Johnson Tsao

Johnson Tsao is an art director who has worked on over 200 movies. He was active from 1958-1983.

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Name Johnson Tsao

Nationality Hong Konger

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The story centers on the passionate and turbulent romance between a tea-picker girl, Yu Lan, and a fisherman, Chun Yang. Complications soon arise when a love rival, Hu San Bao, appears. (Source: IMDB)

A film on Chinese musical.

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)

Asako, a daughter of an old banker Ryosuke Komiya, worked as a female clerk at Yahari Bank, but every morning she comes to work earlier than anyone else, cleaning up and handing tea even when not on duty earning scorn from the other female workers. On a trip to collect a debt for the bank he father...

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.

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...

Demon Princess Elzebub plots to conquer the Earth. She destroys a few major cities in China to prove her power to terror-stricken humanity. Returning to her lair in Inner-Earth, she awakens her army of Skeleton Ghosts and various Ice Monsters to wreak havoc on the surface. But there is hope, the hig...

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

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 story of a seemingly suicidal mission to destroy the Japanese Navy's flagship in 1937. (Source: IMDb)

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...

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...

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.

A cop is assigned a rag-tag bunch of misfits to go after a drug runner. (Source: IMDb)

Determined to escape China's harsh regime to join Hong Kong's freedom, three young people were captured by Mr. Hok, a smuggler of sadistic illegals who subjected them to an incessant assault of degradation. Pushed to the limits of human endurance, prisoners must fight for their lives in an unforgett...

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 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)

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)

A coolie is offered a job as policeman after saving a government official, and through treachery and corruption rises through the ranks of the police, then becomes a gangster. (Source: IMDB)

Shatter, an international hitman, is hiding out in Hong Kong after he has completed a contract out on an African leader. Shatter soon finds out that everyone wants him dead, including the crime syndicate, the cops and the brother of the African leader he killed. Shatter teams up with a kung fu exper...

Liu Yung is the brother whose destiny is to become a top mobster. Danny Lee is the brother fated to become a cop. (Source: IMDb)

1. A crash leaves a man dead, and his wife badly injured. Soon, he returns as a ghost to try to take her with him. 2. A caretaker wins the lottery thanks to the saucer spirit. Things begin to go wrong when he breaks his promise to it. (Source: IMDb)

Police corruption is the theme of this brutal announcer of the dark "new wave" polar. Pai Piao, Danny Lee and "Venom" Sun Dog play the roles of idealistic graduates of the police school who encounter a depravity so vicious and murderous that the cop who is killed first could be considered the lucky....

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

Constantly mistreated by her cruel husband, the frail Chan Sau Ying awaits certain death from tuberculosis. The new servant girl, Yi Wah takes pity on her mistress’ plight and the pair proceed to drown him one evening. They dump his body in a near-by pond but Sau Ying believes that the man’s bloated...

A necrophiliac killer is murdering the prostitutes at Madame Lan's brothel. (Source: Letterboxd)

The story revolves around a possessed young policewoman who seems to be out killing everyone who gets in her way. Her boyfriend, photographer and boss at work are all suspicious of her and are out to find out what’s the problem. With a story focusing on possession, vengeful spirits and murder, you’r...

"Blood Brothers" follows two aimless bandits Chang Wen Hsiang and Huang Chang who attempt to rob Ma Xin Yi. Unable to defeat him, they join forces and are soon thrashing hoodlums and even taking over a nearby group of bandits. But soon it becomes apparent Ma's ambitions far outreach those of his fri...

The plot is based on the story of how "Jade Unicorn" Lu Jun Yi came to join the outlaw band at Liangshan Marsh and the outlaws' battle with the Zeng Family Fortress. ~~ Adapted from the classical Chinese novel Shi Nai'an's "Water Margin".

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 anti-Ching patriots, under the guidance of Ho Kuang-han, have secretly set up their base in Canton, disguised as school masters. During a brutal Manchu attack, San Te manages to escape and devotes himself to learning the martial arts in order to seek revenge. In a short period of time he masters...

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.

Legendary fighter Wu Sung is sent to prison in Meng province after murdering his sister-in-law and her lover. He meets with prison officer Shih En, who saved Wu from the punishment by stick required for the new prisoners. Wu learns that Shih's restaurant, called the "Delightful Forest", has been occ...

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...

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

Chen and his cute sister are the main attraction of a martial arts theater show. Mr. Tuan, an unscrupulous boss who has long since set his eyes on the young woman, by trickery manages to blame Chen for rape and makes him helpless by mutilating his hands while forcing the girl to stay in her home as...

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...

The workers of a dye factory have their pay cut by 20% when the factory owner brings in some Manchu thugs to try and increase production. Desperate to reclaim their full wages, the workers hire an actor to impersonate a priest and Kung-fu expert from the temple of Shaolin. The factory owner proves...

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....

The monk Hung Wen Ting fights against the evil priest of the White Lotus after his friends and relatives have been killed by the murderous clan. (Source: IMDb)

Wei Fung, a young scholar recruited by the Emperor to infiltrate a group of rebels in the Tien Clan in order to get evidence of the clan's connection to Ming loyalists, the rebel spy network and anti-Ching activities. If Wei fails in his mission, his own well-connected family will be punished.

A couple unite - she is fluent in the crane style of kung fu, he in tiger style. Together, they have a son, Wen Din, whom both of them train. But the boy's father is killed by the evil eunuch Bai Mei. Disguised as a girl, his mom trains him in crane style while he secretly learns tiger style from hi...

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...

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...

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.

Kuo Tsing wins the hand of fair maiden Huang Yung. Almost immediately, however, clan rivalries leads to Kuo being wounded by Ouyang Feng and Huang being named new leader of the Beggar Clan. (Source: IMDb) ~~ The Brave Archer 2 is a 1978 Hong Kong film adapted from Louis Cha's novel The Legend of...

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,...

Five Element Ninjas is a story of revenge, betrayal and ambition with the background of ninja martial arts and skills. When his school was destroyed and his colleagues all massacred by the supreme ninja Cheng Yun and his ninjas of the five elements, Tsiau Chin Hau took revenge. But stopping the elem...

It takes place during the late Qing Dynasty when Empress Dowager Cixi dispatches her agents to various factions of the Boxer Rebellion in order find supernatural martial artists that are invulnerable to western bullets. When one of the leaders of these groups disbands his forces, assassins from the...

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

A prince enlists a thief to serve as his bodyguard to protect him from assassins. (Source: IMDB)

An exciting tale of a patriot committed to ending the corruption of the Ching rulers.

While possessed by an evil spirit, a man murders his daughter. A police detective investigating the case also becomes possessed. A good monk helps fight the evil spirit. (IMDB)

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...

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...

College friends who are unlucky in love decide to go to a night club, and are surprised to discover that their innocent-looking classmate works as a hostess there. When they step up to defend her from a lecherous old man, the encounter sparks off an unexpected journey of love and lust. (Source: Le...

Old men get ripped off by a young man and sexy girls. The old men finally wake up and exact revenge. (Source: IMDB)

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 main characters are a pair of "corpse herders," whose job is to deliver corpses, AKA hopping vampires, for burial in their home villages. A fugitive seeks to pass through checkpoints and avoid capture by pursuing soldiers by imitating one of the hopping vampires. (Source: IMDb)

In 19th-century China, during the infamous Qing Dynasty, the population is suffering at the hands of greedy landlords, corrupt officials, and unwelcome invaders. Hoping to unite his people, martial arts master Chen Xiang opens a school integrating techniques from both the North and the South. But...

Five Western girls are kidnapped by Chinese pirates and sold to a brothel. While they are being trained to become prostitutes, a couple of local citizens take mercy on them and plot their escape by teaching them Kung Fu. The five scantily-clad girls, using their newfound martial arts skills then fig...

Attracted by the sensual rain dance performed by three glorious tribeswomen, the Snake Prince and his brothers set into motion an extraordinary tale of romance, greed, insanity, envy, lust, murder, and tragedy. (HKCM)

This uproarious action fantasy sees its heroes facing off against all sorts of unholy threats seeking to terrorize the land of the living. (IMDB)

Acclaimed action director Liu Chia Liang makes a mind-boggling directorial debut in The Spiritual Boxer, which not only quickly established Liu as a genius director but he was also credited with introducing comedy into the Kung Fu genre; the pre-cursor for Jackie Chan's Kung Fu comedies. Its Ghostbu...

A bookish young man and his sword-loving sister find themselves battling a trio of villains, one of them a beautiful but masked woman who has promised to either marry or murder the first man to see her unmasked. (source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" (天龍八部, Tian L...

A man and woman are kicked out of the Court of Heaven on trumped up charges of bringing shame onto the Kingdom. (Source: IMDB)

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.

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.

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 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...

When the school's athlete star, Lam Tat pursuits Princess, a martial art student, who is another guy's girlfriend a rivalry is born. (Source: IMDb)

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 variety of characters are converging on the home of Siao Pun Hu for a celebration of his accomplishments in the martial world. (Source: IMDb)

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)

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)

"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...

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)

An expert swordsman is suspected of being the thief of a treasure sent to Emperor. The swordsman who has nothing to do with the theft investigates and is led on the trail of the supernatural "Bloody Parrot". (Source: IMDb)

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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)

"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.

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...

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...

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)

Disguised as a rich trader, pirate Cheung Po Tsai sales to a shoreline southern China, where the villagers live in poverty due to struggle against exploitation and corruption by the government. There he attracts the attention of merchant Xiang You Lin and his sister who are keen on killing him for b...

The emperor's reign of terror expands. Heroic outlaw Ma Teng joins a squad of female rebels, whose leader is torn between family loyalties. (Source: IMDB)

A small-time crook goes in search of the other half of a wooden keepsake which will lead him to the legendary kung fu technique of the Gibbon Clan Fist. (Source: Letterboxd)

Heroes of the Underground is a World War II spy thriller from Shaw Bros. about Chinese resistance leaders working undercover against the Japanese in Occupied China. Ling Yun plays a fugitive rebel leader named Ding Yi Shan (the film's Chinese title) who takes on the identity of an antique dealer in...

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)

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)

"The Kid" is a monk whose education in the aptly named "Crazy Lo Han Fist" finds him battling a cruel bandit's son and befriending an abused prostitute. (Source: IMDb)

Although injured and hunted, a martial-arts expert teaches a bullied orphan his methods. (Source: IMDB)

A year before Robert De Niro took the wheel, David Chiang cruised the mean streets as Chen Kuang, a taxi driver whose adventures reveal Hong Kong's verve with wit, compassion, and not a small amount of adventure . Variety noted, "The directing and photography show flair, and the script shows thought...

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...

After his father refuses to teach him kung fu and he is constantly being beaten around by rival school students, a young Wong Fei Hung must train under Luk Ah Choy to avenge the evils being done by the rival school.

The film opens with the chief Shaolin Monks realizing that time is not on their side and they must train more fighters to fight the Qings. The monk Hai Hsien (Shan Mao) opposes this as he is secretly working for the court. Outside many men are sitting in front of the temple waiting to be accepted in...

Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil, where his only protection is his famed fighting technique. (Source: IMDb)

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 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...

Cheng, a beautiful martial arts ace, is fighting to keep his legacy from the ruthless Yun Wei, but his efforts are sabotaged by Yu Tao, his irrepressible little neve and stealing. After a frenzy of comedy-spectacular misadventures, the unfortunate duo is trapped and imprisoned, and Chengs' property...

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...

Uncle Tak is famous for using Chinese herbal medicines to cure diseases. A martial arts expert, he also teaches the young how to defend themselves. One of his students, Johnny, dreams of monopolizing the teaching of kung fu throughout the United States. To accomplish this, he tries to kill Uncle Tak...

Ho Tao, a Chinese man marries Yumiko Koda, a Japanese woman through an arranged marriage and manages to insult all of her Japanese martial arts family by issuing a challenge to her that is misinterpreted by the others. He must then prove how good Chinese Kung Fu really is through a series of duels...

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...

Three young martial arts students and their teacher are beaten up badly by a wandering cloaked kung-fu expert man who proclaims himself "a corrector of bad kung-fu". Determined to avenge their teacher and regain their honor, the three students all go their separate ways to find kung-fu masters who w...

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...

An omnibus of three short horror stories. “Haunted Car”: Pete, a young businessman takes a taxi back home from the airport. The driver makes a detour, excusing the roadblock from a nearby construction and starts to reveal shocking secrets hidden deep in Pete’s tormented past. “Reborn”: Tiwa, a sma...

Three short horror tales make up the film. The film uses images from surveillance cameras set up in a person's home and in a convenience store.

A bus full of cult members gets stuck in snow. The cult has to stay in a mountain hotel. Strange things start to happen... (Source: theMoviedb)

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.

Several mysterious killings take place in the underworld. A warrior tries to find the culprit behind these murders. He finds that the victims are killed by a crystal statue. The statue is made by an ordinary man who is good at sculpting, but is controlled by an evil demon and the warrior knows that...

A female ghost possesses the body a dead girl in order to get a muscular stuntman for a boyfriend. (IMDB)

A compulsive gambler with bad luck owes money to a violent gangster boss. A mysterious old man offers him a proposal to marry the ghost of his dead daughter in exchange for cash and an expensive apartment. (IMDB)

13 family members are murdered and then dumped in a well. 30 years later their descendants are cursed. (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...

Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the cause of these phenomena, for the undead are controlled by the most diabolical force...

George Lam Tsz Cheung tries, along with his buddies Hamburger and Snoopy, to find love and success in the world of TV commercials. (Source: IMDB)

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

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)

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)

"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 villainess from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in one of her early non-kung fu roles shows she can carry a tune as well. Cheng Pei Pei plays Hsiao Yun, a young singer forced to choose between love and a career. After stepping in for another singer at the last minute, Hsiao Yun becomes an overnig...

The story concerns Danny Lee’s character as a manager of one of Macau’s casinos battling it out on the card table to settle a gambling score with a Japanese gambler played by Chen Ping. He enlists the help of Tsung Wa’s character and the battle of wits escalates. (Source: IMDB)

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)

An anthology film featuring four true-crime stories that took place in Hong Kong in the early 1970's. (IMDB)

The seamy side of the Hong Kong film industry is laid bare in "The Call-Girls". Based on the infamous starlets-for-sex vice scandal that rocked the 1970s movie world. (Source: IMDb)

Peng Tianshi becomes the “Card Tyrant” in response to the gambling world dominance of the Sha family. But Peng also has a Sha family member blinded in retaliation for an earlier loss, leaving the Sha family with a debt of vengeance that needs to be repaid! Sha Tong sets in motion an elaborate plan t...

Real life Shadow Boxing champion Chen Wo Fu stars as a humble construction worker who is compelled to mete out justice after his girlfriend is viciously assaulted by gangsters. Ku Ting is a quiet man and a lightning-fast shadow boxer who keeps his fighting skills a carefully guarded secret. But his...

A probation officer tries to help a prisoner who faces harassment from corrupt guards and inmates. (Source: IMDb)

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)

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...

Ling Xi is a young man from a wealthy, respectable family in a relationship with Cindy, an underaged singer who suffers physical abuse from her father. (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 man who joins the HK police force to track down a murderer and then struggles with his desire for vengeance and his new-found respect for the law. (Source: iMDB)

The Shaw Brothers version of The Parent Trap, only they found real twins for the roles of the kids! (Source: Letterboxd)

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...

“The Master” looks at movie piracy in Thailand and worldwide. It tells the story of a man who opened a bootleg video store that introduced art and rare films from around the world to Thai customers. Motivated by a love of cinema, in an era when art films were not available in Thailand, this shop sol...

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)

The childhood exploits of the 4 adolescent Hsu brothers orbit around the family’s love and indulgence of their spoiled youngest son. (Source: Letterboxd)

Unicorn travels to a village troubled by gangsters in search of revenge for the murder of his parents years before. The task is made more complicated when he befriends a middle-aged woman and her son who begin to admire and depend on him. (Source: Letterboxd)

After a series of lion dances in the opening minutes, Wong Fei Hung and his once-rival, now friend, find themselves and their martial arts schools pitted against a rival school which uses a kung fu expert Master Shan from the north to do their dirty work, although the expert doesn't realize he is be...

A master martial artist's silly disciple struggles to save a priceless pole with a spectacular secret from an evil white slaver, the slaver's duplicitous wife, and even his own bone-headed, but greedy, companion. (Source: IMDB)

An obnoxious restaurant delivery boy causing trouble with some local bad guys for the cook who secretly knows Kung Fu. (IMDB)

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...

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)

Liao Jiang is the lowest ranking member of a gang that holds up a jewelry store. Subsequently the three other gang members die, and their gold haul goes missing. Liao Jiang and his new gang member Huge Eyes are then forced to turn to a triad gang to help get back their gold from a rival group. (Sou...

Chiang plays a righteous character who helps an unjustly imprisoned swordsman accused of stealing. Together they break out of prison and serve notice to all the evil men in their lives that a new deadly duo is in town. (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)

A wealthy young playboy flees his repressive family and joins forces with a gang of street toughs who are unaware of his true identity, until he's kidnapped by white slavers who demand a ransom for his safe return. (Source: IMDb)

A low budget kung fu movie - an ambitious martial arts student infiltrates a murderous gang in the hope of finding the man who killed his father. (Source: IMDB)

The plot follows the titular gang of misfits, gathered together by Chen Kuan Tai in order to protect a patriotic general from a scheming usurper. To this end, the unlikely heroes act as the general’s escorts on a dangerous journey to a distant British consulate, beset by enemies and sinister Japanes...

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)

Chief constable and accomplished fighter Ling Tien Ying is well known for his remarkable success rate in his dangerous field. Ling, though, is also a ruthless constable who never spares the fleeing suspects he pursues and even earns a reprimand by his own brother for this grim determination. When tw...

Chen Mei Ling is a new leader of backwater Kung Fu school in Hong Kong. She is struggling for new students and fights back old-fashioned style of teaching.

Chou Lien Huan is a skilled martial artist who gambles and lives a carefree life, he then falls in love with a powerful man's girlfriend and tries to snatch her away from him. Little did he know about the power of that man's father and the thugs that await him at every corner of the city.

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...

This prime example of director/co-writer Chang Cheh's mastery takes place in Seoul right after the Korean War, as a Kung Fu master, combat instructor, explosives expert, and missile specialist heroically represent the Book of Revelation's four riders against murder, corruption, jealous and greed. (S...

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...

Drama

Left alone on a trip to Hong Kong, Tomoko, a sales woman from Japan finds herself the victim of a purse-snatching. The police arrest the man she points out, but it turns out to be the wrong person: a young Korean man named Ji Hoon. Despite his anger and humiliation, he takes her out to dinner since...

~~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.

Shi Qing and his wife have two sons. The younger son Shi Zhong Jian was killed by a vile woman who was obsessed with Shi Qing. Because of the loss of a child, the eldest son Shi Zhong Yu was raised coddled and spoiled by his mother. Left with no choice, Shi Qing sends his son away hoping that he wil...

Nearly a thousand years ago in ancient China, there was a cruel government. 108 renegade will try to change the story. (Source: IMDb)

"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...

A story about Friends in Tokyo. (Source: wiki.d-addicts)

The story of six young people, each with their own dreams. They gathered in a run-down inn in Chengdu by accident and worked together to create a customized internet celebrity restaurant. (Source: Baidu) ~~ An adaption of the American sitcom Friends.

TV Show

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

“Friends” will give a real look into the cast’s daily lives and also show how they develop friendships and romance. It will feature “Heart Signal 2” cast members including Oh Young Joo, Jung Jae Ho, Kim Do Kyun, and Kim Jang Mi along with “Heart Signal 3” cast members including Lee Ga Heun, Park Ji...

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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