Angela Yu Chien

Acting

Angela Yu Chien

Born — Died

1942-05-25 — 2000-04-10

Place of birth

Beijing, China

Known for

Acting

Credits

47 titles

Known for

Tragic Hero poster
6.1

After being released from prison, Tang Kat-Yung exacts revenge on Lee Ah Chai.

Tragic Hero

1987

Where's Officer Tuba? poster
6.1

A police officer tracks down a murderous criminal gang with the help of the ghost of his former partner, who was shot by the same group.

Where's Officer Tuba?

1986

All's Well, End's Well '97 poster
6.4

Old Mr. Lo has three sons and the youngest one Lo Kung is his favorite. However, Kung does nothing but fool around all day long. Old Mr. Lo is very annoyed about this. The relationship between father and son is thus affected. So on Kung's birthday, his two brothers decide to play a joke on him. They trick him into believing he has won the lottery. Kung is so happy that he spends a tremendous amount of money. When he realizes he is in huge debt, he pretends to go insane and the whole family believes him.

All's Well, End's Well '97

1997

The Web of Death poster
6.7

Lo Lieh is the ringleader of the Snake Sect, intent on reviving a deadly faction known as the "Five Poison Web." In order to do so, he has an affair with the sexy ringleader of the Scorpion Sect, Angela Yu Chien. However, there is also the Centipede Sect to contend with, as well as other assorted martial artists, among them played by Shaw Brothers talents Yueh Hua, Ching Li, and Lily Li.

The Web of Death

1976

The Oily Maniac poster
5.5

A cripple takes revenge on criminals by using a magic spell that transforms him into an oily monster/superhero.

The Oily Maniac

1976

The Cave of the Silken Web poster
5.8

Monkey King, Pig and Friar Sand must rescue his master Buddhist monk from seven witches / spiders who believe themselves to be immortal if they eat the monk's flesh. The third part of the Shaw Brothers film series about Monkey King after the novel "Journey to the West."

The Cave of the Silken Web

1967

Film credits

1980s · 10 titles

Tragic Hero poster
6.1

After being released from prison, Tang Kat-Yung exacts revenge on Lee Ah Chai.

Tragic Hero

1987

Where's Officer Tuba? poster
6.1

A police officer tracks down a murderous criminal gang with the help of the ghost of his former partner, who was shot by the same group.

Where's Officer Tuba?

1986

Hong Kong 1941 poster
6.3

Years later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She's Nam, young, attractive, daughter of a wealthy rice merchant, and prey to painful, disabling seizures. Her boyhood friend is Coolie Keung, whose family used to have wealth; he's now impoverished, a tough kid, a leader, in love with her. Into the mix steps Fay, cool and resourceful, an actor from the north, intent on getting to Gold Mountain in the US or Australia. They form a threesome, but the day they are to leave Hong Kong, the invasion stops them. Fay must rescue Keung from collaborators, Nam falls in love with Fay, and danger awaits their next attempt to escape.

Hong Kong 1941

1984

Silent Romance poster
4.0

Dummy, a deaf mute, is a brilliant and undiscovered cartoonist whose current publication has been gradually ignored by his readers. Consequently, the drop of the sale has promptly provoked his superior urging him to adopt a new style. During the midst of a mental struggle for new subjects, Cactus, a night club hostess, walks into his life, as he silently and secretly falls in love with her. However, nurturing with an instinctive inferiority complex that had been fostered by his shortcomings all his life. Dummy had not been able to gather his courage to reveal his love to Cactus.....

Silent Romance

1984

The Last Conflict poster
7.1

Interpol officer Dickson Kwan is sent to Hong Kong to investigate in a fake passport forgery case and collaborates with officer Pau Sei and Lau Ting Kin. Due to different approaches on investigating, Dickson and Sei often get into conflicts. Later during an arrest operation, Dickson saves Sei's life and they forget about their bygones. Sei has a daughter Eva, who opposes his father to be a cop. Dickson falls in love with Eva and pursues her, however she does not like Dickson's dangerous profession and although she has feelings for him, she still rejects him.

The Last Conflict

1988

Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive poster
4.6

A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found. With no further instructions, he decides to take in the sights of Hong Kong, which consist of him taking part in a great deal of blood, sex and general weirdness, all while wearing a briefcase handcuffed to his arm.

Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive

1989

My Name Ain't Suzie poster
5.6

Hungry for fun, American soldiers crowd the bars of late-’50s Hong Kong. Staffed with handpicked young girls from the countryside, the Lucky Bar is the most popular of them all, and Shui Mei is the smartest and keenest of the apprentices working there. She soon catches the eye of Jimmy, who every evening wanders from table to table, showing his father’s photo and asking for news about him.

My Name Ain't Suzie

1985

Dead Curse poster
6.0

When Inspector Ma and his team raid an occult ceremony and successfully thwart a child sacrifice, the witch places a curse on his family. Years later, the wheelchair-bound Ma and his family begin to suffer the consequences, as his young daughter becomes a target of the witch's wrath.

Dead Curse

1985

Double Trouble poster
6.5

To help his sister with her debts, John goes to a pawnshop when robbers rush in. John draws suspicion from the police and only escapes from them with the help of Bunny, who is a kid running out from an orphanage. John and Bunny, therefore, become good friends.

Double Trouble

1984

Bruce Vs. Bill poster
4.5

The two fighters of the title clash due to a gang boss playing them off against each other. The boss is hoping to steal a million dollars of the country's money, and when the two fighters realise this they combine forces to defeat the gangster, and his accomplice, a man whom they had both formerly respected.

Bruce Vs. Bill

1981

1970s · 11 titles

The Web of Death poster
6.7

Lo Lieh is the ringleader of the Snake Sect, intent on reviving a deadly faction known as the "Five Poison Web." In order to do so, he has an affair with the sexy ringleader of the Scorpion Sect, Angela Yu Chien. However, there is also the Centipede Sect to contend with, as well as other assorted martial artists, among them played by Shaw Brothers talents Yueh Hua, Ching Li, and Lily Li.

The Web of Death

1976

The Oily Maniac poster
5.5

A cripple takes revenge on criminals by using a magic spell that transforms him into an oily monster/superhero.

The Oily Maniac

1976

All in the Family poster
6.4

A family gathers to be with its dying father. The reunion brings to the surface old rivalries.

All in the Family

1975

Hong Kong Superman poster
7.3

Hong Kong Superman is a Hong Kong Martial Arts movie.

Hong Kong Superman

1975

That's Adultery! poster
5.0

Renowned director Li Han-hsiang writes and directs the anthology film of four sexy , salacious and scandalous stories . There’s a general’s sedan-chair bearer who dallies with each of the soldier’s four wives until he suffers the fate of Samson , a Japanese pot maker molds his wife’s lover , a courtesan who fools her drunken husband , and a scissors shop owner’s wife who has too many lovers to cut . It is four helpings of lascivious , lewd and libidinous pleasures .

That's Adultery!

1975

The Sexy Killer poster
6.1

A nurse decides to take justice in her own hands to fight the crime-syndicates of Hong Kong after her sister is drugged and abused by some local drug dealers.

The Sexy Killer

1976

Oriental Vixen poster
5.1

A group of tourists on the flight back home remembers on their sexual adventures they had in several nightclubs at their vacation in Bangkok.

Oriental Vixen

1975

The Winged Tiger poster
6.5

Famed screenwriter Shen Chiang got one of his very first chances to direct his own script with this exciting action adventure. His story is suitably thrilling: if villains "Winged Tiger" Teng Fei and "Underworld King" Yin Te-lung combine their kung-fu knowledge, the "Martial Arts World" will be plunged into chaos. That evil union is set to occur at the marriage of Yin's sister to Teng. Can this dangerous duo be stopped before one says "I do"?

The Winged Tiger

1970

No artwork available
7.0

When Shan Tung comes to Hong Kong for the first time, wanting to seek help from his countryman Lo San, however, Lo San refuses to give him a hand. Shan Tung has no choice but to sell amphetamine in the street for living. A honest guy like him with pronunciation problem often causes embarrassing situations. He is laughed at by others because of his queer ideas. In later days, he makes a lot of friends because he never hesitate to do what is righteous. Therefore he has a better life than before.....

Shantung Man in Hong Kong

1975

Erotic Nights poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Erotic Nights

1976

No artwork available
3.0

Sombat Metanee stars as an army captain who teams up with a coalition of spook agencies to bust open a global heroin ring run by bad gangsters who think nothing of blowing up an army base to secure an opium route through the mountains.

Bionic Heroes

1977

1960s · 23 titles

The Cave of the Silken Web poster
5.8

Monkey King, Pig and Friar Sand must rescue his master Buddhist monk from seven witches / spiders who believe themselves to be immortal if they eat the monk's flesh. The third part of the Shaw Brothers film series about Monkey King after the novel "Journey to the West."

The Cave of the Silken Web

1967

The Dancing Millionairess poster
7.5

Chen Hou is a chauffeur who gets caught in a mistaken identity scandal linking him to businesswoman Lok Dai. Chen was supposed to audition for a job as her chauffeur, but a proposed musical show is far more attractive to the aspiring dancer. When a rumor gets out that the two are involved in an affair, she's angry and confronts him, but his charms overwhelm her, and it's revealed that she too desires to dance. Soon she's bankrolling the affair, the sets are being built, and the singing and dancing begin!

The Dancing Millionairess

1964

The Adulteress poster
9.5

The 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

The Last Woman of Shang poster
7.0

In order to exact revenge upon him, a young woman (Lin Dai) marries the Emperor Chou (Shin Young-kyun), who killed her father.

The Last Woman of Shang

1964

Dark Rendezvous poster
7.0

Private eye Chang Wen Chiang receives a telephone call from his girlfriend Li Lan Hsing. He rushes over and finds her dying in a pool of blood.

Dark Rendezvous

1969

The Blue and the Black 2 poster
6.0

War and time change everything. Their love becomes more than reunion, it becomes a reckoning with what was and what could've been. Part two of the wartime love story.

The Blue and the Black 2

1966

Mounted Bandits poster
5.5

During the Japanese occupation of Korea, the daughter of a British diplomat is kidnapped by bandits. A Japanese commander offers to free some Korean prisoners of war if the Korean Independence Army rescues the woman.

Mounted Bandits

1967

Dead End poster
6.4

In the mid-sixties Chang Cheh changed the face of female dominated films with his male dominated, violent kung-fu films. Dead End was the start of a new force that lasted 6 years, the first film to star David Chiang and Ti Lung under director Chang's discerning eye. The trouble all begins when Chen Hung-lieh's character disapproves of Ti Lung's character courting his sister.

Dead End

1969

The Blue and the Black poster
6.6

It's a powerful melodrama about a thwarted romance in 1930s Tientsin, China, during the Japanese occupation, and it stars Linda Lin Dai, one of the era's most popular stars. It was part of Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films.

The Blue and the Black

1966

The Joy of Spring poster
NR

The film tells the story of Xing Yonghui, a rich girl who has fun with her painter boyfriend Du Shaohua and her classmates. Chen Xiaoping and Guo Dawei fall in love and want to elope, but they are prevented from doing so; Du Shaohua and Li Zhongting fall in love with each other over a painting, causing Xing Yonghui's unhappiness, and Xing Yonghui crashes a car into a rock and wants to die together, causing serious injuries to Du Shaohua and Li Zhongting; Xing Yonghui's suicide is prevented by her shame, but Li Zhongting does not care about the past suspicion, and the two of them recover from the injuries and perform with their classmates on the same day as they had planned to do so.

The Joy of Spring

1966

Death Valley poster
6.3

A hired assassin unknowingly makes friends with the man he's been sent to murder.

Death Valley

1968

Coffin from Hong Kong poster
5.8

A private detective finds the limp body of a young Chinese beauty in his office, shot with his own gun.

Coffin from Hong Kong

1964

Madam Slender Plum poster
10.0

Before director Lo Wei helped to discover Bruce Lee and the king of kung-fu comedy Jackie Chan, in Madam Slender Plum, Lo perpetuates the career of yet another Shaw's non-action, femme fatale starlet; the sleek and sexy, puppy-eyed Eurasian Jenny Hu. It's a melodrama with a touch of murder-mystery in the vein of an old Alfred Hitchcock movie where Diana Chang plays the mother with Jenny playing her oldest daughter.

Madam Slender Plum

1967

Love Parade poster
10.0

The winning couple of Linda Lin Dai and Peter Chen Hu light up the screen in the delightful Shaw Brothers musical Love Parade. The manager of a dance company places a personal ad in the newspaper. He receives a response but has no idea the woman is his top dancer, with whom he has an antagonistic relationship.

Love Parade

1963

Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore poster
7.0

Carefree Peter Chen and serious Paul Chang are airline pilots and close friends. Peter disturbs the love life of three girls, one each in Hong Kong, Manila and Singapore.

Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore

1965

The Story of Sue San poster
6.5

This gripping story centers on the romance between Wang Chin Lung and Sue San. Although they may be perfectly matched when it comes to their love for one other, the two come from remarkably different social ranks. While Chin Lung is the son of a respected government official, Su San is a prostitute, albeit a famous one.

The Story of Sue San

1964

Sweet Is Revenge poster
5.0

Some 40 years ago when warlords rode rough-shod over the Chinese people, circus acrobat Pao Te-cheng took to the hills and began robbing the rich to help the poor. His daring feats earned him the nickname of “The Masked Robber”. Trying to intercept a large sum of money to be turned over to public security chief Cheng Kuan-hsi, he is nearly caught. Partner Hsiao Chung is jubilant over his safe return. But in the government office, chief detective Ma Pu-yun frantically plots his arrest. Ma Chien-li, son of the chief detective, devises a clever trap set for Ma Pu-yun’s birthday party. Among the guests is Huang Tan-ping who is engaged to Doctor David Lee. Ma Chien-li proposes to her without knowing this.

Sweet Is Revenge

1967

The Millionaire Chase poster
10.0

Shaw Brothers musical about three Showgirls chasing millionaires.

The Millionaire Chase

1969

Stepmother poster
NR

A Shaw Brothers drama starring Diana Chang Chung-Wen and Margaret Tu Chuan.

Stepmother

1963

Hong Kong Rhapsody poster
7.0

There's nothing like a good, opulent, gaudy musical to lift the spirits, but when it's a 1960's Hong Kong musical orchestrated by a Japanese director and composer, it breaks through the ranks as a classic of campy kitsch. A follow-up to the previous year's megahit Hong Kong Nocturne, with the same Japanese creative team, Hong Kong Rhapsody follows the fortunes of an unemployed magician whose love life is so knotty it would take Houdini to unravel!

Hong Kong Rhapsody

1968

King Drummer poster
8.0

Ling Yun plays the replacement hired for a popular band whose egotistic drummer quit to join a rival group. When the new arrival becomes a hit, he earns the jealous wrath of the predecessor. Meanwhile, the young drummer's mother is fervently against his music career. With the gorgeous Lily Ho as the manageress of the band and some terrific drumming set pieces, the whole thing, needless to say, comes off with a bang.

King Drummer

1967

Torrent of Desire poster
6.3

David (Qiao Zhuang) and Mona (Yu Qian) are a spoiled brother-and-sister duo who carelessly use the family fortune to while away their time. David's friend Hanming (Yang Fan) introduces him to the lovely Danfeng (Jenny Wu), and despite Hanming's quiet infatuation with her, David moves in quickly. David and Danfeng get married, but lasting bliss is not in the cards. Mona develops a serious case of jealousy against Danfeng for snatching her brother AND being the object of Hanming's affection. Her barbed tongue and feminine wiles prove powerful enough to sow seeds of discord among the quartet of friends and lovers. Can this wicked web of love, lust and jealousy end happily for anyone?

Torrent of Desire

1969

That Tender Age poster
8.0

Rich girl Chen Wen Chi starts a serious relationship with classmate Liu Ting Yi who comes from a poor family and whose elder sister is a dance hostess.

That Tender Age

1967