Wan Seung-Lam

Wan Seung-Lam

Movies for Wan Seung-Lam...

Cop Image
Title: Cop Image
Character: Robber
Released: October 6, 1994
Type: Movie
Anthony Wong plays a traffic cop who is obsessed with action films. He wants to be a real life hero and gets his chance when he becomes involved in a botched bank robbery case.
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Oh! Yes Sir!!!
Title: Oh! Yes Sir!!!
Character: Friend of Little Fish
Released: May 21, 1994
Type: Movie
A cop turns fugitive when he is framed for the murder of a keywitness in a weapons smuggling investigation. On the run the cop befriends a psychic who helps him to capture the real killer.
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Satin Steel
Title: Satin Steel
Character: Mr Fowler's thug
Released: March 10, 1994
Type: Movie
Jade Leung, who delivers a lethal kick, the deadly and awesome cop who teams with policewoman Anita Lee track an arms dealer in Singapore. The fighting and stuntwork in this action film has audiences cheering for the women when they show their stuff.
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Underground Judgement
Title: Underground Judgement
Character: Gang leader
Released: January 29, 1994
Type: Movie
Hot shot cop Gold Eagle drops out after the evil Mr Chau disrupts his wedding by killing a number of the guests. Eagle hides in an isolated village disguised as a drunkard garbage collector. But neither old flame Senny nor Chau have given up finding him.
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The 13 Cold-Blooded Eagles
Title: The 13 Cold-Blooded Eagles
Character: White Eagle
Released: November 11, 1993
Type: Movie
The Eagles are a group of orphans raised as killers, whose job is to liquidate baddies ….. or so they are lead to believe. Disharmony begins among the Eagles when they are ordered to kill Shinshu Monster, an ex-colleague of their loud-laughing leader, whom they call Foster Father. Before dying, Shinshu sows the seeds of doubt with the Eagle Yingming who, nearly dead, is nursed back to health by Quihua. Quihua's ill father is another of the Foster Father 's ex-colleagues, and is the holder of the Star Bleed Skill scroll, which the Eagle's leader covets above all else.
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The Heroic Trio 2: Executioners
Title: The Heroic Trio 2: Executioners
Character: Soldier
Released: September 30, 1993
Type: Movie
Set some time after the original 'Heroic Trio,' the city has been devastated by a nuclear attack. An evil deformed villain controls the city's scarce water supply, exerting influence over a popular leader and a militarist colonel.
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Lover of the Swindler
Title: Lover of the Swindler
Released: July 15, 1993
Type: Movie
A con artist falls in love with a respectable nightclub girl but romance is overshadowed by deception.
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Crime Story
Title: Crime Story
Character: Yen Chi-Sheng
Released: June 24, 1993
Type: Movie
A special agent is assigned to protect a wealthy business magnate. However, when the businessman is kidnapped in a daring ambush, he teams up with a seasoned detective to crack the case. But soon he discovers the case isn't that simple.
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Run and Kill
Title: Run and Kill
Character: Gang member
Released: February 27, 1993
Type: Movie
A man returns home to find his wife with another man. He goes to a bar and begins to drink, waking up the next day to find that he owes a mafioso money for killing his wife.
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Angel's Project
Title: Angel's Project
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A realistic fight scenes; full punches, kicks, fast kungfu/karate movements, not just handling a safety wire to support high flips and deadly kicks...
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The Cat
Title: The Cat
Released: October 22, 1992
Type: Movie
A cat from outer space teams up with a young girl and an old man to fight a murderous alien that possesses people.
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Black Cat II
Title: Black Cat II
Character: Assassin
Released: October 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Scientists install a micro chip, called Black Cat, inside the brain of a violence prone girl named Catherine in an attempt to refine and control her fits of rage. Their plan is to turn her into the perfect government secret agent "killing machine".
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The Musical Vampire
Title: The Musical Vampire
Character: Corpse Robber
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 Prince of Temple Street
Title: The Prince of Temple Street
Character: Chien's man
Released: August 20, 1992
Type: Movie
Andy Lau stars in The Prince of Temple Street, a classic triad story of honor and righteousness. Andy Lau is "The Twelfth Young Master", so called because he was raised by twelve foster parents from the triad underworld. A lifelong resident of Temple Street, the Young Master is intimately familiar with the triad life, having been around triads his whole life. But things change when he meets a beautiful missionary named Teresa (Joey Wang). She desires to bring hope and faith to Temple Street, and the Young Master is drawn towards her.
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Casino Tycoon II
Title: Casino Tycoon II
Character: Casino security
Released: August 20, 1992
Type: Movie
It is 20 years on and Ho Hsin is now the proud and powerful owner of a chain of casinos in Macau. Unfortunately, he is also the target of many enemies, some of whom are in dangerously close proximity to him. But Ho has faced adversity before and is not about to just roll over and die.
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Escape from Brothel
Title: Escape from Brothel
Released: February 29, 1992
Type: Movie
Hung and Ann are down-on-their luck prostitutes trapped in Hong Kong. Pauline's boyfriend, Sam, back in China, who is under the impression that she is away working at a factory, is double-crossed by Billy Chow, and while looking to escape; flees for Hong Kong and winds up at the Brothel where Pauline is employed. He is crushed when he finds out the truth, but by this point, everyone involved on all sides is too deeply involved to turn back. This is the type of movie that could only come from HK. It combines plenty of gory fighting, romance, violent A great scenes and comedy, all into one. A grand finale, where those who haven't already been killed fight it out on a construction site. In summary; heaps of sex and violence-has a few great bits, but not recommended for the weak-hearted.
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Casino Tycoon I
Title: Casino Tycoon I
Character: Chang's thug
Released: February 20, 1992
Type: Movie
Set in World War II, Casino Tycoon chronicles the story of Benny, a young graduate played by Andy Lau, who flees Hong-Kong during the Japanese invasion and heads for gambling haven Macau. Once in Macau, he impresses a local business man who has ties to organised crime, he slowly builds his way up in the ranks of the Macau underworld which ultimately leads to trouble.
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Dances with Dragon
Title: Dances with Dragon
Released: December 19, 1991
Type: Movie
Aaron, a young, successful Chinese businessman, drifts on to a rural island after a scuba accident. Mistaken for an illegal immigrant, he is forced to take refuge in a small, family-run grocery store. Enjoying the riches to rags transition, he tells nobody his true identity, and falls in love with the grocery store owner's daughter, Yvonne. But while Aaron enjoys his life of anonymity, Yvonne covets the chance to escape her poverty. Meanwhile, in Aaron's absense, a plot has been hatched to take over his company. Are Aaron's and Yvonne's lives too different to find happiness together?
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Fatal Mission
Title: Fatal Mission
Released: December 12, 1991
Type: Movie
Liang Kwok Tao (Derek Yee) gets ambushed one night by a group of rogue cops acting outside of the law to nail drug dealers. Seeing his wife shot and only able to rescue one of the kids, it turns out the attack was made on the wrong house and Liang now plots his revenge when the police can't help him. Doesn't hurt he's an explosive expert too... www.sogoodreviews.com
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Angry Ranger
Title: Angry Ranger
Released: September 14, 1991
Type: Movie
A man returning to his old neighbourhood after a prison term finds that the friends he used to hang out with are now a violent street gang that is terrorizing the community.
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Bullet for Hire
Title: Bullet for Hire
Released: September 5, 1991
Type: Movie
Two hitmen, both good friends who work for the Triad, get a new partner, a nervous young rookie who starts off badly by blowing an assignment, but soon becomes proficient at his bloody work. When one of them is blackmailed into helping the police, a Triad boss grows suspicious.
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Dreaming the Reality
Title: Dreaming the Reality
Released: July 18, 1991
Type: Movie
An expert assassin - trained since childhood to be the perfect killer - loses her memory during a mission in Thailand, and ends up in the care of a wry ex-policewoman and her boxing cohort. The equally lethal sister of the assassin pursues her, uncertain of her intentions and whether to kill her.
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Thunder Run
Title: Thunder Run
Released: May 23, 1991
Type: Movie
Two Hong Kong police officers end up in a Laos prison and must escape.
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Bullet in the Head
Title: Bullet in the Head
Character: Ringo's Man
Released: August 17, 1990
Type: Movie
When three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.
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Tiger Cage II
Title: Tiger Cage II
Released: August 11, 1990
Type: Movie
An ex-cop and divorce lawyer team up with a gangster to clear their names after getting involved in a dirty money scheme led by a vicious money launderer, who plans to expand his business and wipe out anyone who stands in his way.
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Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon
Title: Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon
Character: One Of Tak's Men
Released: June 28, 1990
Type: Movie
King-sized martial arts hero Sammo Hung stars in this wild and wacky blend of action and comedy. Skinny (Karl Maka) and Fatty (Sammo Hung) are a pair of police detectives who soon find themselves on the outs with their boss when they accidentally make a mess of his wedding while chasing Tak, a big league drug trafficker. Skinny and Fatty are forced to leave their jobs, but while on holiday in Singapore, they forget their troubles when they both find love with beautiful women. However, Tak is convinced the former cops are still a threat, and when he abducts their girlfriends, Skinny and Fatty swing into action to rescue them.
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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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Widow Warriors
Title: Widow Warriors
Released: March 10, 1990
Type: Movie
The males in a triad family are betrayed and gunned down by a rival gang and the women in the family - from the matriarch to the youngest - decide that rather than sit around and mourn their men that they will extract revenge.
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God of Gamblers
Title: God of Gamblers
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1989
Type: Movie
Ko Chun, an extremely talented and well known gambler. On the eve of a big confrontation with a famous Singaporean gambler, Ko walks into a trap set by Knife, an avid but a so-so gambler, meant for an Indian neighbour. Struck on the head, Ko suffers from amnesia and regresses to a child-like state. Knife takes care of Ko and begins to exploit Ko's gambling talents.
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A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
Title: A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
Character: General with Bond
Released: October 20, 1989
Type: Movie
The year is 1974. A young Hong Kong Chinese, Mark, travels to Saigon to make his fortune. There, he encounters a mysterious femme fatale, the lovely Kit. As he becomes more involved in her various underworld deals, a tragic romance develops. On the eve of the outbreak of war, Kit's past returns to endanger her, and Mark must risk everything for the one true love of his life.
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Seven Warriors
Title: Seven Warriors
Character: Villager
Released: June 24, 1989
Type: Movie
In the early 1920's of China, seven former soldiers band together to defend a helpless village against a group of vicious bandits in this Hong Kong remake of Seven Samurai.
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A Fiery Family
Title: A Fiery Family
Character: Kwong
Released: May 12, 1989
Type: Movie
Most new immigrants are always involved in the activities of gangs. Although some of them are very smart and have established good business, people still call them "Big Circle Guys" indicating that they are outsiders to us. Ching Chi Kuk had come to Hong Kong with his brother Ching Chi Pang, sister Ching Siu Ming and brother-in-law Chi Wai since the middle seventies. Within a few years, Kuk being smart enough, had become well-known among the gangs. Once in an activity, Kuk was arrested and confessed guilty for his boss. Kuk was sent to prison and became a scapegoat. When he was released from the prison, Kuk decided to turn over a new life. During Kuk's imprisonment, his brother Pang joined the gang...
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Burning Ambition
Title: Burning Ambition
Released: April 13, 1989
Type: Movie
This is director/martial arts star Frankie Chan's unofficial remake of the Kinji Fukasaku film SHOGUN'S SAMURAI (1978). Instead of Japanese samurai in a period setting, we get modern day Chinese gangsters battling each other for the position left vacant after the mysterious death of their head honcho.
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Bloody Brotherhood
Title: Bloody Brotherhood
Released: January 7, 1989
Type: Movie
Wah is the only one in his family lucky enough to survive the deadly boat passage from China to Hong Kong. Once in Hong Kong, he searches for opportunities he heard so much about. After struggling for months, he discovers that this is all but a myth.
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Satanic Crystals
Title: Satanic Crystals
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Two gangs of gangsters fight over a unique crystal in the jungles of Thailand!
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City Warriors
Title: City Warriors
Released: October 20, 1988
Type: Movie
A soldier from Mainland China arrives at Hong Kong to look for his estranged sister and finds out that she has been forced into prostitution by a criminal organization.
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The Criminal Hunter
Title: The Criminal Hunter
Character: Ta Pao
Released: May 19, 1988
Type: Movie
Chu Yu (Eric Tsang) is a homicide detective who accidently stabs his girlfriend while wrestling with a murderer. The killer returns later and squeezes her wound until it ruptures, causing her death. But the wily Chu Yu photographs his girlfriend's corpse in a wedding dress, tricking the killer into believing she is not dead and causing him to return for a second try. When he does, Chu Yu is waiting, having rigged the corpse like a marionette and causing it to shoot its own murderer. Co-starring Danny Lee, as Officer Li Ta Hsiu, and Dick Wei in this decidedly offbeat attempt at gallows humor which works extremely well under the direction of action specialist Frankie Chan.
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The Lunatics
Title: The Lunatics
Character: Zhao
Released: June 5, 1986
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist donates his time to help the mentally ill street people of Hong Kong. A reporter who hears about his activities accompanies him on his rounds.
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Pursuit of a Killer
Title: Pursuit of a Killer
Character: Older Lu Bao
Released: September 20, 1985
Type: Movie
This is one of those -"who did it" -murder movies put out by Shaw Brothers. In this one, a bunch of Mainlanders come to Hong Kong for a better life. Instead, these Mainlanders are jobless and wind up killing, robbing, and selling drugs for a Dai Lo. Tired of getting chicken scratch from their Dai Lo for all the work they've done, the Mainlanders (about 4 or 5) decide to do a big job for themselves by trying to rob a jewelry store. The heist goes awry with all the Mainlanders being apprehended by the HKRP. They all to go to jail and do their time and get discharged. Once out, the Mainlanders are getting "rubbed off" one by one and the HKRP do not have a clue. Luckily, one member, Yeh Hung (Lo Meng), of the Mainlander gang is still in jail who still has time. So, Inspector Wong (Jason Pai Piao) decides to cut Yeh Hung loose and let him walk the streets as bait to bring the killer out.
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Disciples of the 36th Chamber
Title: Disciples of the 36th Chamber
Character: Canton Association's Member
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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This Man Is Dangerous
Title: This Man Is Dangerous
Character: Biao
Released: March 16, 1985
Type: Movie
Cheng Tzu-hao and Kao Ying-wei, both wooing the same girl Ah Tzu, are transferred to the same Action Squad to help crack a number of robberies committed by a notorious robber/killer Ku Lung from Shantung. They inadvertently offend their immediate superior Beast King, and land themselves in a tight spot…
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Seeding of a Ghost
Title: Seeding of a Ghost
Character: Policeman
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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Descendant of the Sun
Title: Descendant of the Sun
Character: Prince Regent's black knight
Released: December 16, 1983
Type: Movie
Celebrated director Chu Yuan helms "Descendant Of The Sun", a Superman meets Hercules a la old style martial art film. Derek Yee is a magic solar baby sent Earthbound by a benevolent god, raised by an old carpenter, has martial art superpowers and "green kryptonite" loses them during solar eclipses. That's when the evil baby counterpart shows up. Demon-paced martial arts action by Jackie Chan's kung-fu classmates Yuan Pin and Yuen Hua compliments Toho Studio style special optical effects.
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The Boxer's Omen
Title: The Boxer's Omen
Character: Corner Man
Released: October 23, 1983
Type: Movie
After his brother was crippled in the ring by a cheating Thai boxer, Chan Hung goes to Thailand to avenge his brother, and finds the key to an omen which may release their family from an ancient curse. He is then caught up in a spiraling web of fate, Buddhist curses, and black magic.
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Men from the Gutter
Title: Men from the Gutter
Character: Triad at night club
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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Bastard Swordsman
Title: Bastard Swordsman
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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Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Title: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Character: Sister Wan's Fighter
Released: July 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Hong Kong, Hong Kong is the story of a young woman, Man Si Sun, who has arrived illegally in Hong Kong from mainland China, and Kong Yuen Sang, a young man who is a gambler and wannabe boxing champion.
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Winners & Sinners
Title: Winners & Sinners
Character: Chiu's Party Guest
Released: July 7, 1983
Type: Movie
Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. While trying to mind their own business (and run their 5-Star Cleaning Service), they are caught up in a war between rival Triad gangs fighting for control of the counterfeit currency market.
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Hong Kong Playboys
Title: Hong Kong Playboys
Character: Bodyguard
Released: June 18, 1983
Type: Movie
Fu Sheng plays Sheng, a playboy who has all the latest cars and technology along with all the tricks for courting the ladies. Sheng’s mom (Lee Heung Kam) along with her personal nurse, Mei (Cherie Chung), arrive in Hong Kong with the intentions of getting Sheng to marry a woman of her liking. While searching for Ms. Right, Sheng is challenged by a couple of lady killers, Lolento (Natalis Chan) and Valentine (Hsieh Hsien) in his quest to get girls. Eventually, little does Sheng know that the girl he happens to love is near him everyday at home.
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On the Wrong Track
Title: On the Wrong Track
Character: Guard
Released: April 15, 1983
Type: Movie
A look at two brothers, whose reckless careers as gang members create conflict with friends, family, the police, school and their lives.
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Tales of a Eunuch
Title: Tales of a Eunuch
Character: Casino clerk
Released: March 24, 1983
Type: Movie
The story follows a "loveable" rascal as he gambles and gets into various bits of trouble with outlaws and rebels. He eventually gets into a situation where he has to impersonate the eunuch servant of an elderly eunuch who is an evil martial art master. This gets the rascal involved with the emperor who is studying martial arts. The whole movie revolves around a quest for all the copies of a special Buddhist text.
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Portrait in Crystal
Title: Portrait in Crystal
Released: March 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Several mysterious killings take place in the underworld. A war fighter trying to find the culprit behind these murders. He finds that the victims are killed by a crystal statue. The statue is made of an ordinary man who is good at sculpting, but is controlled by an evil demon and warrior knows that he must stop the demon before several statues will. While traveling man who created the statue out to find his statue to prove his innocence.
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Roving Swordsman
Title: Roving Swordsman
Character: Constable
Released: January 28, 1983
Type: Movie
Traveling swordsman Shen Sheng-yi (Ti Lung) and his lady friend match wits and swords with the last surviving member of the once great Murung family who is determined to rule the martial world by stealing plans to crafting firearms.
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The Weird Man
Title: The Weird Man
Character: Xu Gong's thug
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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Mercenaries from Hong Kong
Title: Mercenaries from Hong Kong
Character: Wen's man
Released: December 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Ti Lung plays a Vietnam vet who's now an 'honourable' mercenary-for-hire taking on an assignment tracking down an assassin who's fled to Cambodia after murdering an industrialist from Hong Kong. He recruits a team for the task which consists of who's who of the Shaw Brother's action stars (Lo Lieh, Johnny Wang Lung Wei, Wong Yue, Chan Wei Man and comedy relief Nat Chan). However once they arrived for the mission nothing is what it seems with the standard plot-twists and turns as we find out who's the traitor among the group.
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Ode to Gallantry
Title: Ode to Gallantry
Character: Zhangle gang
Released: December 16, 1982
Type: Movie
In this entertaining, surprisingly lighthearted martial arts extravaganza, Kuo Chue, finds himself being confused with his doppelganger time and time again. With each case of mistaken identity, he becomes drawn into a number of heated conflicts between several rival schools and gangs - a dilemma that he just isn't prepared to deal with! As he is pulled to and fro by circumstances, there's no telling where the day will take him! By the film's end, he's sure to learn some valuable lessons about brotherhood and honor, but at what price?
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My Rebellious Son
Title: My Rebellious Son
Character: Johnny's supporter at boxing match
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: Tong's servant
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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Buddha's Palm
Title: Buddha's Palm
Released: August 20, 1982
Type: Movie
When Long Jian-fei is tossed from a cliff by the new sweetheart of his meanspirited ex-girlfriend, the friendly Dameng dragon-dog saves the hapless man's life, and brings him to Flame Cloud Devil, the blind master of the Buddha's Palm technique.
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Five Element Ninjas
Title: Five Element Ninjas
Character: Hong's Man
Released: April 21, 1982
Type: Movie
A young martial artist vows to take revenge against the ninja who murdered his martial arts master and brothers. He finds a new teacher and faces, together with his new brothers, the Five Element Ninja challenge.
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House of Traps
Title: House of Traps
Character: Cao De Yu
Released: January 9, 1982
Type: Movie
It all started with The Five Venoms, the internationally loved kung-fu thriller. It continued through more than a dozen bloody good entertainments featuring the same actors in different roles. This is considered the last official "Venoms" movie, but what a film it is. There's one plasma-spurting attack after another as heroes and rogues alike try to solve the secrets of this hell house. The core Venoms themselves choreograph the gory fun in this fond farewell to their worldwide film series sensation!
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Murderer Pursues
Title: Murderer Pursues
Character: Crazy Ming
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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Challenge of the Gamesters
Title: Challenge of the Gamesters
Character: Train passenger's relative / gangster
Released: April 30, 1981
Type: Movie
A forerunner to the new wave gambling films, this is one of Wong Jing's first hits--before he would go on to dominate Hong Kong cinema for the next two decades. Although rife with Japanese spies, Shanghai tycoons, beautiful starlets, and enough intrigue to keep 007 happy, Bond himself would be no match for the heroes' skill at mahjong and other games Hong Kong gamblers play--proving that the cube is often mightier than the baccarat card.
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Lost Souls
Title: Lost Souls
Character: Hok's thug
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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Legend of the Fox
Title: Legend of the Fox
Character: Guinong's man
Released: November 15, 1980
Type: Movie
Chin Siu Ho plays a young man who believes himself to be an orphan. Until one rainy night when he and three different men find themselves taking shelter from the storm in the same place. Here the man who raised him tells him at last the story of who his parents were. His father (Lu Feng) was a great swordsman trying to dispel rumors of a wrongdoing and return a lost sword to its rightful owner. Kuo Choi and Chiang Sheng (also master swordsmen) are the parties that Lu Feng is trying to rectify things with. Through cowardly trickery on Chiang's part, a duel ensues and it all winds up with Lu's death. His son is taken to safety by a servant (the man who since raised him). Now with the truth told, Chin Siu Ho seeks out Kuo Choi's aid and seeks vengeance for the wrongful death of his father.
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Rendezvous with Death
Title: Rendezvous with Death
Character: Soldier
Released: October 17, 1980
Type: Movie
Sun Chung had been recognized as an expert comedy and crime thriller director, but he was to gain even greater acclaim for his soulful, powerful, intelligent, and beautifully-made martial arts epics. This stands alongside The Deadly Breaking Sword and The Kung-fu Instructor as one of his very best. It’s not so much the plot – a master swordsman protects a treasure chest on a dangerous journey – that makes this great, but what Sun does with it, inspiring the cast and crew to some of their finest work.
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Haunted Tales
Title: Haunted Tales
Released: April 19, 1980
Type: Movie
1. A crash leaves a man dead, and his wife badly injured. Soon, he returns as a ghost to try to take her with him. 2. A caretaker wins the lottery thanks to the saucer spirit. Things begin to go wrong when he breaks his promise to it.
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The Flag of Iron
Title: The Flag of Iron
Character: Iron Abacus Jin Bu Wan
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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Ten Tigers of Kwangtung
Title: Ten Tigers of Kwangtung
Character: Man at Eatery
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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The Fighting Fool
Title: The Fighting Fool
Character: Friend of assassin
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
It's Meng Yuan-wen (star of The Master Strikes) versus Kuan Feng in this wild and wacky wushu saga of a priceless pole with a spectacular secret. A master martial artist's silly disciple struggles to save it from an evil white slaver, the slaver's duplicitous wife, and even his own bone-headed, but greedy, companion. Hsu Hsia choreographs the abundant action, as he had for both Five Superfighters and Drunken Master. The result is both sublime (for its kung-fu) and engagingly ridiculous.
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Crippled Avengers
Title: Crippled Avengers
Character: Du's Thug
Released: December 21, 1978
Type: Movie
A group of martial artists seek revenge after being crippled by Tu Tin-To, a martial arts master, and his son.
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Bank Busters
Title: Bank Busters
Released: December 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Hong Kong crime movie from 1978