Ku Wen-Chung
Also Known As: 顧文宗 , Wen Chung Ku, Ku Wen-Tsung, Ku Wan-Chung, Koo Man-Chung, Gu Wenzong, Gu Wen-Zong, Ku Un-Chung, Guh Men-Tong, Goo Man-Chung, 顾文宗
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China
Birthday: February 08, 1909
Deathday: June 15, 1981
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Impetuous Fire
Overview: An escaped convict meets a young girl with incurable disease and falls in love. The girl is visiting for only seven days, so they decide to hide the truth from each other and enjoy their brief life together.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Lady Balsam's Conquest
Overview: Lady Balsam's Conquest. A sequel of General Chai and Lady Balsam.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1955-04-01
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General Chai and Lady Balsam
Overview: General Chai and Lady Balsam
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1953-08-02
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The Story of Sue San
Overview: 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, albeit a famous one.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-09-30
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Marriage Angle
Overview: Marriage Angle is a Hong Kong Mandarin-language feature film of the drama genre, written and directed by Wang Yin, produced by Shaw Brothers Studio, Liu Chi and Chow Sze-Ching were the cinematographers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1954-01-27
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The Secret of the Dirk
Overview: The lovely Ching Li and handsome Chang I star as star-and-sword-crossed comrades who take on the vicious Black Tigers gang in a quest for hidden wealth. There's action galore, until the final, fiery fight in a temple of treasure.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-10-24
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Angry Tiger
Overview: Chang Chen-Wai, a martial arts expert who runs a jade-importing business, follows his missing brother to Thailand and learns he has been murdered. Chang vows revenge.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Qiu Jin, the Revolutionary Heroine
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1953-10-16
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Yonder My Love
Overview: A love triangle between a wrongfully accused fugitive, a judge's daughter, and her cousin.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1947-02-09
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The Golden Sword
Overview: 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 falls in love with a beggar (Cheng Pei-pei) and they continue the search together.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-10-15
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The Silent Swordsman
Overview: 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...
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-09-13
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The Silver Fox
Overview: The Silver Fox is a throwback, the last of its kind where the heroic swordsmen are women. Lily Ho (before she became one of Shaw Brothers' great erotica actresses) 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.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-03-13
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The Thundering Sword
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1967-05-08
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King Cat
Overview: Chang Yi plays 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.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-05-11
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Lady of Steel
Overview: A young swordswoman named Fang Ying-qi (Cheng Pei-Pei) sets out to join a gathering of the martial world’s leading warriors under the banner of Lord Xia (Fang Mien) and the Flying Dragon Clan. Their mission is to organize the defense of their country against invading Jin forces. Fang also intends to avenge the murder of her parents 20 years past by bandit leader Han Shi-xiong (Huang Chung-hsin). Han has since taken on a new, false identity as a reputable member of the Flying Dragon Clan while secretly working with the Jin to bring down the resistance. Han uses cunning and a network of criminal fighters in an attempt to assassinate Fang, and when that fails, to frame her as a traitor. Once his true identity and intentions are revealed, a determined Fang must rely on her deadly sword skills and assistance from a clever beggar clan leader (Yueh Hua) to stop Han and restore her reputation.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-02-27
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The Twelve Gold Medallions
Overview: While a brave Chinese general and his men fight against the Tartar invaders, several swordsmen try to obtain twelve golden medallions on whose possession depends the future of the Song dynasty.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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Vengeance Is a Golden Blade
Overview: Li Zhishan is a rich man, but wealth cannot keep the loyalties of his wife, who has been visiting the bed of a rival. She helps plot against him, and the Vicious Long Brothers invade his home and steal the Golden Dragon Blade - a sword that makes its wielder unbeatable. Zhishan, crippled in the attack, and his young daughter are whisked away by a devoted servant, and the trio soon find shelter in the home of an herbalist. Years pass, the daughter grows up to be a lovely young woman and a powerful fighter, and the Long Brothers use the Golden Dragon Blade to gain power in the region. Zhishan's family of sorts has managed to stay well hidden, but a trip into the city - the daughter's first - sets off an old power struggle as Zhishan's wife discovers her daughter is quite alive.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-07-19
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Nothing Compares to You
Overview: After spending seven years apart due to warfare, childhood sweethearts meet each other again and fall in love, yet tragic fate awaits.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1947-11-15
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Chin Ping Mei
Overview: Chin Ping Mei 金瓶梅 (1955) is a Hong Kong feature film written by Ku Wen-Chung and directed by Wang Yin, it was produced by Shaw Brothers Studio. This is an adaptation of the Lotus Pan tale.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1955-06-23
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Pursuit
Overview: Instructor Lin who is home from training the imperial troops for several years. He meets his wife and runs into his brother who has become a monk at the local temple. His superior Lord Gao, strangely decides to rape Lin's wife in the temple but Lin interrupts the crime. His brother is enraged and tries to kill Gao but Lin stops him with the help of Lin's training brother and old friend Lu who works for Gao. Lin is loyal to the Commissioner and will not do anything to harm his son. Once back at the Commissioner's house, Gao and Lu hatch a plan to discredit and eventually kill Lin all with the Commissioner's approval. The plan is put into motion and Lin is unjustly arrested for trespassing on imperial property.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-01-06
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Of Wives and Mistresses
Overview: shaw production
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-05-26
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The Lady of Mystery
Overview: Spies, Military Documents and Traitors.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-12-22
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A Married Woman's Secret
Overview: Liu Lizhen is in love with her colleague, Zhang Li'an but marries her wealthy cousin, Lei Yingsun. She later gives birth to a child, who's father is Zhang Li'an which creates complications to her married life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-08-10
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Beauty in the Maelstrom
Overview: A Shaw and Sons production about a couple who loves each other but end up marrying different people because of parental pressures.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-10-10
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Miss Evening Sweet
Overview: A Shaw and Sons production.
Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-06-19
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The Lizard
Overview: 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 (Law Lit) is assigned to bring down the Lizard to appease the sinister Japanese forces, but the Lizard constantly eludes his grasp. Little does Chen Can know that the wily thief actually works for him! The Lizard's true identity is the mousy Cheng Long (Ngok Wah), who dons a mask and takes to the streets to spread his righteous message.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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The Iron Buddha
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-11-12
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Twins of Kung Fu
Overview: A humble village finds itself at the center of an ongoing blood feud. Innocent lives are sacrificed as the two warring factions duel to the death. Twins are taught the styles of Dragon and Phoenix to enable them to avenge their mother's murder.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-12
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Laughter and Tears
Overview: Tao Zutai, a bank employee, has five children. Tao's wife is addicted to gambling and spends too much and the eldest daughter Guiru is greedy for vanity. Tao is overjoyed when he is notified that he will be promoted to deputy manager.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1958-01-23
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Clans of Intrigue
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
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The Brain-Stealers
Overview: A mad scientist wants to get his hands on a certain growth-accelerating serum developed by Hong Kong scientist Dr. Li Zong-Hua so that he can create an army of supermen and conquer the world.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-12-21
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The Brain-Stealers
Overview: A mad scientist wants to get his hands on a certain growth-accelerating serum developed by Hong Kong scientist Dr. Li Zong-Hua so that he can create an army of supermen and conquer the world.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-12-21
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Black Magic
Overview: 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.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-10-02
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Trapeze Girl
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-10-25
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The Midnight Murder
Overview: The heroine, Liu Yanniang, is a beautiful and virtuous woman who is in love with her husband, Wang Zhengtu. However, because of her disagreement with her sister-in-law, Yuhuan, who was unfortunately killed, Yaniang was mistakenly accused of murder by the king's mother and her husband's son-in-law. The governor of Suzhou, Mr. Yan Wentian, is very strict with the king, but just when he finds a clue, the witness is killed again. Yen is not satisfied with his efforts, but he realizes that the murderer has already come to his doorstep.
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-09-05
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The Butterfly Chalice
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
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Judgement of an Assassin
Overview: Sun Chung was already a valued comedy, romance, and modern crime filmmaker, when, through this tale of the 100 Poison Clique's obsessive ambition to destroy all rivals, he started bringing morality and motivation to martial arts movies like never before. Kung-fu superstar David Chiang and prominent choreographer Tang Chia lead the cast in a bloody clan clash centered on the trial of an admitted mass murderer and serial rapist. It was just the beginning of Sun Chung's exploration in emotion.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-08-20
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Emperor Chien Lung and the Beauty
Overview: The year is 1756 and the Emperor journeys to Soochow, where he encounters a famous courtesan and gets involved with in all sorts of un-emperor-like activities.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-03-01
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The Mad Monk
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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The Rescue
Overview: Renowned writer Shen Chiang had become so popular for his scripts that the studio let him direct as well. Here he continued his winning ways with this tale of the end of the Sung Dynasty and the survivors who band together to save their prime minister. Shen outdoes himself with this bold and stirring story of daring Sung avengers (led by Shaws' first international star, Lo Lieh), who must fight their way out of trap after trap.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-09-24
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A Time for Love
Overview: A Time For Love features Shaw Brothers' darling Lily Ho in a Romeo and Juliet stylized love story that breaks the tradition of Hong Kong's "class distinction" love stories. It is a film ending with a Cinderella-esque love saving happiness happy ever other ending.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-10-16
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Whose Baby Is in the Classroom?
Overview: This movie stars Peter Chen Ho as a male teacher in an all girls school. The girls are teens and, since they live there, are kind of tickled to see a male teacher. They don't particularly lust after him, but they kind of crush on him. The title of the film refers to a baby that Chen 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-02-18
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The Enchanted Chamber
Overview: A mortal, a ghost and a fox fairy come together against evil in this supernatural wuxia film.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-11-28
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The Millionaire Chase
Overview: Shaw Brothers musical about three Showgirls chasing millionaires.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-05-20
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The Ghost Story
Overview: An old man of the village tells kinky ghost stories to a few of it's inhabitants after all the kids have gone to bed. What follows are stories that have horror elements and some soft-core nudity thrown in.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-05-25
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Sensual Pleasures
Overview: Sensual Pleasures features a collection of three, ghost story, sexual vignettes starring a viscerally sensual trio of hardcore experience with the well endowed Chen Ping, Chinese adult film legend Shirley Yu and the innocent doe-eyed Shaw Yin-yin.
Genres: Drama Horror Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-08-25
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The Bride Napping
Overview: The ethereal Lok Dai plays a pivotal role in the 1962 Shaw Brothers screwball costume comedy The Bride Napping. Based on a chapter of author Shi Naian's The Water Margin (AKA: Outlaws of the Marsh), the action kicks off when Liu Yuen Ying (Ding Nung) is "bride-napped" by a bandit who's out to make her his wife! The bandit's sympathetic sister returns Ying, but that's only the beginning of the mistaken identities, social satires, and cross-dressing confusion as Ying's disappearance and return wreaks havoc with the locals! A delightful costume comedy that combines screwball antics, musical interludes, and even a little action, The Bride Napping is a fun and entertaining way to catch the legendary Lok Dai at her most beautiful and charming!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1962-03-13
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The Magnificent Concubine
Overview: Perhaps the most notorious concubine in Chinese history, Yang Guifei set a pudgy standard of beauty in her days of glory during the Tang dynasty. The Emperor Minghuang was so besotted with the woman that when An Lushan stages his rebellion against the empire, the ruler takes Yang Guifei along with his imperial entourage in an escape to the mountainous area of modern-day Sichuan, and sanctuary of sorts. But the concubine had roused the jealousy of the court and unfortunately for her and to the great sorrow of the king, her brother and others among the king's retainers demanded she be strangled to death while they were still in the mountains. This is the story told in this interesting Taiwanese adaptation by director Li Han-hsiang (Li Hanxiang).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1962-05-31
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Return of the Phoenix
Overview: Return Of The Phoenix is yet another masterpiece from prolific director Li Han-hsiang. An imperial minister Cheng Pu (Ching Miao) is faced with a quandary. He's getting old and his daughters are still not married. Elder daughter Shueh-yeh (Elizabeth Chuang) is so ugly no one wants her. Younger daughter Shueh-wu (Li Hsiang-chun) is beautiful but Mrs Cheng refuses to let her marry before her elder sister. The drama unfolds when Cheng decides to marry Shueh-wu off.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-07-24
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Sexy Girls of Denmark
Overview: This is a film about the movie industry, about favors, hooking up etc. It is mostly set in Copenhagen and the story begins with the son of a big producer going to Copenhagen from Hong Kong trying to seal a deal. He gets involved with the Denmark girls.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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The Sugar Daddies
Overview: During the day, Hu Tien lives as a respectable office employee, but when night falls, he unashamedly plunges headlong into an exciting world of lust and sex as a high-class Hong Kong pimp! Thanks to his uncanny knack for setting up prostitutes with "sugar daddies," Hu Tien starts living the high life. Things take an even more dramatic turn when the drop-dead gorgeous Irene (Betty Pei Ti from The Delinquent and Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan) enters the fray. Thanks to Hu Tien's involvement, this rough and tumble new vixen soon finds herself being the center of attention among all the wealthy sugar daddies. But is his relationship with Irene merely business or is there more to it?
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-11-29
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The Yellow Muffler
Overview: Two sisters, Ching-ping (Irene Chen I-ling) and Pai-hung (Betty Ting Pei) 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....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-01-15
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Unfinished Melody
Overview: A sensitive love triangle helmed by one of Shaw era's top directors, Chin Chien. A psychiatrist taking a room at an old friend's apartment soon discovers an insane woman living in a neighboring flat. As the doctor gradually heals the woman he also falls in love with her. The problem arises the friend's daughter confesses her love to him as well. Misunderstanding and mistaken passions soon lead to broken hearts and an emotional confrontation to the love triangle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-03-13
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Farewell, My Love
Overview: In Farewell, My Love Julie Yeh Feng plays a devoted wife and mother dying from an incurable illness. Her goal now is to find a new mother for her child and a new wife for her husband before she dies. Because of all her personal tragedies and on going hard life off camera, audiences associated with Julie, making her one of the most beloved actresses of her time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-11-14
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River of Tears
Overview: Mysterious songstress Fang Biyu is loved by two brothers, Qiwei and Qijun. After freeing herself from the clutches of gangsters, she gives her heart to Qiwei. Tragedy comes knocking on the door when one of the gangsters comes out of prison, and Qiwei dies in a car accident. Blamed for her husband's death, Biyu is forced to go back to singing to make a living, but hopes to reunite with her son and return to the family one day.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-11-25
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Lady Jade Locket
Overview: 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 fiancee. Experienced as an actor in many such romances, director Yen Chuan keeps the tone perfect. Plus, with period specialist Li Li-hua in the lead and the attractive and acclaimed Li Ching playing the ghost girl, he really can do no wrong.
Genres: Romance Horror Drama Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1967-12-09
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Gun Brothers
Overview: Welcome the "Bandit with a Thousand Faces" to the ranks of the great screen "outlaw heroes". Like Zorro, he uses a secret identity as a playboy to foil tyrannical Shan Yung county authorities. Bringing this swashbuckling adventure to the screen is a cast and crew fairly bursting with talent - including directors who were also popular actors and writers, and an actor (Ling Yun) - playing the lead dual role of twin brothers - who was also the director/ writer of some of the greatest martial art epics ever made!
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-02-21
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The Perfumed Arrow
Overview: Ling Bor plays Wen Fei E who is both an excellent academic as well as martial arts expert. Since her childhood days fond of dressing up as a boy, she becomes a village scholar sharing classes with Tu Zi Zheng (Chin Feng) and Wei Zhun Zhi (Ho Fan). When Fei E's innocent father is framed and sent to prison, she rushes to his rescue saving Jing Fu Quan (Kam Fie) who is in the hands of robbers along the way. Mistaking Fei E to be a noble hero, Fu Quan has no greater wish than to get married to her savior...
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-11-23
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Inside the Forbidden City
Overview: It seems that Li Zhenfei was once an imperial concubine, who often found herself competing with her rival Madame Liu for the emperor's sole, 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. However, Kou Zhu ignores the order and gives the prince-to-be to the emperor's brother, a decision which eventually leads to the boy being adopted by the emperor himself! But as fate would have it, to go along with his new son, the emperor has a new wife as well - Madame Liu! As this strange new family unit is being constructed, poor Li Zhenfei has been confined to the forbidden palace, condemned to never see or speak to her son, the prince. But destiny reunites her with her son, but will this family reunion be a happy one? And will Madame Liu finally be punished for her treachery?
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-10-16
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Squadron 77
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
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Secret of My Millionaire Sister
Overview: Choo died in South America and left a legacy of US Dollars two million to the younger daughter, Pei Fun, of his old friend Chang in Hongkong. The second beneficiary in the will, should Pei Fun die, was Nana, the young widow. Nana returned to Hongkong and conspired with her lover Johnny to wrest the fortune from the Chang family...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-08-12
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Ghost of the Mirror
Overview: Adapted from a Tang Dynasty fantasy tale, Sung Chuen-sau used the story of a scholar meeting a female ghost at night, but emphasised neither the killing nor horror but the literary and romantic elements. Scholar Chan (Shih Chun) stays in a remote mansion outside the city. People often fall into the mansion’s well for no apparent reason. Chan looks into it. Later, he sees the girl from the well, Susu (Brigitte Lin), waving to him. She begins to wait on him nightly. Susu was from a wealthy family, but was running away from bandits during wartime, and committed suicide by jumping into the well rather than be caught. After her death, her spirit was controlled by Du Long (Pai Lin). Du Long has forced her many times to harm Chan, but she never has the heart to carry it through. Chan’s pity for her soon becomes love. He goes into the well to retrieve an old bronze mirror, and eventually succeeds in freeing Susu. In the end, to rescue Chan, Susu fights with Du Long and they destroy each other.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-10-04
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Five Fingers of Death
Overview: A young boxer joins a martial arts school to increase his skill so he can enter a martial arts competition. He leaves the school when he hears that a local gangster is terrorizing the town. He comes to the aid of a young singer and brings on the wrath of the local gang. He eventually enters the martial arts competition after learning iron palm technique and takes out all competition.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-04-28
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Pink Tears
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
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The 14 Amazons
Overview: The Yang family, men and women, have served their country loyally for generations. During the war General Yang is ambushed and killed. His widow and the entire family set out to avenge his death and defend the country.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-07-27
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The Everlasting Glory
Overview: A most touching and consistently heart-gripping war drama depicts the heroic deeds of General Chang Tsu-chung who was even held in high esteem and dubbed as “Mars of China” by his Japanese counterpart, General Itagaki during Sino-Japanese war.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-07-19
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Young Lovers
Overview: In the vein of "Romeo And Juliet", Hong Kong style, the small ensemble cast and little-known director Michihko do a big league job with their rendition of "Romeo And Juliet" in "The Young Lovers". Although poor boy (Derek Erh Tung-Sheng) and rich girl (Yu An-An) are from opposite ends of the spectrum, their undying love refuses to let anyone get in their way, including their parents. Shakespeare would be moved.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-03-13
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Flying Guillotine II
Overview: The emperor's reign of terror expands. Heroic outlaw Ma Teng joins a squad of female rebels, whose leader is torn between family loyalties.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-01-19
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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 Mandarin
Overview: A detective and wanderer called Man Tshu comes to town and challenges the crime family that owns it, burning their opium and taking away one of their prostitute wives as his love interest.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-06-28
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The Deadly Knives
Overview: Plotting to obtain the Yen family's land, dastardly Japanese plutocrat Omura bribes Yen nephew Hsu Chien to steal the family seal and land deed. When Hsu Chien is caught in the act, he viciously beats elderly Master Yen to death to cover his actions. Determined to avenge the wrongs committed on his family and his country, young master Yen Tzu Fei blazes a knife-throwing path of revenge that leads him to his love Yue Hua's father, who has corrupt connections with the Japanese
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-06-29
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Iron Bodyguard
Overview: An Iron Bodyguard called Wang Wu meets a scholar and forms a strong friendship with him after they fight some villains together. The scholar is a member of the reformists - a group of scholars pressing for social reform in China towards the end of the Qing dynasty. The Emperor is actually all for reforms, and appoints this group to run the country. This doesn't suit the Empress Dowager though, as she has no intention of losing her power. She orders the reformists to be arrested, and Chen Kuan Tai hence gets drawn into politics despite having no real political views himself.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-12-08
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Call to Arms
Overview: The aggressive and dangerous Chin empire occupies the put-upon Chao kingdom while the hero-filled Wei empire is paralysed by an indecisive ruler.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-01-18
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King Gambler
Overview: Chan is Peng Tianshi, who 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 (Zong Hua) sets in motion an elaborate plan to make turn the rich and affluent Peng into a penniless former king of the gambling world! But can the "Card Tyrant" be bested?
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-11-24
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Lady Exterminator
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
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The Sentimental Swordsman
Overview: Due to his own extreme ideals, famed swordsman Li has lost everyone dear to him. After his life is saved by a rival swordsman, Li's overwhelming pride means he forsakes the woman he loves and lets her marry his saviour. Li's only comfort is alcohol and the simple life he has now accepted. On one such journey, the lonely swordsman befriends the exceptionally skilled, yet secretive Fei who has his own pressures to contend with. The person behind Li's troubles proves to be elusive, though all the clues seem to point to the legendary 'Plum Blossom Bandit', a disguised figure whose identity has long proved elusive to the martial world.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-10-14
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The Snowflake Sword (Part 1)
Overview: The Blood Pool Map re-emerges in Jiang-hu, and all good and evil sects hunt for Fang Zhaonan, who is said to carry it. For his part, he simply hopes to trade it to the herbalist Lu Xuan for medicine he needs to free his sister, but fate has other plans.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1964-07-15
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The Life God
Overview: Tells the story of "Bao sheng da di"--A marvelous man who wanted to become a doctor so that he could save his mother's life.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-04-26
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Raw Courage
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1969-08-13
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I Am Crazy About You
Overview: A father endeavours to reform his irresponsible children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-11-05
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The Adulteress
Overview: The noted actress Li Li-hua, star of more than sixty films since 1947, beautifully portrays the drugged, then disgraced wife of a peddler in the waning days of the Ching Dynasty. To make matters worse, she’s soon framed for her husband’s murder by her rapist - the son of the local magistrate! And even that isn’t the end of her woes. It’s best to have a box of tissues nearby as two expert directors ratchet up the emotional suspense in this consummate tearjerker.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-08-08
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The Warlord
Overview: No list of the screen's comic geniuses would be complete without Michael Hui Kwun-man. He created a hilarious and lovable comic persona that was both uniquely Asian but also universally beloved. This, his first film, not only showcased his incomparable sense of humor but revolutionized Hong Kong comedy. Evoking Chaplin, he plays a warlord in early 20th Century China, but makes the role his own with both laughs and some of the sexiest ladies on the Shaw Brothers lot.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-08-17
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Empress Wu
Overview: The renowned Li Li Hua plays Wu Ze Tian, the most famous woman in China's four thousand year history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-06-23
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Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
Overview: 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 draw the lesbian attentions of brothel madam Chun Yi. Chun Yi teaches Ai nu the ways of lust and the ways of kung fu, and Ai nu becomes more and more similar to her captor. But rage at her treatment is still burning inside her.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-07-09
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Lady with a Sword
Overview: After a trio of rogues murder her sister and leave her nephew for dead, a skilled swordswoman seeks revenge upon them and soon discovers she has a dismaying connection to the main culprit.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-10-14
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The Voyage of Emperor Chien Lung
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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Payment In Blood
Overview: Fang Chih Kien (Elliot Ngok) witnesses a triad murder. When he picks the killer out of a lineup, the triad gang goes out of their way to make his family's life a living hell, until he can take no more and seeks revenge.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1973-07-12
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Fist of Unicorn
Overview: Unicorn travels to a village troubled by gangsters in search of revenge for the murder of his parents years before. The task is made more complicated when he befriends a middle-aged woman and her son who begin to admire and depend on him.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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