Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 22, 1923
Deathday: January 22, 2001
Popularity:
1977-03-12
Overview: Complicated mix of Chinese history and myth, where old Shaolin friends find themselves on different sides, one a Ching general, and the other faithful to Ming.
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-03-12
Popularity:
1970-01-01
Overview: Taiwanese romantic drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
Popularity:
1965-09-15
Overview: Shaw Brothers comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-09-15
Popularity:
1966-11-08
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-11-08
Popularity:
1964-09-19
Overview: A musical set in a logging village in Taiwan. Romance and singing abound as a logger and a pretty girl from the village fall in love. A villain is there to make sure that the course of true love does not run smoothly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-09-19
Popularity:
1956-10-30
Overview: Journey to Kwan Shan. A Taiwan-HK film by CMPC.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-10-30
Popularity:
1957-09-11
Overview: Vagabond singer Ali is embroiled in a dispute over love and is compelled to return to his own country. Ali is mistaken for the future queen's consort and chances to meet her majesty Law Yee. Law falls head over heels for Ali and they get married not long after. However, Ali finds royal formalities unbearable and decides to run away from the palace. Disregarding all rules, Law follows her man to wherever he goes.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1957-09-11
Popularity:
1959-09-17
Overview: The Cliff by CMPC.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1959-09-17
Popularity:
1963-07-19
Overview: An anti-communist propaganda film by CMPC
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-07-19
Popularity:
1976-10-07
Overview: In this gripping tale of double revenge featuring some of the most brutal fighting you've ever seen, only one man, Chai Sing - holds the key to stopping this relentless evil.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-10-07
Popularity:
1965-12-02
Overview: Spy thriller set in occupied Shanghai. Li Lihua stars as the woman who is thrust into the role of nationalist freedom fighter when she discovers that her husband is a collaborator with the Japanese.
Genres: War Thriller Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-12-02
Popularity:
1966-01-18
Overview: THE MONKEY GOES WEST is the first entry in the studio’s epic, four-part screen adaptation of “Journey to the West,” a 16th-century novel recounting the efforts of a Buddhist monk and his magical companions to travel to India and bring back Buddhist sutras.
Genres: Music Fantasy Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-01-18
Popularity:
1966-03-15
Overview: Jenny Wu is a singer who charms the well-to-do Peter Chen, but his parents object to a union between their only son and a lowly cabaret singer. He ignores their advice and marries her anyway, and for a time, they find some manner of wedded bliss. But the years are not entirely kind. He works hard to make ends meet, but his health pays the price.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-03-15
Popularity:
1968-01-05
Overview: Shaw Production
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-01-05
Popularity:
1973-07-11
Overview:
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-07-11
Popularity:
1979-12-29
Overview: Classic slapstick comedy set in a Taiwanese apartment building.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-12-29
Popularity:
1967-02-07
Overview: A musical about 3 sisters, singers and dancers, and their dad, a magician performing in nightclubs until they make their own life.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-02-07
Popularity:
1977-01-01
Overview: Shaw production
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-01-01
Popularity:
1966-09-14
Overview: The Weiss Advertising Co under manageress Lo Yu Chun (Pat Ting Hung) and the Jen An Advertising Co. managed by playboy Tsao Chung Nien (Peter Chen Ho) are business rivals. The former works hard but without much success. The latter, with most of his staff perusing racing form or yellow journals, gets far more business. The anticipated arrival of a business tycoon from Malaya starts another battle and Lo Yu Chun goes all out to win over the prospective customer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-09-14
Popularity:
1965-03-10
Overview: The story revolves around Tian Yu Quan (Chin Feng) who rushes to the aid of an elderly fisherman who is bullied by an arrogant relative of the Qiu Shan ministry. In the heat of the ensuing battle he kills the said man and is hence chased by the district's officials. Trying to use the waterway to shake off his enemies, Yu Quan finds a true friend in the old fisherman's bark-stearing daughter, Hu Feng Lian (Ting Hung) who becomes his loyal accomplice. As symbol for his gratitude, Yu Quan bestows Feng Lian with a Butterfly Chalice to reflect their eternal friendship bond...
Genres: Action Drama Music History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-03-10
Popularity:
1972-03-24
Overview: Yunpeng and his servant stay at a country inn one dark evening to escape potential robbers and ghosts. But Yunpeng chances into something far more dangerous! He accidentally happens upon the comely Anu naked in bed, and to make up for his rudeness he has to marry her. Because of her beauty, the request is not too difficult to fulfill...until she is introduced to his aunts and uncles, who notice her ghastly green glow and deduce that she's a spirit from the netherworld. But there's something even darker about her appearance, and it may be revenge on his in-laws.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-03-24
Popularity:
1981-11-26
Overview: Taiwanese romance film.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-11-26
Popularity:
1965-07-28
Overview: A musical staring Carrie Ku Mei as a singer named Xiaoyun Shi, who comes to Hong Kong after a tour of other Asian countries, hoping to develop her career.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-07-28
Popularity:
1964-12-22
Overview: A member of the Red Peony troupe, singer Tang Pei Hua (Yeh Feng) is renowned for her beautiful voice and appearances. Her beauty, however, invites the unwanted attentions of cruel and lecherous warlord Cao Lin (Zeng Mei). In order to escape Cao's grasp, Tang and her lover Lin Ke Qiang (Chin Han) decide to run away to the south where they can live freely. But their plan is uncovered by Cao, and Lin gets captured. In order to save Lin, Tang must sacrifice herself and entertain Japanese guests at a banquet, throwing herself into danger's way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-12-22
Popularity:
1964-01-17
Overview: Fan Chia-soo is a kind-hearted student whose heart is captured by the sweet song of Shen Feng-hsien. However, he is not the only one who has eyes for Shen. The General's henchmen are also determined to present the songstress to their superior as a gift. Fan received help from an unexpected quarter to save the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-01-17
Popularity:
1967-11-09
Overview: Movie queen Ivy Ling Po is ideally cast as a male scholar in this historical Huangmei Opera romance. It’s a tragic love story between the scholar and a local beauty (played by Fang Ying). He polishes mirrors as a pretext to get closer to his love, who signals her approval by tossing him a bunch of lichees. From that point on the course of true love proves operatically rocky, complete with murder and suicide.
Genres: Drama History Romance Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-11-09
Popularity:
1967-10-12
Overview: Ivy Ling Po was at the height of her fame in traditional Huangmei Opera films -- and chiefly as a male impersonator -- when she radically changed her image, taking on an ultra-contemporary semi-musical role in Song Of Tomorrow. Ivy plays a dance hostess and leading man Chiao Chuang is a jazz drummer, but with a difference. Chiao is a heroin addict, and Ivy learns that heroin is a far more lethal adversary than "the other woman" when trying to keep their marriage intact.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-10-12
Popularity:
1966-03-02
Overview: The lovely Li Hsiang-chun stars as a poor beauty who is drugged, ravished, lied to, locked in a burning store room, left to drown, and chased by sword-wielding ruffians, among other things. Her only hope is her betrayer's new wife, played by the strong and sensual Ivy Ling Po. Dawn may come, but the questions is: will it be too late? Director/writer Kao Li shows both restraint and sadism in this historical melodramatic tearjerker.
Genres: Music History Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-03-02
Popularity:
1978-08-12
Overview: A grandfather and his young grandaughter travel to atown with a very unusual proposition: if any man can beat her in a fight, she will be his bride.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-08-12
Popularity:
1973-01-01
Overview: Martian arts film from Taiwain directed by Kim Lung.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-01-01
Popularity:
1975-01-01
Overview: Peng’s father is killed by the local overlord Chen Tao in front of his son. Years later, the adult Peng has his revenge, killing Tao and incurring the wrath of Tao’s brother. Meanwhile, Fan, a wandering “security guard”, defends himself against Chen’s bullying henchmen, which doesn't sit well with Chen, who offers Fan two choices: join, or die. Chen takes the rebellious Fan to find Ping and kill him. Little does Chen know that Fan his own ulterior motives in mind.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-01-01
Popularity:
1965-05-27
Overview: The socialite Pai Li-Lan's life is disrupted when she contracts tuberculosis.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-05-27
Popularity:
1982-09-02
Overview: A car accident on a curvy road with a history of death is just the beginning of a woman's horror story.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-09-02
Popularity:
1982-03-25
Overview: A group of young people are helped to illegally immigrate from China to Hong Kong by a local gang, but when they arrive they are immediately abused by the gang and paid little for the tasks they are given. Struggling to survive, the group turn to petty crime to make ends meet. When one of the group accidentally picks the pocket of a chief detective, he decides to use the group of desperate immigrants to help him infiltrate their gang.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-03-25
Popularity:
1969-07-19
Overview: Two halves of a treasure map owned by two brothers is the one thing that the Golden Dragon Gang wants to get, and they'll kill anyone who gets in their way. When the gang quickly dispenses with the two brothers in a blitz home invasion, their third brother, returning from ten years of wandering, arrives and teaches the gang a lesson they'll never forget--that is, if they survive at all! Henchman after henchman gets filleted like a brook trout as our hero literally cuts his way through a jungle of sword-wielding thugs, a trio of fancy-weapon gang leaders, and a masked ninja assassin that's killing people on both sides. Who will be left alive to claim the treasure? Find out in this high body-count wuxia classic.
Genres: History Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-07-19
Popularity:
1969-06-14
Overview: The Golden Blade should be kept in the hands of a good person; if it fell into the wrong hands the outcome would be terrible. Evil Black Bat asked for the sword, but the sword smith refused the demand. The prentice hid the sword while his master got slaughtered by Black Bat and before his death asked his prentice to give the sword to Ting Yeh the son of Ting Hsiang Ren. Black Bat slaughters Ting Hsiang Ren and his family, while Ting Yeh was absent. Upon return to home, Ting Yeh finds out the tragic destiny of his parents. After recovering The Golden Blade he seeks vengeance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-06-14
Popularity:
1976-04-17
Overview: Brigitte Lin is Sung Hsiao Yu, a young girl in love with Wen Hsing Yu (Charlie Chin), a botanist who's trying to cross-fertilize flowers to create a perfect breed of rose. But Hsing Yu has a rival, Tsui Wen Lun, who despises Wen Hsing Yu for being on better terms with his father AND capturing Hsiao Yu's heart. But when Wen Lun gets in with Hsiao Yu's father, that may be all she wrote. Can Hsiao Yu safely choose her preferred man - Wen Hsing Yu - if it ends up leaving her father in trouble? Or will Hsiao Yu sacrifice love for family?
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-04-17
Popularity:
1981-01-01
Overview: Two groups of knife-wielding and kicking women in bikinis join forces to kill a gang boss responsible for killing their fathers. But they're not very effective. After three attacks on the culprit, the worst damage he suffered was having his ankle run over by a motorbike. Closer co-operation with a casino boss may help.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-01-01
Popularity:
1992-07-03
Overview: A-Guo and A-Dou are two teenagers living in an industrial town in Taiwan, who fight, loaf, and cause trouble all day and hang out with Jie, a young gangster. When Jie's gangland patron is gunned down, the trio set out to revenge the killing. As a result, the two teens are forced into hiding.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1992-07-03
Popularity:
1968-06-14
Overview:
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-06-14
Popularity:
1973-12-12
Overview: A young girl witnesses the massacre of her family at the hands of cold blooded kung fu killers. She spends the next ten years mastering the martial arts in order to avenge her family tracking down the killers one by one and dispatching them in fine martial art style.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-12-12
Popularity:
1988-07-09
Overview: Taiwan Comedy directed by Kevin Chu Yen-Ping and starring Eric Tsang and Stanley Fung.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1988-07-09
Popularity:
1970-03-18
Overview: A young couple desperately try to keep their love alive, while living in a haunted house.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-03-18
Popularity:
1967-08-02
Overview: Shaw production
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-08-02
Popularity:
1964-10-28
Overview: Ling Bo is Lin, a young man engaged to the daughter of a rich man, who now despises Lin because of his family's declining status. Lin visits his beloved fiancee before he heads towards the imperial city to participate in the civil service examination, only to find her maid lying dead in blood. Lin is then accused of murder. How can Judge Bao prove his innocence?
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-10-28
Popularity:
1981-07-01
Overview: Taiwanese adventure film that reunites Ivy Ling Po with ex-Shaw stars Ching Li and Lisa Chiao Chiao.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-07-01
Popularity:
1973-08-16
Overview: Rare was the film in 1973 that incorporated the star's name in the title. One of the few such films was Screaming Ninja, aka Wang Yu, King of Boxing. The story is set in China in the early 1900x. Essentially playing an extension of himself, action-star Wang-Yu spends much of the time defending himself against evil martial-arts masters. He also tries to make sense of a tragic incident in his past.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-08-16
Popularity:
1968-12-27
Overview: Taiwanese swordplay film.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-12-27
Popularity:
1965-08-26
Overview: The tragic love triangle of early 20th century Peking Opera star Chiu Hai-tang, his beautiful stage partner, and the warlord who forces himself between them, has been a favorite with Chinese audiences for decades.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-08-26
Popularity:
1965-03-19
Overview: The year is 1937, just prior to the Japanese invasion of China. Painters Ju Rui and Lao San stumble upon He Hua, a woman sold into the sex industry at a local brothel.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-03-19
Popularity:
1953-03-17
Overview: My Loyal & Faithful Dog
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1953-03-17
Popularity:
1963-11-08
Overview: An orphaned girl in a poverty-stricken neighborhood is adopted by a kindly neighbor. He struggles to support her honestly, despite opportunities to participate in a neighbor’s scurrilous get-rich-quick schemes. Invoking the pain of Chinese exiles living in Taiwan, or missing relatives still in China, the touching film posits an in-between historical period during which it is crucial for displaced residents to maintain virtue as a bedrock of identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-11-08
Popularity:
1968-10-17
Overview: A film based on the Oath of the Peach Garden which is a fictional event in the 14th-century Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-10-17
Popularity:
1969-01-14
Overview: The Ming Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China for three centuries. During its reign it encountered numerous rebellions. It is during just such a time that the small state of Yun finds itself caught between the two sides of an impending rebellion. The state of Yun must decide if it should rebel and align itself with the 8 Masters, or if it should stay loyal to the Emperor and the 4th Imperial Prince, Kao Ming.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-01-14
Popularity:
1969-07-19
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-07-19
Popularity:
1969-03-21
Overview: Although blind, the sharp hearing swordsman is still twice as fast as his foes; together with his trusty blade he dispatches an array of swordsmen an assassin’s in this great Taiwanese swordplay film.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-03-21
Popularity:
1971-09-16
Overview: Top class swordplay action from Taiwan, where umbrellas are used as swords.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-09-16
Popularity:
1972-04-21
Overview: In early Republic of China when Taiwan was still under Japanese occupation, people were oppressed, and their condition was miserable. A Kung Fu coach from China was invited to Taiwan. His name was Wan Chin-san. Mr. Wan established a Kung Fu School in a small village and refused any Japanese to be his student. For this reason, he was assassinated. When his son, Wan Ming-Chieh, heard the terrible news, he came to Taiwan in search of his father.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-04-21
Popularity:
1972-04-27
Overview: Li Feng is a woman who takes on the worst rogues and gangs. She is known as the Jade Rakasha. She is considered invincible until she is struck by the poisoned sword of the Robber Knights king.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-04-27
Popularity:
1973-01-01
Overview: Depicts the tragic adventure of two brothers in Shanghai. They are skilled boxers but can't resist the material temptations of the underworld.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-01-01
Popularity:
1973-07-27
Overview: Two Martial art experts take on Canton, and the most notorious Triad overlord and his posse of vile fighters with devastating effect. A must for all kung fu fans! This is a foot to face action at its best.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-07-27
Popularity:
1973-08-11
Overview: Wang Yu as a pimp with redeeming qualities — concern for a hospitalised sister and love for a "good" girl — which throw him into conflict with his boss, with fist-fights and killings, as the inescapable result.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-08-11
Popularity:
1974-05-18
Overview: Chia plays a government agent, Iron Phoenix, who’s after a bunch of crooked miners, and Barry plays a boastful young man without much fu talent. Iron Phoenix teaches Barry some martial arts skills, mainly because it helps her investigations about the miners, as she waits for her chance to strike and close down their illicit operation.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-05-18
Popularity:
1974-08-07
Overview: Excellent rare basher from Taiwan.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-08-07
Popularity:
1975-02-21
Overview: Five pretty girls go to Hong Kong to stay with their uncle who is a police superintendent. Soon they run into a gang of thieves, which gives them a chance to put their excellent kung fu skills to good use. This Bod Squad will kick your ass!
Genres: Comedy Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-02-21
Popularity:
1980-06-14
Overview: Taiwanese horror movie from 1980.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-06-14
Popularity:
1983-10-19
Overview: It's the 10th century BC, the emperor is not well, and the medicines he is receiving from con artist "Immortal Li" are in reality only making him worse.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1983-10-19
Popularity:
1984-11-08
Overview: Set in Shanghai in the 1940s. Story of a ballroom girl Jolie Chan who falls in love with a student and becomes pregnant, but the student's family force her to have an abortion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1984-11-08
Popularity:
1996-05-13
Overview: In this portrait of small-time hoods rendered in rhythm-of-life anecdotal detail, Gao is the leader of a circle of layabouts including his sidekick, Flathead, and their girlfriends, Pretzel and Ling. He is also the originator of petty crime schemes, which promise to get the gang nowhere fast.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1996-05-13
Popularity:
1974-11-29
Overview: Yu Tien Lung returns to his hometown to avenge the murder of his parents, a task in which he is prepared himself for by studying martial arts for twenty years. His resolution wavers when, after successfully killing the lesser villains, he falls in love with the daughter of the enemy. Will he now be able to take revenge for his parents’ murder?
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-11-29
Popularity:
1971-01-02
Overview: Heavyset Master An (Got Siu-Bo) receives a message from a dying imperial messenger and finds himself to be the hunted due to the defining, powerful nature of the message. A reluctant hero and not a fighting swordsman at heart (his sword is bent and worn), he's defended by mainly a duo of females and a sneaky swordsman played by O Chun-Hung.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-01-02
Popularity:
1979-10-31
Overview: The real-life story of a legendary Ming general (Meng Fei) who attempts to rid Chinese waters of Japanese pirates.
Genres: Drama History Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-10-31
Popularity: