Phoenix Rising (TV series)

Phoenix Rising 蘭花劫
Genre	Period Drama
Starring	Louisa So Sunny Chan Kristal Tin Leila Tong Jack Wu
Opening theme	"蘭花劫" by Kelly Chen
Country of origin	Hong Kong
Original language(s)	Cantonese
No. of episodes	20
Production
Producer(s)	Terry Tong
Running time	45 minutes (approx.)
Broadcast
Original channel	TVB
Original airing	Warehoused
External links
Website

Phoenix Rising (Traditional Chinese: 蘭花劫) is a TVB period drama series released overseas in July 2007 and aired on TVB Pay Vision Channel in March 2008.The drama received the well from the viewer in international broadcast. The show has been compared to 1989's hit drama, Looking Back In Anger.^[1]

The Series also released in 2 January 2009 on Cambodia cable TV, PPCTV as the last country in showing it.

Plot

Crystal, Louisa, and Leila are sisters. Their parents died at birth, so the three of them were sent to orphanages and were later adopted into three different homes with different backgrounds. Louisa was sent to prison for killing her stepmother, but Crystal, wanting to save her sister, told officials that she was the one who committed the crime and went to prison instead. Leila is a very kind person and forges evidence to save Crystal but gets caught and gets sent to jail, too. The three sisters and the jail owner have some hostilities; thus, the jail owner wants revenge. This series uses women in jail as its storyline, describing the dark side of women in prison.

Cast

References

External links

• TVB.com Phoenix Rising - Official Website (Chinese)
• K for TVB.net Phoenix Rising - Episodic Synopsis and Screen Captures (English)