Li Han-Hsiang — Playwright (19)
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The Mad Monk (1977) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
佛跳牆
director: Li Han-Hsiang actor: Yau Fung / Susan Shaw Yam-Yam …
other title: 佛跳牆
Li's The Mad Monk consists of four stories that see the roaming monk save a mother and daughter from the brink of death and a young man from the hands of unscrupulous debtors. Ji Gong also deals mischievous justice on robbers and corrupt officials.
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Forbidden Tales of Two Cities (1975) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
港澳傳奇
director: Li Han-Hsiang actor: Shek Sau / Cheng Kang-Yeh …
other title: 港澳傳奇
Li Han-hsiang, one of the most experienced and respected filmmakers in Hong Kong, wrote and directed this charming and fascinating comedy of amorous complications and modern morals in the very middle of his forty year career. The two cities are Macau, where a love quartet is the source for sexy merriment, and Hong Kong, where a gambler tells a charming woman why there are four shackles hanging from his apartment ceiling!
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Sinful Confession (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
聲色犬馬
director: Li Han-Hsiang actor: Michael Hui Koon-Man / Hu Chin …
other title: 聲色犬馬
Arguably the funniest of the four famous Hui brothers, Michael has a tour-de-force vehicle in this naughty little comedy playing four different characters, each one in a compromising situation. And the laughs do come big and hearty as Hui bounces his cheeky humour off a terrific large supporting cast including the sophisticated Hu-chin and the lovely Pai Hsiao-man. Keeping the Benny Hill-style hi-jinks afloat is stalwart Shaw director Li han-hsiang who manages to switch flawlessly between these cheeky flings and his period epics.
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The Scandalous Warlord (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
軍閥趣史
director: Li Han-Hsiang actor: Chun Wong / Shirley Yu Sha-Li …
other title: 軍閥趣史
Applauded director Li Han Hsiang was one of few directors who made soft porn acceptable to mainstream audiences using the thematic device of "sex on a mission" cynicism, suggesting that sex was the ultimate power. In the sex comedy "The Scandalous Warlord", the true power behind the country's many warlords was the prostitutes that these men would routinely visit. Therefore, the power in this film lies in the hands of the sassy Shirley Yu and the titillating Shaw Yin Yin.
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Sensual Pleasures (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
子曰:食色性也
director: Li Han-Hsiang actor: Chen Ping / Shirley Yu Sha-Li …
other title: 子曰:食色性也
Sensual Pleasures features a collection of three, ghost story, sexual vignettes starring a viscerally sensual trio of hardcore experience with the well endowed Chen Ping, Chinese adult film legend Shirley Yu and the innocent doe-eyed Shaw Yin-yin.
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Return of the Dead (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
銷魂玉
director: Li Han-Hsiang actor: Choh Seung-Wan / Ku Feng …
other title: 銷魂玉
Three inmates in an asylum tell their stories. Story 1, a husband and wife discover they should be careful what they wish for. Story 2, a naked female ghost gets revenge from her watery grave. Story 3, a dead prostitute returns as a ghost.
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The Ghost Story (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
鬼叫春
director: Li Han-Hsiang actor: Elliot Ngok Wah / Hu Chin …
other title: 鬼叫春
An old man of the village tells kinky ghost stories to a few of it's inhabitants after all the kids have gone to bed. What follows are stories that have horror elements and some soft-core nudity thrown in.
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Moods of Love (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
风花雪月
director: Li Han-Hsiang actor: Elliot Ngok Wah / Susan Shaw Yam-Yam …
other title: 风花雪月
Two stories are included in this erotic/romantic anthology. In the first, a Sung-Dynasty (10th-13th century) Buddhist monk is tricked into sexual relations with an unscrupulous female adventurer. He dies soon after with his misdeed on his conscience. In the second, the daughter of a woman who died in a brothel discovers that her mother died an unnatural death and seeks revenge.
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Crazy Sex (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
拈花惹草
director: Li Han-Hsiang actor: Shirley Yu Sha-Li / Lily Li …
other title: 拈花惹草
Shaw Brothers superdirector Li Han-Hsiang was particularly masterful in two genres: erotica and classic Chinese tales. He combined these two loves in this two-part examination of lust. The first story features an elderly jeweler's adventures with his unsatisfied wife, a handsome neighbor, and the neighborhood bordello. The second is a more modern tale of sex, lies, and videotape.
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The Warlord (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
大軍閥
director: Li Han-Hsiang actor: Michael Hui Koon-Man / Chiang Nan …
other title: 大軍閥
No list of the screen's comic geniuses would be complete without Michael Hui Kwun-man. He created a hilarious and lovable comic persona that was both uniquely Asian but also universally beloved. This, his first film, not only showcased his incomparable sense of humor but revolutionized Hong Kong comedy. Evoking Chaplin, he plays a warlord in early 20th Century China, but makes the role his own with both laughs and some of the sexiest ladies on the Shaw Brothers lot.
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The Amorous Lotus Pan (1994) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
少女潘金蓮
director: Li Han-Hsiang actor: Mei Ching Wong / Hoi Gam …
other title: 少女潘金蓮
Helmed by the aesthetic Li Han-hsiang, The Amorous Lotus Pan features former Blue Jeans band member Shan Li-wen in a dual role as Wu Sung and Hsimen Ching. The reverse narrative tells the story of Wu Sung, who was pardoned from prison and seek the libidinous Pan Chin-lien (Huang Mei-tsing) to avenge his brother's death. The remorseful Pan recounted her pathetic life, which began when she was traded to the rich Changs as a maid. But she was raped by her master and flirted with Hsimen Ching and other gentleman callers
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The Last Tempest (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
瀛台泣血
director: Li Han-Hsiang actor: Ti Lung / Lisa Lu …
other title: 瀛台泣血 / Ying tai qi xue
Despite Kuang Hsu's enthronement as the last reigning Emperor of China, his ability to rule effectively is overshadowed by the ever-present power of the Dowager Empress.
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Love Swindler (1976) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
騙財騙色
director: Li Han-Hsiang actor: Ku Feng / Ou-Yang Sha-Fei …
other title: 騙財騙色 / Love Swindlers
Vaunted director Li Han-Hsiang reveals the way of the world in this anthology film of four stories that feature far more swindlers and swindling than lovers or love. There's fake acupuncturists, gullible counterfeiters, a jewelry heist in a VD clinic, and a salesgirl's subtle scam in these short cinematic stories of gulls, dopes, marks, and fools and the cons, cheaters, charlatans, and connivers who trick them. It's four times the fraud as the cheats, gyps, and rip-offs come fast and furious!