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Challenge of the Masters (1976)
陸阿采與黃飛鴻
director: Lau Kar-leung actor: Chen Kuan-Tai / Gordon Liu Chia-Hui …
other title: Le Combat des Maîtres / El desafío de los maestros …
The Wong family kung fu school gets smacked around by a rival school. Wong Fei-hong gets fed up with the abuse and goes to learn from his fathers master. After one of the rival schools members kills some of the towns people Wong Fei-hong becomes enraged trains even more comes back and gets his revenge.
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The Brave Archer 2 (1978) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
射雕英雄傳續集
director: 张彻 actor: 傅声 / 郭佑华 …
other title: 射鵰英雄傳續集 / Le Chasseur d'aigles et le clan des mendiants …
Our hero Kuo Tsing is winning the hand of fair maiden Huang Yung. However, almost immediately, clan rivalries in the "Martial Art World" lead to Kuo being wounded by Ouyang Feng and Huang being named the new leader of the Beggar Clan. All this is mounted with sparkling energy by three kung-fu choreographers and a star-packed cast.
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Judgement of an Assassin (1977) IMDb TMDB Douban
决殺令
director: 孙仲 actor: 姜大卫 / 宗华 …
other title: 武林风暴 / 决杀令 …
Sun Chung was already a valued comedy, romance, and modern crime filmmaker, when, through this tale of the 100 Poison Clique's obsessive ambition to destroy all rivals, he started bringing morality and motivation to martial arts movies like never before. Kung-fu superstar David Chiang and prominent choreographer Tang Chia lead the cast in a bloody clan clash centered on the trial of an admitted mass murderer and serial rapist. It was just the beginning of Sun Chung's exploration in emotion.
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Blood of the Dragon (1971)
追命槍
director: Kao Pao-shu actor: Jimmy Wang Yu / Lisa Chiao Chiao …
other title: Wang Yu Teng - La morte vestita di bianco / Haruschi - das blanke Schwert der Rache …
White Dragon must get a list with the names of rebel supporters to Prince Ma Tung, the leader of the rebellion. Trying to stop him in his mission is the evil Prime Minister, who naturally wants the list in order to crush his opposition. Adding another complication is the fact that Ma Tung wants to kill White Dragon in revenge for the humiliation Tung's father suffered in a duel against White Dragon years earlier.
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Brothers Five (1970)
五虎屠龍
director: Lo Wei actor: Cheng Pei-Pei / Lo Lieh …
other title: 五虎屠龍 / Cinco Irmãos
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.
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The Blood Brothers (1973) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
刺馬
director: Chang Cheh actor: Ti Lung / 姜大卫 …
other title: 刺马 / 刺馬 …
Set in the waning years of the Ching Dyansty, this dramatic, tragic, romantic, blood-soaked martial arts tale of betrayal and revenge explores one of the most sensational scandals in Chinese history and marked the true ascension of its director and actors to superstar status. In fact, Ti Lung won Taiwan's Golden Horse Award for Outstanding Performance as the challenging role of a jealous provincial governor who kills his friend in order to steal the man's wife.
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The Anonymous Heroes (1971)
無名英雄
director: 张彻 actor: 姜大卫 / 狄龙 …
other title: Mo Meng Ying Hung / 无名英雄 …
A perennial Chang Cheh favorite, Anonymous Heroes focuses on two vagabond brothers, Meng Kang and Tieh who, in the search for fame and fortune, join in a rebellion against a provincial general. Used to shaking down local vendors for food and gambling away their limited funds, they are recruited by a local rebel leader who promises them a glorious adventure. The rebels plan is to steal a huge cache of new rifles set to be delivered to the barracks of the local army. With the help of an officer's daughter, their plan starts out well, but inevitably slips toward a heroic but tragic finale.
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Four Riders (1972)
四騎士
director: 张彻 actor: 狄龙 / 姜大卫 …
other title: 四骑士 / 四騎士 …
Four highly skilled fighters unite to take on a ruthless criminal gang, battling corruption, murder, and injustice in the wake of the Korean War.
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What Price Honesty? (1981)
目無王法
director: Patrick Yuen Ho-Chuen actor: Jason Pai Piao / Sun Chien …
other title: What Price Honesty / 目無王法 …
Police corruption is the theme of this brutal harbinger of the bleak "new wave" crime thriller. Pai Piao, Danny Lee, and "Venom" Sun Chien star as idealistic police school graduates who run afoul of such vicious, murderous depravity that the cop who is killed first could be considered the lucky one.
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Swift Sword (1980) IMDb TMDB Douban
情俠追風劍
director: Ho Meng-Hua actor: Wong Yu / Nau Nau …
other title: 情俠追風劍
Starring a menagerie of established Shaw Brothers' talent like kung-fu comedienne, Wang Yu, female kung-fu fighter Hui Ying-hung (the lady Michelle Yeoh tries to emulate) and perennial bad guy Lo Lieh, it's a movie about cross people and crossed swords where our heroes discover that gold is not as precious as friendship.
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Vengeance of a Snowgirl (1971) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
冰天俠女
director: Lo Wei actor: Li Ching / Elliot Ngok Wah …
other title: 冰天俠女
Sworn-brothers expert martial artists are the targets of a mysterious killer, which seems to bear a grudge against them for what happened several years ago.
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The Battle Wizard (1977)
天龍八部
director: 鲍学礼 actor: 李修贤 / 恬妮 …
other title: 天龙八部 / 天龍八部 …
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) before they can bring peace to their battle-addled family.
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Abbot of Shaolin (1979) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
少林英雄榜
director: 何梦华 actor: 陆剑明 / 姜大卫 …
other title: 少林英雄榜 / Shaolin Abbot …
A SLICE OF DEATH / ABBOT OF SHAOLIN (1979) is another Shaw Bros. kung fu film with a Shaolin Temple theme. David Chiang stars as the monk Chi San, who survives the burning of Shaolin Temple and travels south to Kwangtung to raise money to re-build the temple as forces loyal to the Ching Emperor follow in close pursuit. He meets a merchant in Kwangtung who becomes his patron and he develops a group of followers, including Hung Si Kwan, a familiar character from Shaolin lore. There are lots of good fight scenes and a well-written script with interesting encounters between the varied characters.
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Rendezvous With Death (1980) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
請帖
director: 孙仲 actor: 汪禹 / 罗烈 …
other title: 请帖 / 請帖 …
Sun Chung had been recognized as an expert comedy and crime thriller director, but he was to gain even greater acclaim for his soulful, powerful, intelligent, and beautifully-made martial arts epics. This stands alongside The Deadly Breaking Sword and The Kung-fu Instructor as one of his very best. It’s not so much the plot – a master swordsman protects a treasure chest on a dangerous journey – that makes this great, but what Sun does with it, inspiring the cast and crew to some of their finest work.
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Flying Guillotine 2 (1978) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
清宮大刺殺
director: 程刚 / 华山 actor: 狄龙 / 罗烈 …
other title: 清宫大刺杀 / 血滴子2 …
The emperor's reign of terror expands. Heroic outlaw Ma Teng joins a squad of female rebels, whose leader is torn between family loyalties.
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The Four Assassins (1975) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
馬哥波羅
director: Chang Cheh actor: Alexander Fu Sheng / Richard Harrison …
other title: Marco Polo / 马可波罗 …
Set at the time of Italian explorer Marco Polo's historic expedition to China ,during the reign of Mongol ruler Kublai Khan, it stars American actor Richard Harrison as Polo. Taking considerable liberties with the historic record, the film has Polo turning up as an Imperial Inspector assigned to root out Chinese rebels in the south, but eventually being won over to their cause.
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Man of Iron (1972) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
仇連環
director: 张彻 / 鲍学礼 actor: 陈观泰 / 王钟 …
other title: 仇连环 / 仇連環 …
Man of Iron was positioned as something of a follow-up to Boxer From Shantung, the rise-and-fall story of Ma Yung Chen and it reunites the directors and some of the cast in a similar but much slighter tale of a lesser gangster's rise and fall in Shanghai. While the opening narration specifically recalls the events and tragic conclusion of BOXER, this one is set 20 years later in the same section of Shanghai but otherwise has nothing to do with the events or characters of the previous film.
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The Drug Connection (1976) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
紅粉煞星
director: 孙仲 actor: 陈萍 / 岳华 …
other title: 红粉煞星 / 毒后秘史 …
A nurse decides to take justice in her own hands to fight the crime-syndicates of Hong Kong after her sister is drugged and abused by some local drug dealers.
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Clans of Intrigue (1977)
楚留香
director: 楚原 actor: 狄龙 / 岳华 …
other title: 楚留香 / 楚留香传奇之血海飘香 …
Chu Liuxiang is having drinks with his friend, Monk Wuhua. Gong Nanyan of the Holy Water Palace suddenly appears and accuses Chu of having stolen the palace's Heaven's One Holy Water and committed a series of murders. She agrees to give Chu a month's time to clear his name, or else the mistress of the palace will kill him. Chu's curiosity and eagerness to prove his innocence spur him to investigate the case.