Tony Lou Chun-Ku

Tony Lou Chun-Ku

Born: December 11, 1946
in Fujian, China
Lu Chu-Kun (Chinese: 鲁俊谷), a native Fukienese, was born in December 1946, and was originally named Wang Chun-Yeung. He immigrated to Hong Kong in 1962, and in 1970 successfully joined Cathay's actor training course, during which time he acquired the stage-name Lu Chun. After Cathay was closed down, Lu joined Yangtze Film Company as an actor, and first appeared in "My Millionaire Sister". He took up his first lead role in "Armour of God".

In 1974, Lu began to work behind the scenes. In 1979 he changed his name to Lu Chun-Ku and joined Shaw Brothers as a director. He directed a number of martial arts movies, and even starred in a few.

From the Celestial DVD edition of "Return of the Bastard Swordsman".

Movies for Tony Lou Chun-Ku...

To Kiss Is Fatal
Title: To Kiss Is Fatal
Released: October 10, 1998
Type: Movie
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The Big Deal
Title: The Big Deal
Released: November 6, 1992
Type: Movie
The "Saint" is a secret group comprised of a martial arts master and his two oddball daughters. They were brought to this earth to uphold justice by robbing from the rich and giving to the poor.
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Thunder Run
Title: Thunder Run
Character: Sing
Released: May 23, 1991
Type: Movie
Two Hong Kong police officers end up in a Laos prison and must escape.
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Killer Angels
Title: Killer Angels
Released: April 7, 1989
Type: Movie
Three female cops form a special unit and get their main witness out of the clutches of a gang. The witness holds the key to Chu Chung Sing, a gang-lord who runs a night-club. They will have to face a ruthless but sentimental killer.
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Dirty Girl
Title: Dirty Girl
Released: March 10, 1988
Type: Movie
Angry Girls get revenge on some bad guys.
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The Master Strikes Back
Title: The Master Strikes Back
Character: Eunuch Chen
Released: January 19, 1985
Type: Movie
In The Master Strikes Back, Hong Kong's Steadicam pioneering director Sun Chung brings back legendary Ti Lung to play famous weapons instructor Tung Tieh-cheng, who is invited to teach a Ching official's soldiers, in this unofficial sequel to The Kung-fu Instructor. But after his son is kidnapped and castrated what follows is a chaotic, human whirlwind of slicing and dicing compliments of the highly touted martial arts director and one of Jackie Chan's kung-fu classmates, Yuan Te.
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My Mind, Your Body
Title: My Mind, Your Body
Released: January 10, 1985
Type: Movie
shaw production
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Secret Service of the Imperial Court
Title: Secret Service of the Imperial Court
Character: Zhao Wuyi's bodyguard
Released: October 19, 1984
Type: Movie
Secret Service of the Imperial Court was one of the last kung fu/swordplay films to be made at Hong Kong's Shaw Bros. studio. Set in the Ming Dynasty, it makes excellent use of the studio's vast array of sprawling sets and colorful costumes to give a real period flavor. It has a good cast, lots of large-scale fight action and an exciting storyline about a conflict between an honorable officer and a corrupt Eunuch.
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The Cute Little Fellow
Title: The Cute Little Fellow
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
shaw production
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The Lady Assassin
Title: The Lady Assassin
Character: Ninja
Released: January 15, 1983
Type: Movie
Veteran action actor and director Lu Chun-ku set his sights on a tale of Ching Dynasty royal intrigue as an excuse to hire his favorite action stars, gather three choreographers, and film one fight-filled conspiracy after another. Liu Hsueh-hua is the title character caught between battling princes. Then there's award-winning actor Ku Feng, "Bastard Swordsman" Hsu Shao-chiang, "King of Shaw Brothers' Screen Villains" Wang Lung-wei, "Venom" Sun Chien, and even the director shows up to get his kicks in this danger-fraught adventure.
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Ambitious Kung Fu Girl
Title: Ambitious Kung Fu Girl
Character: Zhao Yuan Song
Released: December 10, 1981
Type: Movie
Spoiled Yuen Si Si, the naive daughter of an affluent merchant, lives her cosseted life dreaming of meeting her idol, the heroic Qin Ge. When her father decides to marry her off, she runs away in search of Qin Ge, with her fiancee in pursuit. What she doesn't realise though is that her kung-fu skills are not what she thinks they are and that the outside world is far less chivalrous that she expected.
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The Dragon, the Young Master
Title: The Dragon, the Young Master
Released: April 4, 1981
Type: Movie
Set in 1920's Manchuria, Kao-Yin sells information on the mining operation to the Japanese and is rewarded with a large quantity of valuable jewellery. But the jewellery is stolen and hidden in the snow mountain where it will remain unless one man - or woman - can survive the battles of murder and deception that surround it.
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Jade Hairpin Alliance
Title: Jade Hairpin Alliance
Released: August 7, 1980
Type: Movie
Shaw legend Tony Liu Yung is the swashbuckling swordsman who takes on all odds. The Jade Hairpin is the only clue in a series of crimes that are carried out by the opera gang, a band of masked men of a poisonous family. Its weapon is a cunning plan of guts vs. skill and brains vs. survival in this epic!
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Tiger Over Wall
Title: Tiger Over Wall
Released: May 25, 1980
Type: Movie
Based on actual events that took place in Shanghai 1919, Hwang Jang Lee portrays a ruthless Police Captain, who will stop at nothing in his quest for power even framing an innocent man and sending him mad. The Man's family can not tolerate the injustice and fight back with some of the meanest Kung Fu techniques ever witnessed, without doubt one of the best films from the two kings of Kung Fu: Hwang Jang Lee & Phillip Ko.
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Gi Gi
Title: Gi Gi
Released: January 22, 1979
Type: Movie
Hong Kong drama film.
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Broken Oath
Title: Broken Oath
Character: Chou's assistant
Released: December 3, 1977
Type: Movie
Lotus never had a chance. Her mother seethed with anger at being unjustly imprisoned for turning her attemped rapist into a cyclops. Mother repeatedly asked her good friend and fellow prisoner, Pickpocket, to urge Lotus to take revenge for her as an adult. Lotus is given to a monastery and grows up there, but twenty years of peace and love make no impression on Lotus, who skips classes to practice pole and sword skills. Joining forces with Pickpocket and Big Rat, Lotus gets her chance at revenge.
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The Iron-Fisted Monk
Title: The Iron-Fisted Monk
Character: Villain
Released: August 25, 1977
Type: Movie
Husker is a student of the Shaolin monks, learning kung fu so that he can avenge his uncle who was murdered by the Manchus who control the province. He leaves his training early, desperate to teach the killers a lesson, and teams up with a martial artist monk who is teaching a group of factory workers how to defend themselves. When the Manchus strike again, Husker and his Buddhist pal decide it's time to even the score.
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Stranger from Shaolin
Title: Stranger from Shaolin
Released: April 16, 1977
Type: Movie
When her entire family is killed by the occupying Manchus, Yin Wing Chun narrowly escapes to Shaolin temple.
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The Girlie Bar
Title: The Girlie Bar
Character: Boss crazy for Yan
Released: October 5, 1976
Type: Movie
A widower forces his three beautiful daughters to work in his seedy bar and must do what they are told no matter what. The film features Lin Chen-chi who had just starred in Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold.
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Bruce Lee and I
Title: Bruce Lee and I
Released: January 9, 1976
Type: Movie
A movie on the life of the renowned Bruce Lee, especially his relationship with his mistress.
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Yu chao
Title: Yu chao
Released: December 12, 1974
Type: Movie
A movie about desire
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The Black Dragon
Title: The Black Dragon
Released: March 2, 1974
Type: Movie
Decent, simple, honest Chinese farmhand and ace martial artist Tai-Lin goes to the Philippines to seek his fortune. He befriends scruffy petty street hoodlum Siao-Mao and gets a job as a dock worker. When Tai-Lin discovers that the people he works for are involved in a crime syndicate that specializes in smuggling opium, he quits his job and joins forces with two fellow martial artists against the evil organization.
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Smugglers
Title: Smugglers
Character: Avenger for brother
Released: January 18, 1973
Type: Movie
A man sets out to take revenge against the drug gang that murdered his brother.
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A Resort Called Hell
Title: A Resort Called Hell
Released: January 17, 1973
Type: Movie
HK drama fantasy film.
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Stranger from Canton
Title: Stranger from Canton
Character: Wong Lee
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Japan has already occupied Korea and now China. Chin, a young woman understands that the Motherland demands all her children to be brave, and sacrifice their lives for the liberation. Disguised as a prostitute, she will board a train to help a Chinese guerrilla group defeat a Japanese army convoy.
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Action Tae Kwon Do
Title: Action Tae Kwon Do
Released: December 20, 1972
Type: Movie
Japanese invaders in manchuria are sent packing by Jason Pai Piao, Tommy Lo Chun and the 8th degree black belt Mad Korean Kwon Young Moon, excellent fights in this great production from Yangze films.
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The Invasion
Title: The Invasion
Released: August 9, 1972
Type: Movie
The 1972 Invasion was directed by Sung Chia Wen and stars Charlie Chin, Tien Feng, Tony Liu Jun Guk, and Eddie Ko.
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Crush
Title: Crush
Released: June 20, 1972
Type: Movie
Chinese martial artist Huang Sheng arrives in Korea to free his uncle, who was abducted and forced to work in a concentration camp by the Japanese. Disgusted he must realize that the entire populace of the foreign province is suffering terror as well. Especially Mode Nakana and Akijame Endo and their troops oppress the people and even Tae Kwon Do master Sung Shin Shen and his pupils fail to stop the murders, rapes and robberies committed by those Japanese. Huang soon prepares himself to take on the evil 'Rising Sun’ gang to free not only his uncle but the Koreans as well...
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Secret of My Millionaire Sister
Title: Secret of My Millionaire Sister
Released: August 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Choo died in South America and left a legacy of US Dollars two million to the younger daughter, Pei Fun, of his old friend Chang in Hongkong. The second beneficiary in the will, should Pei Fun die, was Nana, the young widow. Nana returned to Hongkong and conspired with her lover Johnny to wrest the fortune from the Chang family...
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The Great Plot
Title: The Great Plot
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
The Great Plot is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie