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A detective helps a friend investigate the mysterious death of his father. (imdb)

A magician makes money by charging people to cast love spells on the objects of their affection. Complications arise when he decides that he wants a customer's bride for himself. (imdb)

A ruthless band of thugs kidnaps a young official to exchange for their leader who has been captured. Golden Swallow (Cheng Pei-pei) is sent to take on the thugs and free the prisoner (who is also her brother). Though she is able to handle the overwhelming odds, she is hit by a poison dart and gets help from a beggar who is really a kung-fu master in disguise (Vueh Hua). With his help, she forms a plan to get her brother back. (imdb)

Ainu is among many new girls that are kidnapped and taken to a nearby brothel to be coerced into prostitution. The lady of the house, Lady Chun, falls for Ainu and immediately begins a relationship with her. As things heat up between them, Ainu begins her plan to exact revenge on the four officials that had their way with her. As she murders them one by one, Lady Chun becomes even more blinded by her love for Ainu, and a local cop investigates all of the devious happenings. (KFCCinema)

DRAGON SWAMP (1969) is a costume fantasy adventure from Hong Kong's Shaw Bros. studio that offers a quaint tale involving a stolen sword, torn families and a mystical swamp region with all kinds of fantastic menaces to threaten the uninitiated. (IMDB Comments)

A modern day Robin Hood baffles Shanghai police in this Shaw Brothers classic. He goes by the name "The Lizard," and takes great joy in redistributing the wealth of the corrupt upper class - but who is this benevolent and fearless bandit? (allmovie.com)

A hired killer unknowingly makes friends with the man he's been sent to assassinate. (imdb)

A nurse decides to take justice in her own hands to fight the crime-syndicates of Hong Kong after her sister is drugged and abused by some local drug dealers. (imdb)

After a sudden spike of supply into the drug ridden streets, staunch anti-narcotics cop hellbent on disrupting the flow of drugs beyond the Golden Triangle recruits the help of an attractive young ex-convict to infiltrate a major Thai based drug syndicate controlled by a ruthless drug lord who's expanded their operations into Hong Kong. As our seductive undercover heroine gets inside and rises the ranks to the top, skepticism also rises as the boss' jealous moll smells a plant. (imdb)

Lady Of Steel is a high plains drifter adventure where Cheng Pei-pei plays a swordswoman on a mission: to find the bandits that killed her parents and save the country from foreign invaders. (HK Cinemagic)

The film opens in Japan with red army terrorists Nakamura and Michiko Nishiwaki staging a major heist as a part of an insurance fraud scheme. In the ensuing melee, Tokyo cop Hiroshi Fujioka loses his partner, and, vowing revenge, follows the criminals to Hong Kong. Rachel Yeung is assigned to tail Fujioka to make sure he stays out of trouble. When he happens upon Nakamura et al, a bloody gunfight ensues, resulting in massive loss of innocent life... (allmovie.com)

Five brothers, seperated at birth, are brought together by a mysterious, beautiful woman to restore honor to their father's estate.

The plot centers on a martial arts tournament where the stoic Purple Robe Duke competes annually with the nefarious Fire Demon God, who always loses. This time, the Purple Robe Duke is poisoned from an attack by the Samurai Killer beforehand, forcing him into a state of secluded meditation in an underwater chamber to slow the poison's effects. His chief student Bai Baoyu sets out to retrieve an antidote, but must outwit and outfight forces intent on stopping him. (kungfucinema.com)

The first entry in the Shaw Brothers studio's epic, three-part screen adaptation of "Journey to the West," a 16th-century novel recounting the efforts of a Buddhist monk and his magical companions to travel to India and bring back Buddhist sutras.

This is the second of the Shaw Brothers productions of stories from the classic Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. This segment relates the story of Princess Iron Fan's efforts to kidnap Tripitaka and eat his flesh so that, along with her followers, she will gain immortality.

The Sentimental Swordsman epitomizes the lone, virtuous, heroic Oedipus complexed swordsman Li Hsin-huan. A hero with weaknesses; he drinks and believes in love and emotion thereby losing his girlfriend via tricked honor. It's payback time. (hkcinemagic.com)

His father slated for execution, a young warrior (Alexander Fu Sheng) attempts to procure the headsman's blade in order to prevent the sentence from being carried out. Distinguished by a teardrop design that has been forged into the steel, the executioner's blade proves an unusually difficult weapon to procure. (allrovi.com)

Three of Shaw Brothers' finest martial arts directors, who, between them, had made more than a hundred classics, united for this unique anthology film. Yueh Feng writes and directs a clever love-and-kung-fu triangle, Cheng Kang both writes and directs kung-fu courtesans battling brigands, and the "godfather of the kung-fu film," Chang Cheh, creates a cliff-hanging, swashbuckling mini-movie with maxi-action. (hkcinemagic.com)

The leader of the Snake Sect has an affair with the sexy ringleader of the Scorpion Sect to revive the "Five Poison Web" (which is also this film's Chinese title). But there is also the Centipede Sect to contend with. Under the fluid direction of Chu Yuan and action choreographers Tang Chia and Yuen Cheung-yan (member of the martial art world's esteemed Yuan Family and brother of Matrix master Yuen Woo-ping), the result is a first class action film. (hkcinemagic.com)

This mystery-tinged "Martial Arts World" epic was one of director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung's last together for the Shaw Studios, but it's another action-filled winner. Liu Yung and Sun Chien (the Korean kicking "Venom" from Chang Cheh's internationally popular series) team to investigate the martial arts murders of a supposedly mortally wounded swordsman, only to find deception, death, double-dealings, imposters, and one deadly duel after another. (hkcinemagic.com)

Following "Clans Of Intrigue"'s success, director Chu Yuan, novelist Ku Lung, and superstar Ti Lung re-teamed for another adventure featuring sexy knight Chu Liu-Hsiang. This time, he travels to the mysterious Island Of The Bats, where he encounters treacherous monks, beautiful women, and a strange Prince. The movie is also a significant milestone in the amount of female flesh revealed on screen, proving that Shaw movies can balance the yin of cheesecake with the yang of beefcake. (hkcinemagic.com)

"The Twelve Gold Medallions" features an exhaustive "who's who" of martial arts swordplay films lead by veteran actor Yueh Hua, who later went on to star in Jackie Chan's "Rumble In The Bronx". Yueh plays a righteous knight trying to prevent the Chin invaders from destroying his country by preventing twelve gold medallions from reaching General Yueh. (hkcinemagic.com)

Three men with supernatural powers interfere in a tribal warfare to prevent evil Amazons destroying the inhabitants of a village. (imdb)

Tyron Hsu directs Lo Lieh, Yueh Hua, and Sang Gwan in the Hong Kong action film 99 Cycling Swords. When political rebels begin to cause trouble in a small town, the warlords command a village official (Lieh), to roust them. He in turn passes the job onto four martial arts masters. (tcm.com)

Chen Kuan-tai heads an impressive ensemble cast in The Big Holdup, a story about five bank robbers being hunted down and killed by the police who are getting tipped by the man that masterminded the robbery. Filled with some amazing Sam Peckinpah-ish gun battles and brutally violent fight sequences, the film also features a very young Li Hsiu-hsien (a.k.a. Danny Lee) as a criminal rather than the dashing police inspector that won him critical acclaim in John Woo's The Killer. (hkcinemagic.com)

Ko Da-fu (Chin) is the leader of a five member hit squad that only accepts contracts taken out on visitors, not native Hongkies. After years in the business, Ko's reaction time and reflexes are starting to slow down and he barely escapes when attacked by a gang of assassins on rollerskates. His four partners are not so lucky, ending up as victims of the Wa-hing triad gang, who sought to avenge a Japanese associate that one of Ko's men terminated. (hkcinemagic.com)

Chin Tien Wei has been elected as chief of the Martial World after his three disciples managed to eliminate the most feared fighters in the world. However, not everyone is pleased at Wei's appointment as Chie many anonymous fighters and wizards are sent to his household. (hkcinemagic.com)

Yue Hwa, Lo Lei and Shangkuan Ling-Feng are the principals in Green Dragon Inn. An emissary of the Ming dynasty is assigned to escort an accused killer to trial. After many days' journey, the escort and the "murderer" stop over at the eponymous inn. There a collection of Kung Fu masters are waiting...but whose side are they on? (allrovi.com)

The collaboration of director Chang Cheh and action star Chen Kuan Tai proved to be one of the most enduring of kung fu's golden age, and nowhere were the two more inventive than when journeying back to the era when the Ching Dynasty fell and the Chinese Republic was born. Following their landmark successes "Boxer From Shantung" and "Man Of Iron" came this powerful, exciting tale of a patriot committed to ending the corruption of the Ching rulers. (hkcinemagic.com)

The chase may be long, but the action is fast and furious is this tale of a dart master-for-hire and the innkeeper's daughter who loves him. He's under deadly threat from a police officer after he assassinates a Government Minister, while she's the target of murderous local bandits. The consummately versatile director, soon to be declared a master of the "esoteric weapon" kung-fu film, develops his style with this sharp thriller that really gets to the point. (hkcinemagic.com)

This Chinese rip-off of the classic Japanese Lone Wolf and Cub film series follows the same basic plot of a warrior seeking revenge as he protects a lone child in tow. Celebrated Shaw Bros. superstar Yue Hwa stars as a man whose family is killed in front of his eyes by the dreaded Bandit King (Chan Sing). The only survivors are him and a small boy, whom he has vowed to protect as he sets out to claim vengeance against the Bandit King and his minions of evil fighting men. (allrovi.com)

Of all the many kinds of films Ho Meng-Hua directed for the Shaw Brothers, quite possibly his most popular worldwide was "The Flying Guillotine". While he did not direct its like-titled sequel, he did help this great spinning beheader follow-up, which critics considered among his best. It stars the gorgeous Chen Ping ("The Miniskirt Gang", "Lady Exterminator") as the fearless title character who takes on an entire flying guillotine gang, despite the fact that she's pregnant! (hkcinemagic.com)

A handsome stranger (Yueh Hua) strolls into a casino one evening and all but cleans out the house, beating 160-1 odds at dice by getting three of a kind. He informs beautiful proprietress Miss Cui (Lily Ho Li-li) that he actually came there for her and reveals himself as her betrothed, Luo Tianguang. The couple wed, but their bliss is interrupted when Luo agrees to help old friend Lun Liu (Chin Feng) defeat crooked gambler Hao Lishan (Shih Kien), who uses rigged dice. (youtube.com)

Set in a land before time, this martial-arts story chronicles the courage of a brave warrior who is equally adept at fighting real and mythical foes. (allrovi.com)

Director Mou Tun-fei came to international attention as director of the controversial Man Behind The Sun in 1988. But years prior, he was known for this unremitting tale of kung-fu sadism. Yueh Hua, co-star of Clan Of Amazons and Clans Of Intrigue, tears up the screen as a corrupt magistrate, so obsessed with finding a hidden treasure that he buries his daughter alive, setting off a frenzy of destruction. (hkcinemagic.com)

After several years, a legendary swordsman returns to save the villagers from a highly trained army of swordsmen and their leader. (imdb)

Rampaging bandits are raping and pillaging all over peaceful Chinese villages until the grieving dart master Liu Wen Lung sets out with his student, son, and servant to avenge his murdered wife and set things right. (hkcinemagic.com)

A troublemaker known as Lui Chan Fung (Cliff Lok) goes around starting fights with his spear champion master. They get in trouble with a local boss (Lee Chiu), and eventually Chan Fung falls under the tutelage of a famous kung fu fighter, Sao Chun. Meanwhile, a hunchback (Lo Lieh) comes through town looking for Sao Chun and his friend, who had been involved in a feud years ago. (chopsockycinema.com)

Ah Kan (Chan Chen) encounters sinister turns of fate where he works (a fellow security guard dies by choking on a bone, another is strangled by a wet newspaper), and he becomes frightened enough to consult with a Taoist priest. The priest informs him that his workplace had been the site of kidnappings and murders, his house is another source of unnatural influence, and he was born on a day that makes him vulnerable to wandering ghosts. (imdb)

Yueh Wah, a co-star in Trilogy Of Swordsmanship here plays the Sung Dynasty army's Chief Instructor, on a danger-fraught pilgrimage to the Tung Yueh Temple. From his first step, there are deceits, double crosses, and dirty tricks as a corrupt minister plots to ruin him and kidnap his wife. Only a lovable, capable monk played by the noted character actor Fan Mei-sheng can help him take vengeance in this exciting, satisfying chase thriller. (hkcinemagic.com)

The devilish residents of the Village of Tigers, led by Hu Jiao, plan to kill Lo Hong Shun, otherwise known as the heroic Sword of the Southern Sky. Their attempts thus far have failed and the most recent mistaken identity sees them looking for another way to achieve this goal. Meanwhile the nearby Ba family are a much more righteous group, with the wisdom of Granny Ba, the style and sword skills of 9th Miss Ba and the enthusiasm of son Master Ba. (imdb)

Fang Zheng awaits the arrival of his cousin Lin by train. Fang's father takes an immediate dislike to Lin since she is the daughter of his enemy. Zheng's brother, Feng spends tons of money on gambling and hookers, but the elder Fang favors him because a fortuneteller said that Feng would become established in the future. Zheng and Lin start to fall in love, but he's forced to leave home when his father becomes convinced he is out for his money.

Chicanery erupts when when gambling champion Yau Bun-Lap (Kwan Hoi-San) decides to retire from the field. He decides to leave his businesses (gambling parlors, natch) to his wife May (Betty Ting Pei) and godson Johnson (Chin Siu-Ho). However, May objects to Yau's nepotism, and wants all the businesses to herself. (lovehkfilm)

One of the most spine-tingling horror films of the 1980s, and one of the very few new wave thrillers to be directed by a woman, this haunting tale warns of what might happen when the wrong Siamese twins are separated. Famed television starlet Chan Yuk-Lin (AKA Chen Yu-Lien) makes a striking impression as the surviving twin who must confront her macabre past to solve a dangerous present when too many people around her start dying in terrible ways. (hkcinemagic.com)

The last Huangmei offering from Shaw studio is finally here! It was a very shrewd decision to cast Brigitte Lin, the reigning queen of the 70s Qiong Yao romances as Pao Yu and under the meticulous direction of Li Han Hsiang, she managed to pull it off and made this version of Pau Yu uniquely her own. Sylvia Chang has the esteemed role of Dai Yu but seemed miscast and tried too hard to make herself a tragic figure... (imdb)

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)

Couple Cheng Jung (Derek Yee) and Wong Lai Fen (Leanne Liu) work at the same police station. One night, while camping at an outlying island, Lai Fen hears a strange noise and leaves the campsite to investigate. A green light flashes by in front of her. The next day at work, Lai Fen is visibly out of her element, but her colleagues assume that she is just tired from the trip. The police team rushes to the scene of an emergency hostage situation, and Lai Fen, disobeying orders, opens fire.

An evil son becomes emperor. His brothers plot to kill him but they'll have to get through his henchman and his palace of traps first.

The Unique Lama is a 1978 Wuxia film from Taiwan.

Shaolin temples thousands of years ago were famous for their kung fu schools, and everybody has come to relate these temples with kung fu. Even the best fighters in the world didn't dare challenge the Shaolin students. During the Ching Dynasty, the reigning government had total control of the Shaolin temples and schools. The monk Chi Kong wasn't a real monk. In fact he was evil. He even accepted girls as students. He taught these girls the kung fu style. There were eighteen of them... (The Movie Database)

Chan Sing stars in this Taiwanese kung fu film which has cave men fighting with Chinese warlords and demi gods. (Wu Tang Collection)

When the fantastic jade sword, a weapon that can kill a man without even touching him, is lost, a young lord played by Meng Fei is sent out to look for it. A search quickly reveals a conspiracy involving rogue Shaolin monks, powerful ruling families, and the ever mysterious deadly Green Dragon Gang. (Wu Tang Collection)

The inhabitants of a small village call on a new chief to protect them from bandits. The latter with the help of his two daughters make every effort to thwart the multiple attacks and looting launched on the village. (Wu Tang Collection)

AKA Ninja Wolves; A Pretended Rebel; The tribute paid by the Japanese to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was being diverted by Court Eunuch Ma Tung (Chang Yi), who used the Palace Bodyguards to kill anyone opposing him. Ti Yung (Yo Hua) rises to the level of Commander in a plot devised by the Emperor to gain evidence against Ma. (imdb)

The background is in 1949 when the situation is unstable. Most people will try to fight for their survival. Sui Cheung brings his wife, Lai Ching to Hong Kong from China. He is educated and is smart, knowing who to please at the right time. He is also an expert in concealing his mistake. (spcnet.tv)

His country torn asunder by civil war, Zhao, a common man heeds the call of duty and from the humblest of roots rises through the ranks on wings of courage and cunning to command an army charged with liberating the land from an evil warlord. Inspiring by action, honor and a dream of unifying his divided nation, Zhao's heroism becomes legend, but as the years pass and the throne changes hands the war still rages on... (IMDB)

After one hundred men perish under mysterious circumstances in the vicinity of a lovely area known as Moonlit Sky, swordsman Feng Xiwu (Max Mok Siu-chung) decides to investigate and discovers beautiful maiden Shuiling (Mary Jean Reimer). The two fall almost instantly in love, but the girl's mother (Wei Chiu-hua) is a blood drinking, flesh eating spirit responsible for all of the recent deaths. (dighkmovies)

Some 40 years ago when warlords rode rough-shod over the Chinese people, circus acrobat Pao Te-cheng took to the hills and began robbing the rich to help the poor. His daring feats earned him the nickname of "The Masked Robber".

Hsiao Yun's rise to fame all results from a lucky break, as she's forced to substitute for another singer at the last second. The girl makes the most of her fortuitous opportunity, creating a huge splash in her debut as an entertainer, a fact which forever changes her life! However, this newfound meteoric rise to fame begins to take a toll on her personal life. For one thing, it starts to complicate her burgeoning romance with her pianist lover.

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. (imdb)

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

There's hidden gold, ruthless bandits, precious jade, a drunken master beggar, a stolen royal emblem, the daunting Five Devils Rock, and even more in this exciting and surprising epic about a "Robin Hood" of the "Martial Arts World." (asia-team.net)

In the 18th century, Emperor Chien Lung made a journey into Southern China.

An old man of the village tells kinky ghost stories to a few of its inhabitants after all the kids have gone to bed. What follows are stories that have horror elements and some soft-core nudity thrown in.

Director Chu Yuan is famous for introducing elements of murder mysteries, detective tales, and emotional melodrama into kung-fu films. This is one of those skilled thrillers, where-in he uses two editors and three martial arts choreographers to tell a tale of kidnapping, murder, frame-ups, and even being buried alive. The kung-fu takes on a macabre, horrific flair in this stunning story of swordsmen and women struggling to save their true loves ... and their sanity. (hkcinemagic.com)

As the Heng Seng Index teaches 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".

A musical starring Carrie Ku Mei as a singer named Xiaoyun Shi, who comes to Hong Kong after a tour of other Asian countries, hoping to develop her career.

Shaw Brothers comedy.

Emperor Chien Lung uses disguises to experience life among his subjects.

Shaw Bros production

A young girl runs away from her abusive father to join a group of circus performances, expecting that one day she will be the greatest trapeze artist. Later, she falls in love with one of the members of the circus staff who used to be a trapeze performer in previous times.

Fang Chih Kien witnesses a triad murder. When he picks the killer out of a lineup, the triad gang goes out of their way to make his family’s life a living hell, until he can take no more and seeks revenge.