Shen Lao

The ten-reel silent film produced by Shanghai Yingxi Company was thought to be a lost film, until 2013, when an original copy of The Cave of the Silken Web was discovered in the archives of the National Library in Mo i Rana, Norway. The film was presented at the Films from the South 2013 festival in...

A village under assault from bandits receives help from some two skilled outsiders. (Source: SilverEmulsion)

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.

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...

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 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)

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...

Three years ago, the drama tutor Lam Hiu-Yeung's brother was kidnapped and killed. The case was handled by Inspector Madem Ho Yuen Chun, who is known for her sharp wit and intelligence, but was unfortunately unable to save Lam Hiu-Yeung's brother in the end. Now Lam Hiu-Yeung faces the horror of los...

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...

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...

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...

Accompanied by his old manservant, scholar Sung Li Ho is on his way to the capital for the imperial exam. They spend a night in the house of Mrs. Yuan and Li Ho takes a fancy to her pretty daughter, Pei Fang. Li Ho is discovered by a maid peeping at Pei Fang as she takes a bath. He slips and falls i...

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)

Inspector E.T. investigates a murder case reported by singer Chu Szu Ting. The suspect, plastic factory owner Lu testifies and is acquitted. An important clue is later found and killer Lu comes to attack Szu Ting. (Source: Letterboxd)

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)

Chen Kuan Tai is Big Brother Cheng, a former refugee who runs a local teahouse in Hong Kong. Respected by his peers, Big Brother Cheng runs the teahouse – and unofficially the neighborhood – with a firm righteous hand. However, when the triads come calling, Big Brother Cheng finds out respect and co...

~~ Adapted from the web novel "Da Ming Xiao Bi" by Mu Fei.

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

Chu Liuxiang is having drinks with his friend, Monk Wuhua. Gong Nanyan of the Holy Water Palace suddenly appears and accuses Chu of having stolen the palace's Heaven's One Holy Water and committed a series of murders. She agrees to give Chu a month's time to clear his name, or else the mistress of t...

Although rife with Japanese spies, Shanghai tycoons, beautiful starlets, and enough intrigue to keep 007 happy, Bond himself would be no match for the heroes' skill at mahjong and other games Hong Kong gamblers play--proving that the cube is often mightier than the baccarat card. (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...

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...

Acclaimed director Chu Yuan was credited for bringing mystery and detective thriller ingredients into his atmospheric and character-rich martial arts epics, and this is one of the most impressive examples. The title refers to the nickname of a notorious rapist-murderer who swoops down to destroy one...

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".

Wudang is in trouble again, with both Dugu Wu Di planning to attack the Wudang temple and an interloping group of martial artists from Japan waiting in the background. (Source: IMDB)

"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...

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)

Due to his own extreme ideals, the famous epic Li lost all those dear to him. After his life was saved by a rival epic, Li's disproportionate pride led him to give up the woman he loves and let her marry his savior. Now resigned to traveling the country with his faithful assistant, Li's only comfort...

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...

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

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

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 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...

Third Master is a renowned swordsman whose position in "Jiang Hu" (or the "World of Martial Arts") is lofty, and a source of frustration for the weary Third Master. The constant challenges and myriad enemies he faces compel him to fake his death and pursue a quiet life with the beautiful and kindhea...

The evil Black Dragon Jie Hook feeds on emotions such as bitterness, fear and sorrow. He creates a plague on earth and sends the demon dragon Fish Bu Confusion and the tree demon Pu Kwai to capture his nemesis Li Xin Yuan in his dreams. In the course of the assassination, Pu Kui is impressed by Li X...

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 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....

Defeated villain Sung Ching Shu restarts his reign of terror, trapping a beautiful Mongolian Princess and mastering the "yin and yang combined" technique to become almost invincible. Only two swords, and two great swordsmen, stand in his way... (Source: IMDB)

Li Xun Huan comes back to his home after three years of wandering. He decided to have a normal life, but a group of skilled martial arts fighters and leaders are bent on killing him, so they can be ranked top by Bai Xiao Sheng in his renowned list of the best warriors in the martial arts world. Li X...

Zhao Wu Ji embarks on an very tragic adventure full of intrigue to avenge his father, who is beheaded by a traitor working for Tang, on the eve of his son's marriage. (Source: IMDb)

Two clans compete for dominance over the martial arts world in this classic of violent swordplay and political intrigue. A complex tale of deception and double-crosses. Killer Clans leaves viewers guessing every step of the way. Masterful fight choreography from Yuen Cheung Yan (Yuen Clan member and...

A psychotic craftsman pits two rival samurai against each other while designing special lanterns from a disturbing source.

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

Chu Liu Hsiang arrives seeking adventure, but instead stumbles across a martial-arts underworld, ruled by a mysterious kingpin known as Mr. Bat. He joins forces with a band of warriors, but as they draw close to their target, true motives are revealed. Now, these travelers face a challenge far more...

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

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...

Three inmates in an asylum tell their stories. Story 1, a husband and wife discover they should be careful what they wish for. Story 2, a naked female ghost gets revenge from her watery grave. Story 3, a dead prostitute returns as a ghost. (Source: IMDB)

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

Ai Nu is forced to work in Madam Chun's Merryland brothel. She is unwilling at first, but soon learns what to do to survive. (Source: IMDB)

Some of the best kung-fu actors star in this rare, colorful, action-packed story of one of the legendary Ching Dynasty Kwangtung Tigers. "Beggar Su" must train incessantly to defeat the brutally powerful thief called Centipede, and the result is explosive. (IMDB)

Court intrigue in China after the Taiping Rebellion is suppressed.

Sensual Pleasures presents a collection of three "ghost story" sex thumbnails. (Source: IMDB)

A timeless and titillating tale of the immoral private lives of the royal court's high officials. All the bed and body hopping is not exclusive to the family, either. Their maids and servants get involved as well, leading to flesh, fibs, and suicide, among other things. (Source: IMDB) ~~ Adapted...

Tang Dynasty emperors, Ming Dynasty scholars, assorted fortune tellers, and several Buddhist monks figure in a trio of erotic and mystical Chinese legends. (Source: TMDB)

Swordsman and Enchantress is another in the long line of Chor Yuen-directed adaptations of swashbuckling novels by Ku Lung done for the Shaw Bros. studio. Like the others, this one has its requisite amounts of swordplay, clan rivalry, super-powered martial arts, characters who are never quite what t...

A petty god accepts the heavenly challenge and descends to earth in order to change the lives of a prostitute, a beggar, and a villain.

Sequel to the 1977 Mad Monk sees the titular Mad Monk versus the legendary Lu Tung Pin, the immortal scholar-turned-genie. Together they wreak havoc as they vie with each other in mirth, magic, women, and weapons. (Source: HKCM/IVL)

Li’s The Mad Monk consists of four stories that see the roaming monk save a mother and daughter from the brink of death and a young man from the hands of unscrupulous debtors. Ji Gong also deals mischievous justice on robbers and corrupt officials. (Letterboxd)

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)

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

Derek Yee is a magic solar baby sent Earthbound by a benevolent god, raised by an old carpenter, has martial art superpowers and “green kryptonite” loses them during solar eclipses. That’s when the evil baby counterpart shows up. (Source: Letterboxd)

Two princes are seperated by birth. One is raised by the Prime Minister. The other is raised by three mad Shaolin Monks. They both learn kung-fu. When they are 23, they meet and combine there forces to defeat the evil 9th Prince. (Letterboxd)

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 young man learns about the secrets hidden in the Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Sabre to become the head of the Kung-Fu world, seeking to unify the Chinese Zoroastrianism Cult, and confront the Mongolian Dynasty. (Source: IMDB)

Phoenix Luk gets framed by the beautiful Mandy for the robbery of the emperor's treasure. (Source: IMDB)

The Cave of the Silken Web is a 1967 film directed by Ho Meng Hua and produced by Shaw Brothers Studio in Hong Kong. The film is based on an episode of the novel Journey to the West. The film is the third of a series of four films based on Journey To The West. The others are Monkey Goes West (1966)...

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...

Jiao is framed for rape and murder (and, later, two more murders) by Chen and his son – the same people who framed Jiao’s father and left him orphaned. Into the mix comes THE LADY OF THE LAW, Miss Leng, whose job it is to find the guilty. (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)

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)

Kung Fu knight Shen Lang stumbles across grave robbers while on the trail of a martial arts mass murderer. (Source: IMDb)

Only the union of the title weapons can save the six remaining martial arts sects who are vying for mastery. (Source: IMDB)

Master of the "swordplay thriller" genre, Chu Yuan and renowned kung-fu choreographer Tang Chia tell the fabulous tale of the "Fastest Swordsman in the World" facing the "1000 Face Devil" and no less than seven murderers. (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)

A young boy betrays his family who hides a refugee and tells the pursuer where the hiding-place is – just because he wants a valuable telescope for reward. His father decides to kill the boy in order to restore the honor of the family. It's Ti Lung versus Lo Lieh in the period piece action movie The...

Wong Yu is an upstart young fighter who gets a job to deliver a box which he is not allowed to know the contents of, but will be paid a fortune once its delivered. (Source: IMDb)

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 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)

The late Ming Dynasty is the time period when the influence and power of the court Eunuchs are at their peak. One in particular is Wang Zhen, a vicious martial arts master who has distracted the weak-minded young Emperor with an endless supply of concubines to sate his passions, while plotting to se...

Leaving behind an inch of sword in the spent corpses of his opponents, Tuan Chang Qing is known as the Deadly Breaking Sword. After barely surviving a duel, one of his foes is treated by the diabolical Dr. Kuo, who uses his powers of mind control to transform the man into a killer. After Tuan Chang...

There are five main clans ruling the martial world, each representing one of the five elements - fire, metal, water, wood and earth. Each year they hold a martial arts competition to decide which one of the five clans will rule the world. The story is centered around one of these tournaments, as a c...

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

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...

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)

Clan of the Amazons, is a 1978 Hong Kong film adapted from Xiuhua Dadao of Gu Long's Lu Xiaofeng novel series. The film was directed by Chor Yuen, produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio.

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)

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

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)

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...

Huang Fei Hung is back, in a new adventure written and directed by veteran Huang filmmaker Wang Feng. Newcomer Shih Chung Tien stars as the Confucian healer who fights jealous villains with wisdom, intelligence, and fabulous kung fu. (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...

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...

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...

Zhong Yuan must face paternal murder, brother against brother plots, and shocking discoveries that could change the course of history. (HKCM/IVL)

Liu Chia-yung is saved from drug smugglers by Hui Ying-hung, whose godfather is a drunken master and whose leprous godmother is mistress of the fairly off-putting Leprosy Boxing style. (Source: Letterboxd)

The thrilling story of a malicious lying, cheating swordsman who does whatever he can to reach the top and have 100 swords from defeated swordsmen. And the noble swordsman who stands in his way. (Source: HKCM)

Sima Jun is a killer working for a corrupt lord whose orders are followed without question or hesitation. When the lord suffers from a life-threatening boil on his back, he is told by the Imperial doctor that an herb called "Longevity Rattan" offers the only cure and is grown in a remote village by...

Emperor Chien Lung, bored with imperial traditions, disguises himself as a commoner to experience a different side of life. (Source: Letterboxd)

A naive daughter of an affluent merchant had always dreamt to meet her idol, a kung-fu celebrity. When her father announced her marriage to his pal’s son, the fierce and spoiled maiden sneaked out of the house to locate her true love. That began her adventurous journey to discover the outside world....

Is it a historical, costumed kung-fu film or a gender-bending romantic comedy? You decide, but kung-fu film star, writer, and director Lu Chun-ku probably meant it as both. In either case, it's a delightful and exciting surprise from the man who made Holy Flame Of The Martial World and Bastard Sword...

"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...

Fong Sai Yuk's uninhibited arrogance toward a Manchu lord forces him to seek refuge in a Shaolin temple. Although abundantly trained in the martial arts, he is no match for Master San Te, the creator of the 36th Chamber of Shaolin, who constantly overpowers his younger, more agile disciples in matte...

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.

An ambitious disciple killed the chief of Wu Tang Clan to frame his illegitimate child. Then he proclaimed himself the new chief and ordered the killing of the run-away foe. Meanwhile the latter vowed to avenge his father’s death and began to learn the invincible ‘ Silkworm ‘ martial arts...

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...

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)

The Monk Chi San is sent by his Shaolin masters to learn a special kung fu from a Wu-Tang priest and befriends his niece Wu Mei. The priest's brother is Pai Mei, who disapproves of associating with Shaolin rebels who oppose the Qing leave’s as his nephew remains behind to cause trouble for Chi San....

The Kung Fu Instructor was director Sun Chung's loose homage to Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo where unlike hero Sanjuro being a gruff, snarling, drunk swordsman looking for a drink, beloved actor Ti Lung plays an upright, righteous, weapon instructor looking to keep his limbs. Sun became the first Shaw B...

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.

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...

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 woman reaches from beyond the grave to claim the man she loves. (IMDB)

"Young Lovers" is an Elvis Presley-like musical romp where our "Viva Las Vegas" guitar-playing, handsome playboy is a poor rich guy named Yang, who ventures off to Japan and joins a rock and roll band. A love triangle quickly develops between Yang and two girls, one of them played by the sensational...

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)

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...

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

A swordswoman was implicated in multiple murders of several prestigious gang masters. Determined to clear her name, two of her friends barged into the highly protected Shaolin Temple thrice in view to find out the real culprits. When they thought they had gotten rid of these culprits, the mysterious...

An unfaithful wife has her husband framed for murder, and eventually poisons him. However, he returns from beyond the grave to take his revenge against those who wronged him. (Source: IMDB)

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

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)

A simple thief and an employee of a Hong Kong stock exchange company are trying to help an amnesia undercover policeman find his memory and locate the $50 million in cash used in drug trafficking. In the meantime, they are trying to avoid becoming the victims of the Lord of the crime who has hijacke...

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)

A tough, violent look inside Hong Kong underworld. Sworn Brothers is the dramatic, tragic story of two men brought up closer than most brothers. Now they find they stand on different sides of the law. (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 ballistic kid is on a mission to clear his father’s name. (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 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)

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

Kung-fu and drama merge in this unusually poignant and popular action film from the golden age of martial arts. Lo Lieh is given one of his most memorable roles as a tough gas station attendant who plots to kidnap his boss's son, only to find himself and his girlfriend -- played by the incomparable...

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)

Shaw Brothers’ number one action hit of 1975, and deservedly so. The character of one-man Kung Fu dynamo Big Brother Cheng and Kung Fu superstar Chen Kuan Tai were made for each other. A Robin Hood-like restaurant manager who socks it to the thugs in order to make the mean streets of Hong Kong a lit...

We are in 1756 and the emperor goes to Soochow, where he meets a famous courtesan and finds himself involved in all kinds of activities that have nothing emperor.(Source:Letterboxd)

Lo Tien Pei has retired as the king of gambling. But Yen Li Shan, who was humiliated by Lo years ago, is coming to town with fiery vengeance in his heart. Yen manages to buy the Endless Night, the top casino night club in Shanghai. Lo's son, Chi Feng, sees his father being forced by Yen to fall to h...

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

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

Emperor Chien Lung of the Chings dynasty attacked the corruption of the courts with the help of a young man who has the sense of the street. They then teach corrupt officials a lesson with spirit and style. This production proved to be so popular that director Li Han Hsiang took over to lead two suc...

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

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...

Schooled in traditional martial art training for film by acclaimed director Liu Chia Liang, In The Tiger and the Widow, two people mixed up in a salt smuggling ring led by stalwart Shaw Brothers action star Tony Liu (a Tiger) and famed Taiwanese singer Tanny Tien Ni (a beauteous young widow), wreak...

Here Chang Siu Tai (Alexander Fu Sheng) is the son of Master Chang (played by Ku Feng), a renowned chiropractor/bone-setter operating a clinic in a poor neighborhood in an unidentified city in early 20th century China. Siu Tai works for his father and studies bone-setting and kung fu under him, but...

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)

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)

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...

Ah Ying is a former gangster trying to lead an honest life and occasionally using her fighting skills to help out the girls in the factory where she now works. (Source: IMDB)

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.

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...

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.

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...

Most of the Liang family are murdered by Ling Guixing and the surviving son Liang Tianlai wows to bring him to justice. Fighting against corruption in several courts, his only main witness is beggar Afeng but as Ling has people around him willing to bribe and murder, soon Liang is left alone. All up...

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...

'Tiger Killer' Wu Sung became a constable after his display of bravery. He stayed with his deformed brother and beautiful sister-in-law since then. However , when his sister-in-law tried to seduce him, he decided to leave...

An ambitious evil tribe intended to rule the martial world. Before they could achieve their goal, they had to steal a secret martial arts manuscript that depicted the details to produce firearms from a righteous family and fight a supremely intelligent swordsman Shen Sheng-yi who protected them......

Swordsman Lu Xiao-feng was baffled when his two pals had arranged a duel. Though the two were formidable swordsmen of the martial world but they had never crossed paths. Their duel thus aroused Lu’s curiosity to investigate the cause. When he was close to uncover some hidden conspiracies, some assas...

Tung Tieh-cheng, a famous weapons instructor is invited to teach Ching official's soldiers, But, after his son is kidnapped and castrated...

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