Tai San
Also Known As: 泰山, "Tarzan", Tai Shan, تای سان
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Male
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Absolute Monarch
Overview: Hong Kong Movie
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1980-03-20
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The Merciful Buddha
Overview: A small village's enchanted stone that brings the inhabitants good fortune is threatened by faeries
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-08-31
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The Dragon and the Tiger Kids
Overview: Two young kung fu experts are terrorized by an evil warlord whose weapon is known as the Hell's Wind Staff. With the aid of an old rival of the warlord, they train in the Dragon Hands and the Rowing Oar to face off against the deadly Hell's Wind Staff.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-07-05
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The Magnificent Kick
Overview: Veteran actor Kwan Tak Hing plays the legendary Hung Kuen master Wong Fei Hong in this story of the legendary ‘Shadow Kick’.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-18
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Aces Go Places
Overview: The police track down a notorious burglar in order to apprehend him. However, he is given a chance to make up for his ways by working with the police on a case involving stolen diamonds.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-01-16
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Enter the Fat Dragon
Overview: Ah Lung is a pig farmer and a devoted Bruce Lee fan who is anxious to follow in Lee's footsteps, but only ridiculed for his attempts. He is sent to the city to earn a living working at his uncle's restaurant, but when he arrives, he finds a gang of thugs causing trouble in the restaurant. He takes the chance to prove himself and attacks the thugs, defeating them and saving the restaurant. Soon, he becomes a waiter, and discovers a plot by the same thugs to kidnap a woman he works with. Eventually, he defeats the thugs once again and saves the day.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-07-13
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The Lama Avenger
Overview: When two acrobats are fired for fighting with punks in the audience, they go to live with an aunt who's being pressured to sell her house for a real estate development. The developer's nasty son, Lee Fu, decides to muscle the sale, and soon he's at war with the acrobats, plus their unlikely ally, an American named John who used to be Lee Fu's friend. The acrobats open a kung fu school, the scene of several battles with Lee Fu's thugs. A fight to the death, jail time, auntie's surprise decision, a budding acting career, a possessive girlfriend, a debilitating injury, a friendship that needs recalibrating, and Lee Fu's avenger are all in the mix before the end.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-03-15
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Laughing Times
Overview: A homeless wanderer just happens across various articles of clothing that make him resemble Charlie Chaplin much to the amusement of passersby.
Genres: Comedy Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1980-12-24
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Carry on Pickpocket
Overview: Hung Tai-Kong aka Rice Pot and Chan Yin-Tung aka Chimney are two friends who work with their master Kam Ming and his daughter Ann as a team of pickpockets.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-03-31
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The Reckless Cricket
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-03-16
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Knockabout
Overview: After being cheated out of some money, two small time crooks convince a martial arts expert to take them on as students.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-04-12
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By Hook or By Crook
Overview: 'FLOWER KID' was a 'Robin Hood' type of hero who robs the rich and gives the poor. He was adored by many people especially a kid named 'FATSO', who considered himself as 'FLOWER KID jr.' Madam Bee, a woman of guts and evil hated 'FLOWER KID' because he once refused to kill her husband. She then married a rich 'Big Shot' and used his money and power to hire a bounty hunter called 'SKINNY'. Skinny caught the imitating hero 'Fatso'. They fought, understood, became good friends and went on look for 'Flower Kid'...
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1980-08-07
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The Owl vs Bombo
Overview: Sammo and George Lam are partners in crime and they scam some triad big shot out of a load of money and decide to retire. Three years later they both receive letters from Stanley Fung, in which he informs them that he has proof of all their criminal activity and unless they do exactly what he says–he will turn it over to the cops. Fung is an ex-cop himself and is trying to get the goods on the same triad leader that Sammo and George scammed.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-12-12
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Naughty Boys
Overview: Frequent Jackie Chan cohort Mars stars as Sing, an ex-con who's supposed to dig up the buried loot of his three still-jailed buddies...but when he gets to it, he finds that the treasure chest is full of rocks! The other three are convinced that Sing stole the goods for himself, so Sing decides to hide out with his kick-butt cousin Kuen, played with athletic aplomb by kung-fu princess Kara Hui! But some insurance investigators (Carina Lau and Billy Lau) are also after the loot, and there's even a mousy travel agent (future director Clarence Fok) thrown in for good measure. It all adds up to numerous shenanigans and action-comedy hijinks, culminating in a knockdown action finale set in a warehouse! Wooden crates, two-by-fours, and more props than you can name are used and abused in the name of creative eighties HK-style action, which Jackie Chan and company are only too glad to dispense to the audience!
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-07-25
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Odd Couple
Overview: Hailed as possibly the greatest classical weapons movie ever made and starring world-renowned martial arts master, director and action-choreographer, Sammo Hung. This film showcases some of the most spectacular and intricate weapons duels ever committed to film. Sammo Hung and Lau Kar Wing play dual roles as both masters and students of the sword and spear styles of kung fu. Comic mayhem ensues when the students get kidnapped and the masters must rescue them.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-08-09
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Killer Constable
Overview: 2 million taels in gold has been stolen from a vault within the Forbidden City. The Empress wants the money returned within 10 days. Chief Constable Leng Tian-Ying is hired to bring back the gold robbers, dead or alive- and Leng's earned a reputation of never bringing anyone back alive.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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Miracles: The Canton Godfather
Overview: A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-06-15
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The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Overview: The anti-Ching patriots, under the guidance of Ho Kuang-han, have secretly set up their base in Canton, disguised as school masters. During a brutal Manchu attack, Lui manages to escape, and devotes himself to learning the martial arts in order to seek revenge.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-02-02
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Clan of the White Lotus
Overview: Shaolin practitioners and brothers Wu and Hung kill the merciless Pai Mei. However, Pai Mei's even more merciless brother White Lotus takes revenge; killing most of the Shaolin disciples, including Wu and Hung's girlfriend, leaving only Wu's pregnant wife and Hung as the only remaining practitioners of Shaolin left to avenge the deaths. But Hung's kung-fu will not be powerful enough so he must learn feminine kung-fu techniques to help him try and defeat White Lotus.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Amusing Star
Overview: Hong Kong comedy starring David Wu and Meg Lam directed by Chi-Lien Yu.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1981-09-18
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My Lucky Stars
Overview: Two Hong Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a large amount of money in diamonds. After one is captured by the Ninja-gang protecting the rogue cop, the other one gets his old Orphanage gang, dubbed the "Five Lucky Stars," to help him. They don't like this much, but they do it.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-02-10
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Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars
Overview: The third installment in the Lucky Stars series, following Winners and Sinners and My Lucky Stars. The team are released from prison to play detective in order to stop a ruthless gang from ruining their reputations, taking their lives, and that of a key witness in an upcoming trial. They must battle their way through and with the help of Muscles, take down the bad guys.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-08-15
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Beware Of Pickpockets
Overview: Big Nose Pao is a faithful and honest constable that has been tasked to arrest Three Hands, a pickpocket. However, each time the pickpocket is caught, he's released by the lack of evidence. Although Three Hands steals for a living, the money that he takes from the rich people, is spent on the seven poor orphans with whom he lives in an old shaky church.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1981-02-05
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Kung Fu Means Fists, Strikes and Sword
Overview: Crazy Sword, Blind Fist and Queer Strikes are three kung fu fanatics who team up with Mung, the debonair master in white. Together the four real friends smash a massive kung fu gang led by Moose Face, Tsai Hung. Once smashed the girls are freed from vice and valuables returned to their rightful owners. A kung fu rare classic from Goldig Films.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-01-27
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The Fatal Flying Guillotines
Overview: Those rascally Shaolin monks are at it again, and this time they're tracking down some vitriolic villains who have heisted a sacred book. Throw in an evil prince, a flying guillotine, and manic martial hijinks, and you've got a potent mix for action.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-06-17
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Misfire
Overview: Inspector E.T. (Alex Man) investigates a murder case reported by singer Chu Szu Ting (Shirley Lui). The suspect, plastic factory owner Lu (Michael Tong) testifies and is acquitted. An important clue is later found and killer Lu comes to attack Szu Ting only to be stopped and killed by E.T. and his men. E.T., who has been estranged from his wife, tries different tricks to woo Szu Ting and eventually wins her heart. Her long lost father Chu Hung (Ku Feng), newly discharged from prison, intends to retrieve a hidden loot and tells her of his intention to join her. Szu Ting tells E.T. to probe his background when E.T. is injured and hospitalized. She takes her father to their former residence as ordered, but something there makes her suspicious of his identity. She spots him holding an axe and shouts for help when he is killed by someone sent by E.T. to secretly protect her.
Genres: Thriller Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-24
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The Four Invincibles
Overview: cutthroat battle for supremacy ignites within the Lung clan when its master breathes his last and one of his students uses a fiendish technique to gain control by crippling his only real rival, Hung Ching Lei (Feng Ku). Dejected, Ching Lei drowns his sorrows in alcohol till he meets a trio of disabled men, and they team up to take on their mutual nemesis.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-01-04
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Heart of Dragon
Overview: A policeman forsakes his dream of world travel to care for a mentally impaired brother, who is later kidnapped by gangsters.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-09-14
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Rosa
Overview: Hsia and Lei Kung are two bumbling cops assigned to protect the gorgeous Rosa, girlfriend to a missing informer named Lee. But Rosa's wanted by more than just the law - the bad guys want her for leverage, and Lei Kung just wants her to be his girlfriend! Meanwhile, Hsia attempts to romance Lei Kung's sister, and the bad guys prepare for a final blow-out fight sequence!
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-06-20
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Till Death Do We Scare
Overview: After a young woman loses three husbands in quick succession via freak accidents, their ghosts band together to make her fall in love with a radio personality.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-10-21
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Last Hurrah for Chivalry
Overview: Kao has purchased a new wife, but an enemy has paid her more money to kill him. Kao must recruit a pair of swordsmen to help defend himself and his family from his ruthless enemy. But Kao has his dark side as well.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-11-22
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His Name is Nobody
Overview: Lau Kar-Wing plays "Nobody", an orphan who grows up stealing food to survive, learning some meagre skills as a con artist. When he meets a true master con artist, he begs to become a pupil and learn some tricky kung fu. The pair are later separated, and Nobody finds another master to learn more deadly skills.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-08-16
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Kung Fu vs. Yoga
Overview: Two mischievous kung fu students enter a kung fu tournament not realizing how much trouble winning the competition will bring them. When one emerges victorious, he must accomplish three robberies to prove his worth and claim his prize! Featuring yoga master Dunpar Singh from planet 90.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-06-21
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My Young Auntie
Overview: Cheng, a beautiful martial arts ace, battles to keep her inheritance from the ruthless Yun Wei, but her efforts are sabotaged by Yu Tao, her wayward and irrepressible great-nephew. Following a frenzy of spectacular comic mishaps, the hapless duo are setup and imprisoned and the deeds to Cheng's estate are stolen. She is held hostage after a doomed attempt to reclaim the papers back from Yu Wei's place, and the stage is set for a savage fight to the death.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Bruce and the Iron Finger
Overview: After the murder of two kung fu experts, Bruce, a Police Inspector from New Zealand, decides to get involved in the case despite only being on vacation in Hong Kong. At the scene of the most recent murder, the victim managed to tear off a Buddha pendant from the killer. The link between the two murders is the strange markings on the victims neck. Bruce retraces the victims final footsteps and the search leads him to tracking down experts in Iron Finger Kung Fu.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-06-11
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Hocus Pocus
Overview: This movie follows in the same spirit as Mr. Vampire, Dead and the deadly and Spooky encounters, mixing comedy and horror!
Genres: Action Horror Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-01-12
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Two in Black Belt
Overview: Two in Black Belt is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie allegedly starring Jackie Chan. However, this is unconfirmed.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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All the Wrong Clues
Overview: A private investigator and a police inspector team up to pursue a notorious mobster, who is plotting to milk an old millionaire out of his highly-valued stocks and bonds. Along the way, the investigator crosses paths with a femme fatale and silly gangsters.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1981-07-23
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The Magic Sword
Overview: WO Chinese warlords are fighting each other. Then there is a blacksmith who finds out how to make steel and the tragedy begins. He is forced to make steel, but to make the amount of steel for an army it is very difficult and lot of people must die. This big budget swords play-fantasy new wave martial arts movie was well made and is not only a movie for martial arts movie fans.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1993-11-05
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Black List
Overview: Two brothers, one wrongly accused of a crime, go on a mission of vengeance to find the men who framed him.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-11-02
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The Cub Tiger from Kwang Tung
Overview: Hsiao Hu has been secretly training in martial arts, as his father (Tien Feng) has forbidden him. Later, some local store owners ask Ah to help protect them from a greedy Chinese extortion ring. Ah discovers that the crime lord behind the extortion had killed his father years before and is determined for revenge.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1973-03-31
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Legend of a Fighter
Overview: This is a powerful, yet fictionalized life story of Huo Yuan Chia, a real kung fu master in Southern China who brought respect to the populace and allowed kung fu to be taught to all Chinese during a time of revolt and low morale in the country's history.
Genres: Action History
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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Possessed
Overview: An insane man is shot dead by two cops, Kung and Hsiao, after he refused to listen to them and stabbed a woman dead. After the encounter, the two cops always strange things and Hsiaos girlfriend is also haunted. To reduce the fear of hiring police a Taoist to sort out this problem ...
Genres: Horror Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Profile in Anger
Overview: Leung Cheng-Yee is a successful architect who is mistakenly involved in a complex and vicious murder plot. After his wife is murdered and his life turned completely upside down, Leung decides to seek a bloody vengeance himself.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-05-03
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Legacy of Rage
Overview: A man is framed for murder by his drug-dealing best friend who covets his girlfriend, leading to eight years in jail and a vow of revenge upon release.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1986-12-20
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Yes, Madam!
Overview: Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport with a hidden microfilm wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women cops—one Chinese, one British—are on the case.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-11-30
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Winners & Sinners
Overview: Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. While trying to mind their own business (and run their 5-Star Cleaning Service), they are caught up in a war between rival Triad gangs fighting for control of the counterfeit currency market.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-07-07
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Flatfoot in Hong Kong
Overview: Inspector Rizzo is accused of drug trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrated his police department.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-28
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International Prostitution: Brigade criminelle
Overview: A French police inspector with the help of Tazzi, a woman involved in a prostitution ring, track down the man who murdered Tazzi's sister.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-06-18
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Felicity
Overview: Young Felicity lives in a monastic school. The only way to live out her sexual fantasies is together with her girlfriend Jenny. But then she receives an invitation to her sister in Hong-Kong and can't wait to finally do the real thing.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-09
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Pom Pom
Overview: Chau and Beethoven, two Hong Kong police detectives, go through misadventures to protect a young girl from a ruthless crime lord, as she possesses a ledger that contains all of the gangster's activities. In the mix is a tough, no-nonsense policewoman, who falls for one of the detectives. Written by Oliver Chu
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-02-22
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Five Superfighters
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
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Play Catch
Overview: Billionaire Law and his accomplices are conspiring the murder of a judge. The conspiracy is overheard by a inspector from ICAC who records the meeting on a cassette tape. Billionaire Law is determined to pin him down. Before he dies, he hides the tape in a reporter Mel's car. A young man, Law Kim Long, smuggles into Hong Kong to look for his father. The Snake-head is mistaken him to be Billionaire Law's son, so he makes him groomed.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-06-09
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Crazy Crooks
Overview: Slapstick movie about 2 swindlers, Kong Kun Chat (Karl Maka) and Moo Pi Chide (Dean Shek) who gambled with fake money with someone else to get back real money. At least Kong and Moo thought it was real money. Turned out the money was also fake, and a death warrent is issued for them. Luckily, a little kid Mak Tau saves their lives. - Yellow Hammer
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1980-02-14
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The Tattoo Connection
Overview: When a diamond is stolen in Hong Kong, the company insuring the diamond sends a former CIA agent to Hong Kong to retrieve it. Meanwhile, one of the thieves begins to have a change of heart because his girlfriend wants him to leave his criminal organization.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-07-27
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