Yu Tai-Ping
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Shaolin Temple
1976-12-22
Shaolin Temple
Overview: There is no place more hallowed in the martial art world than China's Shaolin Temple. This special place deserves a special epic, which is what the martial arts maestro delivers in this battle between a brave brand of Chinese boxers and literally thousands of Qing troops - complete with betrayals, intrigues, and such novel fighting machines as 108 wooden robots. The conflicts grow in complexity, intensity and even suspense as monks struggle to stay alive in the face of overwhelming odds.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-12-22
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The Magnificent Ruffians
1979-09-20
The Magnificent Ruffians
Overview: 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 hires them to take out the competition, who their new employer insists is up to no good. But the boys are being played for fools, and after an unfortunate misunderstanding, they unite with their former adversary to take out the true villain.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-09-20
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Kid with the Golden Arm
1979-11-02
Kid with the Golden Arm
Overview: Jin bei tong opens with a group of escort guards preparing to move a shipment of gold from the local government to an area stricken by famine... one of the very few Venom films where all six Venom actors are present within a single film.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-11-02
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Crippled Avengers
1978-12-21
Crippled Avengers
Overview: A group of martial artists seek revenge after being crippled by Tu Tin-To, a martial arts master, and his son.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-12-21
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The Flag of Iron
1980-02-01
The Flag of Iron
Overview: Loyal gang member Iron Panther takes the heat for his boss after a dustup with their rivals, only to end up betrayed in this vintage kung fu yarn.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-02-01
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Two Champions of Shaolin
1980-04-12
Two Champions of Shaolin
Overview: Shaolin warrior Tung Chien-chen is injured in battle against the hated Wu Tang clan, and nursed back to health by a knife-throwing master. As he recovers, Tung learns this deadly art, and also falls in love with his teacher's daughter. But when a Wu Tang attack disrupts the young lovers' wedding, Tung must put his new skill to use as he seeks revenge.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-04-12
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House of Traps
1982-01-09
House of Traps
Overview: It all started with The Five Venoms, the internationally loved kung-fu thriller. It continued through more than a dozen bloody good entertainments featuring the same actors in different roles. This is considered the last official "Venoms" movie, but what a film it is. There's one plasma-spurting attack after another as heroes and rogues alike try to solve the secrets of this hell house. The core Venoms themselves choreograph the gory fun in this fond farewell to their worldwide film series sensation!
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-01-09
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The Rebel Intruders
1980-09-10
The Rebel Intruders
Overview: China is ripped apart by a civil war, and thousands of displaced refugees swarm into towns not yet ravaged by war. Three such refugees arrive in one town. They join forces with local rebel leaders to escape to the south before getting into trouble with Lu Feng who is out to exterminate all rebels.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-09-10
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The Brave Archer 3
1981-11-12
The Brave Archer 3
Overview: Guo Jing and Huang Rong pursue Yang Kang to Iron Palm Peak, where Qiu Qianren and the Iron Palm Sect is based. Huang is injured by Qiu in a fight and she escapes with Guo Jing's help. Guo brings her in search of a cure to heal her wounds and they stumble upon a house in a swamp, inhabited by a woman called Yinggu. Yinggu tells them that the only person who can save Huang Rong's life is Duan Zhixing, the former ruler of the Kingdom of Dali, who has become a monk now.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-11-12
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The Nine Demons
1984-01-01
The Nine Demons
Overview: Childhood friend Joey and Gary are the only survivors of a coup against Gary's family. Joey lands in hell, and sells his loyalty to the devil in return for magic powers. As part of the deal, Joey has nine demons enter his body. The demons demand a daily feed of blood, but they must obey Joey. He uses the new powers to help Gary, and to kill the plotters. But events soon get even more complicated.
Genres: Action Horror Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Sword Stained with Royal Blood
1981-03-06
The Sword Stained with Royal Blood
Overview: Raised to be a righteous martial artist, Yuan kicks off the story proper by finding a cave containing a skeleton, a treasure map, and a manual teaching him the Golden Snake style. Obeying a request hidden in the manual to give a portion of the treasure to the Golden Snake's old girlfriend, Yuan begins to seek the woman out - on the way solving the riddle of the Golden Snake, and how he came to his end.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1981-03-06
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Legend of the Fox
1980-11-15
Legend of the Fox
Overview: Chin Siu Ho plays a young man who believes himself to be an orphan. Until one rainy night when he and three different men find themselves taking shelter from the storm in the same place. Here the man who raised him tells him at last the story of who his parents were. His father (Lu Feng) was a great swordsman trying to dispel rumors of a wrongdoing and return a lost sword to its rightful owner. Kuo Choi and Chiang Sheng (also master swordsmen) are the parties that Lu Feng is trying to rectify things with. Through cowardly trickery on Chiang's part, a duel ensues and it all winds up with Lu's death. His son is taken to safety by a servant (the man who since raised him). Now with the truth told, Chin Siu Ho seeks out Kuo Choi's aid and seeks vengeance for the wrongful death of his father.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-11-15
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Crazy Nuts of Kung Fu
1974-03-01
Crazy Nuts of Kung Fu
Overview: A roadside bandit reluctantly agrees to become the muscle for a traveling gambler/cheat. In an attempt to steal from traitorous warlords, they get involved with rebel fighters who hope to use the riches to fund their revolution.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-03-01
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Invincible Shaolin
1978-11-19
Invincible Shaolin
Overview: Three North Shaolin teachers are called on by the Manchus to teach their soldiers and are urged to challenge the current South Shaolin teachers. They defeat the South Shaolin teachers and, that night, the head general kills the South Shaolin teachers and blames their death on the North Shaolin teachers. The South Shaolin master sends more of his pupils, who are killed accidentally by the North Shaolin teachers. He finally sends two more of his students to train with old masters and trains one student himself with the goal of finally defeating the North Shaolin experts.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-11-19
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The Five Venoms
1978-08-12
The Five Venoms
Overview: A dying master sends his last student to check up on five former pupils, who each know a special style of kung-fu.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-08-12
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Masked Avengers
1981-05-15
Masked Avengers
Overview: Philip Kwok plays a repentant killer who vows to destroy the masked gang of which he was a member. A young fighter and his martial arts brothers come to the town to catch the killers, but one of them is not to be trusted!
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-05-15
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Brave Archer and His Mate
1982-02-25
Brave Archer and His Mate
Overview: Guo Jing and Huang Rong return to Peach Blossom Island and are shocked to see that Guo's first martial arts teachers, the "Seven Freaks of Jiangnan", have all been murdered except for Ke Zhen'e. Guo Jing is tricked into believing that Huang Rong's father, Huang Yaoshi, is responsible for the murders and he attempts to avenge his teachers by fighting Huang Yaoshi. The intelligent Huang Rong eventually uncovers the truth and reveals that the murders are actually part of a plot masterminded by Ouyang Feng and Yang Kang. Ouyang and Yang want to make Guo Jing and Huang Yaoshi kill each other and Yang can learn Ouyang's newly mastered skills from the fake copy of the Nine Yin Manual.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-02-25
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The Weird Man
1983-01-01
The Weird Man
Overview: Chang is known for his lone swordsman and hero movies and strangely The Weird Man still reflects this. Cheng plays a righteous, beheaded priest with supernatural powers that returns from the dead to wreak havoc against one of the corrupt kingdoms, making Cheng a heroic swords-ghost.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Five Element Ninjas
1982-04-21
Five Element Ninjas
Overview: A young martial artist vows to take revenge against the ninja who murdered his martial arts master and brothers. He finds a new teacher and faces, together with his new brothers, the Five Element Ninja challenge.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-04-21
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Heaven and Hell
1980-01-18
Heaven and Hell
Overview: Actors David Chaing and Alexander Fu Sheng join director Chang Cheh and the rest of the Five Deadly Venoms crew for a supernatural martial arts epic that takes the action to another plane of reality entirely. When a fallen angel descends to the Earth on a mission to storm the underworld, a love shared between angels and humans offers telling testament to the power of a lucky ghost. In the battle that follows, both the living and the dead will discover that a war waged in hell could have consequences that resound forever
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-01-18
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Life Gamble
1978-04-26
Life Gamble
Overview: Legendary director Chang Cheh teamed his latest big star, Alexander Fu Sheng, with future Venoms Lo Meng and Kuo Chue to create another winner in his vaunted filmography. Joining them were the top supporting actors and the prettiest starlets, for an entertaining, exciting tale of a kung-fu blacksmith taking on four famous robbers while a villainous gambling boss plots to destroy them.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-04-26
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The Brave Archer
1977-07-30
The Brave Archer
Overview: Guo Jing and Yang Kang are the sons of two rebels. The rebels are killed by imperial soldiers and the boys are rescued by six pugilists later. The pugilists agree to separate the two boys, tutor them separately in martial arts, and let them meet again when they have grown up, to determine whose abilities are better. Guo becomes the student of the "Seven Freaks of Jiangnan" while Yang Kang becomes the foster son of a Jurchen prince inadvertently.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-07-30
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The Brave Archer 2
1978-05-13
The Brave Archer 2
Overview: Our hero Kuo Tsing is winning the hand of fair maiden Huang Yung. However, almost immediately, clan rivalries in the "Martial Art World" lead to Kuo being wounded by Ouyang Feng and Huang being named the new leader of the Beggar Clan. All this is mounted with sparkling energy by three kung-fu choreographers and a star-packed cast.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-05-13
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Magnificent Wanderers
1977-05-27
Magnificent Wanderers
Overview: Millionaire Chu Te-Sa invests his considerable wealth into the rebel movement who are intent on usurping the ruling Mongol powers. His goals are impeded by a lack of support though and the supposed allies he has made in the town are merely eager to get their hands on his money. During an attack where these craven 'comrades' flee, Chu befriends three con-artists who relish the chance to show off their fighting skills. The trio subsequently agree to help Chu in his quest to end Mongol rule and hatch a plan to destroy a major munitions dump
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-05-27
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Chinatown Kid
1977-12-02
Chinatown Kid
Overview: 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 time fights his way to the top of the city's most feared gangster organization led by the White Dragon boss.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-12-02
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Shaolin Rescuers
1979-03-24
Shaolin Rescuers
Overview: Two friends who long to be heroes join the fight against a Ching warlord and his students. They get help from a Kung Fu student and a rebel. They also save Hung Si Quan's life.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-03-24
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Ode to Gallantry
1982-12-16
Ode to Gallantry
Overview: In this entertaining, surprisingly lighthearted martial arts extravaganza, Kuo Chue, finds himself being confused with his doppelganger time and time again. With each case of mistaken identity, he becomes drawn into a number of heated conflicts between several rival schools and gangs - a dilemma that he just isn't prepared to deal with! As he is pulled to and fro by circumstances, there's no telling where the day will take him! By the film's end, he's sure to learn some valuable lessons about brotherhood and honor, but at what price?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-12-16
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The Naval Commandos
1977-04-10
The Naval Commandos
Overview: The "Godfather Of The Kung-Fu Film" created this rousing epic of a seemingly suicidal mission to destroy the Japanese Navy's flagship in 1937, featuring many great actors he had worked with over the years. Their courageous and desperate attempts to do just that comprise the remarkable action in this rousing epic, featuring some of the greatest actors Chang had ever made, was making, and would ever make famous. (IVL)
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-04-10
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Ten Tigers of Kwangtung
1979-12-25
Ten Tigers of Kwangtung
Overview: Ming partisan Chu who is on the run from Manchu forces. Local merchant and kung fu enthusiast Li Chen-chau gives the fugitive shelter in his pawnshop and quietly recruits some of his fellow martial master associates to help protect the lad. When Li's professional rival rats him out, Manchu official Liang not only orchestras his army but fools a couple other kung fu masters including Beggar Su into helping his cause. After a heated battle, Li manages to convince Su to joining his cause, thus forming the Ten Tigers.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-12-25
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