Hua Tsung

The saga of the one-armed swordsman draws to a surprising close in this effort co-written by and starring Shaw Brothers screen-legend Jimmy Wang Yu. When an entire syndicate of killers threatens to destroy the legacy of the one-armed swordsman, blood is drawn and skulls are cracked until the skillful hero finally reveals the secret to his remarkable swordsmanship. (allmovie.com)

Judgement of an Assassin is most noteworthy for expanding the number and kinds of martial arts used in onscreen battles. In the story, Heh Mo-liis hard-pressed to keep his lady-love Shih Ming-chu out of the hands of the bad guys. In a related story, Cha Hung and Hua Szu Ku are an elderly unmarried couple. Both of them are swordfighters. Cha doesn't discover why Ku has remained with him despite his failure to marry her until the very end of their lives. (allrovi.com)

Ta Kun loses his job at a Shaolin temple after a corrupt monk, Wu Tan, takes over. His master sends him to an old friend of his who's entire family practices Kung Fu. Reluctantly, Ta Kun begins practicing the way as well so he can return to the temple and face the evil monk. (imdb)

To Kill a Jaguar features two alumni that got big breaks starring in Bruce Lee films, Nora Miao, Bruce Lee's love interest in The Big Boss, Fist of Fury and Way of the Dragon, and Liu Yung who co-starred with Bruce in The Big Boss and Fist of Fury. In To Kill a Jaguar, Liu plays Miao's jilted lover that but he refuses to let go as the film has more twists than a soap opera. (hkcinemagic.com)

The lovely Chin Ping stars as Li Yan-niang, daughter of swordmaster Li Fei-lung (Wong Chung-Shun playing a good guy for a change), who must avenge the injury done to her family by the Fierce Tiger Gang (led by Wang Hsieh) and their ferocious hatchetman Iron Claws (Yeung Chi-Hing). To do this, she must join the power of her Moon sword with the Sun sword power of heroic swordsman Chao Ying-Chieh (a very young Chung Wa). (demonoid.com)

The incomparable Lily Li was considered an actress with an attitude, which was perfect for her becoming a bad-girl fighter. In "The Bastard", she plays a beggar girl that becomes a target for evil men plotting to make "The Bastard" a scapegoat for murder because he happens to like the son of a jailed dignitary's son accused of murder. (hkcinemagic.com)

An evil Eunuch imperial is making advances on becoming the ultimate power in ancient China, but first he has to stop a group of stealthy fighters that hold the key to his downfall in this chop-socky kung-fu tale of political intrigue and high-flying kicks. Of all the political factions in ancient China, the most power-hungry of them all is the feared Wang, a Eunuch that will stop at nothing to gain control of the throne. (allrovi.com)

A rebel General (Wong Ching) tries to enlist the support of a local master, to participate in an uprising against the Emperor. He is refused, so he returns later to remove this security risk. His military forces kill everybody except the daughter Kao (Shih Szu), who flees as, quite literally, the massacre survivor. (thechivalrousinn.blogspot.com)

Here, Pai Yin, the star of King Hu's classic Dragon Inn, plays the title character, a treacherous devil who wants nothing less than supreme power and doesn't care if he has to murder the Emperor and use his own daughter as a deadly dupe to get it. (hkcinemagic.com)

The aggressive and dangerous Chin empire occupies the put-upon Chao kingdom while the hero-filled Wei empire is paralyzed by an indecisive ruler. Adventure, intrigue, death and tragedy reigns before the triumphant clash of the armies. (hkcinemagic.com)

Three brave and noble warriors form a group called the Dream Sword who travel across the countryside to vanquish all kinds of evildoers. The Dream Sword eventually create their own dynasty. Rival wicked clans join forces in order to defeat the Dream Sword. Director Chao-Yung Li, working from a complex and lively script by Hsiang Kin Chu, crafts an exciting, engrossing and opulent period martial arts action/adventure treat about betrayal and the thirst for power... (imdb)

In the sixties, love stories portrayed women as sentimentalists or sacrificial lambs. Later on, directors like Chu Yuan replaced these themes of sacrifice with abandonment. The Forbidden Past is a heart tugging, rare Chinese Christmas story about a bar girl (Ching Li) serving drinks to a man that looks like her husband from five years ago. She convinces him to fulfill her son's wishes of having the father he's never seen, show up for Christmas. A merry Christmas follows? (hkcinemagic.com)

A Manchu prince places a cache of treasure in the care of his five most trusted guards who divide it amongst themselves. One by one the guards are murdered. Who are the secret assassins? (imdb)

Shaw's superstar, Chi Kuan Chun stars in this brilliant sword film from ace Director Chang Peng Yi, as a sentimental swordsman who tries to give up his sword and leave a quiet life, but constant challenges in the martial world prevent him from doing so. (Wu Tang Collection)

When he was a child, Champ Wang was adopted by a noble man, and as years went by, he fell in love with the man's daughter. After the girl's family was slaughtered, he hid the girl in a secret place and attempted to fine the murderers. During his chase, he killed some great fighters, and their families decide to contract killers in order to get rid of him. (Wu Tang Collection)

A renegade Manchurian monk and master of The Golden Bell guillotine kung fu send his deadly disciples to China to attack the Ming Government. The Eagle King learned of the raid and sends his students to meet the onslaught head on and quash it. (imdb)

AKA Sandman. A young fighter who has just had his money stolen is met by a young lady, who asks him to carry a sword to Golden town, and also gives him money. A thief over hears the conversation and tries to rob him. This film has great fighting, plenty of laughs and hand-to-hand fighting. (Wu Tang Collection)

Two top killers the smiling assassin (Barry Chan) and the gritty kid (Zhu Xiao Hua) team up to take on the darker forces in the martial world. (Wu Tang Collection)

During the declining years of Ming dynasty, Mongolians sent secret agents to intrude central China and tried to obtain "The Light Sword" a mighty sword, which can gather all brave wanderers. The son of Lung Chen Ying master of the Light Sword style learns of the plot and kills the leader of secret mission and temporarily stopped the Mongolian's ambition. (Wu Tang Collection)

AKA Shaolin Fox Conspiracy; The Purple Jade Badger: is what all martial artists seek, a magical elixir that will transform the drinker into an all-powerful kung-fu master! The Flying Fox comes seeking the murderer of his wife, but becomes ensnared in the machinations of the sects and rogue masters who seek the Purple Jade Badger for their own purposes. (imdb)

The son of a big film producer goes to Copenhagen from Hong Kong trying to seal a deal.

Meng Fei leads a team of swordsmen to attack the dreaded White Eagle. He's the most notorious fighter in central China who has been wreaking havoc in the martial world and who coverts the thunder storm sword to enhance his power.

At the wedding feast of Shen Hsiu Chang, a guest named Tu Fu Liang suddenly announces that he had an affair with the bride, Yun Ching. The bridegroom is furious and turns on her. She disappears sadly. The next morning, her headless body is found in a lonely spot. A couple of days later, a hunter named Wu Hsiung finds a badly decomposed human head and returns it to the widower. He is rewarded with 1000 pieces of silver as the bereaved family thinks it is the head of the dead bride.

Mysterious songstress Fang Biyu is loved by two brothers, Qiwei and Qijun. After freeing herself from the clutches of gangsters, she gives her heart to Qiwei. Tragedy comes knocking on the door when one of the gangsters comes out of prison, and Qiwei dies in a car accident. Blamed for her husband’s death, Biyu is forced to go back to singing to make a living, but hopes to reunite with her son and return to the family one day.

Evil Ming dynasty eunuch bullies the emperor and forms a group of invincible kung fu fighters to defeat any competition.

Two sisters, Ching-ping (Irene Chen I-ling) and Pai-hung (Betty Ting Pei) struggle to find a workable act after their magician father and younger sister leave to try their luck in Taiwan. A good friend gets them cast in a new movie, and the rest is history...

Abortion, birth control, and unwed cohabitation are social issues rarely associated with 1970s Hong Kong cinema. Cohabitation not only faces them head-on but does so with insight, compassion, and sex!