Ten Brothers (TVB)
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| Ten Brothers (十兄弟) |
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| Genre | Period Comedy |
| Starring | Frankie Lam Kenix Kwok |
| Opening theme | "十指緊扣" by Frankie Lam & Kenix Kwok |
| Country of origin | Hong Kong |
| Language(s) | Cantonese |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
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| Running time | approx. 45 minutes |
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| Original channel | Television Broadcasts Limited |
| Original run | February 12, 2007 – March 9, 2007 |
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Ten Brothers (Chinese: 十兄弟) is a 20 episode TV sitcom produced by TVB of Hong Kong released on February 12, 2007. It is loosely based on the Chinese mythology of the same name.
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[edit] Story
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The story begins with a poor man named Chan Dai Ha who sells Chinese desserts and falls in love with an unmarried, wealthy girl named Gei Hao Yee. One day, when Dai Ha is going home, he sees a man carrying something, fall down from the sky. He asks him if he is okay, but the man runs away. Each time Dai Ha tries to help Hao Yee, he does something wrong and angers her instead. One day, Hao Yee and her servant falls down a hill and he saves them. Without thanking him, she shouts at him and mistakenly drinks the soup with the ten magical beans in it. The magical beans made her pregnant so the next day, the doctor said she was pregnant, but because there was a law in her town that she cannot become pregnant before marriage, the villagers gets angry and wants her to be punished. Since she was living with her father, they decided to break the relationship between them and execute Hao Yee. When Dai Ha knows about it, he tells the villagers that he is the father, so Hao Yee does not need to be executed now. Dai Ha brings her to his small house and sleeps on the ground himself. At first, Hao Yee is angry with him, but soon they get along better. One day, their ten babies are born. Together, they both raise the children, but the next month, they all became adults except for one of them, Number Ten. Since the parents are scared of their adult sons, they ignore them and runs away. The children run around town, causing trouble while Number Two and Number Three are adopted by the evil warlord Man Sai Hung's wife, who doesn't want her husband to know that their real sons died. Dai Ha finds the children and secretly give them food. Soon, the town misunderstood them and decides to kill the brothers. Hao Yee and Dai Ha says that they're their parents so the only choice was to leave, so they did. Four and Ten were sold to a circus whose leader was extremely strict and ruled harshly. Nine was sold to a richer family. The sons were taught by their mother, and Number One, who was the most mature, helped Dai Ha on his business on selling desserts. Soon, they find out they have powers, but did not want their parents to know. All of a sudden one day, they all receive a sickness.In the circus, the leader earns a lot of money because Number Four could stretch out his arms and legs. The customers always paid the leader to make fun of him. Meanwhile, Number One went blind, Number Five grew wings on his back, Number Six's head grew very big, and Number Seven's legs grew extremely long. Only Number Eight didn't have any sicknesses. One day, their sicknesses were cured and instead, they found their powers. They wanted their family to be united, so they tried many ways to find their missing siblings. They got back Four, Nine, and Ten, but Two and Three were spoiled by the warlord.They did not know who their real parents were. When they soon reunite, the warlord is jealous of the ten brothers and wants to kill them.The Ten Brothers tries their best to evict the warlord. When everything is settled and the warlord is evicted, a mysterious white-haired man appears in Number One's visions and says that brothers will have to die on August 15 if they do not leave with him. Number One does not trust him, but soon he does. When the parents find out about the prophecy, on August 15, they send away their children. The parents are very sad, but it is not possible for their children to stay. So on the night of August 15, the brothers are sent away to the white-haired man, except Ten starts crying and says that something will happen to their mother. The other siblings have learned that whenever Ten cries for no apparent reason, something will happen. One and Two use their abilities to check in on their mother, and are horrified to see that Hao Yee is dying. The white-haired man tells them that she is dying because she gave birth to ten magical sons - them - and their powers were too strong for Hao Yee for her to survive for much longer. The brothers are told that the only way to save their mother is to become beans again, and the brothers sacrifice themselves to save Hao Yee's life. Five years later on August 15 (Mid-Autumn Festival), Dai Ha and Hao Yee give birth to a son, whom they call Eleven. They look up to the sky and see ten stars, and they tell Eleven to say hello to his ten elder brothers. Although the modern version is the most well known, the old version of the story was about the evil warlord of their town capturing their father. They had to save their father and in order to do that, they had to unite and work together as a team. The 10 brothers' weakness is limestone and they are not able to use their own powers if they come in contact with it until they wash themselves with oil.
[edit] Controversy of Finale
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In the series finale, actor Felix Lok ad-libbed one of his lines, and replaced one of the words in the line with a corresponding English one.[citation needed]. Although such intermittent replacement of Chinese words with its counterparts in English are common in the last 10-20 years, such practice are unheard of during the time this series is set in, and, in most circumstances, unlikely, considering the (supposedly) non-existent knowledge of English for the characters. TVB was ridiculed by the public as a result of allowing such sloppy production slip by.[verification needed]
[edit] Cast
- Frankie Lam as Chan Dai Ha (陳大蝦)
- Kenix Kwok as Hao Yee (紀巧兒)
- Ellesmere Choi
- Chris Lai as "Thousand Mile Eye One"
- Jack Wu as "Strong Three"
- Leila Tong as Siu Lan
- Don Li as "Stretchy Four"
- Nancy Wu as Tung Tung
- Liu Kai Chi as Warlord Man Sai Hung
- Nicky Law as "Flying Five"
- Matt Yeung as "Long-Legged Seven"
- James Lam as "Miles Hearing Two"
- Kwok Jing as "Iron Head Six"
- Russell Cheung "Digging Eight"
- Yip Wai as "Big Mouth Nine"
- Jaffery Wong "Crying Ten"
[edit] TV ratings
- Week 1: Ten Brothers (EPS 01 - 05) - 29 PTS
- Week 2: Ten Brothers (EPS 06 - 10) - 27 PTS
- Week 3: Ten Brothers (EPS 11 - 15) - 34 PTS ( Peaking At 37 PTS )
- Week 4: Ten Brothers (EPS 16 - 20 - Ending) - 36 PTS (Peaking At 39 PTS)
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