Pao Hsueh Li
Pao Hsueh Li was born in 1936 in Nanjing and moved to Taiwan in 1949. Upon graduation, he worked his way up from technician in a studio film processing lab to assistant cinematographer and cinematographer on numerous Taiwanese dialect films. In 1966, Shaw Brothers director Lo Chen engaged him to serve as cinematographer of the Taiwan-lensed Mandarin film "Too Late For Love". In 1967, Pao moved to Hong Kong and formally entered Shaw Brothers as cinematographer. Three years later he made his directorial debut "Finger of Doom", and between 1971 and 1977 directed over a dozen films, many of them collaborations with Chang Cheh. In 1977 he returned to Taiwan and formed his own film company with his wife, scriptwriter Jin Shu Mei, with whom he had worked at Shaw Brothers on such films as "Oath of Death".
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Tough Guy (1959)
Tough Guy
A juvenile offender is wrongly charged with a crime. His father, an honest policeman, is in charge of apprehending the wandering son. But things got worse when the real perpetrators of the crime shot down his father and he was accused of his death. It is now up to him to hunt them down and bring the...
Deadly Angels (1977)
俏探女嬌娃
Three female detectives from Hong Kong, Korea and Singapore infiltrate a cabaret to expose a murderer.
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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...
Witty Hand, Witty Sword (1978)
玲瓏玉手劍玲瓏
A well-known family is wiped out when a princess is on the hunt for a special sword called “Witty Sword”. The family's surviving daughter and adopted son are soon on the run and under attack as the princess' minions are on their tracks.
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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...
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.
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~~ Adapted from the novel "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" (天龍八部, Tian L...
The Mask of Vengeance (1980)
風流殘劍血無痕
A knife expert arrives to tell the ruler he is to be invaded during his annual knife skills challenge. He coaxes his old enemy (a deaf, blind old man) out of hiding. In return he grants the hero the prize of the knife skills.
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The Drinking Knight
钱坤达祖夏
Second ill-fated attempt to finish the unreleased first version from (1970) starring Tsung Hua as Drinking Knight - once more (sadly) not released in this version either (HKMDB)
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".
An exciting tale of a patriot committed to ending the corruption of the Ching rulers.
Li “Little Flying Dagger” Xunhuan comes back to his home after three years of wandering. He has decided to have a normal life, but a group of skilled fighters and leaders are bent on killing him, so they can be ranked top by Bai Xiaosheng in his renowned list of the best warriors in the martial arts...
The head of the great Dragon Warrior Clan is killed in a duel with the deadly women of the Phoenix School of kung fu, and now succession of the clan falls into doubt.
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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...
A new bandit with superb kung fu causes panic and fear among the merchants of Wuiyang County. The merchants hire Wu Chin Ping to escort boxes of beautiful and precious stones to Wuiyang County. Wu gathers a group of experienced and courageous martial artists to protect the treasure and kill the mask...
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...
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 4th son of the emperor fights to become the next emperor with the help of the people and of course Kung Fu.
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Master thief Chow Kwan-hai is the only person who knows the location of a stash of valuable pearls. With the help of a mismatched gang of criminals, assassins and pickpockets, Chow leads a suicidal mission to the Bloody Mill to find the treasure and hopefully make it back alive.
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A Kung Fu warrior named Shao Tu wanders around helping the oppressed, but makes many deadly enemies along the way. One such enemy is Mao who leads his army of fighters and plans a deadly plot to bring about Shao Tu's downfall.
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The Heroic One (1978)
冰雪情關英雄膽
A naïve Kung Fu student falls under the influence of a corrupt master. Soon, the student realizes his master plans to dominate the martial arts community by stealing a legendary martial arts book that’s supposed to bestow its owner with extraordinary powers. And his master will stop at nothing – inc...
A Kung Fu master must lead a rival Kung Fu sect in a deadly tournament against his old master and his Kung Fu classmates to keep the secret book out of the wrong hands.
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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.
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The Heroes (1980)
少林英雄
After the Shaolin Temple is brought to ruin, Kao seeks revenge by plotting to kill the emperor.
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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 stranger in a black fedora comes into town and befriends the Number One Godfather of Shanghai. When the Godfather is gunned down, all fingers point to the man in the black hat. He must fight and kick to prove his innocence to the Godfather's son and convince him it was an inside job.
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Tough Guy (1972)
決鬥老虎莊
Two undercover agents pretend to be prisoners in order to infiltrate a smuggling gang and break up their operation.
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The strong willed son of a rich lord has a natural gift for martial arts and his brash temper ends up in his family being murdered, he realizes the error of his arrogant ways and becomes a humble hero fighting for justice.
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The place: Shanghai. The time: 1921. The Japanese aggression towards China is getting stronger each day. Enter Hsueh Ao Lin, an agent of the government sent to uncover the Chinese traitors helping the enemy. Once inside, Hsueh must fight both the Japanese and his countrymen for his sake, and the fut...
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...
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.
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Nearly a thousand years ago in ancient China, there was a cruel government. 108 renegade will try to change the story.
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