Chen Chin-Hai
Also Known As: Chin Hai Chen, 陳金海, Chan Gam-Hoi, Chen Kim-Hoi, Chan Kam-Hoi
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: April 01, 1947
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Male
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Five Shaolin Masters
Overview: Hu Te et al. escape the burning Shaolin temple after the Qing soldiers destroyed it in Shaolin Temple. The group of 5 decide to develop secret codes to identify fellow patriots, enlist those patriots and eventually meet up again to escape to the south away from the Qings, and also identify the traitor who sold out Shaolin temple. Ma Fu Yi, joins the Qing top fighters to eliminate the rebels but is exposed by Ma Chao-Tsing who gets captured by Ma Fu Yi. Hu meets up with a group of Shaolin men secretly posing as bandits to rescue Ma as their leader is killed in the process, thus the bandits join the rest of the Shaolin patriots.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-12-25
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Fighting of Shaolin Monks
Overview: The Fighting of Shaolin Monk tells the story of the Famed Monk, Tamo (Chen Sing Hong Kong's most prolific action star) who was one of the original founders of the Shaolin Temple. Monk Tamo travels from India preaching peace and Buddhism. But if they wanted peace they never should have gotten Chen Sing to portray Tamo, as he soon gets involved with a local town that is besieged by a warlord who is trying to control the regions water supply. The final fight is Chen Sing vs. Ko Fei in a battle to the death. this is not to be missed!
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-19
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Struggle Through Death
Overview: Those who enter the castle of Ching never return. Forced into slavery, every day becomes a punishing ritual down the Castle's secret gold mine. One worker, Kang, decides enough is enough, and tries but fails to abate the oppressive master Ching. For his efforts, and as a warning to others, Kang's hands are smashed, foiling any more attempts at rebellion. But Kang's determination to destroy the Castle and its keepers only increases, though with two useless hands he is left with just one chance - to learn the 'Heaven Legs' technique and face Ching in one last neck-breaking battle.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Yoga and the Kung Fu Girl
Overview: The amazing Shien Yie Kwon (Soft bone) kung fu, which originates with Yoga from India, is the main attraction in this terrific actioneer. See how a man and a woman, who both possess this extraordinary skill, counter their foes with this most unique style of kung fu fighting.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Marvelous Kung Fu
Overview: A troupe of comedians, including midgets, provide entertainment and kung fu trouble for the villains.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Screaming Tiger
Overview: Rare was the film in 1973 that incorporated the star's name in the title. One of the few such films was Screaming Ninja, aka Wang Yu, King of Boxing. The story is set in China in the early 1900x. Essentially playing an extension of himself, action-star Wang-Yu spends much of the time defending himself against evil martial-arts masters. He also tries to make sense of a tragic incident in his past.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-08-16
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Invincible Swordswoman
Overview: Evil Ming dynasty eunuch bullies the emperor and forms a group of invincible kung fu fighters to defeat any competition.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-07-14
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Bruce Takes Dragon Town
Overview: Alan Tang is forced into a swirling dilemma between two antagonistic drug smugglers. Double crossed, he manages to emerge triumphant. See this kung fu extravaganza explodes in a bloody spectacle of wrath rage and vengeance as Bruce takes Dragon Town.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Jade Badger
Overview: A marriage between nobles in Ancient China sets the stage for murder, monsters, and mutilation as the invited guests search for a secret hidden treasure. A search that leads them through dark evil forests, opulent palaces, and each other! When two sick and twisted killers enter the fray it is up to our hat wearing hero to straighten things out and put the warlords, henchmen, and evil ninja six feet under! But is he working for the law, or himself?
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Scorching Sun, Fierce Wind, Wild Fire
Overview: During China's 1920s Republican Period, warlords carve out personal fiefdoms across the country and impose self-serving laws with the barrel of a gun. Into this anarchy rides a masked feminine Zorro, nom de guerre Violet, to do battle, right wrongs and foment rebellion against the most corrupt and brutal warlord of all, Tung Ta-Chou. Unbeknownst to Tung, however, Violet is his own daughter. Tung orders his psycho enforcer Master Wu to track down and dispose of this pesky rebel queen. Meanwhile, Violet begins a flirtation with an attractive stranger who comes to town with the other half of a treasure map held by Tung. Ultimately, Master Wu betrays the warlord on the lure of the complete treasure map, enabling Violet and the stranger to apprehend Master Wu and beat the warlord at his own game.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-07-11
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The Chinese Stuntman
Overview: The Chinese Stuntman was a Bruceploitation film released in 1981. Bruce Li (who also directs) plays an insurance salesman who ends up working as a stuntman on a Hong Kong movie.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-07-15
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Layout
Overview: The place: Shanghai. The time: 1921. The Japanese aggression towards China is getting stronger each day. Enter Hsueh Ao-Lin, an agent of the government sent to uncover the Chinese traitors helping the enemy. Once inside, Hsueh must fight both the Japanese and his countrymen for his sake, and the future of China.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-02-10
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Furious Dragon
Overview: A great Kung Fu expert is murdered by a gang of thugs who are accompanied by a Japanese warlord. The Kung Fu experts young son is also attacked by the thugs and turned into a mute. 10 years later, the boy, now a young man, goes after the men who slaughtered his family.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-03-24
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Ways of Kung Fu
Overview: Kuan-Chun Chi stars as Kun Tak, a monastery worker who falls victim to the ploys of a sinister monk and flees his temple in shame, only to fortuitously cross paths with a host of martial arts masters who school him in the ways of kung fu. Once Kun Tak becomes a master himself, he returns to the temple to exact revenge against the monk and reveal his evil plot to the world. Directed by Chiu Lee, the film also stars Fei Meng.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-11-26
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A Hero's Tears
Overview: A young masseuse leaves his village to study martial arts under the tutelage of a famous warrior. He soon learns, however, that being a hero comes with a great emotional price...
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Crazy Nuts of Kung Fu
Overview: A roadside bandit reluctantly agrees to become the muscle for a traveling gambler/cheat. In an attempt to steal from traitorous warlords, they get involved with rebel fighters who hope to use the riches to fund their revolution.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-03-01
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The 18 Bronzemen
Overview: During the Manchurian invasion of China, the son of the Ming Dynasty General takes refuge in the Shaolin Temple to learn martial arts, so that he may seek revenge for his dead father. But he must first endure the rigorous test of the temple's legendary 18 Bronzemen.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-04-01
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The Secret Shaolin Kung-Fu
Overview: Beggars are being killed left and right to get their old leader to come out of hiding and face an old enemy. Meanwhile, young Wu Han Wei is being instructed by his blind grandfather to learn all six styles of the Butterfly technique. But when an old crazy beggar befriends the young student, his fate turns out to be intertwined with that of the fearsome Lu Din, a man with no arms or legs.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Best and Worst
Overview: Blackie Ko is framed for murder and rape by a corrupt mayor who wants to protect his wayward son, who was the real culprit of the crime. Enter undercover cop Tong Lung, who discovers the truth about the frame up. He, then frees Blackie and together they wage war on the mayor and his army of fighters.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-01-05
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SuperDragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Overview: Considered the first biopic of the legendary Bruce Lee, fact blurs with fiction in this low-budget, loose interpretation of the great martial arts expert's life starring Bruce Li, the most well known Lee impersonator. The film takes a look at Bruce's humble beginnings as a paperboy to his rise in fame as a martial arts phenom, who later gets tangled up in a love affair with actress Betty Ting-Pei.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Crazy Guy with Super Kung Fu
Overview: Dead Eye and his gang are terrorizing a small Chinese region. Chan Ling and his group of misfit friends take it upon themselves to stop evildoers by learning the Super Kung Fu style. Luckily for them, a mysterious stranger is also after Dead Eye.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Flight Man
Overview: Flight Man takes place in Taiwan in 1933, when the country was under Japanese occupation after the First Sino-Japanese War. The Taiwanese people have signed a petition to have the Japanese establish a Taiwan council, but instead this merely provokes the Japanese police to hunt down and round up everyone who signed the petition.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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The Leg Fighters
Overview: When Pan, a South China martial artist is defeated and killed by Tan, a North China challenger in a legfighter duel, Pan's younger brother Pak vows to crush Tan with his own unique style of ferocious footwork.
Genres: Action Drama Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1980-06-04
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File of Heroes
Overview: The Japanese are at it again but this time a hero stands in their way: Ching Yi!
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-01-15
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Furious Dragon
Overview: A great Kung Fu expert is murdered by a gang of thugs who are accompanied by a Japanese warlord. The Kung Fu experts young son is also attacked by the thugs and turned into a mute. 10 years later, the boy, now a young man, goes after the men who slaughtered his family.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-03-24
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Eagle's Claws
Overview: After the Mantis Fist school attacks the Eagle's Claw school and leaves their teacher for dead, the dying master passes over his senior student, Chen Tien Chun, to anoint his second most senior pupil, Lee Cheh, as new master. Dejected, Chen joins the Mantis Fist school and wins the affection of his new master's daughter, while his former schoolmates plot revenge.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-06-11
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Infernal Street
Overview: A Chinese doctor's assistant fights the morphine-dealing criminals who run a Japanese nightclub.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-05-31
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Return of the Chinese Boxer
Overview: In wake of the First Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895, a group of Japanese warlords calculate that the best way to prepare an invasion of the rest of China from their southern Manchuria staging ground.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-11-12
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The One Armed Swordsmen
Overview: The martial world is now awash in one-armed knights, who aren't inclined to make any permanent alliances among themselves.
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-03-13
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Instant Kung Fu Man
Overview: Hsia Hu sneakily graduates from the Shaolin Monastery without completing his required training. During his first encounters with people outside the monastery, Hsia Hu realizes that people are mistaking him for his twin brother, Hsiao Fu, who happens to be a criminal and an expert in the art of Kung-Fu. He is now treated with respect as well as fear and is taking advantage of his mistaken identity. His fun comes to a halt when he is confronted by Yi Lan, a former accomplice turned enemy.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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