staged by the New Voice Opera Troupe of Yam and then adapted for a film (released 5 March 1950) starring Tang's close personal friend Luo Pinchao. Yam also released a vocal recording of the theme song with a well-known vocalist as the female lead. In total, Tang directed nine films and acted in four of them. His first script for film production was The Tolling Bell (1940) with the help of Ng Cho-fan who in 1989 described how sick Tang looked the afternoon before collapsing in the Lee Theatre. Career Tang started out as in-law of the Sit household. Tang's rise from modesty to greatness went through a process generally taken to have three stages of remarkable improvements. Initial stage Ng Cho-fanUpon the divorce in 1941/2, Tang started working mostly with Chan Kam Tong (1906-1981) (陳錦棠) to make ends meet. Chan, the first student of Sit, voted as champion among young warriors by the audience in 1950s, is on record his most frequent customer. There is only one title Red Silk Shoes and The Murder, with no fighting scene at all, Tang wrote for Chan in 1957 is still popular today. Intermediate stage The end of Second Sino-Japanese War started the busiest decade, until films took over, of 1900s in Hong Kong and SE Asia as a whole for Cantonese opera. When Tang's work still had plenty of room for improvement, the vocal performances (and fighting scenes which were few and far between in Tang's work) made a big difference. His preference to work with, actresses as female leads over top-billed male leads, were Fong and Hung. His archrival was husband of an actress who is famous for mostly fighting scenes although she was also known by fellow performers as great old-school vocalist as Lady White Snake. Fong and Hung vocal styles were both new creations at the time. The two camps each had a usual venue on opposite side of the HK harbor. Tang worked with musicians/composers below (See .) regularly in 1950s. Only some names are available in English. Except the Chu brothers and those who had already died, they talked about Tang on radio shows in 1980s. 王粵生 (1919–1989) Wong Yue Sang 林兆鎏 (1917–1979) Lam Siu Lau 吳一嘯 (1906–1964) Ng Yat Siu 朱毅剛 (1922–1981) Chu Ngai Kong, brothers 朱兆祥 (1926–1986) Chu Siu Cheung, brothers 劉兆榮 (1923–2001) Lau Siu Wing 黎浪然 (?–2007) Langran Li (Li was family name)