Meng-Hua Ho

A young Kung Fu student (Shih Szu) seeks a reclusive teacher so that she may learn to defeat the evil Black Demon... (imdb)

Word of a monster ape ten stories tall living in the Himalayas reaches fortune hunters in Hong Kong. They travel to India to capture it, but wild animals and quicksand dissuade all but Johnny, an adventurer with a broken heart. (imdb)

And as such, it is a prized possession over which combat will be waged and blood will be spilled. First the property of a brothel's proprietor, the Golden Blade is stolen by rivals during an attack that cripples the man and sends him into hiding with his young daughter. When the girl comes of age and is recruited for prostitution, she thirsts for the vengeance only the titular weapon can handily provide. (turnerclassic)

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 cripple takes revenge on criminals by using a magic spell that transforms him into an oily monster/superhero. (imdb)

A vampiric sorcerer lives on human breast milk. He creates a small army of zombies by driving nine-inch spikes into the top of their skulls. (Stephen Bissette)

Left for dead on the street after being sexually assaulted by a violent gang of deviants and infected with a deadly sexually transmitted disease, a beautiful factory girl enlists the aid of a retired martial arts master in perfecting the skills that will allow her to seek deadly retribution. (Allmovie.com)

A corrupt lord has a life-threatening boil on his back, An herb called "Longevity Rattan" offers the only cure. He sends Sima Jun, A mercenery, to get the herb and bring it back before it's too late. A jealous aide saddles Sima Jun with six other fighters to accompany him, i.e. steal the herb when they get the chance and race back to the capital so the aide will get the credit. Sima Jun doesn't trust the six and none of them trust each other.

The High Abbot of Shaolin Temple dispatches brother Chi San to learn new fighting styles and the techniques of modern weapon making in the hopes of combating the Chings. (HK Flix)

This flick stars Fang Ying in her first starring role as the 7th Maiden who comes down from Heaven to marry a mortal by the name of Tung Yung (Ivy Ling Po). Mingling with the mortals is forbidden by the King of Heaven, the 7th Maiden's father, but she doesn't care anyways. Life in Heaven is boring. After a jolly good time with her husband, a lot of singing, and miracle weaving, the 7th Maiden's Father summons her back to Heaven or face his wrath. (HKMDB.com)

A drugged and disgraced wife of a street seller is taken against her will by a son of a royal servent. She's then framed for her husband's murder by her rapist. The hardships never stop. Early filmed Peking opera.

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)

Tom Lau Moon-tong directs this grim horror film about playboy photographer Mo Hsien-sheng (Melvin Wong Kam-sun), who while on a shoot swipes a grotesque statue from an abandoned temple. That night, he gets drunk with model Shu Ya and the two wind up in the sack, passed out. In the middle of the night, a creature emerges from the statue and rapes the sleeping model.

The Emperor's armies have developed a new weapon: a thrown blade that can remove someone's head from long distance. As the paranoid Emperor begins decapitating anyone he fears might be a threat, his guard Mau Tang becomes disillusioned with the excesses of his master. He leaves his post and takes up the quiet life of farming and raising a family. Eventually, though, his past catches up with him, and he must find a way to fight the flying guillotine if he is to save his head. (imdb)

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.

Cave of Silken Web is the third installment in Shaw Brothers series from the Chinese classic tale Journey to the West. The monk Tripitaka and his three protector/companions, Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy are trapped in the Cave of the Seven Spiders (i.e. seven swimsuit-clad seductresses) who want to eat the monk's flesh to gain immortality.

Fourth in Shaw Brothers' highly successful film series based on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, this takes up where The Monkey Goes West, Princess Iron Fan, and The Cave of the Silken Web left off. The Monk, Monkey and Pigsy find themselves in the title realm, where women can only give birth to women...unless loved by a man.

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. Fang flees the country after duping and killing Li with a fatal counter-measure. Vowing revenge, surviving son Li Cheng-ying and sister Li Meng-ping follows Fang's trail that leads to Thailand. (imdb)

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)

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)

This intriguing effort has more than a touch of both westerns and detective films in the martial arts mix. It could even be called an "Eastern Mystery" movie. It, of course, lives up to its title, as a noble guard is both attacked by bandits as well as betrayed by a relative. Then it's nephew against uncle, daughter against father, concubine against hero, and the law vs. vigilante justice before the last plot is exposed and the lovers are able to ride off into the sunset. (hkcinemagic.com)

Murder most foul, committed for greed, lust, and revenge... It's all here in the first of the studio's landmark true crime series -- filmed, in many cases, on the actual locations where they occurred. This anthology features three evocative stories ("Hidden Torsos," and "Valley of the Hanged" are the first two), but kung-fu fans can't miss the third segment, "The Stuntmen," which actually takes place inside the Shaws' martial arts movie unit. (hkcinemagic.com)

In swordplay movies, females played a more central role in the plots and the swordswomen created in the genre are some of the most charismatic figures in Hong Kong cinema thanks in great part to Cheng Pei-pei. In The Jade Raksha, Cheng Pei-pei becomes a human combine harvester as she hacks and whacks a path through life avenging the death of her family under the moniker "The Jade Raksha." Cheng Pei-pei gained international recognition in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. (hkcinemagic.com)

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)

Huang Fei-hung the greatest character in martial arts movie history, has been featured in many a gloriously filmed epic. But director Ho Meng-hua decided to cast Ku Feng, one of Shaws' finest actors, in the role, then film it hyper-realistically. The result is this unique experiment, as an all-too-human Huang Fei-hung battles a gangster's plan to frame him for robbery and murder. Despite the unusual approach, there's plenty of action as the Confucian Huang fights for honor, harmony, and health. (hkcinemagic.com)

Tien Feng is a criminal incarcerated for murdering an entire family. Tung Li plays his partner who is also shackled along with him. Tang Ching (who is called the Black Enforcer) has arrested him and stops off at his home to rest for the night as the snow is picking up. Later in the night, Tien Feng's gang ambushes Tang Ching and his officers. After all the officers are killed, Tien kills Tang's family and rapes his daughter in front of him as he passes out from sword wounds. (kungfucinema.com)

An evil general falls in love with an opera performer during the Chinese Revolution of 1949.

An aging martial arts champion fallen on hard times, nicknamed "Bamboo Stick" after his favorite weapon, comes to the aid of a man whose daughter is being forced into marriage with a powerful outlaw. However, after Bamboo Stick makes short work of the would-be groom, he discovers he's just killed the son of his arch-rival Lung Yung Fang. (imdb)

Set in Republic of China (1912–49) era Peking (Beiping), the story revolves around a college student (Kwan Shan) and three young women: a wealthy daughter of a government bureaucrat, a traditional singer in a band (both portrayed by Li Li-Hua) and a street kung-fu/acrobat performer (Ivy Ling Po). (Wikipedia)

Taking audiences back to an era of troubled romance, painful poverty and greedy land tycoons - all of whom have to answer to an angel (Li Ching) who has been sent from heaven to look after the residents of the former British colony. (88 Films)

Director Ho Meng-hua is one of Shaw Studio's most versatile directors. He's helmed romances, mysteries, award-winning dramas, contemporary action films, historical costume dramas, fantasies, and, finally, popular swordplay movies. The title character in this one is a chivalrous thief who raises the jealous ire of the rival Red Shirt Gang. There's plenty of action in this adventure, which sweeps from the plains to the mountains ... to the sound of slashing swords.

In a wealthy household, there is a fair amount of enmity between the mother-in-law and her daughter towards the new wife of the son. When the daughter is murdered, Yan-niang is caught with the murder weapon in her hand and the dear old mother-in-law immediately accuses her of being the killer and her weak-spined son just mumbles and doesn't defend his wife. The judicial system rushes a judgment through - guilty - execution scheduled... - BrianNaas

A man's frustration at being stuck at his dead-end job with no promotion or raise in sight, along with the antics of his domineering wife, cause him to write a very harshly-worded letter to his boss, telling him he's quitting.

Wan Jialiang, a factory worker, and Lu Xiuzhen fall in love and live together. Hou Liang is supported by Dong Yaqin, his cousin, and their lives improve. Desperate to get rid of Jane, who is pregnant, Jialiang plans to make her fall into the sea and die.

Crocodile River features a Romeo And Juliet-flavored story. Families are against each other. Yodi is the Romeo and Lee Ting is his Juliet. The two students love each other from across a river that is filled with crocodiles.

Tale of the immoral private lives of the royal court's high officials. All the bed and body-hopping is not exclusive to the family, either. Their maids and servants get involved as well, leading to flesh, fibs, and suicide, among other things.