Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?

A poor army veteran in Taiwan adopts a daughter. She grows up and leaves him to enter show business. When she becomes famous she shuns her father and friends.

Cast

Linda Liu

as Mei

Sun Yueh

as Uncle Ya

Ng Siu-Gong

as Shih Chun Mai

Lee Lichun

as Ah Man

Hsiao Hou Tao

as Ah Kun

Chin Pin

as Chih Lan

Su Chu

as Ya's neighbor

Kong Ha

as Mrs Man

Chan Kai-Jun

as Ya's neighbor

Jue Fung-Gong

as Soldier/Ya's neighbor

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