Li Ching

Director Yuen Chor's stylish saga follows two rival swordsmen who must set aside their differences and work together to prevent a villainous warlord from getting his hands on an ancient artifact known as the Peacock Dart -- the ultimate weapon. Lung Ti, Lieh Lo, Li Ching and Lily Li star in this swordplay classic featuring opulent sets, exquisite costuming, inventive fight choreography and action galore.

The film's plot revolves around a martial artist's quest to catch a mysterious thief who robs his wealthy victims and then blinds them with embroidering needles. His trail leads to a mysterious clan of female martial artists known for their embroidery. (IMDB Comments)

Two students from the Wu-Tang and Shaolin schools are forced into a rivalry that culminates in their training for a competition between the two schools.

The last in a line of famous martial artists turns to robbery and kidnapping to acquire a manual for building guns in this wuxia/spy hybrid.

Kuo Tsing and Huang Yung , the happy-but-beleaguered couple, continue their travels on behalf of the Beggars Clan whose chieftainship their teacher had bestowed on Huang Yung in the previous film. However, a blow by Iron Palm has seriously wounded Huang Yung, so Kuo Tsing seeks help from a reclusive white-haired beauty, "Auntie Ying", who sends them to Emperor Yuan for a cure. But first they must get past the Emperor's followers a fisherman, a woodcutter, a farmer, and a scholar. (hkflix)

Ma and Xiao are manual laborers busting their tails in Shanghai at the beginning of the film, and Ma's first encounter with the crime lord Tan Si starts him off on the underworld influence ladder. Step by step, he earns the respect of everyone he meets, either with his strength of character or by beating them up. When he gets a really big break by defeating a Russian strongman, he indulges himself in a fancy cigarette holder, much like the one Tan Si uses. (wikipedia)

A clan sends out two of their members (Lo Lieh and Chang Yi) to retrieve a powerful sword to prevent its misuse. Along the way they encounter a skilled swords-woman who is also after the sword (Cheng Pei-pei). A complex love tragedy develops when she falls in love with one of the men and thoughtlessly wounds the other. (imdb)

The films follows a trio of bandits who join the army to suppress a rebel movement in Qing Dynasty China. (wikipedia.org)

Master Tieh and his band of bounty hunters seek to apprehend four famous robbers...

Zhang Chun is a juvenile delinquent coasting through life with his best friend "Old Master" David and mistress bar girl Mary until one day, he meets a young heiress named Wen Rou...

Reclusive hero Jin Fei, known as the King Eagle, inadvertently gets involved in the internal conflicts of the Tien Yi Tong society, after he falls in love with their 7th chief, Yuk Lin. (imdb)

Wan Tai, a revolutionary recruits three friends to steal 3000 rifles and 200,000 rounds of ammunition for the South China rebels. Before his death, a blood oath is made...

Two men, one a civil engineer skilled in Chinese Kung Fu, the other a Muay Thai kickboxer, discover they are brothers. Together, both in and out of the ring, they must face a crime syndicate. (imdb)

Sequel to Duel of Fists.

The head-slicing Snow Maid heroine is enraged after she learns that her mother has been raped by a gang of thugs. The vengeful woman picks up her sword and seeks out the notorious Golden Hair Mouse for high-flying, hard-hitting revenge. (hkcinemagic.com)

The sequel to The Boxer from Shantung

A quartet of Chinese soldiers fighting in the Korean war are now at loose ends in Seoul.

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)

The action sweeps non-stop through this martial arts film featuring Ti Lung as Teng Piao, a prisoner just released from jail and seeking revenge. Teng Piao was framed by a gangster known as the "Leopard" (he has a leopard tattoo on his chest, his only identifying feature). The trouble is, neither Teng Piao nor anyone else knows who the Leopard really is. (allrovi.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)

Joseph Kuo directs Jeannie Chen, Hwang Jang Lee, and Wei Long in the Hong Kong action film The 36 Deadly Styles. A man comes into possession of The Secret Book of 36 Deadly Styles. A series of legendary masters, Silver Fox, the Ghost Face Killer, and Bolo among them, team up to steal the book for their own nefarious plans. (allrovi.com)

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. (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)

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)

When a notorious fiend known as the "Bat Without Wings" returns to his small village after a five-year absence and snatches up a prominent young maiden, it's up to her family and a resourceful swordsmen to brave the horrors of the underworld to bring her back home alive. With ghosts, a bamboo labyrinth, and a series of treacherous bat traps to contend with, these brave souls will be lucky just to make it out of the diabolical villain's lair alive. (allrovi.com)

Director Chu Yuan's titanic teaming with respected, inspired author Chin Yung created this unforgettable saga. Set during the Yuan Dynasty, it tells the fascinating story of the "Sacred Fire" sect, the Wu Tang swordsmanship clan, the disciples of the O Mei group, The Book of Chu Yang (which can make the reader immortal), and the destruction of Shaolin -- complete with a killer cliffhanger. And that's just the start of the fascinating intrigues and ingratiating characters found here. (hkcinemagic.com)

Although King Cat was one of Chang I's earliest films, the young actor was already showing the promise that would make him the star of countless Shaw Brothers' martial arts movies. Chang plays Chan Chao, a knight of justice, who thwarts the plans of Minister Peng to assassinate the revered Judge Pao Cheng over and over again. Lo Lieh gives Chang a good run for his money as the evil and sinister henchman of Minister Peng. (hkcinemagic.com)

Noted director Hsu Cheng-hung personally created the original story for this deadly family feud. The tone is set when the patriarch of the An Ping Security Service is shown to use a dozen killer coins as his personal kung-fu weapon. After they are hired to escort 200,000 taels worth of silver to safety, "flipping a coin" takes on a whole new meaning in this action-packed, emotional martial arts melodrama - choreographed by, and featuring, Liu Chia-liang and Tang Chia. (hkcinemagic.com)

For noble college and kung-fu student Yen Tzu-fei (played by experienced matinee idol Ling Yun), there can be no forgiveness or mercy, as an unscrupulous Japanese financier's sordid family literally rapes and pillages everything Yen holds dear. It's a fight to the finish against both his oppressors and their even more venal collaborators. (hkcinemagic.com)

Experienced heroine Li Li-Hua plays a swordswoman out to reclaim her murdered husband's "Green Sword," the sharpest blade in the world. The lovely Li Ching plays the role of Li Li-hua's student, who must take up the fight when her teacher falters. (hkcinemagic.com)

Our main character (played by Ling Yun) carries the titular twin blades and is on a quest to take out the Ghost Gang who murdered his parents. (silveremulsion.com)

Ming Chu (Ching Li) is dazzling friends with her acrobatic kung fu when along rides the town elder Madame Liu (Lam Jing), mortally wounded by the evil Black Tiger Gang. On her deathbed Madame Liu recounts how long ago, bandit Pai Tien Wang lay siege to their city prompting General Liu Tsing to nobly sacrifice himself so his subjects could escape safely, while second-in-command General Liu Hai Te was entrusted with the city's fortune in jewels. (thespinningimage.co.uk)

Teenage heart throbs Ching Li and Paul Chin Pei come across like Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon in the musical Sunset, a musical romp that plays similar to one of Hollywood's famous "Beach Party" movies. A car load of girls meets a car load of boys and Ching and Paul ultimately fall in love. Yet the film takes an acrid twist and turns out to be more like a Shakespearian tragedy than a beach-babe party. (hkcinemagic.com)

The first part is a typically campy ghost flick with wild magical battles between priests and spirits and the scared plain folk, all revolving around a mysterious magic mirror. When the ghost turns out to be involved in a family tragedy, a priest intervenes and tells her she must go through the tortures of hell to save her family. (The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre)

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)

AKA Imperial Sword Crouching Devil Five men venture into a hidden cave to find a treasure map. After they have encountered the dangers of the cave, the two last survivors finally find the treasure map inside a golden Buddha. One of them falls into a pit and the other gets caught by ninjas as he tries to escape with the map while the cave explodes. After escaping from the ninjas, he meets a princess to learn the imperial sword technique in order to defeat the devil! (ioffer)

It's scheme or be schemed in this Taiwan action comedy about con men and hustlers. Top stars Chen Kwan Ta and Lee Yi Min are among the scammers. (Wu Tang Collection)

1. A crash leaves a man dead, and his wife badly injured. Soon, he returns as a ghost to try to take her with him. 2. A caretaker wins the lottery thanks to the saucer spirit. Things begin to go wrong when he breaks his promise to it. (imdb)

The "Huangmei Opera" folk opera once constituted the most popular trend in Mandarin musicals, and this is not only the last great one, but perhaps the most memorable retelling of one of China's most popular romances. In a gender-bending turn, Ivy Ling Po plays the scholar who tries to seduce the sprite-like servant (Li Ching). (HKCinemagic)

Major Fang is obsessed with Yu Zhen by chance, knowing that she is the daughter of scholar Xu, he decided to enter their house in disguise with his page, and however, Yu Zhen's cousin comes back for the pre-arranged marriage at the same time. Li Han-hsiang both scripted and helmed “Tales of Larceny” about the scams cons worked and the games people played during the corrupt Chinese Warlord era, featuring a cast filled with the best of Shaw's exceptional character actors.

The daughter of a slain hero is on a mission to take the coveted Gold Dragon Sword back to the Capital for safekeeping.

Na Cha shakes free seven magical peaches from a mystic tree in Heaven and they turn the animals who eat them down on Earth into horrible monsters. Now Na Cha and his brothers have been decreed only 10 days in which to clean up their mess on Earth.

The film is about Fen, who hangs out with four total losers who are in “Macho Man” tank tops, and what happens. Ching Li plays Selina, who is a commercial director who hires him.