Fong Yuen

Yuen Fang is known for his work on The Singing Killer (1970), Five Fingers of Death (1972) and Sacred Knives of Vengeance (1972). He also worked as a make-up artist on over 300 films. He was active from 1937-1983.

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Wholesale fish market boss Yim Kin Ping has long been exploiting the community of a fishing village in the South Sea by suppressing fish prices and lending loans at high rates. Fishermen there have been enduring him meekly for years. A fishing boat owner Uncle Mun has a daughter Dai Tai who admires...

Xuan, a business tycoon, falls in love with the beautiful mermaid sent to kill him after his latest project kills many of her people.

In July 1945, a Soviet military expert, Gavril (Luo Fei), was abducted by the Japanese on his way to China with important information. A special operation team led by Ma Longchuan was sent by the Kuomintang to rescue him, but failed miserably. At the same time, Wang Wenyuan of the Eighth Route Army...

Humble medicine store apprentice Xu Xian falls in love with Bai Niang, a woman who claims to be the descendant of a rich family. However, Xu Xian soon discovers that Bai Niang is actually a white snake sorceress who has taken human form. The young couple is then torn apart by a group of monks who wi...

In this version of Puccini's tragic opera tale, a man from Hong Kong falls in love with a Geisha during a trip to Japan. His mother disapproves and calls him home where he meets with an accident preventing his return to Japan for years resulting in misunderstandings and heartache.

Loosely adapted from Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre", the story narrates the entangled love between middle aged entrepreneur Xia Zong Yu and private tutor Yu Jia Yin.

This version of Puccini's tragic opera has Madame Butterfly set in Vietnam. She falls in love with a foreigner who abandons her and she bears his son. When he returns years later he has a new wife with him.

Two pickpockets infiltrate the Ge family and scam them for money in order to gain enough funds to be married. (Source: The Butterfly at MyDramaList)

Due to an accident, the delivery worker Cao De Wang must try to issue a non-biological certificate and send his dependent son Cao Sheng to the orphanage. (Source: Douban) ~~ Movie aired on 24.10.2021 at Chongqing Youth Film Festival. Still waiting for cinema premier

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)

"Moonlight Serenade" opens with a journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake, as he remembers a trip made as a young boy. Then, he and his family take a boat trip from Awaji to Beppu in order to bury the ashes of his elder brother, killed in the just-ended WWII.

Tu Cheng Kang teaches at the Ta Tap Middle School where pupils are delinquent. Tu’s class is the worst. As the headmaster and his fellow teachers are unable to cope with the unruly students, Tu is determined to win them over with kindness. He fails initially but does not despair. Kao Te Sheng, nickn...

Shen Chiang both wrote and directed this monumental tale of three entire kingdoms. The aggressive and dangerous Chin empire occupies the put-upon Chao kingdom while Wei empire is paralyzed by an indecisive ruler. Adventure, intrigue, death and tragedy reigns before the triumphant clash of the armies...

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 10-year-old general's daughter Nie Yin Niang is handed over to a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed in a task, she is sent back by her mistress to the land of...

A French chef and former assassin went to Macau and Hong Kong to avenge the brutal murder of his daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren. He helps three local hired killers to carry out his quest for revenge. A co-production with France with dialogues in English, French and Cantonese.

Assassin Ah Jong is accidentally damages the eyes of the singer Jennie during a shootout. He later discovers that if Jennie does not have an expensive operation soon, she will go blind. To get the money for Jennie, Ah Jong decides to perform one last hit. Meanwhile, the police detective Li who has b...

The plot involves a high-tech gang of thieves, a legit jeweler caught up in their racket, and a female jewel buyer who’s actually a police agent assigned to infiltrate the gang and bring them down. (Source: IMDB)

Agent 009 has to break up a ring of Hong Kong counterfeiters who are shipping forged US dollars all over Asia. (Source: Letterboxd)

A romantic Han Dynasty adventure epic of a dying Emperor, an Evil Queen, a beautiful Princess, a dastardly royal nephew, and a masked hero, with plots and counter-plots galore, complete with cliffhangers and last-second rescues. (Source: IMDB)

A computer engineer working for an insurance company stops over in Hong Kong on his way to a conference. He gets tricked into breaking into a bank. (Source: IMDB)

Private eye Chang Wen Chiang receives a telephone call from his girlfriend Li Lan Hsing. He rushes over and finds her dying in a pool of blood. (Source: Letterboxd)

The future legendary director Chu Yuan had just joined the Shaw Brothers when he directed this thriller of bandits who are battling each other. The public loved to watch three pairs of cunning crooks, men and women, who are trying to steal a million taels of gold from Fu Lai's Treasury home... I don...

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...

This scary kung fu combat film focuses on the evil Madame Kung Sun and her poisoned "finger of misfortune", a unique supernatural power that allows her to turn normal and ordinary people into horrible zombies! Faced with this devastating talent, only one person has the courage to arrest Madame Kung...

Zhang Shijie is an international spy who has to seduce Julie Tan, the daughter of an organization’s leader in order to find their headquarters. (Source: Letterboxd)

The Shaw Brothers' take on James Bond. Pursued by the murderous Skeleton Gang, three people travel from Bangkok, Thailand to the ruins of the ancient Siamese capital Ayutthaya in search of lost treasure, using three small Buddha statues. (Source: IMDb)

Li Bing, a nightclub entertainer and a reformed thief was caught up in a fight against a criminal syndicate after forcing a cohort to return the wallet he previously stole from an assistant of a scientist who has just recently completed a doomsday device. (Source: Letterboxd)

Georgie is a Chinese-Japanese gangster who hates Japan and has promised to destroy his economy with gold smuggling. Followed by the secret agent Yang Ming Xua, a man of Chinese origin but raised in Japan who defends the country's honor against villains like George. (Source: filmaffinity.com)

Ge Tian Li is an assassin who always gets her man, but this time she's the target. (Source: IMDb)

The upright and invincible leader of the Wulin clan Lord Yin Ke Feng helps the Luoyang government to escort two hundred million worth of gold annually and has never made a mistake. However, he accidentally loses his martial arts skills and the gold is stolen by Chao Hong, leader of the Flying Tigers...

When a frantic prince is captured by Chin forces and guarded by an expert in mortal martial arts, rebel leader Sung Bao Ting Tien is teaming up with the mysterious Petite Chauve-Souris to save the royal during a perilous mission.

Fang Gang has hung up his signature broken sword and is living peacefully with his wife. However, a band of tyrannical sword masters take over the country, using their own signature styles and unique weapons to conquer all the sword fighting schools. They capture all the masters and teachers of the...

Jin Fei, known as the King Eagle, stumbles into conflict within the Tien Yi Tong when he falls in love with the clan's 7th chief, Yuk Lin.

In 1925 China, Kuan Hsiao Lou returned to Beijing to track down and kill the men who murdered his brother. (Source: IMDb)

A young woman sets out to reunite feuding brothers to take out a gang of killers who have murdered their father.

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...

The wandering swordsman, Yu Hsieh Er, travels around seeking adventure and meets a group of bandits who are planning to rob a convoy escorting some valuables. Initially, he is tricked by them into participating in the robbery but then realises his folly, and he returns to take his revenge on them....

Lady General Hua Mulan is a 1964 Hong Kong Huangmei opera musical film, directed by Yuek Feng, depicting the story of Hua Mulan. [Source: Wikipedia]

The film starts with a necessary historical exposition explaining the delicate position of the Sung dynasty and the various figures desperate to take over the throne. The main threat to the Chinese throne is bloodthirsty Tartars who begin to descend towards the capital with rulership on their minds....

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.

Golden Swallow revolves around the further adventures of its title character. This time around, she is forced into violence when a figure from her mysterious past goes on a killing rampage while leaving evidence that holds her responsible. Golden Swallow also makes room for a love triangle involving...

A Huangmei opera produced by Shaw Brothers about a carp spirit who transforms into an identical copy of a beautiful woman to win the heart of a lonely male scholar. (Letterboxd)

The Yang family, men and women, had served their country (Song Dynasty) loyally for generations. During the war with Western Xia, General Yang Tsung-pao is ambushed and killed. His death leaves his only son, Yang Wen as the only male heir left to the Yang family. His widow, Mu Kuei-ying, the grand m...

This Classic seductive tale of two snakes who assume human forms will send chills of pleasure down viewers’ backs. It tells the story of two sister serpents, Pak Su Cheng and Ching Ching. Su Cheng meets Hsu Hsien one day and recognizes him as her savior in another life 1,000 years ago. She marries h...

A mortal, a ghost and a fox fairy come together against evil in this supernatural wuxia film. (Source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Liaozhai Zhiyi" (Strange stories from a Chinese studio) by Pu Song Ling.

The youngest daughter of a brutal king, the princess openly disapproves of the flogging and cruel treatment that her royal family inflicts on the peasants. As a result, the heartless king turned against his own daughter and forced her into exile. (Letterboxd)

The Goddess of Hua Mountain is imprisoned for falling in love with a mortal, meanwhile her son is raised in secret until he can attempt to free her. (Source: Letterboxd)

The title of the film refers to a baby that Chen, a male teacher in an all girls' school, minded as a favor in a doctor’s office, only to find the mother left him with Chen. Chen has to take care of the baby and, inevitably, has to bring him to school and hide him, as he lives there also. (Source:...

Tong Po Ka has been trapped and put in prison. In order to survive, he must kill other prisoners, much like the gladiators of old. His sword skills are so impressive, that not only does he stay alive, but he is sought after by the boss of The Assassination Factory - and reluctantly agrees to join th...

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 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...

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...

Their team's ace captain Gao Qianhe works together with his good friend Zhao Cheng and other rescuers to complete the mission of saving lives in the face of a major catastrophe. An overturned drilling platform, a fuel truck swept downstream and a fully loaded passenger plane that has crashed into t...

A rare case of a remake that approaches the heights of its classic predecessor, Love Without End is as touching as the black-and-white original. Jenny Hu is a worthy successor to the late movie queen Linda Lin Dai in the role of a village girl who becomes a nightclub singer and finds true love, only...

A grand melodrama about a summer in farm country spent by a pretty city girl whose parents are going through a divorce. The protagonist is Yung Wei, a girl from Taipei who spends an eventful summer at the farming household of her uncle, aunt, two grown male cousins and a female teenage cousin. Als...

A group of evil bandits are terrorizing the land from their invincible mountain castle. The high commanding official decides to put a stop to this and commands one of his officers to gather a group of Kung Fu masters to put an end to the terror. But everything is not that simple and straight-forward...

The story is loosely based on historical events from the end of the 9th century in Imperial China when the Tang Dynasty court no longer had effective control of its empire. After Huang Chao's anti-government army sacked the national capital Chang'an, the Shatuo leader, Li Ke Yong, led his troops to...

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)

Lo Lieh plays an escort who is the best of the best and must protect a shipment of silver from both thieves and treachery alike. (Source: HKCM)

A kung fu knight walks the road to vengeance after the evil Ghost Gang kills his wife and son. The swordsman known as “Twin Blades” must take on a quartet of color-coded cutthroats to set things right. (Source: Letterboxd)

The plot follows the titular sisters, Ruo Lien, Ruo Lan and Ruo Mei whose clan protects the famous mighty steel sword, a powerful weapon much sought after by their rivals, in particular the nasty Chu Tien Hsiang (played by the legendary actor Lo Lieh,) who aims to use it to become number one in the...

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)

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...

In this stirring saga of the "Martial Arts World," Lo Lieh plays a righteous swordsman trying to protect another hero's wife and daughter from a corrupt minister's murderous plans. (Source: IMDb)

Chuan Yuan is the noble, powerful hero and Shu Pei Pei, one of Shaw’s top swordswoman, is a reluctant bride who comes upon a rebellion plot. They are joined by a large cast of expert fighters and actors all keeping the intrigue and adventure foremost in the film. (Source: Letterboxd)

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)

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)

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)

A nameless swordsman sets out to claim the title of King of the Swords. He must defeat hordes of challengers, and even runs afoul of a cunning seductress. (Source: 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)

Award-winning actor Ku Feng is Lei Chen-tien, a vicious, cunning, murderous brigand who wants the title treasure. Tsung Hua is Tai Tien-chou, the handsome swordsman who wants to avenge his father's death. Wang Ping is Wu Hsiao-yen, the lovely girl who must disguise herself as a boy to take on this p...

Here Lo Lieh (future international star of King Boxer) plays a dedicated chief constable for Tsang Chou village, who falls in love with the blind daughter of a bandit who is wreaking havoc. (Source: IMDb)

A wandering swordsman protects a family from the wrath of a clan chief. (Source: IMDB)

While he is out looking for those who caused his family's deaths, a young man decides to travel to Dragon Valley to encounter the childhood friend he has long since been betrothed to. On his way there, he finds out that the bride's household might not be as honourable as it seemed, and the discovery...

Frankie Wei Hung is the Swordsman At Large, who everyone wants to kill. They even create a superlative sword simply for this purpose, but the blade is soon coveted even more than the hero’s death by it! Bandits, beauties, and blade masters battle for survival in this exciting story of deceit, betray...

Bai Yu Lung's father mysteriously disappears one night, and for 10 years Bai searches for him in vain. Finally, he decides to head to the far northern part of the country with the hope that he can find a clue in that region. There he meets and befriends Ngai Jin Feng, a vagabond and skilled fighter...

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 vengeful woman picks up her sword and seeks out the notorious Golden Hair Mouse for high-flying, hard-hitting revenge. (Source: Hong Kong Cinemagic/IVL)

After the Ming Emperor is overthrown and his infant son put in the care of the Black Dragon Society, a traitorous martial arts clan attacks the society and forces two inexperienced swordsmen to flee with the infant and begin a dangerous journey in search of allies. (Source: Letterboxd)

This top ten hit reunites Come Drink With Me's stars for a new adventure. Whether single-handedly fighting sixteen bandits, avenging her father's death, or solving multiple murders, our heroine shows why she's Hong Kong's number one sword - and whip - woman! (Source: IMDb)

Black Butterfly steals from the rich and gives to the poor. In reality, she is Bao Zhu, the daughter of retired swordsman Kwan Yee. Trouble starts when a bandit gang who she has robbed come to town looking for her. (Source: IMDB)

Set in the Spring and Autumn era of ancient China. Duke Ling of state Jin specially trusts the traitor minister Tu and allows him to exterminate premier Zhao's family. Loyal official Cheng sacrifices his own son as an impostor to save Zhao's baby. (Source: IMDB)

Liu Wen Lung's home is attacked by bandits led by Chou Chao. Liu's wife was killed, but his son Yu Long was saved by a faithful servant by hiding in a well. While tracking down the bandit, his disciple Hu Chi Feng attempted to rape a villager. Liu Wen Lung discovers the attempt and Hu escaped, but n...

Wei Fu is a seemingly unremarkable woodcutter but when his family is wiped out by psychotic marauders, Wei undertakes extensive martial arts training at the hands of an expert swordsman and sets out to exact revenge on the evildoers. (Source: IMDB)

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.

A small village is taken over by the 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, an...

The film is the tale of a noble swordsman and a one-armed swordswoman who find themselves up against the evil Crimson Charm gang of thieves and thugs.

"The Anonymous Heroes" is a 1971 Hong Kong Shaw Brothers action-comedy post-Chinese Revolution adventure of rebels battling warlords film directed by Chang Cheh.

It’s a no-holds-barred battle to the death for possession of the invaluable Purple Sword.

The chief of Mount Hua and the leaders of Eight Schools sends famed martial artist, Guo Jiou Ru to locate a coveted manual written by the late King of the Martial World. Split into two parts, the manual details skills to turn the practitioner into a supreme fighter. The Yin family possesses one of t...

This Kung Fu film written by Wei Lo tells the story of a ruthless Eunuch who is willing to do whatever it takes to be the most powerful man in the country.

The Weiss Advertising Co under manager Lo Yu Chun and the Jen An Advertising Co. managed by playboy Tsao Chung Nien are business rivals. The former works hard but without much success. The latter, with most of his staff perusing racing forms or gossip magazines, gets far more business. The anticipat...

An advertiser working for her father's nylon stocking company becomes the secretary to her father's competitor. Things get even more challenging when they fall in love. (Source: IMDb)

In "Lady With A Sword", Kao Pao Shu showed that women could successfully direct a "heroic swordsman" film using a swordswoman bent on revenge. Kao cast Shaw's darling Lily Ho as the embittered swordswoman searching for the man who murdered her sister. The man turns out to be her fiance' but her nihi...

For noble college and Kung Fu student, Yen Tzu Fei, there can be no forgiveness or mercy, as an unscrupulous Japanese financier's sordid family literally rapes and pillages everything Yen holds dear. It's a fight to the finish against both his oppressors and their even more venal collaborators.

A sword-filled thriller centering on the title location - an inn where the down and dirty meet to plot nefarious doings.

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

A member of the Red Peony troupe, singer Tang Pei Hua, is renowned for her beautiful voice and appearances. Her beauty, however, invites the unwanted attentions of cruel and lecherous warlord Cao Lin. In order to escape Cao's grasp, Tang and her lover, Lin Ke Qiang, decide to run away to the south w...

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...

A swordswoman is out to avenge her father's death at the mid-autumn festival. The story includes a hunchbacked, one-armed character and showcases the "Poisonous Dragon Sword" style. (Source: Letterboxd)

Chiao Tzu Wei hires a killer under the premise that the local government (run by the local kung fu school) is corrupt and extorting the people of the town. The killer happens to be Hsieh Chun (aka Hsiao Hu) who left town ten years ago. (When Hsieh Chun opens up a suitcase full of knives, you know th...

"Devil Girl" is a witch who is intent on playing one clan off against another to get her hands on two mirrors which have supernatural powers. Only a noble swordsman played and beautiful swordswoman can prevent her from achieving her evil goals.

The swordsman Zhang Zhen is injured in a misadventure and rescued by Eldest Sister of Changchun Sect, who has a crush on him. However, Zhang falls in love with the maid, Yue Nu, instead and conceives twins with her. The couple is killed by a group of evil pugilists later. The Eldest Sister is angry...

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...

When a bogus teacher dupes his student into accepting a duel he cannot win, he unfortunately accepts and ends up losing an arm. After the duel, he retreats to a small village where he finds humble work as a waiter. However, when trouble comes to town, and justice must be served, he realizes that he...

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...

"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.

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...

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)

A philandering business tycoon accuses his angelic wife of cheating. He learns the hard way he had it good and hopes to win his wife back.

Japanese writer/director Inoue Umetsugu - as with "Hong Kong Nocturne" and "Hong Kong Rhapsody" - really sinks his teeth into this death-filled haunted house mystery. Three men and three women beguile, blackmail, bicker, and backstab (sometimes literally) each other all the way to a shocking surpris...

A woman in an arranged marriage falls in love with her husband’s brother. When she fails to ensnare the righteous man she becomes the mistress of another man with disastrous results. (Source: HKMDB)

A follow-up to the previous year’s megahit Hong Kong Nocturne, with the same Japanese creative team, Hong Kong Rhapsody follows the fortunes of an unemployed magician whose love life is so knotty it would take Houdini to unravel! (Letterboxd)

This gripping story centers on the romance between Wang Chin Lung and Sue San. Although they may be perfectly matched when it comes to their love for one other, the two come from remarkably different social ranks. While Chin Lung is the son of a respected government official, Su San is a prostitute,...

Ling Bo is Lin, a young man engaged to the daughter of a rich man, who now despises Lin because of his family’s declining status. Lin visits his beloved fiancée before he heads towards the imperial city to participate in the civil service examination, only to find her maid lying dead in blood. Lin i...

The Love Eterne is a 1963 Hong Kong musical film of the Huangmei opera genre directed by Li Han Hsiang,one of the major directors in Shaw Brothers Studio. It is based on the Chinese classic story The Butterfly Lovers, which is sometimes referred to as the Romeo and Juliet of the Far East.

Ivy Ling Po stars as a male student named Xiaowen. Wicked rich man Liu, portrayed by Lo Wei, the director of this film, wants Xiaowen to marry his daughter who is suffering from leprosy, thinking that marriage will take away her disease. Although Xiaowen discovers Liu’s plan, he is still in love wit...

Hsiu Hsiu, a beautiful singing shepherdess, falls head over heels in love with a handsome boatman named Liu Ta Lung. (Source: IMDb)

1960s fashions, pop tunes, and gorgeous stars combine to make this one of Hong Kong's most sumptuous Hollywood-style musical extravaganzas. Following the success of "Les Belles", the director reunited Shaws' top light comedy team in a tale set in the worlds of fashion and medicine. The fun includes...

A young female song and dance performer travels to Japan with the troupe. She contacts a young man through a lonely-hearts ad to relieve loneliness. And the young man happens to be her troupe master. Acknowledged as one of the greatest Hong Kong musicals, it infuses its wispy plot with such style an...

A comedy about three henpecked men and how they cope with not only their wives but a society which says they should rule the roost. A comedy of errors complicates their already complicated lives and wives.

This Huangmei Opera is complete with a gender-bending tale where the male lead is played by female and the female lead poses as a man. The youth suffer from evil family relations and the conflict between duty, obligation and true love. (Sources: Letterboxd|IMDB)

It seems that Li Zhen Fei was once an imperial concubine, who often found herself competing with her rival Madame Liu for the emperor’s undivided attention. When Li gives birth to the Emperor’s child, the jealous Liu switches the boy with a cat and commands a servant named Kou Zhu to kill the baby....

A jewel thief decides to turn over a new leaf. He starts anew as a professional singer; but before long, he becomes suspect again for a series of robberies. He sets up a trap to snare the copycat thief, but will it snare him instead? (Source: Letterboxd)

Based on one particular storyline from The Water Margin, Three Sinners weaves an intriguing story of romance, treachery, and death, all within the context of the traditional Huang Mei Opera. A woman finds herself in the middle of a stormy love triangle involving her controlling husband and a passion...

An imperial minister Cheng Pu is faced with a quandary. He’s getting old and his daughters are still not married. Elder daughter Shueh Yeh is so ugly no one wants her. Younger daughter Shueh Wu is beautiful but Mrs Cheng refuses to let her marry before her elder sister. The drama unfolds when Cheng...

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)

David Chiang stars as a nightclub vocalist whose former criminal friends blackmail him into working with them again. (Source: TMDB)

Two sisters, Ching-ping and Pai Hung struggle to find a workable act after their magician father and younger sister leave to try their luck in Taiwan. A good friend gets them cast in a new movie, and the rest is history…. This film is a glitter-clad endorsement for women in the entertainment indust...

The tale of a female trio singing and dancing in night city of Hong Kong's everyday life. (Source: IMDb)

Wen Fei E is both an excellent academic as well as a martial arts expert. Since her childhood days she was fond of dressing up as a boy. She becomes a village scholar sharing classes with Tu Zi Zheng and Wei Zhun Zhi . When Fei E's innocent father is framed and sent to prison, she rushes to his res...

A kind-hearted pickpocket thief steals from the rich to raise seven poor orphans with whom he lives in a rundown church. (Source: IMDB)

"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...

The husband-and-wife team of Ivy Ling Po and Chin Han returned to another Huangmei Opera classic after Lady General Hua Mu-Lan. Helmed by Chow Sze-loke and written by Chang Cheh, the story revolved around two intellectual siblings, Ching Feng-sheng (Chin Feng) and Ching Feng-hsiao (Ivy Ling Po), who...

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)

Uninhibited youth, Zhang Chun, and his friends, David and Mary, while cruising on their car, meet rich heiress Wen Rou. Chun and Rou fall in love at first sight and begin dating. (Source: IMDB)

A handsome stranger strolls into a casino one evening and all but cleans out the house, beating 160-1 odds at dice by getting three of a kind. He informs beautiful proprietress Miss Cui that he actually came there for her and reveals himself as her betrothed, Luo Tianguang. The couple wed, but their...

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life. (Source: Letterboxd)

A magician-warrior protects a man from an ambush, not knowing of his true villainous nature. (Source: IMDB)

A petty thief who knows just enough kung fu to fight back when attacked, but not enough to do much damage. Soon, he undergoes training under the tutelage of a derelict posing as a ghost, who seeks to have him carry out his mission of revenge. (IMDB)

In a rare reversal of typecasting, Shaw Brothers' perennial bad guy Lo Lieh breaks tradition to play the honorable and noble swordsman in The Swift Knight. Similar to Danny Kaye's The Court Jester without the jest, it's a tale of brave knights, chivalry and fair maidens where the Swift Knight finds...

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...

A group of Song Dynasty loyalists aim torescue Prime Minister Wen from a Tartar prison. The action takes place during the tartar domination in the 1300s.(Source: IMDB)

Nieh Cheng lives and wants to die by the Junzi code. Yen Chung Tzu seeks him out for an act of revenge. Nieh's promise to his mom prevents him from agreeing. When she passes, Nieh seeks to fulfill his destiny. (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...

Do Cheol has been taking care of his sick wife for a long time. One night, through a hospital window, he witnesses a murder in an alley. As the murderer sees him, Do Cheol runs along the narrow side street, chased by the murderer. After he just manages to tide over crisis, he goes to a bar and has a...

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...

The deadly weapon that the Scarlet Maid shows to Lian Zhu in The Twin Swords is left in her and Gui Wu's custody to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. Unfortunately, in their carelessness they are followed by thieves and the weapon is taken to the Flying Tigers clan. With the Phoenix Lute...

The Twin Swords takes up the story right where Temple of the Red Lotus had left it, and Lian Zhu and Gui Wu continue to lead it. After having eloped from the family's castle, the married couple witness a group of women being kidnapped and taken away to the Red Lotus Temple. They decide to go to thei...

Fan Ke and Wen Lie are back, and this time they're up against a powerful Japanese crime syndicate. Not only that, but Killer, the head villain from "Duel of Fists", has escaped prison and wants retribution. Killer's revenge plot leads to Wen Lie's girlfriend's kidnapping and forces the two heroes to...

Filmed on location in Bangkok, the story concerns a Hong Kong engineer, Fan Ko, who goes to Thailand to find his long-lost half-brother, Wenile, who is a Muay Thai boxer.

Drama

This story is about Shi Yi, a gentle pleasant and low-key but industry's top voice actress, who ran into the elegant returnee chemistry professor Zhou Sheng Chen at the airport one day. They gradually develop a mutual understanding in getting along with each other, and join hands to preserve traditi...

~~Adapted from the 2012 Hong Kong-Taiwanese manhua of the same name by Jerry Cho Zi Ho (曹志豪).

The story of six young people living together in the same apartment in Beijing.

Sui Ning always had a good relationship with her father when she was little because her mother was dead. As she grew older, their relationship grew father apart. Soon, she becomes a workaholic and thinks her father was just plain annoying. One day, her father tells her to go with him to his home vi...

Ning Jin Hai is a Bai Yu Jing assassin - a place where homeless women gather and train to become murderous women. These assassins are then sent under the name "Yin Niang". This drama tells the story of the "Yin Niang". Source : Baidu

Bai Su Zhen is a white snake spirit who wants to ascend to the heavenly kingdom as a fairy goddess. To reach her goal, she must atone her past life mistakes. She was the beauty Xi Shi who bewitched the King Fuchai and caused the befall of his kingdom. Now that King Fu Chai is reborn as a total worth...

A serpent-lady, Bai Su Zhen, has a dream to be a goddess someday. The goddess Guan Yin tells her that it is going to be a long and arduous process, in which she is required to increase her virtue and to sever all forms of worldly relations. Yet, during the process, she meets the scholar Xu Xian. The...

"Confucius said: if you set on a path of revenge, dig up two graves for you and your enemy." Hoi Chiu grew up in an orphanage that is sponsored by "Uncle Rain", who is also Hoi Chiu's pen pal and guardian. While Hoi Chiu approaches the family Kiu that ruined her family, making her an orphan and pl...

TV Show

A music contest program in which 10 'uncontrollable' idols representing the music industry compete for the 'best duet' spot. (Source: Naver)

Mango TV's new variety show "The Protectors" is a pioneering experimental travel reality show. The four members are going to feel the natural environment that is about to disappear, the Arctic. Through the members' trip, they will feel the intense friendship between men and the concept of cherishing...

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