James Tien Chun

Acting

James Tien Chun

Born

1942-05-28 (84)

Place of birth

Guangdong Province, China

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

James Tien-Chun (Chinese: 田俊; born 28 May 1942) is a Hong Kong actor from Guangdong, China. He appeared in almost 70 films, primarily in Hong Kong action cinema, including roles in the films of martial arts stars including Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung. He often played villains or supporting roles. He retired from the Hong Kong film industry in 1996.

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 8 titles

Lee Rock II poster
6.9

Lee Rock is now the most powerful person in the police force, but he chooses to retreat, because he knows the rules of the power struggle.

Lee Rock II

1991

Lee Rock poster
6.2

Lee Rock starts his career in the Hong Kong police force as an incorruptible officer. However, he becomes desperate for money and slowly starts to dive into corruption.

Lee Rock

1991

The Inspector Wears Skirts IV poster
6.7

To save the Hong Kong Police Force's Banshee Squad from becoming defunct, the struggling new squad members seek the help of former officers Amy (Sandra Ng), now a divorced mom with a young kid, and May (Kara Hui), now partially mentally-unstable, to help them with their training regiment, lead by Madame Yang (Cynthia Khan). Their police skills are put to the test when they are ordered to nab a band of brutal thugs in the city.

The Inspector Wears Skirts IV

1992

Pantyhose Hero poster
6.0

Two policemen must pretend to be a gay couple in order to investigate the murders of homosexuals in Hong Kong.

Pantyhose Hero

1990

Blade of Fury poster
7.2

Wang Wu, A kung-fu expert, is depressed about the dismal state of the political affairs of China. But, when he meets another famous kung-fu master, they together decide to bring about a revolution.

Blade of Fury

1993

Money Maker poster
7.0

When the queen of gamblers is killed by her rival, her vengeful spirit seeks out a team of Taoist sorcerers - who use their skills to scam money and gamble, and are known as the Money Makers - to help her get revenge.

Money Maker

1991

The Gambling Ghost poster
5.6

Fatty, a hotel worker looking to get rich, enters the gambling world. He soon receives guidance from the ghost of his dead grandfather, but when Fatty learns he was murdered, he sets out for revenge.

The Gambling Ghost

1991

Daddy, Father and Papa poster
6.2

A boy disappears from home, and his mother seeks the help of two ex-boyfriends by telling each of them that he is the boy’s father.

Daddy, Father and Papa

1991

1980s · 24 titles

My Lucky Stars poster
6.6

Two Hong Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a large amount of money in diamonds. After one is captured by the Ninja-gang protecting the rogue cop, the other one gets his old Orphanage gang, dubbed the "Five Lucky Stars," to help him. They don't like this much, but they do it.

My Lucky Stars

1985

Winners & Sinners poster
7.0

Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. While trying to mind their own business (and run their 5-Star Cleaning Service), they are caught up in a war between rival Triad gangs fighting for control of the counterfeit currency market.

Winners & Sinners

1983

Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars poster
6.5

The third installment in the Lucky Stars series, following Winners and Sinners and My Lucky Stars. The team are released from prison to play detective in order to stop a ruthless gang from ruining their reputations, taking their lives, and that of a key witness in an upcoming trial. They must battle their way through and with the help of Muscles, take down the bad guys.

Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars

1985

Heart of Dragon poster
7.0

A policeman forsakes his dream of world travel to care for a mentally impaired brother, who is later kidnapped by gangsters.

Heart of Dragon

1985

Dragons Forever poster
7.2

A hot-shot lawyer is hired by a Hong Kong chemical plant to dispose of opposition to their polluting ways. But when he falls for a beautiful woman out to stop the plant, he is torn in a conflict of interest and asks his trusty friends Samo and Biao to help out at least until they discover the true purpose of the plant.

Dragons Forever

1988

Mr. Vampire II poster
5.9

Chaos ensues after a team of archaeologists accidentally breaks the seals of a sleeping vampire family, which prevent them from waking up.

Mr. Vampire II

1986

Millionaires' Express poster
6.7

What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards the small town of Hanshui, where escaping bank robbers, corrupt officials, and gamblers await? Well, let's just say the Titanic had a smoother maiden voyage.

Millionaires' Express

1986

Lucky Stars Go Places poster
6.2

Lucky Stars Go Places, also known as The Luckiest Stars, is a 1986 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Eric Tsang. It is the fourth film in the Lucky Stars series. It was an attempt to combine the original Lucky Stars troupe with the similar action comedy ensemble from the Aces Go Places series.

Lucky Stars Go Places

1986

Righting Wrongs poster
7.6

Jason Chan, a Hong Kong lawyer, is angry at the way the law protects criminals and decides to take the law into his own hands, dishing out vigilante justice when a key witness and his entire family are murdered. But hotshot cop Cindy Si is soon on Chan's case, and the situation unravels into a fight that only a few will survive.

Righting Wrongs

1986

Bruce Lee, the Legend poster
7.9

The Official Golden Harvest tribute to the Master of the Martial Arts Film, Bruce Lee.

Bruce Lee, the Legend

1984

Eastern Condors poster
7.3

A motley group of Chinese prisoners held in the US is sent on a covert mission with the promise of a pardon: to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missiles that the US left behind during the pull-out.

Eastern Condors

1987

The Prodigal Son poster
7.0

A rich man's son believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of an actor in a traveling theatre company, the son resolves to find a better teacher.

The Prodigal Son

1981

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

Lady Reporter poster
6.5

Cindy, an American FBI agent, travels to Hong Kong to investigate a newspaper editor, Wong Tak, who is suspected of printing counterfeit money using the newspaper’s presses. The American teams up with a rival reporter and her friend Yu, an undercover law enforcer. Cindy’s investigation takes a sharp turn, however, when Yu’s father, the prosecuting lawyer in the counterfeiting case, is kidnapped.

Lady Reporter

1989

Fearless Hyena 2 poster
5.8

A pair of evil kung-fu artists, Heaven and Earth, are slaughtering the entire Yin-Yang brotherhood.

Fearless Hyena 2

1983

Carry On Pickpocket poster
6.4

Hung Tai-Kong aka Rice Pot and Chan Yin-Tung aka Chimney are two friends who work with their master Kam Ming and his daughter Ann as a team of pickpockets.

Carry On Pickpocket

1982

Rosa poster
6.3

Hsia and Lei Kung are two bumbling cops assigned to protect the gorgeous Rosa, girlfriend to a missing informer named Lee. But Rosa's wanted by more than just the law - the bad guys want her for leverage, and Lei Kung just wants her to be his girlfriend! Meanwhile, Hsia attempts to romance Lei Kung's sister, and the bad guys prepare for a final blow-out fight sequence!

Rosa

1986

The Owl vs Bombo poster
5.5

Sammo and George Lam are partners in crime and they scam some triad big shot out of a load of money and decide to retire. Three years later they both receive letters from Stanley Fung, in which he informs them that he has proof of all their criminal activity and unless they do exactly what he says–he will turn it over to the cops. Fung is an ex-cop himself and is trying to get the goods on the same triad leader that Sammo and George scammed.

The Owl vs Bombo

1984

Pom Pom poster
6.4

Chau and Beethoven, two Hong Kong police detectives, go through misadventures to protect a young girl from a ruthless crime lord, as she possesses a ledger that contains all of the gangster's activities. In the mix is a tough, no-nonsense policewoman, who falls for one of the detectives. Written by Oliver Chu

Pom Pom

1984

Burning Sensation poster
5.4

A firefighter salvages a spiritual shrine from an old burning building, which releases the gentle ghost of a Chinese opera singer, killed in a stage fire 30 years before. Grateful for saving her, the ghost falls for the firefighter and will stop at nothing to ensure his safety from the evils that lurk ahead. At the same time, the firefighter doesn't realize he is dating a ghost.

Burning Sensation

1989

My Cousin, the Ghost poster
6.6

Cousin Big returns home from the UK in order to find a wife and settle down. He has previously driven out his illegal immigrant friend Ma from the UK and the scores aren't settled. That is all cast aside when not only one, not two but three ghosts are to be dealt with and one is Cousin Big who has fallen in love with one of the ghosts.

My Cousin, the Ghost

1987

Last Eunuch In China poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Last Eunuch In China

1987

Spooky, Spooky poster
6.8

Years ago, a village head in the Hong Kong countryside executed a man for committing adultery by drowning him in the ocean. His mistress, in attempts to flee the village, dies when she plummets into a pool of quicksand. Years later, people swimming in the ocean mysteriously vanishes, and their bodies wash ashore days later. A local policeman named Lu Hsien who practices Taoist magic believes a water ghost (presumably the ghost of the adulterer) is responsible for their deaths. Therefore, he joins forces with his colleague, Wang Hsiao-Ming, to rid the countryside of this demon before he can strike again. However, Hsiao-Ming is unaware that the ghost of the mistress, having risen out of her muddy grave, fell in love with him and will see to it that no other person falls for him.

Spooky, Spooky

1988

The Return of Pom Pom poster
7.0

Hong Kong detectives Chau and Beethoven return in this sequel to "Pom Pom." This time out, they join forces with their boss, Inspector Chan, to find the notorious Flying Spider, who is suspected of stealing government money Chan was responsible for. Meanwhile, Beethoven falls in love with Flying Spider's daughter, Mimi.

The Return of Pom Pom

1984

1970s · 24 titles

Fist of Fury poster
7.2

During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Chen Zhen, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial arts teacher battles a Japanese dojo which seeks the demise of his fighting school.

Fist of Fury

1972

Game of Death poster
6.4

A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

Game of Death

1978

The Big Boss poster
7.1

Cheng is a young Chinese mainlander who moves in with his expatriate cousins to work at an ice factory in Thailand. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fights. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factory, the resulting mystery and pressures force him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the Big Boss.

The Big Boss

1971

Fearless Hyena poster
6.7

Lung is a talented fighter but prefers to spend his time loafing around and picking fights, despite orders from his grandfather not to fight. Unknown to him, a brutal general has been slaughtering all the people from his grandfather’s clan. When the general recognizes Lung’s style of kung fu during one of his street fights, he hunts down Lung’s grandfather and kills him.

Fearless Hyena

1979

Spiritual Kung Fu poster
6.0

Jackie Chan plays the part of the class clown in a shaolin temple whose deadliest secret is stolen. All is lost until Jackie's character discovers dancing blue ghosts with bright red hair who haunt the library.

Spiritual Kung Fu

1978

Hand of Death poster
6.6

A young monk must face the Extended Iron Claw technique of a powerful warlord seeking to destroy Shaolin.

Hand of Death

1976

Magnificent Bodyguards poster
6.1

Chan is asked by a young, wealthy lady to take her sick brother to a particular doctor in order to be cured. To reach this doctor, Chan and a handful of travelling companions must pass through bandit-infested wild country. They meet and kung-fu-fight several gangs of thugs along the way.

Magnificent Bodyguards

1978

Dragon Fist poster
6.3

After the death of his master, martial arts student Tong Huo-wan travels with his adoptive family to seek redress from the man responsible but finds himself torn between righteousness and filial piety after becoming entangled in a feud between a local clan and gangsters.

Dragon Fist

1979

None But the Brave poster
6.3

Story is about how a revolutionist, played by Cheng Pei Pei, taking on the identity of a Captain's (Ou Wei) long lost sister who is actually dead. Cheng manages to fool the Captain for a while, but little by little, the Captain catches on to her and the revolutionist's plan to stop Chinese-Japanese relations.

None But the Brave

1973

Half a Loaf of Kung Fu poster
6.2

A young daydreamer assumes the identity of a dead martial arts hero and quickly finds himself caught up in a plot by several clans to steal famous martial arts artifacts being transported by an escort company.

Half a Loaf of Kung Fu

1978

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

Seaman No. 7 poster
6.8

When a sailor accidentally kills a Japanese man in a bar room brawl, he tries to escape the law by hiding himself in a freighter heading for Japan only to find himself in the middle of a massive drug war.

Seaman No. 7

1973

The Shaolin Plot poster
6.9

When a terrible kung fu master seeks various martial arts manuals from around China to make himself even more evil, he must come to blows with a Wu Tang student sent to stop him.

The Shaolin Plot

1977

The Iron-Fisted Monk poster
5.9

Husker is a student of the Shaolin monks, learning kung fu so that he can avenge his uncle who was murdered by the Manchus who control the province. He leaves his training early, desperate to teach the killers a lesson, and teams up with a martial artist monk who is teaching a group of factory workers how to defend themselves. When the Manchus strike again, Husker and his Buddhist pal decide it's time to even the score.

The Iron-Fisted Monk

1977

Brothers Five poster
6.8

The 5 Kao brothers, separated since childhood, are unaware that the master Teng Lung Manor, Lung Chen-feng has killed their father. All five, however, seek to defeat the vicious gangsters at the Manor.

Brothers Five

1970

The Twelve Gold Medallions poster
6.8

While a brave Chinese general and his men fight against the Tartar invaders, several swordsmen try to obtain twelve golden medallions on whose possession depends the future of the Song dynasty.

The Twelve Gold Medallions

1970

Immortal Warriors poster
NR

Immortal Warriors is a Taiwanese Martial Arts movie.

Immortal Warriors

1978

The Crimson Charm poster
6.5

A noble swordsman and a one-armed swordswoman go up against the vicious Crimson Charm gang of thieves and cutthroats. The lovely and lethal Ivy Ling Po teams with the amazing Chang I for a classic tale of good versus evil in which the best man and one-armed woman wins.

The Crimson Charm

1971

The Eunuch poster
6.0

After the villainous eunuch Gui De-Hai overthrows the emperor, he and his most loyal general hunt for the two people who can stop his nefarious schemes. But the young Prince Jin and Yan Yan are under the protection and training of two master wuxia knights.

The Eunuch

1971

Duel for Gold poster
7.0

Soon-to-be legendary director Chu Yuan had just joined the Shaw Brothers when he helmed this thriller of bickering bandits. Audiences loved watching three pairs of cunning male and female crooks trying to steal a million gold taels from the Fu Lai Treasury House...not knowing that one of them is actually an undercover hero. Even without him, there's no honor amongst thieves, so the double-crosses and deadly duels come fast and furious, all choreographed by Hsu Erh-niu.

Duel for Gold

1971

The Last Message poster
6.7

Li (Sam Hui) works at a sanitarium as a male nurse, and Ah Tim (Michael Hui) is a handy man. One day, a bearded old man is sent into the sanitarium with a large bag. Ah Tim manages to steal the bag, and finds antique fragments inside. When the old man dies, the pair learn from his daughter that there is a sunken vessel that is loaded with much more than they already have, so they decide to go after the sunken treasure.

The Last Message

1975

The Invincible Eight poster
7.6

Everyday when General Xiao and his men ride through the Imperial City, inhabitants have to scatter around in order to keep out of their path. One day when Lei plans to assassinate Xiao but gets hurt, another three fighters He, Jiao and Feng come out boldly to help him out. With the help of Zhu, a cook, He succeeds to escape whereas the other three are seized. Later on, He acquaints himself with the girl Gui. Along with another two girls, Hai and Jiang, these eight youngsters are the descendants of the late patriotic generals, who have been recently murdered. Gui suspects that Hai and Jiang are controlled by Xiao and sneaks into his manor. She meets the girls successfully, but she is seized. When Wan, Xiao's butler, urges his master to kill Hai and Jiang, Jiang overhears their conversation and tries to rescue all her friends. At last, the eight are united and try their best to fight against General Xiao and his men.

The Invincible Eight

1971

Naked Comes the Huntress poster
4.1

Three travellers in the snowy wastes of Mongolia are hunting for valuable ginseng. As they battle the elements and the threat of starvation they come across a woman lying naked (but very much alive) in the snow surrounded by the wild minks. The treasure-hunters approach her and fall into a trap which will ultimately tear them apart and lead to murder and betrayal.

Naked Comes the Huntress

1978

The Bedevilled poster
5.0

In a small town found the only son of possession, the local, most influential family, dead and naked in vinbutiks hostess, Cheng Niang. His father insists that there is a murder committed by Chai-Tseng Chu, Cheng Niang husband. Tseng claims he is innocent. However, Cheng Niang has disappeared. Old Lin then tries to bribe Magistrate Tang judging Tseng to death and execute him immediately. Cheng Niang learns about her husband's death and freezing. Judge Tang is guilty and begins to see ghosts every night

The Bedevilled

1975