The song would also become one of the top 10 songs awarded in the 1980 RTHK Gold songs awards. It was one of the early collaborations composed by Joseph Koo with the lyrics by Wong Jim.
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The series eponymous theme song, The Bund ( 上海灘) was performed by Frances Yip.
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However, Hui is not interested in gang affairs as he is eager to find Ching-ching and patch up with her. Hui and Ting cooperate and manage to form the most powerful gang in the Shanghai underworld. Ting sets them up for a game of Russian roulette in which Hui emerges victorious.Ĭhing-ching is unable to forgive Hui for killing her father and she leaves China for France. Hui wants to kill Fung and asks Ting to help him.
His depression ignites the anger in him and increases his thirst for revenge. Hui suffers an emotional breakdown due to the loss of his family, and after seeing that his ex-lover is about to marry his best friend. After Ting is seriously injured on one occasion, Ching-ching agrees to marry him. During Hui's absence, Ting begins to court Ching-ching. He also tells Ching-ching that they can never be together. Through many successful manoeuvres, Hui assists Nip in crippling Fung financially and politically. Hui becomes an adviser to Nip Yan-wong, Fung's main rival. After learning that Fung's men had murdered his family, Hui swears vengeance on Fung and returns to Shanghai to take his revenge. Unknown to them, Fung's men had secretly followed them and they kill Hui's family while he was out. Hui then brings her home to show her his family. She meets Hui there but refuses to believe him when he tells her he is already married. Meanwhile, in Shanghai, Ching-ching is unable to accept the news of Hui's death so she visits Hong Kong when she hears rumours that Hui is still alive there. Hui fakes his death to evade Fung's men and settles in Hong Kong, where he marries So Wong-tai, starts a new life with her family, and opens a small restaurant. On account of their friendship, Ting secretly helps Hui escape from Shanghai. Furious upon learning of Hui's betrayal, Fung sends his men to hunt down and kill Hui. Hui eventually decides to help the Ching-mou School and he kills a Japanese spy, Yamaguchi Kaoriko, in a gunfight. He enters a dilemma on whether to side with Ching-mou School or turn against Fung. Later, Hui discovers that Fung is collaborating with secret agents from the Japanese right-wing Black Dragon Society to destroy the Ching-mou School, a Chinese martial arts school committed to defending China from foreign aggression.
Hui and Ting then join Fung's bigger gang for protection. Ching-ching falls in love with Hui.Īfter Ting kills a rival in a personal dispute over a woman, other gangs attack Hui and Ting and destroy their small-time gang. Fung wants Hui to work for him but Hui refuses. He also builds up a good relationship with Fung King-yiu, a wealthy tycoon and gang boss, after saving Fung's daughter, Ching-ching, who had been taken hostage. He invites Ting to be his partner after seizing an important position in a small-time gang. He decides to make a fresh start in Shanghai, where he meets and befriends Ting Lik, a fruit vendor. Hui Man-keung is a Yenching University graduate who served three years in prison for participating in the May Fourth Movement. The theme song, which shares the same Chinese title as the series and was performed by Frances Yip, also became a memorable Cantopop hit. It is praised as " The Godfather of the East" and spawned two sequels, two remakes, and a film adaptation. The Bund is a Hong Kong period drama television series first broadcast on TVB in 1980.
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