Hung moved to Hong Kong during World War II which would be the beginning of her golden years.

She played alongside Ma Si Tsang, her then husband and well-known Cantonese opera singer and actor in productions including The Spoiled Brat and Her Groom, Bitter Phoenix, Sorrowful Oriole and Wang Zhaojun Marries beyond the Great Wall.

[2] Hung's notable films include The Judge Goes to Pieces, A Mother's Tears, Everlasting Love, Wilderness, The Pretty Tigress, Searching the School and Guan Hanqing.

[2] In 1955, Hung gave up her career in Hong Kong and joined the Guangdong Cantonese Opera Troupe in mainland on invitation by Premier Zhou Enlai, where she performed until 1961.

After the death of Mao Zedong, Hung slowly re-emerged to the Cantonese opera scene, but she appeared in two films in 1990 and 2009 before her career came a close.

Hung married twice, first to well-known Cantonese opera actor Ma Si-tsang from 1944 to 1955 and then to a writer Hua Shan from 1970 to his death in 1985.