The Huangmei Opera folk opera was once the most popular trend in Mandarin musicals. This is not only the last great one and 1969's number 4 hit, but perhaps the most memorable re-telling of one of China's most popular romances 香港长城电影制片有限公�...
Respected actor Wang Chung (who, it is rumored, was the source for the 1980's new wave rock group of the same name) wrote, directed, and starred in this C.I.D. vs. drug smugglers thriller. Danny Lee is the film's planner as well as co-star. Also doin...
It's round two between Clever Chen and Tricky Ching in this sequel to Carry On Con Men is even more hilarious than the original and plays more like a Monty Python sketch. 此片为《扭计祖宗陈梦吉》的续集,故事描述曾被奇人陈梦吉(梁天饰)害得吃官司的「�...
Lo Wei directs and stars as the Chief Detective in this gripping thriller, playing alongside, Lily Ho, who excels in the role of an undercover avenger that can fight as well as she can flirt. Caught between the crime bosses known as Baldhead and Blac...
Drama and action both take centre-stage, as two lovers are torn apart by a lecherous general who rapes and takes the woman as his concubine. Her lover hatches a plot to save her - with deadly consequences. 富家青年樊家树虽被卖艺女子秀姑及财政厅长女儿...
It took two directors, three assistant directors, and four cinematographers to capture this remarkable epic about life in the Heavenly Palace. Fang Ying began her career as the title character, who decides that life on Earth would be more rewarding. ...
Modern day fans of The Little Mermaid are in for a revelatory delight when they see this spectacular Chinese variation. Here, a carp turns into a 'fairy' which looks just like the gender-bending hero's lady love. The lovely Li Ching gets this plum du...
A brother who loves books and a sister who loves swords must face a yellow-robed warrior, the Red Python, a sinuous snake-charmer and a silk-masked beauty (who must kill or wed the first man to see her face) in this special, cliche-smashing productio...
An amusing title directed by Johnnie To and featuring comedy star Stephen Chow is now digitally remastered! New version coming with trailers, photo gallery, behind-the-scene features, plus more!
Johnnie To and Stephen Chow collaborated for the firs...
The versatile and prolific Wang Feng both writes and directs this ensemble epic which united actors from both Shaw Brothers' film units and their television network, HK-TVB. The place to be is flat number 8 on the second floor of the Gossip Street ap...
The great Chu Yuan has been acclaimed for his neo-realism, melodrama, mystery thrillers, and epic martial-arts sagas. But comedy? Yes! Many fans also remember his landmark social satire The House Of 72 Tenants in 1973, so the appearance of this charm...
The acclaimed filmmaking team of Mabel Cheung Yuen-ting and Alex Law got off to an auspicious start with The Illegal Immigrant, a grittily realistic New York Chinatown tale. The film has a critical success and winner of the 5th Hong Kong Film Award f...
Winner of Best Picture at the 7th Asian Film Festival, Rear Entrance is a moving drama, adapted from a famous novel that features three major stars from three different generations. The film exemplifies director Li Han-hsiang's mastery of emotional n...
When an absent-minded nutty professor creates a 'Super' pill, a gang boss wants it and the clever complications compound until it's up to a fast-thinking super girl to save the day.
钟楚红饰演中学教师兼科幻小说家,阿B钟镇涛则为同校的体育教师,阿B...
This lavish Eastmancolor and Shawscope production set a standard in Hollywood-style tune-fests that has rarely been surpassed. It won awards for Best Actress, Best Art Direction, Best Editing and Best Sound Recording, and is pure pleasure.
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The great Chang I stars as a kung-fu master who can defeat a posse with just a fan in this action epic of merciless men lusting to be emperor and the patriotic secret society dedicated to stopping them. 故事描述,宋代時期,西涼蠻兵入侵中原,武林正宗�...
Stephen Chow takes on the role of delivery boy for a fast food joint, and Hong Kong's comedy diet is never quite the same. A top blockbuster of 1994, Love On Delivery delivers laughs, romance, and kung-fu as only Chow can. He's a combination of Charl...
The story is simple (Shaolin vs. Manchu traitors), but the effect was anything but, as the screen's most charismatic action actors team with a legendary director and revered choreographers (Liu Chia-liang and brother Liu Chia-yung) for scenes of unpa...
Acclaimed director Chu Yuan was credited for bringing mystery thriller ingredients into his atmospheric martial arts epics, and this is one of the most impressive examples. The title refers to the feared nickname of a notorious rapist-murderer who sw...
Ivy Ling Po star of The Love Eterne as well as A Cause To Kill, plays the dedicated wife of a man being blackmailed for an illicit love affair, who uncovers a pit of deceit, double-crosses, extortion and murder after murder 俊俏的姑娘秀女被土匪抢到西...
Liang Pao-erh joins the carefree "sprinters club" when she discovers her husband is having an affair, Despite the seemingly happy front that her "sisters"put on. Underneath it all each of them secretly yearns for a man in their lives. When her repent...
Reincarnated, his spirit in a lotus flower, the legendary Na Cha flies to save people from their despotic emperor. Or, as a Shaw homage website said : Lots of crazy action and some conedy make this a must-see for ture fans. 相传哪吒是托塔天王李靖的...
When this amazing movie premiered, Stephen Chow was already one of Hong Kong's biggest stars and a comic icon. Having already lampooned such subjects as gambling, kung-fu, the justice system, the educational system, James Bond, and even Chinese mytho...
Fiction mixeswith fact in this gambling epic, inspired by the life of Macau's "Casino King" Stanley Ho. Andy Lau is in his element as the tycoon of the title, tracing his blood-splattered fight to the top and spanning the 1930s to the 1960s. The comb...
Stephen Chow's special brand of very modern, very Hong Kong screwball comedy entered a new phase with Justice, My Foot!, a costume farce set in imperial China. Chow is a shyster with an equally eccentric kung-fu ace of a wife, hilariously played by A...
ternational favorites David Chiang and Alexander Fu Sheng (winner of the Best Young Newcomer Award at the Asian Film Festival) star in this tale of a young man fighting kidnappers and white slavers, as well as his wealthy father's arrogance and snobb...
Many screen versions have been made of this classic Chinese love story, but auteur Li Han-hsiang's version is the most popular of them all. Yen Chuan plays the weak emperor, whose obsession with his consort, Yang Kwei Fei (played by the ever-elegant ...
Extraordinaryfilmmaker Wong Jing was already known and loved for his crazy comedies and thrillers. So he combines both supernatural chills and romantic comedy to tell the tale of a man with a blessing and a curse: he can resist the opposite sex with ...
A remake that doesn't disappoint, the Shawscope color Love Without End is as touching as the classic black-and-white original. Excelling in the tragic role made famous by Linda Lin Dai 8 years earlier, Jenny Hu was honored with the Special Award for ...
Chang Cheh had made Jimmy Wang Yu a star in The One-Armed Swordsman. So when Yu moved on, Chang made David Chiang his all-new-one-armed hero in a film which deservedly won a prestigious Golden Horse Award for Editing. When the love of his life is kid...
Cantonese opera's number one couple, Ivy Ling Po (renowned for playing male roles) and Li Ching turns this classic tale into a costume drama movie favorite. A scholar woos the daughter of an important family, while outwitting rebels who try to captur...
With the 007 craze at its height, it is little wonder that Interpol operative '009' is as adept with casinos and cars as he is with girls and guns. For 'Bond' fans, this film is truly 'from Hong Kong, with love...! 陈天宏(唐菁)奉命赴菲律宾侦查同僚被�...
There is no Chinese novel more famous than Journey to the West, and while there have been many movie adaptations, this memorable version presents a unique interpretation with humor, action, and fantasy galore. 岳华扮演演的西游记相当有意思,造型比较简�...
Director Alfred Cheung Kin-ting puts aside his political satires for this bittersweet comedy revolving around a young bodyguard Ah Sun (Derek Yee) and his love for a rich man's mistress Joey (Joey Wang). 本片为《表错七日情》的续集。护卫员这次的任务是...
From the director of Bruce Lee's The Big Boss and Fist Of Fury, comes Summons To Death. Lo Wei directs sex symbol Tina Chin-fei in a Treasure Island-like action adventure, where beauty replaces the one-eyed beast. 一批宝物藏于荒岛上,藏宝的长者被人施...
fortune will go to a grandson if he marries within a month of an old millionaire's death. But if he doesn't, the money goes to his nephew. Quite naturally, this leads to comic insanity and romantic hysteria as handsome men, gorgeous girls, and funny ...
Shaw Brothers' superstar David Chiang displays a unique take on the narcotics racket in his directorial debut, The Drug Addicts. Addicted kung-fu instructor Ti Lung not only kicks the habit but smashes a drug smuggling ring as only a martial-arts sup...
Wackiness rules in this early Wong Jing comedy, as a pair of bumbling private detectives uncover the truth behind a Japanese girl??s father??s death. Stay tuned for the bizarre mahjong game with a robot and a band of lethal ninjas. 本片是票房良药之称...
The combination of director/star Wong Jing, Eric Tsang as the 'Love Pain Killer', lovely Maggie Cheung Man-yuk, sweet Elizabeth Lee, sexy Chingmy Yau Shuk-ching, sensual Ellen Chan, and hilarious Sandra Ng make this a comedy to remember. 搞笑大导王晶...
When Shantung was hit by drought Ma Wing Jing and his brother fled to Shanghai. By chance, Ma won the recongition of Tam See for saving his life, and the possession of a territory as a result provoked Yang Shuang to get rid of them both. Ma later fal...
The Golden Sword school is attacked by bandits. The servant Fang Cheng sacrifices his life to protect his master Qi Rufeng. In gratitude, Qi Rufeng accepts the dying Fang Cheng's son, Fang Gang, as his student. Years later, Fang Gang is scorned by hi...
Movie Queen - Linda Lin Dai plays both mother and son in this lavish fable about a goddess who falls in love with a mortal scholar (Cheng Pei-pei, in her debut). Over two years in production, it was released on the first anniversary of Linda's tragic...
The novel itself is a detailed, episodic record of the lives of the extended Jia Clan, made up of two branches, the Ning-guo and Rong-guo Houses, which occupies two large adjacent family compounds in the capital. Their ancestors were made Dukes, and ...
Young love and its comedy of errors. Hsiao Fang, played by Li Ching, is a spunky young girl not afraid to fight back against hooligans. Unfortunately, she mistakes the handsome Ma Ta-hai, for one such hoodlum. The two are immediately attracted but re...
Cheng Kang and Sung Hai-ling team to both write and direct this action-packed adventure of what might have also been called "Heroes Five." There are many dangers on their journey to the Mansion on Golden Dragon Hill, where an evil warlord has stashed...
The Golden Sword school is attacked by bandits. The servant Fang Cheng sacrifices his life to protect his master Qi Rufeng. In gratitude, Qi Rufeng accepts the dying Fang Cheng's son, Fang Gang, as his student. Years later, Fang Gang is scorned by hi...
BEYOND THE GREAT WALL is a retelling of of the famous Chinese story of Wang Zhaojun, a tale told in many different formats, in plays and songs, going back as far as the Han Hou Shu, the official histories of the Han Dynasty written in the 5th Century...
The golden blade of the title is the magnificent "Flying Dragon" sword. The only thing that can stop it is the celebrated "Silver Swallow" weapon technique. Thus the stage is set for this fast-moving story of greed, lust, death, and vengeance, starri...
As tuneful as its name implies Songfest is an Eastmancolor- Shawscope costume musical, traditionally Chinese in content but possessing a timeless spirit and modern technique. Shot on location at Taiwan's beautiful Sun-Moon Lake, it's the turbulent ro...
The topnotchpair of Johnnie To and Lau Ching-wan teams up again in this tale of a man re-evaluating his life and being given a second chance. Lau plays Liu Chen-hai, a cop whose personalitily leaves much to be desired. His neglect pushes his wife (Ca...
Spring Blossoms is a parable about the Chinese youth culture and whai's important to the younger generation when it comes to romance. It starred a new wave of seventies, Shaw's beauties, Lin Li, Shu Pei Pei and Essie Lin Chia as single women looking ...
In 2001, there was director Ang Lee, villainess Cheng Pei-pei and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. 35 years before there was legendary director King Hu (a.k.a. Hu King-chuan) (A Touch Of Zen), beloved heroine Cheng Pei-pei and this universally consider...
The ledendary martial arts director wanted to do the impossible: create a kung-fu filled epic about the making of the Shaolin Temple master - a "love story of the spirit," as he called it. The result (a.k.a. Master Killer) was Shaws's number one hit ...
The Killer star Danny Lee plays the lead role, of a guy who needs to become a hero. He lies, cheats and steals his way into operating a plush casino, but when he incurs the wrath of a female Japanese gang leader, all bets are off! 本片为程刚在1981年�...
Swordsman Bai Chun-tung (Lo Wei) is abruptly escorted away by menacing masked riders and never returns. Ten years later, his son Yu-lung (Kao Yuen) travels beyond the central regions of China in a three-year search and along the way falls in love wit...
Stanley Feng Tsui-fan, Chan Tak yongStory:Stephen Chow is absolutely delightful in this "comic comedy", directed by the man who also made New Tales Of The Flying Fox. Tung Piao plays a murdered police inspector who comes back from the dead to protect...
Love knows no limits in the grand period romance, Lady Jade Locket. A young fighter inadvertently falls for the spirit of a beautiful woman, who died years earlier avenging her own father's murder. The beautiful ghost is in fact the sister of his fia...
This dragon lady of the Ching Dynasty was the power behind the throne for 50 years, and her vast tapestry of palace intrigues is vividly brought to the screen in this memorable epic. Lisa Lu's passionate performance won her Taiwan's coveted Golden Ho...
Wang Chao-chun, Yang Gui-fei, Xi Shi and Diao Charn are Chinese's best known classic beauties all sacrificing their hapiness for their emperor's good. Director Li Hanhsiang ecame famous making films about these :chaste ladies", Diau Charn being the f...