Choh Seung-Wan

Choh Seung-Wan

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Biography: Born in 1955, she has a career as nightclub singer and advertising model before signing a contract with Shaw Brothers in 1978. Over the next years she averaged three to four films annually including "The Scandalous Warlord", "Legend of the Fox", "Return of the Sentimental Swordsman", "Notorious Eight", "The Duel of the Century", etc. In "Return of the Sentimental Swordsman", he worked with super stars Ching Li, Ti Lung and Alexander Fu Sheng. After leaving Shaw Brothers in 1983, Chu made one final movie, "The Black Magic With Buddha" --directed by former Shaw Brothers' co-star Lo Lieh-- and retired from motion pictures gradually. From the Celestial DVD release of "Godfather of Canton".

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Human Lanterns
Human Lanterns

A psychotic craftsman pits two rival Kung-Fu masters against each other while designing special lant...

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Legend of the Fox
Legend of the Fox

Chin Siu Ho plays a young man who believes himself to be an orphan. Until one rainy night when he an...

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Return of the Sentimental Swordsman
Return of the Sentimental Swordsman

Li Xunhuan comes back to his home after three years of wandering. He had decided to have a normal li...

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Return of the Dead
Return of the Dead

Three inmates in an asylum tell their stories. Story 1, a husband and wife discover they should be c...

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Hello Sexy Late Homecomers
Hello Sexy Late Homecomers

A sex comedy by the Shaw Brothers studio....

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Tales of a Eunuch
Tales of a Eunuch

The story follows a "loveable" rascal as he gambles and gets into various bits of trouble with outla...

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Ambitious Kung Fu Girl
Ambitious Kung Fu Girl

Spoiled Yuen Si Si, the naive daughter of an affluent merchant, lives her cosseted life dreaming of ...

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The Pure and the Evil
The Pure and the Evil

The Pure and The Evil is about two teenage friends who meet later in life when the sexual tension be...

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Passing Flickers
Passing Flickers

The main characters - the arrogant, harassed director, the sexy starlet, or naïve actors are familia...

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Notorious Eight
Notorious Eight

A group of secret agent gambling heroes put the squeeze on some gangsters who are cheating the publi...

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Revenge of the Corpse
Revenge of the Corpse

A story of a coffin maker who tells a story about a policeman who was murdered by his wife and her l...

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Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman
Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman

Failing to kill the eight Prince, Chu decides to seek refuge in the Phantom's mountain Manor. But it...

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The Black Magic with Buddha
The Black Magic with Buddha

The story is about two explorers who invade a temple in the dark of a jungle. They find a mummy, rem...

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The Duel of the Century
The Duel of the Century

This mystery-tinged 'Martial Arts World' epic was one of director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung's la...

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The Scandalous Warlord
The Scandalous Warlord

Applauded director Li Han Hsiang was one of few directors who made soft porn acceptable to mainstrea...

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My Rebellious Son
My Rebellious Son

Here Chang Siu Tai is the son of Master Chang, a renowned chiropractor bone-setter operating a clini...

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The Lost Generation
The Lost Generation

The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from ma...

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Godfather from Canton
Godfather from Canton

A coolie is ofter a job a policeman after saving a government official, and through treachery and co...

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The Rebel Intruders
The Rebel Intruders

China is ripped apart by a civil war, and thousands of displaced refugees swarm into towns not yet r...

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The Emperor and His Brother
The Emperor and His Brother

A young boy betrays his family who hides a refugee and tells the pursuer where the hiding-place is -...

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