Tanny Tien-Ni

Hong Kong cinemas had a wide range of glamorous female stars during the golden age of the 60's and 70's. The series will take the audience on a sentimental journey to the good old days and once again look at the expansive epic costume dramas and huangmei operas in which actresses played both the male and female roles. Rare interviews with Sir Run Run Shaw, stars Ivy Ling Po, Shaw Yin Yin, Tanny Tie Ni and Cheng Pei Pei are also featured.

범죄도시 홍콩은 청소년의 탈선과 범죄로 얼룩져 있다. 캐나다에서 귀국한 미스 곽은 온갖 종류의 비행 소녀들을 담당하고 그들을 감화시키려 노력하지만 소녀들 역시 자기 나름대로의 역사와 철학이 있는 골치아픈 존재들. 아빠의 정부를 때려눕힌 아민, 매춘 뚜장인 아평, 무전취식하다 걸린 절름발이 등 이유도 각양각색. 소녀들은 자신들에게 각별한 관심을 갖는 곽을 귀찮아하며 골탕먹이기 작전을 편다.

In the 1950s, Taiwan's culture was impacted by different cultures of Japan, the United States and China, which can be said to be very complicated and chaotic. This film is based on the simple Taiwanese society in the 1950s. It tells about a group of young people's natural and complex emotions, such as enthusiasm and loneliness, during this chaotic transition period. The story focuses on four high school students, Yang Jialuo, you Fusheng, Gu Caizi, Guo Hao and Liu Guobao. In the film, they narrate and reflect on their growth with witty dialogue.

Before he was crowned one of the "Four Heavenly Kings", Andy Lau starred in the 1989 gangster film Runaway Blues. He plays Lam, a Taiwan gangster who flees to Hong Kong after killing a rival gangster. Hiding at his uncle gang boss Lip's place, he gets embroiled in more gang conflicts and is forced to be an informant for the police. Lam runs away to Guangzhou and Macau with Lip's mistress, causing an enraged Lip to be hot on his trail.

A gangster turns over a new leaf working as a gardner in a remote island off of Hong Kong. There he falls in love, but is haunted by a past that would not allow him to forget.

A Hong Kong cop's first undercover assignment sends him on a psychological downward spiral, unable to separate his two identities after unearthing a connection between his supervisor and the crime syndicate he's investigating.

A charming tale of child-creating complications, featuring a rare comedic performance by Alex Man Chi-leung.

The tragic story of Fat Cat, a mentally retarded man who endures the mistreatment of the local villagers, and Koko, the idealistic social worker who tries to give him a better life. Koko's battle against ignorance and apathy on Fat Cat's behalf takes its toll on them both.

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The spirit of a deceased conjoined twin haunts her unknowing sister.

A gang of opium smugglers, disguised as Taoist Priests transporting hopping corpses, are hired to transport a real dead body to it's final resting place.

이막수(염니)라는 여인이 옛 애인인 육가의 사람들을 해치울때 이를 구경하던 떠돌이 고아 양과(장국영)는 시체에서 발견한 빵을 먹다가 독에 감염된다. 이때 두꺼비 모양으로 물구나무를 서는 구양봉에게서 독을 치료받고 두꺼비 권법도 배우지만 그는 어디론가 가버린다. 한편 무림 최고의 검객부부 곽정(진관태)과 황용(유설화)은 우연히 양과를 만나 그가 양강의 아들임을 알게되고, 책임을 느껴 그를 거둔다. 양과가 권력과 돈만을 추구했던 아버지의 전철을 밟을까 고민하던 황용은 그에게 글을 가르치며 교육하려 하지만, 양과는 글보다는 무술에 더 관심이 많다. 결국 중원무술의 본산이라는 종남산 전진교의 중양궁으로 데려가 양과를 그곳에 맡긴다. 그러나 아버지에 대한 사람들의 미움 때문에 무술을 배우기는 커녕 전진교 사람들에게 멸시와 구박만 받는다. 결국 이를 참다 못해 도망친 그는 소용녀(옹정정)가 사는 고묘(古墓)로 들어간다. 외부인을 받아들이지 않는 규율 때문에 그를 거절하던 소용녀는 유모의 마지막 유언에 양과를 제자로 받아들여 함께 고묘파의 절세비급인 옥녀심경을 수련하고, 점차 사제 이상의 애정을 키워간다. 그러던 중 두사람은 수련을 위해 고묘 밖으로 나오게 되는데..

Story of five children growing up and learning about life in Hong Kong.

사랑하는 두 사람이 어떤 원인으로 남자는 죽고, 여자도 자살한다. 남자는 윤회에서 또 사람이 되어, 30년 후 여자의 영혼과 만난다. 전생의 일이 다 기억 난 남자는 그 살인범한테 가서 여자의 영혼이 있는 제등을 되찾았기 때문인데...

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.

A necrophiliac killer is murdering the prostitutes at Madame Lan's brothel.

술과 도박에 빠진 것도 모자라 폭력까지 행사하는 나쁜 남편 양춘우에게 시달리던 병약한 아내 진세영이 병세가 악화되어 오늘 내일 하던 중 비가 내리던 어느날 하녀 양기오가 우발적으로 남편을 항아리에 빠트려 죽이는 일에 동참했다가 남편의 원귀에 시달리다 절명하고 그 사건에 숨겨진 진실이 드러나면서 벌어지는 이야기

A giant crocodile is killing and frightening people living nearby rivers. Two men, whose wives and daughter have been killed by the crocodile, decide to chase and eliminate it.

A brother who loves books and a sister who loves swords must face a yellow-robed warrior, the Red Python, a sinuous snake-charmer, and a silk-masked beauty (who must kill or wed the first man to see her face) before they can bring peace to their battle-addled family.

Two stories are included in this erotic/romantic anthology. In the first, a Sung-Dynasty (10th-13th century) Buddhist monk is tricked into sexual relations with an unscrupulous female adventurer. He dies soon after with his misdeed on his conscience. In the second, the daughter of a woman who died in a brothel discovers that her mother died an unnatural death and seeks revenge.

인도네시아에서 홍콩으로 건너온 흑마술사가 좀비 하인들을 이용하여 여성들을 납치하고 온갖 패악적인 일을 저지른다. 이를 알아챈 세 명의 의사들이 흑마술사를 저지하려고 한다. 강두의 속편으로 제작이 되었지만 전편과의 연관성은 크게 없다.

A Hong Kong mobster's sister is working with authorities on their investigation into her own brother's plot to assassinate the Queen.

Typical Hong Kong drama film: Affairs, betrayal, and divorce.

An adult comedy produced by the Shaw Brothers.

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

No End of Surprises is a Hong Kong Comedy Drama starring Jackie Chan.

남편이 죽어 거액의 상속금을 받아 부자가 된 루오 인이 공사 현장 관리자 쉬 누오에게 찝쩍거리다가 반대로 자신에게 찝쩍거리던 지아지에가 강두술을 쓰는 흑마술사 샨 지얀미에게 비약을 얻어 주술의 힘에 의해 동침을 했다가 오히려 그걸 쉬 누오한테 사용해 그를 매혹하면서 벌어지는 이야기

This dragon lady of the Ching Dynasty was the power behind the throne for 50 years, and hew vast tapestry of palace intrigues is vividly brought to the screen in this memorable epic.

Mei Yen is a beautician who often makes her clients up. One day she accepts an invitation to attend a make-up party and helps her clients to make themselves up. Unexpectedly, she meets her boyfriend Chi Hua. Chi Hua is a private car driver who regularly takes his clients to their destinations upon payment of a fee. Without letting Mei Yen know that he will join the party, he appears in the party and has fun with his newly acquainted girlfriend Helen. As a result, he and Mei Yen quarrel and break up...

When fellow operatives and friends disappear during a mission in Hong Kong, Cleopatra Jones comes to help. She discovers the disappearance involves The Dragon Lady, a feared lipstick lesbian who runs a casino and the local drug trade.

Li Han-hsiang, one of the most experienced and respected filmmakers in Hong Kong, wrote and directed this charming and fascinating comedy of amorous complications and modern morals in the very middle of his forty year career. The two cities are Macau, where a love quartet is the source for sexy merriment, and Hong Kong, where a gambler tells a charming woman why there are four shackles hanging from his apartment ceiling!

A Thai army undercover drug agent infiltrates an opium ring in the Golden triangle, but falls in love with the woman ring leader.

This light-hearted action comedy hybrid-where crooks and cops work together to make a better Hong Kong - was hailed for its British humor and Italian style as well as its unique Chinese flavor. In fact, the Hong Kong Movie New named it "one of the most hilarious comedies among the Mandarin productions in recent years." Enjoy the fast-moving and funny tale of a pretty pickpocket tangling with jewel heists, wallet snatchings, and a drug trafficking ring.

Plain-clothes detective Wang is the best in his trade. One day he stumbles across a young girl's body who apparently is died of abortion. Wang investigates the guilty abortionist who leads Wang to a secret organization called "The Welfare Association". Actually it is an international prostitution racket. Wang sneaks into the association. When he is about to arrest the association's organizer, a girl, Lei, whose sister's death cause by the secret society, saves Wang in certain death. Wang arrests the organizer but has set her free from headquarter. Wang and Lei get together in getting the commander dismissed.

Hong Kong comedy film.

A ghost teaches a poor shopkeeper medicine, leading to tragedy.

The powerful mobster Leung, who is protected by the dangerous and wicked Huan Fai, sells two hundred Japanese weapons and ammunition to a Chinese gang. He uses the smuggler Luy Fu to bring the weapons but the smalltime thief Kim and his gang heist the shipment on the road and dump the cargo into the sea. However, he lures Luy Fu and asks a large amount to return the weapons with the intention of traveling abroad with his brother. Meanwhile Kim befriends Fan Ming, an undercover police office from Shanghai that is investigating the illegal activities of Leung. When the mobster finds that Fan Ming is a policeman, Leung ambushes him and Huan Fai and his men stab the officer that falls from a cliff into the sea. Kim brings Fan Ming's fiancée Ipi Feng to the house of his lover, the prostitute Hung, and tells Ipi Feng that her fiancé was murdered by Leung. She decides to revenge the death of her beloved Fan Ming with tragic consequences.

Wu Te-chuan is a young man trying to make a living in an easy way. But now he is penniless and will being thrown out of his Macau hotel. Kind- hearted hotel maid Hsiao Yen is the only one to help him in the world. One day, Wu plays a trick on the hotel owner. The scheme backfires and Wu has to flee to Hong Kong. Wu saves desperate painter Hsin. He convinces Hsin that his painting will sell if he is dead. After Hsin pretend to be dead, his paintings really can be sold well, but backfires finally. Then, Wu and Hsin team up and engage themselves full time in con games, gambling and sex inclusive. Finally, Wu is being chased by the ring enforcers but is saved. Finding himself in love with Hsiao Yen, Wu decides to turn a new leaf and live properly ever after.

With this film we tell the story of police tipster Polka Dots Liu, badge 369 but often jokingly called the Supremo. He entertains most of the times. Once, he brandishes a gun at a casino to stress a point. He wins the point and some credit, too. And he tries to chat up the barber's wife under the man's very razor. The barber gladly runs him out of town. The he pumps into a robbery and captures the robber by mistake. That's what he does when he gets his badge...

Director Li Han-hsiang teams up with Michael Hui in this tongue in cheek tale of extramarital affairs and corruption. Michael Hui and Wang Sheng are two loafers who prove they are good for something after all.

중국 고전문학 '금병매(金甁梅)'를 바탕으로 한 영화. 돈과 권력을 지닌 서문경은 어느날 길에서 우연히 마주친 반금련에 반한다. 반금련이 영웅호걸 무송의 형인 무대랑의 부인인 것을 알고 고심하던 서문경은 반금련의 이웃인 왕 노파와 짜고 반금련을 유혹하여 결국 정을 통하게 된다. 하지만 나중에 무대랑에게 들키게 되자 무대랑의 형 무송이 돌아와 이 사실을 알게 되어 자신들에게 큰일이 생길 것을 두려워한 서문경과 반금련은 무대랑을 독살하고, 두 사람은 결혼한다. 반금련을 첩으로 들인 서문경은 친구 화자허의 부인 이병아와도 눈이 맞아 정을 통하다가 음모를 꾸며 화자허의 재산까지 빼앗는다. 빈털터리가 된 화자허는 병으로 죽고, 서문경은 이병아도 첩으로 삼는다. 그렇게 음탕한 생활을 계속하던 서문경은 반금련과 잠자리를 갖던 중에 죽고만다.

Centers around gambling problems and both good and evil spirits.

Michael Hui plays four characters in this three-chapter, Hong Kong erotic comedy anthology set in Northern China during WWII.

A captivating examination of human obsession and love, Woman of the Night offers three stories in one film. In the first tale, a perverse young student with a voyeuristic habit spies on two of his female roommates. The second story follows an office manager who develops an infatuation with his secretary. The last part is a complex family drama about a debilitated father who forces his family to leave him, only to have a bittersweet reunion when his daughter’s life is threatened.

Taiwanese romance film.

A story of female sex workers across all social strata.

The bloodiest Kung Fu battles ever fought. The subtitle says it all, as there is hardly any story, but all the more raw fighting.

The parents of a young girl, Chou Shao Hwa were slaughtered by the Three Rogues of Black Hills; she escapes thanks to the help of the Blind Swordsman Zatoichi. He teaches her and her boyfriend fighting arts, and together they seek revenge on the Three Rouges.

A Shaw Brothers production that was filmed in Taiwan

A young innocent woman is raped by a gang of five men. Years later the young woman has matured into a sophisticated lady and singer. The five guys have gone their separate ways, however one by one, she finds them and sets about her revenge.

A deranged swordsman travels the land taking on all comers and defeats them all with ease. News of these vile fights travels fast, and before long two other students of the sword are dispatched to rein him in.

Taiwanese historical drama.

After being abandoned in the mountains the lovey snow maiden seeks her revenge.

Rare sword fighting martial arts film from Taiwan.