Glittering Days (Traditional Chinese: 東方之珠) is a TVB period drama series broadcast in November 2006, starring Roger Kwok, Charmaine Sheh, Liza Wang and Susanna Kwan as the main leads. The series is shown to celebrate TVB's 39th Anniversary.
The plot takes place post 1967 to early 1970s. While the story is fictional, the atmosphere replicates the mandopop club scene in Hong Kong. The series played a number of mandopop songs that originated from Taiwan. As much of the Hong Kong club scenes were heavily dominated by mandopop music, many of the sets and TV charity shows were televised at the time, and recreated for the series.
Synopsis
Chu Siu-Kiu (Susanna Kwan) plays a former renowned Shanghai singer along with Gam Yin (Liza Wang) that make the "Three Golden Flowers". In the description of the story, World War II broke out at that time, Gam Yin was separated from her son. Years later, Gam Yin was a teacher for a singing group in a Hong Kong bar. The prominent singer of the time, Ling Fung (Roger Kwok) and Gam Yin meet, but they do not get along at all. Every time they meet, something happens, whether it was an argument or a fight.
Chu Yuk-Lan (Charmaine Sheh) is Ling Fung's childhood friend who has a crush on him ever since they were so young. She makes her way out of the village side to find him, but there is something with her voice. When they first meet, Lan is from a walled village in the New Territories and seems woefully uneducated and naive about everything. Lan starts off as Gam Yin's student. Due to Ling Fung's pride, the two have difficulty getting together, with Ling Fung's singing career in the middle.
Wah Long (Evergreen Mak)'s wife, Hung Hang Gyun (Hong Wah) is a big fan of Ling Fung. Due to Law Wai's greediness, he kept on hinting to Gyun about Fung's love to her, hoping she can sponsor Fung and take the money from it. Gyun would actually believe Wai and decided to have an elopement with Fung to escape her abusive husband. Fung would eventually be confused and rejected her which resulted Gyun committing suicide. Before her death, Yin noticed her conversation with Fung and mistakenly thought Fung was the murderer by pushing her off from a building. Yin would secretly report it to Wah Long, causing him wanting to kill Fung. After Fung's performance at Wah Long's stationed police station, he was eventually brutally beaten up by Wah Long's men and was sent to the hospital. Wai was filled with regrets and told the entire story to Fung, causing him to be furious at him. He told Wai to tell the truth to the reporters which the latter agreed but made a lie to them and ran away after seeing Wah Long, knowing that he would be killed if he tells the truth.
Soon, the media would eventually call out Ling Fung as a swindler of love and money, causing him to experience a reverse of fortune. Ling Fung can no longer continue working in the musical world as he was fired from Pearl of the Orient. Fung then joined Lai Tak where Wai was working at but Wah Long and his men came to mess with him daily and Wai afraid that his career at Lai Tak would be over taken by his brother, he decided tp frame him on multiple occasions and no longer sees Fung as his brother anymore. Fung would eventually escape Shanghai to Temple Street and fake his identity as an Indian and became a worker at a fruit stall there. However he would be fired from his job and brutally beaten again by his boss and co-workers after speaking fluent Cantonese to them to find the pearl that Lan gave him. He would be saved by Ting Ling, the city manager for Temple Street.
Ling would bring Fung back to her place where he meets her daughter Wan Jau, who easily noticed him as Ling Fung. Fung denies her claims with his fake Indian accent as he does not want anyone to remember his former identity and Jau decided to call him "Little Black Brother". After knowing he is actually Fung, Ling invited him to be part of her band's street performance but he declined to prevent the folks in Temple Street noticing his identity and preventing Wah Long to come find him. Fung decided to help Ling's band selling sugar cane.