Yeung Chak-Lam
Also Known As: 楊澤霖, 杨泽霖, Tse Lin Yang
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Zhongshan, Guangdong, China
Adult: No
Birthday: September 02, 1950
Age: 74 years old
Gender: Male
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Blood Brothers
Overview: Set in the waning years of the Ching Dyansty, this dramatic, tragic, romantic, blood-soaked martial arts tale of betrayal and revenge explores one of the most sensational scandals in Chinese history and marked the true ascension of its director and actors to superstar status. In fact, Ti Lung won Taiwan's Golden Horse Award for Outstanding Performance as the challenging role of a jealous provincial governor who kills his friend in order to steal the man's wife.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-02-24
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The Golden Knight
Overview: Respected veteran Yueh Feng made this “Martial Arts World” saga of a masked master of the “Black Sand Hand Technique,” while Lily Ho, the star of "Princess Iron Fan" and "Angel With The Iron Fists", excels in a delightful dual leading role. When she teams up with Shu Pei-pei as a fellow swordswoman to vanquish a murdering robber, the comparisons to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" are obvious, even though it came three decades later.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-04-17
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Vengeance!
Overview: A violent martial artist is bent on avenging his older brother, who was killed by a cabal of four wicked businessmen and a cheating wife.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-05-14
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A Fiery Family
Overview: Most new immigrants are always involved in the activities of gangs. Although some of them are very smart and have established good business, people still call them "Big Circle Guys" indicating that they are outsiders to us. Ching Chi Kuk had come to Hong Kong with his brother Ching Chi Pang, sister Ching Siu Ming and brother-in-law Chi Wai since the middle seventies. Within a few years, Kuk being smart enough, had become well-known among the gangs. Once in an activity, Kuk was arrested and confessed guilty for his boss. Kuk was sent to prison and became a scapegoat. When he was released from the prison, Kuk decided to turn over a new life. During Kuk's imprisonment, his brother Pang joined the gang...
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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The Chinese Boxer
Overview: Lei Ming, a noble young martial arts student who doesn't know the meaning of giving up. He faces a treacherous, blood-thirsty Japanese karate expert, which leads to many memorable battles as well as several unforgettable training sequences.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-11-27
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The Sexy Killer
Overview: A nurse decides to take justice in her own hands to fight the crime-syndicates of Hong Kong after her sister is drugged and abused by some local drug dealers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-02-12
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Divorce, Hong Kong Style
Overview: A philandering business tycoon accuses his angelic wife of cheating. He learns the hard way he had it good and hopes to win his wife back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-12-28
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Brothers Five
Overview: The 5 Kao brothers, separated since childhood, are unaware that the master Teng Lung Manor, Lung Chen-feng has killed their father. All five, however, seek to defeat the vicious gangsters at the Manor.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-03-26
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The Black Tavern
Overview: This sword-filled thriller centers on the title location--an inn where the down and dirty meet to plot nefarious doings. Award winning actor Ku Feng stars as the "Whip Devil," while the luminous and lethal Shih Szu plays "The Lady Hermit" who has a surprise in store for all the double-crossing masters of mayhem.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-12-16
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The Criminals, Part 2: Homicides
Overview: An anthology film featuring four true-crime stories that took place in Hong Kong in the early 1970's.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1976-08-13
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The 36 Deadly Styles
Overview: A man begins studying "The Secret Book of 36 Deadly Styles" to avenge the death of his father.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-11-22
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Fist of Fury - Sworn Revenge
Overview: After his village it is brutally attacked by bandits, and his family gets murdered, Jun plans on seeking out distant relatives in Shanghai. On the way he is forced to join a criminal gang after they witness his martial arts skills. After a long and arduous journey, Jun eventual finds refuge at the Jin Wu Martial Arts Academy.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-26
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The Lady Hermit
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
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The Cheeky Chap
Overview: Ma is a grinning and arrogant young man who believes himself invincible, and with fairly good reason. He intervenes to save Captain Kao from robbery, then aids and abets the robbery of an old man, whose daughter Chin he falls instantly in love with. The stolen money was to pay a debt and, because he hasn't the money, the old man is mortally wounded by Sha, the debt collector's assistant. Ma spends the remainder of the film wooing Chin and baiting and fighting the villains, who seem to keep changing allegiances.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1980-04-17
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The Deadly Duo
Overview: The plot involves patriots during the Sung Dynasty and their attempts to rescue a kidnapped prince from Ching troops who have invaded the north of China. The patriots are led by Ti Lung who recruits a mysterious but seemingly superhuman fighter played by David Chiang to find a way to cross a perilous bridge to enter an impregnable fortress to locate and rescue the imprisoned prince.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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The Taxi Driver
Overview: An honest, diligent and helpful taxi driver Chen Kuang (David Chiang) gets involved in a bank robbery, and the police mistakes him as a robber. He together with a driver Tu Fa (Wang Chung) strives to gather evidence. After some twists and turns, the two finally are able to help the police in bringing the culprits to justice.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1975-08-28
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The Duel
Overview: Tan Jen-chieh's life spins out of control when he’s forced into exile to clear his name following the murder of his adopted father. He's hunted in the streets. His lover, Butterfly, turns to prostitution. And his father's likely killer – a smooth operator known as the Rambler – is always lingering nearby. But before Tan and the Rambler can slit each other's throats, they learn they've been double-crossed and go two against everyone in a rage of double-edged vengeance.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-04-21
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Big Times for the Crazy Bumpkins
Overview: In 1974, John Lo Mar co-directed The Crazy Bumpkins, a new variation on the time-tested, beloved Cantonese comedy "Country Bumpkin" tradition. That proved such a success that a sequel, Return Of The Crazy Bumpkins, soon appeared. Now, the third time's the charm, as John Lo Mar gets to both write and direct the third slapstick-filled installment, once again starring Yeh Feng and Wang Sha as the hapless and hilarious yokel Ah Niu and his crafty city-slicker Uncle Chou.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1976-02-07
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Ghost Eyes
Overview: Ghost Eyes concerns a female hair stylist who is seduced by the vampiric ghost of a former optometrist. Using supernatural contact lenses to control her mind, he gradually drains her life essence as she is forced to find new victims until tries to make a stand and rid herself of this terror once and for all.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-11-09
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God of Gamblers
Overview: Ko Chun, a renowned gambler, loses his memory in an accident and starts behaving like a child. Little Knife, an amateur gambler, offers him shelter and realizes that he has a penchant for gambling.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-12-14
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Police Story 2
Overview: The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-08-13
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The Hellfire Angel
Overview: Cheng Szu is a hostess in a Hong Kong night-club who spends one evening in the company of 4 crooks masquerading as Indonesian billionaires. When CID crash the party 2 of the men, Ling & Hung, escape while the other pair, Lu & Tan, are captured and imprisoned.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-30
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Devil of Rape
Overview: A rich, but bored man is possessed by an evil spirit that causes him to seduce and rape women.
Genres: Horror Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-10-28
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Queen Hustler
Overview: He Ming-Zhu (Chen Ping) seeks revenge againts a gambling syndicate (led by Wang Hsieh) who forced her father's suicide.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-01-23
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Heroes of the Underground
Overview: Besides martial arts, Bruce Lee's contribution to Chinese society was instilling a strong sense of nationalism. After his death, anti-Japanese films found new breathe especially in Taiwan. Based on a King Hu’s script, Heroes Of The Underground tapped into Lee's nationalistic fervor and the Confucian ethic of country above family and starred the popular Ching Li as a World War II, Chinese secret agent planted into the Japanese Headquarters at Changsha. Tears flow in the name of country pride.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-01-27
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All Men Are Brothers
Overview: Based on one of China's enduring epic novels, written in the 14th century, "All Men Are Brothers" continues the patriotic story of righteous warriors battling despotic leaders, featuring mythic characters familiar to every Chinese, and with a cast that has achieved an equally celebrated status among Shaw Brothers devotees.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-05-10
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Snake Monster
Overview: The King of the Snake Monsters is attempting to revert back to human form but is opposed by the womanizing owner of a popular restaurant that specializes in medicinal snake soup.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Flirting Ghost
Overview: Cat III ghost tale.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-10-14
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Heavenly Spell
Overview: A small rural village has to deal with a pesky spirit who lives in the local lake and has a habit of luring people to their deaths.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Brotherhood
Overview: Liao Jiang is the lowest ranking member of a gang that holds up a jewelery store. Subsequently the three other gang members die, and their gold haul goes missing. Liao Jiang and his new gang member Huge Eyes are then forced to turn to a triad gang to help get back their gold from a rival group.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1976-07-20
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Duel for Gold
Overview: Soon-to-be legendary director Chu Yuan had just joined the Shaw Brothers when he helmed this thriller of bickering bandits. Audiences loved watching three pairs of cunning male and female crooks trying to steal a million gold taels from the Fu Lai Treasury House...not knowing that one of them is actually an undercover hero. Even without him, there's no honor amongst thieves, so the double-crosses and deadly duels come fast and furious, all choreographed by Hsu Erh-niu.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-06-11
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Cohabitation
Overview: Abortion, birth control and unwed cohabitation are social issues rarely associated with 1970's Hong Kong cinema. Cohabitation not only faces them head on but does so with insight, compassion and sex!
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-05-23
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Hong Kong 73
Overview: As the Heng Seng Index reaches unprecedented heights, people from all walks of life go stock speculation crazy. A security guard and his landlord learn firsthand that money is ‘Easy Come, Easy Go’ as their fast fortune disappears overnight in a Macau casino. Meanwhile, greedy neighbours and infidel couples cheat each other and even blue-collar workmen dive into the frenzy. Inevitably, the market tumbles as do the people’s bittersweet lives. A hilarious but ironic tale featuring some of Shaw’s biggest stars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1974-04-24
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The Crimson Charm
Overview: A noble swordsman and a one-armed swordswoman go up against the vicious Crimson Charm gang of thieves and cutthroats. The lovely and lethal Ivy Ling Po teams with the amazing Chang I for a classic tale of good versus evil in which the best man and one-armed woman wins.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1971-07-01
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Snake Beauty
Overview: Some female ghosts seduce and kill trespassers on their mountain.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1994-03-26
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The Water Margin
Overview: The corruption in the Sung Dynasty of 11th century China is so rampant that it inspires a band of Oriental Robin Hoods - the Honorable 108. Mountain bandits who nevertheless live by a scrupulous code of conduct, the Honorable 108 pledge to end the repression of the brutal overlords.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-03-17
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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 Ainu the ways of lust and the ways of kung fu, and Ainu 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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The Shadow Whip
Overview: This top ten box office hit reunites the star duo from Come Drink With Me in another classic action adventure. Cheng Pei-pei radiates her trademark charm while wielding the deadly title weapon, which is implicated in multiple murders and a major heist. Whether single-handedly fighting sixteen bandits or avenging her father's brutal death, she demonstrates why she was Hong Kong's number one swordswoman and no slouch with the whip either!
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-08-06
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The Truth – Final Episode
Overview: Raymond's lawyer license has been suspended. He has sacrificed his career to save his mom Lan. Right at that time every piece of evidence points to Raymond as the murderer of a policeman who had been hostile to him. The only person who has proofs of his innocence is his mother, now suffering from terminal disease but trying her best to sustain her life just for his son...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-11-30
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The Battle Wizard
Overview: A brother who loves books and a sister who loves swords must face a yellow-robed warrior, the Red Python, a sinuous snake-charmer, and a silk-masked beauty (who must kill or wed the first man to see her face) before they can bring peace to their battle-addled family.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-09-09
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The Pirate
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
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Big Brother Cheng
Overview: Shaw Brothers' number one action hit of 1975, and deservedly so. The character of one-man kung-fu dynamo Big Brother Cheng and kung-fu superstar Chen Kuan-tai were made for each other. A Robin Hood-like restaurant manager who socks it to the thugs in order to make the mean streets of Hong Kong a little less mean, Big Brother Cheng made his first appearance in the extremely popular The Tea House, the success of which spawned this even more successful sequel.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-07-16
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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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The Tea House
Overview: Chen Kuan-Tai is Big Brother Cheng, a former refugee who runs a local teahouse in Hong Kong. Respected by his peers, Big Brother Cheng runs the teahouse - and unofficially the neighborhood - with a firm righteous hand. However, when the triads come calling, Big Brother Cheng finds out respect and common decency may not be enough. The triads use underage kids to terrorize the teahouse, and since the law won't do anything, Big Brother Cheng may have to step in and take care of it himself!
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-10-19
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Four Beautiful Amorous Ghost
Overview: Once upon a time there are two snakes CHOW Wan and TSUI Man-Wah, both are sisters. They tried to get the accumulation to become human beings by getting the souls of men who are just looking for sex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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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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一千灵异夜之贴身噩梦
Overview: Hong Kong movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The House of 72 Tenants
Overview: Set during a period of depression, the film chronicles the daily lives of a single urban building split up into several separate units, and the actual people that dwell within.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1973-09-21
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Four Riders
Overview: Four highly skilled fighters unite to take on a ruthless criminal gang, battling corruption, murder, and injustice in the wake of the Korean War.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-12-22
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Duel to the Death
Overview: In 16th century, during the Ming dynasty era, every ten years the greatest swordsman from Japan faces the greatest swordsman from China in a duel to the death for their nation's honor. As a duel approaches, Chinese champion Bo Ching-Wan and Japanese champion Miyamoto uncover a plot to rig the fight.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-01-13
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Man of Iron
Overview: Man of Iron was positioned as something of a follow-up to Boxer From Shantung, the rise-and-fall story of Ma Yung Chen and it reunites the directors and some of the cast in a similar but much slighter tale of a lesser gangster's rise and fall in Shanghai. While the opening narration specifically recalls the events and tragic conclusion of BOXER, this one is set 20 years later in the same section of Shanghai but otherwise has nothing to do with the events or characters of the previous film.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-10-13
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Caged Beauties
Overview: Tells the story of an oppressive revolutionary government randomly arresting unsuspecting citizens. The men are used to target practice and the women become prostitutes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-08-28
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Witchcraft vs. Curse
Overview: Hung is disappointed when her man, Yuk Lung, becomes engaged to pretty Pai Lin. Hung and her scheming mother engage a sorcerer, Ko Yin Yau, to place a spell on him. Yuk Lung becomes possessed by the Adultery Ghost, and he leaves Pai Lin in the middle of having sex with her, going to Hung. Pai Lin and her friend Nancy rush to Thailand, seeking the help of another sorcerer, Simol. The title alludes to the battle of the two spell-casters, through their two hosts. Along the way, plenty of excuses are found to get all the clothes off a number of lovely young women.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-04-20
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Enter Three Dragons
Overview: Sammy is involved with gangsters to save his relative from a problem so he calls Dragon Hung from America to help him.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-06-11
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The Demonic Revenge
Overview: Hong Kong movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Devil's Mirror
Overview: The Jiuxian Witch and her Bloody Ghouls Clan (somehow you just know that these aren’t the good guys) are planning domination of the Martial Arts world. Standing in their way are two clans who posses a magic mirror each. The two clans enjoy friendly relations, but when one mirror is stolen and the blame seems to rest with the other Clan, suspicions and tempers run high. It’s left to the young renegades from each Clan to find the true culprit or culprits, and to ease the tensions of their families. Not to mention ridding the world of the evil Jiuxian Witch.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-06-15
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