2024-08-25
This intriguing wuxia saga is packed with conspiracies, power schemes and sword fights to produce a perfect blend of great action and gripping drama. The movie centres around the struggle for underworld supremacy between two clans, where the line between good and evil is not always that clear-cut.
The movie offers three stories of love and obsession. In the first tale, a young student with a voyeuristic habit spies on two of his female roommates. The second story follows an office manager who develops an infatuation for his secretary. The last story is a complex family drama about a debilitated father who forces his family to leave him.
Wang Yu plays a young guy, Wu, who heads off to Dragon Valley to meet his childhood friend, Lian Chu (Chin Ping), who was promised to be his bride. When he gets there, he finds out that the family of his bride might not be an entirely honest bunch of people. Wu wishes to take Lian Chu with him, so he has no choice but to fight against her family...
The Sword Master passes on his sword to his disciple Lin before he dies. Another disciple Fang also eyes the sword and plots to take it away from Lin, destroying his family and blinding him in the process. Lin finally battles Fang for revenge and vows to reclaim his sword.
Monk Tang San Zang, Monkey, Pigsy and Sha Wu Jing find themselves in Womanland, where women give birth to baby girls by drinking the magical spring water.
The story is about the legendary Monkey King (Liu Chung-chun) teams up with Goddess of Mercy (Chao Li-chuan) and the Dragon Girl (Lung Nu) to battle the child god Hung Hai-erh (Ting Hua-chung),son of the Ox Demon (Hung Hai-erh) to rescue Tang Tseng, the Holy Pilgrim (Teng Chio-jen).
Lin Dai stars in this romantic classic as a nightclub singer who falls for a young architect. When he suffers grave financial difficulty, she does the unthinkable to help him.
It is rumoured that people can buy anything they desire on the mysterious Island of Bats so long as they have money. The charismatic swordsman Chu Liu Xiang and his friend travel to the island to seek answers but realize they are not the only ones who want to unveil the mystery of this place.
Adapted from the most widely read and filmed novel in Chinese history, this sumptuous version was said to be the most successful one. Loh Tih's looks, demeanour and aura in her portrayal of Lin Dai Yu has won her the epithet "Classic Beauty".
Hsieh Choun, the Black Dragon, is in trouble with the police since Wang Sien Tien's gang is helping them; he is no longer free to conduct his drugs shipments out of the port freely as he used to. He buys more thugs and killers to dispose of the young upstart, and soon Wang is in dire straits, in the port of Hong Kong.
As its name implies, Songfest is an Eastmancolor-Shawscope costume musical, traditionally Chinese and timeless in content; yet revealing a spirited and modern technique. Shot on location at Taiwan's beautiful Sun-Moon Lake, it's a turbulent romance between a passionate tea picker Sung Yu Lan and a charming fisherman Li Chun Yang.
The head of White Lotus Clan, Lo, is a highly skilled martial artist who supports the Qing government and helps destroy the rebellion group. Hung from Shaolin who kills Lo's brother, is being hunted and hides in another rebel Hu's house. The clan attacks at night killing Hu and his sister, but Hung manages to get Hu's pregnant wife to safety.
The Snake Prince lives on the Snake Mountain of Kwangsi with other snakes and they have lived peacefully with humans for a thousand years. All things change however, when the Snake Prince falls in love with one of the three beauties performing a sensual rain dance in the nearby village one day, and decides to marry her at all costs...
Constable Wen Chao Fan and his father are framed for a jewel robbery they did not commit. On the run from the law and becoming a wanted fugitive, Wen must recover the jewels in order to clear his family name, but unfortunately he is not the only one seeking the stolen jewels...