Chao Hsiung

Cheng Kang both wrote and directed this exciting, historical, martial arts drama. Yueh Wah, a co-star in Trilogy Of Swordsmanship here plays the Sung Dynasty army's Chief Instructor, on a danger-fraught pilgrimage to the Tung Yueh Temple. From his first step, there are deceits, double crosses, and d...

A scientist has been attacked and a secret recipe stolen, so a private detective duo is hired to unravel the mystery. (Source: Karmarts Club YouTube)

The year is 1937, just before the Japanese invasion of China. The painters Ju Rui and Lao San fall on He Hua, a woman sold in the sex industry in a local brothel. Little by little, feelings develop between the shy couple, but the Japanese army arrives in town, and everyone's life changes radically.....

The Gun Brother is a mysterious and unidentified rebel who attacks the Japanese forces. By day he's a suave playboy and by night he is raiding the enemy. (Source: IMDb)

A general’s son is taken hostage and used as leverage to free a bandit leader. The general’s other offspring, a girl named Golden Swallow, is sent to rescue the son. When the bandit gang encounter the Golden Swallow in a local inn, the prisoner negotiation escalates to bloodshed and the goons are sw...

Golden Sword School is attacked by bandits. Servant Fang Cheng sacrificed his life to protect his master Qi Ru Feng. In thanks, Qi accepts the dying son of Fang Cheng, Fang Kang, as a pupil. Years later, Fang Kang was despised by his snob comrades because of his poor origin. Deciding that he will on...

After being involved in the theft of the sword of the jade dragon, Fan Ying was banished in the dragon marsh for 20 years. Today, 20 years later, the sword was stolen again, and members of the Lingshan clan are sent to search for the culprit. Among them is Qing Er, who meets a wandering epic looking...

A young swordswoman named Fang Ying Qi sets out to join a gathering of the martial world's leading warriors under the banner of Lord Xia and the Flying Dragon Clan. Their mission is to defend their country against invading forces.

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. (Source: Letterboxd)

A love story between an alluring female fairy, who seeks love on the world of mortal men and finds it in a man who takes care of an orphanage.

The noble Liu family are separated when bandits besiege their city, and some treasure goes missing. Many years later, a group of youngsters are tasked with finding the treasure and a Liu family heir. A swordsman gets caught up in the tale. (Source: IMDB)

The story revolves around Tian Yu Quan who rushes to the aid of an elderly fisherman who is bullied by an arrogant relative of the Qiu Shan ministry. Starring the stunning, teenage heartthrob Pat Ting Hung, The Butterfly Chalice marks the important directing debut of the kung fu film genre's most p...

A righteous clan’s effort to seek out and destroy the powerful Thundering Sword turns into a tragedy as a fierce, yet impulsive beauty falls in love with the leading clansman, mistakenly poisons his brother and only makes matters worse in an attempt to make amends. (Source: Letterboxd)

After a notorious rapist kills his master and entire clan, the Iron Buddha sets out for revenge. He’ll need a magic sword first though, naturally. (Source: Letterboxd)

Lone swordsman Jiang Dan-Feng is ambushed by a pair of bandits and quickly take care of them. One of them, as he is dying, asks Jiang to take his personal effects to his sister. (IMDB)

The Silver Fox is a throwback, the last of its kind where the heroic swordsmen are women. Lily Ho 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. (Source: Letterboxd)

After a dire mishap at a mine causing many to die or become injured, Master Chien decides to not pay out any funds to the survivors of the victims. 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 a...

An escort team was on a perilous journey to transport some gold. When they were ambushed by a gang of thieves and their gold shipment was robbed, a formidable student of the escort agency set off to the bandits' hideout. (Source: IMDb)

A wandering swordsman named Lu Fang who is returning from battle discovers that several farmers have kidnapped the local magistrate’s daughter. He sides with them after learning that this is an act of desperation to improve their low standard of living. The magistrate hires bandits and another fight...

Yueh Hua stars as an assassin who flees after killing a hated prime minister, with Lo Lieh as the relentless imperial guard who pursues him to a remote village being terrorized by bandits. When Yueh takes over the identity of a county officer newly assigned to the village, his ruse is assisted by a...

Six heroes are killed while investigating rampant lawlessness at Zhaoqing Temple where villains are posing as monks. The dead heroes’ senior brother Su Chen and his two apprentices pose as scholars in order to infiltrate the temple. When the life of the Emperor’s Inspector and his daughter are threa...

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 prot...

When Huang Fei Hung, a boxer from Guangdong, and his student Fatty go to Thailand to visit his friend Chu Kwai, they come across Little Lion, who was wounded by Kwok, an evil drill master of a martial arts school. (Source: Letterboxd)

Chan Chao, a knight of justice, who thwarts the plans of Minister Peng to assassinate the revered Judge Pao Cheng over and over again. Lo Lieh gives Chang a good run for his money as the evil and sinister henchman of Minister Peng.

The King with My Face offers a well-produced Shaw Bros. variation on Alexandre Dumas’ famous tale, “The Man in the Iron Mask.” (Letterboxd)

The title character is a chivalrous thief who raises the jealous ire of the rival Red Shirt Gang. There’s plenty of action in this adventure, which sweeps from the plains to the mountains … to the sound of slashing swords. (Letterboxd)

A woman lies dying in a women's prison after giving birth and recounts to a pickpocket how she ended up there after her husband was murdered by thugs, one of whom also raped her. The pickpocket agrees to raise her daughter to seek revenge, but in hopes of breaking the cycle of violence she hands the...

A young Kung Fu student seeks a reclusive teacher so that she may learn to defeat the evil Black Demon. She doesn't realize that the servant woman she befriends is actually the Kung Fu master she seeks. After the Black Demon's henchmen attack, the master reveals herself and eventually takes on the s...

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...

Dragon Nine, an imperial detective, is on his way back after concluding the case of the Thief Ghost. He encounters "Sword Saint" Yeh, who asks him to tell "Sword Deity" Simon to meet him for a duel on the night of the full moon at the highest rooftop of the Forbidden Palace. News of the upcoming due...

Husker, who was sent to the Shaolin Temple by the Iron Fisted Monk, after he saved Sammo from a beating by the Manchu's. After being trained by his master he runs away from the temple, only to be confronted by his master and forced to take the four tests. Whilst this is happening Fung Hark-On in div...

"King Boxer" follows the quest of a gifted young martial arts student as he struggles to win the All-China tournament despite ruthless acts of sabotage by his rivals.

The Lark is a Shaw Bros. musical that stars Carrie Ku Mei as a singer named Xiao Yun Shi, dubbed "the Little Lark," who comes to Hong Kong after a tour of other Asian countries, seeking to make connections to further her career. (Source: IMDB)

A 400-year old national treasure painting will be exhibited for the first time in Taipei. Jay, the hot-shot security officer in charge of the painting’s safety, is busy preparing for the event when his life is turned upside down by a bumbling tourist from Beijing – Ocean. He is the only witness to t...

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 fiancée. (Source: Letterboxd)

"Kanki no Uta" is set in a small town somewhere in Japan. Trouble begins when Iizuka, a manager of a local cultural center, realizes the center's concert hall has been double-booked for two all-housewives chorus groups on New Year's Eve. The lazy and usually irresponsible Iizuka tries to make both c...

Detective Lung is investigating the murder of his father and discovers his father belonged to a syndicate of smugglers. He finds out the murderer used to be his father's business partner and that he's now living in Hong Kong under a new name (Wang). Lung tries to lure Wang to Bali where he hopes to...

Lo Wei was twenty years into his notable career when he wrote, directed, and co-starred in this tale of a murdered lord and a hired killer who unknowingly becomes friends with his intended victim. A vicious bandit chief, a kind blind woman, and a death duel which explodes into an ambush and then a s...

Lei Ming is a noble young martial arts student who doesn't know the meaning of giving up. He faces a treacherous, blood-thirsty Japanese karate expert, which leads to many memorable battles as well as several unforgettable training sequences. (Source: TMBD)

Plain-clothes detective Wang is the best in his trade. One day he stumbles across a young girl's body who apparently has died of abortion. Wang investigates the guilty abortionist who leads him to a secret organization called "The Welfare Association". Actually it is an international prostitution ra...

A noble guard is both attacked by bandits as well as betrayed by a relative.

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