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Popularity:
1981-10-22
Overview: This mystery-tinged 'Martial Arts World' epic was one of director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung's last together for the Shaw Studios, but it's another action-filled winner. Liu Yung and Sun Chien team to investigate the martial arts murders of a supposedly mortally wounded swordsman, only to find deception, death, double-dealings, imposters, and one deadly duel after another. No less than three choreographers are on hand to handle the multitude of magnificent martial arts.
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-10-22
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1983-01-01
Overview: Max Mok is the dashing young swordsman Feng Xiwu who arrives at a beautiful, but deadly location known as Moonlit Sky to investigate rumors of deaths and disappearances there.
Genres: Horror Action Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1983-01-01
Popularity:
1971-02-07
Overview: Lei Li lost his right-arm in a sword duel with the master of a martial arts school, long ago. Now, he is able to defend himself well with just his left arm, and kung fu techniques. That he proves with just the help of his friend Chung-Chieng, when he crosses his path with a beautiful girl in need, Pao Chiao. Even against impossible odds, he will prove a great warrior.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-02-07
Popularity:
1972-02-11
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-02-11
Popularity:
1990-03-17
Overview: A well-known gangster is released from prison, and decides look for his daughter with the help of a troubled young woman.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-03-17
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1976-04-12
Overview: Shaw production
Genres: Drama Music History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-04-12
Popularity:
1980-03-15
Overview: A young boy convinces a Buddhist monk to help him find the man who abducted his mother.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-03-15
Popularity:
1982-06-11
Overview: A coolie is ofter a job a policeman after saving a government official, and through treachery and corruption rises through the ranks of the police, then becomes a gangster.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-06-11
Popularity:
1974-12-14
Overview: James Nam and Johnny Taylor star in Jaws of the Dragon. This martial arts extravaganza concerns two rival factions in the Far East. In "Hatfields and McCoys" fashion, one group gradually decimates the other and vice versa.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1974-12-14
Popularity:
1990-07-21
Overview: An update of the 1960s Chinese martial arts story, Buddha's Palm, friends Charles and Chi (Andy Lau, Pak-Cheung Chan) visit Mainland China and discover an ancient cave that houses what is supposed to be the makeshift tomb of the legendary martial artist Lung Gim-Fei. The friends find an old spell book and practice some magic, which unintentionally breaks open a wall and releases a dormant princess (Joey Wang) and her handmaiden (Siu-Wai Mui). Charles and Chi take the Princess and her Handmaiden back to Hong Kong with them, unaware that they were followed by the just-awaken evil warlord, Tien Chien (Wah Yuen).
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-07-21
Popularity:
1980-05-02
Overview: The plot is a trifle about an obnoxious restaurant delivery boy causing trouble with some local bad guys for the cook who secretly knows kung fu, eventually learning some techniques and finally, with the cook, confronting the bad guys.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-05-02
Popularity:
1985-10-24
Overview: The World Of Suzy Wong is a great novel by British author Richard Mason which was made into a terrible Hollywood movie in 1960. Like Suzy, Shui Mei goes to work in a bar in Wanchai around the late 1950s, where sailors and foreign money are plentiful. But there isn't much similarity beyond this.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-10-24
Popularity:
1982-07-14
Overview: A psychotic craftsman pits two rival Kung-Fu masters against each other while designing special lanterns from a disturbing source.
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-07-14
Popularity:
1977-07-23
Overview: Set in early 20th century Shanghai, this Hua Shan actioner stars former Golden Harvest regular Nora Miao Ke-hsiu as Bobo, a village girl who has journeyed to the big city in search of her father. Not long after her arrival, Bobo 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 makes trouble at one of the man's casinos as a part of a plan to smooth over the situation. Ace gunman Ko Tang is also in town and the two strike up an alliance to take over Kam's empire. Jaguar's lust for power soon alienates Bobo, who realizes that she was simply a pawn in his plan to gain control of the Shanghai underworld. Held a virtual prisoner, Bobo's one hope for revenge is Luo Lie, another friend from childhood and now her fiancee, currently imprisoned in Germany.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-07-23
Popularity:
1973-07-27
Overview: Pirate Chang Pao-Chai springs a leak after an otherwise successful raid on a foreign ship. He goes ashore to get materials to patch his ship up, where he encounters corrupt Qing officials and poor, oppressed peasants. Being a good man at heart, he decides to help out and becomes an even bigger outlaw in the process.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-07-27
Popularity:
1977-01-20
Overview: After a sudden spike of supply into the drug ridden streets, staunch anti-narcotics cop hellbent on disrupting the flow of drugs beyond the Golden Triangle recruits the help of an attractive young ex-convict to infiltrate a major Thai based drug syndicate controlled by a ruthless drug lord who's expanded their operations into Hong Kong. As our seductive undercover heroine gets inside and rises the ranks to the top, skepticism also rises as the boss' jealous moll smells a plant.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-01-20
Popularity:
1980-02-28
Overview: Teng Piao went to jail for fifteen years on a frame up for drug smuggling. Now that he's out, along with his iron chain, Teng Piao is hungry for revenge. The man he wants to beat with his chain is Black Leopard Lam Fei. The problem for Teng Piao is that he doesn't know who he is, only that he has a picture of a black leopard tattooed on his chest.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-02-28
Popularity:
1976-10-28
Overview: Lo Lieh 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, Angela Yu Chien. However, there is also the Centipede Sect to contend with, as well as other assorted martial artists, among them played by Shaw Brothers talents Yueh Hua, Ching Li, and Lily Li.
Genres: Action Drama Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-10-28
Popularity:
1977-03-05
Overview: 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 the palace will kill him. Chu's curiosity and eagerness to prove his innocence spur him to investigate the case.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-03-05
Popularity:
1978-07-08
Overview: Following "Clans Of Intrigue"'s success, director Chu Yuan, novelist Ku Lung, and superstar Ti Lung re-teamed for another adventure featuring sexy knight Chu Liu-Hsiang. This time, he travels to the mysterious Island Of The Bats, where he encounters treacherous monks, beautiful women, and a strange Prince. The movie is also a significant milestone in the amount of female flesh revealed on screen, proving that Shaw movies can balance the yin of cheesecake with the yang of beefcake.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-07-08
Popularity:
1993-04-01
Overview: Jet Li stars in this comic spectacle as a Chinese "Robin Hood" who stumbles upon a kidnapping scheme after unwittingly opening a martial arts school next to a brothel!
Genres: Action Comedy History
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-04-01
Popularity:
1980-02-09
Overview: Youthful martial arts master Lung is searching for his missing brother, when he is mistaken for a criminal on the run. He must prove his innocence by solving the case himself, while local lawmen and merciless mercenaries are hot on his trail.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1980-02-09
Popularity:
1971-01-22
Overview: 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 Black Demons henchmen attack, the master reveals herself and eventually takes on the student to train her so that they may both defeat the villian. A love triangle complicates things when another student asks for training as well.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-01-22
Popularity:
1980-05-25
Overview: Based on actual events that took place in Shanghai 1919, Hwang Jang Lee portrays a ruthless Police Captain, who will stop at nothing in his quest for power even framing an innocent man and sending him mad. The Man's family can not tolerate the injustice and fight back with some of the meanest Kung Fu techniques ever witnessed, without doubt one of the best films from the two kings of Kung Fu: Hwang Jang Lee & Phillip Ko.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-05-25
Popularity:
1974-12-06
Overview: Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all knowledge of payment arrangements, he realises he has been drawn into a dangerous game where there are no rules. Amongst the players are the Mafia and several foreign intelligence services and the stakes being played for are deadly.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-06
Popularity:
1978-02-06
Overview: Sequel to Bruce and Shaolin Kung Fu.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 1978-02-06
Popularity:
1977-03-19
Overview: Japanese forces in Shanghai attempt to destroy the patriotic spirit of the Chinese by closing down all Kung Fu gyms. Chang Ling (Bruce Le), a top Chinese Kung Fu practitioner, is forced to flee to Korea. The Japanese forces pursue him there, and so Chang Ling fights back, defeating many Japanese fighters before finally encountering the Japanese commander.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1977-03-19
Popularity:
1962-11-28
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1962-11-28
Popularity:
1973-02-15
Overview: Delivery boy Chung rings an order to a local martial arts school. He shows that he too is a kung fu student when he punches a bag and also kicks out the instructor for his money. Chung has a tough life. His father constantly nags him to work hard. One day, his is heckled by Chien-Pe, a disabled thug who runs a gang. Chung fights and beats them up and as a result, he is fired from his job. Chien turns to his boss, Tai Chung, to get Chung.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-02-15
Popularity:
1977-12-03
Overview: Lotus never had a chance. Her mother seethed with anger at being unjustly imprisoned for turning her attemped rapist into a cyclops. Mother repeatedly asked her good friend and fellow prisoner, Pickpocket, to urge Lotus to take revenge for her as an adult. Lotus is given to a monastery and grows up there, but twenty years of peace and love make no impression on Lotus, who skips classes to practice pole and sword skills. Joining forces with Pickpocket and Big Rat, Lotus gets her chance at revenge.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-12-03
Popularity:
1971-10-01
Overview: Two men, one a businessman skilled in Kung Fu, the other a kickboxer discover they are brothers, and together, both in and out of the ring, they must face a crime syndicate. One of the first films to use the martial art of Muay Thai.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-10-01
Popularity:
1972-02-29
Overview: The Angry Guest is a direct sequel to Duel of Fists which had two long-separated brothers, Ti Lung and David Chiang, reuniting in Bangkok and running afoul of the local mob after Ti Lung, a boxer, beats the local favorite in the ring. In this film, the action shifts from Bangkok to Hong Kong to Japan and then back to HK as the brothers contend with a Japanese mob led by crime boss Yamaguchi, who is played by the film's director, Chang Cheh, in a rare screen appearance.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-02-29
Popularity:
1990-07-27
Overview: After police officer Piao is murdered, his soul cannot be at rest for his murder has been written off as a suicide. Therefore the heavens send him back to Earth as a spirit to find his 'savior' who will help him clear his name. Hsing, a rookie officer, is the savior and in return for finding Piao's killer, Piao must get him a girlfriend and a promotion.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-07-27
Popularity:
1981-12-10
Overview:
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-12-10
Popularity:
1979-09-01
Overview: Three young martial arts students and their teacher are beaten up badly by a wandering man who proclaims himself "a corrector of bad kung-fu." Determined to avenge their teacher and regain their honor, the three students all go their separate ways to find kung-fu masters who will take them as students.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-09-01
Popularity:
1973-01-12
Overview: Historical movie set during the Japanese occupation of China during WWII. Jackie Chan is one of the good guys but has nothing much more than a supporting role.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1973-01-12
Popularity:
1973-03-05
Overview: A martial arts fighter, haunted by his past, takes a job as a dock worker in a small village. His vow never to fight again is tested by the cruel owner of the pier.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1973-03-05
Popularity:
1973-09-01
Overview: A young police cadet graduates from the academy, and is sent to a small town run by gangsters - one of whom betrayed the hero's father and left him to die.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1973-09-01
Popularity:
1972-05-17
Overview: Yuen Woo Ping, who would in time become one of the world's leading martial arts choreographers, blocked the fight scenes for this Kung Fu action extravaganza. A small Chinese town is being torn apart by a conflict between local farmers and Japanese soldiers of fortune, who have been brought to town to liberate supplies of a rare Chinese herb. A martial arts expert gifted in both Chinese and Japanese fighting disciplines passes through town, and takes it upon himself to settle the feud.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1972-05-17
Popularity:
1982-12-22
Overview: Ti Lung plays a Vietnam vet who's now an 'honourable' mercenary-for-hire taking on an assignment tracking down an assassin who's fled to Cambodia after murdering an industrialist from Hong Kong. He recruits a team for the task which consists of who's who of the Shaw Brother's action stars (Lo Lieh, Johnny Wang Lung Wei, Wong Yue, Chan Wei Man and comedy relief Nat Chan). However once they arrived for the mission nothing is what it seems with the standard plot-twists and turns as we find out who's the traitor among the group.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-12-22
Popularity:
1978-10-06
Overview: In the 18th century, Emperor Chien Lung makes a journey into Southern China.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-10-06
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