Wang Yong Hua

Wang Yong Hua is a sound recording specialist who worked in over 400 films and garnered five awards. He was active from 1953-1980.

Golden Horse Award for Best Sound-5 Masters of Death (1974)

Golden Horse Award for Best Sound-The 14 Amazons (1972)

Golden Horse Award for Best Sound-Susanna (1967)

APFF Award for Best Sound-The Mermaid (1965)

APFF Award for Best Sound-Les Belles (1961)

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Name Wang Yong Hua

Nationality Hong Konger

Gender Male

Born 1926

Age 96

Type Hong Konger

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Xuan, a business tycoon, falls in love with the beautiful mermaid sent to kill him after his latest project kills many of her people.

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)

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 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)

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...

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.

This film from 1950 shows a current problem - what the press can show or not. We meet a painter and a famous classical singer. Their friendly meeting was interpreted by a reporter in a wrong way. How it will end for them? Next film directed by Kurosawa Akira.

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...

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

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

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...

"Moonlight Serenade" opens with a journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake, as he remembers a trip made as a young boy. Then, he and his family take a boat trip from Awaji to Beppu in order to bury the ashes of his elder brother, killed in the just-ended WWII.

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 police have their hands full with a slippery rapist preying on helpless teenage girls. Gun: Three teenagers' lives change forever when they find a package containing a gun, hand grenades and ammunition. (IMDB)

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...

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)

During the Tang dynasty, Ji Yingying, a young woman from the Huanhua dye shop in Yizhou, and Zhao Xiuyuan, a large family of Yizhou brochanters, were childhood lovers. However, due to family pressure, Zhao Xiuyuan could only marry Niu Wuniang, the daughter of the official family Niu. Ji met Yang Jin...

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 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.

Assassin Ah Jong is accidentally damages the eyes of the singer Jennie during a shootout. He later discovers that if Jennie does not have an expensive operation soon, she will go blind. To get the money for Jennie, Ah Jong decides to perform one last hit. Meanwhile, the police detective Li who has b...

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...

Ximen Debao is an innkeeper with no great ambitions. In order to attract business, he instructed his younger brother Tu Hao and his friends to pretend to be thieves and untrace passers-by. At critical moments, he helps them by pretending to be a savior and a crime fighter, and then guides customers...

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)

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...

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)

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

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)

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 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...

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)

Three female detectives from Hong Kong, Korea and Singapore infiltrate a cabaret to expose a murderer. (Source: IMDb)

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

A computer engineer working for an insurance company stops over in Hong Kong on his way to a conference. He gets tricked into breaking into a bank. (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...

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...

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...

Ge Tian Li is an assassin who always gets her man, but this time she's the target. (Source: IMDb)

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...

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...

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.

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

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.

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...

Golden Sword School is attacked by bandits. Servant Fang Cheng sacrificed his life to protect his master Qi Ru Feng. In thanks, Qi accepts the dying son of Fang Cheng, Fang Kang, as a pupil. Years later, Fang Kang was despised by his snob comrades because of his poor origin. Deciding that he will on...

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...

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 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...

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.

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]

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...

A young woman sets out to reunite feuding brothers to take out a gang of killers who have murdered their father.

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...

Hu Te escapes from Shaolin temple on fire after Qing soldiers destroyed him in Shaolin temple. The group of 5 decides to develop secret codes to identify patriotic companions, enlist these patriots and finally find themselves in order to escape south away from the Qing, and also identify the traitor...

This exciting story of two rival epics in imperial China competing with a wicked thirsty power for the possession of the dangerous "Peacock Dart".

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.

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...

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)

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...

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...

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...

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.

Part 1 : ‘Maniac’ – A gang is kidnapping young women. Part 2: ‘Queen of Temple Street’ – A gambling addict sells his wife to a brothel to pay off his debts. (Letterboxd)

Court intrigue in China after the Taiping Rebellion is suppressed.

18-year-old Ainu is kidnapped and sold to a brothel. Her good looks and wild personality make her very popular with the lustful clients, but also draws the lesbian attentions of brothel madam Betty Tei Pei. Betty teaches Ainu the ways of lust and the ways of kung fu, and Ainu becomes more and more s...

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)

This is the 12th film in the series "Wolfs of the City" which describes the adventures of the Capone biker gang under the direction of Kamisaka Hiroshi.

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)

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

The first story features an elderly jeweler's adventures with his unsatisfied wife, a handsome neighbor, and the neighborhood bordello. The second is a more modern tale of sex, lies, and videotape. (Source: IMDB)

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.

Hyeok Bin was once a superstar but a scandal caused his popularity to fall. Hyeok Bin and his manager Jin Goo are trying to get back on the stage with an Internet podcast where sexual concerns are honestly exposed. Hyeok Bin immediately draws attention with his frank answers to listeners who send th...

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)

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)

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...

The four monks and disciples of the Tang monk come to the Daughter Kingdom, but they meet the king of the Daughter Kingdom, with whom the Tang monk has a love affair for three lifetimes. (Source: Letterboxd)

Doctors dealing with patients noticed something weird going on, such as zombies with spikes in their heads and when removed, they melt down, patients vomiting up worms, spontaneous combustions, exploding bodies, demon fetuses and the disappearance of women. A male-witch is responsible for all these...

A magician makes money by charging people to cast love spells on the objects of their affection. Complications arise when he decides that he wants a customer's bride for himself.

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.

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)

The youngest daughter of a brutal king, the princess openly disapproves of the flogging and cruel treatment that her royal family inflicts on the peasants. As a result, the heartless king turned against his own daughter and forced her into exile. (Letterboxd)

The Goddess of Hua Mountain is imprisoned for falling in love with a mortal, meanwhile her son is raised in secret until he can attempt to free her. (Source: Letterboxd)

A young woman whose kung fu has reached the point where she can turn invisible runs afoul of a powerful family when she disrupts a wedding. She must fight off kung fu masters and even a poisonous centipede ring!

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)

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...

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)

Na Cha frees seven magical peaches from a mystical tree of Heaven and they turn the animals that eat them on Earth into horrible monsters. Now Na Cha and his brothers have been decreed only 10 days to clean up their disorder on Earth. (Source: Letterboxd)

Seventh sister of the celestial world goes down to earth to marry Dong Yong, a young man sold to servitude. However the Jade Emperor orders her to go back to the immortal world.

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

After being involved in the theft of the sword of the jade dragon, Fan Ying was banished in the dragon marsh for 20 years. Today, 20 years later, the sword was stolen again, and members of the Lingshan clan are sent to search for the culprit. Among them is Qing Er, who meets a wandering epic looking...

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 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...

The Monkey King and his gang are confronted by the evil Princess Iron Fan, Madam White Bone and her two sexy sisters. (Source: IMDB)

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)

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)...

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...

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)

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...

A grand melodrama about a summer in farm country spent by a pretty city girl whose parents are going through a divorce. The protagonist is Yung Wei, a girl from Taipei who spends an eventful summer at the farming household of her uncle, aunt, two grown male cousins and a female teenage cousin. Als...

Ghost Eyes concerns a female hair stylist who is seduced by the vampiric ghost of a former optometrist. Using supernatural contact lenses to control her mind, he gradually drains her life essence as she is forced to find new victims until tries to make a stand and rid herself of this terror once and...

A masterpiece about Hong Kong society’s differing views on love and what women want from love. It spins three interconnected tales about a trio of Hong Kong women, their relationships, and their hopes for finding true love. (Source: MUBI and YESASIA)

The story revolves around Tian Yu Quan who rushes to the aid of an elderly fisherman who is bullied by an arrogant relative of the Qiu Shan ministry. Starring the stunning, teenage heartthrob Pat Ting Hung, The Butterfly Chalice marks the important directing debut of the kung fu film genre's most p...

The title of the film refers to a baby that Chen, a male teacher in an all girls' school, minded as a favor in a doctor’s office, only to find the mother left him with Chen. Chen has to take care of the baby and, inevitably, has to bring him to school and hide him, as he lives there also. (Source:...

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...

Swordswoman Meng Hung must work with Fan Tien Fu, to find and then protect the royal seals of the Song Dynasty. If they should fail, the dynasty will fall. (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 mysterious swordswoman is dedicated to keeping the five volume “Five Generations Fighting Methods” kung-fu manual out of evil-doers’ hands. She joins a hero known only as the Roving Knight to fight, train, then fight again – facing such characters as The Six-Armed Giant and The 1000-Cut in this ac...

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

The plot follows the titular sisters, Ruo Lien, Ruo Lan and Ruo Mei whose clan protects the famous mighty steel sword, a powerful weapon much sought after by their rivals, in particular the nasty Chu Tien Hsiang (played by the legendary actor Lo Lieh,) who aims to use it to become number one in the...

Chuan Yuan is the noble, powerful hero and Shu Pei Pei, one of Shaw’s top swordswoman, is a reluctant bride who comes upon a rebellion plot. They are joined by a large cast of expert fighters and actors all keeping the intrigue and adventure foremost in the film. (Source: Letterboxd)

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)

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 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)

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...

Award-winning actor Ku Feng is Lei Chen-tien, a vicious, cunning, murderous brigand who wants the title treasure. Tsung Hua is Tai Tien-chou, the handsome swordsman who wants to avenge his father's death. Wang Ping is Wu Hsiao-yen, the lovely girl who must disguise herself as a boy to take on this p...

Nan Kung Sung sees the seediness of Conflicting Clans' politics after being cut from his own clan due to a misunderstanding and accepting a quest to give song entitled "The Proud One", to the correct musician. (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...

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)

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)

An escort team was on a perilous journey to transport some gold. When they were ambushed by a gang of thieves and their gold shipment was robbed, a formidable student of the escort agency set off to the bandits' hideout. (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)

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 wandering swordsman named Lu Fang who is returning from battle discovers that several farmers have kidnapped the local magistrate’s daughter. He sides with them after learning that this is an act of desperation to improve their low standard of living. The magistrate hires bandits and another fight...

Frankie Wei Hung is the Swordsman At Large, who everyone wants to kill. They even create a superlative sword simply for this purpose, but the blade is soon coveted even more than the hero’s death by it! Bandits, beauties, and blade masters battle for survival in this exciting story of deceit, betray...

Bai Yu Lung's father mysteriously disappears one night, and for 10 years Bai searches for him in vain. Finally, he decides to head to the far northern part of the country with the hope that he can find a clue in that region. There he meets and befriends Ngai Jin Feng, a vagabond and skilled fighter...

Set in the Spring and Autumn era of ancient China. Duke Ling of state Jin specially trusts the traitor minister Tu and allows him to exterminate premier Zhao's family. Loyal official Cheng sacrifices his own son as an impostor to save Zhao's baby. (Source: IMDB)

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)

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)

Black Butterfly steals from the rich and gives to the poor. In reality, she is Bao Zhu, the daughter of retired swordsman Kwan Yee. Trouble starts when a bandit gang who she has robbed come to town looking for her. (Source: IMDB)

He steals from the rich and gives to the poor! Like Robin Hood, the title hero of The Lizard is a philanthropic thief, except the Lizard makes his rounds in 1930s Shanghai. Corrupt police chief Chen Can is assigned to bring down the Lizard to appease the sinister Japanese forces, but the Lizard cons...

While he is out looking for those who caused his family's deaths, a young man decides to travel to Dragon Valley to encounter the childhood friend he has long since been betrothed to. On his way there, he finds out that the bride's household might not be as honourable as it seemed, and the discovery...

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)

In "Lady With A Sword", Kao Pao Shu showed that women could successfully direct a "heroic swordsman" film using a swordswoman bent on revenge. Kao cast Shaw's darling Lily Ho as the embittered swordswoman searching for the man who murdered her sister. The man turns out to be her fiance' but her nihi...

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...

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.

The film is the tale of a noble swordsman and a one-armed swordswoman who find themselves up against the evil Crimson Charm gang of thieves and thugs.

"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.

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.

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...

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.

This Kung Fu film written by Wei Lo tells the story of a ruthless Eunuch who is willing to do whatever it takes to be the most powerful man in the country.

A sword-filled thriller centering on the title location - an inn where the down and dirty meet to plot nefarious doings.

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 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...

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)

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...

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)

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 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)

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...

Chief detective Lu is puzzled by the mysterious murder of two of his informers planted at the Black Widow Nightclub, a front for a local drug-smuggling ring. (Source: IMDB)

Wang Jung is aided by a band of female warriors led by expert swordswoman Tso Yen Jung. Together they battle the bandits seeking to raid the emperor's tomb. (Source: Baidu)

Lin Xiao Hong is coming to stay with Fang’s family after the death of her parents, even though there has been much turmoil and strife between the two sides of the family. And little does she know, she’s stepping into a hotbed of Fang household drama, too, where Master Fang supports his delinquent, g...

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...

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)

After her whole family was slaughtered under the order of the emperor, a pregnant martial artist is on the run, and struggles to avoid being caught or back-stabbed by even her closest friends. (Source: IMDb)

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 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)

Chiao Tzu Wei hires a killer under the premise that the local government (run by the local kung fu school) is corrupt and extorting the people of the town. The killer happens to be Hsieh Chun (aka Hsiao Hu) who left town ten years ago. (When Hsieh Chun opens up a suitcase full of knives, you know th...

Siu and Ma are two bandits who ride from town to town robbing banks and killing anyone who tries to stop them. When a hold up goes wrong, Siu is caught, and soon realizes that Ma has kept the money and isn't coming to rescue him. (Source: IMDB)

"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...

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)

"King Boxer" follows the quest of a gifted young martial arts student as he struggles to win the All-China tournament despite ruthless acts of sabotage by his rivals.

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...

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...

A bloody clan clash centered on the trial of an admitted mass murderer and serial rapist. (Source: IMDb)

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 physically handicapped man revenge on criminals by using a magic spell that transforms him into an oily monster/superhero. (Source: Letterboxd)

Mixing a supernatural tone, comedic banter and nudity with music numbers, it takes a while before this story of two scholars being courted and haunted by both fox spirits and malicious ghosts to set in stone its core plot drive. Do they side with the fox spirit trying to achieve immortality or are t...

Love knows no limits in the grand period romance, Lady Jade Locket. A young fighter inadvertently falls for the spirit of a beautiful woman, who died years earlier avenging her own father’s murder. The beautiful ghost is in fact the sister of his fiancée. (Source: Letterboxd)

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)

The story follows a man who has to live in a haunted house due to his fathers debts and soon falls in love with a woman inhabiting the house. By far the most notable thing about this film is the fact that the lead male protagonist is played by a woman. (Source: Letterboxd)

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

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.

Japanese writer/director Inoue Umetsugu - as with "Hong Kong Nocturne" and "Hong Kong Rhapsody" - really sinks his teeth into this death-filled haunted house mystery. Three men and three women beguile, blackmail, bicker, and backstab (sometimes literally) each other all the way to a shocking surpris...

"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...

Ivy Ling Po stars as a male student named Xiaowen. Wicked rich man Liu, portrayed by Lo Wei, the director of this film, wants Xiaowen to marry his daughter who is suffering from leprosy, thinking that marriage will take away her disease. Although Xiaowen discovers Liu’s plan, he is still in love wit...

Hsiu Hsiu, a beautiful singing shepherdess, falls head over heels in love with a handsome boatman named Liu Ta Lung. (Source: IMDb)

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 young female song and dance performer travels to Japan with the troupe. She contacts a young man through a lonely-hearts ad to relieve loneliness. And the young man happens to be her troupe master. Acknowledged as one of the greatest Hong Kong musicals, it infuses its wispy plot with such style an...

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.

Though many movies claim to be unique, Farewell To A Warrior is truly in a class by itself, Hong Kong cinema’s only big budget Chiu Chow opera spectacular. Starring renowned diva Hsiao Nan-Ying, it is a vivid dramatization of the 13th century Sung Dynasty battle that pitted the legendary General Cha...

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)

This gripping story centers on the romance between Wang Chin Lung and Sue San. Although they may be perfectly matched when it comes to their love for one other, the two come from remarkably different social ranks. While Chin Lung is the son of a respected government official, Su San is a prostitute,...

A comedy about three henpecked men and how they cope with not only their wives but a society which says they should rule the roost. A comedy of errors complicates their already complicated lives and wives.

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)

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...

An imperial minister Cheng Pu is faced with a quandary. He’s getting old and his daughters are still not married. Elder daughter Shueh Yeh is so ugly no one wants her. Younger daughter Shueh Wu is beautiful but Mrs Cheng refuses to let her marry before her elder sister. The drama unfolds when Cheng...

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)

Two sisters, Ching-ping and Pai Hung struggle to find a workable act after their magician father and younger sister leave to try their luck in Taiwan. A good friend gets them cast in a new movie, and the rest is history…. This film is a glitter-clad endorsement for women in the entertainment indust...

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 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)

The tale of a female trio singing and dancing in night city of Hong Kong's everyday life. (Source: 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)

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...

The movie describes a love triangle between three young cousins in a once wealthy family, set against the decadence of Qing society. (Source: Mubi.com) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Dream of the Red Chamber" (红楼梦) by Cao Xue Qin (曹雪芹).

"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...

Part 1 : 'Gun Snatchers' - Two criminals wanted for murder are turned in by one of their own. Part 2: 'Arson' - A Triad revenge plan to burn down a nightclub goes wrong and results in the deaths of five people. (IMDB)

The husband-and-wife team of Ivy Ling Po and Chin Han returned to another Huangmei Opera classic after Lady General Hua Mu-Lan. Helmed by Chow Sze-loke and written by Chang Cheh, the story revolved around two intellectual siblings, Ching Feng-sheng (Chin Feng) and Ching Feng-hsiao (Ivy Ling Po), who...

One night a textile worker is sexually assaulted by five deviants. The young lady tries to cope with the aftermath of this dramatic event but her life is ruined. She begs Lo Lieh to teach her kung fu. At first he refuses until he learns her secret. Furious, Lo Lieh teaches her his deadly fight techn...

Bobo, a village girl journeys to the big city in search of her father. Not long after her arrival, she witnesses a gang fight dominated by a man she was friends with as a child. Now known as Jaguar, he works as a bodyguard for mob boss Kam, who is having a row with one of his partners. Jaguar’s lust...

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...

Gu Hui, a member of the 'Wolf Head Gang' becomes unhappy after their new chief decides to abandon their old code of conduct. (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)

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)

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...

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 funny tale of a pretty pickpocket tangling with jewel heists, wallet snatching, and a drug trafficking ring. (Source: IMDb)

A nurse decides to take justice in her own hands to fight the crime-syndicates of Hong Kong after her sister is drugged and abused by some local drug dealers. (Source: IMDB)

A group of down-on-their-luck robbers pull off a spectacular job - only to find themselves hunted by cops and possible betrayers. (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 provincial detective seeks to take down a local gambling syndicate with the help of two convicts. (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...

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 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)

A mother's love is tested as one son who reluctantly returns from studying law abroad must defend another one.

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

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)

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-...

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

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)

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...

Lo Wei was twenty years into his notable career when he wrote, directed, and co-starred in this tale of a murdered lord and a hired killer who unknowingly becomes friends with his intended victim. A vicious bandit chief, a kind blind woman, and a death duel which explodes into an ambush and then a s...

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...

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)

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)

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 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)

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)

Lu Shen is the ringleader of the Snake Sect, intent on reviving a deadly faction known as the “Five Poison Web.” In order to do so, he has an affair with the sexy ringleader of the Scorpion Sect. However, there is also the Centipede Sect to contend with, as well as other assorted martial artists, a...

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)

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...

The Twin Swords takes up the story right where Temple of the Red Lotus had left it, and Lian Zhu and Gui Wu continue to lead it. After having eloped from the family's castle, the married couple witness a group of women being kidnapped and taken away to the Red Lotus Temple. They decide to go to thei...

A beggar becomes a target for evil men plotting to make "The Bastard" a scapegoat for murder because he happens to like the son of a jailed dignitary's son accused of murder.

"The Champion" is about Lu Fu, an innocent man recently released from prison after serving a term in the place of his brother. In the three years that Lu Fu has spent locked up, his brother Lu Tei Pao has taken over the coal mine, which in effect means that he is in control of the entire village. He...

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...

Filmed on location in Bangkok, the story concerns a Hong Kong engineer, Fan Ko, who goes to Thailand to find his long-lost half-brother, Wenile, who is a Muay Thai boxer.

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 noble guard is both attacked by bandits as well as betrayed by a relative.

Drama

Ha Eun Joong, a detective at Gangnam Police station. He became a detective to try to understand his dad better, who was an ex-detective. However, he discovers that his father, Myung eGun, actually kidnapped him when he was a child. Myung Geun had lost his own son in a building collapse, and as reven...

This story is about Shi Yi, a gentle pleasant and low-key but industry's top voice actress, who ran into the elegant returnee chemistry professor Zhou Sheng Chen at the airport one day. They gradually develop a mutual understanding in getting along with each other, and join hands to preserve traditi...

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.

Sui Ning always had a good relationship with her father when she was little because her mother was dead. As she grew older, their relationship grew father apart. Soon, she becomes a workaholic and thinks her father was just plain annoying. One day, her father tells her to go with him to his home vi...

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

The series begins with the mother-less child, Lin Dai Yu - whose beauty and intelligence surpasses all - moving into her maternal grandmother's family in the capital. There, the child meets numerous relatives, one of whom is Jia Bao Yu, her mother's nephew, and male protagonist. Bao Yu was borne wit...

Twenty-four years ago, the "God of the sword" Yang Chang Feng was betrayed and murdered by one of his relatives. Today, his son Fu Hong Xue, himself a seasoned speltist, undertakes to avenge his father's death. During his journey, Hong Xue meets kindness and treachery, conflicts with love and hatred...

~~ Adapted from the novel "Dream of the Red Chamber" (红楼梦) by Cao Xue Qin (曹雪芹).

Chinese mythology fantasy television series focused on the stories of the "Mad Monk" Ji Gong, a popular Chinese folklore figure from the Southern Song Dynasty (1127 – 1279). The series is made up by two parts, the first part known as "Ji Gong" (1985) starring You Benchang, and the second part "Ji G...

"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...

Teacher Ryoko Hayama has been suffering severe emotional abuse in her childhood. Therefore, she had developed a stoic personality. In other words, she accepted her fate and suppressed the past. Ryoko grew older and kept the stoic mindset until a change in the woman's mind occurred, once she had star...

"The Champion" deals with two plots in the same time. First, it tells the story of the female swimming team Fei Yu which fights with the arrogant Flying Fish. Starting with a very low potential, Fei Yu improves step by step thanks to their new and very strict coach Wu Zhenkang (Yan Xing Shu). The te...

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.

Sons and Daughters examines Korean society's preference for boys over girls through the story of Lee Kwi Nam and Lee Hoo Nam who are twins of the opposite sex. Hoo Nam's and Kwi Nam's mother unequal treatment of her children is especially moving.

Chinese mythology fantasy television series focused on the stories of the "Mad Monk" Ji Gong, a popular Chinese folklore figure from the Southern Song Dynasty (1127 – 1279). This is a non-official sequel to the 1985-1988 version starring You Ben Chang.

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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