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The Three Smiles is a film of genre Comedy directed by Yueh Feng with Ivy Ling Po
The Three Smiles (1969)
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Add to a movie listThe Three Smiles (San xiao, simplified/traditional Chinese:三笑) is a 1969 Mandarin-language Hong Kong film, directed by Yueh Feng.
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Tang Bo Hu (Ivy Ling Po) was a talented and well-educated scholar. Well-to-do and famous in the Jiangnan region, he cared nothing for fame and fortune but spent his time roaming the country, enjoying leisure, poetry and song.Actors
Ivy Ling Po
(Tang Bo Hu / Hua An)
Chen Yanyan
(madame Hua, maîtresse de maison)
Lee Kwan
(Boatman)
Paul Wei Ping-Ao
(Zhu Zhi Shan)
Tsang Choh-lam
(Pawn shop assistant)
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