Tony Liu

A young man sworn to an oath of non-violence works with his cousins in an ice factory where they mysteriously begin to disappear. (imdb)

A man visits his relatives at their restaurant in Italy and has to help them defend against brutal gangsters harassing them. (imdb)

Chao Chun-fang (Lo Lieh), a mentally unbalanced lantern maker gets a chance to avenge his mistreatment by two rich and powerful men when one of the men (who are enemies, in fact) asks him to make special lanterns for an approaching festival. Chao then methodically kills three female family members of the two wealthy men and peels off their skin to use as a covering for the lanterns. (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.

An apartment dweller goes on a search-and-destroy mission to kill the ruthless landlords who murdered his father. (imdb)

Kung Fu comedy about a couple of young street urchins ("Chili Boy" and "Embroidered Pillow") who join up with a family of acrobats and martial artists. They have a bunch of wacky adventures, usually centered around conning people out of money, and eventually some bad guys kidnap a young girl so they go and beat them all up. Features lots of cameos by Hong Kong stars of the era.

Hell is raised in the martial arts world as forces of good and evil engage in a life-or-death battle for the fabled "bloody parrot". According to legend, this bloody parrot, transformed by dark magic, grants three wishes to anyone who sees it.

Grocery store clerk Kit's world is shaken to the core after his girlfriend Wing is brutally raped by a demonic cop. Kit then seeks out revenge. (imdb)

The plot centers on a martial arts tournament where the stoic Purple Robe Duke competes annually with the nefarious Fire Demon God, who always loses. This time, the Purple Robe Duke is poisoned from an attack by the Samurai Killer beforehand, forcing him into a state of secluded meditation in an underwater chamber to slow the poison's effects. His chief student Bai Baoyu sets out to retrieve an antidote, but must outwit and outfight forces intent on stopping him. (kungfucinema.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)

As a crafty Eunuch (Lau Wing) is slowly wresting control of the Ming Dynasty from its weak-minded emperor and ordering the deaths of loyalists, Sergeant Zhao Bufu (Leung Kar-yan) breaks rank from his father's elite Brocade Guards and is forced to combat the entire force to uphold his honor and save the empire from ruin. In the Shaw tradition (though a very late film for them) it is very bloody but combines good outdoor locations with backlots pretty well. (myduckisdead.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)

This mystery-tinged "Martial Arts World" epic was one of director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung's last together for the Shaw Studios, but it's another action-filled winner. Liu Yung and Sun Chien (the Korean kicking "Venom" from Chang Cheh's internationally popular series) team to investigate the martial arts murders of a supposedly mortally wounded swordsman, only to find deception, death, double-dealings, imposters, and one deadly duel after another. (hkcinemagic.com)

Actor Lu Chun-ku really hit his stride as a director of mystical kung-fu epics, like Holy Flame Of The Martial World, and this - truly one of the best of its kind. (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)

Just when audiences thought the director couldn't get more spectacular and outrageous, he unleashed this eye-filling, mind-bending "Martial Arts World" sequel of clan rivalries, ninja atrocities, wizard sorceries, and the mythical Silkworm style that changes our hero into a veritable Spider-swordsman. The screen practically explodes with colorful characters and kung-fu -- all directed, co-written, and co-choreographed by Lu Chun-ku, and showcasing some of the best Shaw Brothers action stars. (hkcinemagic.com)

Liao Jiang is the lowest ranking member of a gang that holds up a jewelery store. Subsequently the three other gang members die, and their gold haul goes missing. Liao Jiang and his new gang member Huge Eyes are then forced to turn to a triad gang to help get back their gold from a rival group. (imdb)

Three female detectives--from Hong Kong, Korea, and Singapore--go undercover in a cabaret to expose a murderer. (imdb)

After one hundred men perish under mysterious circumstances in the vicinity of a lovely area known as Moonlit Sky, swordsman Feng Xiwu (Max Mok Siu-chung) decides to investigate and discovers beautiful maiden Shuiling (Mary Jean Reimer). The two fall almost instantly in love, but the girl's mother (Wei Chiu-hua) is a blood drinking, flesh eating spirit responsible for all of the recent deaths. (dighkmovies)

Veteran action actor and director Lu Chun-ku set his sights on a tale of Ching Dynasty royal intrigue as an excuse to hire his favorite action stars, gather three choreographers, and film one fight-filled conspiracy after another. Liu Hsueh-hua is the title character caught between battling princes. (hkcinemagic.com)

Old style kung fu films always had brothel, restaurant, and of course gambling scenes. Gambling films became popular in the early 80s, so it made sense to have an intense poker game standoff between early good guy, kung fu star Chen Kuan Tai, and early villain, kung fu star Lo Lieh. The fists and cards really fly in "Notorious Eight" as Chen proves once again that "flushing" out the bad guys makes great box office sense. (hkcinemagic.com)

Schooled in traditional martial art training for film by acclaimed director Liu Chia-liang, Hui Ying-hung was considered one of the top action females of the 1980s. In The Tiger and the Widow, Hui mixed up in a salt smuggling ring led by stalwart Shaw Brothers action star Liu Yung (a Tiger) and famed Taiwanese singer Tanny Tien Ni (a beauteous young widow), that wreaks of missing persons, altruism and bawdry complications. (hkcinemagic.com)

To Kill a Jaguar features two alumni that got big breaks starring in Bruce Lee films, Nora Miao, Bruce Lee's love interest in The Big Boss, Fist of Fury and Way of the Dragon, and Liu Yung who co-starred with Bruce in The Big Boss and Fist of Fury. In To Kill a Jaguar, Liu plays Miao's jilted lover that but he refuses to let go as the film has more twists than a soap opera. (hkcinemagic.com)

Usurpers of Emperor's Power has all the elements of a good martial arts film: a power struggle amongst royalty, imperial spies, jianghu wars and plenty of action. Liu Yung (who would go on to star in all of Bruce Lee's movies) plays Li Lang, a court official out to avenge his former emperor. The target is easy to hate: the power-hungry Kuang-yi (Chao Kuo) is a plundering rapist and a cold-blooded murderer. But can one man take on the imperial army? (hkcinemagic.com)

After his wife emigrates to the U.S. to prepare a home for the family, a Chinese man is stunned by her sudden and unexplained disappearance. Desperate, he follows her trail to Los Angeles but finds himself ensnared in a crime plot and framed for a murder he didn't commit. Filmed on location. (ebay.com)

Respected veteran director Li Han-hsiang capped this, one of his best years as a filmmaker, with this fascinating period drama of royal intrigue. Li Kun plays the ingenious Lord Liu, whose intelligence was envied by the Emperor himself, enacted by Liu Yung. Both actors were two of Bruce Lee's favorite co-stars. Serving as a welcome co-star herself is My Young Auntie, Hui Ying-hung, showing once again why she was a favorite of both legendary directors Chang Cheh and Liu Chia-liang. (hkcinemagic.com)

An unspeakable act of cruelty sets the stage for horror in this evocatively-titled thriller spanning the supernatural from World War II to today, as a defiled and betrayed beauty haunts her persecutors from the Tao Tao Mansion. Terror and death stalk a professor and his family as they struggle with the spirits for the life of his lost son.

Liu Yung, one of Bruce Lee's favorite co-stars, is the brother whose destiny is to become a top mobster. Danny Lee, (future co-star of John Woo's The Killer) is the brother fated to become a cop. More than five years before John Woo was to play out the same conflict in his international film festival favorite A Better Tomorrow, the Shawscope screen was filled with similarly powerful blood, sweat, and tears. (hkcinemagic.com)

Ku Ju-chang, young and upright martial artist, fights and kills the viceroy's son. Ku has to leave his home and lead a floating life throughout China. One day, Ku is surprised by Old Shen, the highwayman. Shen is fatally wounded but he manages to ask Ku to look up his wife and daughter. Ku is employed to build the scaffolding for the title of Champion Boxer for all seven North China provinces. (hkcinemagic.com)

Before the West entered World War II, a Japanese death cult called the Temple of Hades is ordered to aid in the spiritual destruction of China. Their method - abduct their enemies' children and train them as killers for the Emperor. (imdb)

The Pure And The Evil begins with two teen girls who are inseparable but ends like Fatal Attraction where guttered sexuality leads to insanity. Rose and Fang were from opposite ends of the spectrum, but were close. The refined Fang moves to America but returns years later to see her old buddy Rose who immediately takes an eye to her fiance. Things quickly digress into erotic deterio-ration as Rose's thorns begin to stick in Fang's and her fiance's sides. (hkcinemagic.com)

There was a civil strife in the court. In order to protect the king, some loyal ministers and the king hid in an old house. This old house was known as a haunted house; whoever lived in the house shall die for sure. Mr. and Mrs. Tse went to the haunted house but died in it. Their son Tse Tin Jun wanted to find out the truth of his parents' death, so he went to the house. At the mean time, another minister knew the king's hiding in the house. He sent out a military force to kill the king. (hkcinemagic.com)

A team of mercenary soldiers, hired by a mystical person nicknamed Baroness,steal a priceless piece of jewely from the Philippine Museum. Two Philippines cops, Pat and Ray, are ordered to recover the jewel. They have no concrete evidence against the suspected targets and soldiers are planning to steal yet another valuable stone.The Blue Sun. (ebay)

Shaw legend Tony Liu Yung is the swashbuckling swordsman who takes on all odds. The Jade Hairpin is the only clue in a series of crimes that are carried out by the opera gang, a band of masked men of a poisonous family. Its weapon is a cunning plan of guts vs. skill and brains vs. survival in this epic! (youtube)

Set in the 14th century during the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Fan Siu Wong plays the Shaolin-trained general Yang Wu. After Yongle usurped the throne from Emperor Jianwen, loyal general Yang Wu secretly rescued child prince Zhu Wenkui and placed him in the care of the Wenchang Temple. Ten years later, Wenkui has grown up to be a strong, young man and Yang Wu is ready to put his plans to overthrow Yongle into action. (Wu Tang Collection)

Thanks to his boxing skills, a man acquires a formidable force which he puts to the service of evil. He soon discovers the error of his ways, but is it too late?

Siu Man is a nurse who has lost who she is as a person. Her marriage has ended partly due to her fear of intimacy and, having been abandoned by her husband, she now faces losing her father after he is hospitalised. Siu Man decides to reboot her life by taking over her father's restaurant but without the experience of being a chef, she has to hire someone. In steps Chia-hao, a Paris-trained cordon bleu chef, who is a free spirit but also treats cooking as serious philosophy and is able ... (imdb)

A survivor of an attack on a rebel group opposing the Manchu invasion of China creates the Goose fist-fighting technique and tries for revenge on a traitor.

In the 18th century, Emperor Chien Lung made a journey into Southern China.

A low-budget Shaw Brothers co-production.

A young man who is thrown into jail simply because he displeases a police inspector. But even when he's eventually released, the police continue to persecute him until he feels he has no choice but to become a real criminal.

Emperor Chien Lung uses disguises to experience life among his subjects.

If the Three Stooges had been Chinese, with one woman, this could very well have been one of their movies. Veteran director Lu Chun-ku leads handsome Liu Yung, pretty Liang Yun-Hsin, and “Thundering Mantis,” Liang Chia-Jen in a madcap mixup filled with cons, double-crosses, and triple plots. Add “Dirty Ho” himself, Wang Yu, to the proceedings, and you’ve got a winner for any fans of action or comedy.