Cho Wai Kei

Jackie aka Asian Hawk is a mercenary adventurer. Jackie played in a band with her friends Alan and Laura before being fired from the band by Alan, who wanted Laura for himself. At the beginning of the film, Jackie steals from an African tribe a sword that is one of the five pieces of a high-value ar...

Patrick Tse Yin is the Thief of Thieves, a retired world-famous burglar now working as a security consultant. But there's a new rash of heists in town, leaving not only a trail of bodies with it, but also a single rose -- the Thief's calling card. Eager to clear his name, he must solve the crimes --...

Patriotic extravaganza concerning early 20th century political events in Taiwan. The Battle for the Republic of China won a 1982 Golden Horse Award for Best Film and Best Original Film Song. (Source: IMDB)

The dying master of the powerful Poison Clan dispatches his last pupil, Yan Tieh, on a crucial mission. Worried that the skills he has taught are being used to evil ends, he orders Yan to trace a retired colleague and warn him that the fortune he amassed from the clan's activities is under threat fr...

Cops investigate a criminal running an unsuspecting restaurant, while trying to trace the steps back to how he ended up running it suddenly.

A Hong Kong band led by Johnny explores the Indian side of the Himalayas mountains and discovers the eponymous Beijing Man, a gigantic monkey-like creature, as well as a beautiful blonde wild woman named Samantha, whose parents were killed in a plane accident. Samantha was raised by Utam (the Beijin...

In the 21st year of Jiajing, Jiajing Emperor superstitions alchemy in order to live forever, and Shuntianfu was surprised to see the girl trapping the killings. Many unsuccessful girls were trapped and opened to take blood, leaving a round of scars on the neck. Rivers and lakes rumored that this wou...

He Ming Zhu seeks revenge against a gambling syndicate who forced her father's suicide. (Source: IMDB)

An anthology film featuring three true-crime stories that took place in Hong Kong in the early 1970s. 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 mu...

Traffic cops set out to take down a spoiled, rich, reckless driver responsible for a school bus accident, in writer/director Danny Lee's examination of Hong Kong's traffic police, their joys and hardships. (Source: IMDb)

The Rat and the Cat have spent years arguing about who owns the most powerful kung fu. When the Cat was appointed guardian of the emperor, the Rat became deeply jealous and opened a plot to discredit his rival. Freely adapted from the novel "The Seven Heroes and the Five Galants".

The Emperor's armies have developed a new weapon: a spun blade that can remove someone's head from a long distance. As the Emperor, paranoid, begins to behead anyone whom he fears to consider a threat, his guard Mau Tang becomes disillusioned with the excesses of his master. He left his post and ret...

The movie involves two stories concerning the original Ten Tigers and their future disciples. The film opens with Tung Chi and his nephew, Liang Seo Hu, pursuing the disciples to take revenge for General Liang, who was the father of Liang Seo Hu, and who was also Tung Chi’s martial arts brother. Aft...

A knight finds himself protecting the life of a beautiful young lady being stalked by a bunch of assassins. (Source: Letterboxd)

Director Chang Cheh reunites the Five Venoms in his second biggest cult hit in the West. It's Lo Meng's most memorable performances whose showdown with fellow Venom Kuo Chue is artistically violent while being graphically artsy. (Source: IMDB)

An Asian version of Midnight Cowboy where Chin Han plays a male model thrust into sexual situations he wasn't prepared for. He finds himself alone, and is forced to move in with a sexually confused man, who he finds out too late, is his only true friend. The film broke new ground touching upon issu...

A magician makes money by charging people to cast love spells on the objects of their affection. Complications arise when he decides that he wants a customer's bride for himself.

Doctors dealing with patients noticed something weird going on, such as zombies with spikes in their heads and when removed, they melt down, patients vomiting up worms, spontaneous combustions, exploding bodies, demon fetuses and the disappearance of women. A male-witch is responsible for all these...

The Brave Archer 3, also known as the Blast of the Iron Palm, is a 1981 Hong Kong film adapted from Louis Cha's novel "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". The third part of the series The Brave Archer brings together Guo Jing and Huang Rong who are struggling to find a cure for the deadly blows of the...

The Sword Stained with Royal Blood is a 1993 Hong Kong film based on Louis Cha's novel Sword Stained with Royal Blood. "Godfather of the kung-fu film", Chang Cheh, made this treasured and beloved adventure featuring a sword, training manual, treasure map and a secret message. (Source: IMDB)

A evil Qing general is developing a brilliant plan to rid the Qing Empire of Shaolin masters once and for all. He invited three Shaolin experts from the North to his mansion and made them fight in a contest against three Shaolin novices from the South already present in his mansion. By royal decree,...

Kuo Chue is the new hero, who seeks to defeat the mass murderer of his masters in martial arts.

Master kung fu director Chang Cheh delivers this straight-ahead period martial arts saga. Tung Chien Chen was accepted into the hallowed Shaolin Temple even though he is Manchu, because his parents were both killed by the same. Shaolin has been locked in a fierce rivalry with the Wu Tang clan, which...

A band of four physically-challenged fighters learn to use their disabilities as their most lethal weapons when they stand up to save their town from a demonic tyrant.

A clever Shaw Brothers wuxia comedy about a young antihero getting himself and his friend (Max Mok) into all kinds of trouble with the formidable "Heavenly Demon". (Source: IMDb)

Two princes are seperated by birth. One is raised by the Prime Minister. The other is raised by three mad Shaolin Monks. They both learn kung-fu. When they are 23, they meet and combine there forces to defeat the evil 9th Prince. (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 insidious Masked Gang of hired killers have been terrorizing the countryside, with their mastery of the trident and an inherent brutality, raping and pillaging. But who are the men behind the mask, and what are the identities of the three chiefs in the gold masks? Chiang Sheng stars as Chi San...

"Godfather of the kung-fu film", Chang Cheh, made this treasured and beloved adventure. Yuan kicks off the story proper by finding a cave containing a skeleton, a treasure map, and a manual teaching him the Golden Snake style. (Source: IMDb)

A tale of deadly deception and betrayal unfolds when the leader of the respectable Iron Flag clan is assassinated by The Spearman while the clan fights the villainous Eagle clan. Iron Flag’s eldest brother, Lo, accepts the responsibility for the deaths of the Eagle clan and goes into hiding from the...

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...

A lone wanderer is repeatedly mistaken for someone else and drawn into a number of violent battles. (Source: IMDb)

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)

After her whole family was slaughtered under the order of the emperor, a pregnant martial artist is on the run, and struggles to avoid being caught or back-stabbed by even her closest friends. (Source: IMDb)

As an expert of the ‘Cross fists’ technique, a reclusive kung fu master Li Pai perfects a lethal maneuver called the ‘Shaolin Hand lock’ while an old wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing friend Fang Yun Piao pays the unwitting Li a visit. Armed with the deadly Hand lock maneuver, Cheng Ying and Kun Shih joins f...

The heroes pose as gun dealers and acrobats in order to get close to the bad guys so they can avenge the death of one of their brothers. (IMDB)

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. (IMDB)

Venom regulars Philip Kwok, Chiang Sheng, and Sun Chien star as a gang of unemployed martial artists who spend their days stuffing their faces at local restaurants and letting the staff beat them up instead of paying the bill. Their fortunes appear to improve when the head of a local security agency...

Sima Jun is 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...

A police officer is suspended for assaulting gang members who threatened a young woman and her boyfriend. Meanwhile, his fellow officers need help in catching a group of murderous thugs about to make a big time bust. (Source: Letterboxd)

Siu and Ma are two bandits who ride from town to town robbing banks and killing anyone who tries to stop them. When a hold up goes wrong, Siu is caught, and soon realizes that Ma has kept the money and isn't coming to rescue him. (Source: IMDB)

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...

A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit. (Source: TMDb) ~~ The film is a variation of Frank Capra's Lady for a Day and Pocketf...

A respected and well liked gang-boss is betrayed and killed. One of his three adopted sons are to take his place. One of them is the traitor. (Source: IMDB)

A Kung Fu master finds out that an opium den is destroying the lives of the town he lives in, and vows to put an end to the den, but first he must try to defeat the strongest enemy he has ever faced: his addiction to the drug itself.

A physically handicapped man revenge on criminals by using a magic spell that transforms him into an oily monster/superhero. (Source: Letterboxd)

The plot mostly involves the two main characters, Chung Tin Ching and Lo Ka Yiu, and problems they face with Mickey, a fellow inmate, and "Killer", a prison guard. Advertising designer Yiu is sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a Hong Kong prison for manslaughter. He was convicted for push...

Archaeologist Kwok Tun Wong brings his two students with him in search of ancient artefacts. They stumble upon a cave and discover three "geung sis" (Chinese "hopping" vampires) — an adult male, an adult female, and a child male. The vampires are immobilized because they have Chinese talismans with...

While in Thailand to avenge his brother who was crippled in a fight with a corrupt Thai boxer, a man gets caught up in a web of fate, Buddhism and black magic.

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...

A provincial detective seeks to take down a local gambling syndicate with the help of two convicts. (Source: IMDb)

Cheng Tzu Hao and Kao Ying Wei, are CID officers in Hong Kong that are transferred to the same action squad to help solve a number of robberies and murders committed by the notorious, vicious and unsympathetic robber and killer Ku Lung, from Shantung. (IMDB)

A notorious villain had escaped from the royal palace with a priceless jade and presented to an evil prince who was weeding out of rebels. The usurper had hidden the stolen jade and all incriminating evidences in a pagoda that was full of booby traps. That was the beginning of the story whereby many...

Taoist Priest Yu Ji is a victim of Magistrate Xu Gong's desire to kill General Sun Ce in a grab for power. Gong's plans go awry, as Yu Ji's spirit seeks revenge, after being publicly executed. (Source: IMDB)

The discovery of oneself and the awakening of a young man, who was exposed and fallen for the lucrative powers of wealth.(Source:IMDb)

Three refugees become sworn brothers during a war. One (Kuo Chui/Philip Kwok) works in a brothel, one (Chiang Sheng) in a gambling house, and the other (Lo Mang) in a martial arts school. They become embroiled in the war and are betrayed by one's mentor. (Source: IMDB)

The lead actress is Shu Pei Pei, who is quite forceful as a no-nonsense fighter decked out in an array of colorful swordswoman fashions. Her character is Miss Ba, whose brother is involved in some shady deals with the “rascals” from the title village. When he turns up dead, with a note implicating t...

A gang of former soldiers is hired by a mysterious lady who wants them to go to Cambodia to kidnap the murderer who killed his father.(Source: IMDb)

Huang Fei Hung, the greatest character in martial arts movie history, has been featured in many a gloriously filmed epic. But director Ho Meng Hua decided to cast Ku Feng, one of Shaws' finest actors, in the role, then film it hyper-realistically. The result is this unique experiment, as an all-too-...

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

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