Uncle Deaf
A crazy white scientist resurrects a corpse with a werid chemical creating a super hopping ghost. The only thing that can somewhat control it is the sound of music. A Tao Priest and his two assistants try and stop it from destroying the countryside.
Developer Tsang Siu-Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung has secured the other two properties. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.
Old Master
Two ghostexterminators have been married for many years. But they encounter a ghost they can not manage on their own and therefore ask the wife's old boyfriend for help. This leads to a love triangle while the ghost is stronger than they had imagined.
Richy Suen
Confirmed bachelor Man Suen, a university professor, must get married by the age of 35 otherwise he and his playboy brother Ray Suen won't inherit his father's fortune of 50 million dollars which will then go to his uncle. He is unaware that his colleague, the prim Miss Cheung, is in love with him and that she dreams of being rescued by her super-costumed hero. His brother has met a young heiress and his uncle has hired a sexy siren to prevent his marriage. This is the setting for the three lead actresses to display a surprising amount of softcore nudity and they are very attractive eye candy
The final entry in Michael and Johnny Mak's Long Arm of the Law series, Underground Express once again tells a story of gangsters versus police, focusing on the difference between how both factions act depending if they're coming from Hong Kong or Mainland China. There's some decent action that delivers a high body count, but the rushed production and editing that was obviously and clumsily done to avoid a Category III rating regulates this to being just another average Hong Kong cops and robbers flick.
Old employee
A rivalry between two brothers causes chaos through out the business world. Can the good brother defeat his greedy elder brother at his own game? Only Wong Jing and his usual cronies can sort out this mess with hysterical results and oddball humor
Uncle Shih
A cross between Rear Window and The Blues Brothers! A group of gossipy neighbours witness a murder through an open window. Dopey mainland cop Lo Yau Dai investigates by going in undercover as a new tenant.
Beautiful Wan Wen Zheng plays a ghost bent on revenge. Originally killed while being raped, she gives supernatural fighting powers to a Kung Fu boxerin this rather slow, atmospheric, serious film.
Ma's Business Partner
A wealthy businessman gives his wife everything she wants, besides one thing, a passionate sex life. The sexually frustrated woman soon gets into several other relationships and soon also learns why her husband is so uninterested with her in bed.
Shiyu's teacher
Fong es un rebelde estudiante de Kung Fu que siempre se mete en problemas con los manchúes. Para evitar problemas mayores, su madre, con la ayuda del monje San Te, ingresa a Fong y sus dos hermanos en el templo de Shaolin. Fong es castigado a menudo por San Te y por ello se escapa la noche del Festival de la Linterna para provocar alborotos. El gobernador manchú se queda muy impresionado con su kung fu y prepara un plan para descubrir el secreto de Shaolin. (FILMAFFINITY)
Teacher
In The Master Strikes Back, Hong Kong's Steadicam pioneering director Sun Chung brings back legendary Ti Lung to play famous weapons instructor Tung Tieh-cheng, who is invited to teach a Ching official's soldiers, in this unofficial sequel to The Kung-fu Instructor. But after his son is kidnapped and castrated what follows is a chaotic, human whirlwind of slicing and dicing compliments of the highly touted martial arts director and one of Jackie Chan's kung-fu classmates, Yuan Te.
Bank clerk
Un joven aprende kung fu gracias a un profesor alcohólico mientras un plan para eliminarlo es llevado a cabo a sus espladas.
Official Wang Yun
Secret Service of the Imperial Court was one of the last kung fu/swordplay films to be made at Hong Kong's Shaw Bros. studio. Set in the Ming Dynasty, it makes excellent use of the studio's vast array of sprawling sets and colorful costumes to give a real period flavor. It has a good cast, lots of large-scale fight action and an exciting storyline about a conflict between an honorable officer and a corrupt Eunuch.
Taking place in 1941, Love in a Fallen City centers on Pai, a young woman who has been ostracized by her family for divorcing her rich husband. A local match-maker, Mrs. Hsu, takes pity on Pai and decides to bring her to Hong Kong, under the guise of employing her as the Hsu's nanny, but in reality to introduce her to Fan. Pai and Fan seem to hit it off, but Fan's refusal to marry Pai soon sours things. However, as the Japanese begin to invade Hong Kong, the two begin to realize their true feelings for each other.
Pai's family servant
Taking place in 1941, Love in a Fallen City centers on Pai, a young woman who has been ostracized by her family for divorcing her rich husband. A local match-maker, Mrs. Hsu, takes pity on Pai and decides to bring her to Hong Kong, under the guise of employing her as the Hsu's nanny, but in reality to introduce her to Fan. Pai and Fan seem to hit it off, but Fan's refusal to marry Pai soon sours things. However, as the Japanese begin to invade Hong Kong, the two begin to realize their true feelings for each other.
Restaurant boss
Tou Kuan, a spoiled affluent kid, travels with pal Mai Song to Beijing to challenge 3 Masters to improve Kuan's status. Along the way, they contend with inept assassins hired by Kuan's uncle, who wants the family business and fortune.
Innkeeper
El general Yang y sus siete hijos parten hacia el monte Yinsha para defender la frontera, pero sufren una emboscada y sólo sobreviven dos de sus hijos. Uno de los hermanos pierde la cabeza al presenciar como su padre y sus hermanos son masacrados, mientras el otro decide vengarse de los causantes de la muerte de su familia. Mientras trama su venganza, conoce a un antiguo general que le hace ver que no está preparado para enfrentarse al traidor y que debe esperar al momento adecuado para llevar a cabo sus planes.
Villager
A small town is protected by one of the famous Ten Tigers of Kwangtung. The town is very safe as Ti Lung and his Kung Fu students patrol for criminals. Enter the rival Kung Fu school whom Ti Lung's students have beaten in a lion dance competition and then humiliated in a brawl. The rival school is joined by an opium dealing Kung Fu master who plans to turn the town into a community of addicts!
Guest at Fong's home
Un taxista de Hong Kong es maldecido tras casi atropellar a un hechicero perseguido por una turba, después de ser sorprendido profanando tumbas. Tras este encontronazo, el improvisado cliente le advierte que se ha cruzado con la magia negra que él mismo practica y que a partir de ese momento su vida puede dar un drástico cambio, augurando inexplicables acontecimientos que le perjudicaran a él y a su familia.
Wang's informer
A hot-head cop, a by-the-books cop, and a hitman all vie to take down a drug boss. Meanwhile, a gang of criminals plan to rob an armored truck.
Guardian of the Law
Yun Fei Yang is the viciously bullied orphan who takes on the unpleasant tasks at a formidable kung-fu school. Constantly mocked by the other students of the school, Yen counts as his only friend the daughter of the resident master. Any internal wrangling between the various members is put to one side when a swordsman from a rival clan reminds the master of the duel he must take part in once a decade. Unfortunately the defending clan chief is well aware that his rival is more powerful than himself. The expected defeat is further complicated when a wandering swordsman arrives on the scene and joins himself to the injured party, immediately adding to Yen's woes.
Mrs Lei's neighbour
Heralded as the funniest Hong Kong comedy of the early 1980s, this was Shaw Brothers' most popular film of 1983. Alfred Cheung Kin-Ting (who created and produced Jackie Chan's "Highbinders") won the Hong Kong Film Best Screenplay Award for this delightful comedy of modern manners. As director, he also guided co-star Ceclilia Yip Tung to a Best Actress award. Watch for teenage Anita Mui Yim Fong, just beginning her road to superstardom, in the supporting role of the philandering husband's mistress! shaw production
Master Liu and Master Law are rival masters of Shaolin style kung fu, and Wudang style sword fighting, running schools in the same city. Their top students, Chao Fung-wu, and Hung Jun-kit, are actually close friends. After observing the two students fighting at a brothel, the Lord determines that the two styles are dangerous, and he must learn both.
Tu, the Snake Catcher
This internationally popular tale of a brother and sister seeking vengeance for the death of their parents through the mythical yin/yang Holy Flame technique is an eye-filling epic. Kuo Chue (a.k.a. Philip Kwok), famous as the star of Chang Cheh's internationally famous "Venom" film series, both co-stars and choreographs this impressive tale - leading to a vaunted "action director" career with both the 007 thriller Tomorrow Never Dies and the cult classic Brotherhood of the Wolf to his credit.
Wah Chaing Martial Arts Ass. member
Wong Hsia Yuan is an old-fashioned martial arts master who's so behind the times that he'd rather his school be destroyed than change its ways. He may get his wish, thanks to the young, beautiful, intelligent Chan Mei Ling, who arrives from the states to open a new branch of the school. Armed with an unfamiliar, modern way of thinking, Mei Ling goes about recruiting new students in strange, and sometimes questionably legal ways. Yuan is furious, but when the local triads enter the picture, the two put their differences aside to take back the neighborhood.
Drunkard at UFO site
This is an extremely rare example of science fiction, Hong Kong style, but, fittingly, it's unlike any sci-fi flick you've ever seen. Alien abductions, suicide pacts, superstardom, and the reality of science fiction itself is spotlighted in this bright, crazy, truly out of this world epic -- one of the more unusual movies in the Hong Kong cinema of the early 1980s. And if you know 80's Hong Kong cinema at all, you know that's really saying something!
Taoist Priest
Chang is known for his lone swordsman and hero movies and strangely The Weird Man still reflects this. Cheng plays a righteous, beheaded priest with supernatural powers that returns from the dead to wreak havoc against one of the corrupt kingdoms, making Cheng a heroic swords-ghost.
Temple keeper
Here Chang Siu Tai is the son of Master Chang, a renowned chiropractor bone-setter operating a clinic in a poor neighborhood in an unidentified city in early 20th century China. Siu Tai works for his father and studies bone-setting and kung fu under him, but gets into lots of trouble, especially after white foreigners and their westernized Chinese enablers descend on the town in hopes of acquiring a valuable statue of the Goddess of Mercy on display at a local Buddhist temple.
Minister Huang
Chan Chiao, también conocido como The Cat (Adam Cheng) y Pai Yu-tang, también conocido como The Rat (Alexander Fu Sheng) compiten en varios duelos extravagantemente coreografiados antes de darse cuenta de que deben buscar el juicio de su maestro (Lau Kar-wing). Los decepciona al dictaminar que sus habilidades son perfectamente iguales, luego es tan imparcial que le da a la Rata una espada de nueve anillos que puede usar para derrotar al Gato, y le da al Gato una lanza para derrotar la espada que acaba de darle. La rata. Unos cuantos concursos más resultan en lazos antes de que comience una trama secundaria que involucra un precioso sello de jade propiedad del Emperador Yung Hsi (Gordon Lau) y los ladrones para robarlo. Esto, finalmente, es lo que obliga al Gato y la Rata a trabajar juntos y superar su rivalidad.
Old Master Lin
This delightful action comedy came out a full two years before Ghostbusters premiered. Coincidence? You be the judge. Whatever the inspiration, nothing can compare to this amazing showcase of wushu and wizardry as one of the best all-star fighting casts take on spectres, spirits, and phantoms as well as each other.
Old Tsui
Un artesano psicótico enfrenta a dos samuráis rivales, al tiempo que diseña linternas especiales que causan perturbación.
Ban Xian
Story revolves around a possessed young police woman who seems to be out killing everyone who gets in her way. Her boyfriend, photographer and boss at work are all suspicious of her and are out to find out what's the problem. With a story focusing on possession, vengeful spirits and murder, you're steadily entertained with a flick that manages to keep it's head above water.
Priest Wang
Guo Jing and Huang Rong return to Peach Blossom Island and are shocked to see that Guo's first martial arts teachers, the "Seven Freaks of Jiangnan", have all been murdered except for Ke Zhen'e. Guo Jing is tricked into believing that Huang Rong's father, Huang Yaoshi, is responsible for the murders and he attempts to avenge his teachers by fighting Huang Yaoshi. The intelligent Huang Rong eventually uncovers the truth and reveals that the murders are actually part of a plot masterminded by Ouyang Feng and Yang Kang. Ouyang and Yang want to make Guo Jing and Huang Yaoshi kill each other and Yang can learn Ouyang's newly mastered skills from the fake copy of the Nine Yin Manual.
School clerk
Novice director Hsu Hsia and three other kung-fu designers created this fight-filled tale of young rascal Wang Yu, caught between master martial arts actor Jen Shih-kuan and the incredible Huang Cheng-li.
Chief Eunuch Li Lien Ying
Legendary Weapons of China is a martial arts fantasy film taking place during the late Qing Dynasty when Empress Dowager Cixi dispatches her agents to various factions of the Boxer Rebellion in order find supernatural martial artists that are invulnerable to western bullets. When one of the leaders of these groups disbands his forces, assassins from the remaining factions are sent out to kill him.
Uncle Wong
Hell may have no fury like a woman scorned, but hell, literally, really has no wrath like a lusting ghost scorned! Muscular "Venom" Lo Mang discovers just that when the demon arranges to have his true love killed in order to possess her. Chaos, revenge, insanity, violence, tragedy, and even romance ensue. Director Kuei Chih-hung, already famous for Bamboo House of Dolls, Killer Snakes, Ghost Eyes, Corpse, Hex, and many other cult classics, shoots the works with this amazing horror love story.
Butler Uncle Quan
13 family members are murdered and then dumped in a well. 30 years later their descendants are cursed...
Bank customer
Tres oficiales descubren que la corrupción campa a sus anchas entre el departamento, la magistratura y los carceleros. El precio para mantenerse fieles a sus principios será alto.
Quiz Host Wu Shou Xin
Spoiled Yuen Si Si, the naive daughter of an affluent merchant, lives her cosseted life dreaming of meeting her idol, the heroic Qin Ge. When her father decides to marry her off, she runs away in search of Qin Ge, with her fiancee in pursuit. What she doesn't realise though is that her kung-fu skills are not what she thinks they are and that the outside world is far less chivalrous that she expected.
Brothel clerk
Wong Fei Hung and his friend are constantly having contests to see who has the better martial arts skill. After getting in trouble with their fathers, Wong Fei Hung settles down and starts to train seriously, while his friend still horses around. After his friend is hurt by a rival school, Wong goes to the school for retribution. Instead his skill is tested through a series of events which climax with him taking on a Northern martial artist. In an excellent battle of skill, he earns the respect of the rival school. Also stars Mai Te Lo and Hui Ying Hung.
Shan Peng
A young boy betrays his family who hides a refugee and tells the pursuer where the hiding-place is - just because he wants a valuable telescope for reward. His father decides to kill the boy in order to restore the honor of the family.
Uncle Chiu
A fascinating crime saga of a Sino-Vietnamese crime gang. Danny Lee stars as a misunderstood refugee while Ray Lui plays a cop struggling against his own preconceptions to make sure that justice is done.
Zeng's Butler
A story of a coffin maker who tells a story about a policeman who was murdered by his wife and her lover. Eventually released constable loose of some grave robbers, the constables ghost is out to make the lives of all those involved in his death miserable. (A Shaw Brothers production)
Uncle Muk Shon
La historia comienza con el exilio de un muchacho que crece para cumplir su destino como un gran guerrero. Después de su padre, un leal Han y héroe, es traicionado por el emperador y condenado a muerte, Yuan Chengzhi se se esconde en el refugio del maestro solitario de la escuela Lung Yau las artes marciales. Después de haber crecido hasta convertirse en un joven hombre justo de una considerable habilidad marcial, Yuan se establece por su cuenta
Prison warden
The movie is about an illegal salt smuggling ring run by Tanny and her male partner, who spend most of the movie arguing which one of them is going to sacrifice him/herself and surrender to the police.
Mr. Chen
A teacher comes across a secret list of anti-Ching rebel names and quickly becomes a target for Ching loyalists. The Five Venom's actor Lo Meng teams up with kung-fu comedic actor Wang Yu to bring some of the best lion dancing action footage ever seen on film. The amazing lion dance sequences alone gives this film major historic significance where it's the first time Northern and Southern lion dancing skills are compared.
Restaurant boss
Little Flying Daggers Li (Ti Lung) 5 años han transcurrido desde su regreso y el eventual duelo con Plum Blossom Bandit, literalmente desapareció del mundo de las artes marciales. Su ausencia ha dejado un vacío en el ranking de expertos en artes marciales y un plan vicioso de clanes para conquistar el mundo de las artes marciales. Establece una trampa para sacar a Li de su escondite, quien debe buscar a su amigo Afei (Derek Yee) para enfrentarse al líder del Clan del Dinero y poner fin a su feroz matanza.
Feng's Servant
This mystery-tinged 'Martial Arts World' epic was one of director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung's last together for the Shaw Studios, but it's another action-filled winner. Liu Yung and Sun Chien team to investigate the martial arts murders of a supposedly mortally wounded swordsman, only to find deception, death, double-dealings, imposters, and one deadly duel after another. No less than three choreographers are on hand to handle the multitude of magnificent martial arts.
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Drunkard
A necrophiliac killer is murdering the prostitutes at Madame Lan's brothel.
Ah Choi
La joven Dai Nan trabaja como criada en la casa de un rico señor que está a punto de morir. Su señor decide casarse con ella para alejar a sus parientes más cercanos de la herencia que codician. Sobre todo quiere evitar que todos los títulos y propiedades pasen a manos de su hermano Yu Yung Sheng, un hombre despiadado que esperaba ansioso la muerte de su propio hermano. Dai Nan se convierte en una viuda con grandes riquezas, pero deberá mantener a raya a Yu Yung Shen por sus propios medios hasta la llegada de sus sobrinos políticos que, además de ser mayores que ella, no pueden evitar sentirse atraídos hacia su joven y guapa tía.
Villager
Determined to escape from the harsh regime of China to the freedom of Hong Kong, three youths are captured by Mr. Hok, a sadistic human smuggler who subjects them to an unrelenting assault of degradation. Pushed to the limits of human endurance, the prisoners must fight for their lives in an unforgettable, action-packed climax.
Martial Artist at Restaurant
A treasure hunt sparks the continuing violence in this Hong Kong action film, yet the film does not focus only on the violent nature of some of the characters. An enamored Ting Tien (Pai Piao) spends a cold winter's night waiting to spot the love of his life, Ling Shuang-hua (Szu Shih), when she makes her usual morning excursion onto her balcony. The theme of his love for her is treated with sensitivity, though his love does not affect the fate in store for both himself and the woman he worships. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Uncle Li
Durante la dinastía Ching, el deshonesto Wang Kao-feng oprime a sus trabajadores con sus secuaces manchurios. Los trabajadores intentan asustar a los matones con un amigo que se hace pasar por el maestro en kung fu San Ta del templo Shaolin. Pero cuando son descubiertos, Chou Jen-chieh decide ir a Shaolin para aprender kung fu con el verdadero maestro. Continuación del clásico del cine de artes marciales 'Las 36 cámaras de Shaolin'.
Blind Beggar
Kao is given a mission by his elderly master to take a cursed sword and solve petty squabbles between skilled martial masters.
Taoist Priest
Constantly mistreated by her cruel husband, the frail Chan Sau-ying awaits certain death from tuberculosis. The new servant girl, Yi-wah takes pity on her mistress' plight and the pair proceed to drown him one evening. They dump his body in a near-by pond but Sau-ying believes that the man's bloated corpse has risen from the bog to seek vengeance.
Uncle Zhao
One of Shaw Brothers' most productive directors, Sun Chung's action films had strong tension, snappy editing and slow motion which influenced up and coming martial arts director John Woo. Starring kung-fu comedienne Wang Yu, a ballistic kid on a mission to clear his father's name, The Kid With A Tattoo features plentiful ripsnorting martial arts by Jackie Chan's long time kung-fu classmates Yuen Hua and Yuan Pin, and Shaw Brothers' best martial arts fighting villain Wang Lung-wei.
Restaurant Boss
Although injured, a martial-arts expert teaches an orphan his methods.
Uncle Wang
The plot is a trifle about an obnoxious restaurant delivery boy causing trouble with some local bad guys for the cook who secretly knows kung fu, eventually learning some techniques and finally, with the cook, confronting the bad guys.
Mr. Hu
Tras una emboscada, el jefe del clan de Hierro es asesinado misteriosamente. Su sucesor tomará decisiones que dividirán el grupo.
Poor Man in Hell
Actors David Chaing and Alexander Fu Sheng join director Chang Cheh and the rest of the Five Deadly Venoms crew for a supernatural martial arts epic that takes the action to another plane of reality entirely. When a fallen angel descends to the Earth on a mission to storm the underworld, a love shared between angels and humans offers telling testament to the power of a lucky ghost. In the battle that follows, both the living and the dead will discover that a war waged in hell could have consequences that resound forever
Old Professor
Three inmates in an asylum tell their stories. Story 1, a husband and wife discover they should be careful what they wish for. Story 2, a naked female ghost gets revenge from her watery grave. Story 3, a dead prostitute returns as a ghost.
Conman
Leaving behind an inch of sword in the spent corpses of his opponents, Tuan Changqing is known as the Deadly Breaking Sword. After barely surviving a duel, one of his foes is treated by the diabolical Dr. Kuo, who uses his powers of mind control to transform the man into a somnambulistic killer. After Tuan Changqing teams up with Rabelaisian gambler Xiao Dao, the story proceeds as a comical kung fu buddy flick.
Duan's accountant
A disgraced former Kung Fu expert makes a living as a merchant with the help of a hot headed friend. When the men are harassed by gangsters, the merchant decided to teach his friend monkey boxing so they can defend their business.
Cashier Wang
Yuan Ying Fei es descendiente de la conocida Golden Sword y él mismo es un maestro de la técnica además de
ser el jefe de la ciudad. Por otro lado está Guan Ah yun, que es el dueño de la oficina de seguridad de Wu Wei que Yuan desea comprar. Pero guang no quiere vendérsela de ningún modo. Como Yuan le ha puesto el ojo a la hermana de Guan, no se decide a atacarle, pero consigue utilizar a 4 rufianes que no tienen donde caerse muertos pero poseen armas legendarias para intentar derrocar a Guan sin que sepa que todo es idea de Yuan Ying fei.
Uncle Hong
Hui Ying-hung, legendary director Chang Cheh's discovery, and the protege of equally legendary director Liu Chia-liang co-stars with Liu's nephew, Liu Chia-yung in this fast-paced, action packed comedy of kung-fu characters. Liu Chia-yung is saved from drug smugglers by Hui Ying-hung, whose godfather is a drunken master and whose leprous godmother is mistress of the fairly off-putting Leprosy Boxing style.
Uncle
A young man who is thrown into jail simply because he displeases a police inspector. But even when he's eventually released, the police continue to persecute him until he feels he has no choice but to become a real criminal.
Comedy / fantasy involving ghosts.
Man offering reward for 11th Prince
Ho Ching es un pícaro que recibe las constantes burlas del adinerado Wang Chin Chen, quien en realidad es el Onceavo Príncipe bajo una identidad falsa. En su útlima jugarreta, el príncipe ha amañado un combate cotnra una prostituta para que Ching pierda y, además crea que le han envenenado. Wang chantajea a Ho Ching para que se convierta en su discípulo, pues sabe que el chico tiene la habilidad suficiente para defenderle. Aunque no está interesado en el trono, el príncipe teme por los constantes atentados contra su vida y revela su identidad a Ho Ching. El joven pícaro le pide a Wang que le ayude a mejorar sus técnicas de artes marciales porque desea convertirse en un buen luchador y protegerle con dignidad. ¿Logrará llegar a palacio con el heredero al trono sano y salvo?
Sheep seller
After his parents are murdered, Jiang Xiao Yu is separated from his twin as a baby and taken by a family friend to Villains Valley, where he is raised to be a villain by a host of outlaws, each of whom has a special skill. When he's old enough, he devises clever means to trap each of his uncles and escape the valley to head off into the outside world. A chance encounter with a beautiful girl dressed as a man leads to a treasure hunt and eventually a confrontation with the Princess of Yi Hua Palace, the one who murdered Xiao's parents in the first place. Eventually, a reunion with his twin will occur.
Wang
While international favorite David Chiang was best known for his roles as a grinning, streetwise, fighter in many Chang Cheh-directed classics, he rarely played a noble warrior monk. But here he portrays the great Chih Shim, the monk who saved the Southern Shaolin Temple. Making this production all the more notable is Lo Lieh, Shaws' first international star, who returns to a role he also made famous - that of Shaolin renegade Pai Mei. This, and even more, makes for a true martial arts epic of the first order.
An old man of the village tells kinky ghost stories to a few of it's inhabitants after all the kids have gone to bed. What follows are stories that have horror elements and some soft-core nudity thrown in.
Master Shi
Most of the Liang family are murdered by Ling Guixing and the surviving son Liang Tianlai (Ng Wai-Kwok) wows to bring him to justice. Fighting against corruption in several courts, his only main witness is beggar Afeng but as Ling has people around him willing to bribe and murder, soon Liang is left alone. All up until he meets what seems like the last upstanding official...
Dye factory boss
Two friends who long to be heroes join the fight against a Ching warlord and his students. They get help from a Kung Fu student and a rebel. They also save Hung Si Quan's life.
fake master
Mr. Chiu
In the vein of "Romeo And Juliet", Hong Kong style, the small ensemble cast and little-known director Michihko do a big league job with their rendition of "Romeo And Juliet" in "The Young Lovers". Although poor boy (Derek Erh Tung-Sheng) and rich girl (Yu An-An) are from opposite ends of the spectrum, their undying love refuses to let anyone get in their way, including their parents. Shakespeare would be moved.
Bi Ying Heng
Liu Chia-Liang regresa al éxito de su primera película dirigida, "The Spiritual Boxer", que también protagoniza el torpe controlador fantasma de la película original, Wang Yu. Con la esperanza de que el rayo del éxito golpeara en el mismo lugar, Liu hizo que sus dos hermanos Lau Kar Wing y Gordon Liu no solo actuaran sino que también ayudaran en las peleas. El resultado final es una obra maestra de cine de artes marciales llena de acción impresionante y piezas decorativas.
Servant of Garden of Desire
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Liu Fu
A talented young swordsman has beaten many veterans before his inherited martial arts manual gets stolen. After encountering his first defeat in life, in despair, he comes across a gorgeous girl, daughter of the head of a mysterious sect.
Master Liang
El gobierno Ching ha ordenado al templo de Shaolin enviar a sus discípulos a la corte para hacer de instructores de artes marciales. Una vez en la corte, éstos se enzarzan en una lucha fratricida a causa de Pu Kang-tu, el general de Cantón que lo ha planeado todo para que los estudiantes de Shaolin se eliminen mutuamente. Cuando los Vencidos Shaolin del sur se disponen a marchar son asesinados por el general Pu, que se las arregla para que parezca que ha sido asesinados por Shaolin del norte. El maestro Mai Chi de Shaolin del sur cae en la trampa y organiza una expedición a Shaolin del norte para vengarse.
Wanton noodle seller
The beloved king of Hong Kong comic book characters, Old Master Q, is back in live action again by popular demand. This hilarious sequel to Mr Funny-bone finds him, and his delightful sidekick "Big Potato", opening an Old-fashioned healing clinic - leading to a fun and fascinating clash (cultural and otherwise) when the old ways smack face first into ultra-modern Hong Kong. But, this being the great Mr Funny-bone, he triumphs in spite of himself and his large-cranium companion.
Wine stall keeper
Asian fans of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon recognized that its director Ang Lee was actually inspired by director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung's wonderful tales of a "martial art world" where all wushu warriors try to attain the "Deer Sword" and escape from the insidious maze-like "Toy Land." Master kung-fu choreographer Tang Chia leads the king and queen of Shaw's swordplay, Ti Lung and Lily Li, in a fascinating and entertaining adventure of consummate swordmen and sorceresses.
Inn-Keeper
The thrills continue in this second part of this cherished adventure, created by the renowned director Chu Yuan and ingenious novelist Chin Yung. Only the union of the title weapons can save the six remaining martial arts sects who are vying for mastery. So just sit back and enjoy the movie event which spawned a legacy that continues even today with a long-running, internationally loved television series, a role-playing game, and even collectible replicas of the Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre themselves!
A Shaw Brothers production directed by Kuei Chih-hung.
Teahouse Client
Sensual Pleasures features a collection of three, ghost story, sexual vignettes starring a viscerally sensual trio of hardcore experience with the well endowed Chen Ping, Chinese adult film legend Shirley Yu and the innocent doe-eyed Shaw Yin-yin.
Constable
Uno de los grandes clásicos de las películas de artes marciales, que tenía como protagonistas a un grupo de personas, cada una con una habilidad y afín a un tipo de animal venenoso. Quentin Tarantino se inspiró en esta cinta para crear al escuadrón de Kill Bill. (FILMAFFINITY)
Teacher Wong
Wei-Fung es un espía enviado para infiltrarse en una familia que se sospecha son revolucionarios, pero termina enamorándose de la hija y se casa con ella, y a los nueve meses nace un hijo. Poco después de descubrirse las verdaderas identidades, el espía y su esposa luchan contra su familia y ella muere en la batalla. Wei-Fung, que es experto en artes marciales, crea un nuevo estilo en la clandestinidad, el estilo puño mantis, planeando regresar para vengar a su esposa y acabar con la familia...
Senior Pang
Our hero Kuo Tsing is winning the hand of fair maiden Huang Yung. However, almost immediately, clan rivalries in the "Martial Art World" lead to Kuo being wounded by Ouyang Feng and Huang being named the new leader of the Beggar Clan. All this is mounted with sparkling energy by three kung-fu choreographers and a star-packed cast.
Old stone carver
Ti Lung is the Nameless Swordsman bent on defeating the faceless King of Swords to claim the title, and the glory, for himself. Hordes of fighters lunge from the shadows to cut down the mysterious challenger. Even a cunning seductress takes a stab at him in a revealing bath house assassination. It is said that a man's weapon reflects his utmost dreams, desires and fears. A warrior with no name and one motive has a soul as merciless as cold steel.
Old Man of Green Wood
Nankung Sung comprueba lo sórdido de la política entre clanes y sus conflictos tras cortar lazos con su propio clan por un malentendido y aceptar la misión de darle una canción llamada "The Proud One" al músico correcto.
Wang's dinner guest
Shaw production
Tong Bei Hai
Despite its stand-alone title, this mixture of martial arts and exploitation is a semi-sequel to Shaw Brothers's Flying Guillotine series. This time, the focus is Rong Qui-yan, a kung fu student turned dutiful wife whose life falls apart when her husband is murdered by a squad of government operatives led by the duplicitous Jin Gang-Feng. Qui-yan is forced to go into hiding as she plots her revenge and finds allies in fellow fugitive Ma Seng and ex-lover Wang-jun.
Old man at West Attic
The Embroidery Bandit is stealing treasures while blinding his victims. The hero Liu Xiaofeng is called in to solve the mystery. The evidence points to the all-woman Clan of the Red Shoes - but appearances can be deceptive.
Liu Yu-De's Father
Los patriotas anti-Ching, bajo las órdenes de Ho Kuang-han, se refugian en Cantón haciéndose pasar por maestros de escuela. Liu Yu-te, uno de los pupilos de Ho trabaja como mensajero y espía para los anti-Ching. Pero el general Manchurio Tien Ta descubre a los anti-Ching y ordena matar a Ho y al padre de Liu. Liu escapa al templo de Shaolin con la esperanza de aprender artes marciales y vengar la muerte de su padre. Liu es aceptado como alumno y es llamado San Te. Su progreso en las artes marciales es espectacular y por fin, con el consentimiento de los monjes, deja el templo para vengar a su padre y reclutar nuevos alumnos para Shaolin.
Official at palace
The emperor's reign of terror expands. Heroic outlaw Ma Teng joins a squad of female rebels, whose leader is torn between family loyalties.
Xue Bin's servant
Master of the "swordplay thriller" genre, Chor Yuen and renowned kung-fu choreographer Tang Chia tell the fabulous tale of the "Fastest Swordsman in the World" facing the "1000 Face Devil" and no less than seven murderers.
Uncle Tang
Struggling to survive the murderous gang wars of Hong Kong, Tan Tung, a young martial arts street fighter, successfully takes on all challengers—until he runs up against the savage underworld empire of Hong Kong's Triad mafia. Escaping to San Francisco, he again tangles with criminal gangs, but this time fights his way to the top of the city's most feared gangster organization led by the White Dragon boss.
Taoist priest
A timeless and titillating tale of the immoral private lives of the royal court's high officials. All the bed and body hopping is not exclusive to the family, either. Their maids and servants get involved as well, leading to flesh, fibs, and suicide, among other things. Taken all together, this is an all-time classic of sumptuous sexuality.
Imperial Edit's accompanying official
Pao-yu is in love with his cousin, Lin Tai-yu, but his family has other marital plans for him that will leave both broken-hearted.
Blind Chan
Set in early 20th century Shanghai, this Hua Shan actioner stars former Golden Harvest regular Nora Miao Ke-hsiu as Bobo, a village girl who has journeyed to the big city in search of her father. Not long after her arrival, Bobo witnesses a gang fight dominated by a man she was friends with as a child. Now known as Jaguar, he works as a bodyguard for mob boss Kam, who is having a row with one of his partners. Jaguar makes trouble at one of the man's casinos as a part of a plan to smooth over the situation. Ace gunman Ko Tang is also in town and the two strike up an alliance to take over Kam's empire. Jaguar's lust for power soon alienates Bobo, who realizes that she was simply a pawn in his plan to gain control of the Shanghai underworld. Held a virtual prisoner, Bobo's one hope for revenge is Luo Lie, another friend from childhood and now her fiancee, currently imprisoned in Germany.
Accountant Zhang
Young man returns from studying abroad to take over management of the large family farm, and falls for the daughter of a tenant farmer. The unique twist is that her pet, best friend, confidante and protector is a cobra - but he hates snakes because his mother was bitten and killed by one when he was a child.
Yangzhou Official
Emperor Chien Lung uses disguises to experience life among his subjects.
Old Hawker
Part 1 : 'Gun Snatchers' - Two criminals wanted for murder are turned in by one of their own. Part 2: 'Arson' - A Triad revenge plan to burn down a nightclub goes wrong and results in the deaths of five people.
At the wedding feast of Shen Hsiu Chang (Chung Wa), a guest named Tu Fu Liang (Lau Luk Wa) suddenly announces that he had an affair with the bride, Yun Ching . The bridegroom is furious and turns on her. She disappears sadly. The next morning, her headless body is found in a lonely spot. A couple of days later, a hunter named Wu Hsiung finds a badly decomposed human head and returns it to the widower. He is rewarded with 1000 pieces of silver as the bereaved family thinks it is the head of the dead bride.
Major Clan Senior
Una historia trágica de amor en medio del complot de un espadachín traidor para encontrar un arma desaparecida hace tiempo, conocida como la "Araña de los Cinco Venenos", con el fin de usarla contra los líderes del clan.
Chau
Ah Ying (Chen Ping) is a former gangster trying to lead an honest life, and occasionally using her fighting skills to help out the girls in the factory where she now works. She befriends young colleagues Chong Lee and Shao Yin-Yin, teaching them self defence because "girls can't be weak anymore". Trouble starts when her old gang finds out where she now works.
Old cheated customer
A widower forces his three beautiful daughters to work in his seedy bar and must do what they are told no matter what. The film features Lin Chen-chi who had just starred in Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold.
Uncle Wang
A quasi-vicious motorcycle gang messes with the wrong man.
Mr. Hei
Snake Prince (Ti Lung) is wandering with his snake buddies when he happens upon a beautiful maiden (Lin Chen-Chi) singing a prayer for rain. The song soon turns into a funky dance with the whole drought-blighted village, so the prince and his pals assume human form and join the party. The prince is so smitten with the maiden that he offers to share the snakes' river with the village if he can marry her. The villagers aren't too fond on the idea of marrying off their No. 1 babe to a snake, prince or no, but they really do need that water. (MrBooth/HKMDB)
Goldsmith Yu
Liao Jiang is the lowest ranking member of a gang that holds up a jewelery store. Subsequently the three other gang members die, and their gold haul goes missing. Liao Jiang and his new gang member Huge Eyes are then forced to turn to a triad gang to help get back their gold from a rival group.
Second Uncle
Emperor Chien Lung, bored with imperial traditions, disguises himself as a commoner to experience a different side of life.
Innkeeper
Lo Lieh stars as Sima Jun, a killer working for a corrupt lord whose orders are followed without question or hesitation. When the lord suffers from a life-threatening boil on his back, he is told by the Imperial doctor that an herb called "Longevity Rattan" offers the only cure and is grown in a remote village by an herbalist named Tan. Lo is sent on a mission to get the herb and bring it back before it's too late.
Si le preguntásemos a cualquier aficionado de las artes marciales que hiciera una lista de las mejores películas de todos los tiempos, no hay duda ninguna que Killer Clans (Clanes Asesinos) estaría dentro del Top 10. Esta obra maestra de alto presupuesto de la factoría Shaw Brothers es una espectacular película de espadachines y artes marciales que se acerca más que nunca a los clásicos films de Samuráis provenientes del Japón de los años 60.Basada en una novela del cronista de artes marciales Kung Lung, la trama gira entre la guerra entre clanes en la China antigua. Entre el larguísimo casting, destaca el casi siempre en sus papeles de villano, Ku Feng, como líder de la sociedad de los Hombres de Lung. Chung Wa en el papel de espadachín mercenario y Yueh Hua como el lugarteniente de Ku Feng.La trama principal de esta historia sería adaptada casi veinte años después en Comet, Butterfly and Sword, donde los papeles principales los interpretaban Michelle Yeoh y Tony Leung Chiu Wai.
Doctor checking Wang
A Shaw Brothers production featuring a supernatural tale of revenge. Liu Miao-Li suffers a string of terrible events. Once pushed to her limit, she decides to take back control of her existence, but chooses an unlikely path to vengeance.
Concubine Zheng's guard
Despite Kuang Hsu's enthronement as the last reigning Emperor of China, his ability to rule effectively is overshadowed by the ever-present power of the Dowager Empress. When his attempts to reform the Imperial system are thwarted by the Dowager Empress, he attempts to curb her power. His efforts are not successful, and this failure leads directly to his own death and the end of Imperial rule in China. The Dowager Empress, though, ends her days comfortably and in peace.
Doorman
An anthology film featuring three true-crime stories that took place in Hong Kong in the early 1970's. Part 1: Hidden Torsos' A woman and her daughter are murdered by her abusive boyfriend. Part 2: 'Valley of the Hanged'-A man murders his wife and her lover. Part 3: 'The Stuntmen' - A gang boss is murdered by his wife's lover
Mr Chen
Wang Yu plays Hsiao Chien, a con artist vagabond who uses his kung fu skills and parlor tricks to convince superstitious villagers that he can use his body as a vessel for angry gods. However, when the villagers are threatened by a hostile force, Chien must learn to use his skills to protect the innocent.
Commissioner's assistant
Gu Hui, a member of the ‘Wolf Head Gang’ becomes unhappy after their new chief decides to abandon their old code of conduct. After the chief kills a travelling family and kidnaps the daughter, Gu frees her and escapes, hiding out in a nearby town and trying to start a new life as a humble shoemaker. Unfortunately, the gang refuses to let him go and put a bounty on his head, forcing him to face up to his responsibilities.
Post office chief
Accompanied by his old manservant, scholar Sung Li Ho (Hong Hoi) is on his way to the capital for the imperial exam. They spend a night in the house of Mrs. Yuan and Li Ho takes a fancy to her pretty daughter, Pei Fang (Dana). Li Ho is discovered by a maid peeping at Pei Fang as she takes a bath. He slips and falls into the bathtub, creating a most embarrassing situation. His old servant is also implicated and both are beaten up before being thrown out. Continuing their journey in the desolate countryside, they come across woodcutter Hsi Hsueh Kuei who puts them up for the night. Captivated by the beauty of the owner’s two daughters, who are vampires, he spends a night with them and turns into a skeleton. Chased by the vampires, Shun Lai makes a narrow escape.
Taxi operator
It stars David Chiang, as the taxi driver whose adventures reveal Hong Kong's verve with wit, compassion and loads of action.
Shaw Brothers' number one action hit of 1975, and deservedly so. The character of one-man kung-fu dynamo Big Brother Cheng and kung-fu superstar Chen Kuan-tai were made for each other. A Robin Hood-like restaurant manager who socks it to the thugs in order to make the mean streets of Hong Kong a little less mean, Big Brother Cheng made his first appearance in the extremely popular The Tea House, the success of which spawned this even more successful sequel.
Xu Zheng
Abortion, birth control and unwed cohabitation are social issues rarely associated with 1970's Hong Kong cinema. Cohabitation not only faces them head on but does so with insight, compassion and sex!
A wronged female ghost is out for revenge.
Taoist monk
Ghost Eyes concerns a female hair stylist who is seduced by the vampiric ghost of a former optometrist. Using supernatural contact lenses to control her mind, he gradually drains her life essence as she is forced to find new victims until tries to make a stand and rid herself of this terror once and for all.
A romantic melodrama about an affair between a 16-year-old boy and a neglected wife.
Uncle Chen
shaw production
Owner of eatery
shaw production
Shop owner
Huang Fei-hung is back, in a new adventure written and directed by veteran Huang filmmaker Wang Feng. Newcomer Shih Chung-tien stars as the Confucian healer who fights jealous villains with wisdom, intelligence, and fabulous kung-fu.
Scaffolding laborer #2
As the Heng Seng Index reaches unprecedented heights, people from all walks of life go stock speculation crazy. A security guard and his landlord learn firsthand that money is ‘Easy Come, Easy Go’ as their fast fortune disappears overnight in a Macau casino. Meanwhile, greedy neighbours and infidel couples cheat each other and even blue-collar workmen dive into the frenzy. Inevitably, the market tumbles as do the people’s bittersweet lives. A hilarious but ironic tale featuring some of Shaw’s biggest stars.
Gynaecologist
Shih Hsin-chiao (Ling Yun) is a journalist who trained under mentor Lu Tao-jan (Chin Han). Lu's daughter, Chih-pai (Tien Niu) is infatuated with the good-looking and intelligent Shih, but Shih sees her only as a child. When he returns from a long stay abroad, he finds that things have changed. Chih-pai is now an attractive young woman in a relationship with rich boy (Wang Yu). A miscarriage and Lu's death throw Shih and Chih-pai back together again.
Barber
A young man who has been beaten, abused, humiliated and laughed at all his life finds that he has an unusual empathy with snakes. He can talk to them and they understand him, and eventually he finds that he can get them to do his bidding. He decides to use his newfound friends to take his revenge on everyone who ever did him wrong.
Reformist in prison
En la época en que cae la dinastía Ching y nace la República de la China, el filme nos muestra al patriota encargado de acabar con la corrupción de los gobernantes de dicha dinastía.
Taoist Priest
Song dynasty lotus and Han Shilong before marry, Korea's home office, thedragon's heart ached. After lotus appeared dead, the dragon as the reunion was determined to marry, have a friend Zhang Tie strongly opposed, and find a Taoistspirits. The dragon the obstacles of their marriage, lotus to spend a night after the found.
Desperate Fisherman
Pirate Chang Pao-Chai springs a leak after an otherwise successful raid on a foreign ship. He goes ashore to get materials to patch his ship up, where he encounters corrupt Qing officials and poor, oppressed peasants. Being a good man at heart, he decides to help out and becomes an even bigger outlaw in the process.
Judge's assistant
Ma es atracado por Chang y Huang, pero gracias a sus habilidades en las artes marciales consigue frustrar el atraco y surge la amistad entre ellos. Los tres se declaran hermanos de sangre y luchan juntos para sofocar la revuelta liderada por Yen Chen-feng.
Old Wang
A small village is taken over by the nasty Japanese, who kill the town's top kung fu fighter in order to scare the populace into submission. Escaping the wrath of the Japanese, the son of the master flees into the hills, where he trains with a group of rebels led by Gam Kei-Chu. Fast-forward ten years, and Chuen returns to the village armed with his father's secret technique of the Thunderbolt Fist with the hopes of killing the leader of the Japanese.
Official at Court
Three martial arts directors united for this unique anthology film. Yueh Feng writes and directs a clever love-and-kung-fu triangle, Cheng Kang both writes and directs kung-fu courtesans battling brigands, and the "godfather of the kung-fu film," Chang Cheh, creates a cliff-hanging, swashbuckling mini-movie with maxi-action.
Prison chief
Legendary fighter Wu Song is sent to prison in Mengzhou province after murdering his sister-in-law and her lover. There he meets with the prison officer Shih En, who saves Wu from the baton punishment required for new prisoners. Wu learns that Shih's restaurant, "The Delightful Forest" has been occupied by Chiang Chung. Wu returns to the restaurant-- A place he's dined in previously.
Kao patriarch
No list of the screen's comic geniuses would be complete without Michael Hui Kwun-man. He created a hilarious and lovable comic persona that was both uniquely Asian but also universally beloved. This, his first film, not only showcased his incomparable sense of humor but revolutionized Hong Kong comedy. Evoking Chaplin, he plays a warlord in early 20th Century China, but makes the role his own with both laughs and some of the sexiest ladies on the Shaw Brothers lot.
Master Cho's doctor
18-year-old Ainu is kidnapped and sold to a brothel. Her good looks and wild personality make her very popular with the lustful clients, but also draw the lesbian attentions of brothel madam Chun Yi. Chun Yi teaches Ai nu the ways of lust and the ways of kung fu, and Ai nu becomes more and more similar to her captor. But rage at her treatment is still burning inside her.
Tournament judge
Dos escuelas rivales de artes marciales se preparan para un gran torneo.
Mr. Jin
After a career spanning more than forty years and dozens of films as director or writer, Yueh Feng used everything he learned on a final few martial arts epics, of which this is one of the most memorable. It's not easy to forget a hunchbacked, one-armed protagonist, nor the "Poisonous Dragon Sword" style, nor the luminous and lethal Shih Szu as the title swordswoman, who is out to avenge her father's death at the mid-autumn festival.
Court clerk
Existen muchas peliculas épicas sobre artes marciales y sobre las "hermandades de heroes", pero ninguna de ellas es comparable a "The Water Margin", basada en la novela sobre la leyenda "All Men are brothers", en la que 108 rebeldes lucharon contra la dinastia Sung.
Restaurant chief
Feng Fei Fei, an excellent swordswoman, seeks revenge with her nephew for the murder of her old sister, who got killed by some rogues on her way home. She soon finds out that the murderer is the son of her father's best friend and her future husband.
Transport Chief Hung
A perennial Chang Cheh favorite, Anonymous Heroes focuses on two vagabond brothers, Meng Kang and Tieh who, in the search for fame and fortune, join in a rebellion against a provincial general. Used to shaking down local vendors for food and gambling away their limited funds, they are recruited by a local rebel leader who promises them a glorious adventure. The rebels plan is to steal a huge cache of new rifles set to be delivered to the barracks of the local army. With the help of an officer's daughter, their plan starts out well, but inevitably slips toward a heroic but tragic finale.
Godly Sword
A noble swordsman and a one-armed swordswoman go up against the vicious Crimson Charm gang of thieves and cutthroats. The lovely and lethal Ivy Ling Po teams with the amazing Chang I for a classic tale of good versus evil in which the best man and one-armed woman wins.
Tan Jen-chieh's life spins out of control when he’s forced into exile to clear his name following the murder of his adopted father. He's hunted in the streets. His lover, Butterfly, turns to prostitution. And his father's likely killer – a smooth operator known as the Rambler – is always lingering nearby. But before Tan and the Rambler can slit each other's throats, they learn they've been double-crossed and go two against everyone in a rage of double-edged vengeance.
Boss Li
Lei Li es un joven luchador imbatible gracias a la técnica de la Espada Gemela. Su fama llega tan lejos que Lung quiere quitarle de enmedio para apropiarse de su prestigio. Lei Li tras ser derrotado por Lung en combate singular, jura no volver a practicar Kung-Fu y se corta el brazo. Su vida se hunde hasta que conoce a Feung. Una profunda amistad surge entre los dos guerreros, pero la tragedia golpea de nuevo a Li cuando su enemigo acaba con la vida de Feung... El juramento tendrá que ser revocado... Tercera parte de la trilogía de Hong Kong de "El Espadachín manco".
Ling Xiao's dad
Ling (Lo Lieh) and Guan are the Black and White Chiefs of the Eagle Escort security firm: during the opening credit sequence, we see them recover a stolen shipment of gold; by the time the credits have run, the two are literally knee-deep in bodies.
Old Fan
A Time For Love features Shaw Brothers' darling Lily Ho in a Romeo and Juliet stylized love story that breaks the tradition of Hong Kong's "class distinction" love stories. It is a film ending with a Cinderella-esque love saving happiness happy ever other ending.
Manager Wen/Yin Nan Ting
A violent martial artist is bent on avenging his older brother, who was killed by a cabal of four wicked businessmen and a cheating wife.
Jin prefect
This tale is about a decapitating swordswoman who will let nothing stand in her way when she falls in love with a bandit's son. Chiao Chiao, made famous in One-Armed Swordsman, is the girl who won't let such trifles as craniums keep her from freeing her man from jail.
Shaolin Abbott Yishu
Respected veteran Yueh Feng made this “Martial Arts World” saga of a masked master of the “Black Sand Hand Technique,” while Lily Ho, the star of "Princess Iron Fan" and "Angel With The Iron Fists", excels in a delightful dual leading role. When she teams up with Shu Pei-pei as a fellow swordswoman to vanquish a murdering robber, the comparisons to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" are obvious, even though it came three decades later.
Headmaster Wong
The Younger Generation is an ultra-tragic tale about a young girl, played by Ivy Ling Po who gets married, has five kids, then she and her husband die forcing one child sold to prostitution to feed the other four. Chinese culture dictates that great respect is given to the elders and in The Younger Generation, it is an elder that is the hero, telling audiences that although sadness abounds, they can return home happy with their Confucius mindset.
Government official
Ying Ke-Feng es un espadachín experto y su negocio es escoltar el transporte de 200.000 taels de plata a la capital cada año. Este año, sin embargo, le aflige una enfermedad que lo deja incapacitado de usar su espada. Tiene que dejar esta importante comisión a dos jóvenes, Hsiang Ting y Yun Piao-Piao
Mysterious songstress Fang Biyu is loved by two brothers, Qiwei and Qijun. After freeing herself from the clutches of gangsters, she gives her heart to Qiwei. Tragedy comes knocking on the door when one of the gangsters comes out of prison, and Qiwei dies in a car accident. Blamed for her husband's death, Biyu is forced to go back to singing to make a living, but hopes to reunite with her son and return to the family one day.
Liu Yi
Ming dynasty traitors have sent a secret message in a jade goddess statuette, containing their plans of treason to help tribal warlords usurp power from the Ming government. The message and statue being intercepted, powerful swordsmen (and a swordswoman) of a famed security company are hired to protect the statue and its hidden message.
medicine shopkeeper
Li Zhishan is a rich man, but wealth cannot keep the loyalties of his wife, who has been visiting the bed of a rival. She helps plot against him, and the Vicious Long Brothers invade his home and steal the Golden Dragon Blade - a sword that makes its wielder unbeatable. Zhishan, crippled in the attack, and his young daughter are whisked away by a devoted servant, and the trio soon find shelter in the home of an herbalist. Years pass, the daughter grows up to be a lovely young woman and a powerful fighter, and the Long Brothers use the Golden Dragon Blade to gain power in the region. Zhishan's family of sorts has managed to stay well hidden, but a trip into the city - the daughter's first - sets off an old power struggle as Zhishan's wife discovers her daughter is quite alive.
Uncle Mu
El famoso 'espadachín de un solo brazo' que ha pasado los últimos dos años se retiró del mundo marcial como un simple granjero con su esposa. Por supuesto, esta vida idílica está a punto de ser cortada en pedazos por la perversa imaginación de Chang. Él inventa una configuración sabrosa cuando presenta, no uno, sino ocho villanos únicos conocidos como los Ocho Reyes de Espadas y su séquito de espadas para que Wang Yu eventualmente se abra camino.
Zhang Yuan-Wei
A mortal, a ghost and a fox fairy come together against evil in this supernatural wuxia film.
Millionaire
Shaw Brothers double trouble comedy
Chun's uncle
The bandits of Hulu Valley murder the chief of Mei Clan while searching for a treasure map. In retaliation, the clan’s leading swordsman Feng-chun (Chan Leung) infiltrates the bandit’s fortress hideout in anticipation of a surprise attack by a larger force and unexpectedly finds himself romantically involved with the bandit leader’s feisty daughter (Cheng Pei-Pei).
Old teacher
The Silver Fox is a throwback, the last of its kind where the heroic swordsmen are women. Lily Ho (before she became one of Shaw Brothers' great erotica actresses) portrays the feared swordswoman Silver Fox, who as a child saw her father senselessly wounded and her mother raped. It's 18 years later and it's payback time.
Ying's father
Yu is a two-armed swordsman who is betrayed by a jealous rival, but initially seeks a life of simple pleasures until an accidental meeting with another patriot sets him back on the road to bloody, brutal vengeance.
Old Lian
Love knows no limits in the grand period romance, Lady Jade Locket. A young fighter inadvertently falls for the spirit of a beautiful woman, who died years earlier avenging her own father's murder. The beautiful ghost is in fact the sister of his fiancee. Experienced as an actor in many such romances, director Yen Chuan keeps the tone perfect. Plus, with period specialist Li Li-hua in the lead and the attractive and acclaimed Li Ching playing the ghost girl, he really can do no wrong.
Dr Wang
Nineteen-year old Li Ching scored a major success playing the title character, Susanna. Li's youthful exuberance is given free rein in a role that embraces rebellion, love, betrayal, tragedy, and ultimately, redemption.
Shen's master
A young swordsman is tasked to lead a patriotic secret society to fight a traitorous general who conspired with the enemy to invade their country. In due course, he meets two pretty sisters from a rural tribe and is caught between the affections of the two girls...
Liang's uncle
Hong Kong remake of the European spy movie Passport to Hell: Secret Agent 3S3. A military plane carrying a nuclear load explodes mid-air after being hit by mysterious electronic rays. Secret agents are immediately ordered to trace its source. Sculptor Liang Tien Hong (Paul Chang Chung) returns to Hong Kong having been recalled by his uncle. He arrives to discover his uncle killed by agents. Liang’s uncle, inventor of the secret ray, dies after being tortured for information. The authorities believe the transmitter is still in Liang’s home. Steps are taken to find and destroy it for world peace.
Mr Liu
The contemporary issue of single mothers is sensitively handled in this melodrama as a young woman must decide whether she will tell the new man in her life the real truth or forever remain the child's auntie Lan? (Celestial Pictures sypnosis)
Magistrate Zhou's adviser
Huangmei Opera movies like The Pearl Phoenix are unique to 1960's Hong Kong culture, a product of the Swinging Sixties but considerably more in touch with their Chinese roots. This one is complete with a gender-bending tale where the male lead is played by female and the female lead poses as a man, plus movie queen Li Ching and the singing voices of Ivy Ling Po and Jing Ting. Sit back and enjoy!
Chief Warden Suan
Some 40 years ago when warlords rode rough-shod over the Chinese people, circus acrobat Pao Te-cheng took to the hills and began robbing the rich to help the poor. His daring feats earned him the nickname of “The Masked Robber”. Trying to intercept a large sum of money to be turned over to public security chief Cheng Kuan-hsi, he is nearly caught. Partner Hsiao Chung is jubilant over his safe return. But in the government office, chief detective Ma Pu-yun frantically plots his arrest. Ma Chien-li, son of the chief detective, devises a clever trap set for Ma Pu-yun’s birthday party. Among the guests is Huang Tan-ping who is engaged to Doctor David Lee. Ma Chien-li proposes to her without knowing this.
Uncle Yang
Not a love triangle but a love rectangle, Rose, Be My Love is a romantic drama that represents the high standards achieved by Shaw Brothers in both star power and technical polish. Set on the eve of Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong's invasion by the Japanese, the tragic romance takes on added poignancy in light of the future fate of leading lady Li Ting, the "Rose" of Rose, Be My Love who committed suicide a mere three months after the movie's release.
Zhong-nian's assistant
The Weiss Advertising Co under manageress Lo Yu Chun (Pat Ting Hung) and the Jen An Advertising Co. managed by playboy Tsao Chung Nien (Peter Chen Ho) are business rivals. The former works hard but without much success. The latter, with most of his staff perusing racing form or yellow journals, gets far more business. The anticipated arrival of a business tycoon from Malaya starts another battle and Lo Yu Chun goes all out to win over the prospective customer.
Faben
Gui Wu happens upon a kidnapping with his wife Gan Lian-zhu at the Red Lotus Temple. Lian-zhu sends Wu to go for reinforcements while she stays to fight the kidnappers. Fortunately, the mysterious Scarlet Maid is surreptitiously helping her.
Liu's father
A musical staring Carrie Ku Mei as a singer named Xiaoyun Shi, who comes to Hong Kong after a tour of other Asian countries, hoping to develop her career.
Dr Huang
The socialite Pai Li-Lan's life is disrupted when she contracts tuberculosis.
Red Lotus Chief Yan Zong
Jimmy Wang Yu interpreta a un niño que se dirige a Dragon Valley para encontrarse con el amigo de la infancia que le prometieron como su novia. Sin embargo, cuando llega allí, encuentra que la familia de la novia podría no ser un grupo completamente honesto de personas. ¿Cuál es la historia detrás de su enemistad con los monjes en el Templo del Loto Rojo, para empezar?
A member of the Red Peony troupe, singer Tang Pei Hua (Yeh Feng) is renowned for her beautiful voice and appearances. Her beauty, however, invites the unwanted attentions of cruel and lecherous warlord Cao Lin (Zeng Mei). In order to escape Cao's grasp, Tang and her lover Lin Ke Qiang (Chin Han) decide to run away to the south where they can live freely. But their plan is uncovered by Cao, and Lin gets captured. In order to save Lin, Tang must sacrifice herself and entertain Japanese guests at a banquet, throwing herself into danger's way.
Murder mystery.
Hong Kong fantasy film directed by Chiu Shu-San.
呂四娘大破血滴子 is a 1956 martial arts film from Singapore.
