Apartment for Ladies

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Apartment for Ladies
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Directed by Umetsugu Inoue
Written by Umetsugu Inoue
Produced by Run Run Shaw
Cinematography Toru Watanabe
Edited by Chiang Hsing-lung
Music by Wang Fu-ling
Distributed by Shaw Brothers Studio, Celestial Pictures
Release date
  • 20 November 1970 (1970-11-20)
Country Hong Kong
Language Mandarin

Apartment for Ladies or Nu zi gong yu is a 1970 Hong Kong comedy film directed by Umetsugu Inoue. [1] It was produced by Run Run Shaw of Shaw Brothers Studio. [2]

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Plot

Songstress Betty Ting Pei travels from Hong Kong to Taiwan in search of her lost younger sister where she meets the composer Yang Fan and lodges at an apartment for women only run by a man-hating landlady, Mrs. Chan, yet Mrs. Chan cannot confine the young ladies youthful vitality. [3]

Cast

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References

  1. "Apartment for Ladies". Lcsd.gov.hk.
  2. "Press Releases - HK Film Archive revisits Run Run Shaw's factory of dreams (with photos)". info.gov.hk. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  3. "Apartment for Ladies". letterboxd.com. 1970. Retrieved 25 May 2021.