Wong Ching-Ho

Wong Ching-Ho

Born: September 23, 1919
Died: January 1, 2013
in Xiamen, Fujian Province, China
Ching Ho Wang was born on September 23, 1919 in Fujian, China. He is an actor, known for Corpse Mania (1981), The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978) and Vengeance! (1970) Died 2013

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Title: 撞到正 / 情定阴阳界
Character: 王伯
Released: July 7, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: The Great General
Released: November 7, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Heroic Legend of The Yang'S Family
Released: September 26, 1994
Type: TV
Yang Yanzhao was betrayed by Pang Long and died in battle. Yanzhao's son Yang Zongbao confronted Pang Long Gongtang, and the two insisted on each other, and Yin Bao Zheng of Kaifeng Prefecture designed to have Pang Long personally write down the crime, and Pang Long was sentenced to dragon head ginseng. The bereaved Taishi Pang Xiong swore to kill Bao Zheng and the Yang family general, and the Yang family would join Bao Zheng to fight against Pang Taishi...
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The Musical Vampire
Title: The Musical Vampire
Character: Uncle Deaf
Released: September 4, 1992
Type: Movie
A crazy white scientist resurrects a corpse with a werid chemical creating a super hopping ghost. The only thing that can somewhat control it is the sound of music. A Tao Priest and his two assistants try and stop it from destroying the countryside.
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The Banquet
Title: The Banquet
Released: November 30, 1991
Type: Movie
Developer Tsang Siu-Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung has secured the other two properties. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.
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Spiritual Trinity
Title: Spiritual Trinity
Character: Old Master
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Two ghostexterminators have been married for many years. But they encounter a ghost they can not manage on their own and therefore ask the wife's old boyfriend for help. This leads to a love triangle while the ghost is stronger than they had imagined.
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Temptation Summary
Title: Temptation Summary
Character: Richy Suen
Released: November 15, 1990
Type: Movie
Confirmed bachelor Man Suen, a university professor, must get married by the age of 35 otherwise he and his playboy brother Ray Suen won't inherit his father's fortune of 50 million dollars which will then go to his uncle. He is unaware that his colleague, the prim Miss Cheung, is in love with him and that she dreams of being rescued by her super-costumed hero. His brother has met a young heiress and his uncle has hired a sexy siren to prevent his marriage. This is the setting for the three lead actresses to display a surprising amount of softcore nudity and they are very attractive eye candy
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Long Arm of the Law IV: Underground Express
Title: Long Arm of the Law IV: Underground Express
Released: June 5, 1990
Type: Movie
The final entry in Michael and Johnny Mak's Long Arm of the Law series, Underground Express once again tells a story of gangsters versus police, focusing on the difference between how both factions act depending if they're coming from Hong Kong or Mainland China.
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The Crazy Companies
Title: The Crazy Companies
Character: Old employee
Released: March 27, 1988
Type: Movie
A rivalry between two brothers causes chaos through out the business world. Can the good brother defeat his greedy elder brother at his own game? Only Wong Jing and his usual cronies can sort out this mess with hysterical results and oddball humor
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Chatter Street Killer
Title: Chatter Street Killer
Character: Uncle Shih
Released: March 17, 1988
Type: Movie
A cross between Rear Window and The Blues Brothers! A group of gossipy neighbours witness a murder through an open window. Dopey mainland cop Lo Yau Dai investigates by going in undercover as a new tenant.
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Devil and the Ghostbuster
Title: Devil and the Ghostbuster
Released: January 28, 1988
Type: Movie
Beautiful Wan Wen Zheng plays a ghost bent on revenge. Originally killed while being raped, she gives supernatural fighting powers to a Kung Fu boxerin this rather slow, atmospheric, serious film.
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Twisted Love
Title: Twisted Love
Character: Ma's Business Partner
Released: September 26, 1985
Type: Movie
A wealthy businessman gives his wife everything she wants, besides one thing, a passionate sex life. The sexually frustrated woman soon gets into several other relationships and soon also learns why her husband is so uninterested with her in bed.
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Disciples of the 36th Chamber
Title: Disciples of the 36th Chamber
Character: Shiyu's Teacher
Released: May 17, 1985
Type: Movie
Monk San Te tries to support and protect Shaolin and her Fang Shih-yu who purposely attacks corrupt Ching officials.
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The Master Strikes Back
Title: The Master Strikes Back
Character: Teacher
Released: January 19, 1985
Type: Movie
In The Master Strikes Back, Hong Kong's Steadicam pioneering director Sun Chung brings back legendary Ti Lung to play famous weapons instructor Tung Tieh-cheng, who is invited to teach a Ching official's soldiers, in this unofficial sequel to The Kung-fu Instructor. But after his son is kidnapped and castrated what follows is a chaotic, human whirlwind of slicing and dicing compliments of the highly touted martial arts director and one of Jackie Chan's kung-fu classmates, Yuan Te.
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The Young Vagabond
Title: The Young Vagabond
Character: Bank clerk
Released: January 2, 1985
Type: Movie
A martial artist must train incessantly to defeat the brutally powerful thief called Centipede.
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Secret Service of the Imperial Court
Title: Secret Service of the Imperial Court
Character: Official Wang Yun
Released: October 19, 1984
Type: Movie
Secret Service of the Imperial Court was one of the last kung fu/swordplay films to be made at Hong Kong's Shaw Bros. studio. Set in the Ming Dynasty, it makes excellent use of the studio's vast array of sprawling sets and colorful costumes to give a real period flavor. It has a good cast, lots of large-scale fight action and an exciting storyline about a conflict between an honorable officer and a corrupt Eunuch.
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Love in a Fallen City
Title: Love in a Fallen City
Character: Pai's family servant
Released: August 2, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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Opium and the Kung Fu Master
Title: Opium and the Kung Fu Master
Character: Villager
Released: July 14, 1984
Type: Movie
A small town is protected by one of the famous Ten Tigers of Kwangtung. The town is very safe as Ti Lung and his Kung Fu students patrol for criminals. Enter the rival Kung Fu school whom Ti Lung's students have beaten in a lion dance competition and then humiliated in a brawl. The rival school is joined by an opium dealing Kung Fu master who plans to turn the town into a community of addicts!
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Wits of the Brats
Title: Wits of the Brats
Character: Restaurant boss
Released: May 24, 1984
Type: Movie
Tou Kuan, a spoiled affluent kid, travels with pal Mai Song to Beijing to challenge 3 Masters to improve Kuan's status. Along the way, they contend with inept assassins hired by Kuan's uncle, who wants the family business and fortune.
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The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
Title: The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter
Character: Innkeeper
Released: February 17, 1984
Type: Movie
The Yangs are betrayed by a government official conspiring with the Mongols. All of the Yang family males except the 5th and 6th brother are killed. Fu Sheng loses his mind after the death of his family, while the other brother takes refuge in a Buddhist temple.
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Seeding of a Ghost
Title: Seeding of a Ghost
Character: Guest at Fong's Home
Released: December 29, 1983
Type: Movie
A Hong Kong taxi driver suffers after being cursed by a sorcerer he accidentally hit with his cab. After the driver's wife is raped and killed by teenage hooligans, he pleads with the sorcerer to lift the hex and restore his wife to the land of the living. Otherworldly zombie chaos ensues.
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Men from the Gutter
Title: Men from the Gutter
Character: Wang's informer
Released: October 15, 1983
Type: Movie
A hot-head cop, a by-the-books cop, and a hitman all vie to take down a drug boss. Meanwhile, a gang of criminals plan to rob an armored truck.
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Shaolin Intruders
Title: Shaolin Intruders
Released: October 6, 1983
Type: Movie
On a routine courier mission, the prestigious Chin Hu chief was murdered by four mysterious monks. When all evidence points to Ching Hua, his friend Lei Hsin is determined to clear his name by barging in the Shaolin Temple thrice, and gets intwined in an intricate web of deception!
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Bastard Swordsman
Title: Bastard Swordsman
Character: Guardian of the Law (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1983
Type: Movie
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.
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Let's Make Laugh
Title: Let's Make Laugh
Character: Yeungi's Neighbour
Released: September 2, 1983
Type: Movie
The cheating husband goes bankrupt, and his house is soon to be taken by the government. A security guard is assigned to guard it while the husband goes missing. However, only the mistress stays alone in the house. Will the lonely, handsome guard and the sexy, heartbroken mistress hook up?
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Shaolin & Wu Tang
Title: Shaolin & Wu Tang
Released: July 7, 1983
Type: Movie
Master Liu and Master Law are rival masters of Shaolin style kung fu, and Wudang style sword fighting, running schools in the same city. Their top students, Chao Fung-wu, and Hung Jun-kit, are actually close friends. After observing the two students fighting at a brothel, the Lord determines that the two styles are dangerous, and he must learn both.
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Holy Flame of the Martial World
Title: Holy Flame of the Martial World
Character: Tu, the Snake Catcher
Released: June 10, 1983
Type: Movie
This internationally popular tale of a brother and sister seeking vengeance for the death of their parents through the mythical yin/yang Holy Flame technique is an eye-filling epic. Kuo Chue (a.k.a. Philip Kwok), famous as the star of Chang Cheh's internationally famous "Venom" film series, both co-stars and choreographs this impressive tale - leading to a vaunted "action director" career with both the 007 thriller Tomorrow Never Dies and the cult classic Brotherhood of the Wolf to his credit.
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The Lady Is the Boss
Title: The Lady Is the Boss
Character: Wah Chaing Martial Arts Ass. member
Released: March 31, 1983
Type: Movie
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.
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Title: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Character: Drunkard at UFO site
Released: February 12, 1983
Type: Movie
This is an extremely rare example of science fiction, Hong Kong style, but, fittingly, it's unlike any sci-fi flick you've ever seen. Alien abductions, suicide pacts, superstardom, and the reality of science fiction itself is spotlighted in this bright, crazy, truly out of this world epic -- one of the more unusual movies in the Hong Kong cinema of the early 1980s. And if you know 80's Hong Kong cinema at all, you know that's really saying something!
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The Weird Man
Title: The Weird Man
Character: Taoist Priest
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Chang is known for his lone swordsman and hero movies and strangely The Weird Man still reflects this. Cheng plays a righteous, beheaded priest with supernatural powers that returns from the dead to wreak havoc against one of the corrupt kingdoms, making Cheng a heroic swords-ghost.
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My Rebellious Son
Title: My Rebellious Son
Character: Temple keeper
Released: November 26, 1982
Type: Movie
Here Chang Siu Tai is the son of Master Chang, a renowned chiropractor bone-setter operating a clinic in a poor neighborhood in an unidentified city in early 20th century China. Siu Tai works for his father and studies bone-setting and kung fu under him, but gets into lots of trouble, especially after white foreigners and their westernized Chinese enablers descend on the town in hopes of acquiring a valuable statue of the Goddess of Mercy on display at a local Buddhist temple.
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Cat vs. Rat
Title: Cat vs. Rat
Character: Minister Huang
Released: September 29, 1982
Type: Movie
Pai 'The Rat' always gets into trouble with Chan 'The Cat'. They always try to outsmart each other even when it threatens the lives of other people.
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Curse of Evil
Title: Curse of Evil
Character: Butler Uncle Quan
Released: September 15, 1982
Type: Movie
13 family members are murdered and then dumped in a well. 30 years later their descendants are cursed...
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The Fake Ghost Catchers
Title: The Fake Ghost Catchers
Character: Old Master Lin
Released: July 30, 1982
Type: Movie
This delightful action comedy came out a full two years before Ghostbusters premiered. Coincidence? You be the judge. Whatever the inspiration, nothing can compare to this amazing showcase of wushu and wizardry as one of the best all-star fighting casts take on spectres, spirits, and phantoms as well as each other.
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Human Lanterns
Title: Human Lanterns
Character: Old Tsui
Released: July 14, 1982
Type: Movie
A psychotic craftsman pits two rival Kung-Fu masters against each other while designing special lanterns from a disturbing source.
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Hex After Hex
Title: Hex After Hex
Character: Uncle Wong
Released: June 23, 1982
Type: Movie
Hell may have no fury like a woman scorned, but hell, literally, really has no wrath like a lusting ghost scorned! Muscular "Venom" Lo Mang discovers just that when the demon arranges to have his true love killed in order to possess her. Chaos, revenge, insanity, violence, tragedy, and even romance ensue. Director Kuei Chih-hung, already famous for Bamboo House of Dolls, Killer Snakes, Ghost Eyes, Corpse, Hex, and many other cult classics, shoots the works with this amazing horror love story.
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Hell Has No Boundary
Title: Hell Has No Boundary
Character: Ban Xian
Released: June 4, 1982
Type: Movie
Story revolves around a possessed young police woman who seems to be out killing everyone who gets in her way. Her boyfriend, photographer and boss at work are all suspicious of her and are out to find out what's the problem. With a story focusing on possession, vengeful spirits and murder, you're steadily entertained with a flick that manages to keep it's head above water.
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Brave Archer and His Mate
Title: Brave Archer and His Mate
Character: Priest Wang
Released: February 25, 1982
Type: Movie
Guo Jing and Huang Rong return to Peach Blossom Island and are shocked to see that Guo's first martial arts teachers, the "Seven Freaks of Jiangnan", have all been murdered except for Ke Zhen'e. Guo Jing is tricked into believing that Huang Rong's father, Huang Yaoshi, is responsible for the murders and he attempts to avenge his teachers by fighting Huang Yaoshi. The intelligent Huang Rong eventually uncovers the truth and reveals that the murders are actually part of a plot masterminded by Ouyang Feng and Yang Kang. Ouyang and Yang want to make Guo Jing and Huang Yaoshi kill each other and Yang can learn Ouyang's newly mastered skills from the fake copy of the Nine Yin Manual.
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Kid from Kwangtung
Title: Kid from Kwangtung
Character: School clerk
Released: February 7, 1982
Type: Movie
Novice director Hsu Hsia and three other kung-fu designers created this fight-filled tale of young rascal Wang Yu, caught between master martial arts actor Jen Shih-kuan and the incredible Huang Cheng-li.
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Legendary Weapons of China
Title: Legendary Weapons of China
Character: Chief Eunuch Li Lien Ying
Released: January 21, 1982
Type: Movie
Legendary Weapons of China is a martial arts fantasy film taking place during the late Qing Dynasty when Empress Dowager Cixi dispatches her agents to various factions of the Boxer Rebellion in order find supernatural martial artists that are invulnerable to western bullets. When one of the leaders of these groups disbands his forces, assassins from the remaining factions are sent out to kill him.
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What Price Honesty?
Title: What Price Honesty?
Character: Bank customer
Released: December 31, 1981
Type: Movie
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.
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Ambitious Kung Fu Girl
Title: Ambitious Kung Fu Girl
Character: Quiz Host Wu Shou Xin
Released: December 10, 1981
Type: Movie
Spoiled Yuen Si Si, the naive daughter of an affluent merchant, lives her cosseted life dreaming of meeting her idol, the heroic Qin Ge. When her father decides to marry her off, she runs away in search of Qin Ge, with her fiancee in pursuit. What she doesn't realise though is that her kung-fu skills are not what she thinks they are and that the outside world is far less chivalrous that she expected.
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The Duel of the Century
Title: The Duel of the Century
Character: Feng's Servant
Released: October 22, 1981
Type: Movie
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.
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Martial Club
Title: Martial Club
Character: Brothel clerk
Released: August 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Wong Fei Hung and his friend are constantly having contests to see who has the better martial arts skill. After getting in trouble with their fathers, Wong Fei Hung settles down and starts to train seriously, while his friend still horses around. After his friend is hurt by a rival school, Wong goes to the school for retribution. Instead his skill is tested through a series of events which climax with him taking on a Northern martial artist. In an excellent battle of skill, he earns the respect of the rival school. Also stars Mai Te Lo and Hui Ying Hung.
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One Heart One Spirit
Title: One Heart One Spirit
Released: July 31, 1981
Type: Movie
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The Emperor and His Brother
Title: The Emperor and His Brother
Character: Shan Peng
Released: July 19, 1981
Type: Movie
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.
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Murderer Pursues
Title: Murderer Pursues
Character: Uncle Chiu
Released: June 26, 1981
Type: Movie
A fascinating crime saga of a Sino-Vietnamese crime gang. Danny Lee stars as a misunderstood refugee while Ray Lui plays a cop struggling against his own preconceptions to make sure that justice is done.
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Corpse Mania
Title: Corpse Mania
Character: Drunkard
Released: June 3, 1981
Type: Movie
A necrophiliac killer is murdering the prostitutes at Madame Lan's brothel.
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Revenge of the Corpse
Title: Revenge of the Corpse
Character: Zeng's Butler
Released: April 17, 1981
Type: Movie
A story of a coffin maker who tells a story about a policeman who was murdered by his wife and her lover. Eventually released constable loose of some grave robbers, the constables ghost is out to make the lives of all those involved in his death miserable. (A Shaw Brothers production)
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The Sword Stained with Royal Blood
Title: The Sword Stained with Royal Blood
Character: Uncle Muk Shon
Released: March 6, 1981
Type: Movie
Raised to be a righteous martial artist, Yuan kicks off the story proper by finding a cave containing a skeleton, a treasure map, and a manual teaching him the Golden Snake style. Obeying a request hidden in the manual to give a portion of the treasure to the Golden Snake's old girlfriend, Yuan begins to seek the woman out - on the way solving the riddle of the Golden Snake, and how he came to his end.
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The Tiger and the Widow
Title: The Tiger and the Widow
Character: Prison warden
Released: February 25, 1981
Type: Movie
The movie is about an illegal salt smuggling ring run by Tanny and her male partner, who spend most of the movie arguing which one of them is going to sacrifice him/herself and surrender to the police.
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Lion vs. Lion
Title: Lion vs. Lion
Character: Mr. Chen
Released: February 19, 1981
Type: Movie
A teacher comes across a secret list of anti-Ching rebel names and quickly becomes a target for Ching loyalists. The Five Venom's actor Lo Meng teams up with kung-fu comedic actor Wang Yu to bring some of the best lion dancing action footage ever seen on film. The amazing lion dance sequences alone gives this film major historic significance where it's the first time Northern and Southern lion dancing skills are compared.
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Return of the Sentimental Swordsman
Title: Return of the Sentimental Swordsman
Character: Restaurant boss
Released: January 31, 1981
Type: Movie
Li Xunhuan comes back to his home after three years of wandering. He had decided to have a normal life, but a group of skilled martial arts fighters and leaders are bent on killing him, so they can be ranked top by Bai Xiaosheng in his renowned list of the best warriors in the martial arts world. Li Xunhuan battles them as he searches for his estranged friend A'fei, who is now married and living in seclusion. Li asks A'fei to join forces and fight against a new threat that wants to rule the world: the Money Clan.
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A Bride's Nightmare
Title: A Bride's Nightmare
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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My Young Auntie
Title: My Young Auntie
Character: Ah Choi
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Cheng, a beautiful martial arts ace, battles to keep her inheritance from the ruthless Yun Wei, but her efforts are sabotaged by Yu Tao, her wayward and irrepressible great-nephew. Following a frenzy of spectacular comic mishaps, the hapless duo are setup and imprisoned and the deeds to Cheng's estate are stolen. She is held hostage after a doomed attempt to reclaim the papers back from Yu Wei's place, and the stage is set for a savage fight to the death.
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Lost Souls
Title: Lost Souls
Released: November 26, 1980
Type: Movie
Determined to escape from the harsh regime of China to the freedom of Hong Kong, three youths are captured by Mr. Hok, a sadistic human smuggler who subjects them to an unrelenting assault of degradation. Pushed to the limits of human endurance, the prisoners must fight for their lives in an unforgettable, action-packed climax.
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Lost Souls
Title: Lost Souls
Character: Villager
Released: November 26, 1980
Type: Movie
Determined to escape from the harsh regime of China to the freedom of Hong Kong, three youths are captured by Mr. Hok, a sadistic human smuggler who subjects them to an unrelenting assault of degradation. Pushed to the limits of human endurance, the prisoners must fight for their lives in an unforgettable, action-packed climax.
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A Deadly Secret
Title: A Deadly Secret
Character: Martial Artist at Restaurant
Released: September 23, 1980
Type: Movie
A treasure hunt sparks the continuing violence in this Hong Kong action film, yet the film does not focus only on the violent nature of some of the characters. An enamored Ting Tien (Pai Piao) spends a cold winter's night waiting to spot the love of his life, Ling Shuang-hua (Szu Shih), when she makes her usual morning excursion onto her balcony. The theme of his love for her is treated with sensitivity, though his love does not affect the fate in store for both himself and the woman he worships. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
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Return to the 36th Chamber
Title: Return to the 36th Chamber
Character: Uncle Li
Released: August 24, 1980
Type: Movie
The workers of a dye factory have their pay cut by 20% when the factory owner brings in some Manchu thugs to try and increase production. Desperate to reclaim their full wages, the workers hire an actor to impersonate a priest and kung-fu expert from the temple of Shaolin. The factory owner proves the actor a fraud, and punishes all those involved. The young actor feels he has let the workers down, and promises to atone. He sets out for Shaolin, determined to be accepted as a kung-fu pupil at the elite temple.
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Heroes Shed No Tears
Title: Heroes Shed No Tears
Character: Blind Beggar
Released: July 24, 1980
Type: Movie
Kao is given a mission by his elderly master to take a cursed sword and solve petty squabbles between skilled martial masters.
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Hex
Title: Hex
Character: Taoist Priest
Released: July 9, 1980
Type: Movie
Constantly mistreated by her cruel husband, the frail Chan Sau-ying awaits certain death from tuberculosis. The new servant girl, Yi-wah takes pity on her mistress' plight and the pair proceed to drown him one evening. They dump his body in a near-by pond but Sau-ying believes that the man's bloated corpse has risen from the bog to seek vengeance.
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The Kid with a Tattoo
Title: The Kid with a Tattoo
Character: Uncle Zhao
Released: June 17, 1980
Type: Movie
One of Shaw Brothers' most productive directors, Sun Chung's action films had strong tension, snappy editing and slow motion which influenced up and coming martial arts director John Woo. Starring kung-fu comedienne Wang Yu, a ballistic kid on a mission to clear his father's name, The Kid With A Tattoo features plentiful ripsnorting martial arts by Jackie Chan's long time kung-fu classmates Yuen Hua and Yuan Pin, and Shaw Brothers' best martial arts fighting villain Wang Lung-wei.
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The Master
Title: The Master
Character: Restaurant Boss
Released: May 23, 1980
Type: Movie
Although injured, a martial-arts expert teaches an orphan his methods.
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Coward Bastard
Title: Coward Bastard
Character: Uncle Wang
Released: May 2, 1980
Type: Movie
The plot is a trifle about an obnoxious restaurant delivery boy causing trouble with some local bad guys for the cook who secretly knows kung fu, eventually learning some techniques and finally, with the cook, confronting the bad guys.
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The Flag of Iron
Title: The Flag of Iron
Character: Mr. Hu
Released: February 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Loyal gang member Iron Panther takes the heat for his boss after a dustup with their rivals, only to end up betrayed in this vintage kung fu yarn.
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Heaven and Hell
Title: Heaven and Hell
Character: Poor Man in Hell
Released: January 18, 1980
Type: Movie
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
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Ten Tigers of Kwangtung
Title: Ten Tigers of Kwangtung
Character: Chen Wen Jie
Released: December 25, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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Return of the Dead
Title: Return of the Dead
Character: Old Professor
Released: December 21, 1979
Type: Movie
Three inmates in an asylum tell their stories. Story 1, a husband and wife discover they should be careful what they wish for. Story 2, a naked female ghost gets revenge from her watery grave. Story 3, a dead prostitute returns as a ghost.
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The Deadly Breaking Sword
Title: The Deadly Breaking Sword
Character: Conman
Released: December 4, 1979
Type: Movie
Leaving behind an inch of sword in the spent corpses of his opponents, Tuan Changqing is known as the Deadly Breaking Sword. After barely surviving a duel, one of his foes is treated by the diabolical Dr. Kuo, who uses his powers of mind control to transform the man into a somnambulistic killer. After Tuan Changqing teams up with Rabelaisian gambler Xiao Dao, the story proceeds as a comical kung fu buddy flick.
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Mad Monkey Kung Fu
Title: Mad Monkey Kung Fu
Character: Duan's accountant
Released: October 5, 1979
Type: Movie
A disgraced former Kung Fu expert makes a living as a merchant with the help of a hot headed friend. When the men are harassed by gangsters, the merchant decided to teach his friend monkey boxing so they can defend their business.
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The Magnificent Ruffians
Title: The Magnificent Ruffians
Character: Cashier Wang
Released: September 20, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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The Tigress of Shaolin
Title: The Tigress of Shaolin
Character: Uncle Hong
Released: September 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Hui Ying-hung, legendary director Chang Cheh's discovery, and the protege of equally legendary director Liu Chia-liang co-stars with Liu's nephew, Liu Chia-yung in this fast-paced, action packed comedy of kung-fu characters. Liu Chia-yung is saved from drug smugglers by Hui Ying-hung, whose godfather is a drunken master and whose leprous godmother is mistress of the fairly off-putting Leprosy Boxing style.
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Invincible Enforcer
Title: Invincible Enforcer
Character: Uncle
Released: September 10, 1979
Type: Movie
A young man who is thrown into jail simply because he displeases a police inspector. But even when he's eventually released, the police continue to persecute him until he feels he has no choice but to become a real criminal.
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The Ghosts and I
Title: The Ghosts and I
Released: August 24, 1979
Type: Movie
Comedy / fantasy involving ghosts.
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Dirty Ho
Title: Dirty Ho
Character: Man Offering Reward for 11th Prince
Released: August 4, 1979
Type: Movie
A prince enlists a thief to serve as his bodyguard to protect him from assassins.
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The Proud Twins
Title: The Proud Twins
Character: Sheep seller (uncredited)
Released: July 18, 1979
Type: Movie
After his parents are murdered, Jiang Xiao Yu is separated from his twin as a baby and taken by a family friend to Villains Valley, where he is raised to be a villain by a host of outlaws, each of whom has a special skill. When he's old enough, he devises clever means to trap each of his uncles and escape the valley to head off into the outside world. A chance encounter with a beautiful girl dressed as a man leads to a treasure hunt and eventually a confrontation with the Princess of Yi Hua Palace, the one who murdered Xiao's parents in the first place. Eventually, a reunion with his twin will occur.
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A Slice of Death
Title: A Slice of Death
Character: Wang
Released: July 11, 1979
Type: Movie
While international favorite David Chiang was best known for his roles as a grinning, streetwise, fighter in many Chang Cheh-directed classics, he rarely played a noble warrior monk. But here he portrays the great Chih Shim, the monk who saved the Southern Shaolin Temple. Making this production all the more notable is Lo Lieh, Shaws' first international star, who returns to a role he also made famous - that of Shaolin renegade Pai Mei. This, and even more, makes for a true martial arts epic of the first order.
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The Ghost Story
Title: The Ghost Story
Released: May 25, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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The Last Judgement
Title: The Last Judgement
Character: Master Shi
Released: April 5, 1979
Type: Movie
Most of the Liang family are murdered by Ling Guixing and the surviving son Liang Tianlai (Ng Wai-Kwok) wows to bring him to justice. Fighting against corruption in several courts, his only main witness is beggar Afeng but as Ling has people around him willing to bribe and murder, soon Liang is left alone. All up until he meets what seems like the last upstanding official...
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Shaolin Rescuers
Title: Shaolin Rescuers
Character: Dye factory boss
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: Movie
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.
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The Reckless Cricket
Title: The Reckless Cricket
Character: fake master
Released: March 16, 1979
Type: Movie
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Young Lovers
Title: Young Lovers
Character: Mr. Chiu
Released: March 13, 1979
Type: Movie
In the vein of "Romeo And Juliet", Hong Kong style, the small ensemble cast and little-known director Michihko do a big league job with their rendition of "Romeo And Juliet" in "The Young Lovers". Although poor boy (Derek Erh Tung-Sheng) and rich girl (Yu An-An) are from opposite ends of the spectrum, their undying love refuses to let anyone get in their way, including their parents. Shakespeare would be moved.
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The Shadow Boxing
Title: The Shadow Boxing
Character: Bi Ying Heng
Released: February 13, 1979
Type: Movie
Liu Chia-Liang returns to the success of his first directed film, "The Spiritual Boxer", which also stars the original film's bumbling ghost controller, Wang Yu. Hoping to make the lightning of success strike in the same place, Liu had his two brothers Lau Kar Wing and Gordon Liu not only act but also help with the fights. The end result is a martial arts film masterpiece filled with breathtaking action and set pieces.
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The Scandalous Warlord
Title: The Scandalous Warlord
Character: Servant of Garden of Desire
Released: February 9, 1979
Type: Movie
Applauded director Li Han Hsiang was one of few directors who made soft porn acceptable to mainstream audiences using the thematic device of "sex on a mission" cynicism, suggesting that sex was the ultimate power. In the sex comedy "The Scandalous Warlord", the true power behind the country's many warlords was the prostitutes that these men would routinely visit. Therefore, the power in this film lies in the hands of the sassy Shirley Yu and the titillating Shaw Yin Yin.
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Full Moon Scimitar
Title: Full Moon Scimitar
Character: Liu Fu
Released: January 25, 1979
Type: Movie
A talented young swordsman has beaten many veterans before his inherited martial arts manual gets stolen. After encountering his first defeat in life, in despair, he comes across a gorgeous girl, daughter of the head of a mysterious sect.
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Invincible Shaolin
Title: Invincible Shaolin
Character: Master Liang
Released: November 19, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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Mr. Funnybone Strikes Again
Title: Mr. Funnybone Strikes Again
Character: Wanton noodle seller
Released: November 18, 1978
Type: Movie
The beloved king of Hong Kong comic book characters, Old Master Q, is back in live action again by popular demand. This hilarious sequel to Mr Funny-bone finds him, and his delightful sidekick "Big Potato", opening an Old-fashioned healing clinic - leading to a fun and fascinating clash (cultural and otherwise) when the old ways smack face first into ultra-modern Hong Kong. But, this being the great Mr Funny-bone, he triumphs in spite of himself and his large-cranium companion.
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Swordsman and Enchantress
Title: Swordsman and Enchantress
Character: Wine stall keeper (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1978
Type: Movie
Asian fans of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon recognized that its director Ang Lee was actually inspired by director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung's wonderful tales of a "martial art world" where all wushu warriors try to attain the "Deer Sword" and escape from the insidious maze-like "Toy Land." Master kung-fu choreographer Tang Chia leads the king and queen of Shaw's swordplay, Ti Lung and Lily Li, in a fascinating and entertaining adventure of consummate swordmen and sorceresses.
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Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre II
Title: Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre II
Character: Inn-Keeper
Released: October 27, 1978
Type: Movie
The thrills continue in this second part of this cherished adventure, created by the renowned director Chu Yuan and ingenious novelist Chin Yung. Only the union of the title weapons can save the six remaining martial arts sects who are vying for mastery. So just sit back and enjoy the movie event which spawned a legacy that continues even today with a long-running, internationally loved television series, a role-playing game, and even collectible replicas of the Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre themselves!
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Crazy Imposters
Title: Crazy Imposters
Released: September 29, 1978
Type: Movie
A Shaw Brothers production directed by Kuei Chih-hung.
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Sensual Pleasures
Title: Sensual Pleasures
Character: Teahouse Client
Released: August 25, 1978
Type: Movie
Sensual Pleasures features a collection of three, ghost story, sexual vignettes starring a viscerally sensual trio of hardcore experience with the well endowed Chen Ping, Chinese adult film legend Shirley Yu and the innocent doe-eyed Shaw Yin-yin.
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The Five Venoms
Title: The Five Venoms
Character: Constable
Released: August 12, 1978
Type: Movie
A dying master sends his last student to check up on five former pupils, who each know a special style of kung-fu.
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Shaolin Mantis
Title: Shaolin Mantis
Character: Teacher Wong
Released: June 28, 1978
Type: Movie
When scholar Wei Fung is forcibly hired by the Manchu Emperor to infiltrate a clan of rebellious Ming Loyalists, his mission goes adrift when he falls in love with the clan's leader's granddaughter. Wei Fung must choose between his new love and his family, who will be put to death if he doesn't return to the palace successfully.
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The Brave Archer 2
Title: The Brave Archer 2
Character: Senior Pang
Released: May 13, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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Soul of the Sword
Title: Soul of the Sword
Character: Old Stone Carver
Released: April 21, 1978
Type: Movie
Ti Lung is the Nameless Swordsman bent on defeating the faceless King of Swords to claim the title, and the glory, for himself. Hordes of fighters lunge from the shadows to cut down the mysterious challenger. Even a cunning seductress takes a stab at him in a revealing bath house assassination. It is said that a man's weapon reflects his utmost dreams, desires and fears. A warrior with no name and one motive has a soul as merciless as cold steel.
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The Proud Youth
Title: The Proud Youth
Character: Old Man of Green Wood
Released: March 30, 1978
Type: Movie
Sun Chung had made a name for himself directing satirical comedies and modern day crime thrillers when he started exploring the kung-fu genre with this fascinating tale which mixes music and martial arts. Revered choreographer Tang Chia leads a great action cast in a tale of conflicting clans and a mysterious song called "The Proud One" which leads to slowly blossoming love as well as sudden death.
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The Mad Monk Strikes Again
Title: The Mad Monk Strikes Again
Character: Wang's dinner guest
Released: March 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Shaw production
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The Vengeful Beauty
Title: The Vengeful Beauty
Character: Tong Bei Hai
Released: March 11, 1978
Type: Movie
Despite its stand-alone title, this mixture of martial arts and exploitation is a semi-sequel to Shaw Brothers's Flying Guillotine series. This time, the focus is Rong Qui-yan, a kung fu student turned dutiful wife whose life falls apart when her husband is murdered by a squad of government operatives led by the duplicitous Jin Gang-Feng. Qui-yan is forced to go into hiding as she plots her revenge and finds allies in fellow fugitive Ma Seng and ex-lover Wang-jun.
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Clan of Amazons
Title: Clan of Amazons
Character: Old man at West Attic
Released: February 19, 1978
Type: Movie
The Embroidery Bandit is stealing treasures while blinding his victims. The hero Liu Xiaofeng is called in to solve the mystery. The evidence points to the all-woman Clan of the Red Shoes - but appearances can be deceptive.
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The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Title: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Character: Liu Yu-de's Father
Released: February 2, 1978
Type: Movie
The anti-Ching patriots, under the guidance of Ho Kuang-han, have secretly set up their base in Canton, disguised as school masters. During a brutal Manchu attack, Lui manages to escape, and devotes himself to learning the martial arts in order to seek revenge.
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Flying Guillotine II
Title: Flying Guillotine II
Character: Official at palace
Released: January 19, 1978
Type: Movie
The emperor's reign of terror expands. Heroic outlaw Ma Teng joins a squad of female rebels, whose leader is torn between family loyalties.
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Pursuit of Vengeance
Title: Pursuit of Vengeance
Character: Xue Bin's servant
Released: December 22, 1977
Type: Movie
Master of the "swordplay thriller" genre, Chor Yuen and renowned kung-fu choreographer Tang Chia tell the fabulous tale of the "Fastest Swordsman in the World" facing the "1000 Face Devil" and no less than seven murderers.
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Chinatown Kid
Title: Chinatown Kid
Character: Uncle Tang
Released: December 2, 1977
Type: Movie
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.
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Dreams Of Eroticism
Title: Dreams Of Eroticism
Character: Taoist priest
Released: November 18, 1977
Type: Movie
A timeless and titillating tale of the immoral private lives of the royal court's high officials. All the bed and body hopping is not exclusive to the family, either. Their maids and servants get involved as well, leading to flesh, fibs, and suicide, among other things. Taken all together, this is an all-time classic of sumptuous sexuality.
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The Dream of the Red Chamber
Title: The Dream of the Red Chamber
Character: Imperial Edit's accompanying official
Released: October 26, 1977
Type: Movie
Pao-yu is in love with his cousin, Lin Tai-yu, but his family has other marital plans for him that will leave both broken-hearted.
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To Kill a Jaguar
Title: To Kill a Jaguar
Character: Blind Chan
Released: July 23, 1977
Type: Movie
Set in early 20th century Shanghai, this Hua Shan actioner stars former Golden Harvest regular Nora Miao Ke-hsiu as Bobo, a village girl who has journeyed to the big city in search of her father. Not long after her arrival, Bobo witnesses a gang fight dominated by a man she was friends with as a child. Now known as Jaguar, he works as a bodyguard for mob boss Kam, who is having a row with one of his partners. Jaguar makes trouble at one of the man's casinos as a part of a plan to smooth over the situation. Ace gunman Ko Tang is also in town and the two strike up an alliance to take over Kam's empire. Jaguar's lust for power soon alienates Bobo, who realizes that she was simply a pawn in his plan to gain control of the Shanghai underworld. Held a virtual prisoner, Bobo's one hope for revenge is Luo Lie, another friend from childhood and now her fiancee, currently imprisoned in Germany.
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Fangs of the Cobra
Title: Fangs of the Cobra
Character: Accountant Zhang
Released: July 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Young man returns from studying abroad to take over management of the large family farm, and falls for the daughter of a tenant farmer. The unique twist is that her pet, best friend, confidante and protector is a cobra - but he hates snakes because his mother was bitten and killed by one when he was a child.
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The Adventures of Emperor Chien Lung
Title: The Adventures of Emperor Chien Lung
Character: Yangzhou Official
Released: June 3, 1977
Type: Movie
Emperor Chien Lung uses disguises to experience life among his subjects.
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Clans of Intrigue
Title: Clans of Intrigue
Character: Wine seller
Released: March 5, 1977
Type: Movie
Chu Liuxiang is having drinks with his friend, Monk Wuhua. Gong Nanyan of the Holy Water Palace suddenly appears and accuses Chu of having stolen the palace's Heaven's One Holy Water and committed a series of murders. She agrees to give Chu a month's time to clear his name, or else the mistress of the palace will kill him. Chu's curiosity and eagerness to prove his innocence spur him to investigate the case.
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The Criminals, Part 3: Arson
Title: The Criminals, Part 3: Arson
Character: Old Hawker
Released: February 4, 1977
Type: Movie
Part 1 : 'Gun Snatchers' - Two criminals wanted for murder are turned in by one of their own. Part 2: 'Arson' - A Triad revenge plan to burn down a nightclub goes wrong and results in the deaths of five people.
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Murder on the Wedding Night
Title: Murder on the Wedding Night
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
At the wedding feast of Shen Hsiu Chang (Chung Wa), a guest named Tu Fu Liang (Lau Luk Wa) suddenly announces that he had an affair with the bride, Yun Ching . The bridegroom is furious and turns on her. She disappears sadly. The next morning, her headless body is found in a lonely spot. A couple of days later, a hunter named Wu Hsiung finds a badly decomposed human head and returns it to the widower. He is rewarded with 1000 pieces of silver as the bereaved family thinks it is the head of the dead bride.
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The Web of Death
Title: The Web of Death
Character: Major Clan Senior
Released: October 28, 1976
Type: Movie
Lo Lieh is the ringleader of the Snake Sect, intent on reviving a deadly faction known as the "Five Poison Web." In order to do so, he has an affair with the sexy ringleader of the Scorpion Sect, Angela Yu Chien. However, there is also the Centipede Sect to contend with, as well as other assorted martial artists, among them played by Shaw Brothers talents Yueh Hua, Ching Li, and Lily Li.
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Big Bad Sis
Title: Big Bad Sis
Character: Chau
Released: October 7, 1976
Type: Movie
Ah Ying (Chen Ping) is a former gangster trying to lead an honest life, and occasionally using her fighting skills to help out the girls in the factory where she now works. She befriends young colleagues Chong Lee and Shao Yin-Yin, teaching them self defence because "girls can't be weak anymore". Trouble starts when her old gang finds out where she now works.
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The Girlie Bar
Title: The Girlie Bar
Character: Old cheated customer
Released: October 5, 1976
Type: Movie
A widower forces his three beautiful daughters to work in his seedy bar and must do what they are told no matter what. The film features Lin Chen-chi who had just starred in Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold.
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Killers on Wheels
Title: Killers on Wheels
Character: Uncle Wang
Released: August 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A quasi-vicious motorcycle gang messes with the wrong man.
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The Snake Prince
Title: The Snake Prince
Character: Mr. Hei
Released: July 31, 1976
Type: Movie
Snake Prince (Ti Lung) is wandering with his snake buddies when he happens upon a beautiful maiden (Lin Chen-Chi) singing a prayer for rain. The song soon turns into a funky dance with the whole drought-blighted village, so the prince and his pals assume human form and join the party. The prince is so smitten with the maiden that he offers to share the snakes' river with the village if he can marry her. The villagers aren't too fond on the idea of marrying off their No. 1 babe to a snake, prince or no, but they really do need that water.
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Brotherhood
Title: Brotherhood
Character: Goldsmith Yu
Released: July 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Liao Jiang is the lowest ranking member of a gang that holds up a jewelery store. Subsequently the three other gang members die, and their gold haul goes missing. Liao Jiang and his new gang member Huge Eyes are then forced to turn to a triad gang to help get back their gold from a rival group.
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The Magic Blade
Title: The Magic Blade
Character: Noodle hawker (uncredited)
Released: July 10, 1976
Type: Movie
Two rival swordsmen in imperial China, poncho-clad Fu Hung-Hsueh and Yen nan-Fei vie with a power-hungry villain for the deadly Peacock Dart and fend off waves of expert killers during their journey.
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Emperor Chien Lung
Title: Emperor Chien Lung
Character: Second Uncle
Released: June 2, 1976
Type: Movie
Emperor Chien Lung, bored with imperial traditions, disguises himself as a commoner to experience a different side of life.
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The Dragon Missile
Title: The Dragon Missile
Released: April 24, 1976
Type: Movie
Lo Lieh stars as Sima Jun, a killer working for a corrupt lord whose orders are followed without question or hesitation. When the lord suffers from a life-threatening boil on his back, he is told by the Imperial doctor that an herb called "Longevity Rattan" offers the only cure and is grown in a remote village by an herbalist named Tan. Lo is sent on a mission to get the herb and bring it back before it's too late.
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The Dragon Missile
Title: The Dragon Missile
Character: Innkeeper
Released: April 24, 1976
Type: Movie
Lo Lieh stars as Sima Jun, a killer working for a corrupt lord whose orders are followed without question or hesitation. When the lord suffers from a life-threatening boil on his back, he is told by the Imperial doctor that an herb called "Longevity Rattan" offers the only cure and is grown in a remote village by an herbalist named Tan. Lo is sent on a mission to get the herb and bring it back before it's too late.
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Killer Clans
Title: Killer Clans
Released: March 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Based on a popular swordplay novel, this colorful and complex saga (whose Chinese title literally translates into the poetic Meteor, Butterfly, Sword) has enough conspiracies, stratagems, and sword fights to fascinate even novice kung-fu cinema viewers. The cast of Shaw Brothers' leading swordsmen and swordswomen are masterfully staged by Yuen Cheung-yan, the brother of Matrix and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping. The result is both a great action movie and an exceptional dramatic film.
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Spirit of the Raped
Title: Spirit of the Raped
Character: Doctor checking Wang
Released: March 13, 1976
Type: Movie
A Shaw Brothers production featuring a supernatural tale of revenge. Liu Miao-Li suffers a string of terrible events. Once pushed to her limit, she decides to take back control of her existence, but chooses an unlikely path to vengeance.
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The Last Tempest
Title: The Last Tempest
Character: Concubine Zheng's guard
Released: February 21, 1976
Type: Movie
Despite Kuang Hsu's enthronement as the last reigning Emperor of China, his ability to rule effectively is overshadowed by the ever-present power of the Dowager Empress. When his attempts to reform the Imperial system are thwarted by the Dowager Empress, he attempts to curb her power. His efforts are not successful, and this failure leads directly to his own death and the end of Imperial rule in China. The Dowager Empress, though, ends her days comfortably and in peace.
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The Criminals
Title: The Criminals
Character: Doorman
Released: January 16, 1976
Type: Movie
An anthology film featuring three true-crime stories that took place in Hong Kong in the early 1970's. Part 1: Hidden Torsos' A woman and her daughter are murdered by her abusive boyfriend. Part 2: 'Valley of the Hanged'-A man murders his wife and her lover. Part 3: 'The Stuntmen' - A gang boss is murdered by his wife's lover
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Cuties Parade
Title: Cuties Parade
Released: December 24, 1975
Type: Movie
A romantic Shaw Brothers musical.
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The Spiritual Boxer
Title: The Spiritual Boxer
Character: Mr. Chen
Released: November 28, 1975
Type: Movie
Wang Yu plays Hsiao Chien, a con artist vagabond who uses his kung fu skills and parlor tricks to convince superstitious villagers that he can use his body as a vessel for angry gods. However, when the villagers are threatened by a hostile force, Chien must learn to use his skills to protect the innocent.
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The Bloody Escape
Title: The Bloody Escape
Character: Commissioner's assistant
Released: October 25, 1975
Type: Movie
Gu Hui, a member of the ‘Wolf Head Gang’ becomes unhappy after their new chief decides to abandon their old code of conduct. After the chief kills a travelling family and kidnaps the daughter, Gu frees her and escapes, hiding out in a nearby town and trying to start a new life as a humble shoemaker. Unfortunately, the gang refuses to let him go and put a bounty on his head, forcing him to face up to his responsibilities.
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All Mixed Up
Title: All Mixed Up
Character: Post office chief
Released: September 25, 1975
Type: Movie
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Fearful Interlude
Title: Fearful Interlude
Released: September 13, 1975
Type: Movie
Accompanied by his old manservant, scholar Sung Li Ho (Hong Hoi) is on his way to the capital for the imperial exam. They spend a night in the house of Mrs. Yuan and Li Ho takes a fancy to her pretty daughter, Pei Fang (Dana). Li Ho is discovered by a maid peeping at Pei Fang as she takes a bath. He slips and falls into the bathtub, creating a most embarrassing situation. His old servant is also implicated and both are beaten up before being thrown out. Continuing their journey in the desolate countryside, they come across woodcutter Hsi Hsueh Kuei who puts them up for the night. Captivated by the beauty of the owner’s two daughters, who are vampires, he spends a night with them and turns into a skeleton. Chased by the vampires, Shun Lai makes a narrow escape.
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The Taxi Driver
Title: The Taxi Driver
Character: Taxi operator
Released: August 28, 1975
Type: Movie
It stars David Chiang, as the taxi driver whose adventures reveal Hong Kong's verve with wit, compassion and loads of action.
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Big Brother Cheng
Title: Big Brother Cheng
Released: July 16, 1975
Type: Movie
Shaw Brothers' number one action hit of 1975, and deservedly so. The character of one-man kung-fu dynamo Big Brother Cheng and kung-fu superstar Chen Kuan-tai were made for each other. A Robin Hood-like restaurant manager who socks it to the thugs in order to make the mean streets of Hong Kong a little less mean, Big Brother Cheng made his first appearance in the extremely popular The Tea House, the success of which spawned this even more successful sequel.
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Cohabitation
Title: Cohabitation
Character: Xu Zheng
Released: May 23, 1975
Type: Movie
Abortion, birth control and unwed cohabitation are social issues rarely associated with 1970's Hong Kong cinema. Cohabitation not only faces them head on but does so with insight, compassion and sex!
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Night of the Devil Bride
Title: Night of the Devil Bride
Released: March 15, 1975
Type: Movie
A wronged female ghost is out for revenge.
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Ghost Eyes
Title: Ghost Eyes
Character: Taoist monk
Released: November 9, 1974
Type: Movie
Ghost Eyes concerns a female hair stylist who is seduced by the vampiric ghost of a former optometrist. Using supernatural contact lenses to control her mind, he gradually drains her life essence as she is forced to find new victims until tries to make a stand and rid herself of this terror once and for all.
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Young Passion
Title: Young Passion
Released: October 12, 1974
Type: Movie
A romantic melodrama about an affair between a 16-year-old boy and a neglected wife.
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Sorrow of the Gentry
Title: Sorrow of the Gentry
Character: Uncle Chen
Released: July 19, 1974
Type: Movie
shaw production
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Crazy Bumpkins
Title: Crazy Bumpkins
Character: Owner of eatery
Released: June 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A bittersweet comedy about a simple hick who arrives in the big city to seek his fortune, "The Crazy Bumpkins" is about Ah Niu, who leaves his native village to live with an uncle in Hong Kong, not realizing he is a crook. After taking on a hilarious series of illegal jobs with his uncle, he meets and falls for a single mother and decides to find some real work. However, bad luck and naivete soon conspire to keep him from true happiness.
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Rivals of Kung Fu
Title: Rivals of Kung Fu
Character: Shop owner
Released: May 25, 1974
Type: Movie
Huang Fei-hung is back, in a new adventure written and directed by veteran Huang filmmaker Wang Feng. Newcomer Shih Chung-tien stars as the Confucian healer who fights jealous villains with wisdom, intelligence, and fabulous kung-fu.
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Hong Kong 73
Title: Hong Kong 73
Character: Scaffolding laborer #2
Released: April 24, 1974
Type: Movie
As the Heng Seng Index reaches unprecedented heights, people from all walks of life go stock speculation crazy. A security guard and his landlord learn firsthand that money is ‘Easy Come, Easy Go’ as their fast fortune disappears overnight in a Macau casino. Meanwhile, greedy neighbours and infidel couples cheat each other and even blue-collar workmen dive into the frenzy. Inevitably, the market tumbles as do the people’s bittersweet lives. A hilarious but ironic tale featuring some of Shaw’s biggest stars.
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Thirteen
Title: Thirteen
Character: Gynaecologist
Released: March 19, 1974
Type: Movie
Shih Hsin-chiao (Ling Yun) is a journalist who trained under mentor Lu Tao-jan (Chin Han). Lu's daughter, Chih-pai (Tien Niu) is infatuated with the good-looking and intelligent Shih, but Shih sees her only as a child. When he returns from a long stay abroad, he finds that things have changed. Chih-pai is now an attractive young woman in a relationship with rich boy (Wang Yu). A miscarriage and Lu's death throw Shih and Chih-pai back together again.
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The Killer Snakes
Title: The Killer Snakes
Character: Barber
Released: February 5, 1974
Type: Movie
A young man who has been beaten, abused, humiliated and laughed at all his life finds that he has an unusual empathy with snakes. He can talk to them and they understand him, and eventually he finds that he can get them to do his bidding. He decides to use his newfound friends to take his revenge on everyone who ever did him wrong.
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Iron Bodyguard
Title: Iron Bodyguard
Character: Reformist in prison
Released: December 8, 1973
Type: Movie
An Iron Bodyguard called Wang Wu meets a scholar and forms a strong friendship with him after they fight some villains together. The scholar is a member of the reformists - a group of scholars pressing for social reform in China towards the end of the Qing dynasty. The Emperor is actually all for reforms, and appoints this group to run the country. This doesn't suit the Empress Dowager though, as she has no intention of losing her power. She orders the reformists to be arrested, and Chen Kuan Tai hence gets drawn into politics despite having no real political views himself.
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The Ghost Lovers
Title: The Ghost Lovers
Character: Taoist Priest
Released: December 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Song dynasty lotus and Han Shilong before marry, Korea's home office, thedragon's heart ached. After lotus appeared dead, the dragon as the reunion was determined to marry, have a friend Zhang Tie strongly opposed, and find a Taoistspirits. The dragon the obstacles of their marriage, lotus to spend a night after the found.
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The Sugar Daddies
Title: The Sugar Daddies
Character: Ho, office clerk
Released: November 29, 1973
Type: Movie
During the day, Hu Tien lives as a respectable office employee, but when night falls, he unashamedly plunges headlong into an exciting world of lust and sex as a high-class Hong Kong pimp! Thanks to his uncanny knack for setting up prostitutes with "sugar daddies," Hu Tien starts living the high life. Things take an even more dramatic turn when the drop-dead gorgeous Irene (Betty Pei Ti from The Delinquent and Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan) enters the fray. Thanks to Hu Tien's involvement, this rough and tumble new vixen soon finds herself being the center of attention among all the wealthy sugar daddies. But is his relationship with Irene merely business or is there more to it?
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The Pirate
Title: The Pirate
Character: Desperate Fisherman
Released: July 27, 1973
Type: Movie
Pirate Chang Pao-Chai springs a leak after an otherwise successful raid on a foreign ship. He goes ashore to get materials to patch his ship up, where he encounters corrupt Qing officials and poor, oppressed peasants. Being a good man at heart, he decides to help out and becomes an even bigger outlaw in the process.
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The Villains
Title: The Villains
Character: Butler Cai
Released: March 9, 1973
Type: Movie
A poor orphan seeks help from her wealthy uncle and his sons.
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Blood Brothers
Title: Blood Brothers
Character: Judge's assistant
Released: February 24, 1973
Type: Movie
Set in the waning years of the Ching Dyansty, this dramatic, tragic, romantic, blood-soaked martial arts tale of betrayal and revenge explores one of the most sensational scandals in Chinese history and marked the true ascension of its director and actors to superstar status. In fact, Ti Lung won Taiwan's Golden Horse Award for Outstanding Performance as the challenging role of a jealous provincial governor who kills his friend in order to steal the man's wife.
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The Bastard
Title: The Bastard
Character: Porridge Wang
Released: February 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Little Bastard searches for the parents who abandoned him as an infant, with the help of Little Beggar. He finds his father, who is a powerful and wealthy manl and is taken in by him and his family. Before long Little Bastard is seduced by his attractive cousin, making Little Beggar very jealous. However, the seduction and family welcome are all part of a nefarious plan.
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The Thunderbolt Fist
Title: The Thunderbolt Fist
Character: Old Wang
Released: December 30, 1972
Type: Movie
A small village is taken over by the nasty Japanese, who kill the town's top kung fu fighter in order to scare the populace into submission. Escaping the wrath of the Japanese, the son of the master flees into the hills, where he trains with a group of rebels led by Gam Kei-Chu. Fast-forward ten years, and Chuen returns to the village armed with his father's secret technique of the Thunderbolt Fist with the hopes of killing the leader of the Japanese.
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Trilogy of Swordsmanship
Title: Trilogy of Swordsmanship
Character: Official at Court
Released: November 5, 1972
Type: Movie
Three martial arts directors united for this unique anthology film. Yueh Feng writes and directs a clever love-and-kung-fu triangle, Cheng Kang both writes and directs kung-fu courtesans battling brigands, and the "godfather of the kung-fu film," Chang Cheh, creates a cliff-hanging, swashbuckling mini-movie with maxi-action.
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The Delightful Forest
Title: The Delightful Forest
Character: Prison chief
Released: September 20, 1972
Type: Movie
Legendary fighter Wu Song is sent to prison in Mengzhou province after murdering his sister-in-law and her lover. There he meets with the prison officer Shih En, who saves Wu from the baton punishment required for new prisoners. Wu learns that Shih's restaurant, "The Delightful Forest" has been occupied by Chiang Chung. Wu returns to the restaurant-- A place he's dined in previously.
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The Warlord
Title: The Warlord
Character: Kao patriarch
Released: August 17, 1972
Type: Movie
No list of the screen's comic geniuses would be complete without Michael Hui Kwun-man. He created a hilarious and lovable comic persona that was both uniquely Asian but also universally beloved. This, his first film, not only showcased his incomparable sense of humor but revolutionized Hong Kong comedy. Evoking Chaplin, he plays a warlord in early 20th Century China, but makes the role his own with both laughs and some of the sexiest ladies on the Shaw Brothers lot.
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Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
Title: Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan
Character: Master Cho's Doctor
Released: July 9, 1972
Type: Movie
18-year-old Ainu is kidnapped and sold to a brothel. Her good looks and wild personality make her very popular with the lustful clients, but also draw the lesbian attentions of brothel madam Chun Yi. Chun Yi teaches Ai nu the ways of lust and the ways of kung fu, and Ai nu becomes more and more similar to her captor. But rage at her treatment is still burning inside her.
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Five Fingers of Death
Title: Five Fingers of Death
Character: Tournament Judge
Released: April 28, 1972
Type: Movie
A young boxer joins a martial arts school to increase his skill so he can enter a martial arts competition. He leaves the school when he hears that a local gangster is terrorizing the town. He comes to the aid of a young singer and brings on the wrath of the local gang. He eventually enters the martial arts competition after learning iron palm technique and takes out all competition.
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The Young Avenger
Title: The Young Avenger
Character: Mr. Jin
Released: April 20, 1972
Type: Movie
After a career spanning more than forty years and dozens of films as director or writer, Yueh Feng used everything he learned on a final few martial arts epics, of which this is one of the most memorable. It's not easy to forget a hunchbacked, one-armed protagonist, nor the "Poisonous Dragon Sword" style, nor the luminous and lethal Shih Szu as the title swordswoman, who is out to avenge her father's death at the mid-autumn festival.
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The Water Margin
Title: The Water Margin
Character: Court clerk (uncredited)
Released: March 17, 1972
Type: Movie
The corruption in the Sung Dynasty of 11th century China is so rampant that it inspires a band of Oriental Robin Hoods - the Honorable 108. Mountain bandits who nevertheless live by a scrupulous code of conduct, the Honorable 108 pledge to end the repression of the brutal overlords.
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Lady with a Sword
Title: Lady with a Sword
Character: Restaurant chief
Released: October 14, 1971
Type: Movie
Feng Fei Fei, an excellent swordswoman, seeks revenge with her nephew for the murder of her old sister, who got killed by some rogues on her way home. She soon finds out that the murderer is the son of her father's best friend and her future husband.
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The Anonymous Heroes
Title: The Anonymous Heroes
Character: Transport Chief Hung
Released: July 24, 1971
Type: Movie
A perennial Chang Cheh favorite, Anonymous Heroes focuses on two vagabond brothers, Meng Kang and Tieh who, in the search for fame and fortune, join in a rebellion against a provincial general. Used to shaking down local vendors for food and gambling away their limited funds, they are recruited by a local rebel leader who promises them a glorious adventure. The rebels plan is to steal a huge cache of new rifles set to be delivered to the barracks of the local army. With the help of an officer's daughter, their plan starts out well, but inevitably slips toward a heroic but tragic finale.
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The Crimson Charm
Title: The Crimson Charm
Character: Godly Sword
Released: July 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A noble swordsman and a one-armed swordswoman go up against the vicious Crimson Charm gang of thieves and cutthroats. The lovely and lethal Ivy Ling Po teams with the amazing Chang I for a classic tale of good versus evil in which the best man and one-armed woman wins.
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The Duel
Title: The Duel
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 21, 1971
Type: Movie
Tan Jen-chieh's life spins out of control when he’s forced into exile to clear his name following the murder of his adopted father. He's hunted in the streets. His lover, Butterfly, turns to prostitution. And his father's likely killer – a smooth operator known as the Rambler – is always lingering nearby. But before Tan and the Rambler can slit each other's throats, they learn they've been double-crossed and go two against everyone in a rage of double-edged vengeance.
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The New One-Armed Swordsman
Title: The New One-Armed Swordsman
Character: Boss Li
Released: February 7, 1971
Type: Movie
Lei Li lost his right-arm in a sword duel with the master of a martial arts school, long ago. Now, he is able to defend himself well with just his left arm, and kung fu techniques. That he proves with just the help of his friend Chung-Chieng, when he crosses his path with a beautiful girl in need, Pao Chiao. Even against impossible odds, he will prove a great warrior.
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The Protectors
Title: The Protectors
Character: Ling Xiao's dad
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Ling (Lo Lieh) and Guan are the Black and White Chiefs of the Eagle Escort security firm: during the opening credit sequence, we see them recover a stolen shipment of gold; by the time the credits have run, the two are literally knee-deep in bodies.
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The Iron Buddha
Title: The Iron Buddha
Character: Official Peng
Released: November 12, 1970
Type: Movie
After a notorious rapist kills his master and entire clan, the Iron Buddha sets out for revenge. He'll need a magic sword first though, naturally.
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A Time for Love
Title: A Time for Love
Character: Old Fan
Released: October 16, 1970
Type: Movie
A Time For Love features Shaw Brothers' darling Lily Ho in a Romeo and Juliet stylized love story that breaks the tradition of Hong Kong's "class distinction" love stories. It is a film ending with a Cinderella-esque love saving happiness happy ever other ending.
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Vengeance!
Title: Vengeance!
Character: Manager Wen/Yin Nan Ting
Released: May 14, 1970
Type: Movie
A violent martial artist is bent on avenging his older brother, who was killed by a cabal of four wicked businessmen and a cheating wife.
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Heads for Sale
Title: Heads for Sale
Character: Jin prefect
Released: May 6, 1970
Type: Movie
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.
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The Golden Knight
Title: The Golden Knight
Character: Shaolin Abbott Yishu
Released: April 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Respected veteran Yueh Feng made this “Martial Arts World” saga of a masked master of the “Black Sand Hand Technique,” while Lily Ho, the star of "Princess Iron Fan" and "Angel With The Iron Fists", excels in a delightful dual leading role. When she teams up with Shu Pei-pei as a fellow swordswoman to vanquish a murdering robber, the comparisons to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" are obvious, even though it came three decades later.
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The Younger Generation
Title: The Younger Generation
Character: Headmaster Wong
Released: March 12, 1970
Type: Movie
The Younger Generation is an ultra-tragic tale about a young girl, played by Ivy Ling Po who gets married, has five kids, then she and her husband die forcing one child sold to prostitution to feed the other four. Chinese culture dictates that great respect is given to the elders and in The Younger Generation, it is an elder that is the hero, telling audiences that although sadness abounds, they can return home happy with their Confucius mindset.
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Have Sword, Will Travel
Title: Have Sword, Will Travel
Character: Government official
Released: December 25, 1969
Type: Movie
Ying Ke-Feng, head of Peerless Manor, is an expert swordsman whose escort business transports 200,000 taels of silver to the capital each year. This year, however, he is afflicted with an infirmity that renders him unable to use his sword.
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River of Tears
Title: River of Tears
Released: November 25, 1969
Type: Movie
Mysterious songstress Fang Biyu is loved by two brothers, Qiwei and Qijun. After freeing herself from the clutches of gangsters, she gives her heart to Qiwei. Tragedy comes knocking on the door when one of the gangsters comes out of prison, and Qiwei dies in a car accident. Blamed for her husband's death, Biyu is forced to go back to singing to make a living, but hopes to reunite with her son and return to the family one day.
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The Swordmates
Title: The Swordmates
Character: Liu Yi
Released: October 8, 1969
Type: Movie
Ming dynasty traitors have sent a secret message in a jade goddess statuette, containing their plans of treason to help tribal warlords usurp power from the Ming government. The message and statue being intercepted, powerful swordsmen (and a swordswoman) of a famed security company are hired to protect the statue and its hidden message.
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Vengeance Is a Golden Blade
Title: Vengeance Is a Golden Blade
Character: medicine shopkeeper
Released: July 19, 1969
Type: Movie
Li Zhishan is a rich man, but wealth cannot keep the loyalties of his wife, who has been visiting the bed of a rival. She helps plot against him, and the Vicious Long Brothers invade his home and steal the Golden Dragon Blade - a sword that makes its wielder unbeatable. Zhishan, crippled in the attack, and his young daughter are whisked away by a devoted servant, and the trio soon find shelter in the home of an herbalist. Years pass, the daughter grows up to be a lovely young woman and a powerful fighter, and the Long Brothers use the Golden Dragon Blade to gain power in the region. Zhishan's family of sorts has managed to stay well hidden, but a trip into the city - the daughter's first - sets off an old power struggle as Zhishan's wife discovers her daughter is quite alive.
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Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
Title: Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
Character: Uncle Mu
Released: February 28, 1969
Type: Movie
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.
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The Enchanted Chamber
Title: The Enchanted Chamber
Character: Zhang Yuan-Wei
Released: November 28, 1968
Type: Movie
A mortal, a ghost and a fox fairy come together against evil in this supernatural wuxia film.
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Double Trouble
Title: Double Trouble
Character: Millionaire
Released: October 2, 1968
Type: Movie
Shaw Brothers double trouble comedy
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That Fiery Girl
Title: That Fiery Girl
Character: Chun's uncle
Released: July 17, 1968
Type: Movie
The bandits of Hulu Valley murder the chief of Mei Clan while searching for a treasure map. In retaliation, the clan’s leading swordsman Feng-chun (Chan Leung) infiltrates the bandit’s fortress hideout in anticipation of a surprise attack by a larger force and unexpectedly finds himself romantically involved with the bandit leader’s feisty daughter (Cheng Pei-Pei).
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The Silver Fox
Title: The Silver Fox
Character: Old teacher
Released: March 13, 1968
Type: Movie
The Silver Fox is a throwback, the last of its kind where the heroic swordsmen are women. Lily Ho (before she became one of Shaw Brothers' great erotica actresses) portrays the feared swordswoman Silver Fox, who as a child saw her father senselessly wounded and her mother raped. It's 18 years later and it's payback time.
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The Assassin
Title: The Assassin
Character: Ying's Father
Released: December 22, 1967
Type: Movie
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.
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Lady Jade Locket
Title: Lady Jade Locket
Character: Old Lian
Released: December 9, 1967
Type: Movie
Love knows no limits in the grand period romance, Lady Jade Locket. A young fighter inadvertently falls for the spirit of a beautiful woman, who died years earlier avenging her own father's murder. The beautiful ghost is in fact the sister of his fiancee. Experienced as an actor in many such romances, director Yen Chuan keeps the tone perfect. Plus, with period specialist Li Li-hua in the lead and the attractive and acclaimed Li Ching playing the ghost girl, he really can do no wrong.
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Susanna
Title: Susanna
Character: Dr Wang
Released: October 16, 1967
Type: Movie
Nineteen-year old Li Ching scored a major success playing the title character, Susanna. Li's youthful exuberance is given free rein in a role that embraces rebellion, love, betrayal, tragedy, and ultimately, redemption.
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The Silent Swordsman
Title: The Silent Swordsman
Character: Shen's master
Released: September 13, 1967
Type: Movie
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...
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Kiss and Kill
Title: Kiss and Kill
Character: Liang's uncle
Released: August 19, 1967
Type: Movie
A military plane carrying a nuclear load explodes mid-air after being hit by mysterious electronic rays. Sculptor Liang Tien Hong (Paul Chang Chung) discovers the ray was invented by his uncle and he must find it before Communist agents steal it for their own nefarious purposes.
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The Thundering Sword
Title: The Thundering Sword
Character: Old Tien
Released: May 8, 1967
Type: Movie
A righteous clan’s effort to seek out and destroy the powerful Thundering Sword turns into a tragedy as a fierce, yet impulsive beauty falls in love with the leading clansman, mistakenly poisons his brother and only makes matters worse in an attempt to make amends.
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Auntie Lan
Title: Auntie Lan
Character: Mr Liu
Released: March 2, 1967
Type: Movie
The contemporary issue of single mothers is sensitively handled in this melodrama as a young woman must decide whether she will tell the new man in her life the real truth or forever remain the child's auntie Lan? (Celestial Pictures sypnosis)
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The Pearl Phoenix
Title: The Pearl Phoenix
Character: Magistrate Zhou's adviser
Released: February 4, 1967
Type: Movie
Huangmei Opera movies like The Pearl Phoenix are unique to 1960's Hong Kong culture, a product of the Swinging Sixties but considerably more in touch with their Chinese roots. This one is complete with a gender-bending tale where the male lead is played by female and the female lead poses as a man, plus movie queen Li Ching and the singing voices of Ivy Ling Po and Jing Ting. Sit back and enjoy!
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Sweet Is Revenge
Title: Sweet Is Revenge
Character: Chief Warden Suan
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Some 40 years ago when warlords rode rough-shod over the Chinese people, circus acrobat Pao Te-cheng took to the hills and began robbing the rich to help the poor. His daring feats earned him the nickname of “The Masked Robber”. Trying to intercept a large sum of money to be turned over to public security chief Cheng Kuan-hsi, he is nearly caught. Partner Hsiao Chung is jubilant over his safe return. But in the government office, chief detective Ma Pu-yun frantically plots his arrest. Ma Chien-li, son of the chief detective, devises a clever trap set for Ma Pu-yun’s birthday party. Among the guests is Huang Tan-ping who is engaged to Doctor David Lee. Ma Chien-li proposes to her without knowing this.
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Rose, Be My Love
Title: Rose, Be My Love
Character: Uncle Yang
Released: September 28, 1966
Type: Movie
Not a love triangle but a love rectangle, Rose, Be My Love is a romantic drama that represents the high standards achieved by Shaw Brothers in both star power and technical polish. Set on the eve of Pearl Harbor and Hong Kong's invasion by the Japanese, the tragic romance takes on added poignancy in light of the future fate of leading lady Li Ting, the "Rose" of Rose, Be My Love who committed suicide a mere three months after the movie's release.
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The Mating Season
Title: The Mating Season
Character: Zhong-nian's assistant
Released: September 14, 1966
Type: Movie
The Weiss Advertising Co under manageress Lo Yu Chun (Pat Ting Hung) and the Jen An Advertising Co. managed by playboy Tsao Chung Nien (Peter Chen Ho) are business rivals. The former works hard but without much success. The latter, with most of his staff perusing racing form or yellow journals, gets far more business. The anticipated arrival of a business tycoon from Malaya starts another battle and Lo Yu Chun goes all out to win over the prospective customer.
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The Twin Swords
Title: The Twin Swords
Character: Faben
Released: December 22, 1965
Type: Movie
Gui Wu happens upon a kidnapping with his wife Gan Lian-zhu at the Red Lotus Temple. Lian-zhu sends Wu to go for reinforcements while she stays to fight the kidnappers. Fortunately, the mysterious Scarlet Maid is surreptitiously helping her.
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The Lark
Title: The Lark
Character: Liu's father
Released: July 28, 1965
Type: Movie
A musical staring Carrie Ku Mei as a singer named Xiaoyun Shi, who comes to Hong Kong after a tour of other Asian countries, hoping to develop her career.
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Pink Tears
Title: Pink Tears
Character: Dr Huang
Released: May 27, 1965
Type: Movie
The socialite Pai Li-Lan's life is disrupted when she contracts tuberculosis.
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Temple of the Red Lotus
Title: Temple of the Red Lotus
Character: Red Lotus Chief Yan Zong
Released: January 10, 1965
Type: Movie
Jimmy Wang Yu plays a young kid who heads off to Dragon Valley to meet the childhood friend who was promised as his bride. When he gets there, he finds that the family of the bride might not be an entirely honest bunch of people though. What is the story behind their feud with the monks at the Temple Of The Red Lotus, for a start?
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The Warlord and the Actress
Title: The Warlord and the Actress
Released: December 22, 1964
Type: Movie
A member of the Red Peony troupe, singer Tang Pei Hua (Yeh Feng) is renowned for her beautiful voice and appearances. Her beauty, however, invites the unwanted attentions of cruel and lecherous warlord Cao Lin (Zeng Mei). In order to escape Cao's grasp, Tang and her lover Lin Ke Qiang (Chin Han) decide to run away to the south where they can live freely. But their plan is uncovered by Cao, and Lin gets captured. In order to save Lin, Tang must sacrifice herself and entertain Japanese guests at a banquet, throwing herself into danger's way.
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Advertisement Beauty
Title: Advertisement Beauty
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
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Murder in the Bath
Title: Murder in the Bath
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Murder mystery.
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The Eight Immortals in Jiangnan
Title: The Eight Immortals in Jiangnan
Released: May 24, 1957
Type: Movie
Hong Kong fantasy film directed by Chiu Shu-San.
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Fourth Madam Lu Thrashes the Flying Guillotine
Title: Fourth Madam Lu Thrashes the Flying Guillotine
Released: August 23, 1956
Type: Movie
呂四娘大破血滴子 is a 1956 martial arts film from Singapore.