Umetsugu Inoue

Japanese writer/director Inoue Umetsugu really sinks his teeth into this death-filled haunted house mystery about three men and three women who beguile, blackmail, bicker, and backstab (sometimes literally) each other all the way to a shocking ending. (hkflix.com)

As a cargo ship is preparing to leave on a long voyage mysterious and sinister events start to occur.

Shoichi is a violent young man just released from jail who aspires to be a drummer. He works his way up by playing gigs in a hip Ginza club. (imdb)

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.

A peasant ascends to the nobility, only to be destroyed in the process. (Criterion)

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)

There is a decidedly Japanese flavor to this musical comedy, shot on location in Japan under the direction of Shaw Brothers' number one Japanese import, director Inoue Umetsugu. The star, often called the "Cary Grant of Hong Kong," gives an inspired performance in this romantic farce, but sadly, it was his last for Shaw Brothers before his untimely death less than a year after the picture was released. Even so, it is a fitting testament to his carefree comic talent. (hkcinemagic.com)

"Young Lovers" is an Elvis Presley-like musical romp where our "Viva Las Vegas" guitar-playing, handsome playboy is a poor rich guy named Yang, who ventures off to Japan and joins a rock and roll band. A love triangle quickly develops between Yang and two girls, one of them played by the sensational Eurasian model/actress Jenny Hu. And like Elvis, he must prove his manhood with a couple of required martial arts fights. (hkcinemagic.com)

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)

A jeweler hires detective Akechi to find his daughter kidnapped by a famous thief known as the Black Lizard. (imdb)

Kasumi was determined to leave the house to make love with Hiroyuki Takayama a band master. Well, the disciple Kisaburo was planning to get married with Kasumi and take over from his family. A few days later, Kasumi suddenly had a separate story from Hiroshi and was drunk by unfamiliar drink. In such a case, it was Ryosuke Sakaki who was sinking. (chikaraloja)

Legendary jewel thieves "Nocturnal Earl" (Ling Yun) and "Fragrant Night" (Lily Ho) are set on a collision course for destiny when both arrive in Japan to get their hands on the famous "Venus Tear Diamond." But sparks fly between the jewel thieves and the two fall instantly in love, without knowing that their beloved is after the very jewel each is seeking!

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)

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!

Jiro Tamiya stars as moody super-cop Cobra Cumera; a Datsun driving, face punching detective who battles homicidal mobsters intent in causing mayhem and trouble in beautifully shot Tokyo.

Two sisters, Ching-ping (Irene Chen I-ling) and Pai-hung (Betty Ting Pei) struggle to find a workable act after their magician father and younger sister leave to try their luck in Taiwan. A good friend gets them cast in a new movie, and the rest is history...

Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt to perfect his crime, he drives to a remote quarry to bury his wife’s body, but along the way, he finds another dead body in the back of his car! Given no choice, Ise dumps both bodies. Meanwhile, Yoshie begins her search for her missing brother, Yoshihiko. After surprising twists and turns, Ise faces his fate. (Avistaz)

A mad scientist wants to get his hands on a certain growth-accelerating serum developed by Hong Kong scientist Dr. Li Zong-Hua so that he can create an army of supermen and conquer the world.

A young woman hides from her father by being a nightclub singer in Japan. Pop singer Chao Ke-jen (the handsome Lin Chong) gets permission from his boss to visit Japan - but only on condition he finds the boss's daughter.