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Phoenix Rising (TV series)

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Genre
  
Period Drama

Country of origin
  
Hong Kong

No. of episodes
  
20

Opening theme
  
"蘭花劫" by Kelly Chen

Original language(s)
  
Cantonese

Starring
  
Louisa So Sunny Chan Kristal Tin Leila Tong Jack Wu

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 was well received from the viewer in international broadcast. The show has been compared to 1989's hit drama, Looking Back In Anger.

The Series was subsequently released on 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.

References

Phoenix Rising (TV series) Wikipedia