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Backyard Adventures

Backyard Adventures

19551h 57m

Overview

Reporter Yu Mong-yuen is recovering from a leg injury in his fiancee Man-wah's apartment. Bored, he looks out the rear window and observes the life of the neighbouring building. Among the tenants are a sugar-daddy and his mistress, a middle-aged man wants to marry a young girl, but she is in love with his son. Finally, she hatches a plot and makes the man agree to her marrying his son ; a sly fortune-teller ; a lively gym, a rich widow quarrels with the trainer of a gymnasium because his dog has bitten her cat ; and an opera school, a woman signs, leaning on the balcony, and a man tries to strangle her. In fact they are rehearsing an opera…… One evening, Wah is on the night shift, and Yuen watches the opera troupe rehearse to the end. Under the influence of drugs, Yu mistakenly believes that a divorced man has murdered a taxi dancer. He alerts the police, but the whole thing is nothing more than a misunderstanding.

Directed by Chu Kei
Written by Cheung Shun, Cheng Kang
Produced by Cheung Tit
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Top Cast

Cheung Ying

Cheung Ying

Yu Mong-yuen

Chow Kwun-Ling

Chow Kwun-Ling

Man Wah

L

Luolian Zi

Taxi Dancer

L

Lo Tun

Mr. Mok

L

Lee Hoi-Chuen

Fortune-teller

M

Ma Sze-Tsang

Conservative Father

Yung Siu-Yi

Yung Siu-Yi

Daughter

Woo Fung

Woo Fung

Boyfriend

L

Leung Sing-por

Patron

L

Lai Cheuk-Cheuk

Patron's Wife

Themes & Keywords

remakepeeping tomkilling a dogvoyeurism

About Backyard Adventures

Backyard Adventures is a drama film released in 1955 exploring themes of remake, peeping tom, killing a dog, voyeurism. Directed by Chu Kei, it stars Cheung Ying, Chow Kwun-Ling, Luolian Zi. Reporter Yu Mong-yuen is recovering from a leg injury in his fiancee Man-wah's apartment. Bored, he looks out the rear window and observes the life of the neighbouring building. Among the tenants are a sugar-daddy and his mistress, a middle-aged man wants to marry a young girl, but she is in love with his son. Finally, she hatches a plot and makes the man agree to her marrying his son ; a sly fortune-teller ; a lively gym, a rich widow quarrels with the trainer of a gymnasium because his dog has bitten her cat ; and an opera school, a woman signs, leaning on the balcony, and a man tries to strangle her. In fact they are rehearsing an opera…… One evening, Wah is on the night shift, and Yuen watches the opera troupe rehearse to the end. Under the influence of drugs, Yu mistakenly believes that a divorced man has murdered a taxi dancer. He alerts the police, but the whole thing is nothing more than a misunderstanding.

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