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Thirteen (1974 film)

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|director=Sung Tsun-shou

|writer=Sung Tsun-shou

|based_on=Kuo Liang-hui's 'Zao Shu'

|producer=Runme Shaw

|editing=Chiang Hsing-lung

|cinematography=Ho Luk-Ying

|music=Wang Fu-ling

|starring=Tien Niu
Ling Yun
Chin Han
Wong Yue

|studio=Shaw Brothers Studio

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|country=Hong Kong

|language=Mandarin

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'Thirteen' is a 1974 Hong Kong coming-of-age film directed by Sung Tsun-shou and produced by Shaw Brothers Studio. It was based on the novel 'Zaoshu' ("matured early") by Taiwanese novelist Kuo Liang-hui.Daw-Ming Lee 'Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema' 0810879220 2012 p.400 "Two of her novels were made into films by veteran director Sung Tsun-Shou: Thirteen/Zao shou (1974) and Ask My Love from God/Ci qing ke wen tian (1978)."

Cast and characters



* Chin Han as Lu Tao-jan, a newspaper publisher.

* Hsia Ping as Lan Chin, Lu's wife. The marriage is unhappy, and she spends most of her time playing mahjong. She treats her daughters rudely, but spoils her son.

* Ku Chiu-chin as Lu Yun-pai, Lu Tao-jan's oldest daughter. She is married, pregnant and hardworking.

* Chen I-ling as Lu Chin-pai, Lu Tao-jan's second daughter. She spends most of her time dressing up and hanging out with her boyfriend.

* Tien Niu as Lu Chih-pai, Lu Tao-jan's third daughter and the protagonist of the film. She is 13 and does not like to study. She also does not get along with Chin-pai, with whom she shares a room.

* Yuan Man-tzu as Lu Hsiu-pai, Lu Tao-jan's fourth daughter.

* Chiang Ko-ai as Lu Li-pai, Lu Tao-jan's fifth daughter.

* Hsu Chia-lin as Lu Sheng-pai, Lu Tao-jan's son and the youngest child.

* Ling Yun as Shih Hsin-chiao, a 30-year-old journalist who trained under Lu Tao-jan.

* Huang Shu-yi as Shih Hsin-ju, Shih Hsin-chiao's cousin in Macau. Her husband is in America, living with another woman.

* Wong Yue as Hung Sen, a playboy 2 grades higher than Chih-pai.

* Wang Ching-ho as the gynecologist.

Plot



Shih Hsin-chiao, a journalist who trained under mentor Lu Tao-jan, is a family friend of the Lus and well-liked by the children. Lu's 13-year-old daughter Chih-pai is infatuated with "Uncle Shih", but Shih sees her only as a child. Lu Tao-jan is transferred to Macau, where he has an affair with Shih's cousin. When Shih returns after a trip to Japan, he finds Chih-pai an attractive young woman. After repeatedly being rejected by Shih, Chih-pai has a relationship with a rich playboy Hung Sen, which leaves her pregnant. Desperate, she goes to the only man who can help her: Shih.

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