Wei Szu

The High Abbot of Shaolin Temple dispatches brother Chi San to learn new fighting styles and the techniques of modern weapon making in the hopes of combating the Chings. (HK Flix)

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)

Murder most foul, committed for greed, lust, and revenge... It's all here in the first of the studio's landmark true crime series -- filmed, in many cases, on the actual locations where they occurred. This anthology features three evocative stories ("Hidden Torsos," and "Valley of the Hanged" are the first two), but kung-fu fans can't miss the third segment, "The Stuntmen," which actually takes place inside the Shaws' martial arts movie unit. (hkcinemagic.com)

In the sixties, love stories portrayed women as sentimentalists or sacrificial lambs. Later on, directors like Chu Yuan replaced these themes of sacrifice with abandonment. The Forbidden Past is a heart tugging, rare Chinese Christmas story about a bar girl (Ching Li) serving drinks to a man that looks like her husband from five years ago. She convinces him to fulfill her son's wishes of having the father he's never seen, show up for Christmas. A merry Christmas follows? (hkcinemagic.com)

Brigitte Lin's debut film is a melodrama in which her character gets involved in a socially unacceptable relationship and then forced into marriage. (letterboxd)

A roving swordsman known as Snowy White has in his possession the much sort after 13 Moon Sword, Anyone who manages to defeat him in combat may own the sword and take a high position in the martial world. (imdb)

Ghost Eyes concerns a female hair stylist (Chen Szu-chia) who is seduced by the vampiric ghost of a former optometrist (Szu Wei). Using supernatural contact lenses to control her mind, he gradually drains her life essence as she is forced to find new victims until tries to make a stand and rid herself of this terror once and for all. (themoviedb)

The seamy side of the Hong Kong film industry is laid bare in "The Call-Girls". Based on the infamous starlets-for-sex vice scandal that rocked the 1970s movie world.

A romantic Shaw Brothers musical.

Tale of the immoral private lives of the royal court's high officials. All the bed and body-hopping is not exclusive to the family, either. Their maids and servants get involved as well, leading to flesh, fibs, and suicide, among other things.