Lisa Chiao Chiao
Also Known As: 焦姣
Biography: Chiao Li Na or Lisa Chiao Chiao, often credited Chiao Chiao (Chinese: 焦姣; pinyin: Jiāo Jiāo; born 6 March 1943), is a Taiwanese film actress best known for her work in Hong Kong cinema. She was employed by the Shaw Studios between 1966 and 1972, where she appeared in films such as A Cause to Kill in 1970.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hubei, China
Birthday: May 01, 1943
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Righteous Fist
Overview: Taiwanese martial arts film by Wang Hung-Chang.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Bishonen
Overview: Jet is a gay hustler who one night spots a young man walking with a woman, and falls for him instantly. He does some research, and discovers that the man is called Sam, and is an apparently straight policeman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1998-08-14
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The Twelve Gold Medallions
Overview: While a brave Chinese general and his men fight against the Tartar invaders, several swordsmen try to obtain twelve golden medallions on whose possession depends the future of the Song dynasty.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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In the Line of Duty 4
Overview: Two detectives who are up to their necks in trouble and in each other's face, as they try to shut down a drug-trafficking scheme that could be connected with international ties to organized crime. But in the midst of their investigation, innocent immigrant dock worker Luk Wan-Ting gets caught up in the mix when he witnesses the murder of an intelligence operative and is framed for the crime.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-07-21
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Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
Overview: Eight demon swordsmen and their gang have spread menace across many sword teaching schools. The students seek the help of Fang who alone can combat them. Will Fang take up the challenge.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-02-28
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The Dragon Family
Overview: Rival Triad gangs go to war...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-08-25
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The System
Overview: Inspector Chan is determined to crack a drug syndicate. He gets the goods on family man and drug addict/dealer Tam, and convinces him to become an informer. However, Tam betrays Chan and lets him down more than once. Chan persists with Tam, despite strong pressure from his skeptical superiors.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1979-12-12
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Song of Dong-xian
Overview: A TV movie and part of groundbreaking Taiwan TV series “Eleven Women”
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-12-12
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Ah-Kuei
Overview: A TV movie and part of groundbreaking Taiwan TV series “Eleven Women”
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-10-17
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The One-Armed Swordsman
Overview: A noble swordsman, whose arm had been chopped off, returns to his former teacher to defend him from a villainous gang of rival swordsmen.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-07-26
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The Assassin
Overview: Yu is a two-armed swordsman who is betrayed by a jealous rival, but initially seeks a life of simple pleasures until an accidental meeting with another patriot sets him back on the road to bloody, brutal vengeance.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1967-12-22
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Blood of the Dragon
Overview: White Dragon must get a list with the names of rebel supporters to Prince Ma Tung, the leader of the rebellion. Trying to stop him in his mission is the evil Prime Minister, who naturally wants the list in order to crush his opposition. Adding another complication is the fact that Ma Tung wants to kill White Dragon in revenge for the humiliation Tung's father suffered in a duel against White Dragon years earlier.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-12-08
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Fury of Shaolin Fist
Overview: Four top kung fu stars join forces in this brilliant adaption of the Chivalrous Robber. Lee San the Swallow, a Chinese Robin Hood, who stole from the corrupt official to help the down trodden. Fantastic fist to face action in this action packed golden oldie.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-01
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From Dusk Till Dawn
Overview: An anti-communist propaganda film by CMPC
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-07-19
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The Trail of the Broken Blade
Overview: Chivalrous swordsman Jun-zhao goes in search of a fugitive named Li Yueh in order to reunite him with his love, Liu Xian. Though the two men meet and become loyal brothers, Li does not reveal his true identity until Jun-zhao's life is endangered by swordsmen from Flying Fish Island who are looking for revenge.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-03-04
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Vengeance of a Snow Girl
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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Bet on Fire
Overview: Cherie Chung and Cheung Man are two young women forced into a life of prostitution. Mostly, it's a sensitive melodrama about loyality and female bonding.
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Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-06-04
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Prince of Tears
Overview: A shameful period in Taiwanese history provides the backdrop for this emotional drama from writer and director Yonfan (aka Yang Fan). In 1949, in the wake of the 228 Incident (in which anti-government protesters launched a rebellion that was violently put down by authorities), Taiwan came under martial law, and through much of the 1950s brutal reprisals against suspected communists were commonplace. During the years of the "White Terror," thousand of supposed dissidents were killed, imprisoned or simply disappeared at the hands of the military police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-06-25
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The Silent Swordsman
Overview: A young swordsman is tasked to lead a patriotic secret society to fight a traitorous general who conspired with the enemy to invade their country. In due course, he meets two pretty sisters from a rural tribe and is caught between the affections of the two girls...
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-09-13
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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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Big City Little Romance
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Hiroshima 28
Overview: Filmed on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Hiroshima 28 was the first all-Hong Kong crew to make a feature in Japan. Lung Kong anchors a bittersweet melodrama in the historical milieu in the months following the horrific events of August 6, 1945. Josephine Siao—a star whose career had become synonymous with the filmmaker’s work over the past decade—plays a young tour guide to a Hong Kong reporter researching the tragic effects of the atom bomb, their journey forming an odyssey through the city’s ruins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-04-11
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Rhythm of Destiny
Overview: Two brothers Ah B and Dee live in two different worlds. Ah B decides to quit his smuggling business for a new life, but accidentally involves the innocent Dee into the smuggling case.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-04-01
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Red and Black
Overview: In 1941, during the Japanese occupation of mainland China, a man is infected by a Japanese vampire soldier. He manages to climb in to an underground cavern where he impales himself with a wooden stake. 25 years later, after the Mao communist Revolution, he's inadvertently ressurected by his unsuspecting son and returns long enough to infect the people's leader.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Seven Warriors
Overview: In the early 1920's of China, seven former soldiers band together to defend a helpless village against a group of vicious bandits in this Hong Kong remake of Seven Samurai.
Genres: Action Crime Drama War
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-06-24
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Dark Rendezvous
Overview: Private eye Chang Wen Chiang receives a telephone call from his girlfriend Li Lan Hsing. He rushes over and finds her dying in a pool of blood.
Genres: Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-12-11
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Coolie Killer
Overview: Ko leads a team of Hong Kong assassins that are taken out one by one. Ko manages to flee to the countryside, where he aims to find out who's behind this and to gain the strength to fight back. Helping him is local girl Tong, whilst chasing Ko is the long arm of the law, represented by cop Chung.
Genres: Action Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-06-30
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Thank You Sir
Overview: Lee Ying, who is the chief inspector of Regional Crime Unit, is newly promoted to Royal Hong Kong Police Cadet School as Deputy Commandant. He confronts a group of youngsters of different social backgrounds, turning them into self-disciplinary and self-contained young men.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-08-19
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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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Love in a Fallen City
Overview: Taking place in 1941, Love in a Fallen City centers on Pai, a young woman who has been ostracized by her family for divorcing her rich husband. A local match-maker, Mrs. Hsu, takes pity on Pai and decides to bring her to Hong Kong, under the guise of employing her as the Hsu's nanny, but in reality to introduce her to Fan. Pai and Fan seem to hit it off, but Fan's refusal to marry Pai soon sours things. However, as the Japanese begin to invade Hong Kong, the two begin to realize their true feelings for each other.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1984-08-02
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Heads for Sale
Overview: This tale is about a decapitating swordswoman who will let nothing stand in her way when she falls in love with a bandit's son. Chiao Chiao, made famous in One-Armed Swordsman, is the girl who won't let such trifles as craniums keep her from freeing her man from jail.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-05-06
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Songfest
Overview: The story centers on the passionate and turbulent romance between a tea-picker girl, Yu Lan, and a fisherman, Chun Yang.Complications soon arise when a love rival, Hu San Bao, appears.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-02-19
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The Ghost Story
Overview: An old man of the village tells kinky ghost stories to a few of it's inhabitants after all the kids have gone to bed. What follows are stories that have horror elements and some soft-core nudity thrown in.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-05-25
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A Cause to Kill
Overview: Ivy Ling Po, star of The Temple of the Red Lotus, tears up the screen as a jealous, murderous movie star, who, like seemingly all "film noir" vixens, wants to kill off her husband. While she's infuriated that the hitman she hires bungles the job, she's delighted that her husband is found guilty for the killer's "murder".
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-01-15
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Gun Brothers
Overview: Welcome the "Bandit with a Thousand Faces" to the ranks of the great screen "outlaw heroes". Like Zorro, he uses a secret identity as a playboy to foil tyrannical Shan Yung county authorities. Bringing this swashbuckling adventure to the screen is a cast and crew fairly bursting with talent - including directors who were also popular actors and writers, and an actor (Ling Yun) - playing the lead dual role of twin brothers - who was also the director/ writer of some of the greatest martial art epics ever made!
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-02-21
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Police Story 2
Overview: The Hong Kong super-cop must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1988-08-13
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Family Honor
Overview: Norman Law directed this Hong Kong gangster film about siblings joined by a common enemy. Tao is a ruthless loan shark, whose brother, Fu Sai Hang, is the captain of the local police. When the mob guns down Tao, his brother becomes a vigilante out for revenge. Aided by his capable girlfriend, Hor-Yee, the captain brings down the villains in an explosive finale.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1990-05-24
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Why Me?
Overview: The tragic story of Fat Cat, a mentally retarded man who endures the mistreatment of the local villagers, and Koko, the idealistic social worker who tries to give him a better life. Koko's battle against ignorance and apathy on Fat Cat's behalf takes its toll on them both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1985-10-29
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Heartbeat 100
Overview: A Fiction Writer and her sister travel to the country to work on a new novel. But, local thugs and a murder complicate matters.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1987-05-21
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Good Take!
Overview: GOOD TAKE is an omnibus of five short stories with 85 minutes duration, filled with suspense, surprise etc. The ending of each story is never what it seems….
Genres: Comedy Drama Horror
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2016-04-14
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Kano
Overview: A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-27
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The Reincarnation of Golden Lotus
Overview: A woman is cursed with beauty in China and becomes prey for men. Raped by the prefect of her ballet school and sent to work camp, she escapes to decadent Hong Kong by marrying a wealthy banker. She finds herself drawn to sadomasochistic affairs and in flashbacks discovers she is the reincarnation of a famous courtesan of ancient China.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-09-21
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Dragon Blows
Overview: It starts out in rip roaring fashion, with our heroine (genre veteran Chiao Chiao) watching an out of control man rip the bodice from a struggling farm girl. Incensed by this brutality and no doubt offended by the film's one and only topless scene, she rams her fist through a brick wall and kills the man with her distinctive 'dragon blow'. Enter the film's male hero, her brother, who scolds his sister for using this deadly and forbidden weapon. The story then commences in earnest, as brother and sister end up protecting a poor orphan girl who has a valuable jade necklace that a nefarious criminal syndicate is desperate to obtain. Much mayhem ensues, though the film remains chaste and relatively bloodless after its promising beginning.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Mr. Smart
Overview: Smart (Kent Cheng), a sailor, returns from sea to his family to help with the family business and raise money for repairs, also teach people about love
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-03-03
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Massage Girls
Overview: The film deals with the struggles of the workers and clients of a Hong Kong massage parlor.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1976-09-23
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The Sheep on the Way Home
Overview: A heartwarming story about an old man who adopts two orphans. The three make a living by performing puppet shows and acrobatics on the streets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Nina
Overview: In Nina, Lung Kong explores the yet-to-be trendy discipline of psychology.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-29
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Consolidated Dougherty
Overview: Taiwanese adventure film that reunites Ivy Ling Po with ex-Shaw stars Ching Li and Lisa Chiao Chiao.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-07-01
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Bronze Head and Steel Arm
Overview: A debt-ridden martial artist is forced to work for a gangster, who then murders his family.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-08-31
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The Hero
Overview: A village under the thumb of a band of thugs recruits a hero to help fight them off.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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The Iron Hero
Overview: A police inspector goes to war with a Hong Kong drug cartel, who then kidnaps his son.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Mr. Sunshine
Overview: Shop assistant in the electronics store, May Bao (Kent Cheng) - good-natured fat man, always ready to help those who need it. Therefore, he decides to help the new store employee, a fat Shan (Maria Cordero), which the evil boss (Richard Ng) forced to jump on the trampoline to the delight of visitors. His plan fails miserably, and Mai Bao, along with Shan, is fired-but the cheerful Mai Bao is accustomed to seeing positive in absolutely any situation.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1989-07-13
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The Black Forest
Overview: A musical set in a logging village in Taiwan. Romance and singing abound as a logger and a pretty girl from the village fall in love. A villain is there to make sure that the course of true love does not run smoothly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-09-19
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Forgive And Forget
Overview: Alice returns to Hong Kong from Taiwan with great sadness. Two weeks ago, Alice's boyfriend ANDY (Andy On) passed away in an automobile accident. A month before the accident, Alice found out Andy has been cheating and decided to break off their relationship. Alice never thought the day they broke up would also be the last time she saw him. Alice is back in Hong Kong after receiving an invitation for a memorial service that Andy's friends are holding in his memory. During her stay, she moves into Andy's home, their home. Alice is familiar with every table, every chair, every cranny and nook, but now, it's no longer theirs or Andy's, she spends her day retracing their past in pain.
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Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2008-08-28
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