Wang Fei
Also Known As: 王菲, Wang Lao Fei, Lao Fei Wang, Wong Fei, Wang Fei
Biography: Wang Fei was an actor who worked in nearly 66 films from 1959-1983.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 10, 1925
Deathday: October 18, 1983
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Love Rings a Bell
Overview: Story from Qiong Yao's novella collection "Shui Ling"
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-07-01
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Posterity and Perplexity
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-11-15
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Lantern Festival Adventure
Overview: The Jade Lantern Festival comes from a very old legend that commemorates the exploits of bandits.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-07-05
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Broken Sword
Overview: Heavyset Master An (Got Siu-Bo) receives a message from a dying imperial messenger and finds himself to be the hunted due to the defining, powerful nature of the message. A reluctant hero and not a fighting swordsman at heart (his sword is bent and worn), he's defended by mainly a duo of females and a sneaky swordsman played by O Chun-Hung.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-01-02
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He Heals and Kills
Overview: Martial arts film from Taiwan
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Magnificent Wanderers
Overview: Millionaire Chu Te-Sa invests his considerable wealth into the rebel movement who are intent on usurping the ruling Mongol powers. His goals are impeded by a lack of support though and the supposed allies he has made in the town are merely eager to get their hands on his money. During an attack where these craven 'comrades' flee, Chu befriends three con-artists who relish the chance to show off their fighting skills. The trio subsequently agree to help Chu in his quest to end Mongol rule and hatch a plan to destroy a major munitions dump
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-05-27
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The Story of a Small Town
Overview: The film revolves around a family living in a small town. Kenny Bee plays the male family member who is released from prison and falls in love with a mute woman (Lin Feng-jiao).
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-05-03
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The Wheel of Life
Overview: Jointly and respectively directed by King Hu, Lee Hsing, and Pai Ching-Jui, three major Taiwan directors of the 1970s, this film consist of three shorts with the same cast of two actors and one actress, who through reincarnation meet in three different times.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Attack of the Joyful Goddess
Overview: A troupe of traveling performers stop in a small town. However, the general who controls the town has designs on the group's leading actress. They must figure a way to get out of town before the general has his way with her.
Genres: Action Drama Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1983-10-06
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Good Morning, Taipei
Overview: A loose youth passes the time freely until he comes across a young, female broadcaster who works at a radio station.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Pioneers
Overview: Wu Linfang, an immigrant from the mainland to Taiwan more than a hundred years ago, grows from a poor boy to a leader who instructs villagers to open oil wells
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-11-30
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He Never Gives Up
Overview: Have no other info than it was part of Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-01-03
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Painted Waves of Love
Overview: A talented woman painter falls in love with a gallery owner, who is married. His son falls in love with her niece at first sight. The painter gets along well with the gallery owner's grown son and daughter. In order to keep their family united, his son and daughter ask her to withdraw from her love relationship, and she promises to do so to save the gallery owner's marriage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-10-07
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China Armed Escort
Overview: An emperor assigns his two superintendents Lung & Hu to wipe out the heads of the famous Justice Escort Service whom he sees as a threat to him in achieving total reign over the land.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Execution in Autumn
Overview: Peigang, his family's only son for three generations running, is to be executed on account of larceny, but not without the intervention of his grandmother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-02-14
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The Furious Avenger
Overview: In the early days of the war of resistance against the foreign power invasion, Wu is captured and most of his family members are brutally murdered. Wu swears to seek revenge. He tracks down the murderers one by one.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-04-27
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Brother Wang and Brother Liu Disturb Opera Troup
Overview: Brother Wang and Brother Liu Disturb Opera Troup
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1959-05-27
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Single Fighter
Overview: A young martial artist battles three traitors to retrieve a list of Chinese citizens who are collaborating with the Japanese during their occupation of Manchuria.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-11
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The Dragon Kid
Overview: A fantastic martial artist and cat burglar puts his skills to use when he joins the Chinese resistance movement against the invading Japanese.
Genres: History Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-07-05
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The Imprudent Iron Phoenix
Overview: Chia Ling plays the title character, who wields her way through a standard martial arts premise, but demonstrates tremendous grace and agility as she chops, kicks, and flies through the air.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-10-09
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Impetuous Fire
Overview: The search for the essence of Kung Fu leads our dynamic duo Cherry Pai and Champion Cheng into an adventure of terror, intrigue and blood lust - horrific fighting with spirits of dead warriors! Electrifying brutality!
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Land of the Undaunted
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-03-27
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Na Cha and the Seven Devils
Overview: This film tells that Na Cha stole a fairy peach, but accidentally fell off the other seven new knots. Refined. The lower realms of the three brothers of Na Cha defeated the monsters, and then the fairy attracted the seven monsters of the Meishan Monsters who obstructed the Western Zhou army when they helped Zhou Futu.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-08-31
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Fury of King Boxer
Overview: Jimmy Wang Yu leads revolutionaries against the Manchus featuring his trademark huge fights.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Bride from Hell
Overview: Yunpeng and his servant stay at a country inn one dark evening to escape potential robbers and ghosts. But Yunpeng chances into something far more dangerous! He accidentally happens upon the comely Anu naked in bed, and to make up for his rudeness he has to marry her. Because of her beauty, the request is not too difficult to fulfill...until she is introduced to his aunts and uncles, who notice her ghastly green glow and deduce that she's a spirit from the netherworld. But there's something even darker about her appearance, and it may be revenge on his in-laws.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-03-24
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Forced to Fight
Overview: After taking on an entire army to avenge the murder of his master, a tenacious kung fu swordsman (Tang Wei) is forced out of retirement to fight again.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-10-20
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The Big Fight
Overview: This film is set during the Japanese occupation of China circa WWII. In it, the Japanese occupiers (and the Chinese Quislings who work for them) are portrayed as total monsters who kill children and rape all women. The heroes are resistance fighters who oppose the occupation.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-09-30
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The Professional Killer
Overview: Shaw Brothers star Wang Yu plays Ho Gang, a competent swordsman who takes a job as a hired assassin. Though reluctant he ends up becoming highly successful, but he is wary as one of his targets is killed before he can fulfill the contract, leading him to suspect that he is being double crossed.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-04-10
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The New Shaolin Boxers
Overview: An honourable carriage driver finds love and death when he battles particularly homicidal street punks
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-09-03
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Where the Seagull Flies
Overview: A journalist meets three girls with the same appearance but different identities. Finally, it turns out that these girls are the same person. Why does she use different identities? As the journalist tries to get the answer, he falls into the labyrinth of love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-04-11
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The Sister of the San-Tung Boxer
Overview: The cinematic follow up to the Shaw Brothers classic The Boxer from Shangtung! What's that? The infamous Boxer from Shangtung has a sister? Yes indeed. And guess what? She's cut from the same heroic kung fu cloth as her sibling. You messed with her brother, and now you're going to get a taste of Ma Su-Cheng's feet and fists of fury.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Tornado of Chu-chiang
Overview: In the early days of the Chinese Republic era, dockworkers in Macau are being mistreated by their Chinese overseers. An accident reveals that the cargo is composed of guns and opium.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-06-20
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Desperate Crisis
Overview: Thrilling basher from Taiwan set amidst the dangerous and contemporary world of gangsters & counterfeiters. A young Special agent investigates the core of the racket.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-07-19
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The Furious Killer
Overview: A young girl witnesses the massacre of her family at the hands of cold blooded kung fu killers. She spends the next ten years mastering the martial arts in order to avenge her family tracking down the killers one by one and dispatching them in fine martial art style.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-12-12
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Romance at Lung Shan Temple
Overview: Xiaofeng is selling medicinal herbs in Longshan Temple, but is at first driven away by Taiwanese peddlers upset by the intrusion of a mainlander into their business. Later, Xiaofeng auditions for a radio station, where a young Taiwanese man is attracted to her and finds he is soon in competition with a photographer from a mainland family.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1962-09-18
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Fire Bulls
Overview: The Warring States Period was a time of regional conflict as warlords sought to annex their neighbors and consolidate power across China. Set amidst this backdrop, "Fire Bulls" is an epic tale of the survival of a people and the heroism of one man. As the Yen army gathers on the outskirts of Chi seeking to gobble up its neighbor, the people of Chi are faced with the fall of the capital.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-21
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The Melody of Love
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-04-03
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Black Invitation
Overview: Brilliant Taiwan wuxia film Black Invitation directed by Chou Hsu Chiang. Living large in the Fuhu Shan region, Qiu San (Ma Ji) and his ruthless gang extort money from the local people by sending out black invitations listing how much the gang would like to "borrow". Those who hand over the money even a little late experience the gang's violent wrath. The Wan family is thrown into danger when...
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Young Avengeress
Overview: An evil lord kidnaps 12 sisters to start his harem, leaving the 13th sister to find a way to free them.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-04-17
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Redress
Overview: Rare martial arts film.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-12-18
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Young Flying Hero
Overview: A 1970 film.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-03-26
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Vengeance of Snow-Maid
Overview: Snow Maid spends years practicing kung fu under the guidance of Ugly Maid in the mountains. All she has on her mind in these years is to avenge her mother’s death. Nevertheless, after she bids farewell to her master and leaves the mountains, she unexpectedly falls in love with her enemy’s son. As they both conceal their true identities and misunderstanding keeps accumulating, how will this romance end?
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-03-06
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Silver Maid
Overview: Silver Maid, a young girl, becomes caught up in the struggle between two warring sects, the Red Devils and the Black Devils. At the same time, she is on a quest to find the Fairy Fungus, which is the only means of curing her ailing grandfather. Getting it requires that she defeat a quintet of vermin-based fighters known as the Five Poisonous Creatures, who include among their number a giant puppet snake. This accomplished, everyone sets off in search of a magical superweapon called the Sacred Tooth.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-09-26
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"Golden Sand" Sword
Overview: The Golden Blade should be kept in the hands of a good person; if it fell into the wrong hands the outcome would be terrible. Evil Black Bat asked for the sword, but the sword smith refused the demand. The prentice hid the sword while his master got slaughtered by Black Bat and before his death asked his prentice to give the sword to Ting Yeh the son of Ting Hsiang Ren. Black Bat slaughters Ting Hsiang Ren and his family, while Ting Yeh was absent. Upon return to home, Ting Yeh finds out the tragic destiny of his parents. After recovering The Golden Blade he seeks vengeance.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-06-14
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Dolly Lee
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Trouble on the Wedding Night
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Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-09-18
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Beauty of Beauties
Overview: Hsi Shih: The Beauty of Beauties was one of the most ambitious films made in the Taiwan film industry in the 1960s. After leaving The Shaw Brothers studio in Hong Kong and moving to Taiwan, filmmaker Li Han-hsiang mounted this historical epic. Told through the story of Xishi (Hsi Shih), one of the 'Four Great Beauties' of Chinese history, the film portrays the war between two Chinese Kingdoms during the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C). After the kingdom of Yue is defeated by the kingdom of Wu, King Goujian of Yue takes pains to prepare for his revenge and rebuild his country. Knowing that King Fucha of Wu is lewd and lustful, he offers Xisi to the court of Wu to serve as Fucha’s concubine, with Fucha unaware that she is also a spy. She uses her charm to draw Fucha away from his office and governance, while King Goujian rallies his forces together to attempt to reclaim his lands.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-10-22
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前程万里
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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The Trios of the Peach Garden
Overview: A film based on the Oath of the Peach Garden which is a fictional event in the 14th-century Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-10-17
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