Sun Chien
Also Known As: 孫建, Sun Jian, Sun Kin, Suen Jian-Yuan, Suen Gin, Chien Sun, Kin Suen, 孙建
Biography: Born January 26, 1955 in Taiwan under the name Suen Jian-yuan, Sun Chien (Chinese: 孫建) lost both parents while young and was brought up by his two sisters. In 1976, director Chang Cheh was recruiting new stars in Taiwan for the movie Chinatown Kid. Tae kwon do veteran Sun was selected among many competitors and was given the supporting role in the movie. Sun since developed his career in Hong Kong (notably as one of the 5 Venoms) and signed as a contract actor with Shaw Brothers for eight years. Being one of "Chang's Cohorts," he often starred in the director's action and martial arts movies. After Shaw Brothers ceased film production in 1986 to focus on TV projects, Sun lent his talents to subpar "cut-and-paste" productions for producer Tomas Tang's Filmark International. In the early 90s he served as an action director and assistant director on several films before retiring in 1992.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Taiwan
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1955
Age: 70 years old
Gender: Male
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The Five Venoms
Overview: A dying master sends his last student to check up on five former pupils, who each know a special style of kung-fu.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-08-12
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Kid with the Golden Arm
Overview: Jin bei tong opens with a group of escort guards preparing to move a shipment of gold from the local government to an area stricken by famine... one of the very few Venom films where all six Venom actors are present within a single film.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-11-02
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Crippled Avengers
Overview: A group of martial artists seek revenge after being crippled by Tu Tin-To, a martial arts master, and his son.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-12-21
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Two Champions of Shaolin
Overview: Shaolin warrior Tung Chien-chen is injured in battle against the hated Wu Tang clan, and nursed back to health by a knife-throwing master. As he recovers, Tung learns this deadly art, and also falls in love with his teacher's daughter. But when a Wu Tang attack disrupts the young lovers' wedding, Tung must put his new skill to use as he seeks revenge.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-04-12
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Shaolin Rescuers
Overview: Two friends who long to be heroes join the fight against a Ching warlord and his students. They get help from a Kung Fu student and a rebel. They also save Hung Si Quan's life.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-03-24
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House of Traps
Overview: It all started with The Five Venoms, the internationally loved kung-fu thriller. It continued through more than a dozen bloody good entertainments featuring the same actors in different roles. This is considered the last official "Venoms" movie, but what a film it is. There's one plasma-spurting attack after another as heroes and rogues alike try to solve the secrets of this hell house. The core Venoms themselves choreograph the gory fun in this fond farewell to their worldwide film series sensation!
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-01-09
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Black Lizard
Overview: Young swordsman Lung Fei encounters strange omens portending the death of his fiancee Ting Tzu-chu. His enquiries with the help of Chief Constable Tieh Hu reveal an astounding story.
Genres: Action Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-11-26
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Clan Feuds
Overview: Two young lovers, Yun Keng and Ching Shuang belong to opposing clans. Their relationship is a secret for a time. Once Master Diao, head of the Great Banner Clan, learns of this treachery he must execute his son by way of quartering. Ti Zhong Tang as well as Yun's hot headed brother, Yun Zheng try and coax the old man out of having his son put to death but to no avail. Just before the act is carried out, Ti knocks Yun Keng unconscious and he is willingly replaced by one of his brothers who is quickly killed. Master Diao and Ti swear to reveal the truth to no one. Ti vows to locate the whereabouts of the beautiful Ching Shuang so the two can be reunited in the hopes that their love will one day rebuild the Great Banner Clan.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-02-19
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Human Lanterns
Overview: A psychotic craftsman pits two rival Kung-Fu masters against each other while designing special lanterns from a disturbing source.
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-07-14
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The Daredevils
Overview: The General's son Yang escapes a massacre at his home that subsequently sees a corrupt, criminal syndicate in charge of the local forces. Seeking shelter with four good friends who are street performers, Yang plots his revenge though refuses to acknowledge the fearsome odds he faces. The quartet try to convince him to bide his time, but the young avenger sneaks into his former home and, after a battle against a few top fighters, is killed by their leader. When Yang's friends discover his tragic fate, they devise a way of defeating the killers without having to face their mighty army directly.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-06-09
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Ninja Death Squad
Overview: An organized gang specializing in high ranking military assassinations bewilders the police. However, their headquarters are located and a special agent is sent to terminate all members of the gang.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Vampire Raiders
Overview: The fate of the entire hotel industry is at stake. A group of evil black ninjas have threatened to insinuate themselves into the industry, take over, and transform the operation into something unspeakable. Thank heaven the white ninjas are on hand to save the day. Agnes Chan heads the cast, so we assume she's the "ninja queen." This one isn't a whole lot better than others of its ilk, but at least there's some novelty in the settings.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Rebel Intruders
Overview: China is ripped apart by a civil war, and thousands of displaced refugees swarm into towns not yet ravaged by war. Three such refugees arrive in one town. They join forces with local rebel leaders to escape to the south before getting into trouble with Lu Feng who is out to exterminate all rebels.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-09-10
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Invincible Shaolin
Overview: Three North Shaolin teachers are called on by the Manchus to teach their soldiers and are urged to challenge the current South Shaolin teachers. They defeat the South Shaolin teachers and, that night, the head general kills the South Shaolin teachers and blames their death on the North Shaolin teachers. The South Shaolin master sends more of his pupils, who are killed accidentally by the North Shaolin teachers. He finally sends two more of his students to train with old masters and trains one student himself with the goal of finally defeating the North Shaolin experts.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-11-19
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Empire of Spiritual Ninja
Overview: Criminal activities of the spiritual ninja are headed by a ruthless ninja warlord and follows the CIA's subsequent attempts to bring them to justice. Enter Captain Scott, one of the CIA's 'Action Men' who also happens to be a Tamo ninja
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Brave Archer 3
Overview: Guo Jing and Huang Rong pursue Yang Kang to Iron Palm Peak, where Qiu Qianren and the Iron Palm Sect is based. Huang is injured by Qiu in a fight and she escapes with Guo Jing's help. Guo brings her in search of a cure to heal her wounds and they stumble upon a house in a swamp, inhabited by a woman called Yinggu. Yinggu tells them that the only person who can save Huang Rong's life is Duan Zhixing, the former ruler of the Kingdom of Dali, who has become a monk now.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-11-12
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The Duel of the Century
Overview: This mystery-tinged 'Martial Arts World' epic was one of director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung's last together for the Shaw Studios, but it's another action-filled winner. Liu Yung and Sun Chien team to investigate the martial arts murders of a supposedly mortally wounded swordsman, only to find deception, death, double-dealings, imposters, and one deadly duel after another. No less than three choreographers are on hand to handle the multitude of magnificent martial arts.
Genres: Action Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-10-22
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Ten Tigers of Kwangtung
Overview: Ming partisan Chu who is on the run from Manchu forces. Local merchant and kung fu enthusiast Li Chen-chau gives the fugitive shelter in his pawnshop and quietly recruits some of his fellow martial master associates to help protect the lad. When Li's professional rival rats him out, Manchu official Liang not only orchestras his army but fools a couple other kung fu masters including Beggar Su into helping his cause. After a heated battle, Li manages to convince Su to joining his cause, thus forming the Ten Tigers.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-12-25
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The Magnificent Ruffians
Overview: Venom regulars Philip Kwok, Chiang Sheng, and Sun Chien star as a gang of unemployed martial artists who spend their days stuffing their faces at local restaurants and letting the staff beat them up instead of paying the bill. Their fortunes appear to improve when the head of a local security agency hires them to take out the competition, who their new employer insists is up to no good. But the boys are being played for fools, and after an unfortunate misunderstanding, they unite with their former adversary to take out the true villain.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-09-20
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What Price Honesty?
Overview: Police corruption is the theme of this brutal harbinger of the bleak "new wave" crime thriller. Pai Piao, Danny Lee, and "Venom" Sun Chien star as idealistic police school graduates who run afoul of such vicious, murderous depravity that the cop who is killed first could be considered the lucky one.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-12-31
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Ode to Gallantry
Overview: A lone martial artist nicknamed “Mongrel” is continually drawn into an intense struggle between several warring martial arts clans after he stumbles across the Black Iron Token, which entitles the owner to have any wish granted by Xie Yanke, a brutal kung fu master.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-12-16
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Ninja in the Killing Field
Overview: The government seems powerless against the brutal activities of the ninjas and requests the help of the powerful task force of the American drug fighting organization. The US authorities send their best man on a high-explosive mission to eliminate the unscrupulous killer ninja clan and destroy their drug ring.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Chinatown Kid
Overview: Struggling to survive the murderous gang wars of Hong Kong, Tan Tung, a young martial arts street fighter, successfully takes on all challengers—until he runs up against the savage underworld empire of Hong Kong's Triad mafia. Escaping to San Francisco, he again tangles with criminal gangs, but this time fights his way to the top of the city's most feared gangster organization led by the White Dragon boss.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-12-02
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The Spirit of the Sword
Overview: In this film, there are 5 main clans ruling the martial world, each representing one of the 5 elements - fire, metal, water, wood and earth. Each year they hold a martial arts competition to decide which one of the 5 clans will rule the world. The story is centered around one of these tournaments, as a catastrophe arises when an evil samurai killer shows up 49 days before the start and tries to assassinate the current leader who happens to be from the Water clan.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-05-18
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Little Dragon Maiden
Overview: Seeking to improve his combat skills, a young man falls in love with a woman with mystical powers but his past stands in the way of their union.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-12-02
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Mission War Flames
Overview: War film set in South Vietnam in the 1960s. Paul, a young Vietnamese doctor, enlists in the ARVN over his family’s objections. He participates in a joint U.S. Marine-ARVN attack on a Viet Cong hilltop position. The attack fails and Paul is killed.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-09
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The Brave Archer 2
Overview: Our hero Kuo Tsing is winning the hand of fair maiden Huang Yung. However, almost immediately, clan rivalries in the "Martial Art World" lead to Kuo being wounded by Ouyang Feng and Huang being named the new leader of the Beggar Clan. All this is mounted with sparkling energy by three kung-fu choreographers and a star-packed cast.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-05-13
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The Emperor and His Brother
Overview: A young boy betrays his family who hides a refugee and tells the pursuer where the hiding-place is - just because he wants a valuable telescope for reward. His father decides to kill the boy in order to restore the honor of the family.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-07-19
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Pursuit of a Killer
Overview: This is one of those -"who did it" -murder movies put out by Shaw Brothers. In this one, a bunch of Mainlanders come to Hong Kong for a better life. Instead, these Mainlanders are jobless and wind up killing, robbing, and selling drugs for a Dai Lo. Tired of getting chicken scratch from their Dai Lo for all the work they've done, the Mainlanders (about 4 or 5) decide to do a big job for themselves by trying to rob a jewelry store. The heist goes awry with all the Mainlanders being apprehended by the HKRP. They all to go to jail and do their time and get discharged. Once out, the Mainlanders are getting "rubbed off" one by one and the HKRP do not have a clue. Luckily, one member, Yeh Hung (Lo Meng), of the Mainlander gang is still in jail who still has time. So, Inspector Wong (Jason Pai Piao) decides to cut Yeh Hung loose and let him walk the streets as bait to bring the killer out.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1985-09-20
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The Vampire Is Alive
Overview: A screenwriter working on a film script in an old haunted house unleashes an army of the undead including a robot-vampire and a Freddy Kruger-like creature with deadly scissorhands.
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Lady Assassin
Overview: Veteran action actor and director Lu Chun-ku set his sights on a tale of Ching Dynasty royal intrigue as an excuse to hire his favorite action stars, gather three choreographers, and film one fight-filled conspiracy after another. Liu Hsueh-hua is the title character caught between battling princes. Then there's award-winning actor Ku Feng, "Bastard Swordsman" Hsu Shao-chiang, "King of Shaw Brothers' Screen Villains" Wang Lung-wei, "Venom" Sun Chien, and even the director shows up to get his kicks in this danger-fraught adventure.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-01-15
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The Lady Is the Boss
Overview: Wong Hsia Yuan is an old-fashioned martial arts master who's so behind the times that he'd rather his school be destroyed than change its ways. He may get his wish, thanks to the young, beautiful, intelligent Chan Mei Ling, who arrives from the states to open a new branch of the school. Armed with an unfamiliar, modern way of thinking, Mei Ling goes about recruiting new students in strange, and sometimes questionably legal ways. Yuan is furious, but when the local triads enter the picture, the two put their differences aside to take back the neighborhood.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-03-31
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Ninja, Demon's Massacre
Overview: Police are hot on the heels of ninjas involved in international espionage and that's got ninja gang leader Willie worried. When the police try to trick him, Willie reaches his boiling point.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-04
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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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Heaven and Hell
Overview: Actors David Chaing and Alexander Fu Sheng join director Chang Cheh and the rest of the Five Deadly Venoms crew for a supernatural martial arts epic that takes the action to another plane of reality entirely. When a fallen angel descends to the Earth on a mission to storm the underworld, a love shared between angels and humans offers telling testament to the power of a lucky ghost. In the battle that follows, both the living and the dead will discover that a war waged in hell could have consequences that resound forever
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-01-18
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Devil's Dynamite
Overview: After spending ten years in prison Steven Cox has recently been released and his former colleagues will do anything to find out where he stashed his fortune. His former mistress now rules the underworld and she plays the various fractions against each other to maintain her power. One of the local drug lords has hired vampires to protect him and keep his drug smuggling business thriving. The vampires pop up around town as they, along with various other thugs, try to knock off Steven Cox and find the whereabouts to his gold. There is a stranger in town that dresses up like a space age super hero who aligns himself with Steven Cox as they take on together the corrupt underworld. A cut n paste movie that uses footage from The Stunning Gambling (Taiwan) and Giant of Casino (HK).
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-14
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Angry Ranger
Overview: A man returning to his old neighbourhood after a prison term finds that the friends he used to hang out with are now a violent street gang that is terrorizing the community.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-09-14
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Crocodile Fury
Overview: Witch Monica has the power to resurrect vampire that can destroy everything that exists on earth. The situation worsens when Monica starts working with Cooper, the master of the seas. Cooper sends man-eating crocodiles also capable of taking human form to create chaos. Only Jack, an honest man, can end the horrific killings. This Tomas Tang production steals a bunch of footage from the Thai film Krai Thong 2 (1985).
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-01-30
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Satanic Crystals
Overview: Two gangs of gangsters fight over a unique crystal in the jungles of Thailand!
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Treasure Hunter
Overview: Another Filmark cut-and-paste movie. This one adds new scenes to a Thai film originally titled "Black Pearl Treasure" and starring Sorapong Chatree.
Genres: Adventure Action Horror
Original Language: th
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Fatal Command
Overview: The Russian operations in Asia are ruined by the American agents. Ivan, a KGB, is sent to Kampuchea and terminates the op-posing American forces. John Matthews, an American CIA spy, works with Jim, a patriot to offset the Russian aggression. In Kampuchea, Well’s, a military general, is recruited by the KGB secretly and he makes use of his formal cover to get rid of Jim. Realizing that he’s a traitor, Jim never drops his guard. He concentrates on destroying him along with his gangsters. During the birthday party of Wells' daughter...
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-07
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Ninja: American Warrior
Overview: In his attempt to be the most powerful man in the world, Justin Taylor, leader of a sinister Ninja army, has become the largest narcotics smuggler in the orient. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Hong Kong Police have joined forces with the CIA and a brilliant policewoman, the awesome Amazonia, to bring down Taylor by any means, at any cost. The CIA operative chosen for the task ultimately realizes that the man he must kill was his closest friend in the war. Torn between justice and loyalty he's got to make the most crucial decision of his life.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-01
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The Spy Inferno
Overview: A rare Filmark production. This uses over an hour of new footage from the 1983 Thai action film เสือภูพาน ("Tiger Phu Phan") starring Sorapong Chatree and mixes that with some newly shot Hong Kong footage.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-22
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Ninja Fantasy
Overview: Thomas [sic] Tang unleashes yet another assault on human sanity with this Z-grade, cut and splice ninja crap-fest featuring drug dealing ninja, CIA operatives and a completely non related story from Thailand. The Thai footage comes from the 1986 action film ตามฆ่า ("Follow the Kill").
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Operation Foxhunt
Overview: Undercover cops are on the trail of a Caucasian drug baron.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Bastard Swordsman
Overview: Yun Fei Yang is the viciously bullied orphan who takes on the unpleasant tasks at a formidable kung-fu school. Constantly mocked by the other students of the school, Yen counts as his only friend the daughter of the resident master. Any internal wrangling between the various members is put to one side when a swordsman from a rival clan reminds the master of the duel he must take part in once a decade. Unfortunately the defending clan chief is well aware that his rival is more powerful than himself. The expected defeat is further complicated when a wandering swordsman arrives on the scene and joins himself to the injured party, immediately adding to Yen's woes.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1983-09-14
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The Plot
Overview: A triad boss runs a family business, who deals in arms. He has a good relationship with his sister Amy, until she finds out that he killed their father.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-05-11
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Terminal Angels
Overview: Paula is a reporter that has in her possession a set of photographs that would expose a known businessman as a drug smuggler. In the crosshairs of the drug syndicate, Ben from the CIA is doing his best to protect the reporter and to solve the case. Non stop high octane action.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Secret Service of the Imperial Court
Overview: The sergeant of the Brocade Guards, the government's secret police, fights back against a traitorous eunuch who wishes to take the throne.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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Ninja and the Warriors of Fire
Overview: The Black Ninja Empire want a "confidential blueprint" in the possession of Vietnam vet Robin and will stop at nothing to get it. When Robin's fiancée is murdered, her sister joins the White Ninja Empire and teams up with Robin to wreak bloody vengeance.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Instant Rage
Overview: The heirs to a major corporation are being brutally killed off one by one, and John Lee, the company's chairman, suspects that a mafia takeover is behind it. But, before he can uncover any evidence, he too is savagely murdered. Carol, his daughter and a friend, Brian Roberts, continue the investigation where he left off while police Captain Roberts follow up on a few suspicions of his own. The actions become explosive and deadly when they are attacked by ruthless, ninja assassins who try to prevent them from finding out who the maniacal, cold blooded killer is inside the company.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-18
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Return of Bastard Swordsman
Overview: Just when audiences thought the director couldn't get more spectacular and outrageous, he unleashed this eye-filling, mind-bending "Martial Arts World" sequel of clan rivalries, ninja atrocities, wizard sorceries, and the mythical Silkworm style that changes our hero into a veritable Spider-swordsman. The screen practically explodes with colorful characters and kung-fu -- all directed, co-written, and co-choreographed by Lu Chun-ku, and showcasing some of the best Shaw Brothers action stars. The original Bastard Swordsman was just the beginning, this superlative cult classic that out-phantasmagoricals the original.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-05-08
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