Shaw Brothers (HK) Limited was the largest film production company in Hong Kong, operating from 1925 to 2011.
Shaw Studios, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong
Runje Shaw, the eldest Shaw brother who started the film empire
Run Run Shaw in 1927
A movie theater in Saigon (today's Ho Chi Minh City), South Vietnam, 1967, advertising The Thundering Sword starring the "queen of swords" Cheng Pei-pei.
The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former British colony, Hong Kong had a greater degree of political and economic freedom than mainland China and Taiwan, and developed into a filmmaking hub for the Chinese-speaking world.
Replica of the Hong Kong Film Awards statuette on the Avenue of Stars in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
Runje Shaw, the eldest Shaw brother who started Shaw Brothers Studio, the largest Hong Kong film production company of that era.
Nancy Kwan, a Hong Kong-born American actress.
Julie Yeh Feng, an actress, singer and businesswoman. She starred in various films in throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and is considered to have been one of Hong Kong's biggest stars of the period.
