Lo Wei
Also Known As: Luo Wei, Law Wai, Lo Wai, Loh Wei, William Lowe, 羅維, Wai Lo, Wei Luo, Lo Wei, 罗维
Biography: Lo Wei (Chinese: 羅維, sometimes spelled Lo Wai, 12 December 1918 – 20 January 1996) was a Hong Kong film director and film actor best known for launching the martial arts film careers of both Bruce Lee, in The Big Boss and Fist of Fury, and Jackie Chan, in New Fist of Fury.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: 中国, 江苏
Adult: No
Birthday: December 12, 1918
Age: 106 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 20, 1996
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Calendar Girl
Overview: Musician Sun Ping is estranged from his wife. Second daughter Yinzheng lives with Sun while eldest daughter Jinliu follows her mother. By coincidence, the sisters both enter the 'Calendar Girl' pageant but Jinliu deliberately lets her sister win the contest. Later, the sisters and Liu Bucheng perform in Sun's musical show. Though the show is a success, Yinzheng decides to quit in order to get married. Not wishing to disappoint their father, Jinliu devises a plan to make Yinzheng stay on, but the plan misfires. Yinzheng leaves angrily. She is at last brought back to the show due to Liu's mediation. The elders also reconcile as the sisters perform together on stage.
Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1959-03-04
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Naughty! Naughty!
Overview: Wu Te-chuan is a young man trying to make a living in an easy way. But now he is penniless and will being thrown out of his Macau hotel. Kind- hearted hotel maid Hsiao Yen is the only one to help him in the world. One day, Wu plays a trick on the hotel owner. The scheme backfires and Wu has to flee to Hong Kong. Wu saves desperate painter Hsin. He convinces Hsin that his painting will sell if he is dead. After Hsin pretend to be dead, his paintings really can be sold well, but backfires finally. Then, Wu and Hsin team up and engage themselves full time in con games, gambling and sex inclusive. Finally, Wu is being chased by the ring enforcers but is saved. Finding himself in love with Hsiao Yen, Wu decides to turn a new leaf and live properly ever after.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-07-18
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The Girl with the Dexterous Touch
Overview: romantic comedy
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-07-30
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Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend
Overview: This documentary tells the story of Bruce Lee and his unsuccessful efforts to start a acting career in the U.S., he returned to Hong Kong where he became an international star, and his death at age 32.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-10-14
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Dragon Swamp
Overview: After being implicated in the theft of the Jade Dragon Sword, Fan Ying (Cheng Pei-pei) is banished to the Dragon Swamp for 20 years. Now, 20 years later, the sword has been stolen again, and the members of Lingshan Clan are sent out to find the culprit. Among those is Qing-Erh (Cheng Pei-pei again), who meets a wandering swordsman (Yueh Hua) searching for the long lost Fan Ying. Together they decide to enlist the help of the Dragon Swamp Master in their respective searches.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-03-27
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Lady Balsam's Conquest
Overview: Lady Balsam's Conquest. A sequel of General Chai and Lady Balsam.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1955-04-01
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Camille
Overview: A Mandarin adaption of Camille directed by Chang Shan-Kun and Evan Yang.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1955-06-03
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Death Valley
Overview: A hired assassin unknowingly makes friends with the man he's been sent to murder.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-10-11
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The Golden Sword
Overview: Bai Yu Lung's father mysteriously disappears one night, and for 10 years Bai searches for him in vain. Finally, he decides to head to the far northern part of the country with the hope that he can find a clue in that region. There, he falls in love with a beggar (Cheng Pei-pei) and they continue the search together.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-10-15
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A Man Called Tiger
Overview: A young man suspects his father's suicide was actually a murder committed by gangsters. Using his expertise in martial arts, he gets himself hired by the gangsters who he suspects are responsible for his father's death.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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Sorrowful Glory
Overview: This is a historical drama that was produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1953-01-09
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Black Butterfly
Overview: Black Butterfly, steals from the rich and gives to the poor. Trouble starts when a bandit gang, who the Black Butterfly has robbed, come to town looking for them. Eventually, the Black Butterfly and their new allies, will have to confront the bandit gang at their fortress.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-03-06
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A Shadow over the Chateau
Overview: Hong Kong crime drama thriller film.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-03-10
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Raw Courage
Overview: After the Ming Emperor is overthrown and his infant son put in the care of the Black Dragon Society, a traitorous martial arts clan attacks the society and forces two inexperienced swordsmen to flee with the infant and begin a dangerous journey in search of allies.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1969-08-13
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Songs of the Peach Blossom River
Overview: Li Ming is collecting folk songs on the banks of the Taohua River and is deeply attracted by the voice of Jin Li Rong, a village girl nicknamed "Wild Cat". After the outbreak of war, Rong fled to Hong Kong, and was brought on stage by Ming to sing, a surprise.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-02-21
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The Little Girl Named Cabbage
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1955-02-26
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The Pistol
Overview: Long unemployed and stone-broke, Shen Jiaguang is dealt a further blow when his wife Lu Xiaoyin has fallen seriously ill and their son Xiaoguang has to quit school.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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Tears of Songstress
Overview: A Songstress Called Hong Lingyan (歌女紅菱艷) aka Tears of Songstress is a 1953 Hong Kong musical drama film directed by Tu Kuang-Chi. The film was a co-production by Shaws Film Company and Far East Motion Picture Company, and is based on the screenplay by Pan Liu-Dai.
Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1953-01-22
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Diau Charn
Overview: Based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Diau Charn is a sublime retelling of a familiar tale with iconic actress Linda Lin Dai (Lam Doi) in the titular role of Diau Charn, one of the four storied beauties of ancient China.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1958-05-28
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Triad Story
Overview: An aging crime boss discovers his rebellious daughter is dating a punk. His former gang members try to bring her back using tricks and force, only to find out the punk is tied to the drug business in America, and is not to be messed with.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-10-11
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News Attack
Overview: News Attack is a 1989 Hong Kong action thriller drama film co-written and directed by Samson Chiu and starring Andy Lau, Michael Miu and Wilson Lam.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-05-25
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Love Letter Murder
Overview: Early Shaw Brothers crime film
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1959-02-26
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Beyond the Blue Horizon
Overview: A Shaw and Sons production
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-09-07
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A Mellow Spring
Overview: A Shaw Brothers production
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-08-15
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A Mating Story
Overview: A Shaw and Sons production.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-01-30
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The Error
Overview: Rich girl, Wu Qiu, is jealous of the relationship between journalist, Xu Shao Tang and singer, Chen Feng Juan. Wu Qiu hatches a plan to separate the couple with disastrous results.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-02-26
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The Chase
Overview: Private Investigator, Wu Feng, is tasked in tracking down his wife, Zhang Xiu Juan, and collecting evidence of her infidelity. He plans to blackmail her into divorcing him while also getting a share of her inheritance from her father.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-12-19
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The Comet Strikes
Overview: There was a civil strife in the court. In order to protect the king, some loyal ministers and the king hid in an old house. This old house was known as a haunted house; whoever lived in the house shall die for sure. Mr. and Mrs. Tse went to the haunted house but died in it. Their son Tse Tin Jun wanted to find out the truth of his parents’ death, so he went to the house. At the mean time, another minister knew the king's hiding in the house. He sent out a military force to kill the king. Actually Mr. and Mrs. Tse pretended to die to deceive the public. Tin Jun stood with his parents and the loyal ministers to fight against the rebels. After the blood battle, they eventually annihilated the rebels...
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-08-11
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The Criminal Hunter
Overview: Chu Yu (Eric Tsang) is a homicide detective who accidently stabs his girlfriend while wrestling with a murderer. The killer returns later and squeezes her wound until it ruptures, causing her death. But the wily Chu Yu photographs his girlfriend's corpse in a wedding dress, tricking the killer into believing she is not dead and causing him to return for a second try. When he does, Chu Yu is waiting, having rigged the corpse like a marionette and causing it to shoot its own murderer. Co-starring Danny Lee, as Officer Li Ta Hsiu, and Dick Wei in this decidedly offbeat attempt at gallows humor which works extremely well under the direction of action specialist Frankie Chan.
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Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-05-19
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Crusade Against Daddy
Overview: A HK comedy film starring Jeanette Lin Tsui and Hung Yeung.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1962-02-03
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Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
Overview: A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls for the now-grown princess, though neither realizes the other's identity.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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The Angel Strikes Again
Overview: Lily Ho, a secret agent out to thwart the sale of a powerful explosive to the wrong people. It’s a female, Chinese James bond.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-05-29
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Crocodile River
Overview: Crocodile River features Romeo And Juliet-flavored story. Families are against each other. Yodi is the Romeo and Lee Ting is his Juliet. The two students love each other from across a river that is filled with crocodiles.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-06-22
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Empress Wu
Overview: The renowned Li Li Hua plays Wu Ze Tian, the most famous woman in China's four thousand year history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-06-23
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Nobody's Child
Overview: Melodramatic film about a child prodigy.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-02-17
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Vengeance of a Snowgirl
Overview: Sworn-brothers expert martial artists are the targets of a mysterious killer, which seems to bear a grudge against them for what happened several years ago.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-10-29
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Forever and Ever
Overview: In 1966, like in The Love Eterne, Ling Bo took up the male lead in Forever and Ever, despite Shaw Brothers' earlier plan of having her as the female lead. Facing opposition from fans, they finally arranged for her to star as a male student named Xiaowen. Wicked rich man Liu, portrayed by Lo Wei, the director of this film, wants Xiaowen to marry his daughter (Lin Yu) who is suffering from leprosy, thinking that marriage will take away her disease. Although Xiaowen discovers Liu's plan, he is still in love with her and hopes that a miracle will cure her disease...
Genres: Romance History Drama Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-01-20
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Madam Slender Plum
Overview: Before director Lo Wei helped to discover Bruce Lee and the king of kung-fu comedy Jackie Chan, in Madam Slender Plum, Lo perpetuates the career of yet another Shaw's non-action, femme fatale starlet; the sleek and sexy, puppy-eyed Eurasian Jenny Hu. It's a melodrama with a touch of murder-mystery in the vein of an old Alfred Hitchcock movie where Diana Chang plays the mother with Jenny playing her oldest daughter.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-02-23
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Angel with the Iron Fists
Overview: A father whose daughter is killed by the Devil Girl's Gang, goes in search of justice.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-01-11
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Summons to Death
Overview: A suave swinger and a cool chick have one half of a treasure map, the bad guys have the other half. Who will get the goods?
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-11-23
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The Golden Buddha
Overview: Paul (Zhang Chong) is a businessman who gets caught up in an international espionage plot when he accidentally switches briefcases with a friend aboard a Singapore-bound plane. The friend turns up dead, and Paul discovers a small Golden Buddha inside the briefcase that contains a set of instructions. The instructions are only one of three parts, the other two being held in similar Golden Buddhas by Lo Wei (doing double duty as actor and director) and Lin Cui. When combined, the three Buddhas will lead the bearers to a buried treasure. But the nefarious Skeleton Gang is after the Buddhas, along with a buxom femme fatale (Fannie Fan) who isn't above showing a little skin to get her way. Luckily, Paul knows kung-fu, so the bad guys had better watch out!
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-04-27
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Squadron 77
Overview: Spy thriller set in occupied Shanghai. Li Lihua stars as the woman who is thrust into the role of nationalist freedom fighter when she discovers that her husband is a collaborator with the Japanese.
Genres: War Thriller Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-12-02
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New Fist of Fury
Overview: A brother and sister escape from Japanese-occupied Shanghai to Japanese-occupied Taiwan, to stay with their grandfather who runs a Kung-Fu school there. However, the master of a Japanese Kung- Fu school in Taiwan has plans to bringing all other schools on the island under his domination, and part of his plan involves the murder of the grandfather.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-07-08
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Edge of Darkness
Overview: A Hong Kong cop's first undercover assignment sends him on a psychological downward spiral, unable to separate his two identities after unearthing a connection between his supervisor and the crime syndicate he's investigating.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-11-17
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Call of the Sea
Overview: The son of the town bully lusts after a local beauty in this action-filled thriller of the passions and violence to be found in a fishing village.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-10-30
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Blood in Snow
Overview: A behind the scenes story of a small time folk opera troupe and other performers in Northern China in the 1930s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-01-24
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None But the Brave
Overview: Story is about how a revolutionist, played by Cheng Pei Pei, taking on the identity of a Captain's (Ou Wei) long lost sister who is actually dead. Cheng manages to fool the Captain for a while, but little by little, the Captain catches on to her and the revolutionist's plan to stop Chinese-Japanese relations.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-05-09
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The Crisis
Overview: The Crisis is a Hong Kong Action movie starring Sammo Hung in a child role
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-10-29
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Seaman No. 7
Overview: When a sailor accidentally kills a Japanese man in a bar room brawl, he tries to escape the law by hiding himself in a freighter heading for Japan only to find himself in the middle of a massive drug war.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-04-20
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The Eunuch
Overview: This rare release is set in the cloistered halls of the imperial palace, the home to many ghostly stories of wrongful deaths and lonely spirits, amidst the quiet shuffles of the eunuchs. Pai Ying stars as the titular eunuch, a powerhungry official who is willing to go to any extent to achieve his nefarious goals.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-05-12
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The Shadow Whip
Overview: This top ten box office hit reunites the star duo from Come Drink With Me in another classic action adventure. Cheng Pei-pei radiates her trademark charm while wielding the deadly title weapon, which is implicated in multiple murders and a major heist. Whether single-handedly fighting sixteen bandits or avenging her father's brutal death, she demonstrates why she was Hong Kong's number one swordswoman and no slouch with the whip either!
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-08-06
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Jurang Bahaya
Overview: Jurang Bahaya film is a Malay film which was published in Malaysia in 1968. Jurang Bahaya issued in the form of black and white film without color .Jurang Bahaya film directed by director Low Wai in 1968 .
Genres: Action
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
Overview: A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found. With no further instructions, he decides to take in the sights of Hong Kong, which consist of him taking part in a great deal of blood, sex and general weirdness, all while wearing a briefcase handcuffed to his arm.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Fist of Fury
Overview: Chen Chen returns to his former school in Shanghai when he learns that his beloved instructor has been murdered. While investigating the man's death, Chen discovers that a rival Japanese school is operating a drug smuggling ring. To avenge his master’s death, Chen takes on both Chinese and Japanese assassins… and even a towering Russian.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-03-22
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The Magic Lamp
Overview: Adapted from one of China's most well-known fairy tales, the Goddess of Mount Hua falls in love with a young mortal scholar Liu Yanchang and gives birth to a baby son, Chenxiang. When Chenxiang grows up, he seeks to unravel the mystery surrounding his mother whom he has never met.
Genres: Drama Music Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-01-23
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Romance of the Forbidden City
Overview: Hong Kong drama directed by Wong Tin-Lam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-10-08
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The Tender Trap of Espionage
Overview: Spy films had always been popular in Chinese-language cinema, with stories set mostly in WWII or the warlord era. The Tender Trap of Espionage, made two years before Dr. No (1962) which kickstarted the Bond film craze, is a story of intrigue between spies and counterspies within the Japanese Occupation force. The film was shot in Taiwan, offering unique visages, with cat-and-mouse mind games set in motion against trust, betrayal and seduction. Based on the British film The Two-Headed Spy (1958), future action maestro Chang Cheh wrote the script while husband-and-wife team Lo Wei and Lau Leung-wah star together as agents, with Lo doubling as director.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-05-10
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Heiße Ware aus Hong Kong
Overview: Made for German TV documentary about the early craze of Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema. While critical on the subject and not too well informed, it nevertheless offers some interesting insights into the Hong Kong film industry of that days.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Maria Yi: My Recollection
Overview: Documentary about Maria Yi recalling her film work in the 1970s, particularly with Bruce Lee.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Black Butterfly
Overview: Lau Leung-wah plays the titled character, a Chinese Robin Hood who robs the rich to help the poor. She is an early Republican Era Mulan, who switches effortlessly between charming gentility and agile ferocity, and Lau personifies her character's duality with a balance of grace and vigour. Chang Cheh, on the verge of fostering seismic changes in cinema with his martial-arts machismo, pens a script that captures the spirit of changing Chinese womanhood, underscored by a conflict between Black Butterfly and her father, a veteran detective.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-12-15
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Sweet Memories
Overview: This is a 1952 Hong Kong drama film directed by Bu Wancang, Kuang-Chi Tu, Wang Yin and Shankun Zhang. It stars Chou Man-Hua and Li Li-Hua.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1952-11-29
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Jackie Chan: My Story
Overview: Jackie Chan is one of the world's biggest action stars, famed for his wacky sense of humor, remarkable martial arts techniques, and willingness to perform incredible stunts without the use of doubles -- or a net. This video takes a personal look at Chan as he works on screen projects in Hollywood and Beijing and candidly discusses his life and work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-17
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Little Lotus
Overview: Chou Tsai-ken, a young carpenter, falls in love with a country girl, Little Lotus Chin Ho-hua. Although he has her father's consent to marry her, he lacks means to support a wife. One day, Little Lotus' beauty catches the eye of Shen Tzu-Kuei, only son of the Governor and a good-for-nothing young man keen on sensual pleasures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-07-26
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Four Brave Ones
Overview: During the Japanese invasion of China, medical students Sun Yang (Chang Yang) and Xu Ruomei (Bai Luming) pretend to be a doctor and his wife to engage in intelligence work behind enemy lines.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-10-18
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Sorrows of the Forbidden City
Overview: The film focused on a conflict between Empress Dowager Cixi, her son Guangxi (the nominal emperor) and his wife, Zhenfei.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1948-11-10
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The Hurricane
Overview: An action film directed by Wei Lo.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1972-07-12
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