2024-09-27
Jenny Hu, Shaw Brothers' gorgeous Chinese-German star, was given her first comedy role in the wild and wacky Guess Who Killed My Twelve Lovers? Described as "a comedy of belly laughs and chilling murders", it is a unique entry in the Hong Kong theater of the absurd.
One-armed Swordsman Fang Kang wants to lead a quiet life with his wife, but when she is abducted by the Eight Demon Swordsmen clan, he is forced to take them on in order to save her.
A young man, Chin, believes he is an orphan, until he meets three men and learns from them that his father was a great swordsman who was killed when he was trying to dispel rumors of a wrongdoing and return a lost sword to its rightful owner. Chin seeks out the men's help to take vengeance on the wrongful death of his father.
Chan and his apprentice Fan transport vampires for a living. In their most recent job, they are hired to transport nine zombies at one go. When two of them hopped away, it is revealed that one of them is actually a man in disguise trying to escape from his enemies. It turns out that the fake zombie and Chan are both martial arts experts!
Young Bao Tong witnesses the brutal murder of his kung fu master by a vicious villain. A large eagle tattoo on Bao's chest was spotted by the killer as he escapes. Can Bao escape from the killer?
In this Opera epic, a loyal Imperial Court servant gives up his own newborn son to save the prince from an evil official.
The wandering swordsman Yu Hsieh Erh has formidable sword skills and helps the poor by robbing from thieves and distributing the wealth. He meets a group of bandits who are planning to rob a convoy escorting some valuables and is tricked into participating in the robbery. Yu soon realizes his folly and returns to take revenge on the bandits.
Japanese director Inoue Umetsugu takes on the glitzy world of nightclub performers in The Yellow Muffler. The film depicts the struggle of two singing sisters, Ching-ping (Irene Chen I-ling) and Pai-hung (Betty Ting Pei) and ends when they are cast in a new movie.
The five Kao brothers, separated since birth, are unaware that the master of Teng Lung Manor has killed their father. All five however, vow to defeat the vicious gangsters at the manor due to their bullying ways. After reuniting and with much discipline and hard work, the Kaos are prepared to face Lung and his gang.
Based on the classic Ming Dynasty novel The Water Margin, Three Sinners is a Huangmei Opera about love, betrayal, murder, and redemption. Starring Hong Kong's premiere movie couple, it is one of the grandest Eastmancolor-Shawscope costume musicals in the Shaw Brothers library.
The titanic team of Director Chu Yuan and Novelist Ku Lung chose to give their hero (Ti Lung) a whole new cliffhanger-fraught adventure featuring a mysterious swordsman, a sensual swordswoman, an imperial assassin, a ghost mansion, a booby-trapped tunnel, as well as double crosses and secret missions.
The curious title in this Huangmei Opera romance refers to the two props that signal a happy beginning between a scholar and a local beauty. The scholar polishes mirrors so as to be closer to his love, who signals her approval by tossing him some lichees. From that point on the course of their love becomes rocky, complete with murder and suicide.
It all started with THE FIVE VENOMS, the internationally loved kung-fu thriller which introduced director Chang Cheh's recurring cast of martial arts masters. It continued through more than a dozen high-flying, bloody good entertainments featuring the same action actors in pairs, trios, quartets, and, most memorably, quintets. While this is considered the last official "Venoms" movie, what a film