Sai Gwa-Pau

Sai Gwa-Pau

Born: October 7, 1918
Died: March 12, 2001
in Guangdong, China

Movies for Sai Gwa-Pau...

Mean Street Story
Title: Mean Street Story
Character: Serves cake
Released: May 6, 1995
Type: Movie
Miu (Ekin Cheng) grew up on Temple Street, where most of the gangsters in the area gathered, but he never hung around with them. When he accidentally kills a mobster he is imprisoned, and his life is changed forever. Upon his release, everything around him is different. He is now stuck in the sinking pit of the triad influence, and can neither escape from the merciless killings of the underworld, nor run away from the traps of the ordinary world. The only thing in his life that stays the same, is his love Sue. But is that enough to keep him from going over the edge?
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Best of Best
Title: Best of Best
Character: Insurance buyer
Released: May 5, 1994
Type: Movie
An eccentric tale of competition and corruption within a seemingly ordinary insurance company. When a young female insurance agent is found murdered, what was supposed to be a routine police investigation turns into front page news when the victim was alleged to have traded sex for insurance policies
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Small Potato
Title: Small Potato
Released: August 13, 1993
Type: Movie
An aspiring Hong Kong actor slowly realizes he must pay his dues before achieving success.
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Operation Scorpio
Title: Operation Scorpio
Character: Waiter
Released: September 10, 1992
Type: Movie
Budding comic book artist Yu Shu finds himself living out the fantasies of his alternate world when he saves a young girl from an illegal prostitution racket. With the aid of his fecund imagination and the help of an aging kung fu expert Yu Shu becomes something even he had never dared dream -- a hero in real life.
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Once Upon a Time a Hero in China
Title: Once Upon a Time a Hero in China
Character: Villager scolding Ah So
Released: August 8, 1992
Type: Movie
The story of a cook who tries to stop an opium ring in ancient China.
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Title: Man from Guangdong
Released: October 10, 1991
Type: TV
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Her Fatal Ways 2
Title: Her Fatal Ways 2
Character: Min's friend on tour bus
Released: June 13, 1991
Type: Movie
Mainland Inspector Cheng Shih-Nan once again leaves the Mainland with her cousin Hsiou Sheng to tackle a Hong Kong-related murder. They get help from their Hong Kong brethren, including the brother of Wu Kei Kuo, and the race is on to find the bad guys! But there are still many mysterious portions of Hong Kong’s capitalist culture for Shih-Nan to explore, including the wonder of karaoke!
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An Eternal Combat
Title: An Eternal Combat
Character: Reader of Imperial Edict
Released: January 5, 1991
Type: Movie
1000 years before our time: Master Cho-Lo, a Taoist priest (Lam Ching-Ying) and his two understudies (Gabriel Wong and Shing Fui On) go on a quest to fight an evil Japanese demon. When the Taoist priest and his two helpers impose a ritual on the demon, they're all thrown into a time vortex and finally find themselves in modern day Hong Kong. Now the fight continues – in a different time and with many new problems ...
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When Fortune Smiles
Title: When Fortune Smiles
Character: Stuttering Chauffeur
Released: September 27, 1990
Type: Movie
The story revolves around a massive inheritance from a rich man, whose nephew is plotting to seize the fortune from his daughter Fei Fei. He hires a petty thief, nicknamed "Tricky Star" to court Fei Fei in an attempt to steal all the money. But it turns out that Fei Fei is a fake who works for the rich man's evil son.
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Sunshine Friends
Title: Sunshine Friends
Released: September 15, 1990
Type: Movie
The war of ratings is over when Mars TV, with its two popular shows bears down Earth TV. Mak, the boss of Mars TV, plan to takeover Earth TV while Lee, the boss of Earth TV wants to jump from a skyscraper to make publicity for his station.
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Her Fatal Ways
Title: Her Fatal Ways
Character: Tsu's ex KMT comrade
Released: June 28, 1990
Type: Movie
Cheng Shih-Nan is a Mainland inspector who journeys to Hong Kong with her assistant and cousin Hsiou Sheng to deliver a ruthless criminal. But the bad guy escapes, meaning Shih-Nan and Hsiou Sheng are now stuck in capitalist Hong Kong for an extended stay! A flag-waving supporter of the Communist Party, Shih-Nan marvels at the “decadent” lifestyle of her Hong Kong counterpart, Inspector Wu Kei Kuo. But despite the culture clash, the two disparate cops find the common ground they need to dispense justice – and even discover something akin to romance! But will the Party approve?
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Erotic Ghost Story
Title: Erotic Ghost Story
Character: Cafe owner
Released: May 19, 1990
Type: Movie
Three vixens have meditated for 1,000 years to able to shed their animal natures and become human. For the final month of their rigors, they have moved near a village where women pray to a god of fertility. One sister visits the god's temple and thinks lustful thoughts. As she leaves, a priest confronts her, warning of dire consequences and of demons that will try to stop the vixens' transformation. Soon, the youngest sister saves a poor scholar from bandits and becomes enamored of him. Each sister visits him, and before long, the youth has made love to all three. After they invite him to stay with them, the playfulness takes a scary turn. Where can they turn for help?
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Three Against the World
Title: Three Against the World
Character: Guest at hotel reception
Released: September 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Three Against The World is a 1988 Hong Kong action film directed by Brandy Yuen and starring Andy Lau and Rosamund Kwan.
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The Greatest Lover
Title: The Greatest Lover
Character: Beggar
Released: July 30, 1988
Type: Movie
A delightful comedy about three illegal immigrants from China, one of whom (Chow) gets roped into a gentleman-training course - taught by Mui - in order to take revenge on some bitchy beauties who jilted a nasty fellow. Kinda like a gender-reversed My Fair Lady.
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Devil and the Ghostbuster
Title: Devil and the Ghostbuster
Character: Old Man Scared by Ghost
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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Ghost's Hospital
Title: Ghost's Hospital
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Because of a hospital hex, whenever a certain patient sleeps he visits a supernatural world of hopping zombies and warring priests.
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Flaming Brothers
Title: Flaming Brothers
Character: Resident of old folks home
Released: July 30, 1987
Type: Movie
Two blood brothers (Chow Yun Fat and Alan Tang), who have grown up on the streets of Macau, are bound together by a special code of honour. However, this bond ultimately leads them into brutal conflict when they struggle to leave the violent world they live in.
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My Cousin, the Ghost
Title: My Cousin, the Ghost
Character: Ms. Wong's father
Released: January 9, 1987
Type: Movie
Cousin Big (Richard Ng) returns home from the UK in order to find a wife and settle down. He has previously driven out his illegal immigrant friend Ma (Wu Ma) from the UK and the scores aren't settled. That is all cast aside when not only one, not two but three ghosts are to be dealt with and one is Cousin Big who has fallen in love with one of the ghosts (Wong Man-Si)...
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The Ghost Snatchers
Title: The Ghost Snatchers
Character: Bong's father
Released: September 30, 1986
Type: Movie
Vengeful spirits of Japanese soldiers from World War II haunt a new high-rise office building in Hong Kong.
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The Family Strikes Back
Title: The Family Strikes Back
Released: March 27, 1986
Type: Movie
Professor Kiu is a mad scientist who developed mental disorders from grieving the death of his son. Kiu orders his assistants to kidnap men to his lab, located in a private container on a vessel, for experiments. Police inspector Uncle Wah had sent his subordinates to gather evidence in the vessel, but failed to find any. Shek La-mai, an acrobatic performer and a former commander of the Special Duties Unit is a single father of three children. One night during a performance with his protege, Lam Hong, witnessed and intervened in a kidnapping incident by Kiu's henchmen, and the two became targets of Kiu. On the other hand, Uncle Wah discovers Shek's resemblance to a Japanese scientist named Toyota, who colluded with Kiu. Wah formulates a plan for Shek to act undercover as Toyota in order to gather evidence from Kiu's lab.
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Puppy Love
Title: Puppy Love
Released: September 7, 1985
Type: Movie
Story is about a couple of girls named Ching (Lam San San) and An An (Pak Wan Yin) who have been rivals ever since they were little kids. The main gist of the story, besides trying to go one up on each other, deals with the girls’ hot pursuit of super jock, Paul (Chan Chun Kwok). Ching is the first one to gain Paul’s attention while An An is busy toying with geeky looking Michael’s (Dicky Cheung) love for her. Eventually, Paul gets tired of Ching and Michael wakes up and realizes that An An is playing him and to rub salt in their wounds, Paul decides that An An is the one for him! Next thing you, kiddy hijinks ensue as Michael and Ching feign suicide to make Paul and An An feel guilty, but when the latter believes that the suicide is for real, they too (half heartedly) decide to take their own lives. Michael and Ching must rush to save them from death, but during the whole near explosive melee, they come to the conclusion that they were made for each other.
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Crazy Games
Title: Crazy Games
Released: January 25, 1985
Type: Movie
In order to get a job as a ghostbuster, Loletta Lee poses as a mannamed Joe. Later on, her young co-workers see a beautiful young girl around town and decide to see who can win her heart first. Little do they know that beautiful girl is actually Joe.
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Title: The Friendly Halves II
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: TV
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I Will Finally Knock You Down, Dad!
Title: I Will Finally Knock You Down, Dad!
Released: November 2, 1984
Type: Movie
There is an underlying story about a lazy son who knows some kung fu but mostly fakes it to show off. After being exposed he does good by improving his skills to the point where he can finally knock down his kung fu master father.
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Shanghai Blues
Title: Shanghai Blues
Character: Rich Man Who Pinches Stool's Behind
Released: October 11, 1984
Type: Movie
In 1937 Shanghai, a soon-to-depart soldier meets a young woman under a bridge during a Japanese air raid. They vow to meet after the war ends, but they don't know each other's name or face. Ten years later, the young woman, a nightclub singer, takes in a naive girl fresh from the country. The country girl falls in love with the would-be song-writer upstairs who, unbeknownst to the singer, is none other than the soldier from the bridge.
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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: Waiter
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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Return of Bastard Swordsman
Title: Return of Bastard Swordsman
Character: Servant of fake fortune teller's son
Released: May 8, 1984
Type: Movie
Just when audiences thought the director couldn't get more spectacular and outrageous, he unleashed this eye-filling, mind-bending "Martial Arts World" sequel of clan rivalries, ninja atrocities, wizard sorceries, and the mythical Silkworm style that changes our hero into a veritable Spider-swordsman. The screen practically explodes with colorful characters and kung-fu -- all directed, co-written, and co-choreographed by Lu Chun-ku, and showcasing some of the best Shaw Brothers action stars. The original Bastard Swordsman was just the beginning, this superlative cult classic that out-phantasmagoricals the original.
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Yellow Peril
Title: Yellow Peril
Released: March 15, 1984
Type: Movie
Alan Tang Kwong-Wing is a young family man in San Francisco whose sense of obligation to his gangster cousin conflicts with his home life. When he is falsely accused of the murders of some Vietnamese gangsters, Tang flees to his native Hong Kong, followed closely by his wife and small child, a corrupt CIA agent (as if there were anything else), and the remaining Vietnamese gang members out for revenge. The wife and kid get kidnapped, but Tang and a friend kick everyone's ass, with the wife helping out in rather unexpected ways.
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Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street
Title: Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street
Character: Rickshaw
Released: January 25, 1984
Type: Movie
A master thief is duped by lookalikes for James Bond and the Queen of England into stealing a valuable gem from a heavily guarded location then must help the police recover it.
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Descendant of the Sun
Title: Descendant of the Sun
Character: Villager
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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Obsessed
Title: Obsessed
Released: December 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Hong Kong horror film.
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Aces Go Places II
Title: Aces Go Places II
Released: November 11, 1983
Type: Movie
An assassin called Filthy Harry is hired by a shady figure and charged with killing the heroes. The men are framed twice for different robberies by King Kong's new girlfriend, nearly committed to a mental hospital by their devious boss, and forced to battle Filthy Harry's weaponry-laden robot while covered with time bombs.
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The Red Panther
Title: The Red Panther
Character: Taxi driver
Released: October 27, 1983
Type: Movie
A cop suffering from "posterior ulcers" tries to catch a serial killer who seeks out victims with medical problems. One suspect is a man who makes pies from guts, which the cop inadvertantly eats. Eventually the hero cop finds himself tied to an operating table with the killer preparing to deal with his "posterior ulcers"!
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The Boxer's Omen
Title: The Boxer's Omen
Character: Man in Audience (extra) (uncredited)
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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Winners & Sinners
Title: Winners & Sinners
Character: Medicine Seller's Assistant
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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Holy Flame of the Martial World
Title: Holy Flame of the Martial World
Character: Uncle Ken
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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Title: The Friendly Halves
Released: April 8, 1983
Type: TV
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The Lady Is the Boss
Title: The Lady Is the Boss
Character: (extra) (uncredited)
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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All the Wrong Spies
Title: All the Wrong Spies
Character: Police commissioner's servant
Released: March 31, 1983
Type: Movie
In Hong Kong, Circa 1940s, World War II, private detective Yoyo and friend Inspector Teddy Robin join a resistance group during the Japanese occupation. They aim to steal back the formula to the atomic bomb from a war traitor and transfer it to an American before the formula ends up in the Japanese emperor's hands.
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Tales of a Eunuch
Title: Tales of a Eunuch
Character: Casino clerk/Brothel
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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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Title: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Character: Villager who report UFO
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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Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
Title: Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain
Character: Boatman
Released: February 5, 1983
Type: Movie
In the fifth century, constant civil war scars western China. To escape death, Ti, a young scout, jumps through a crevice in the Zu mountains where he gets entangled in a great battle against the Blood Demon, a supernatural entity seeking to wreak havoc upon the world.
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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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Hex After Hex
Title: Hex After Hex
Character: Tenant
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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Godfather from Canton
Title: Godfather from Canton
Character: Coffin keeper
Released: June 11, 1982
Type: Movie
A coolie is ofter a job a policeman after saving a government official, and through treachery and corruption rises through the ranks of the police, then becomes a gangster.
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Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman
Title: Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman
Character: 8th Prince's party guest
Released: May 13, 1982
Type: Movie
Chu Liu-hsiang, the charming, capable, and, yes, sentimental, swordsman is back in action for this extremely well-named third in the hit box-office series. The titanic team of director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung wisely choose to give their hero a whole new, non-stop, cliffhanger-fraught adventure featuring a mystery swordsman, a sensual swordswoman, an imperial assassin, a Ghost Mansion, the Bat Island, a booby-trapped tunnel, double crosses, and secret missions. And there are no fewer than three martial arts choreographers on hand to guide the amazing mayhem.
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Rolls, Rolls, I Love You
Title: Rolls, Rolls, I Love You
Character: Restaurant clerk
Released: April 18, 1982
Type: Movie
A teenager and a tycoon gets into an early morning road altercation that eventually lead to a bet: if the teenager can steal his beloved Rolls Royce car from him, the youngster will get to keep it. However, if the teenager fails to do that in the alloted time given, he will need to pay the tycoon HK$40,000.
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Passing Flickers
Title: Passing Flickers
Character: Whoremonger
Released: April 6, 1982
Type: Movie
The main characters - the arrogant, harassed director, the sexy starlet, or naïve actors are familiar enough stereotypes. Along the way however, there is some fun to be had as more humorous incidents occur on the sound stage, together with dashes of nudity. Some of the events are presumably inspired by real life experiences, others have a distinct air of wishful fabrication. The over-the-top Kung Fu star, deserted by director and crew as he goes through his pointless extended routine, for instance. Or the action heroes, sweating in furs while they dutifully munch through their meal scene, 'snow' falling outside in studio land.
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Clan Feuds
Title: Clan Feuds
Character: Restaurant waiter
Released: February 19, 1982
Type: Movie
Two young lovers, Yun Keng and Ching Shuang belong to opposing clans. Their relationship is a secret for a time. Once Master Diao, head of the Great Banner Clan, learns of this treachery he must execute his son by way of quartering. Ti Zhong Tang as well as Yun's hot headed brother, Yun Zheng try and coax the old man out of having his son put to death but to no avail. Just before the act is carried out, Ti knocks Yun Keng unconscious and he is willingly replaced by one of his brothers who is quickly killed. Master Diao and Ti swear to reveal the truth to no one. Ti vows to locate the whereabouts of the beautiful Ching Shuang so the two can be reunited in the hopes that their love will one day rebuild the Great Banner Clan.
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Food For The Sharks
Title: Food For The Sharks
Released: February 19, 1982
Type: Movie
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Legendary Weapons of China
Title: Legendary Weapons of China
Character: Inn Waiter
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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House of Traps
Title: House of Traps
Character: Prince's birthday guest (uncredited)
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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What Price Honesty?
Title: What Price Honesty?
Character: Bank teller
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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The Black Lizard
Title: The Black Lizard
Character: Banquet's guest
Released: November 26, 1981
Type: Movie
Young swordsman Lung Fei encounters strange omens portending the death of his fiancee Ting Tzu-chu. His enquiries with the help of Chief Constable Tieh Hu reveal an astounding story.
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Masked Avengers
Title: Masked Avengers
Released: May 15, 1981
Type: Movie
Philip Kwok plays a repentant killer who vows to destroy the masked gang of which he was a member. A young fighter and his martial arts brothers come to the town to catch the killers, but one of them is not to be trusted!
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An Old Kung Fu Master
Title: An Old Kung Fu Master
Released: May 2, 1981
Type: Movie
A movie starring Simon Yuen Siu-Tin as a Kung Fu master.
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Challenge of the Gamesters
Title: Challenge of the Gamesters
Character: Casino gambler
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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Dreadnaught
Title: Dreadnaught
Character: Hung's Servant
Released: March 26, 1981
Type: Movie
Mousy, a timid laundry man, crosses paths with a violent criminal known only as 'White Tiger', who hides amongst a theatre troupe, murdering anyone who discovers his identity.
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The Sword Stained with Royal Blood
Title: The Sword Stained with Royal Blood
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
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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Beware Of Pickpockets
Title: Beware Of Pickpockets
Released: February 5, 1981
Type: Movie
Mak Kar, a faithful and honest constable, was ordered to arrest Dean Saki, a pickpocket. However, each time he was caught, he was released by lack of evidence. Although Dean was a tricky man, the money he pickpocketed from those dirty rich people was spent on the seven poor orphans with whom he lived in an old shaky church. Dean had an intention to buy a house where he could keep more orphans.
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My Young Auntie
Title: My Young Auntie
Character: Shopper
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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Laughing Times
Title: Laughing Times
Released: December 24, 1980
Type: Movie
John Woo's Chaplin film. A homeless wanderer just happens across various articles of clothing that make him resemble Charlie Chaplin much to the amusement of passersby.
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The Magnificent Kick
Title: The Magnificent Kick
Released: December 18, 1980
Type: Movie
Veteran actor Kwan Tak Hing plays the legendary Hung Kuen master Wong Fei Hong in this story of the legendary ‘Shadow Kick’.
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Hex vs. Witchcraft
Title: Hex vs. Witchcraft
Character: Casino gambler
Released: November 19, 1980
Type: Movie
A compulsive gambler weds a ghost who helps and hinders him in both horrid and hilarious ways.
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By Hook or By Crook
Title: By Hook or By Crook
Character: Shopper laughing at Butcher Wing
Released: August 7, 1980
Type: Movie
'FLOWER KID' was a 'Robin Hood' type of hero who robs the rich and gives the poor. He was adored by many people especially a kid named 'FATSO', who considered himself as 'FLOWER KID jr.' Madam Bee, a woman of guts and evil hated 'FLOWER KID' because he once refused to kill her husband. She then married a rich 'Big Shot' and used his money and power to hire a bounty hunter called 'SKINNY'. Skinny caught the imitating hero 'Fatso'. They fought, understood, became good friends and went on look for 'Flower Kid'...
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Fearless Dragons
Title: Fearless Dragons
Released: June 11, 1980
Type: Movie
A shipment of gold, collected as charity, is high-jacked in transit. Two con-men witness the robbery, and become wrongly accused as the robbers. At first they compete to capture each other for the rewards on their heads; but eventually work together to find the gold and expose the real bandits. However, the bandit chief isn't giving up so easily....
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We're Going to Eat You
Title: We're Going to Eat You
Character: Villager
Released: April 2, 1980
Type: Movie
A secret agent investigates a village that is populated by crazed, inbred cannibals.
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The Convict Killer
Title: The Convict Killer
Character: Gambler
Released: February 28, 1980
Type: Movie
Teng Piao went to jail for fifteen years on a frame up for drug smuggling. Now that he's out, along with his iron chain, Teng Piao is hungry for revenge. The man he wants to beat with his chain is Black Leopard Lam Fei. The problem for Teng Piao is that he doesn't know who he is, only that he has a picture of a black leopard tattooed on his chest.
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The Young Master
Title: The Young Master
Character: Master Tien's Servant
Released: February 9, 1980
Type: Movie
Youthful martial arts master Lung is searching for his missing brother, when he is mistaken for a criminal on the run. He must prove his innocence by solving the case himself, while local lawmen and merciless mercenaries are hot on his trail.
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Heaven and Hell
Title: Heaven and Hell
Character: Gambler 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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Cunning Kids
Title: Cunning Kids
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Dragons in the night ,hideing in the darkness of the shadows of the night, lying in wait for the Prince of the dragons to be born , I should say hatched, they can hear the sounds of the pecks many miles away; it takes several thousand years for the egg of a Dragon to hatch , all the beasts of the wilderness,waiting for the moment the magnificent one will arrive —Sheila Johnson
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Ten Tigers of Kwangtung
Title: Ten Tigers of Kwangtung
Character: Gambler
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 Magnificent Butcher
Title: The Magnificent Butcher
Character: Ah So
Released: December 19, 1979
Type: Movie
A plump butcher student of Wong Fei Hung, Lam Sai-Wing gets into trouble with a rival kung-fu school known as Five Dragons. He is accused of raping the Head of that school's goddaughter and killing his son. Now Ko, the Head of Five Dragons, wants revenge.
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The Deadly Breaking Sword
Title: The Deadly Breaking Sword
Character: Brother worker
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: Teahouse customer
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 Dragon, The Odds
Title: The Dragon, The Odds
Released: July 27, 1979
Type: Movie
Mo is a gifted student in one of the village's dozens upon dozens of kung-fu schools. But when the master's away, he leaves the place in the hands of his best student Kang. But Kang rules with a cruel, iron fist. Little does anyone know, however, Kang is really the pupil of his Masters' old nemesis Ken Mo Fung 'The Golden Tiger'. Fung has instructed Kang to discredit the school publicly, then kill his Master by poisoning his tea.
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The Proud Twins
Title: The Proud Twins
Character: Martial artist after treasure (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: Stuttering servant
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 Kung Fu Instructor
Title: The Kung Fu Instructor
Character: Zhou Clan's villager
Released: June 16, 1979
Type: Movie
Two rival clans have unsuccessfully tried to hire the master of the good clan to teach his clan. Not willing to take no for an answer, they frame the master for a dirty deed that he didn't commit, which forces him to kill a man in battle. The townspeople attempt to kill him and he is forced to flee to the evil clan.
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The Daredevils
Title: The Daredevils
Character: Townsfolk
Released: June 9, 1979
Type: Movie
The General's son Yang escapes a massacre at his home that subsequently sees a corrupt, criminal syndicate in charge of the local forces. Seeking shelter with four good friends who are street performers, Yang plots his revenge though refuses to acknowledge the fearsome odds he faces. The quartet try to convince him to bide his time, but the young avenger sneaks into his former home and, after a battle against a few top fighters, is killed by their leader. When Yang's friends discover his tragic fate, they devise a way of defeating the killers without having to face their mighty army directly.
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Shaolin Rescuers
Title: Shaolin Rescuers
Character: Tofu shop customer
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 Shadow Boxing
Title: The Shadow Boxing
Character: Mourner
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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Full Moon Scimitar
Title: Full Moon Scimitar
Character: Duel observer (uncredited)
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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Bolo
Title: Bolo
Character: Old Bucktooth
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The super human Beast from the East takes on all comers!
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The Dragon, the Hero
Title: The Dragon, the Hero
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Dragon Lee fights foreign devils who are stealing antiquities from China.
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Crippled Avengers
Title: Crippled Avengers
Character: Hawker
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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Invincible Shaolin
Title: Invincible Shaolin
Character: Waiter
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: Patient with 3 wives
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: Lian Chengbi's guest (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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Hello Sexy Late Homecomers
Title: Hello Sexy Late Homecomers
Released: September 7, 1978
Type: Movie
A sex comedy by the Shaw Brothers studio.
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Enter the Fat Dragon
Title: Enter the Fat Dragon
Character: Stutterer on Bus
Released: July 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Ah Lung is a pig farmer and a devoted Bruce Lee fan who is anxious to follow in Lee's footsteps, but only ridiculed for his attempts. He is sent to the city to earn a living working at his uncle's restaurant, but when he arrives, he finds a gang of thugs causing trouble in the restaurant. He takes the chance to prove himself and attacks the thugs, defeating them and saving the restaurant. Soon, he becomes a waiter, and discovers a plot by the same thugs to kidnap a woman he works with. Eventually, he defeats the thugs once again and saves the day.
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Shaolin Mantis
Title: Shaolin Mantis
Character: Townsfolk (uncredited)
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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Shaolin Hand Lock
Title: Shaolin Hand Lock
Character: Carrots hawker
Released: June 10, 1978
Type: Movie
As an expert of the 'Cross fists' technique, a reclusive kung fu master Li Pai perfects a lethal maneuver called the 'Shaolin Handlock' while an old wolf-in-sheep's-clothing friend Fang Yun-piao pays the unwitting Li a visit. Armed with the deadly Handlock maneuver, Cheng-ying & Kun Shih joins forces to exact revenge on the evil Ling Hao after the truth is unraveled.
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Ten Tigers of Shaolin
Title: Ten Tigers of Shaolin
Character: Sick old man
Released: April 11, 1978
Type: Movie
The noble Ten Tigers, one woman and nine men, protect their Cantonese region the villainous Lord Yung and his underlings. When Yung kidnaps the wife of one of the Tiger's students, the Tigers disguise themselves as a Princess and her followers in an attempt to gain access to Yung's palace on his birthday.
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Clan of Amazons
Title: Clan of Amazons
Character: Waiter
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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Follow the Star
Title: Follow the Star
Character: Mahjong ghost
Released: February 4, 1978
Type: Movie
On that side of the track is Ah Sing (Roy Chiao), uncouth, unkempt, a garage repairman, a bravado with plenty of tricks up his overall sleeve. And on the other side of the track is rich, young recording artist Gayle (Rowena Cortes), idol of the young with her songs and dances, but an orphan. Harry is her manager. They should not meet, least to say forming some kind of partnership, but they do. Gayle goes to Ah Sing's garage for repairs. When Harry and she drive off, the car's undercarriage Ah Sing and drags him along. Fate steps in the form of five toughles who stop the car and kidnap Gayle to a farmhouse. It so happens that Gayle's father and the five were robbers but the father took off with all the money while the five were caught. They want the money back now they have served the time...
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The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Title: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Character: Townsfolk
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: Execution spectator
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
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: Hawker assistant and tenant
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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The Clumsy Gambler
Title: The Clumsy Gambler
Released: November 2, 1977
Type: Movie
Hong Kong comedy
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The Sentimental Swordsman
Title: The Sentimental Swordsman
Character: Cook
Released: October 14, 1977
Type: Movie
Due to his own extreme ideals, famed swordsman Li has lost everyone dear to him. After his life is saved by a rival swordsman, Li's overwhelming pride means he forsakes the woman he loves and lets her marry his saviour. Li's only comfort is alcohol and the simple life he has now accepted. On one such journey, the lonely swordsman befriends the exceptionally skilled, yet secretive Fei who has his own pressures to contend with. The person behind Li's troubles proves to be elusive, though all the clues seem to point to the legendary 'Plum Blossom Bandit', a disguised figure whose identity has long proved elusive to the martial world.
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Title: A House Is Not a Home
Released: August 1, 1977
Type: TV
A House Is Not a Home is a TVB television series, premiered on 1 August 1977. It is a very successful classic series boasting the likes of stars Liza Wang, Simon Yam, Ha Yu and also veteran actors like Bak Man-biu, Tang Pik-wan and Lee Heung-kam. The show became a 1970s drama classic, well-known also for its theme song, "A House Is Not a Home"; 家變, which was composed and arranged by Joseph Koo, with lyrics by the late Wong Jim and sung by Roman Tam.
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Deadly Chase for Justice
Title: Deadly Chase for Justice
Released: July 29, 1977
Type: Movie
When Lin and his bride are murdered during their honeymoon in Macao by three Japanese men. Inspector Tsung Hsuan-tung, quits his post and goes alone to Japan for revenge.
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To Kill a Jaguar
Title: To Kill a Jaguar
Character: Mr Kam's servant
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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Death Duel
Title: Death Duel
Character: Mourner/whoremonger
Released: July 6, 1977
Type: Movie
The Third Master is considered to be the greatest sword master of the day. His displays of skill and strength bring armies of challengers to his door, seeking the title for themselves. Not to be defeated, the Third Master fights evil, saves damsels in distress, and duels rival swordsmen to the death.
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The Criminals, Part 3: Arson
Title: The Criminals, Part 3: Arson
Character: Hotel clerk
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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King Gambler
Title: King Gambler
Character: Waiter
Released: November 24, 1976
Type: Movie
Chan is Peng Tianshi, who becomes the "Card Tyrant" in response to the gambling world dominance of the Sha family. But Peng also has a Sha family member blinded in retaliation for an earlier loss, leaving the Sha family with a debt of vengeance that needs to be repaid! Sha Tong (Zong Hua) sets in motion an elaborate plan to make turn the rich and affluent Peng into a penniless former king of the gambling world! But can the "Card Tyrant" be bested?
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The Web of Death
Title: The Web of Death
Character: Restaurant customer
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: Man in the tea house
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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Love Swindler
Title: Love Swindler
Character: Doctor Cho's patient
Released: September 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Vaunted director Li Han-Hsiang reveals the way of the world in this anthology film of four stories that feature far more swindlers and swindling than lovers or love. There's fake acupuncturists, gullible counterfeiters, a jewelry heist in a VD clinic, and a salesgirl's subtle scam in these short cinematic stories of gulls, dopes, marks, and fools and the cons, cheaters, charlatans, and connivers who trick them. It's four times the fraud as the cheats, gyps, and rip-offs come fast and furious!
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The Criminals, Part 2: Homicides
Title: The Criminals, Part 2: Homicides
Released: August 13, 1976
Type: Movie
An anthology film featuring four true-crime stories that took place in Hong Kong in the early 1970's.
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Challenge of the Masters
Title: Challenge of the Masters
Character: Villager
Released: May 7, 1976
Type: Movie
The Wong family kung fu school gets smacked around by a rival school. Wong Fei-hong gets fed up with the abuse and goes to learn from his fathers master. After one of the rival schools members kills some of the towns people Wong Fei-hong becomes enraged trains even more comes back and gets his revenge.
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Title: Wong Fay Hung
Released: May 3, 1976
Type: TV
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The Dragon Missile
Title: The Dragon Missile
Character: Inn waiter
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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Spirit of the Raped
Title: Spirit of the Raped
Character: Scared shop-seller
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 Spiritual Boxer
Title: The Spiritual Boxer
Character: Townsfolk
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 Last Message
Title: The Last Message
Character: Mental patient, likes death
Released: August 21, 1975
Type: Movie
Li (Sam Hui) works at a sanitarium as a male nurse, and Ah Tim (Michael Hui) is a handy man. One day, a bearded old man is sent into the sanitarium with a large bag. Ah Tim manages to steal the bag, and finds antique fragments inside. When the old man dies, the pair learn from his daughter that there is a sunken vessel that is loaded with much more than they already have, so they decide to go after the sunken treasure.
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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: Street vendor
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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Ghost Eyes
Title: Ghost Eyes
Character: Uncle Tak
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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The Tea House
Title: The Tea House
Character: Uncle Pau
Released: October 19, 1974
Type: Movie
Chen Kuan-Tai is Big Brother Cheng, a former refugee who runs a local teahouse in Hong Kong. Respected by his peers, Big Brother Cheng runs the teahouse - and unofficially the neighborhood - with a firm righteous hand. However, when the triads come calling, Big Brother Cheng finds out respect and common decency may not be enough. The triads use underage kids to terrorize the teahouse, and since the law won't do anything, Big Brother Cheng may have to step in and take care of it himself!
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The Mini-Skirt Gang
Title: The Mini-Skirt Gang
Character: Extra
Released: August 30, 1974
Type: Movie
A gang of several girls who operate as pickpockets in a busy and popular tourist area of Hong Kong preys on men who are attracted by their beauty.
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Sinful Confession
Title: Sinful Confession
Character: Mahjong den clerk
Released: August 16, 1974
Type: Movie
Arguably the funniest of the four famous Hui brothers, Michael has a tour-de-force vehicle in this naughty little comedy playing four different characters, each one in a compromising situation. And the laughs do come big and hearty as Hui bounces his cheeky humour off a terrific large supporting cast including the sophisticated Hu-chin and the lovely Pai Hsiao-man. Keeping the Benny Hill-style hi-jinks afloat is stalwart Shaw director Li han-hsiang who manages to switch flawlessly between these cheeky flings and his period epics.
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The Young Dragons
Title: The Young Dragons
Character: Brothel keeper
Released: July 25, 1974
Type: Movie
The powerful mobster Leung, who is protected by the dangerous and wicked Huan Fai, sells two hundred Japanese weapons and ammunition to a Chinese gang. He uses the smuggler Luy Fu to bring the weapons but the smalltime thief Kim and his gang heist the shipment on the road and dump the cargo into the sea. However, he lures Luy Fu and asks a large amount to return the weapons with the intention of traveling abroad with his brother. Meanwhile Kim befriends Fan Ming, an undercover police office from Shanghai that is investigating the illegal activities of Leung. When the mobster finds that Fan Ming is a policeman, Leung ambushes him and Huan Fai and his men stab the officer that falls from a cliff into the sea. Kim brings Fan Ming's fiancée Ipi Feng to the house of his lover, the prostitute Hung, and tells Ipi Feng that her fiancé was murdered by Leung. She decides to revenge the death of her beloved Fan Ming with tragic consequences.
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Sorrow of the Gentry
Title: Sorrow of the Gentry
Character: Poor tenant
Released: July 19, 1974
Type: Movie
shaw production
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Naughty! Naughty!
Title: Naughty! Naughty!
Character: Fruits hawker
Released: July 18, 1974
Type: Movie
Wu Te-chuan is a young man trying to make a living in an easy way. But now he is penniless and will being thrown out of his Macau hotel. Kind- hearted hotel maid Hsiao Yen is the only one to help him in the world. One day, Wu plays a trick on the hotel owner. The scheme backfires and Wu has to flee to Hong Kong. Wu saves desperate painter Hsin. He convinces Hsin that his painting will sell if he is dead. After Hsin pretend to be dead, his paintings really can be sold well, but backfires finally. Then, Wu and Hsin team up and engage themselves full time in con games, gambling and sex inclusive. Finally, Wu is being chased by the ring enforcers but is saved. Finding himself in love with Hsiao Yen, Wu decides to turn a new leaf and live properly ever after.
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The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
Title: The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
Character: (extra) (uncredited)
Released: July 11, 1974
Type: Movie
Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the cause of these phenomena, for the undead are controlled by the most diabolical force of all.... Count Dracula. But he is not alone- to aid him comes a mystical brotherhood of seven martial arts warriors.
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The Bod Squad
Title: The Bod Squad
Character: Buys Celia
Released: June 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Five Western girls are kidnapped by Chinese pirates and sold to a brothel. While they are being trained to become prostitutes, a couple of local citizens take mercy on them and plots their escape by teaching them kung-fu. The five scantily-clad girls, using their newfound martial arts skills then fight their way to freedom.
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Crazy Bumpkins
Title: Crazy Bumpkins
Character: Niu's boxing assistant
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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Gossip Street
Title: Gossip Street
Character: Resident of Gossip St
Released: May 17, 1974
Type: Movie
The place to be is flat number 8 on the second floor of the Gossip Street apartment building, where all the neighbors gather to gossip. The sitcom turns serious when a local mobster wants to change the place into a gambling den.
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Hong Kong 73
Title: Hong Kong 73
Character: Man queueing at hospital
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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Scandal
Title: Scandal
Character: Magistrate's servant
Released: April 12, 1974
Type: Movie
Director Li Han-hsiang teams up with Michael Hui in this tongue in cheek tale of extramarital affairs and corruption. Michael Hui and Wang Sheng are two loafers who prove they are good for something after all.
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Men from the Monastery
Title: Men from the Monastery
Released: April 3, 1974
Type: Movie
The majestic Ming dynasty is invaded by the Manchu troops, its upto the Shaolin monastery to fight them and save the fate of the nation.
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Land of the Brave
Title: Land of the Brave
Character: Beaten servant
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
An electrical engineer discovers that terrorists are planning to sabotage a power plant
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The Fate of Lee Khan
Title: The Fate of Lee Khan
Character: Customer at Inn
Released: December 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Lee Khan, a high official under Mongolian Emperor Yuan of the Yuan dynasty procures the battle map of the Chinese rebel Chu Yuan-Chang's army. Rebel spies, aided by treachery within Khan's ranks, strive to corner him in an inn.
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The Fate of Lee Khan
Title: The Fate of Lee Khan
Character: Inn customer
Released: December 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Lee Khan, a high official under Mongolian Emperor Yuan of the Yuan dynasty procures the battle map of the Chinese rebel Chu Yuan-Chang's army. Rebel spies, aided by treachery within Khan's ranks, strive to corner him in an inn.
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The Happiest Moment
Title: The Happiest Moment
Character: Sauna worker
Released: November 8, 1973
Type: Movie
Michael Hui plays four characters in this three-chapter, Hong Kong erotic comedy anthology set in Northern China during WWII.
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The House of 72 Tenants
Title: The House of 72 Tenants
Character: Taoist priest
Released: September 21, 1973
Type: Movie
Set during a period of depression, the film chronicles the daily lives of a single urban building split up into several separate units, and the actual people that dwell within.
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The Pirate
Title: The Pirate
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 Kiss of Death
Title: The Kiss of Death
Character: Attendant in toilet
Released: May 11, 1973
Type: Movie
One night a textile worker is sexually assaulted by five deviants. The young lady tries to cope with the aftermath of this dramatic event but her life is ruined. Like a shattered vase, the pieces can be put back together but it'll never be the same. Cheng get's a job as a bar girl. She meets the club's owner who was a former kung-fu fighter until he was crippled. Cheng uses her position as a B-girl to go after the losers who raped her, She soon learns from a sleazy doctor that she has contracted a dark V.D. called Viet-Nam Rose. Crushed, she begs Lo Lieh to teach her kung-fu. At first he refuses until he learns her secret. Furious, Lo Lieh teaches her his deadly fight techniques (such as a groin crunching blow).
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Facets of Love
Title: Facets of Love
Character: Waiter
Released: April 5, 1973
Type: Movie
This story is centering around a Ming Dynasty brothel that steams with secret erotic myths, trysts and twists of pleasurable indulgence. A shaw production
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Tiger
Title: Tiger
Released: March 15, 1973
Type: Movie
Hapkido Master Kim Jin Pal takes on a mass of Japanese bushido experts in occupied China Bolo plays Zatoichi hired by the Japanese as a last resort to take on the might of Kim's boot.
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The Villains
Title: The Villains
Character: Casino employee
Released: March 9, 1973
Type: Movie
A poor orphan seeks help from her wealthy uncle and his sons.
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The Lizard
Title: The Lizard
Character: Party musician
Released: November 1, 1972
Type: Movie
He steals from the rich and gives to the poor! Like Robin Hood, the title hero of The Lizard is a philanthropic thief, except the Lizard makes his rounds in 1930s Shanghai. Corrupt police chief Chen Can (Law Lit) is assigned to bring down the Lizard to appease the sinister Japanese forces, but the Lizard constantly eludes his grasp. Little does Chen Can know that the wily thief actually works for him! The Lizard's true identity is the mousy Cheng Long (Ngok Wah), who dons a mask and takes to the streets to spread his righteous message.
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Stranger in Hong Kong
Title: Stranger in Hong Kong
Character: Scared casino guest
Released: October 27, 1972
Type: Movie
A computer engineer working for an insurance company stops over in Hong Kong on his way to a conference. He gets tricked into breaking into a bank.
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Flower in the Rain
Title: Flower in the Rain
Released: September 22, 1972
Type: Movie
Lily Ho and Ling Yun are star-crossed lovers who suffer untold agonies before finally being united forever.
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The Delightful Forest
Title: The Delightful Forest
Character: Wine shop waiter
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 Killer
Title: The Killer
Character: Carries luggage in hotel
Released: August 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Chiao Tzu Wei hires a killer under the premise that the local government (run by the local kung fu school) is corrupt and extorting the people of the town. The killer happens to be Hsieh Chun (aka Hsiao Hu) who left town ten years ago. (When Hsieh Chun opens up a suitcase full of knives, you know that there is going to be tons of killing!). Thinking that the local kung fu school is bad, he goes over there to fight them. There is some reuniting of lost friends and some love between two of them. The bad guys are constantly double crossing everyone and this leads to total mayhem and carnage. The final fight scene (which is actually several fight scenes going from one to the next) is incredible, especially the blood soaked finale between the evil Japanese leader of the opium ring and the two brothers.
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Five Fingers of Death
Title: Five Fingers of Death
Character: Citizen (uncredited)
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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Finger of Doom
Title: Finger of Doom
Character: Waiter
Released: April 14, 1972
Type: Movie
This creepy kung fu film fight-fest centers on the evil Madame Kung Sun and her poisonous "Finger of Doom", a unique supernatural power which allows her to transform normal, everyday people into horrifying zombies! In the face of this devastating talent, only one person has the guts to stop Madame Kung Sun in her chilling bid for martial arts supremacy - the villainess' own sister. But it's not something she can do alone, so this heroic young woman joins forces with three world-weary martial artists, The brothers-in-arms were actually looking to retire from the world of Jiang Hu, but now find themselves thrown back into the mix, embarking on one last mission to save the world from machinations of the venomous Madame Kung Sun!
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The Water Margin
Title: The Water Margin
Character: Lu's servant (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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The Boxer from Shantung
Title: The Boxer from Shantung
Character: Wrestling Spectator (extra)
Released: February 11, 1972
Type: Movie
Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection is his famed fighting technique.
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The Boxer from Shantung
Title: The Boxer from Shantung
Character: Wrestling spectator
Released: February 11, 1972
Type: Movie
Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection is his famed fighting technique.
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The Human Goddess
Title: The Human Goddess
Character: Nightclub customer
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Li Ching is the Seventh Sister, an angel who comes down from heaven to see what life in Hong Kong is like. In Hong Kong, she runs into Zili(Chin Feng), a reincarnated version of her deceased lover, Dong Yong. Zili, with help from cook Uncle Bull(the warm, portly Peng Peng), do their best to watch over homeless kids in an run-down orphanage. However, a heartless tycoon named Xu Caifa wants the land where the orphanage is and he's willing to go to extremes to get it. Armed with omnipotent powers, spirit, and help from her "celestial sisters", Seventh Sister works to defend Zili, Uncle Bull, and the orphans from Xu Caifa.
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The Long Chase
Title: The Long Chase
Character: Painter
Released: December 31, 1971
Type: Movie
Yueh Hua stars as an assassin who flees after killing a hated prime minister, with Lo Lieh as the relentless imperial guard who pursues him to a remote village being terrorized by bandits. When Yueh takes over the identity of a county officer newly assigned to the village, his ruse is assisted by a pretty innkeeper's daughter (Li Ching) who insists to Lieh that Yueh is indeed the county officer and happens also to be the cousin who was betrothed to her as a child. The confused innkeeper is persuaded by his daughter to support the ruse, thus delaying Lieh's efforts to arrest the wanted man.
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Lady with a Sword
Title: Lady with a Sword
Character: (extra) (uncredited)
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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Duel of Fists
Title: Duel of Fists
Character: Thai Boxing judge (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Two men, one a businessman skilled in Kung Fu, the other a kickboxer discover they are brothers, and together, both in and out of the ring, they must face a crime syndicate. One of the first films to use the martial art of Muay Thai.
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Duel for Gold
Title: Duel for Gold
Character: Waiter
Released: June 11, 1971
Type: Movie
Soon-to-be legendary director Chu Yuan had just joined the Shaw Brothers when he helmed this thriller of bickering bandits. Audiences loved watching three pairs of cunning male and female crooks trying to steal a million gold taels from the Fu Lai Treasury House...not knowing that one of them is actually an undercover hero. Even without him, there's no honor amongst thieves, so the double-crosses and deadly duels come fast and furious, all choreographed by Hsu Erh-niu.
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My Beloved
Title: My Beloved
Released: April 16, 1971
Type: Movie
A romantic melodrama from Lung Kong that is more commercially minded than his earlier films, starring Jenny Hu.
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Lucky Seven
Title: Lucky Seven
Character: Pickpocket victim
Released: July 29, 1970
Type: Movie
Tina Ti leads a star-studded cast in this hilarious farce as a pickpocket who, while fleeing the police, stumbles into an apartment occupied by seven single men. All hungry for a woman's affection, the men agree to take her in. However, what she doesn't know is that each of the men is coming up with ridiculous ways to have their way with her. A surreal comedy about sexual repression and sexual fantasies, the film mocks the desperate measures people take in the name of sexual gratification. Even though it is an erotic comedy at heart, it is never lewd or exploitative. In fact, like other Cantonese films at the time, the story even ends on a moralistic note as Tam Bing-man's character convinces the pickpocket to turn herself in and mend her ways.
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Happy Times
Title: Happy Times
Released: February 5, 1970
Type: Movie
Hong Kong comedy film.
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The Love Auction
Title: The Love Auction
Character: Office cleaner
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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Supreme Sword
Title: Supreme Sword
Released: September 24, 1969
Type: Movie
When a family is bankrupted by a counterfeiter named Gold Fist, the daughter (played by Connie Chan) vows to get revenge. As she tracks down the villains, she comes across a drifter who is escorting a young man to his father, who is being kept in captivity by a gang of thieves. When it is discovered that the captive father and Gold Fist are the same person, loyalty and friendship are put to the test.
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Wong Fei-Hung's Combat with the Five Wolves
Title: Wong Fei-Hung's Combat with the Five Wolves
Released: May 20, 1969
Type: Movie
Wong Fei-Hung takes on the the five wolves gang.
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The Story of a Discharged Prisoner
Title: The Story of a Discharged Prisoner
Character: Ah Han
Released: September 12, 1967
Type: Movie
Lee Jwo Horng is fresh out of jail after doing time for 15 years. By then his fiancée Betty has already become the mistress of triad boss One-Eye Jack. Lee doesn't want his younger brother Chih Shen to look down upon him, so he decides to keep his release a secret from Chih Shen, and finds accommodation with his friend Ah Han instead. Jack forces Lee to team up with him again for more criminal jobs, but, determined to clean up his act and stay out of trouble, Lee doesn't yield to his pressure. Jack then turns his attention to Chih Shen and lures him to the dark side instead...
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How Master Cute Thrice Saved The Idiot Ming
Title: How Master Cute Thrice Saved The Idiot Ming
Character: Hospital patient
Released: July 13, 1966
Type: Movie
The third live action Old Master Q movie depicts drama and hilarity between a young couple during their hardships.
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Master Cute and Da Fanshu
Title: Master Cute and Da Fanshu
Released: May 10, 1966
Type: Movie
The continuation of the Old Master Q film series.
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Book Without Words
Title: Book Without Words
Released: December 29, 1965
Type: Movie
Book Without Words is a 1965 Cantonese martial arts film directed by Chan Lit-Ban and starring Cheung Ching.
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The Girl in the Bus
Title: The Girl in the Bus
Character: Rich man/ Gentleman
Released: September 29, 1965
Type: Movie
Bus Money dons various disguises on public buses to protect the defenceless from the bullies and receives heroic praise. Money meets Tai Ngau, a righteous journalist, when they bear witness to the callous response of Manager Mo to the death of his servant Ah-kwai. Tai writes to redress grievances of the deceased. When visiting the family of orphans, he chances on his kindred spirit giving the eldest daughter Ah-yin a gift of gold. Money exploits the weakness of Mo and her connection with his son Sze-fu to swindle a fortune out of the lewd man for the benefits of the fatherless children. Her rage grows learning that Mo's friend Fong Hak-sang has pulled off a lucrative fraud on returned overseas Chinese and forces Ah-yin to pledge herself in paying off her father's debts. Money, who has all kinds of tricks up her sleeve, teams up with Tai and gives Mo and Fong their comeuppance before setting off on her next mission.
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The All-powerful Flute: Part 2
Title: The All-powerful Flute: Part 2
Released: August 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Yuan Xiao is chased by the panther head monster, and starts a fierce fight. Wang Gunlong and Min Tianhu take the opportunity to capture the flute.
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Master Cute
Title: Master Cute
Released: August 4, 1965
Type: Movie
The first appearance of the comic character Old Master Q and friends.
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Lady Spy No. 1
Title: Lady Spy No. 1
Released: May 20, 1965
Type: Movie
Guerrilla fighter Lam Suet-fan is in charge of the operation which succeeds in crippling the traitorous activities of Ting Chuen. An infuriated Ting strikes back, swamping the occupied territory with spies and exposes the singer disguise of Lam's comrade Laura who is made his mistress. Through the discreet help from Ting's cousin Sai-kit who goes undercover as the traitor's house guest, a series of offensives are launched, resulting in heavy casualties in the Japanese camp. With pressure mounting on both sides, guerrilla leader Lady Spy No.1 entrusts the mission of bombing Ting's signal tower to Lam who will then lead the troop in retreat. The mission fails, leading to the arrest of Lam and Sai-kit. Laura puts her life at stake in order to accomplish the mission and before she expires, reveals herself to be their leader and names Lam her successor to lead the troop to its stronghold in the north. (Synopsis based on audiovisual materials)
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The Curse
Title: The Curse
Released: March 17, 1965
Type: Movie
HK horror film.
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Spy No. 13
Title: Spy No. 13
Character: Mr. Ou
Released: November 11, 1964
Type: Movie
During World War II, spy Wu Lai-sheung is instructed by her superior Fan Yeung-shan to murder spy number 13 Cheung Chi-ping. While Wu establishes a relationship with Sakei, the assistant general of the Japanese army, she also gets acquainted with Cheung. Cheung and Wu fall in love. Wu recommends Cheung to become Sakei's driver. Cheung pretends to court the Japanese spy Siu-kuen, but Siu-kuen arranges to kill the spies contacting with him. Cheung has seen through Kuen's identity for long. When Kuen is going to kill Wu, Cheung kills Kuen, Fan compels Wu to kill Cheung. Wu follows the instruction to murder Cheung. After the murder, Wu disappears. After the war, Fan discovers Wu ends up in asylum. When he visits Wu, he tells her of Cheung's innocence. This breaks Wu's heart. Cheung turns out to have seen through Wu's identity for a long time and pretended to have been killed to cover up his identity and facilitate his work. With the truth known and the war ended, Cheung and Wu married.
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Horror by the Sea
Title: Horror by the Sea
Character: Detective A
Released: May 27, 1964
Type: Movie
HK horror film.
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The Diary of a Husband
Title: The Diary of a Husband
Character: Lung's servant Ah Fat
Released: May 27, 1964
Type: Movie
The Diary of a Husband serves as an illustration for the arrival of the white-collar economy, in which the extended family is replaced by the smaller nuclear family. It is a story about four pals who work at the same office, which, like other white-collar workplaces, has become the men's primary site of life, where livings are made and friendships fostered. Meanwhile, their wives have fostered something of their own—a brigade to catch cheating husbands. Much comedy is then generated by the cat-and-mouse game between the men and the women...The battle line drawn here between the sexes remains for years, to the extent that this very same story has been retold many times in Hong Kong films, including Men Suddenly in Black, the 2003 Pang Ho-cheung film with a similar Chinese title.
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Madame Rose
Title: Madame Rose
Character: Ah Ngau
Released: May 13, 1964
Type: Movie
In high society there is a Madam Rose. Shum Chung-kei meets her and is enthralled. They begin dating. Kei knows very little about Rose. When Rose was little, her father Fok Wing-sum was betrayed by his business partner Shum Hung, who made him lose all his money. Hung was put in jail. Years later, when the Sino-Japanese war broke out, Hung reappeared as a spy. He arrested Sum. Although Sum escaped later, Hung caught his wife, who died later. Madam Rose wants to find Hung's offspring to take revenge. When she confirms that Kei is Hung's son, she approaches him. They are getting married. Kei invites his father to the wedding. Rose and Sum are anxious. However, Hung is alert and comes quietly. He discovers who Rose is and her motives. Rose and Sum go to Hung and they fight. Hung is guilty. He tries to jump off a cliff. Sum saves him. The enmity disappears. Kei and Rose stay together.
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The Devil and Her Magic Needles, Part Two
Title: The Devil and Her Magic Needles, Part Two
Character: Toothless Tiger
Released: January 15, 1964
Type: Movie
'Ghostly Mother Blue Flower' Chiu Choi-wan has abducted a group of virgin boys and girls for the nourishment of her mind and soul. Alarmed by the abduction, Yiu But-fan, Kau Suet-mui and Hung Tin-bo make a night raid on the Hanshan Temple to release the children and set a torch to the bandit lair. Fuming over the arson, Chiu casts a spell on Kau, who kills the father of Chuk Yuk-heung in her cross-dressing persona as Yiu. Confronted by the angry Chuk clansmen at the Chuk Fortress, Yiu tries futilely to defend his innocence. Believing that Chiu has masterminded the framed murder, the fugitive infiltrates the White-bone Yinyang Cave where he finds himself attacked by Kau and Chiu. Demon-vanquishing Magic Monk, Chuk and Hung helped Yiu wrestle Chiu, who fled. Kau is nursed back to health by the monk and joins the fellowship in their quest to annihilate the demon. With all her venomous needles forfeited to the monk, Chiu gets her comeuppance, slain by Chuk's flying dagger.
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The Devil and Her Magic Needles, Part One
Title: The Devil and Her Magic Needles, Part One
Character: Toothless Tiger
Released: January 8, 1964
Type: Movie
Yiu But-fan marries on the day his father Yan-kit retires as a distinguished swordsman when Yan-kit's nemesis 'Ghostly Mother Blue Flower' Chiu Choi-wan and her foster son Lai Chun-wah gatecrash the party, striking dead the elder and But-fan's wife with the White-bone Soul-thrashing needles. Having pledged his alliance to the anguished son, Taoist Tranquil of Emei vows to eradicate the menace at Mid-Autumn Festival when his junior disciple Kau Suet-mui is challenged to a duel with Chiu. Kau's fellow disciples Hung Tin-bo and Chuk Yuk-heung follow the orders of their master to roam the martial world and tumble into a bandit lair. Extricated from danger by the Taoist, the duo join hands with the passer-by Yiu to thwart Lai's assault on Kau by sorcery, again aided by the Taoist. Yiu, Kau and her peers head back to the Kau Fortress where a martial contest is being held to select a prospective groom for the daughter. Kau overwhelms Lai in the ring but concedes defeat to Chiu.
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The White-Bone Sword
Title: The White-Bone Sword
Released: July 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Wu Sheung-fung risks her life to save Wong Tin-ho with the help of the white bone sword. Meanwhile the three devils known as Heaven, Earth and Man return to the Devil Mountain with the coveted Swords. Chung Ching, who has divined the recovery of the White-bone Grass by Wu and others, dispatches Kam Yan-kit to abduct Wong to the Black Hair Cave. Luk Fong-fei, Wu and other rescuers are vanquished by Black Hair one by one. Old Devilish Eccentric hurries to their rescue and heals Wong's wound as Wong reconciles with Kam. Kam secretly returns to Chung Ching Cave to seek the precious swords when Wong and others raid the den and are again dispatched away with fakes.
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Midnight Werewolf
Title: Midnight Werewolf
Character: Husband / Father at Hospital
Released: May 22, 1963
Type: Movie
Fantasy / horror.
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The Mysterious Heroine
Title: The Mysterious Heroine
Character: Ah Kwai
Released: November 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Fok Tats scheme to raid a convoy of government reserve is intercepted by 'Ghost Knight'. Chau Ping, an accomplice of a corrupt official, declares wars on Fok whom he believes has ties with the mysterious raider. A meeting was convened by Ghost Knight to settle the dispute. Tat's son Sze-chuen learnt that his maid Ma Yuk-lan is the daughter of a general of the ousted Ming court who has donned the mask of a knight-errant to protect the son of the Ming minister Sze Ho-fat, Sze-chuen himself. Back in Deadly Valley, an impostor of Ghost Knight was caught. Slashing at the father, Sze-chuen is disheartened to learn that the faker, Ma's mother, has been transferred to the enemy camp in a feigned surrender orchestrated by Sze while an uprising is gathering momentum funded with money robbed from the corrupt official. Ma teams up with the father and son to storm the Chau Fortress and rescue Ma's mother. The couple champions the restoration of the old empire with Sze's seal.
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Yellow Giant
Title: Yellow Giant
Character: Fook, Cheung's servant
Released: October 10, 1962
Type: Movie
Cheung Yan-lai is imprisoned as he is framed by his elder brother Yan-tsuen. Yan-lai escapes and takes revenge with a quasi-scientific sorcerer, who uses orangutan blood to turn the Yellow Hair Monster into an unparalleled weapon when it drinks human blood. Yan-lai, the Yellow Hair Monster, and the sorcerer, go to confront Yan-tsuen after knowing he will donate a gold Buddha for fund-raising. They are caught in a warehouse. A female ghost kills Yan-tsuen. Heroine Wong Ngang and the Director rush there. They fought with the sorcerer, who dissolves a corpse using a poisonous solvent. It also kills the Monster. Yan-lai gets an electric shock and the sorcerer is scared to death by a vampire. Mother Lo, Yan-tsuen's maid, disguised as the ghost and the vampire. The gold Buddha belonged to her father, who was killed by Yan-tsuen. Yan-tsuen raped her. She sought revenge, takes back the Buddha, and killed Yan-tsuen's wife. Wong Ngang gets the Buddha. She, Wu Ah, and Heung Ngan are satisfied.
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The Birth of Yue Fei
Title: The Birth of Yue Fei
Released: September 26, 1962
Type: Movie
The Birth of Yue Fei is a Hong Kong Drama starring Sammo Hung in a child role
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A Couple in Cold War
Title: A Couple in Cold War
Released: February 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Ye Hui and Jiang Man were originally a loving couple. One time Hui received a 1000 dollar bonus, and his colleague Zhu Ge-Kong paid a plan to hide the bonus in the shoes and prepared to spend it on his own. After Man found out, he took the money away, and the two quarreled about it. , Hui asked for a divorce in anger, but he was not allowed to move away, so he only hung a tent in the bedroom as the "Chu River and Han Jie". After that, Huichang fought with his wife, even pretending to have brain cancer, and tricked Man into taking care of him. , Unexpectedly, it was seen through by Man again. Manager Hong of Hui Company and Manager Mei of Man Company reunited, and the two companies merged together, and Man promoted the director, making it difficult for Hui and Kong. After the manager of Man Demei persuaded him, he witnessed the affection of others’ husbands and wives. Deeply ashamed, reconciliation with Hui is as good as ever.
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Marry in Haste
Title: Marry in Haste
Released: January 24, 1962
Type: Movie
A Shaw Brothers comedy starring Pearl Au Kai-Wai
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The Golden Cat
Title: The Golden Cat
Character: Song On
Released: July 5, 1961
Type: Movie
Scholar Yuen Man-lung leads a double life as Vigilante Golden Cat. Yuen is separated from his lover Tso Oi-lan by her snobbish father who promises her to Tsui Tai-fei, son of the magistrate and incriminates him as the wanted burglar. Yuen sneaks out of prison and wreaks havoc in Golden Cat's name; the exasperated magistrate has to release him. Before leaving for the imperial exams with the runaway Oi-lan, Yuen stages one final heist for his friend's sake. The officials trail Golden Cat to his house where his nocturnal costume is retrieved. His father is arrested as the criminal. Drawing a plan up her sleeves, Oi-lan's sister Oi-ling whisks the elder out of the execution ground. Despite failing at the exams presided over by corrupt examiners, Yuen saves the emperor on his homecoming journey, and returns triumphant as a duke.
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Apartment Murder
Title: Apartment Murder
Character: Ah Kan
Released: July 23, 1960
Type: Movie
Yim Tai-hung stages a diamond heist but one of his men slips away with a diamond necklace. Sustaining a fatal wound, the betrayer gives the necklace to his friend Chow Ping at Rose Apartment before he expires. Chow calls her cousin Wu Nga for help. But Wu, Wong Ang and Heung At come too late. She however manages to reveal the whereabouts of the necklace at her last breath. The trio is framed for the murder but is later acquitted. Striving to crack the case, Wong infiltrates the apartment at night and uncovers the necklace, which is then used to lure the real culprit out. But her plan is foiled by a young and reckless Wu who falls into Yim's trap. Luckily Wong and Heung deliver the hostage to safety while the police arrest Yim's accomplices and kill the ringleader in the ensuing shootout.
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The Talking Bird
Title: The Talking Bird
Released: December 30, 1959
Type: Movie
The Talking Bird (能言鳥) is a 1959 Hong Kong musical fantasy film directed by Bong Luk. The film was produced by Shaw Brothers and is based on the screenplay by Tin Chi Ng.
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The Chair
Title: The Chair
Character: Used furniture buyer
Released: October 14, 1959
Type: Movie
After inheriting his father's estate, Cheung Ka-bo leads a life of debauchery after getting know Blackie Yuen, who profits at others' expense, and Yee-Wah, who working at a night club. As the family wealth diminishes, he always squabbles with his wife and finally separates from her. She returns a diamond bracelet, kept by Uncle Chan, to her mother-in-law. Bo's mother hides the bracelet in a chair. Later, Wah resides at Bo's home. To flatter Wah, Bo wants to get the bracelet by any means from his mother and give it to Wah. Later, Bo's mother falls ill. In the hospital, she tells Bo of the bracelet's whereabouts but the chair has already been sold to Uncle Chan by Wah. Bo, Wah and Yuen stealthily enter Chan's home to get the chair, but have a big fight when they try to take the bracelet. Knowing that Bo has huge debts, Wah intends to leave him after getting the bracelet. Wah exposes her gluttonous self in her pursuit of the treasure. Bo learns his lesson and returns to his wife.
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Two Fools capture a Ghost
Title: Two Fools capture a Ghost
Character: Talisman vendor
Released: October 8, 1959
Type: Movie
The town is rumoured to be haunted. Cheung Siu-chen pretends to be possessed so that her lover Lau Tin and his friend Lee Luk may heroically exorcise the ghost and curry favour with her father. Driven by greed and lust, the attendant of the ancestral temple and his underlings cast an enticing spell on Cheung and claim that Cheung is possessed with a fierce ghost. Lau and Lee expose the hoax and redeem Cheung. Cheung's father happily gives his consent to the marriage between his daughter and Lau.
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Night Trial of the Living Dead
Title: Night Trial of the Living Dead
Released: September 24, 1959
Type: Movie
Chinese opera
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Mr Wong's Adventures with the Unruly Girl
Title: Mr Wong's Adventures with the Unruly Girl
Character: Ah Kwong
Released: September 9, 1959
Type: Movie
The film is adapted from Chinese classic comic series Mr Wong, with Tang Bik-wan joining hands with the magnificent Sun Ma Si-tsang and Tam Lan-hing to give a dazzling performance. Wong (Sun Ma Si-tsang) passes off as the company's manager to pursue the beauty Hui (Tang Bik-wan) behind his fearsome wife's (Tam Lan-hing) back. Unbeknown to him, Hui is actually the fiancée of his nephew (Sima Wah-lung), to whom he has refused to lend money. Scenes in which Hui plays pranks on him and tricks him into providing funds for her are spiced up by the lively acting of Sun Ma as a wife-fearing perv and Tang as a sassy girl with a sharp tongue. The film ends with Wong making excuses to meet Hui at a hotel but getting caught by his feisty wife. Whilst both are acclaimed comedians in their own right, brassy Tam and composed Tang together pull Sun Ma's leg in an unmissable classic slapstick.
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How Wong Fei-Hung Defeated the Tiger on the Opera Stage
Title: How Wong Fei-Hung Defeated the Tiger on the Opera Stage
Released: July 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Hung Gar Champion Wong Fei Hung The most prolific hero of kungfu movies wasn’t Bruce Lee. It was a founding father of Hung Gar kungfu and a real folk hero named Wong Fei Hung.
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Valley of the Love-Birds
Title: Valley of the Love-Birds
Released: August 8, 1958
Type: Movie
A Martial Arts film by the Shaw Brothers
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A Virtuous Girl from a Humble House
Title: A Virtuous Girl from a Humble House
Released: June 19, 1958
Type: Movie
A Shaw and Sons film
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Wong Fei-Hung's Battle with the Five Tigers in the Boxing Ring
Title: Wong Fei-Hung's Battle with the Five Tigers in the Boxing Ring
Released: June 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Wong Fei Hung meets the Five Tigers
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Wong Fei-Hung's Fierce Battle
Title: Wong Fei-Hung's Fierce Battle
Released: February 13, 1958
Type: Movie
Wong Fei Hung must stands up for people who are unable to stand up for themselves.
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The Dunce Bumps into a Ghost
Title: The Dunce Bumps into a Ghost
Released: November 28, 1957
Type: Movie
Hong Kong horror comedy from 1957.
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The Marriage Between the Quick and the Dead
Title: The Marriage Between the Quick and the Dead
Released: September 12, 1957
Type: Movie
A Chinese Opera film by the Shaw and Sons studio.
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Fatso Married Skinny
Title: Fatso Married Skinny
Released: December 29, 1956
Type: Movie
Lai-ying (Cheng Bik-ying) is a wealthy socialite who travels globally. Tired of her lifestyle, she sends her secretary Kiu (Tam Lan-hing) to stand in for her in a social function in Hong Kong. Local rich playboy Chung (Sun Ma Si-tsang) is forced by his father (Lee Hoi-chuen) to court the fake Lai-ying in order to save the family from financial distress. But Chung is in love with the real Lai-ying, who pretends to be a poor girl from a working class background. Naturally, the father is unhappy about this mismatch. Typically cast for feisty roles, Tam Lan-hing here plays a marriage-hungry woman, eager to be seduced who knows flirtatiousness can be so hilarious!
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Wong Fei-Hung Goes to a Birthday Party at Guanshan
Title: Wong Fei-Hung Goes to a Birthday Party at Guanshan
Character: Cocky So
Released: October 20, 1956
Type: Movie
Wong Fei-Hung Goes to a Birthday Party at Guanshan is a Wong Fei-Hung movie starring Kwan Tak-Hing.
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The Strange Adventures of a Strange Man
Title: The Strange Adventures of a Strange Man
Released: August 30, 1956
Type: Movie
Comedy from Hong Kong directed by Ng Wui.
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The Haunted Pot
Title: The Haunted Pot
Released: August 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Ghost story from Hong Kong directed by Ng Wui.
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The Seventh Heaven
Title: The Seventh Heaven
Character: Ah Kan, pimp
Released: August 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Chan Siu-hung is forced to become a prostitute, with the police following hot on her heels. Ching Chi-ko comes to her defence by claiming to be her husband. Chan is put up at Ching's roof hut named the 'Seventh Heaven' and the two gradually fall in love. Soon the war breaks out. Ching is drafted to do hard labour by the Japanese army. When the war is over, the crippled Ching returns and lies to Chan that he is already a married man, hoping to persvade Chan to marry someone else. Nonetheless, Chan's devotion overwhelms Ching.
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Wong Fei-Hung and the Lantern Festival Disturbance
Title: Wong Fei-Hung and the Lantern Festival Disturbance
Character: Cocky So
Released: February 28, 1956
Type: Movie
Wong Fei-Hung and the Lantern Festival Disturbance is a 1956 Wong Fei-Hung movie directed by Wu Pang.
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Backyard Adventures
Title: Backyard Adventures
Character: Fitness student
Released: July 12, 1955
Type: Movie
Reporter Yu Mong-yuen is recovering from a leg injury in his fiancee Man-wah's apartment. Bored, he looks out the rear window and observes the life of the neighbouring building. Among the tenants are a sugar-daddy and his mistress, a middle-aged man wants to marry a young girl, but she is in love with his son. Finally, she hatches a plot and makes the man agree to her marrying his son ; a sly fortune-teller ; a lively gym, a rich widow quarrels with the trainer of a gymnasium because his dog has bitten her cat ; and an opera school, a woman signs, leaning on the balcony, and a man tries to strangle her. In fact they are rehearsing an opera…… One evening, Wah is on the night shift, and Yuen watches the opera troupe rehearse to the end. Under the influence of drugs, Yu mistakenly believes that a divorced man has murdered a taxi dancer. He alerts the police, but the whole thing is nothing more than a misunderstanding.
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The Voyage of the Dead
Title: The Voyage of the Dead
Character: Innkeeper
Released: November 19, 1954
Type: Movie
HK historical drama.
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The Ghostly Wife
Title: The Ghostly Wife
Released: May 17, 1953
Type: Movie
Hong Kong comedy with horror elements from 1953.
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Top Singers Two
Title: Top Singers Two
Released: September 12, 1952
Type: Movie
Chinese Opera from Hong Kong directed by Chan Pei.
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Paying Nocturnal Mourning to White Lotus
Title: Paying Nocturnal Mourning to White Lotus
Character: Servant Ah Shing
Released: August 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Musical from Hong Kong directed by Chow Sze-Luk.