Tsao Chien
Birthday: 1922-09-08
Place of Birth: Taiwan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
The Shaolin Brothers
Complicated mix of Chinese history and myth, where old Shaolin friends find themselves on different ...
View Movie
Enter the Panther
To gain control of a gold mine, the owner Ho Kwai-Shan is poisoned by the Lee family. His daughter Y...
View Movie
The Boxer from Shantung
Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn ...
View Movie
Vengeance of Snow-Maid
Snow Maid spends years practicing kung fu under the guidance of Ugly Maid in the mountains. All she ...
View Movie
Fighting of Shaolin Monks
The Fighting of Shaolin Monk tells the story of the Famed Monk, Tamo (Chen Sing Hong Kong's most pro...
View Movie
Thunderstorm Sword
A swordsman and swordswoman fight to protect Lady Liu who is trying to return to power. She's trave...
View Movie
Leave It to Destiny
A TV movie and part of groundbreaking Taiwan TV series “Eleven Women”...
View Movie
Painted Waves of Love
A talented woman painter falls in love with a gallery owner, who is married. His son falls in love w...
View Movie
Snuff Bottle Connection
As China and Russia's governments are talking peace, traitorous agents on both sides seek war. Enter...
View Movie
Godfather from Canton
A coolie is ofter a job a policeman after saving a government official, and through treachery and co...
View Movie
Four Moods
Directed by some of most well known Chinese-language directors of the time, the portmanteau film Fou...
View Movie
Purple Darts
In an attempt to seize the famous Tai Hsuan Book of Swords the outlaws Wang, Ku, Lu and Pai Feng att...
View Movie
Growing Up
The story follows a young man as he changes from an intelligently aware youth, to a teenager with mu...
View Movie
Beach of the War Gods
In the waning days of the Ming dynasty, Japanese marauders raid villages on the Chinese coast. A wa...
View Movie
Iron Mistress
Set during the Jin invasion of China in the Southern Song Dynasty, Iron Mistress tell the story of t...
View Movie
Flying Masters of Kung Fu
In order to avenge her father's murder, Hsiang Ying trains herself in the deadliest form of swordpla...
View Movie
Outside the Window
Brigitte Lin's debut film is a melodrama in which her character gets involved in a socially unaccept...
View Movie
The Fists of Vengeance
Chinese mine workers are being cruelly suppressed by the Japanese, and a Chinese officer is sent to ...
View Movie
The Dragon vs. Needles of Death
A young man joins a kung-fu academy but fails to fit in. He soon runs off with the master's daughter...
View Movie
Dragon Inn
China, year 1457. The Minister of Defense is executed, and his children are sentenced to exile by or...
View Movie
A Touch of Zen
Gu Sheng-zhai, an artist in his early 30s, still lives with his mother, but he is suddenly shaken by...
View Movie
The Trios of the Peach Garden
A film based on the Oath of the Peach Garden which is a fictional event in the 14th-century Chinese ...
View Movie
The Absurd Brave
The arrest and execution of the head of the outlawed Five Flower sect leaves his four offspring thir...
View Movie
Beauty of Beauties
Hsi Shih: The Beauty of Beauties was one of the most ambitious films made in the Taiwan film industr...
View Movie
Even the Sun is Sobbing
Park Mei Ji receives a phone call from a woman who says she and Mei Ji's husband, Inn Min, are livin...
View Movie
Bachelor's Delight
Young man Po Wen is in hot soup when writing a love story which involves a film star. Po Wen acciden...
View Movie
Shadow Girl
A young woman whose kung fu has reached the point where she can turn invisible runs afoul of a power...
View Movie
Return of the 18 Bronzemen
Despite the national resistance, the Manchurians have taken over China, but the Ching Emperor fears ...
View Movie
The Challenge of the Lady Ninja
During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, a Chinese woman trains in the covert arts. When she arri...
View Movie
The Swordsman of All Swordsmen
A master swordsman is on a twenty year quest to revenge the death of his parents....
View Movie
Axing the Coffin: Death is Eternal
When the Duke Hsuan Ch'i sends a group of ninjas to kill the elderly General Tieng and kidnap his da...
View Movie
The House for Love
Lo Wen (Chin Han) is enamored of his college sweetheart Xiao Yu (Brigitte Lin), and the two wish to ...
View Movie
Swift Shaolin Boxer
Angelo Mao, Judy Lee and Barry Chen star in this tale of murder, intrigue and betrayal. When two sep...
View Movie
Errant Love
Kao Han (Kenny Bee) and Pan-yun (Xiu-ling Lu) meet for the first time as strangers in a pet shop. It...
View Movie
Nightmarish Highway
A car accident on a curvy road with a history of death is just the beginning of a woman's horror sto...
View Movie
A Sword Named Revenge
Two swordsmen from separate sects band together to kill Ruthless Chi, head of another sect.But did h...
View Movie
"Golden Sand" Sword
The Golden Blade should be kept in the hands of a good person; if it fell into the wrong hands the o...
View Movie
By Love Obsessed
While taking pictures in a remote forest, a young photographer encounters a beautiful, mysterious gi...
View Movie
Our Neighbor
An orphaned girl in a poverty-stricken neighborhood is adopted by a kindly neighbor. He struggles t...
View Movie
The Dark Alley
Set against the backdrop of Thai International Boxing, what starts out as a happy love story between...
View Movie
Desperate Crisis
Thrilling basher from Taiwan set amidst the dangerous and contemporary world of gangsters & counterf...
View Movie
Deadly Opponents
Flame hand wants to rule the martial world and test her skills, therefore she kills off many heroes,...
View Movie
Man on the Police Gazette
The notorious bandit, Shi Wen Lung breaks out of a California jail and flees back to China to carry ...
View Movie
The Outsiders
In 1985, senior high school student A-Qing was found fornicating with a staff member at school and g...
View Movie
Chinese Kung Fu and Acupuncture
Kung Fu combined with acupuncture is used with great effect to defeat Japanese invaders in an Easter...
View Movie
The Furious Killer
A young girl witnesses the massacre of her family at the hands of cold blooded kung fu killers. She ...
View Movie
One Armed Swordsman Against Nine Killers
Watch WANG YU as a one-armed savior battling the local goons in this martial arts classic. He has so...
View Movie
The Glory of the Sunset
A young doctor, regardless of his family’s objection, had decided to marry his beloved one. When he ...
View Movie
The Everlasting Glory
A most touching and consistently heart-gripping war drama depicts the heroic deeds of General Chang ...
View Movie
A Story of Lou Po-Wen
Tsu Hong Wu is a highly fictionalized fantasy retelling of the early years of Zhu Yuanzhang’s life t...
View Movie
Impetuous Fire
The search for the essence of Kung Fu leads our dynamic duo Cherry Pai and Champion Cheng into an ad...
View Movie
The Hero
A village under the thumb of a band of thugs recruits a hero to help fight them off....
View Movie
The Invincible
After mistakenly helping Chang-qing, the sister of ruthless Mongol chieftain Liang escape capture by...
View Movie
Black and White Umbrellas
Top class swordplay action from Taiwan, where umbrellas are used as swords....
View Movie
Heroic Pioneers
Taiwan's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986. In the story, the ...
View Movie
The Last Night of Madam Chin
Set in Shanghai in the 1940s. Story of a ballroom girl Jolie Chan who falls in love with a student a...
View Movie
Love with Cloud
Wong Chi-chae, an ambitious young doctor, is secretly in a relationship with Cheng Yuh-hsya, a nurse...
View Movie
The Wheel of Life
Jointly and respectively directed by King Hu, Lee Hsing, and Pai Ching-Jui, three major Taiwan direc...
View Movie
Black Invitation
Brilliant Taiwan wuxia film Black Invitation directed by Chou Hsu Chiang. Living large in the Fuhu S...
View Movie
Bruce Takes Dragon Town
Alan Tang is forced into a swirling dilemma between two antagonistic drug smugglers. Double crossed,...
View Movie
Infernal Street
A Chinese doctor's assistant fights the morphine-dealing criminals who run a Japanese nightclub....
View Movie
Island of Fire
Someone in a prison run by a corrupt warden fakes the deaths of convicts to later use them as expend...
View Movie
All the King's Men
It's the 10th century BC, the emperor is not well, and the medicines he is receiving from con artist...
View Movie
The Young Lovers and the Escaped Prisoner
Yu Kin-sheng, a farmer, was sentenced to ten years for killing a man when drunk. His wife took care ...
View Movie
Legend of Heavenly Mother Ma-Tsu
Mother goddess comes to the rescue of the Chinese people when they are attacked by a giant fish and ...
View Movie