
Acting
Hoh Ban
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6.6After the events of The One-Armed Swordsman (1967), a retired Fang Gang is drawn back into the jianghu to protect various young apprentices whose swordsmanship schools have been terrorized by 8 evil swordsmen seeking to rule the jianghu.
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
1969
6.4Golden Swallow revolves around the further adventures of its title character. This time around, she is forced into violence when a figure from her mysterious past goes on a killing rampage while leaving evidence that holds her responsible. Golden Swallow also makes room for a love triangle involving a mad, but righteous, swordsman named Silver Roc and a gentle warrior named Golden Whip. The three team up to conquer the evil forces of the martial world, but their joint venture only lasts so long, due to the two men's egos. Ultimately, a duel to the death is planned between them, leaving Golden Swallow caught between two men, both of whom she admires.
Golden Swallow
1968
6.4A violent martial artist is bent on avenging his older brother, who was killed by a cabal of four wicked businessmen and a cheating wife.
Vengeance!
1970
6.9After a gang massacre that resulted in the killing of his adopted father and gang leader, a martial artist goes into exile to take the blame. A year later, his gang is mysteriously trying to kill him, and he slowly discovers why.
The Duel
1971
6.6A young police cadet graduates from the academy, and is sent to a small town run by gangsters - one of whom betrayed the hero's father and left him to die.
Fist to Fist
1973
7.0Two 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....
The Yellow Muffler
1972
Film credits
1970s · 12 titles
6.4A violent martial artist is bent on avenging his older brother, who was killed by a cabal of four wicked businessmen and a cheating wife.
Vengeance!
1970
6.9After a gang massacre that resulted in the killing of his adopted father and gang leader, a martial artist goes into exile to take the blame. A year later, his gang is mysteriously trying to kill him, and he slowly discovers why.
The Duel
1971
6.6A young police cadet graduates from the academy, and is sent to a small town run by gangsters - one of whom betrayed the hero's father and left him to die.
Fist to Fist
1973
7.0Two 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....
The Yellow Muffler
1972
5.9Li Ching is the Seventh Sister, an angel who comes down from heaven to see what life in Hong Kong is like. In Hong Kong, she runs into Zili(Chin Feng), a reincarnated version of her deceased lover, Dong Yong. Zili, with help from cook Uncle Bull(the warm, portly Peng Peng), do their best to watch over homeless kids in an run-down orphanage. However, a heartless tycoon named Xu Caifa wants the land where the orphanage is and he's willing to go to extremes to get it. Armed with omnipotent powers, spirit, and help from her "celestial sisters", Seventh Sister works to defend Zili, Uncle Bull, and the orphans from Xu Caifa.
The Human Goddess
1972
5.6The swordsman Zhang Zhen is injured in a misadventure and rescued by Eldest Sister of Changchun Sect, who has a crush on him. However, Zhang falls in love with the maid Yuenu instead, and conceives twins with her. The couple are killed by a group of evil pugilists later. The Eldest Sister is angry with Zhang Zhen for not accepting her and plans to make Zhang's children kill each other as revenge. The baby girl (Xiaolu'er) is saved by Zhang's friend, Lian Lanyan, while the male infant (Hua Yuchun) is taken away by the Eldest Sister. Lian Lanyan encounters the Ten Villains when he passes through Villains' Valley. He is overwhelmed by them and knocked out in a fight. The baby Xiaolu'er is taken away by the Villains, who surprisingly do not harm her, and instead intend to groom her to become the greatest villain ever. Eighteen years later, the twins meet each other by coincidence.
The Jade Faced Assassin
1971
NRChiu Ling introduces his girlfriend Ma San to work for his uncle Chiu Chi. Ma San and Chiu Chi gradually fall in love with each other.
Love Is Smoke
1972
9.0Li Ying-wei returns to Hong Kong from England after his grandfather falls ill and is expected to take charge of the family business. Free-spirited and fashionable, Ying-wei quickly clashes with conservative traditions and becomes the target of scheming relatives eager to seize control of the company. Escaping the pressure, he secretly joins a pop band traveling to Japan, where music, romance, and danger await. As gangsters threaten a hotel owner and conspiracies close in from Hong Kong, Ying-wei must use both his charm and martial arts skills to protect those around him and uncover the truth.
Young Lovers
1970
NRHong Kong romance film.
If Tomorrow Comes
1973
NRA comic folk musical about two pairs of lovers and their romantic misadventures in a rural Hong Kong town.
Ripples
1970
On a rainy night, a robbery took place in a villa and some invaluable jewels were taken. One of the robbers was shot dead, the other wounded. The wounded robber dropped the leather case containing the jewels and it fell on to a rock beneath a suspension bridge. Chiang Wen Hua was a schoolteacher who was separated from her husband. On a Sunday afternoon, Chiang and her daughter Hsiao Ching went picknicking near the suspension bridge. Hsien Ching's paper windmill was carried away by the wind, and, in looking for it, Hsiao Ching found the leather case containing the jewels...
The Mystery of Jewellery
1972
The love bug strikes two young sisters at about the same time. Since the two sisters happen to be in love with the same person, chaos and confusion is brought into their once serene home.
I Am in Love
1975
1960s · 22 titles
6.6After the events of The One-Armed Swordsman (1967), a retired Fang Gang is drawn back into the jianghu to protect various young apprentices whose swordsmanship schools have been terrorized by 8 evil swordsmen seeking to rule the jianghu.
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
1969
6.4Golden Swallow revolves around the further adventures of its title character. This time around, she is forced into violence when a figure from her mysterious past goes on a killing rampage while leaving evidence that holds her responsible. Golden Swallow also makes room for a love triangle involving a mad, but righteous, swordsman named Silver Roc and a gentle warrior named Golden Whip. The three team up to conquer the evil forces of the martial world, but their joint venture only lasts so long, due to the two men's egos. Ultimately, a duel to the death is planned between them, leaving Golden Swallow caught between two men, both of whom she admires.
Golden Swallow
1968
6.4The renowned Li Li Hua plays Wu Ze Tian, the most famous woman in China's four thousand year history.
Empress Wu
1963
6.0Perhaps the most notorious concubine in Chinese history, Yang Guifei set a pudgy standard of beauty in her days of glory during the Tang dynasty. The Emperor Minghuang was so besotted with the woman that when An Lushan stages his rebellion against the empire, the ruler takes Yang Guifei along with his imperial entourage in an escape to the mountainous area of modern-day Sichuan, and sanctuary of sorts. But the concubine had roused the jealousy of the court and unfortunately for her and to the great sorrow of the king, her brother and others among the king's retainers demanded she be strangled to death while they were still in the mountains. This is the story told in this interesting Taiwanese adaptation by director Li Han-hsiang (Li Hanxiang).
The Magnificent Concubine
1962
6.1About a woman who disguises herself as a man to take her father's place in the army.
Lady General Hua Mulan
1964
6.2Bai Yu Lung's father mysteriously disappears one night, and for 10 years Bai searches for him in vain. Finally, he decides to head to the far northern part of the country with the hope that he can find a clue in that region. There, he falls in love with a beggar (Cheng Pei-pei) and they continue the search together.
The Golden Sword
1969
9.5The noted actress Li Li-hua, star of more than sixty films since 1947, beautifully portrays the drugged, then disgraced wife of a peddler in the waning days of the Ching Dynasty. To make matters worse, she’s soon framed for her husband’s murder by her rapist - the son of the local magistrate! And even that isn’t the end of her woes. It’s best to have a box of tissues nearby as two expert directors ratchet up the emotional suspense in this consummate tearjerker.
The Adulteress
1963
7.0The son of the town bully lusts after a local beauty in this action-filled thriller of the passions and violence to be found in a fishing village.
Call of the Sea
1965
Book Without Words is a 1965 Cantonese martial arts film directed by Chan Lit-Ban and starring Cheung Ching.
Book Without Words
1965
8.0A 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.
The Brain-Stealers
1968
7.0Melodramatic film about a child prodigy.
Nobody's Child
1960
NRCelebrity Sadora is seriously wounded in an air crash. Police commissioner Suen and subordinate Ko Cheung find out Sadora was under duress from the Black Dragon Gang to collude with the criminals who had held his daughter hostage. When Ko, assuming Sadora's identity to safeguard his life, is abducted by the gang, Suen turns to 'Black Musketeer' Muk Lan-fa. By blatantly refusing to cooperate with the authorities, Muk escapes the surveillance of both the police and the gang. Acting alone, she scouts the location of the lair but ends up being imprisoned in the same cell with Ko. The captives use every trick in the book to escape. An undaunted Muk returns to infiltrate the den, while her sister Sau-chen, Suen and Ko are lying in wait. The hostages are released and the gang wiped out in a battle fiercely fought. (Synopsis based on visual audiomaterials)
The Woman in Black and the Black Dragon
1966
7.0The hunt for The Swallow Thief.
The Swallow
1961
7.0A Shaw Brothers production
The Lady and the Thief
1963
10.0A drama film by the Shaw Brothers studio.
Street Boys
1960
10.0A widow of four gave up two of her children to be raised by an uncle in Singapore. Many years later, just when the widow, now a house maid, is feeling contented by good news of her long gone son and daughter, she accidentally runs into his own son, now a lawyer, and ends up being looked down upon by him. It was a story about how traditional Chinese family and its value was impacted by the change of time. The movie depicted Macau in 1945 to Hong Kong in the mid-60s, moving from poverty after WWII to opulence. The human relationships became complicated and fragile. Many elements uniquely "Hong Kong", such as upper class Chinese, western religions, English speaking and a mixed-culture society are used to contrast the traditional, kind, enduring and forgiving love of a mother.
Bitter Sweet
1963
NRLuo Ya-nan and Liang Ai-lun grow up together and never stop teasing each other. Liang, a doctor by profession, has a crush on the nurse Gao Shi-wen. To torment Liang, Luo dresses up as a man, and goes to the hospital to woo Gao. She wins Gao's heart, but also finds herself falling for the nurse's elder brother Zhuoran. So she introduces him to her 'twin sister', and Zhuoran duly falls in love with her. Now Luo finds herself dressing sometimes as a man and other times a woman, running back and forth between Gao and Zhuoran.
You Were Meant for Me
1961
9.0A Hong Kong wenyi drama.
The Golden Trumpet
1961
No synopsis available yet.
Her Pearly Tears
1962
8.0Chou Tsai-ken, a young carpenter, falls in love with a country girl, Little Lotus Chin Ho-hua. Although he has her father's consent to marry her, he lacks means to support a wife. One day, Little Lotus' beauty catches the eye of Shen Tzu-Kuei, only son of the Governor and a good-for-nothing young man keen on sensual pleasures.
Little Lotus
1963
10.0It was shot in year 1956 but only released in year 1961 Hong Kong-Thailand-Japan co-production.
The Serpent and the Lovers
1961
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Teenage Holiday
1968
1950s · 10 titles
8.0This is a Historical Drama that was written and directed by Doe Ching. It was produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio.
Beyond the Grave
1954
A Chinese Opera
The Nightingale of Alishan
1957
9.0Tao Zutai, a bank employee, has five children. Tao's wife is addicted to gambling and spends too much and the eldest daughter Guiru is greedy for vanity. Tao is overjoyed when he is notified that he will be promoted to deputy manager.
Laughter and Tears
1958
8.0A Shaw and Sons production about a couple who loves each other but end up marrying different people because of parental pressures.
Beauty in the Maelstrom
1956
7.0A Mandarin adaption of Camille directed by Chang Shan-Kun and Evan Yang.
Camille
1955
No synopsis available yet.
The Blazing Charmer
1958
9.01952 HK crime film.
The Dog-Murderer
1957
The beautiful and skilled jewel thief Zhao Wenying (Lin Dai) is clever and resourceful, causing confusion for both the police officer and the wealthy heir Situ Dawei (Kelly Lai Chen), whom she steals from.
Lady on the Roof
1959
7.0Journey to Kwan Shan. A Taiwan-HK film by CMPC.
Terminal Bound
1956
NRHK horror crime.
Burning Passion
1956

