A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
January 7, 1953
Original Title:
家
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
The Union Film Enterprise Ltd.
Production Countries:
Hong Kong
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 140
"Family" (1953), which launched the Union Film legacy, "Spring" (1953) and "Autumn" (1954) are adaptations of Ba Jin's highly regarded novel "Torrent Trilogy". In "Family", director Ng Wui skilfully condenses the voluminous first part of the novel into an emotionally powerful and intellectually focused story of youngsters struggling to survive oppression and repression in a feudalistic family. This well-received film quickly established the company's reputation.
Cinematography:
Ngai Hoi-Fung
Continuity:
Kwan Man
Costume Designer:
Lai Chu
Director:
Ng Wui
Editor:
Choi Cheong
Makeup Artist:
Ma Charn
Music:
Lee Yuen-Man
Original Story:
Ba Jin
Producer:
Chu Tsi-Kwai
Production Assistant:
Cheung Shun
Props:
Chiu Bing
Recording Supervision:
Kwok Keung
Tai Chin-ho
Screenplay:
Ng Wui
Sets & Props Artist:
Leung Chi-Hing
Wong Hang
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.