Ni Kuang — Playwright (171)
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The Emperor and His Brother (1981) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
書劍恩仇錄
director: 楚原 actor: 狄龙 / Jason Pai Piao …
other title: 书剑恩仇录 / 書劍恩仇錄 …
A young boy betrays his family who hides a refugee and tells the pursuer where the hiding-place is - just because he wants a valuable telescope for reward. His father decides to kill the boy in order to restore the honor of the family.
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Invincible Shaolin (1978) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
南少林與北少林
director: Chang Cheh actor: Sun Chien / Chiang Sheng …
other title: 南少林与北少林 / 南少林與北少林 …
Three North Shaolin teachers are called on by the Manchus to teach their soldiers and are urged to challenge the current South Shaolin teachers. They defeat the South Shaolin teachers and, that night, the head general kills the South Shaolin teachers and blames their death on the North Shaolin teachers. The South Shaolin master sends more of his pupils, who are killed accidentally by the North Shaolin teachers. He finally sends two more of his students to train with old masters and trains one student himself with the goal of finally defeating the North Shaolin experts.
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Shaolin Temple (1976) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb
少林寺
director: Chang Cheh actor: Alexander Fu Sheng / Chi Kuan-Chun …
other title: 少林寺 / I giganti del karaté …
There is no place more hallowed in the martial art world than China's Shaolin Temple. This special place deserves a special epic, which is what the martial arts maestro delivers in this battle between a brave brand of Chinese boxers and literally thousands of Qing troops - complete with betrayals, intrigues, and such novel fighting machines as 108 wooden robots. The conflicts grow in complexity, intensity and even suspense as monks struggle to stay alive in the face of overwhelming odds.
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The Iron Monkey (1977) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb
鐵馬騮
director: 陈观泰 actor: Bryan Leung Kar-Yan / 陈观泰 …
other title: 铁马骝 / 鐵馬騮 …
Iron is the son of a rebel leader, but prefers to spend his days gambling and getting into fights. When his father's group is arrested and executed, Iron is forced to flee and hide in the woods as a beggar and thief. After being taken in by a Shaolin monastery and trained in the art of Monkey-Style Kung Fu, Iron vows to hunt down his father's killer and avenge his death.
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The Shadow Boxing (1979) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
茅山殭屍拳
director: 刘家良 actor: 刘家辉 / 刘家荣 …
other title: 茅山殭屍拳 / 神打小子 …
Lau Kar-leung returns to the success of his first directed film, "The Spiritual Boxer," which also stars the original film's bumbling ghost controller, Wong Yu. Hoping to make the lightning of success strike in the same place, Lau had his two brothers Lau Kar-Wing and Gordon Liu not only act but also help with the fights. The end result is a martial arts film masterpiece filled with breathtaking action and set pieces.
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The Spiritual Boxer (1975) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
神打
director: 刘家良 actor: 汪禹 / 林珍奇 …
other title: 神打 / Le boxeur spirituel …
Wang Yu plays Hsiao Chien, a con artist vagabond who uses his kung fu skills and parlor tricks to convince superstitious villagers that he can use his body as a vessel for angry gods. However, when the villagers are threatened by a hostile force, Chien must learn to use his skills to protect the innocent.
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The Water Margin (1972) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
水滸傳
director: Chang Cheh / Pao Hsueh-Li … actor: David Chiang Da-Wei / Tetsuro Tamba …
other title: Le sette anime del drago / Die sieben Schläge des gelben Drachen …
The corruption in the Sung Dynasty of 11th century China is so rampant that it inspires a band of Oriental Robin Hoods - the Honorable 108. Mountain bandits who nevertheless live by a scrupulous code of conduct, the Honorable 108 pledge to end the repression of the brutal overlords.
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The Web of Death (1976) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
五毒天羅
director: 楚原 actor: 岳华 / 井莉 …
other title: 五毒天罗 / 五毒天羅 …
Lo Lieh is the ringleader of the Snake Sect, intent on reviving a deadly faction known as the "Five Poison Web." In order to do so, he has an affair with the sexy ringleader of the Scorpion Sect, Angela Yu Chien. However, there is also the Centipede Sect to contend with, as well as other assorted martial artists, among them played by Shaw Brothers talents Yueh Hua, Ching Li, and Lily Li.
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The Young Rebel (1975) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
後生
director: Ti Lung actor: David Chiang Da-Wei / Ti Lung …
other title: 後生
When Ti Lung and David Chiang left Shaw Brothers, they returned a year later after learning directing and defied their former studio heroics making films with social leanings. Directed by Ti, The Young Rebel is one such film. Fatherless as a child, Hsiang (Chiang) supports his mother. When gangsters kill his mother, he kills in revenge. Unlike his swordplay heroes, Hsiang admits guilt, expresses sorrow and is imprisoned
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The Mighty Peking Man (1977) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData TMDB
猩猩王
director: Ho Meng-Hua actor: Evelyne Kraft / Danny Lee Sau-Yin …
other title: Il gigante dell'Himalaya / Der Koloss von Konga …
Word of a monster ape ten stories tall living in the Himalayas reaches fortune hunters in Hong Kong. They travel to India to capture it, but wild animals and quicksand dissuade all but Johnny, an adventurer with a broken heart. He finds the monster and discovers it's been raising a scantily-clad woman, Samantha, since she survived a plane crash years before that killed her parents. In the idyllic jungle, Johnny and Samantha fall in love. Then Johnny asks her to convince "Utam" to go to Hong Kong. Lu Tien, an unscrupulous promoter, takes over: Utam is in chains for freak show exhibitions. When Lu Tien assaults Samantha, Utam's protective instincts take over: havoc in Hong Kong.
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The New One-Armed Swordsman (1971) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
新獨臂刀
director: 张彻 actor: 姜大卫 / 狄龙 …
other title: 新独臂刀 / 新獨臂刀 …
Lei Li lost his right-arm in a sword duel with the master of a martial arts school, long ago. Now, he is able to defend himself well with just his left arm, and kung fu techniques. That he proves with just the help of his friend Chung-Chieng, when he crosses his path with a beautiful girl in need, Pao Chiao. Even against impossible odds, he will prove a great warrior.
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The Super Inframan (1975) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData Skybridge
中國超人
director: Hua Shan actor: Danny Lee Sau-Yin / Wang Hsieh …
other title: Inframan l'altra dimensione / Invasion aus dem Inneren der Erde …
The surface of the Earth is under attack, thousands of people are killed in this unprovoked attacked. The cause, Princess Dragonmon and her army of monsters have decided to invade. Princess Dragonmon is an alien whose race has been hiding under us for centuries waiting to attack at the time is right. A doctor has been preparing for something like this and turns his assistant Rayma into the cyborg hero known as Inframan. Now only Inframan stands between the Earth and Princess Dragonmon but when a close friend is captured and brainwashed, can she be stopped with this inside man feeding her info?
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Boxer From Shantung (1972) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
馬永貞
director: 张彻 / 鲍学礼 actor: 陈观泰 / 姜大卫 …
other title: 马永贞 / 馬永貞 …
Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection is his famed fighting technique.
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The Heroic Ones (1970) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
十三太保
director: 张彻 actor: 姜大卫 / 狄龙 …
other title: 十三太保 / I tredici figli del Drago Verde …
A Mogul king decides to take stealthy action to help overpower his greatest rivals. He chooses nine out thirteen of his loyal generals to embark on the mission. However, jealously amongst them sparks a treacherous family feud that could lead to catastrophic consequences for all involved.
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The Protectors (1975) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB
鏢旗飛揚
director: Wu Ma actor: Lo Lieh / Chang Pei-Shan …
other title: The Flying Flag / 鏢旗飛揚
Ling (Lo Lieh) and Guan are the Black and White Chiefs of the Eagle Escort security firm: during the opening credit sequence, we see them recover a stolen shipment of gold; by the time the credits have run, the two are literally knee-deep in bodies.
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Lost Samurai Sword (1978) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Piao xiang jian yu
director: 李嘉 actor: 田鹏 / 田鹤 …
other title: 飘香剑雨 / Lost Swordship …
A golden-masked clan master, who had killed many top fighters, was determined to acquire an invincible sword manual so as to rule the martial world. Hence, he pursued a swordsman who possessed the manual, but the latter managed to escape and discovered a cave whereby he met two martial arts masters who taught him the invincible sword skills...
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The Killer Snakes (1974) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB
蛇殺手
director: 桂治洪 actor: 甘国亮 / 李琳琳 …
other title: 蛇杀手 / 蛇殺手
A young man who has been beaten, abused, humiliated and laughed at all his life finds that he has an unusual empathy with snakes. He can talk to them and they understand him, and eventually he finds that he can get them to do his bidding. He decides to use his newfound friends to take his revenge on everyone who ever did him wrong.
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Duel for Gold (1971) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
火併
director: Chor Yuen actor: 凌波 / 汪萍 …
other title: 火并 / 火併
Soon-to-be legendary director Chu Yuan had just joined the Shaw Brothers when he helmed this thriller of bickering bandits. Audiences loved watching three pairs of cunning male and female crooks trying to steal a million gold taels from the Fu Lai Treasury House...not knowing that one of them is actually an undercover hero. Even without him, there's no honor amongst thieves, so the double-crosses and deadly duels come fast and furious, all choreographed by Hsu Erh-niu.