It's from Hong Kong. It involves ghosts.
A 1989 film.
(archive footage)
International intrigue surrounds this battle for possession of a secret war map that could mean the end of the world.
Abbot White's fighter
When a monk decides to leave his temple in order to defeat the Chinese Imperial Guards who brutally murdered is fellow monk, he collects five men and trains them to help him fight the guards and an old friend of his - a white-haired wizard.
Ting Shan
The plot centres around Wu Tang villain, Abbot White, who wants to destroy the Shaolin monks and become supreme martial artist. In order to do so, he teams up with a clan of Ninjas, led by three masters – gold lamé ninja, white mustachioed ninja and black ninja – and succeeds in destroying the Shaolin temple and most of its inhabitants. However, there are some survivors. It is their job to pass on the knowledge of the Shaolin finger jab to a new generation, who must defeat the ninjas and Abbott White if peace and order is to be restored.
Young students of martial arts must prove themselves worthy to their overbearing Master.
Gangland killer Wong Biau is convicted and sent to prison for murdering Lin, chief of a rival gang who happens to be the brother of Wong's girlfriend. Actually, Wong is innocent. Years later, Wong is freed and making a start to be a law-abiding citizen. But Lin Wai-ying, his former girlfriend, now the leader of the rival gang, makes repeated attempts to kill him...
A large quantity of gold is stolen from the government, so undercover martial arts constables do there detective work to find out the culprits and the whereabouts of the bullion. Awesome fight scenes, choreographed by Hwang Kwo Chu, with a lot of innovative weapon work.
The evil Mr. Chu's control of a village is challenged by a Korean wanderer named Eagle and the three Kung Fu Kids.
Shaw Legends Chi Kuan Chun (5 Masters of Shaolin, Men from the Monastery) and Lee I Min (Shaolin Temple, 7 Grandmaster) join forces to take on action maestro Tommy Lee (Hot, Cool and Viscous, Eagles Claw) in a marital arts masterpiece. Chi is the master of the Wing Chun Kung Fu, which has devastatingly close quarter combat techniques. The character played by Chi Kuan Chun is sent to look for a killer. The impulsive character played by Lee I Min is Lee is a student of the Buddha's Palm, a high level style from the Shaolin Temple. Mad that he wasn't chosen to go, he somehow finds himself on the same quest as Chi. Nonstop fights and comedy ensue with Lee I Min playing jokes on Kuan Chun and competing with him to achieve their goal. It all leads up to a fantastic team up in they end as together they face the insidious character played by Tommy Lee.
Two men, one a lowly peon and the other a dutiful nobleman, are betrayed by their master and crippled for life-- One left with no arms and the other with paralyzed legs. Despite their obvious disadvantages, they strive to seek revenge against their evil master. The two men endeavor to track down the fabled Eight Jade Horses, said to hold the key to special martial arts techniques.
The Japanese ninja secretly invade China in the time of the Ming Dynasty.
After there is a mishap at a mine that causing many to die or become injured, Master Chien decides to add insult to injury by not paying out any funds to the survivors of the victims to keep costs down. Many of the townspeople try to get Master Chien to change his mind, but Master Chien does not relent on his decision. The townspeople then ask the Iron Fist King, Chuang Yang, to pay Master Chien a visit and get him to change his mind. After the Iron Fist King shows up at Master Chien’s and defeats his top fighter, Chi Hung, Master Chien decides to comply with the townspeople’s wishes, but little does everybody know that Master Chien has a backup plan that will cause everybody to suffer the consequences and that includes his own self.
Iron Head
론은 산골짜기 집에서 ‘형외문파’를 이끄는 외할아버지 진붕비에게 무예를 배우며 지내고 있다. 길거리에서 불한당들과 싸움을 벌이는 론에게 외할아버지는 함부로 무술을 뽐내지 말고 평범한 직업을 얻어서 살라는 충고를 한다. 직장을 알아보던 어느 날, 론은 시비를 걸었던 불한당에 꾀임에 넘어가 ‘행외문파’라는 가짜 문파의 무술학교에 취업한다. 론은 잘 나가는 무술 학교의 사범이 되어 어마어마한 돈을 벌며 사람들 사이에서 유명해진다. 이상한 낌새를 친 할아버지가 행외문파를 방문하여 우스꽝스럽게 분장을 하고 무술을 하는 론을 발견하게 된다. 숨어지내던 할아버지는 정체가 드러나면서 청나라의 악당 임천화에게 죽임을 당한다. 론은 임천화에게 복수할 것을 다짐하고 할아버지의 옛 친구 사부 팔각기린을 만나 맹훈련에 돌입한다. 그는 우연히 길에서 임천화를 만나게 되고 분노에 눈이 멀어 임천화에게 달려드는데...과연 론은 할아버지의 원수 임천화에게 희노애락 무예로 복수할 수 있을까?
Lee Tso Nam's Challenge of Death features students of two different schools of martial arts, Snake Fist and Dragon Fist, teaming up in order to stop a drug smuggler who fights with the dreaded Spider Claws.
A rogue swordsman known as "Soul of the Sword" kills the father of a young Kung Fu expert, who teams up with a Drunken Monk to put an end to Soul of the Sword’s reign of terror, and thwart the Mongol invasion.
Modern day Hong Kong is the backdrop for this action adventure about the narcotics trade. A convicted felon named Peter Chin breaks up a bloody barroom battle and saves the life of a gang member. He is rewarded with an introduction to one of the gang's lieutenants, a beautiful woman named Daisy. Together they plot to extort millions from a rival gangland chief, but their efforts are foiled by an uneasy truce between the two leaders. Knives, flying kicks, fists, guns and bombs come into play as Peter strives to keep a gangland leader from escaping with a fortune in drugs and money.
White Cape
In a coup against an abusive king, a group of young fighters encounters deadly booby traps and lethal weaponry when its members storm a palace to end the reign of terror.
명나라 멸망시기에 왕조를 우롱하며 횡포를 일삼는 내시들이 있었으니 그의 우두머리는 악명 높은 「싸오 타이치」였다. 이들은 천왕의 동생「닝」태자가 숨어있는 황체사에 사병을 보내 태자를 무참히 죽인다. 이 비참한 광경을 목격한 의기 높은 쾌남아「탄」은 복수를 결심한다. 황체사에서 오랫동안 신비의 무예를 갈고 닦던「탄」은「닝」태자를 남몰래 존경하는 사이였고 13년 전「탄」의 가족도「싸오」의 모함에 재물로 잃어야 했던 과거를 갖은 사람이었다. 그는 복수의 여정에 오르는데...
Hay Li Ma
무술의 고수인 풍대인이 화우빈(성룡 분)과 공모해서 궁중의 7가지 보물을 훔쳐내서로 나눠 가진 후 화우빈이 갖고 있는 보물도 전부 뺏기 위해 딸 풍월아를 화우빈과 혼인시켜 보물을 숨긴 곳을 알아내려 한다. 화우빈이 아내에게 보물이 있는 곳을 알려주지 않자, 화우부인은 그에게 독약이 든 보양탕을 먹여 중독시키려 하고, 그 사실을 눈치챈 화우빈은 갖고 있는 해독제를 뺏기 위해 천하의 협객 메이의 도움을 청한다. 한편, 궁중의 보물을 도둑맞은 후 범인이 잡히지 않자, 무술과 계략의 고수인 당상관 풍대인이 그 사건을 맡게 된다. 풍대인은 화우빈에게 죄를 다 뒤집어씌우려고 의협 메이의 도움을 청하면서 자신의 딸 풍월아와 혼인시킨다. 풍대인에게 고용된 메이(왕우 분)는 화우빈을 도와주는 척하면서 화우빈과 그 부인을 조사하는데, 화우부인은 메이가 해독제가 든 상자를 뺏으러 올 줄 알고 가짜 상자를 준비해둔다. 가짜 약 상자를 받은 화우빈은 해독제 안에 든 독약을 먹고 죽은 척 가장한다. 그가 정말 죽은 줄 알고 풍대인과 풍월아가 나타나자 메이는 풍월아와 화우부인이 동일 인물이며, 모든 게 궁중보물을 독차지하기 위한 풍대인의 계략이었음을 깨닫고 유성검으로 처치한다. 풍대인이 죽자 죽은 척 가장했던 화우빈이 나타나 궁중보물에 얽힌 사실을 모두 털어놓고 메이와 대결을 벌이다 그 역시 메이의 마지막 유성검을 맞고 숨진다. 사건 해결 도중 많은 사람들이 희생됐음을 아쉬워하며 떠나는 메이 앞에 풍월아의 심복으로 있었던 봉소저가 나타나 과거의 잘못을 뉘우치며 사모하는 마음을 보이자, 그녀에게 연정을 품고 있었던 메이도 관대하게 봉소저를 받아들인다.
A young man (Bruce Li) unwittingly gets wrapped up in a money scam. When he refuses to give the cash back, the bad guys kidnap his girlfriend and hold her hostage in the Tower Of Death. Once there, he is given two options. Watch his girlfriend get thrown off the top or fight various martial artists on 7 different levels to win his girlfriend back.
After seeing his father murdered and his mother abducted by a caveman-like martial arts cult, a small boy is taken in by a wizened old kung fu master, who rigorously trains him until he is endowed with almost supernatural fighting skills. This training, however, takes much less time than it would in most martial arts films, in which the kid would attain mastery at about the same time he reaches adulthood. Instead what we get is a sword-wielding 5 year old waging a bloody war of revenge against an assortment of adult-sized demons and people in heartbreakingly threadbare monster costumes.
Fan Kao-to is a worker who had enough of corruption in Shanghai. He tries to crush the organization alone. An attempt has been made before but ended up with the big Axe Gang, several of their brands in the man. The man's sister arrives in Shanghai at the same time as Fan Kao-to go out on one-man war, and she wants to do her in the fight, also, she takes the war personally.
