Lan Wei Lieh

Lan Wei Lieh is an actor and production manager, known for The Singing Killer (1970), Mantis Combat (1978) and How Shaolin Monastery Was Reduced to Ashes (1950). He was active from 1940-1981.

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Name Lan Wei Lieh

Nationality Hong Konger

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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)

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...

The Kingdom and the Beauty is a 1959 Hong Kong musical-drama film set in Imperial China.

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...

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 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...

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...

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)

Amidst a rebellion during the Ching Dynasty in ancient China, a nurse flees the palace with a young prince. As an adult, he convinces the daughter of the usurper to betray her father and to assist in restoring him as the rightful monarch. (Source: IMDB)

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 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.

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

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 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)

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...

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".

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.

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...

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.

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...

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....

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...

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.

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 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...

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)

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...

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...

Yeo Hee has a vegetarian café in the Hanok village of Jeonju. She is a fox with nine thousand-year-old tails who still cannot turn the page on Master Jin Woo, her first love a thousand years ago. One day, she discovers that Jin Woo has reincarnated and that he is now Yoon Ho, a confident young CEO....

16th-century novel recounting the efforts of a Buddhist monk and his magical companions to travel to India and bring back Buddhist sutras. (source: IMDB)

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.

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)

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...

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 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...

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)

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...

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)

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)

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)

Chivalrous swordsman Jun Zhao goes in search of a fugitive named Li Yueh in order to reunite him with his love, Liu Xian. Though the two men meet and become loyal brothers, Li does not reveal his true identity until Jun Zhao’s life is endangered by swordsmen from Flying Fish Island who are looking...

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)

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)

"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...

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

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

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...

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)

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...

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....

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...

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...

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.

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)

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...

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)

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

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...

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...

"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...

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)

A young girl runs away from her abusive father to join a group of circus performance, expecting that one day she would be a greatest trapeze artist. Later, she falls in love with one of the members of the circus staff who used to be a trapeze performer in previous times. (Source: IMDB)

In the early days of the era of the Chinese Republic, the dockers of Macao were mistreated by their Chinese overseers. An accident reveals that the cargo is composed of firearms and opium.(Source: IMDb)

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...

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)

Trapped in the world of smuggling young women, our hero, in this 1973 Hong Kong film, is a cop and has fallen for a young maiden. But she is captured by smugglers. She also happens to be related to somebody at a kung fu school. The cop goes undercover and joins the gang an then systematically goes a...

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...

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...

Drama

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

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...

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

TV Show

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

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