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Wan Yiu Cho



Wan Yiu Cho is an actor who worked in films from 1973-1983.

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Name Wan Yiu Cho
Nationality Hong Konger
Gender Male
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Type Hong Konger

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Popularity #2

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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)
A cop is assigned a rag-tag bunch of misfits to go after a drug runner. (Source: IMDb)
A powerful crime syndicate known as the Chi Sha clan is a vast network of deadly criminals proficient in martial arts. Growing in number at an alarming rate, the Imperial Court orders Yang Chen Yu and his followers to wipe them out at all costs. Doing this proves difficult as no one knows the identi...
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...
Last Hurrah for Chivalry is a story about two killers for hire. The two assassins are master swordsmen with no allegiance. They decide to help out a local merchant to seek out revenge against a kungfu master. The plot contains multiple twists of deception, and leaving characters wondering who to rea...
Jade Tiger (1977)
白玉老虎
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)
Human Lanterns (1982)
人皮燈籠
A psychotic craftsman pits two rival samurai against each other while designing special lanterns from a disturbing source.
Legend of the Bat (1978)
楚留香之二蝙蝠传奇
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...
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)
Shaolin Prince (1982)
少林傳人
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)
The school attended by Dragon (Chan) and his brother, Tiger (Wei Pei) is entered against a rival school in a Lion Dance competition. The school needs to win the prize money to remain open but their star performer, Tiger, is seemingly injured when he falls from a ladder, leaving his brother, Dragon,...
The titanic team of director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung wisely choose to give their hero a whole new, non-stop, cliffhanger-fraught adventure featuring a mystery swordsman, a sensual swordswoman, an imperial assassin, a Ghost Mansion, the Bat Island, a booby-trapped tunnel, double crosses, and se...
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)
A young Kung Fu student is thrown into jail on a false charge. He shares a cell with a shaggy convict, who is repeatedly tortured by the magistrate to reveal the deadly secret. (Source: IMDB)
The Swift Sword (1980)
情俠追風劍
A righteous general’s family was massacred by the Ming Emperor, but his only son managed to escape death. Years later, the son grew up and yearned for revenge. Once he discovered a secret manual and a treasure map in a hidden cave...
Lu Hsiao Fury (1979)
陸小鳳與西門吹雪
Shaolin Hand Lock (1978)
十字鎖喉手
As an expert of the ‘Cross fists’ technique, a reclusive kung fu master Li Pai perfects a lethal maneuver called the ‘Shaolin Hand lock’ while an old wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing friend Fang Yun Piao pays the unwitting Li a visit. Armed with the deadly Hand lock maneuver, Cheng Ying and Kun Shih joins f...
Shaolin Abbot (1979)
少林英雄榜
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....
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...
The Kid With a Tattoo (1980)
通天小子紅槍客
A ballistic kid is on a mission to clear his father’s name. (Source: IMDb)
A bloody clan clash centered on the trial of an admitted mass murderer and serial rapist. (Source: IMDb)
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)
Chinatown Kid (1977)
唐人街功夫小子
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 Lonely Killer (1977)
千里單騎追兇
When Lin and his bride are murdered during their honeymoon in Macao by three Japanese men- Yamamoto, Kijima and Sazuki, the murderers try to flee back to Japan. The Hong Kong police can't get the evidence to stop them. Inspector Tsung Hsuan Tung, one of Lin's best friends, quits his post and goes al...
Fighting Dragon (1975)
沈泉飞长
Lung Yen Fei (Yusuaki Kurata) returns from Japan to investigate the cause of his teachers' death, as he was healthy and skilled in kung fu. After some investigating, Lung Yen Fei finds out that the Black Leopard gang is the cause behind his Sifu's death. An Interpol agent, Leung Kin Sun (Bruce Liang...
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)
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)
When two acrobats are fired for fighting with punks in the audience, they go to live with an aunt who's being pressured to sell her house for a real estate development. The developer's nasty son, Lee Fu, decides to muscle the sale, and soon he's at war with the acrobats, plus their unlikely ally, an...
Mad Mad Kung Fu (1980)
怪招軟皮蛇
An aging martial arts champion fallen on hard times, nicknamed "Bamboo Stick" after his favorite weapon, comes to the aid of a man whose daughter is being forced into marriage with a powerful outlaw. However, after Bamboo Stick makes short work of the would-be groom, he discovers he's just killed th...
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...
Two young kung fu experts are terrorized by an evil warlord whose weapon is known as the Hell's Wind Staff. With the aid of an old rival of the warlord, they train in the Dragon Hands and the Rowing Oar to face off against the deadly Hell's Wind Staff. (Source: IMDb)
Crazy Couple (1979)
無招勝有招
Street performer Cho is hoping to raise money to study martial arts. Soon, he becomes friends with Yan the son of a rich man who was robbed. The duo set off to help catch the robbers, but end up in more trouble than they can handle. (Source: IMDB)
The Roving Swordsman (1983)
大俠沈勝衣
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......
The Duel Of The Century (1981)
陆小凤之决战前后
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...

Drama

The story revolves around the adventures of the protagonist Di Yun, an ordinary young peasant, who is imprisoned after being framed. In his quest for vengeance, he accidentally acquires the Liancheng Swordplay manual, an ancient artifact not only prized for the skills detailed inside, but also for c...