2024-10-20
Join Mr Funny bone in a series of comic vignettes as he attempts to win the heart of a dashing lady. Along for the ride is his loyal sidekick Mr Big Potato, a stout fellow who is forever getting into silly mishaps. The pair gets involved in plenty of shenanigans and gags!
This iconoclastic film retells the legend of seven Chinese patriots, who sacrificed their lives to defend against 20,000 Japanese soldiers and 50 tanks for 5 days, at a strategic key point of the Great Wall known as Pa Tou Lou Tzu.
A crippled billionaire mails a letter to each of his long-lost daughters inviting them to go to Japan, in the hope that he will find a worthy heir to inherit his vast fortune. The sisters finally meet abroad the plane to Japan, and one of them is taken with a man who is going to investigate the death of his lawyer uncle in a mysterious hit-and-run.
A corrupt official attempts to steal a priceless Buddha statue from a temple to please a group of Westerners. Luckily, Doctor Zhang and his son manage to defeat the Western boxers, the Japanese Kendo opponents and the Western longsword fighters with Chinese kung fu, thus saving the Buddha statue.
The 72 inhabitants of a dilapidated tenement live under the thumb of a heartless landlady and her sleazy husband. The arrival of a defiant new tenant however, changes their fate. The residents pool their resources together to prevent evictions, deflect targeted harassment by a corrupt policeman and ultimately prevent their home from being sold.
Two forbidden lovers, Zhang Zhen and Yue Nu, are killed by four villains and left behind their twin babies. Yue Nu's elder sister hopes to restore the clan's honour and separates the twins, arranging for them to be raised by competing clans. 18 years later, the twins meet and fight against each other, bringing chaos to the martial arts world.
Two pairs of lovers got mismatched accidentally. The man disguises as a woman for his sister's wedding ceremony, while his lover disguises as a man to marry another woman. After the marriage mismatches are revealed, the lovers and their families are taken to court, where Prefecture Chief Qiao manages to work out a happy ending.
The protagonists are ex-swordmasters who now find joy in making umbrellas. They track down the evil Madame Kung Sun and her poisonous "Finger of Doom", a unique supernatural power which allows her to transform normal, everyday people into horrifying zombies, and this is just the start of their mythical adventure against this zombie maker!
Ying Tai disguises herself as a boy to go to school and falls hopelessly in love with her classmate, Shan Bo. After Shan Bo realizes her true identity, he proposes marriage to Ying Tai. However, they are kept apart as she is engaged to another man. Knowing Shan Bo died in despair, Ying Tai is in deep sorrow and kills herself at his grave.
The young Wong Fei Hung and his friend Wang Yin Lin offend the young master of another rival school and the expert they hire, causing both martial arts schools to fight against each other. This is Director Liu Chia Liang's masterpiece and one of the top ten highest grossing movies in 1981.
The Empress Dowager Cixi believes the Boxers' claim that they have developed a kung fu that makes them impervious to weapons, thus declaring war against the alliances of eight foreign nations. The lack of weapons and good leadership in the Ching government allows the Eight Nation Alliances to take down Beijing.
Zhao Bu Fan is the sergeant of the government's secret police. Wang is a cruel and ruthless eunuch who takes over the Emperor's ruling power and leads the team of secret agents. After witnessing the atrocities committed by Eunuch Wang, Sergeant Zhao decides to defect but ends up being hunted by his friends, comrades and even his father.
This joyous, raucous, & colorful tunefest showcases the little seen dancing talents of celebrated kung-fu swordswoman Cheng Pei-Pei, as one of 3 girls dancing their way to the top.