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Tam Wai-Man

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50 titles

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Film credits

1990s · 16 titles

Police Story 3: Super Cop poster
6.9

A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.

Police Story 3: Super Cop

1992

Bullet in the Head poster
7.5

Three childhood friends from the slums of Hong Kong flee to war-time Saigon after accidentally murdering a gang leader, but their troubles only escalate.

Bullet in the Head

1990

Look Out, Officer! poster
6.3

After police officer Piao is murdered, his soul cannot be at rest for his murder has been written off as a suicide. Therefore the heavens send him back to Earth as a spirit to find his 'savior' who will help him clear his name. Hsing, a rookie officer, is the savior and in return for finding Piao's killer, Piao must get him a girlfriend and a promotion.

Look Out, Officer!

1990

Casino Tycoon II poster
6.5

It is 20 years on and Ho Hsin is now the proud and powerful owner of a chain of casinos in Macau. Unfortunately, he is also the target of many enemies, some of whom are in dangerously close proximity to him. But Ho has faced adversity before and is not about to just roll over and die.

Casino Tycoon II

1992

To Be Number One poster
6.9

The story of Ho, a Chinese peasant/slave worker who escapes to Hong Kong and becomes one of the most feared gang bosses in Hong Kong.

To Be Number One

1991

Casino Tycoon poster
6.5

Set in World War II, Casino Tycoon chronicles the story of Benny, a young graduate, who flees Hong-Kong during the Japanese invasion and heads for gambling haven Macau. Once in Macau, he impresses a local business man who has ties to organised crime, he slowly builds his way up in the ranks of the Macau underworld which ultimately leads to trouble.

Casino Tycoon

1992

Dances with Dragon poster
6.1

Aaron, a young, successful Chinese businessman, drifts on to a rural island after a scuba accident. Mistaken for an illegal immigrant, he is forced to take refuge in a small, family-run grocery store. Enjoying the riches to rags transition, he tells nobody his true identity, and falls in love with the grocery store owner's daughter, Yvonne. But while Aaron enjoys his life of anonymity, Yvonne covets the chance to escape her poverty. Meanwhile, in Aaron's absense, a plot has been hatched to take over his company. Are Aaron's and Yvonne's lives too different to find happiness together?

Dances with Dragon

1991

Return Engagement poster
6.7

A well-known gangster is released from prison, and decides look for his daughter with the help of a troubled young woman.

Return Engagement

1990

Zen of Sword poster
6.8

During a fierce war in ancient China, a princess and her two generals must escape from the Ha Hou rebels determined to bring the kingdom down. But when the princess meets an enemy prince, the two fall in love -- setting the stage for tragedy.

Zen of Sword

1992

To Catch A Thief poster
6.2

Developer Ms. Cheung (Carol 'Do Do' Cheng) yearns for a quieter life in Hong Kong and moves to the countryside, getting herself caught in a showdown between a gang of jewel thieves and two police officers along the way. While Ms. Cheung survives the ordeal, the thieves' injured getaway driver (Siu-Chun To) sneaks into Cheung's moving van and escapes to the countryside, into Cheung's new home. As Cheung settles down into her new environment, she befriends Pak-Lam (Pak Lam Cheng), a skillful and inquisitive little boy who lives in the village. While Pak-Lam helps Cheung tend to her house, he encounters the injured thief. After a brief exchange, Pak-Lam realizes the thief has a harmless and non-aggressive attitude and decides to shelter him in his secret makeshift hideout, not knowing his new friend has in his possession a bag of stolen jewels, in which both the police and the gangsters are searching for.

To Catch A Thief

1991

Love, Guns and Glass poster
7.0

Simon Yam, gang boss, turns himself in to the cops in order to spare his buddies. He spends ten long years in jail during which his no good wife gambles away all his money and raises his little daughter into an ungrateful slutty teen with an attitude. When he returns to his former life. He generously loans money to a high class gal, Cecilia Yip with financial troubles. His wife and daughter leave him. In despair over the mess he has made of his life, he proposes to Cecilia hoping to start over and go straight. In spite of their different class status, the two fall for each other and make a go of her failing factory.

Love, Guns and Glass

1995

Come from China poster
8.0

Explosive action flick about a group of mainlanders who get betrayed after robbing a Casino in Macau.

Come from China

1992

The Roar of the Vietnamese poster
7.2

A violent action drama about illegal immigrants manipulated by criminal gangs, forced to commit crimes in return for supposed passage to the U.S..

The Roar of the Vietnamese

1991

The Tale Of A Heroine poster
3.0

A group of characters pursue a sacred martial arts text known as the Virgin Sword Book so they can master this most powerful of techniques.

The Tale Of A Heroine

1993

Five Lonely Hearts poster
NR

Five naive and lively girls, each with a lonely and throbbing heart, in this plain summer vacation, they encountered many exciting, ridiculous, bizarre and adventurous things...

Five Lonely Hearts

1992

Sting of the Scorpion poster
NR

A group of police friends are investigating a suspicious fellow officer who might be involved in drugs and prostitution.

Sting of the Scorpion

1992

1980s · 24 titles

Prison on Fire poster
7.0

A veteran inmate takes a newcomer under his wing as the pair confront both other violent inmates and the prison's corrupt wardens.

Prison on Fire

1987

Yes, Madam! poster
7.2

Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport, with a hidden microfilm, wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women cops—one Chinese, one British—are on the case.

Yes, Madam!

1985

Magic Crystal poster
6.6

Archaeologist Shum finds an antique jade with supernatural power in Greece. The stone is wanted both by KGB's agent Karoff and the Interpol. Shum asks his friend Nike for help. However, Shum is finally caught by KGB but the jade is slipped into the hands of a boy called Pan.

Magic Crystal

1986

The Seventh Curse poster
6.8

When Dr. Yuen attempts to rescue a girl about to be sacrificed by the Worm Tribe in the middle of a jungle in Thailand, he is damned with seven deadly "blood curses" and must return there to find a permanent cure.

The Seventh Curse

1986

Five Element Ninjas poster
6.8

A young martial artist vows to take revenge against the ninja who murdered his martial arts master and brothers. He finds a new teacher and faces, together with his new brothers, the Five Element Ninja challenge.

Five Element Ninjas

1982

The Flag of Iron poster
7.2

Loyal gang member Iron Panther takes the heat for his boss after a dustup with their rivals, only to end up betrayed in this vintage kung fu yarn.

The Flag of Iron

1980

Shaolin Prince poster
6.9

Two princes are seperated by birth; one is raised by the Prime Minister, the other by three mad Shaolin Monks. They both learn kung-fu. 23 years later, they meet and combine forces to defeat the tyrannical 9th Prince.

Shaolin Prince

1982

Magnificent Warriors poster
6.6

A daredevil airplane pilot and spy, who fights against the occupying Japanese forces in China, must rescue the ruler of the city of Kaal from the hands of a ruthless Japanese general and his advancing army.

Magnificent Warriors

1987

Iron Angels poster
6.6

Yeung’s poppy fields are torched by a law enforcement task force, she retaliates by ordering police officials assassinated. The Angels break into Yeung’s corporate offices, eventually tracing her headquarters. After Alex Fong’s character is captured and held by Yeung, the Angels mount an assault to rescue him. A complex sub-plot involving an armored car bullion robbery eventually leads the Angels to a final showdown with Yeung and her men.

Iron Angels

1987

Masked Avengers poster
6.9

Philip Kwok plays a repentant killer who vows to destroy the masked gang of which he was a member. A young fighter and his martial arts brothers come to the town to catch the killers, but one of them is not to be trusted!

Masked Avengers

1981

Shaolin Intruders poster
6.6

On a routine courier mission, the prestigious Chin Hu chief was murdered by four mysterious monks. When all evidence points to Ching Hua, his friend Lei Hsin is determined to clear his name by barging in the Shaolin Temple thrice, and gets intwined in an intricate web of deception!

Shaolin Intruders

1983

The Rebel Intruders poster
6.7

China is ripped apart by a civil war, and thousands of displaced refugees swarm into towns not yet ravaged by war. Three such refugees arrive in one town. They join forces with local rebel leaders to escape to the south before getting into trouble with Lu Feng who is out to exterminate all rebels.

The Rebel Intruders

1980

Two Champions of Shaolin poster
6.2

Shaolin warrior Tung Chien-chen is injured in battle against the hated Wu Tang clan, and nursed back to health by a knife-throwing master. As he recovers, Tung learns this deadly art, and also falls in love with his teacher's daughter. But when a Wu Tang attack disrupts the young lovers' wedding, Tung must put his new skill to use as he seeks revenge.

Two Champions of Shaolin

1980

Spiritual Love poster
6.4

This is a story about a triad enforcer who is a loser in love. He brings home a desk, which causes his place to be possessed by a ghost, played by the beautiful Cherie Chung. He saves her from a fate brought on by her past and they fall in love. The question is, can they stay in love.

Spiritual Love

1987

Iron Angels 3 poster
5.9

A gang of crime-fighting martial-arts beauties battle a terrorist organization based in Thailand led by a religious fanatic.

Iron Angels 3

1989

The Sword Stained with Royal Blood poster
6.1

Raised to be a righteous martial artist, Yuan kicks off the story proper by finding a cave containing a skeleton, a treasure map, and a manual teaching him the Golden Snake style. Obeying a request hidden in the manual to give a portion of the treasure to the Golden Snake's old girlfriend, Yuan begins to seek the woman out - on the way solving the riddle of the Golden Snake, and how he came to his end.

The Sword Stained with Royal Blood

1981

Seven Warriors poster
6.7

In the early 1920's of China, seven former soldiers band together to defend a helpless village against a group of vicious bandits in this Hong Kong remake of Seven Samurai.

Seven Warriors

1989

Shaolin and Wu Tang poster
6.9

Master Liu and Master Law are rival masters of Shaolin style kung fu, and Wudang style sword fighting, running schools in the same city. Their top students, Chao Fung-wu, and Hung Jun-kit, are actually close friends. After observing the two students fighting at a brothel, the Lord determines that the two styles are dangerous, and he must learn both.

Shaolin and Wu Tang

1983

Brothers from the Walled City poster
7.2

When a gambling boss named ends up dead, he leaves his two sons, Chia Chin and Chia Kang in the custody of his good friend Chiptooth. While beset by temptations on all sides, Chia Chin tries his best to make an honest living for himself while his brother Chia Kang ends up running with the wrong crowd and gets into all sorts of trouble.

Brothers from the Walled City

1982

The Lady Is the Boss poster
6.4

Wong Hsia Yuan is an old-fashioned martial arts master who's so behind the times that he'd rather his school be destroyed than change its ways. He may get his wish, thanks to the young, beautiful, intelligent Chan Mei Ling, who arrives from the states to open a new branch of the school. Armed with an unfamiliar, modern way of thinking, Mei Ling goes about recruiting new students in strange, and sometimes questionably legal ways. Yuan is furious, but when the local triads enter the picture, the two put their differences aside to take back the neighborhood.

The Lady Is the Boss

1983

Legend of the Fox poster
6.3

Chin Siu Ho plays a young man who believes himself to be an orphan. Until one rainy night when he and three different men find themselves taking shelter from the storm in the same place. Here the man who raised him tells him at last the story of who his parents were. His father (Lu Feng) was a great swordsman trying to dispel rumors of a wrongdoing and return a lost sword to its rightful owner. Kuo Choi and Chiang Sheng (also master swordsmen) are the parties that Lu Feng is trying to rectify things with. Through cowardly trickery on Chiang's part, a duel ensues and it all winds up with Lu's death. His son is taken to safety by a servant (the man who since raised him). Now with the truth told, Chin Siu Ho seeks out Kuo Choi's aid and seeks vengeance for the wrongful death of his father.

Legend of the Fox

1980

Godfather from Canton poster
6.0

A coolie is ofter a job a policeman after saving a government official, and through treachery and corruption rises through the ranks of the police, then becomes a gangster.

Godfather from Canton

1982

Portrait in Crystal poster
7.4

When a naive sculptor spills blood on his newest statue, he awakens a mass-murdering crystalline spirit in the underworld. Along with his trusted companion Fatty, he backflips his way through mystical realms to uncover who is trapping souls in his statues..

Portrait in Crystal

1983

The Weird Man poster
5.0

Chang is known for his lone swordsman and hero movies and strangely The Weird Man still reflects this. Cheng plays a righteous, beheaded priest with supernatural powers that returns from the dead to wreak havoc against one of the corrupt kingdoms, making Cheng a heroic swords-ghost.

The Weird Man

1983

1970s · 7 titles

The Kung Fu Instructor poster
6.7

Two rival clans have unsuccessfully tried to hire the master of the good clan to teach his clan. Not willing to take no for an answer, they frame the master for a dirty deed that he didn't commit, which forces him to kill a man in battle. The townspeople attempt to kill him and he is forced to flee to the evil clan.

The Kung Fu Instructor

1979

Ten Tigers of Kwangtung poster
6.2

Ming partisan Chu who is on the run from Manchu forces. Local merchant and kung fu enthusiast Li Chen-chau gives the fugitive shelter in his pawnshop and quietly recruits some of his fellow martial master associates to help protect the lad. When Li's professional rival rats him out, Manchu official Liang not only orchestras his army but fools a couple other kung fu masters including Beggar Su into helping his cause. After a heated battle, Li manages to convince Su to joining his cause, thus forming the Ten Tigers.

Ten Tigers of Kwangtung

1979

The Deadly Breaking Sword poster
6.1

Leaving behind an inch of sword in the spent corpses of his opponents, Tuan Changqing is known as the Deadly Breaking Sword. After barely surviving a duel, one of his foes is treated by the diabolical Dr. Kuo, who uses his powers of mind control to transform the man into a somnambulistic killer. After Tuan Changqing teams up with Rabelaisian gambler Xiao Dao, the story proceeds as a comical kung fu buddy flick.

The Deadly Breaking Sword

1979

The Daredevils poster
7.1

The General's son Yang escapes a massacre at his home that subsequently sees a corrupt, criminal syndicate in charge of the local forces. Seeking shelter with four good friends who are street performers, Yang plots his revenge though refuses to acknowledge the fearsome odds he faces. The quartet try to convince him to bide his time, but the young avenger sneaks into his former home and, after a battle against a few top fighters, is killed by their leader. When Yang's friends discover his tragic fate, they devise a way of defeating the killers without having to face their mighty army directly.

The Daredevils

1979

Five Superfighters poster
6.8

Three young martial arts students and their teacher are beaten up badly by a wandering man who proclaims himself "a corrector of bad kung-fu." Determined to avenge their teacher and regain their honor, the three students all go their separate ways to find kung-fu masters who will take them as students.

Five Superfighters

1979

Shaolin Rescuers poster
7.2

Two friends who long to be heroes join the fight against a Ching warlord and his students. They get help from a Kung Fu student and a rebel. They also save Hung Si Quan's life.

Shaolin Rescuers

1979

To Kill a Mastermind poster
7.0

The Chi Sha Clan is a vast network of deadly criminals proficient in martial arts. Growing in number at an alarming rate, the Imperial Court orders Yang Chen-yu and his followers to eliminate them. However, doing this proves difficult as no one knows the identity of the mastermind behind the Chi Sha, not even its own members. Spies infiltrate the organization in an effort to destroy from within. But then, no one knows who the spies are and after a few ambushes and security breaches, clan deputies begin suspecting one another of being traitors. With the Chi Sha dwindling in numbers, it's only a matter of time before the mastermind must reveal himself.

To Kill a Mastermind

1979