Ching Miao
Birthday: 1913-03-15
Place of Birth: Jinan, Shandong Province, China
Biography: Ching Miao (Chinese: 井淼, March 15, 1913 – 1989) was a Taiwanese actor born in Shandong, China. He had appeared in over 190 films, mostly in Hong Kong for the Shaw Brothers Studio. He won the Best Supporting Actor for Golden Horse Awards twice, for Between Tears and Smiles (1964) and Too Late for Love (1967) respectively. Actress Ching Li is his daughter.
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Romance at Lung Shan Temple
Xiaofeng is selling medicinal herbs in Longshan Temple, but is at first driven away by Taiwanese ped...
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Golden Swallow
Golden Swallow revolves around the further adventures of its title character. This time around, she ...
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Crippled Avengers
A group of martial artists seek revenge after being crippled by Tu Tin-To, a martial arts master, an...
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Heroes of the East
When a series of martial misunderstandings spirals into an international incident, a Chinese martia...
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Clan of the White Lotus
The Qing emperor releases all detained Shaolin disciples, but the vindictive White Lotus clan decide...
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The Bastard
Little Bastard searches for the parents who abandoned him as an infant, with the help of Little Begg...
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The Rainbow
A young tutor, miss Chen, is sent to home school in a dysfunctional household head by a wealthy patr...
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King Eagle
Reclusive hero Jin Fei (Ti Lung), known as the King Eagle, inadvertently gets involved in the intern...
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Blood Brothers
Set in the waning years of the Ching Dyansty, this dramatic, tragic, romantic, blood-soaked martial ...
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The Twelve Gold Medallions
While a brave Chinese general and his men fight against the Tartar invaders, several swordsmen try t...
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Shaolin Abbot
While international favorite David Chiang was best known for his roles as a grinning, streetwise, fi...
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The Shadow Boxer
Chen Wo-Fu plays construction worker Ku Ting, whose skill at "tai chi" (shadow boxing) is as great a...
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Killers Five
A group of evil bandits are terrorizing the land from their invincible mountain castle. The high com...
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Invincible Shaolin
Three North Shaolin teachers are called on by the Manchus to teach their soldiers and are urged to c...
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Twin Blades of Doom
A kung fu knight walks the road to vengeance after the evil Ghost Gang kills his wife and son. The s...
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Have Sword, Will Travel
Ying Ke-Feng, head of Peerless Manor, is an expert swordsman whose escort business transports 200,00...
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The Anonymous Heroes
A perennial Chang Cheh favorite, Anonymous Heroes focuses on two vagabond brothers, Meng Kang and Ti...
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Killer Clans
Based on a popular swordplay novel, this colorful and complex saga (whose Chinese title literally tr...
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The Sword and the Lute
The adventures of a young married swordfighting couple, Lianzhu and Gui Wu, and the swordfighting me...
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Haunted Tales
1. A crash leaves a man dead, and his wife badly injured. Soon, he returns as a ghost to try to take...
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Heads for Sale
After seemingly being rejected by the man she loves, Hua Pi-Lien attacks him and his family. But the...
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The Magnificent Swordsman
Lone swordsman Jiang Dan-Feng (Wong Chung-Shun) is ambushed by a pair of bandits and quickly despatc...
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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 Sword of Swords
A noble swordsman fights to recover the magical blade that has protected his country for centuries a...
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The Flying Dagger
The Yu family earn the ire of the Green Dragon clan when the daughter kills the clan chief's son. Th...
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The Twin Swords
Gui Wu happens upon a kidnapping with his wife Gan Lian-zhu at the Red Lotus Temple. Lian-zhu sends ...
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King Cat
Chang Yi plays Chan Chao, a knight of justice, who thwarts the plans of Minister Peng to assassinate...
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The Killer
Chiao Tzu Wei hires a killer under the premise that the local government (run by the local kung fu s...
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The Deadly Knives
Plotting to obtain the Yen family's land, dastardly Japanese plutocrat Omura bribes Yen nephew Hsu C...
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Rivals of Kung Fu
Huang Fei-hung is back, in a new adventure written and directed by veteran Huang filmmaker Wang Feng...
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The Proud Twins
After his parents are murdered, Jiang Xiao Yu is separated from his twin as a baby and taken by a fa...
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The Silent Swordsman
A young swordsman is tasked to lead a patriotic secret society to fight a traitorous general who con...
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Opium Poppy
The host of the Macau Enemy Intelligence Organization was nicknamed "Poppy". Intelligence agent Yu P...
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The Winged Tiger
Famed screenwriter Shen Chiang got one of his very first chances to direct his own script with this ...
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The Kung Fu Instructor
Two rival clans have unsuccessfully tried to hire the master of the good clan to teach his clan. Not...
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Love Lock
Li Ching, Szu Wei and Tsung Hua in an eternal romantic triangle in which a girl has to choose betwee...
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Scandal
Director Li Han-hsiang teams up with Michael Hui in this tongue in cheek tale of extramarital affair...
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The Last Judgement
Most of the Liang family are murdered by Ling Guixing and the surviving son Liang Tianlai (Ng Wai-Kw...
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Secret Service of the Imperial Court
The sergeant of the Brocade Guards, the government's secret police, fights back against a traitorous...
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The Golden Knight
The leaders of the martial world are being attacked by a masked bandit. They accuse Yu Feixia (Lily ...
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Mercenaries from Hong Kong
Ti Lung plays a Vietnam vet who's now an 'honourable' mercenary-for-hire taking on an assignment tra...
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The Tiger and the Widow
The movie is about an illegal salt smuggling ring run by Tanny and her male partner, who spend most ...
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Shaolin and Wu Tang
Master Liu and Master Law are rival masters of Shaolin style kung fu, and Wudang style sword fightin...
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Dirty Ho
A prince enlists a thief to serve as his bodyguard to protect him from assassins....
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The Love Eterne
In this dreamy romance set in China during the fourth-century, a young woman convinces her parents t...
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The Enchantress
Max Mok is the dashing young swordsman Feng Xiwu who arrives at a beautiful, but deadly location kno...
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Full Moon Scimitar
A talented young swordsman has beaten many veterans before his inherited martial arts manual gets st...
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Return of the Con Men
Cheng Meng-chi (Liang Tian), celebrated for his cunning, embarks on a clever scheme to outwit his mi...
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Buddha's Palm
An old blind martial master living in a cave teaches a young swordsman the secret of the Buddha's Pa...
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Disciples of the 36th Chamber
Monk San Te tries to support and protect Shaolin and her Fang Shih-yu who purposely attacks corrupt ...
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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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Bat Without Wings
When a notorious fiend known as the "Bat Without Wings" returns to his small village after a five-ye...
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Bloody Parrot
An expert swordsman is suspected of being the thief of a treasure sent to Emperor. The swordsman who...
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The Boxer from the Temple
Complex plots? This director didn't want them. Expensive, famous stars? Didn't need them. Glorious s...
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The Convict Killer
Teng Piao went to jail for fifteen years on a frame up for drug smuggling. Now that he's out, along...
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Rendezvous in the South Sea
A Shaw Brothers drama starring Peter Chen Ho and Ding Ling. It was filmed on location in Malaysia....
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Challenge of the Gamesters
A forerunner to the new wave gambling films, this is one of Wong Jing's first hits--before he would ...
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Clans of Intrigue
Chu Liuxiang is having drinks with his friend, Monk Wuhua. Gong Nanyan of the Holy Water Palace sudd...
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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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The Sentimental Swordsman
A swordsman does everything it takes to bring justice. However, he has a drinking problem which even...
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Passing Flickers
The main characters - the arrogant, harassed director, the sexy starlet, or naïve actors are familia...
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The King with My Face
THE KING WITH MY FACE (1967) offers a well-produced Shaw Bros. variation on Alexandre Dumas' famous ...
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That Tender Age
Rich girl Chen Wen Chi starts a serious relationship with classmate Liu Ting Yi who comes from a poo...
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The Blue and the Black 2
War and time change everything. Their love becomes more than reunion, it becomes a reckoning with wh...
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Too Late for Love
Su Fen, a young and frail girl, looked forward to her wedding with her fiancé, Li Kuo-liang. The hap...
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Princess Iron Fan
The mythological tale of a quest from China to India to bring back Buddhist scriptures, famous for t...
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The Butterfly Chalice
The story revolves around Tian Yu Quan (Chin Feng) who rushes to the aid of an elderly fisherman who...
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The Blue and the Black
It's a powerful melodrama about a thwarted romance in 1930s Tientsin, China, during the Japanese occ...
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Rose, Be My Love
Not a love triangle but a love rectangle, Rose, Be My Love is a romantic drama that represents the h...
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Till the End of Time
Jenny Wu is a singer who charms the well-to-do Peter Chen, but his parents object to a union between...
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Vermilion Door
The tragic love triangle of early 20th century Peking Opera star Chiu Hai-tang, his beautiful stage ...
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Judgement of an Assassin
Sun Chung was already a valued comedy, romance, and modern crime filmmaker, when, through this tale ...
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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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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
This is an extremely rare example of science fiction, Hong Kong style, but, fittingly, it's unlike a...
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The Call Girls
The seamy side of the Hong Kong film industry is laid bare in "The Call-Girls". Based on the infamou...
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Deadly Angels
Three female detectives - from Hong Kong, Korea and Singapore - go undercover in a cabaret to expose...
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The Web of Death
Lo Lieh is the ringleader of the Snake Sect, intent on reviving a deadly faction known as the "Five ...
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The Mad Monk
Li's The Mad Monk consists of four stories that see the roaming monk save a mother and daughter from...
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Young Passion
A romantic melodrama about an affair between a 16-year-old boy and a neglected wife....
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Lust for Love of a Chinese Courtesan
Former wife of Chow Yun Fat, Candice Yu On-on stars in this gauzy softcore flick directed by Chor Yu...
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Five Tough Guys
The plot follows the titular gang of misfits, gathered together by Chen Kuan Tai (a real life martia...
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The Lady Professional
Lily Ho as a deadly assassin becomes the target of murder herself...
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The Warlord and the Actress
A member of the Red Peony troupe, singer Tang Pei Hua (Yeh Feng) is renowned for her beautiful voice...
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The Amorous Lotus Pan
A woman in an arranged marriage falls in love with her husband's brother....
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Between Tears and Smiles
Fan Chia-soo is a kind-hearted student whose heart is captured by the sweet song of Shen Feng-hsien....
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When the Clouds Roll by
Susu (Ching Li) is an emotionally troubled young woman still tortured by the loss of boyfriend in a ...
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Double Trouble
Two broke and incompetent best friends try to find employment, lodging, and love in Hong Kong....
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The Imperial Swordsman
Chuan Yuan is the noble, powerful hero and Shu Pei-pei, one of Shaw’s top swordswoman, is a reluctan...
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Murder Plot
Director Chu Yuan was already famous for his many collaborations with respected novelist Ku Lung and...
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Legend of the Bat
A group of swordsmen set out on a journey to the mysterious Bat Island to seek answers for their pro...
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Fangs of the Cobra
Young man returns from studying abroad to take over management of the large family farm, and falls f...
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The Crimson Palm
Ling Bo is Lin, a young man engaged to the daughter of a rich man, who now despises Lin because of h...
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Comedy of Mismatches
Comedy of Mismatches begins with widow Sun who single-handedly raises her son Yu Lang (Chin Feng) an...
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The Grand Substitution
With China under control of a weak Emperor, two officials compete to steer the future destiny of the...
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Hong Kong 73
As the Heng Seng Index reaches unprecedented heights, people from all walks of life go stock specula...
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Sinful Confession
Arguably the funniest of the four famous Hui brothers, Michael has a tour-de-force vehicle in this n...
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Return of the Phoenix
Return Of The Phoenix is yet another masterpiece from prolific director Li Han-hsiang. An imperial m...
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The Devil's Mirror
The Jiuxian Witch and her Bloody Ghouls Clan (somehow you just know that these aren’t the good guys)...
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The Three Smiles
The film tells the story of Tang Bohu, a famous scholar who spends most of his time wandering around...
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Lady Jade Locket
Love knows no limits in the grand period romance, Lady Jade Locket. A young fighter inadvertently fa...
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Gun Brothers
Welcome the "Bandit with a Thousand Faces" to the ranks of the great screen "outlaw heroes". Like Zo...
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The Pearl Phoenix
Huangmei Opera movies like The Pearl Phoenix are unique to 1960's Hong Kong culture, a product of th...
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Dawn Will Come
The lovely Li Hsiang-chun stars as a poor beauty who is drugged, ravished, lied to, locked in a burn...
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Inside the Forbidden City
It seems that Li Zhenfei was once an imperial concubine, who often found herself competing with her ...
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Lady General Hua Mulan
About a woman who disguises herself as a man to take her father's place in the army....
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The Female Prince
The husband-and-wife team of Ivy Ling Po and Chin Han returned to another Huangmei Opera classic aft...
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The Last Woman of Shang
In order to exact revenge upon him, a young woman (Lin Dai) marries the Emperor Chou (Shin Young-kyu...
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The Story of Sue San
This gripping story centers on the romance between Wang Chin Lung and Sue San. Although they may be ...
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The Lady Assassin
Veteran action actor and director Lu Chun-ku set his sights on a tale of Ching Dynasty royal intrigu...
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Kidnap
Crime drama based on true incidents around a Kidnapping - and murder case ,also taking much time des...
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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 Adventures of Emperor Chien Lung
Emperor Chien Lung uses disguises to experience life among his subjects....
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The Mermaid
A Huangmei opera produced by Shaw Brothers about a carp spirit who transforms into an identical copy...
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The Water Margin
The corruption in the Sung Dynasty of 11th century China is so rampant that it inspires a band of Or...
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Cheeky Little Angels
The Shaw Brothers version of The Parent Trap, only they found real twins for the roles of the kids!...
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Pink Tears
The socialite Pai Li-Lan's life is disrupted when she contracts tuberculosis....
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Emperor Chien Lung
Emperor Chien Lung, bored with imperial traditions, disguises himself as a commoner to experience a ...
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The 14 Amazons
The Yang family, men and women, have served their country loyally for generations. During the war Ge...
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Tiger Killer
TIGER KILLER (1982) is a straightforward adaptation of one story from the sprawling Chinese literary...
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Descendant of the Sun
Celebrated director Chu Yuan helms "Descendant Of The Sun", a Superman meets Hercules a la old style...
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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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Human Lanterns
A psychotic craftsman pits two rival Kung-Fu masters against each other while designing special lant...
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The Magic Blade
Two rival swordsmen in imperial China, poncho-clad Fu Hung-Hsueh and Yen nan-Fei vie with a power-hu...
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Bewitched
While possessed by an evil spirit, a man murders his daughter. A police detective investigating the ...
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Heaven and Hell
Actors David Chaing and Alexander Fu Sheng join director Chang Cheh and the rest of the Five Deadly ...
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The Snake Prince
Snake Prince (Ti Lung) is wandering with his snake buddies when he happens upon a beautiful maiden (...
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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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Opium and the Kung Fu Master
A small town is protected by one of the famous Ten Tigers of Kwangtung. The town is very safe as Ti ...
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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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Martial Club
Wong Fei Hung and his friend are constantly having contests to see who has the better martial arts s...
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Flying Guillotine II
The emperor's reign of terror expands. Heroic outlaw Ma Teng joins a squad of female rebels, whose l...
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Shaolin Rescuers
Two friends who long to be heroes join the fight against a Ching warlord and his students. They get ...
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Stranger in Hong Kong
A computer engineer working for an insurance company stops over in Hong Kong on his way to a confere...
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Pituitary Hunter
Someone's on a pituitary gland binge. Pituitary glands first go missing from corpses and the crimina...
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Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre
Director Chu Yuan's titanic teaming with respected, inspired author Chin Yung created this unforgett...
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Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre II
The thrills continue in this second part of this cherished adventure, created by the renowned direct...
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Death Duel
The Third Master is considered to be the greatest sword master of the day. His displays of skill and...
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Duel of Fists
Two men, one a businessman skilled in Kung Fu, the other a kickboxer discover they are brothers, and...
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The Stranger and the Gunfighter
During a hold-up in the Wild West, Dakota kills a rich old Chinese man, Wang. Later, he is captured,...
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Pursuit of Vengeance
Master of the "swordplay thriller" genre, Chor Yuen and renowned kung-fu choreographer Tang Chia tel...
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Brotherhood
Liao Jiang is the lowest ranking member of a gang that holds up a jewelery store. Subsequently the t...
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Call to Arms
The aggressive and dangerous Chin empire occupies the put-upon Chao kingdom while the hero-filled We...
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Heroes Shed No Tears
Kao is given a mission by his elderly master to take a cursed sword and solve petty squabbles betwee...
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The Jade Tiger
Zhao Wuji, son of the leader of the Zhao Clan, embarks on a tragic adventure full of intrigue to ave...
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The Proud Youth
Sun Chung had made a name for himself directing satirical comedies and modern day crime thrillers wh...
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Clan of Amazons
The Embroidery Bandit is stealing treasures while blinding his victims. The hero Liu Xiaofeng is cal...
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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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Shaolin Mantis
When scholar Wei Fung is forcibly hired by the Manchu Emperor to infiltrate a clan of rebellious Min...
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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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The Empress Dowager
This dragon lady of the Ching Dynasty was the power behind the throne for 50 years, and hew vast tap...
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It's All in the Family
Danny Lee is Hsu Chih-yuan, the youngest son of strict patriarch Hsu Hui-tang (Cheng Miu). A sailor,...
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The House of 72 Tenants
Set during a period of depression, the film chronicles the daily lives of a single urban building sp...
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Sweet Is Revenge
Some 40 years ago when warlords rode rough-shod over the Chinese people, circus acrobat Pao Te-cheng...
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The Last Tempest
Despite Kuang Hsu's enthronement as the last reigning Emperor of China, his ability to rule effectiv...
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Swan Song
Demure Ke Fen Ni is secretly in love with painter Tu Fan. Unfortunately, she suffers from an incurab...
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Sorrow of the Gentry
In the waning days of China's feudal aristocracy, a powerful family crumbles under the weight of tra...
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The Adulteress
The noted actress Li Li-hua, star of more than sixty films since 1947, beautifully portrays the drug...
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The Supreme Swordsman
A rampaging swordsman slices and dices his way across China on a bloody mission to cut down every wa...
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The Warlord
No list of the screen's comic geniuses would be complete without Michael Hui Kwun-man. He created a ...
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Sons of the Good Earth
The year is 1937, just prior to the Japanese invasion of China. Painters Ju Rui and Lao San stumble ...
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The Deformed
Nurse Leng Shuxian is forced by family circumstances to marry Long Yusheng (King Hu), a grossly disf...
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Devil in Human Being
A young girl, Suli, marries a young man, Zhengli. After the marriage, Su Li realizes that her husban...
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Facets of Love
This story is centering around a Ming Dynasty brothel that steams with secret erotic myths, trysts a...
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Return of Bastard Swordsman
Just when audiences thought the director couldn't get more spectacular and outrageous, he unleashed ...
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Sing High, Sing Low
Lee Ho Yin is a young musician turned advertising executive who is shy and tongue-tied when it comes...
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Spring of Jade Hill
Lin Tian-liang (George Wang), head of the Lanshan Forestry Station, returns to his hometown and reun...
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