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Robert Ya Fu Lee
Robert Ya Fu Lee (30 November 1913 – 1 December 1986) was a Chinese actor based in the United Kingdom. Background Born in Tianjin, he arrived in England as an international student, attaining a BA in history from Trinity College, Cambridge. He then worked at a Chinese restaurant and a Japanese restaurant before being encouraged by friends to become an actor in 1944. Lee played supporting roles in many films and television programmes throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and was frequently called upon whenever a production required an East Asian character. His film appearances include '' You Only Live Twice'' (1967) and '' Half Moon Street'' (1986), and his television appearances include '' The Avengers'', ''The Chinese Detective'' and ''The Bill'', but his best known role is as Tarō Nagazumi, the Japanese business executive and English language student, in the sitcom ''Mind Your Language'' from 1977 to 1979. He never married, citing marriage in a 1984 interview as "Too much ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mind Your Language
''Mind Your Language'' was a British sitcom that premiered on ITV in 1977. It was produced by London Weekend Television and directed by Stuart Allen. Three series were made by London Weekend Television between 1977 and 1979, and it was briefly revived in 1985 (or 1986 in most ITV regions) with six of the original cast members. The series shows people of different countries with different social background, religions, and languages existing in the same classroom, learning English as a foreign language. Summary The show is set in an adult education college in London and focuses on the class in ESL (English as a Second Language) taught by Mr Jeremy Brown, who teaches a group of enrolled foreigners. Episodes Cast and characters Series 1–3 * Barry Evans (42 episodes) as Jeremy Brown, the ESL teacher and focal point of most of the series. He is a good-natured, earnest single man in his thirties who lives alone (apart from his Siamese cat Josephine, whom he mentions in "T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese People
are an East Asian ethnic group native to the Japanese archipelago. Japanese people constitute 97.4% of the population of the country of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 125 million people are of Japanese descent, making them list of contemporary ethnic groups, one of the largest ethnic groups. Approximately 120.8 million Japanese people are residents of Japan, and there are approximately 4 million members of the Japanese diaspora, known as . In some contexts, the term "Japanese people" may be used to refer specifically to the Yamato people, who are primarily from the historically principal islands of Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku and constitute by far the largest group. In other contexts, the term may include other groups native to the Japanese archipelago, including Ryukyuan people, who share connections with the Yamato but are often regarded as distinct, and Ainu people. In recent decades, there has also been an increase in the number of people with both Japanese and non-Japanes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Projectionist
''The Projectionist'' is a 1970 American comedy film written and directed by Harry Hurwitz that was the first feature film with Rodney Dangerfield as an actor. The film employed the use of superimposition of older motion pictures, the first time such techniques were used. The film clips incorporated were scenes from ''Gone with the Wind'', ''Citizen Kane'', '' Fort Apache'', ''The Birth of a Nation'', ''Casablanca'', ''Gunga Din'', ''Sergeant York'', '' The Maltese Falcon'' and '' Barbarella''. Plot Chuck McCann, the projectionist, is seen operating projection booth equipment followed by ''The Projectionist'' opening credits. The Midtown Theater, located in Midtown Manhattan, is managed by Renaldi who continually insults and berates his employees. Spending hours in the projection booth, Chuck imagines himself as the superhero Captain Flash. When Harry, one of the ushers, enters the booth to complain about Renaldi, Chuck describes to him the beautiful woman he saw earlier, calling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moon Zero Two
''Moon Zero Two'' is a 1969 British science fiction film from Hammer Films, directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring James Olson, Catherine Schell, Warren Mitchell, and Adrienne Corri. The screenplay was by Michael Carreras from an original story by Gavin Lyall, Frank Hardman, and Martin Davison. The film takes place on the Moon in 2021. A former astronaut turned salvager helps a millionaire space industrialist capture a sapphire asteroid, while also helping a woman find her missing brother. Plot In May 2021, the Moon is in the process of being colonized, and this new frontier is attracting a diverse human population to lunar settlements like Moon City, Farside 5, and others. Two denizens of this rough-and-tumble lunar society are the notorious millionaire J.J. Hubbard and former-astronaut-turned-satellite-salvager Bill Kemp, the first man to set foot on Mars. He left Space Corporation because he wants to explore space, while his former employer only wants to operate commercia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chairman (1969 Film)
''The Chairman'' (or alternatively ''The Most Dangerous Man in the World'') is a 1969 spy film starring Gregory Peck. It was directed by J. Lee Thompson. The screenplay was by Ben Maddow based on a novel by Jay Richard Kennedy. Plot A Western agent is sent to Communist China in order to retrieve an important agricultural enzyme. What he does not know is that there is a bomb implanted in his head; the forces behind his mission will detonate it if he fails to carry out the assignment. Nobel Prize–winning university professor Dr. John Hathaway's mission begins with Lt. General Shelby's request at the U.S. embassy in London that he travel to China to visit Soong Li, a former professor of Hathaway's who has reportedly developed an enzyme that would permit crops to grow in any kind of climate. The hesitant Hathaway is further urged to go by a phone call from the President of the United States. Hathaway is concerned about the situation, as is a close female friend he knows named Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Raise The Bridge, Lower The River
''Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River'' is a 1968 British comedy film directed by Jerry Paris and starring Jerry Lewis, Terry-Thomas and Jacqueline Pearce. It was written by Max Wilk based on his 1961 novel of the same title, with the original Connecticut locale moved to Swinging London and Portugal. It was produced by Walter Shenson and released on 12 July 1968 by Columbia Pictures. Plot George Lester is an American living in Britain. His passion is get-rich-quick schemes, and they have caused financial and personal grief for him and his wife, Pamela, who is considering divorce if he continues with them. Willy Homer is a conman who plans to help George raise some quick cash by selling plans for a drill to a group of Arabs. The plans, which were stolen, are smuggled to Lisbon with help from his accomplice, Fred Davies. As they are about to trade the plans, they realise that they are being double-crossed. A series of chases follows, and eventually the plans are revealed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mini-Affair
''The Mini-Affair'' (originally titled ''The Mini-Mob'') is a 1968 British romantic comedy film directed by Robert Amram and starring Georgie Fame, Rosemary Nicols and John Clive. Music is provided by the Bee Gees. Plot summary A leading pop star and a pirate DJ are kidnapped by a trio of girls in swinging London who are desperate for marriage. Cast * Georgie Fame as Georgie Hart * Rosemary Nicols as Charlotte * John Clive as Joe * Bernard Archard as Sir Basil Grinling * Lucille Soong as Lucille * Rick Dane as Mike Maroon * Julian Curry as Ronnie * Gretchen Regan as Marianne * Madeline Smith as Samantha * Clement Freud as Stephen Catchpole * Totti Truman Taylor as Aunt Grace * Clive Dunn as Tyson * Roy Kinnear as fire extinguisher salesman * Eric Pohlmann as world banker * William Rushton as Chancellor of the Exchequer * Irene Handl as cook in Chinese restaurant * Guy Middleton as Colonel Highwater * Ben Aris as TV producer * Milton Reid Milton Rutherford Reid (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satan Never Sleeps
''Satan Never Sleeps '' (also known as ''The Devil Never Sleeps'' and ''Flight from Terror'') is a 1962 American drama romance war film directed by Leo McCarey, his final film, in which he returns to the religious themes of his classics ''Going My Way'' (1944) and ''The Bells of St. Mary's'' (1945). It also is the final screen appearance of actor Clifton Webb. Plot In 1949, Catholic priests O'Banion and Bovard are constantly harassed by the Communist People's Party at their remote mission outpost in China. Adding to Father O'Banion's troubles is the mission's cook Siu Lan, an attractive Chinese girl who makes no secret of her love for him. Under the leadership of Ho San, the communists wreck the mission dispensary and desecrate the chapel. Ho San straps O'Banion to a chair and rapes Siu Lan. Later, when she gives birth to a son, Ho San displays paternal pride but refuses to stop persecuting the priests. Only after the villagers revolt and his superiors order the killing of all C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sinister Man
''The Sinister Man'' is a 1961 British crime drama film directed by Clive Donner and starring Patrick Allen and John Bentley. The screenplay was by Robert Stewart. It was one of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries, British second-features, produced at Merton Park Studios in the 1960s. Plot The body of an Oxford professor is found floating in the river Thames. He had previously been studying an archeological artefact known as the ''Kytang Wafers'', and this is now missing. Scotland Yard investigates. The wafers are bits of ancient text that could alter the relations between Red China and a Tibetan type nation called "Kytang". An autopsy reveals that the professor was murdered by a karate blow. Cast * John Bentley as Superintendent Wills * Patrick Allen as Dr. Nelson Pollard * Gerald Andersen as Major Paul Amery * Edward Atienza as Clerk * Wilfrid Brambell as lock-keeper * Yvonne Buckingham as Miss Russell * Michael Deacon as Angus * Jacqueline Ellis as Elsa Marlowe * Keith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visa To Canton
Visa most commonly refers to: * Travel visa, a document that allows entry to a foreign country * Visa Inc., a US multinational financial and payment cards company ** Visa Debit card issued by the above company ** Visa Electron, a debit card ** Visa Plus, an interbank network Visa or VISA may also refer to: Places * Vișa, a river in Romania * Sirsa Air Force Station (ICAO code), India * Visa village, Jucu Commune, Cluj County, Romania Science and technology * Vancomycin intermediate-resistant ''Staphylococcus aureus'' or vancomycin-intermediate ''Staphylococcus aureus'', a bacterium * Virtual instrument software architecture, an input/output API used in the test and measurement industry * VISA (gene) (virus induced signaling adaptor) * Visa, a fabric marketed by Milliken & Company Film and television * ''Visa'' (film), a 1983 Malayalam film * "The Visa", a 1993 episode of the television sitcom ''Seinfeld'' Music * ''Visa'' (album), a 2014 album by Vladislav Delay * Visa, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The World Of Suzie Wong (film)
''The World of Suzie Wong'' is a 1960 British-American romantic drama film directed by Richard Quine and starring William Holden and Nancy Kwan. The screenplay by John Patrick was adapted from the 1958 stage play by Paul Osborn, which was based on the 1957 novel of the same title by Richard Mason. Plot American architect Robert Lomax (William Holden) is living in Hong Kong for a year to try and make a living as an artist. While aboard a ferry, he meets Mi-Ling (Nancy Kwan), a smartly dressed young woman who claims her father is wealthy. When the ferry docks, they part ways. Robert looks for an inexpensive living place in Wan Chai, a poor area known for prostitution. By chance, he sees Mi-Ling leaving the run-down Nam Kok Hotel. When he inquires inside, the hotel owner replies that he does not know any Mi-Ling, but he and Robert negotiate a monthly room rate. At the bar adjoining the hotel, Robert sees Mi-Ling dressed in a slinky red cheongsam and with a sailor. He learns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outcast Of The Islands
''Outcast of the Islands'' is a 1951 British adventure drama film directed by Carol Reed and starring Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley and Wendy Hiller. The screenplay was by William Fairchild by based on Joseph Conrad's 1896 novel '' An Outcast of the Islands''. Plot Peter Willems, a selfish and ambitious man, is accused of stealing in his position as manager of a shipping port operation near Singapore. After he is dismissed for his misconduct he reacquaints himself with the trading ship Capt. Lingard who befriended him as a 12-year-old boy. Lingard agrees to help Willems regain his reputation by taking him to a trading village located up a difficult-to-navigate channel near the coast of Batam. Lingard's son-in-law, Elmer Almayer, operates a trading operation for Capt. Lingard in the village. Lingard asks Almayer to take Willems under his wing and teach him the business. While Lingard is away on one of his sea trips, Willems abuses his trust, seduces the v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
