is yet another masterpiece from prolific director Li Han-hsiang. An imperial minister Cheng Pu (Ching Miao) is faced with a quan...
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Return of the Phoenix

1974

My Father, My Husband, My Son
0/0
Taiwanese drama film directed by Pai Ching-jui.
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My Father, My Husband, My Son

1975

The Chinese Amazons
0/0
Taiwanese war film directed by Li Chia.
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The Chinese Amazons

2003

Butterfly Lovers 40
0/0
Ivy Ling Po reprising her role as Liang Shanbo to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Love Eterne (1963).
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Butterfly Lovers 40

2016

The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse
0/0
In 2013, the Golden Horse Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary. The ministry of Culture commissioned director Yang Li-chou to make a document...
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