Ping Chin

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)

As the reign of the Ming Dynasty comes to a close, a corrupt magistrate draws the vengeance of three fearless warriors in this kung fu epic from director Chang Cheh. Tired of being exploited and overtaxed by the current magistrate, the citizens of a small community band together to prepare a petition to a visiting minister... (allmovie.com)

A young man seeks vengence for the slaughter of his family by rich swordsman rebels. Armed with the skills taught by a master swordsman, his trusty sword, and his mother's Buddha Bells bracelet, no one is left alive in this of retribution. (lostinlodos)

Chivalrous, noble swordsman Fang Junzhao goes on a search for Miss Liu's childhood sweetheart, the self-exiled fugitive Li Yue...

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.

With a cast list that includes Jimmy Wang Yu, Chin Ping, Lo Lieh and Ivy Ling Po, you can expect lots of hard-edged action in The Twin Swords. Jimmy Wang Yu, the star of such martial arts hits like One-Armed Swordsman, plays Kwei Wu who happens upon a kidnapping with his wife Kan Lien-chu (Chin Ping) at the Red Lotus Temple. Kan sends Kwei to go for reinforcements while she stays to fight the kidnappers. Fortunately, the mysterious Scarlet Maid (Ivy Ling Po) is surreptitiously helping her. (hkcinemagic.com)

The superlative U.S. TV documentary The Art of Action declared that this film was clearly the foundation for a new era in Hong Kong martial arts drama. It created a sensation throughout Southeast Asia due to its unique combination of exciting action scenes and a stellar cast of established stars and new favorites. It also broke box office records and inspired two equally important sequels; The Twin Swords and The Sword and the Lute. (hkcinmeagic.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)

Kwei Wu (Jimmy Wang Yu) and his partner (Chin Ping) are homeward bound to destroy the "Phoenix Lute," a deadly weapon which accurately shoots poisonous needles up to 500 paces and can only be destroyed with the Kan curved sword. It's like a Western sword-and-sorcery film on drugs, featuring high-flying, frenetic paced swordplay. (hkcinemagic.com)

The lovely Chin Ping stars as Li Yan-niang, daughter of swordmaster Li Fei-lung (Wong Chung-Shun playing a good guy for a change), who must avenge the injury done to her family by the Fierce Tiger Gang (led by Wang Hsieh) and their ferocious hatchetman Iron Claws (Yeung Chi-Hing). To do this, she must join the power of her Moon sword with the Sun sword power of heroic swordsman Chao Ying-Chieh (a very young Chung Wa). (demonoid.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)

Think "City Lights" with a Mandarin twist. This unique Chaplinesque tale of two misfits in love stars Teddy Robin Kwan, a handicapped comic actor and already popular rock star whose talent more than makes up for his physical limitations. There's laughter and tears in this, his first film, as he comes to the aid of a blind waif, eventually delighting her (and the audience) with the songs he created especially for the film. (back cover)

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)

A musical romance from Shaw Bros.

It's an "all is well that ends well" romp that mixes pleasure with pleasure as nightclub owner, playboy Peter Chen Ho, has his lewd ways with three sisters while gallivanting across Asia, where money is no object. (HKCinemagic)

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)

There's nothing like a good, opulent, gaudy musical to lift the spirits, but when it's a 1960's Hong Kong musical orchestrated by a Japanese director and composer, it breaks through the ranks as a classic of campy kitsch. A follow-up to the previous year's megahit Hong Kong Nocturne, with the same Japanese creative team, Hong Kong Rhapsody follows the fortunes of an unemployed magician whose love life is so knotty it would take Houdini to unravel!

Chen Hou is a chauffeur who gets caught in a mistaken identity scandal linking him to businesswoman Lok Dai. Chen was supposed to audition for a job as her chauffeur, but a proposed musical show is far more attractive to the aspiring dancer. When a rumor gets out that the two are involved in an affair, she's angry and confronts him, but his charms overwhelm her, and it's revealed that she too desires to dance.

Ling Bo is Lin, a young man engaged to the daughter of a rich man, who now despises Lin because of his family's declining status. Lin visits his beloved fiancee before he heads towards the imperial city to participate in the civil service examination, only to find her maid lying dead in blood. Lin is then accused of murder. How can Judge Bao prove his innocence?