Chan Ming-Wai
Also Known As: 陳明偉, 陳偉明, 陈伟明
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Male
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The Iron-Fisted Monk
Overview: Husker is a student of the Shaolin monks, learning kung fu so that he can avenge his uncle who was murdered by the Manchus who control the province. He leaves his training early, desperate to teach the killers a lesson, and teams up with a martial artist monk who is teaching a group of factory workers how to defend themselves. When the Manchus strike again, Husker and his Buddhist pal decide it's time to even the score.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1977-08-25
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Return Engagement
Overview: A well-known gangster is released from prison, and decides look for his daughter with the help of a troubled young woman.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-03-17
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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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The Prodigal Son
Overview: A rich man's son believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of an actor in a traveling theatre company, the son resolves to find a better teacher.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1981-11-10
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Dirty Ho
Overview: A prince enlists a thief to serve as his bodyguard to protect him from assassins.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-08-04
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A Better Tomorrow
Overview: A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1986-08-02
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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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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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Hapkido
Overview: Yu Ying, Kao and Fan return to China to start a martial arts school but are bullied by the Japanese competitor who runs the Black Bear school. The harassment leads to intense conflicts between them.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-10-01
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The Incredible Kung Fu Master
Overview: Tung Wei is a lad who wants to learn kung fu. He trains in two different styles: Hung Gar and Wing Chun. Everything is fine until a jealous master creates a rift between Tung's two teachers, and he has to choose sides. But a bigger problem looms ahead. The Tiger Master wants to fight both men to the death. They're no match for him, so Tung goes to the one man who can train him properly: Sammo Hung
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-01-26
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A Touch of Zen
Overview: Gu Sheng-zhai, an artist in his early 30s, still lives with his mother, but he is suddenly shaken by the arrival of Yang Hui-zhen, a mysterious princess on the run. Yang brings Gu into her circle of protectors, including a nameless monk whose spiritual guidance transforms him into a valiant fighter.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-07-10
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Mr. Vampire
Overview: The planned reburial of a village elder goes awry as the corpse resurrects into a hopping, bloodthirsty vampire, threatening mankind. Therefore, a Taoist Priest and his two disciples attempt to stop the terror.
Genres: Action Comedy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-11-07
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Vampire Vs. Vampire
Overview: Lam Ching-Ying returns as the famous "Vampire Buster," this time starring as the One-Eyebrow Priest. To save the village from paranormal menaces, he deals with and battles a host of mysterious creatures including: a little mischievous Chinese vampire; a lustful female ghost; the spirit of a woman murdered by a club owner and a European vampire and his blood-sucking pet bats.
Genres: Action Comedy Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1989-07-26
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Pedicab Driver
Overview: Lo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen in love. The problem is that both their objects of affection - one a baker, the other a prostitute - are working under cruel and lecherous bosses. Somehow, the pair must find a way to win the ladies' hearts and free them from their unpleasant jobs.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-02-11
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The Man from Hong Kong
Overview: Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong to question him. After the alleged criminal is assassinated, Inspector Leng and the Sydney police try to hunt down those responsible and hope to solve their case along the way.
Genres: Action Crime Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-31
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Snake in the Monkey's Shadow
Overview: A young peasant boy who is bullied by local noblemen seeks to learn drunken boxing from the head of a local martial arts school. When the boy beats up his previous tormentors, the nobles patriarch challenges the boys teacher, the drunken master, who defeats the lot of them. Embarrased, the nobles retain two hired snake style killers. They kill everyone except the peasant boy.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-02-15
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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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Return to the 36th Chamber
Overview: The workers of a dye factory have their pay cut by 20% when the factory owner brings in some Manchu thugs to try and increase production. Desperate to reclaim their full wages, the workers hire an actor to impersonate a priest and kung-fu expert from the temple of Shaolin. The factory owner proves the actor a fraud, and punishes all those involved. The young actor feels he has let the workers down, and promises to atone. He sets out for Shaolin, determined to be accepted as a kung-fu pupil at the elite temple.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-08-24
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Disciples of the 36th Chamber
Overview: Monk San Te tries to support and protect Shaolin and her Fang Shih-yu who purposely attacks corrupt Ching officials.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1985-05-17
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The Rascal Billionaire
Overview: The drug lord has occupied the whole Southeast Asian market for decades, and no rival has been able to shake his position. However, a mysterious man suddenly appeared one day, which completely changed the situation.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1978-12-08
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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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Legendary Weapons of China
Overview: Legendary Weapons of China is a martial arts fantasy film taking place during the late Qing Dynasty when Empress Dowager Cixi dispatches her agents to various factions of the Boxer Rebellion in order find supernatural martial artists that are invulnerable to western bullets. When one of the leaders of these groups disbands his forces, assassins from the remaining factions are sent out to kill him.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-01-21
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Tiger on the Beat
Overview: A seasoned cop and his rookie partner are a pair of mismatched partners in this Hong Kong action-comedy in the style of Lethal Weapon. The wacky twosome are up in arms as they try to solve the murder of a heroin trafficker.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-03-19
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The Valiant Ones
Overview: A righteous husband-and-wife swordfighting duo struggle to protect China from the machinations of Japanese pirates and corrupt officials.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-02-19
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The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
Overview: The Yangs are betrayed by a government official conspiring with the Mongols. All of the Yang family males except the 5th and 6th brother are killed. Fu Sheng loses his mind after the death of his family, while the other brother takes refuge in a Buddhist temple.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-02-17
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Heroes of the East
Overview: Gordon Liu stars as a Chinese martial arts student struggling to relate to his new Japanese wife. When a series of martial misunderstandings spirals into an international incident, he's forced to take on seven of Japan's most powerful martial arts masters, each an expert in a different discipline, ranging from karate to samurai to ninjitsu.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-12-30
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Dangerous Person
Overview: Elder brother, Big Cat is a flirt and younger brother, Small Cat is mean and cold. They were sent to prison for commiting crimes. Uncle Tse, a dominant criminal, accepted Small Cat in admiration of his tuff character. Inspector Tai, who caught them in jail is a responsible, efficient an dhard crime destructor. Soon as the brothers were out from jail, they ran into Tai in doing a case. Small Cat who was very anxious to take revenge on Tai...
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1981-12-03
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The Blade Spares None
Overview: Ho Li-Chun, a pretty but ruthless swordswoman, and three challengers are participating in an open tournament at Prince Kuei's Palace. A knight, Chen Jo-Yu, is defeated in the tournament. He flees and later returns with knight Tang Ching-Yun who wields a strange sword. They get trapped but Ho deliberately sets both free after seeing Tang's weapon which she recognizes as the same weapon once used by Sun Tien-Chen, a foe of the Ho family. She decides to investigate. She finds out Prince Kuei actually is Sun, who killed the real prince years ago and assumed his identity. Ho joins forces with Chen and Tang. The trio slays Sun in a desperate confrontation at the palace.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-04-30
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Challenge of the Masters
Overview: The Wong family kung fu school gets smacked around by a rival school. Wong Fei-hong gets fed up with the abuse and goes to learn from his fathers master. After one of the rival schools members kills some of the towns people Wong Fei-hong becomes enraged trains even more comes back and gets his revenge.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-05-07
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Executioners from Shaolin
Overview: A couple unite - she is fluent in the crane style of kung fu, he in tiger style. They have a son, but the boy's father is killed by the evil eunuch Pai Mei. Disguised as a girl, his mom trains him in crane style while he secretly learns tiger style from his father's training manual.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-02-16
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Police Story
Overview: Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum. Now, he must protect the boss' secretary, Selina, who will testify against the gangster in court.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-12-14
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Shaolin Mantis
Overview: When scholar Wei Fung is forcibly hired by the Manchu Emperor to infiltrate a clan of rebellious Ming Loyalists, his mission goes adrift when he falls in love with the clan's leader's granddaughter. Wei Fung must choose between his new love and his family, who will be put to death if he doesn't return to the palace successfully.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-06-28
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The Shadow Boxing
Overview: Lau Kar-leung returns to the success of his first directed film, "The Spiritual Boxer," which also stars the original film's bumbling ghost controller, Wong Yu. Hoping to make the lightning of success strike in the same place, Lau had his two brothers Lau Kar-Wing and Gordon Liu not only act but also help with the fights. The end result is a martial arts film masterpiece filled with breathtaking action and set pieces.
Genres: Comedy Action Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-02-15
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The Fugitive
Overview: Siu Lao (Lieh) and Ma Tien Piao (Feng) are bandits who ride from town to town holding up banks and killing anyone who tries to stop them using their superb and rapid fire shooting skills. When a holdup goes wrong, Siu sends Ma away with the cash and tells him that if he is caught to try and rescue him later. Siu is tortured and as time passes he realizes his sworn brother isn't coming for him instead setting up a bandit gang to carry on with murdering and banditry. Sui manages to escape and heads for Ma's encampment to settle some scores.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-12-06
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Mad Monkey Kung Fu
Overview: A disgraced former Kung Fu expert makes a living as a merchant with the help of a hot headed friend. When the men are harassed by gangsters, the merchant decided to teach his friend monkey boxing so they can defend their business.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-10-05
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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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Martial Club
Overview: Wong Fei Hung and his friend are constantly having contests to see who has the better martial arts skill. After getting in trouble with their fathers, Wong Fei Hung settles down and starts to train seriously, while his friend still horses around. After his friend is hurt by a rival school, Wong goes to the school for retribution. Instead his skill is tested through a series of events which climax with him taking on a Northern martial artist. In an excellent battle of skill, he earns the respect of the rival school. Also stars Mai Te Lo and Hui Ying Hung.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1981-08-20
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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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Challenge of the Tiger
Overview: Two CIA agents, a kung fu master and a suave womanizer, track the stolen formula for a super-sterility drug from Spain to Hong Kong, battling Neo-Nazi terrorists and a Vietnamese spy ring for its possession.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Top Lady of Sword
Overview: Two top swordswomen practice the rare art of Chrysanthemum Sword to rid the country of a ruthless swordsman and restore peace to the martial world.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1993-05-12
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Carry on Wise Guy
Overview: Gordon Liu as the Master Killer has taken a vow not to use his superior fighting abilities, but he is put to the test when he must transport a valuable map across dangerous territory. Features amazing fight scenes choreographed by the Lau Brothers.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1980-07-03
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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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Her Vengeance
Overview: Fong Kit Ying is an unassuming nightclub employee in Macao who inadvertently angers a gang of drunken patrons. They follow her home after her shift and mount a viscous gang assault. After her traumatic ordeal, she vows to hunt them down one by one.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-10-07
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The Perfect Match
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-12-18
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Prince Charming
Overview: Chen Li is the son of an enormously wealthy Hong Kong businessman and is vacationing in Hawaii, experiencing typical girl problems. His lothario friend Lolanto flies in from Hong Kong and is determined to find Chen Li a girl within a few days. After a series of hijinks, Chen Li and Lolanto are back in Hong Kong and investigating high-level embezzling in Chen's father's corporation. It also turns out that Kitty and May are employed there as well, with Kitty being the secretary of the supposed embezzler. Because Chen has been notoriously inconspicuous and no one knows what he looks like, he is able to assume to role of a limousine driver for Lolanto, who takes on the persona of Chen Li himself. While tracking down the corruption, Lolanto and Chen also are trying to win the hearts of the two women, but are they looking for true love or only money?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-04-18
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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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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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Cat vs. Rat
Overview: Pai 'The Rat' always gets into trouble with Chan 'The Cat'. They always try to outsmart each other even when it threatens the lives of other people.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-09-30
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Stoner
Overview: An Australian cop heads to Hong Kong to head off the supply of a new designer drug which raises the sexual appetite of anyone who takes it.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-08-02
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When Taekwondo Strikes
Overview: The story is about the Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II. A Korean patriot played by Carter Wong gets into a fight with some Japanese people and is chased into a church. The priest there is captured and tortured. Trying to secure his release, the leader of the resistance, Jhoon Rhee is himself captured and tortured by the Japanese. Carter Wong, Angela Mao and Anne Winton have to now try and rescue him. This leads to an explosive climax with the heroes having to fight the likes of Wong In Sik (Hwang In-Shik), Sammo Hung and Kenji Kazama.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-09-09
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Scared Stiff
Overview: Alan and Halley are partners in a pest control company. Handsome Alan gets the girls and puffy Halley gets nothing. One night the two are injured in a car crash. Halley suffers slight injuries but Alan is dead for all purposes except his brain wave which still works actively.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-03-06
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The Angry River
Overview: The plot has to do with a reign of terror conducted by a mysterious killer dubbed "Poison Dart," who is hitting all kinds of prominent people with poison darts.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-05-12
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Flaming Brothers
Overview: Two blood brothers (Chow Yun Fat and Alan Tang), who have grown up on the streets of Macau, are bound together by a special code of honour. However, this bond ultimately leads them into brutal conflict when they struggle to leave the violent world they live in.
Genres: Action Crime Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-07-30
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Bloody Parrot
Overview: An expert swordsman is suspected of being the thief of a treasure sent to Emperor. The swordsman who has nothing to do with the theft investigates and is led on the trail of the supernatural "Bloody Parrot". This leads to the "Parrot Brothel" and the star prostitute who walks around half naked. Strange things happen including a demonic possession, witches casting poison spells, disgusting autopsies and numerous sword fights. Then a dead constable turns into a vampire! This is all in the first 30 minutes!
Genres: Horror Action Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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Shaolin Prince
Overview: Two princes are seperated by birth; one is raised by the Prime Minister, the other by three mad Shaolin Monks. They both learn kung-fu. 23 years later, they meet and combine forces to defeat the tyrannical 9th Prince.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Long Arm of the Law II
Overview: This sequel to the critically-acclaimed box-office winner Long Arm of the Law maintains the same stark realism of the original. In Saga Two, the Royal Hong Kong Police put into operation a new plan to counteract the problem of increasing violent crimes committed by new arrivals from across the border in China. In agreement with Chinese authorities, three Hong Kong detectives go undercover as illegal immigrants in order to infiltrate the powerful gang that is organizing the crime wave. The action is tough and graphic, reminiscent of The French Connection, Hong Kong style.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-08-29
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Shatter
Overview: Shatter, an international contract killer, has been assigned to assassinate the President of a small African country and collect his fee from a bank in the Far East. On arrival in Hong Kong his life is threatened and when the bank denies all knowledge of payment arrangements, he realises he has been drawn into a dangerous game where there are no rules. Amongst the players are the Mafia and several foreign intelligence services and the stakes being played for are deadly.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-06
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Hong Kong Godfather
Overview: After receiving a life imprisonment sentence for a NY Chinatown massacre, Jia Shi Lan, alias Hei Lan, obtains a pardon through the Mafia's influence. Returning to Hong Kong, Hei Lan attempts to use the stature and fortitude of Brother Han, an elder, but good-natured underworld boss, to gain power and spread the Mafia's influence throughout Southeast Asia. After a deadly double cross leaves many of Han's society dead, two former members, one a cop, the other a florist, and the sole remaining loyalist join forces to bring down the criminal empire of Hei Lan.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-10-27
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The Amsterdam Kill
Overview: Former DEA Agent Quinlan, removed from the force some years earlier for stealing confiscated drug money, is hired by Chung Wei, a leader in the Amsterdam drug cartel, who wants out of the business. Quinlan's job is to use Chung's information to tip DEA agents to drug busts, thereby destroying the cartel. But when the first two "tips" go awry, resulting in murdered DEA officers, the feds must decide whether to trust Quinlan further...
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-26
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Return of the Demon
Overview: A group of treasure hunters accidentally unleash a malevolent demon who is attempting to obtain 49 souls in order to achieve immortality.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-12-10
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