Peng-Fei Li

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 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)

Kuan Tai Chen plays a refugee from mainland China who opens a teahouse in Hong Kong. He'd like nothing more than run an honest business, but the streets are filled with thugs from rivaling triads. After witnessing over and over that the authorities are powerless to stop the crime, he starts a dangerous game to try and take matters into his own hands by impersonating a triad boss himself.

This is one of writer/director Shen Chiang's last films, but it's an incredible action-packed adventure of a female Lone Ranger, decades before Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon made feminist-empowerment kung-fu films an international phenomenon. The wonderful Shih Szu is the title character, with Shaw Brothers' first international star, Lo Lieh, joining her as an adoring associate. (hkcinemagic.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)

Director Li Han-hsiang teams up again with the irreverent comedic talents of Michael Hui Kwun-man in this tongue-in-cheek drama. Corruption is strife in Wan Ping County in Hopei Province. Two good-for-nothing loafers Chen Ming (Michael Hui Kwun-man) and Chia Liang (Wang Sheng) arrive and turn the officials on their head. After a bout of blackmailing, they end up in positions of power themselves. It's all done with the best intentions, or so they believe. (hkcinemagic.com)

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 tale of a woman being cursed

Betty Ting Pei plays the lead,a Taiwanese singer searching in Hong Kong for her younger sister, who disappears after coming to HK to be discovered as a nightclub singer. (themoviedb.org)

Saved from an ambush by a mythical condor, Lung Kim-Fei is flown to the bird's blind Master Ku, who teaches Lung the skills of the Buddha's Palm. In gratitude, Lung restores his mentor's sight, destroyed by Master Ku's nemesis Suen. In the process, he falls in love with Suen's granddaughter Kau Yuk-Wah. The Buddha's Palm films, based on the newspaper serial Thousand Buddha's Palm by Shangguan Hong, feature hand-drawn, animated special effects by art director Lo Ki-Ping. (qagoma.qld.gov.au)

When his connection to Master Ku is revealed, Lung Kim-fei is injured by a furious Suen but escapes with the help of her granddaughters, Kau Yuk-wah and Kau Yuk-kuen. Pursued by Suen, Master Ku must defeat his bitter rival and lay their feud to rest. (qagoma.qld.gov.au)

Those who grew up in Hong Kong in the 1970s definitely remember the Wynners, a band formed by Alan Tam, Kenny Bee, Bennett Pang, Danny Yip, and Anthony Chan. They first dabbled into the film industry with Let's Rock in 1975, and in 1978 Taiwanese director Chen Yao Chi created another Wynners movie Making It. With a script tailored for the Wynners, youth film Making It is an updated Chinese version of The Prince and the Pauper. (yesasia)

Martial artist Wong is confronted by other masters. After he returns to his disciples, he vents his anger during a fierce fight. (letterboxd)

Chae-Hwa, daughter of Chinese mother and Korean father, comes to Korea for the first time in 13 years to be a teacher. While she is teaching English, she falls in love with a handsome teacher Ho-Cheol. Chae-Hwa finds that her father already remarried and advises her mother in Hong Kong to divorce. Her mother agrees on that. A student who loves Ho-Cheol makes Chae-Hwa be in trouble several times, but later Chae-Hwa finds that she is her half sister... (koreanfilm.or.kr)

If Agatha Christie was Asian, then Diary of Lady-Killer could well have been one of her burgeoning projects. The film flawlessly floats between murder mystery mayhem and light-hearted eroticism as a man that has sexual affairs with every female that looks at him twice, finds them dead shortly thereafter, making him the prime suspect. Yet after he's convicted and tossed into prison, the murders continue. He's innocent. But who did it? (HKCinemagic)

Lo Chen, the maker of such elegant romances as Shepherd Girl and The Joy Of Spring, takes a hard right turn into hard-boiled mystery. Ivy Ling Po, star of The Love Eterne as well as A Cause To Kill, plays the dedicated wife of a man being blackmailed for an illicit love affair, who uncovers a pit of deceit, double-crosses, extortion and murder after murder. (HKCinemagic)

Private eye Chang Wen Chiang receives a telephone call from his girlfriend Li Lan Hsing. He rushes over and finds her dying in a pool of blood.

A lesser-known Shaw Brothers sex comedy.

A comedy about three henpecked men and how they cope with not only their wives but a society that says they should rule the roost. A comedy of errors complicates their already complicated lives and wives.

An unexpected windfall leads a poor country bumpkin and his uncle into a roller-coaster cycle of rags to riches.

Tu Cheng Kang (Guan Shan) teaches at the Ta Tap Middle School where pupils are delinquent. Tu’s class is the worst. As the headmaster and his fellow teachers are unable to cope with the unruly students, Tu is determined to win them over with kindness. He fails initially but does not despair. Kao Te Sheng (Chuen Yuen), nicknamed the One-Eyed Dragon, is the chief troublemaker and leader.

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!

A country bumpkin and his uncle's wild adventure in Singapore, after losing their unexpected windfall in Hong Kong. Their adventure in Singapore leaves them with bittersweet memories.

A Shaw and Sons production.