Pei-pei Cheng

The disappearance of a magical jade sword spurs a breathtaking quest for the missing treasure. Li is embittered by the loss of his jade sword, and his unrequited pursuit of Yu is further complicated by the mysterious intrusion of an assassin. The identity of the assassin is gradually unveiled as another poignant tale of love begins to ravel with that of Li and Yu against the backdrop of Western China's magnificent landscape. (imdb)

A scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich family in order to pursue the ravishing servant girl who has stolen his heart (imdb)

A wandering swordsman protects a family from the wrath of a clan chief.

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

Episodic saga from the first half of the 20th century follows Hero Hua from an ill-omened June day in his youth to a showdown 17 years later with a disaffected member of his martial-arts school, a Japanese named Invincible. (imdb)

Bandits and heroes both come looking for the legendary fighter known as 'The Shadow Whip' (Tin Fung) who lives in seclusion with his apprentice Yang Kai-yun (Cheng Pei-pei) and the truth about a crime committed fifteen years ago... (kungfucinema.com)

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)

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)

Golden Swallow is living peacefully with her "friend" by a waterfall. She has seemingly given up her death-dealing ways but soon she is accused of going on a bloody rampage against an evil clan. As it turns out, the actual culprit is an old beau named Silver Roc who is impersonating her to draw her out into the open. A complicated love triangle develops as her affections are torn between the two men while all three must also deal with the evil kung-fu clan. (imdb)

Based on the popular video game franchise, female fighter Chun Li embarks on a quest for justice. (imdb)

A young mother and her six-year-old son come face to face with the mysteries of two murders and a great crime against the Chinese community into which they have recently arrived from Shanghai. (imdb)

David Carradine seeks revenge for the death of his master

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)

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

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 Flying Dagger brothers and the Bewitchment sisters are competing bounty hunters who unite to hunt down Red Fox.

Cheng Pei-pei, Lily Ho and Chin Ping star as the Chia sisters, the backup troupe performing with their magician father (Jiang Guang-chao) on Hong Kong's nightclub circuit. When the three become fed up with dad siphoning away their salaries, the girls leave home to pursue ballet, shoot for screen stardom or get married. The trio eventually overcome personal obstacles, band together and aim to hit the big time in the televised Hong Kong Music Lovers a-go-go stage show.

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.

Mulan director Jingle Ma transforms three top actresses of Chinese cinema into a different type of action heroines in Speed Angels! Tang Wei (Wu Xia), Rene Liu (Starry Starry Night), and Cecilia Cheung (Legendary Amazons) literally put pedal to the metal in the inspiring racing actioner playing female motorcar racers whose friendship, love, and glory collide on the racetracks. (YesAsia)

Hong Kong filmmaker Allen Lan directs the martial arts-action film Flying Dragon, Leaping Tiger, which, despite its similar title and sharing some of the same actors, has nothing to do with Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Set during the Ming dynasty, the story involves horse thief Luk Ching-Yang (Sammo Hung) and his wife Liu Lu-Yian (Cheng Pei-Pei). After Luk was betrayed by his brother Kiu Hung (Tsui Goh), Lu-Yian left him. (allrovi.com)

The film is another Chinese vs. Japanese movie and is set during the early years of the Republic of China. Ying (Pei Pei) is a patriotic young woman who goes undercover to try and find out where a student revolutionary leader called Choi (James Tien) is being imprisoned. Coming up against the invading Japanese and their puppet government, she works her way into the favor of Lui, the Peking Bureau Chief of Security (Ou Wei) by pretending to be his long lost younger sister. (kungfucinema.com)

A doctor tries to find a cure for SARS.

Shaw Brothers fans have known and loved Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon villain Cheng Pei-pei for decades as one of the sweetest, most attractive, most heroic stars ever in Asian cinema. She was only 20 years-old, and just three years into her remarkable career, when she took the lead in this fascinating martial arts murder mystery which combines battles with bullets. This kung-fu Nancy Drew must face a secret serial killer with too much blood on his hands to let her live. (hkcinemagic.com)

A mainland security officer must race against the clock to retrieve the son of a man who's holding an entire school hostage. (imdb)

Lo Wei remains internationally famous for directing Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan's first major movies. Cheng Pei-pei is now internationally famous for her superlative villainous role in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. But both were superstars in Hong Kong for decades prior, so any teaming of the superlative "swordswoman supreme" and the vaunted director/writer/actor is cause for celebration. (yesasia.com)

During an International Gambling Competition, "The King of Gamblers" Lui Tin (Chen Kuan Tai) lost to the lacivious, psychotic lesbian queen of gamblers Sheung Kung Fei Fa aka "The Gambling Flower" (Kung Suet Fa) which caused him to commit suicide. His daughter Wai Lam (Fung Sau Yin) vows to avenge her fathers death and get help from her late father's good friend. Uncle Wah (Cho Tat Wah), who is a police inspector. Wah also enlists the "Lucky Stars" to assist him. (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)

Peach Boy and his mother live in a village. One day, there is a young man suddenly comes to the village and asks Peach Boy as his teacher because of the worship. At the same time, the elder of the devil palace wants to set Peach Boy to the deathtrap. They grasp children in order to have better martial arts skills. (dddhouse.com)

A member of the Mei village clan goes undercover into the Hu Lu mountain village clan to avenge his clan's brutal slaying over a treasure map. In the process, he gets some unexpected help from a "fiery girl" (Cheng Pei-Pei). (hkmdb.com)

After the Ming Emperor is overthrown and his infant son put in the care of the Black Dragon Society, a traitorous martial arts clan attacks the society and forces two inexperienced swordsmen to flee with the infant and begin a dangerous journey in search of allies. (kungfucinema.com)

The film is set in early 11th century China during the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty. The emperor neglects state affairs and indulges in personal pleasures, while the government sinks into corruption and war continues to rage on at the borders of the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty is being invaded by the armies of the rival state of Western Xia. (Wikipedia)

Admist a rebellion during the Ching Dynasty in ancient China, a nurse flees the palace with a young prince. As an adult, he convinces the daughter of the usurper to betray her father and to assist in restoring him as the rightful monarch. (imdb)

Lilting is a touching, intimate film about finding the things which bring us together. In contemporary London, a Cambodian Chinese mother mourns the untimely death of her son. Her world is further disrupted by the presence of a stranger. We observe their difficulties in trying to connect with one another without a common language, as through a translator they begin to piece together memories of a man they both loved.

A musical romance from Shaw Bros.

The Empress Dowager flees when the allied forces descend upon the capital. During an attack by bandits, her jewels are lost in the mountains. Ten years later, a local villager finds the treasure. When news of the found jewels spreads, a group of bandits descends upon the town hoping to find the treasure, but first they'll have to deal with the villager's daughter, Tigress (Pei-Pei Cheng), who is quite dangerous due to her amazing fighting skills. (amazon.com)

The series follows the Battle against the Qing Dynasty and its Manchu ruler Chen Long, the opposition being a Han lead organization called 'The Red Flower Society' which is trying to return the country to its rightful owners - The Han Chinese. Little do many people know though, the leader of the society (Chen Jia Luo) is actually the Emperors brother! (imdb)

Fu Tien-Ming is the subject of an experiment that turns him into the hero known as Shadow Mask. When his arch nemesis, Red Goddess, escapes from prison, she is determined not only to stop Shadow Mask, but to kidnap a scientist who has come across a discovery involving DNA. (imdb)

The story of Beijing Opera School, its teacher Master Yu and his students. (imdb)

Elanne Kwong and Janice Mann (who appeared alongside each other in See You in YouTube) star with Rex Ho as 3 best friends coming to terms with their feelings for one another, with Ling (Kwong) at first hoping to play Cupid with Rex and Janice. Things get complicated when Ling's diagnosis of cancer is made known to her friends, and she starts to realise that Rex has affections for her. (imdb)

An omnibus of 4 short stories, each of them occurring in different corners of our society, but all of which encompass the same themes: courage, determination, pursuance and hope. (The Movie Database)

A doctor moves his family into a mansion. His wife hears weird noises at midnight, then his daughter disappears mysteriously. His detective friend begins to look into this case, only to suspect everyone in this family is somehow complicit. (imdb)

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.

Taiwan's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1964.

Women too can fight! The sequel of "Top Fighter" focuses in the importance of the women in the martial-arts movies, from her first characters as "hero's girl" until becoming superstars by themselves. A voyage by the times and the most famous beauty fighters from this genre: Angela Mao, Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Rothrock and much more.

Liu Wenhu, the owner of Liu's Martial Arts Hall in Mount Tai, sets up competitions every year with big money as bait. For several years in a row, he defeated the martial arts masters who came to challenge him. So he dominated the country, ran rampant in the village, oppressed the people, and seized the people's daughters. Shi Xiaoyi, the successor of Taishan Stone Art, saw it in his eyes and was angry in his heart.

Tang Bohu's mother sends him to study at Qingfeng Monastery, but he can't bear the austere and monotonous life at the monastery. So, his three good friends secretly take Tang Bohu out for an excursion. (imdb)

Hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, this in-depth documentary offers viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the history of the martial arts film -- from the genre's rebellious beginnings to high-flying modern epics. Jackson takes you through the best moments of 100 movies, including Charlie's Angels and Oscar winner Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Interviews with martial arts film veterans Sammo Hung, John Woo and Ang Lee round out the video.

Maria has been a housewife and mother for forty years, dedicating herself solely to her emigrant family in Vancouver. As she seeks more personal and financial independence, she resorts to potentially dangerous means to earn money following in the footsteps of her neighbors who she doesn't really know well. Maria may discover that independence and the associated sense of freedom is a state of mind. (imdb)

Six female POWs lead an escape from a North Vietnamese prison camp, then join the local rebel forces to plan an attack to wipe out the camp and free the rest of the prisoners.