Moonlight Resonance

Moonlight Resonance Details
Title: 溏心風暴之家好月圓
Cantonese / Mandarin title: Tong Sum Fung Bo Chi Ga Ho Yuet Yuen / Tang Xin Feng Bao Zhi Jia Hao Yue Yuan
English title: Moonlight Resonance
Also known as: Heart of Greed II
Genre: Business, drama, family, romance
Episodes: 40
Broadcast network: TVB
Broadcast period: 2008-Jul-28 to 2008-Sep-21
Air time: Monday to Friday 21:30-22:30
Main theme song: No Intention to Harm You (無心害你) by Susanna Kwan
Insert song: Not Enough Love (愛不疚) by Raymond Lam
Related TV series: Heart of Greed

Moonlight Resonance Synopsis, Preview, detail

Chung Siu Hor and her husband Kam Tai Jo have been working hard for many years to establish a good reputation for their bakery. However, Hor discovers that Jo committed adultery with her best friend Yan Hong and she divorces him miserably. Hor brings along her children Kam Wing Ho, Kam Wing Hing, and her adopted daughter Suen Ho Yuet to set up another bakery for a living. This drama revolves around the human nature, family bonds, and love of the two families.

Moonlight Resonance Cast and starring
The Chung Household
Louise Lee as Chung Siu Hor 鍾笑荷
Shirley Yeung as young Chung Siu Hor
Susanna Kwan as Chung Siu Sa 鍾笑莎
Kawaii Wong (傅千盈) young Chung Siu Sa
Raymond Lam as Kam Wing Ho 甘永好
Tavia Yeung as Suen Ho Yuet 孫皓月
Fala Chen as Kam Wing Hing 甘詠慶
Louis Yuen as Yuen Yan Chi 袁恩賜
Kate Tsui as Lo Ka Mei 路家美 (Camie)
Chow Chung as Chung Faun Tat 鍾泛達
Dexter Young as Cheng Ka Lok 鄭家樂 (Kelvin)

The Kam Household
Ha Yu as Kam Tai Jo 甘泰祖
Jack Wu as young Kam Tai Jo
Michelle Yim as Yan Hong 殷紅
Snow Sun (孫慧雪) as young Yan Hong
Moses Chan as Kam Wing Ka 甘永家
Linda Chung as Yu So Chau (Yu So Sum) 于素秋 (于素心)
Chris Lai as Kam Wing Yuen 甘永圓
Lee Heung Kam as Sheh Gwun Lai 佘君麗
Vincent Wan (溫家衡) as Kam Wing Chung 甘永中
Fung So Bor as Sheh Lai Mui 佘麗梅
Lee Sing Cheung as Mak Yau Kung 麥友恭
Lee Gong Long (李岡龍) as Driver Kuen

Extended Cast
Bosco Wong as Ling Chi Shun 凌至信
Wayne Lai as Nien Tze Yong 年子勇
Mary Hon as Cheng Ka Lok's mother
Lily Leung as Yuen Yan Chi's mother
Tracy Yip as Fong Shu Ting 方舒婷
Carrie Lam as Fong Shu Wing 方舒詠
Lee Kwok Lun as Yu Huk Keong 于克強
Astrid Chan as Eliza
Eric Li as Eric (cameo, ep5)
Fanny Ip as Wong Siu Mei 王小媚
Amy Ng as Sally
Dia Yiu Ming (戴耀明) as Ken
Chuk Man Kwan (祝文君) as Auntie Shan Sui 山水嬸
Yeung Ching Wa (楊證樺) as Kam Tai Chuen 甘泰全
Yu Tze Ming as Ho Chi Kai 何至佳
Claire Yiu as Yau Wing Lam 邱詠琳
Kitty Lau as Yau Wing Lam's mother
Matt Yeung as Wong Hiu Long 黃曉龍 (Jimmy)
Lo Chun Shun as Lawyer Ying 英律師
Hoffman Cheng as a CID
Deno Cheung as a sales person (cameo, ep39)
Raymond Cho as Shum Hung 沈雄 (cameo, ep40)
Eddie Lee as Lau Jeung Sek 劉俊碩 (cameo, ep40)
Casper Chan as Tracy (cameo, ep40)

Production Credits
Producer: Lau Ka Ho (劉家豪)
Editors: Cheung Wah Biu (張華標), Sit Ka Wah (薛家華)

Awards
41st TVB Anniversary Awards: My Favorite Female Character - Louise Lee as Chung Siu Hor (2008)
41st TVB Anniversary Awards: My Favorite Male Character - Raymond Lam as Kam Wing Ho (2008)
41st TVB Anniversary Awards: Best Supporting Actress - Tavia Yeung (2008)
41st TVB Anniversary Awards: Best Actress - Michelle Yim (2008)
41st TVB Anniversary Awards: Best Actor - Ha Yu (2008)
41st TVB Anniversary Awards: Best Series (2008)

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Heart of Greeds

Heart of Greed Details
Title: 溏心風暴
Cantonese/Mandarin title: Tong Sam Fung Bo/Tang Xin Feng Bao
English title: Heart of Greed
Genre: Business, drama
Episodes: 40
Broadcast network: TVB
Broadcast period: 2007-Apr-09 to 2007-Jun-01
Air time: Monday to Friday 21:30-22:30
Opening theme song: Can't Say Anything (講不出聲) by Susanna Kwan
Insert song: Decline (心領) by Raymond Lam and Linda Chung
Related TV series: Moonlight Resonance

Heart of Greed Synopsis, Story, Preview

It is a story of a renowned sea-products retailer and a big traditional family, in which there are those who manage to endure to the end, those who consider themselves superior to everyone else, those who love and respect their brothers, those who seek every opportunity to fulfill their ambition, those who stay loyal to their beloved, and those who remain grateful for whatever they get.. -- K for TVB

Heart of Greed Cast and starring
Moses Chan as Tong Chi On 唐至安 / Dak Dak Dei 得得地 / Sai Bao 細鮑
Bosco Wong as Gilbert / Tong Chi Yat 唐至逸
Raymond Lam as Alfred / Ching Leung 程亮
Yoyo Mung as Shui Ming Ha 水明霞 / Sui Mak Mak 水擘擘
Tavia Yeung as Jackie / Cheuk Man Lai 卓文麗
Linda Chung as Sheung Joi Sum 常在心
Michelle Yim as Ling Lei 凌莉
Fala Chen as Tong Chi Yan 唐至欣
Carrie Lam as Lai Cheuk Lan 黎卓蘭 / Cho Bang 草餅
Chris Lai as Tong Chi Foon 唐至歡
Louise Lee as Ling Hau 凌巧 / Dai Kai 大契
Ha Yu as Tong Yan Gai 唐仁佳 / Dai Bao 大鮑
Louis Yuen as Ling Po 凌波
Susanna Kwan as Wong Sau Kam 王秀琴 / Francis / Sai Kai 細契
Cheung Chung Chi as Ronald 楊紹志
Iris Wong as Elsa
Natalie Tong as Angel
Tracy Yip as Cherry
Eddie Lee as Ho Siu Kei 何少基
Fanny Yip as Yuki
Johnson Lee as Wong Ka Wing 黃家榮
Chiu Ching Yee as Emily
Chan Hung Lit as Chan Kwok Lit 陳國烈
Lily Leung as Wong Lai Mei 王麗薇 (Jackie's mother)
Cindy Lee
Oscar Leung

Production Credits
Producer: Lau Ka Ho

Awards
2007 TVB Anniversary Awards: Best Drama
2007 TVB Anniversary Awards: Best Actor (Moses Chan)
2007 TVB Anniversary Awards: Best Actress (Louise Lee)
2007 TVB Anniversary Awards: Best Supporting Actor (Louis Yuen)
2007 TVB Anniversary Awards: Favorite Male Character Award (Moses Chan as Tong Chi On)
2007 TVB Anniversary Awards: Favorite Female Character Award (Susanna Kwan as Wong Sau Kam)

Notes
The drama finale received a high rating of 46 (approx. 3 million viewers) in Hong Kong.

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The Threshold of Persona

The Threshold of Persona Details:
Title: ID 精英
Cantonese/Mandarin title: ID Ching Ying / ID Jing Ying
English title: The Threshold of a Persona
Also known as: 真心英雄 / Cordial Heroes
Genre: Police, action, romance
Episodes: 27 (Hong Kong) / 30 (overseas)
Broadcast network: TVB
Broadcast period: 2009-Jun-01 to 2009-Jul-05
Air time: Monday to Friday 21:30 - 22:30
Opening theme song: Conceal (掩飾) by Roger Kwok and Patrick Tang

The Threshold of Persona Synopsis, Story and Preview
The Immigration Department guards the gateway in and out of Hong Kong. They are tasked to prevent questionable figures and criminals from entering Hong Kong. The immigration officers have a highly demanding task in their hands. However, this tough task raises a question - how can the officers accurately verify the identities of travellers? This is the first TV drama series that revolves around the immigration department.

While applying for a position in the Hong Kong Immigration Department, Fong Chun Kit makes friends with two other candidates; Cheng Pak Yue and Yip On Kei. Pak Yue is an aggressive and ambitious person. he later moves on to the police force and is promoted to Senior Inspector of Regional Crime Unit. While investigating a case, Pak Yue realises that the new triad leader, Wu Kit Sum has murdered someone because of Chun Kit's wife. This revelation has turned Chun Kit's life upside down.

As Chun Kit's good friend, On Kei helps Chun Kit to care for his son. On Kei also suffered a failed relationship with Pak Yue.

The Threshold of Persona Cast and starring :

Fong Family
Lau Kong as Chung Kwok Sing 鍾國誠
Mary Hon as Chan Mei Ping 陳美萍
Roger Kwok as Fong Chun Kit 方浚杰
Ben Wong as Chung Chi Wing 鍾志榮
Toby Leung as Chung Chi Yan 鍾志欣
Claire Yiu as Cheung Si Man 張思敏
Iris Wong as Chiu Lai Man 趙麗文
Tam Jan Yut (譚真一) as Fong Ka Hei 方家希

Yip Family
Ha Ping as Lee Siu Kuen 李少娟
Yoyo Mung as Yip On Kei 葉安琪
Natalie Tong as Yip On Yi 葉安兒
Wong Yeut Nam (王若嵐) as Yip Sze Sze 葉詩詩

Extended Cast
Patrick Tang as Au Shun Fung 歐順風
Raymond Cho as Cheng Pak Yu 鄭柏宇
Kenny Wong as Wu Kit Shum 胡傑琛
John Chiang as Mak Kai Ming 麥啟銘
Power Chan as Leung Chi Lun 梁智倫
Ellesmere Choi as Hon Wing Nin 韓永年
Queenie Chu as Ching Pui Ka 程佩嘉
Shermon Tang as Lee Hiu Man 李曉雯
Chan Chin Pang as Mak Tze Hin 麥子軒
Lee Kwok Lun as Wai Hon To 韋瀚滔
Eric Li as On Hong Cheung 安康祥
Suet Nei as Wong Gwai Ho 黃桂好
Raymond Tsang (曾守明) as Kong Chak Fai 江澤輝
Rebecca Chan

Production Credits
Screenwriter: Choi Ting Ting (蔡婷婷)
Producer: Lo Wing Yin (羅永賢)

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Taiwan Romance Drama My Queen

My Queen Details
Title: 敗犬女王 / Bai Quan Nu Wang
English title: My Queen
Genre: Romance, comedy
Episodes: 21
Broadcast network: TTV / SETTV
Broadcast period: 2009-Jan-04 to 2009-May-31
Air time: Sunday 22:00-23:30
Opening theme song: Mei You Ru Guo (沒有如果) No If's by Fish Leong
Bie Zai Wei Ta Liu Yan Lei (別再為他流淚) Don't Cry For Him Anymore by Fish Leong
Ending theme song: Ai Qing Zhi Suo Yi Wei Ai Qing (愛情之所以為愛情) Love, Because of Love by Fish Leong

My Queen Synopsis, Story, Preview :

Chery Yang is Shan Wu Shuang, a leading female reporter, successful and independent at the 'marriageable' age of 33 years and six months. She works harder than any man in her office and works double hard to make sure she portrays the strong woman that she isn't. After getting hurt from her previous relationship - her boyfriend proposed but disappeared before their wedding day. - she sworn never to get emotional again. Well, that is until she meets Lucas, played by Ethan Ruan as a young 25 year old sporty guy whom runs a website, taking in assignments from dressing up as santa to queuing up for tickets for anyone at a small fee.
They met when Shan Wu Shuang rushes to the office in a bid to win cover page for her minster scandal news report. She grabs his bicycle. Lucas notices and chases after her and that's how the story starts. Accidents happen whenever she's at work and he's always there to save her.
Slowly, Lucas sees throughs Shan Wu Shuang's cold exterior but warm heart and finds himself drawn to her kind nature. And Shan Wu Shuang finds herself falling for this little boy whom takes care of her everytime and seems to be the only one whom sees through her tough exterior. Through him, she learns being weak and admitting it isn't wrong at all.
Will they get past the 8 years age barrier? Would they have a happy ending? Or will Lucas fall for the innocent Han Jia Jia?

My Queen Cast and starring
Ethan Ruan as Lucas 盧卡斯
Cheryl Yang as Shan Wu Shuang 單無雙 (Veronica)
Wen Sheng Hao (溫昇豪) as Song Yun Hao 宋允浩 (Leslie Sung)
Yang Ya Zhu as Han Jia Jia 韓佳佳

Extended Cast
Harry Zhang (張懷秋) as JJ
Song Xin Ni as Lu Guang Lin 陸廣琳
Tony Fish (余炳賢) as Romeo 羅密歐
Amanda Zhu (朱芯儀)as Ye Zhi Qi 葉芝琦 (Gigi)
Ying Wei Min (應蔚民) as Zhang Ruo Ji 張若基 (Rocky)
Patrick Li (李沛旭) as Wei Er Gang 魏爾剛
Christina Lai (賴亭君) as Ma Dan Na 馬丹娜
Zhao Zi Qiang (趙自強) as Zeng Da Fang 曾大方
Chen Wei Min as Ke Meng Han 柯夢寒
Lin Mei Xiu as Shan Lin Chun Zhi 單林春枝
Qu Zhong Heng as Ke You Zheng 柯有正
Ba Yu as Wu Jing Jing 吳晶晶
Huang Yu Rong as Yue Fei 岳非
Han Yi Bang (韓宜邦) as Edison
Alice Ke (柯佳嬿) as Han Xiang Yun 韓向妘
Lin En as Mei Huan 美環
George Zhang (張兆志) as Mr. Tang
Chen Bo Zheng as Xu Zi Mo 徐自摩
Chen Yan Zhuang (壯壯/陳彥壯) as Hotel Manager
Rachel Fu (傅天穎) as Da Tou Ting 大頭婷
Zhong Xin Ling as Da Du Yi 大肚怡
Zhang Qin Yan (張沁妍) as Chloe
Chen Mu Yi (陳慕義) as Auto mechanic
Wang Dao as Lu Tian Cheng 盧天成
Lu Man Yin (呂曼茵) as Man Yin Jie
Di Qiu as Lucas' classmate
Jing Wong as Xiao Shen 小沈
Fish Leong as DJ

Production Credits
Producer: Fang Xiao Ren 方孝仁
Director: Lin Qing Zhen
Screenwriter: Chen Yu San / Du Xin Yi 杜欣怡 / Zeng Yong Ting 曾詠婷 / Wu Zhi Wei 吳至偉 / Gong Min Hui 龔敏惠

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Hongkong Romance Drama Just Love II

Just Love II Details
Title: 老婆大人 ii
Cantonese/Mandarin title: Lo Po Dai Yun 2/ Lao Po Da Ren 2
English title: Just Love
Genre: Romance, comedy
Broadcast network: TVB
Total Episodes: 25 episodes
Aired Dates: May 4 to June 5, 2009
Time Slot: Mondays to Fridays, 8.30pm
Channel: Astro Channel 901

Just Love II Synopsis, story and preveiw :
Career-minded magistrate KO HEI MAN (Hsuan Jessica Hester) gains full support from her loyal husband KOT KWOK KWONG (Chan Kam Hung, Sunny) so that she is able to concentrate fully on her works. At court, MAN strongly believes that everyone is equal before the law and she tackles every challenge confidently. At home, she never bothers about the household duties which are all taken by husband and any complaints filed by mother-in-law. MAN just takes things for granted but fate continuously to convince her that law cannot be applied to every situation.

MAN feels sympathized with HO SAU SAU (Tang Lai Ming, Joyce) who suffers from slight mental disorders. Trying to help, MAN allows her to come into her family but this creates an opportunity for SAU to replace MAN's role as a wife and a mother completely. KWONG is seriously injured during a car accident. His relative KOT TAK WAN (Lee Sze Chit) lectures KWONG how to fight against MAN and this leads to serious communication breakdown between the couple. Swindler HO SHI FU (Hui Shiu Hung) appears in MAN's life as a hopeless villain from the lower class but he is in fact the father of a senior official.

"Just Love II" is a story about law and human nature. How would the couple tide over the difficulties?

Just Love II Cast and starring :

Kot Family
Sunny Chan as Kot Kwok Kwong 葛國光
Johnson Lee as Kot Duk Wun 葛德雲 (Vincent)
Natalie Tong as Kot Bo Yee 葛寶怡 (Bowie)
Casper Chan as Kot Bo Bui 葛寶貝
Lui Shang (呂珊) as Chung Ding Ying 鍾綻英

Ko Family
Jessica Hsuan as Ko Hei Man 高希敏
Felix Lok as Go Tin 高天
Chan Ka Yee as Yip Wai Kuen 葉惠娟 (Diana)

Leung Family
Patrick Tang as So Nga Gei 蘇亞基 (AK)
Selena Li as Leung Yun Yun 梁昕昕 (Yoyo)
Lily Leung (梁舜燕)
Kong Hon

Extended Cast
Benz Hui as Ho Si Fu 何時富
Joyce Tang as Ho Sau Sau 何秀秀
Jacky Wong as Ho Ming 何明
Mandy Wong (黃智雯) as Ng Hoi Tung 伍凱彤
Carlo Ng as Ho Sei Hei 何四喜
Ken Wong (王凱韋) as Wong Chi Kin 黃志堅
Law Ho Gai (羅浩楷) as Fong Sun Sum 方燊森
Ram Tseung as Lok Zoi Saan 樂在山
Koo Ming Wah (古明華) as Kot But Ching 葛畢清
Wai Ka Hung (韋家雄) as Law Ho Kei 羅浩祈
Gill Mohindepaul Singh as Ap Ba Deen 鴨巴甸
Wan Yu Hung (溫裕紅) as Ng Fong Daan Sum 吳方丹心

Production Credits
Producer: Chong Wai Kin (莊偉建)
Editor: Wong Kwok Fai (黃國輝)

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