Chang Cheh — Director (30)
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The Five Venoms (1978) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
五毒
director: Chang Cheh actor: Chiang Sheng / Phillip Kwok Chui …
other title: Le furie umane del kung fu / Die unbesiegbaren Fünf …
A dying master sends his last student to check up on five former pupils, who each know a special style of kung-fu.
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Golden Swallow (1968) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
金燕子
director: Chang Cheh actor: Jimmy Wang Yu / Cheng Pei-Pei …
other title: A Andorinha Dourada / Das tödliche Duo …
Golden Swallow revolves around the further adventures of its title character. This time around, she is forced into violence when a figure from her mysterious past goes on a killing rampage while leaving evidence that holds her responsible. Golden Swallow also makes room for a love triangle involving a mad, but righteous, swordsman named Silver Roc and a gentle warrior named Golden Whip. The three team up to conquer the evil forces of the martial world, but their joint venture only lasts so long, due to the two men's egos. Ultimately, a duel to the death is planned between them, leaving Golden Swallow caught between two men, both of whom she admires.
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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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Shaolin Temple (1976) [Movie] TMDB Douban
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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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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Return of the One-Armed Swordsman (1969) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
獨臂刀王
director: Chang Cheh actor: Jimmy Wang Yu / Lisa Chiao Chiao …
other title: La sfida degli invincibili campioni / O Regresso do Tigre …
Eight demon swordsmen and their gang have spread menace across many sword teaching schools. The students seek the help of Fang who alone can combat them. Will Fang take up the challenge.
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Masked Avengers (1981) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
叉手
director: Chang Cheh actor: Phillip Kwok / Chin Siu-Ho …
other title: 叉手
Philip Kwok plays a repentant killer who vows to destroy the masked gang of which he was a member. A young fighter and his martial arts brothers come to the town to catch the killers, but one of them is not to be trusted!
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Kid with the Golden Arm (1979) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
金臂童
director: Chang Cheh actor: Sun Chien / Phillip Kwok Chui …
other title: Die fünf Kampfmaschinen der Shaolin / The Kid With The Golden Arms …
Jin bei tong opens with a group of escort guards preparing to move a shipment of gold from the local government to an area stricken by famine... one of the very few Venom films where all six Venom actors are present within a single film.
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The Wandering Swordsman (1970) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
遊俠兒
director: Chang Cheh actor: David Chiang Da-Wei / Bolo Yeung Sze …
other title: 遊俠兒
In this thrilling martial arts twist on the tale of Robin Hood, a charismatic highwayman with formidable sword skills decides to help the poor by robbing from thieves and distributing the wealth. This plan doesn't sit well with the criminals, who band together to stop him. Fortunately, our hero has a powerful blade on his side, not to mention popular beauty Lily Li at his side. A high-spirited blend of action, romance, and comedy, this Shaw Brothers classic from fearless director Chang Cheh is a timeless example of pure high-voltage entertainment.
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The Delightful Forest (1972) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
快活林
director: Chang Cheh / Pao Hsueh-Li actor: Ti Lung / Chu Mu …
other title: Le sette anime del drago / König der Shaolin …
Legendary fighter Wu Song is sent to prison in Mengzhou province after murdering his sister-in-law and her lover. There he meets with the prison officer Shih En, who saves Wu from the baton punishment required for new prisoners. Wu learns that Shih's restaurant, "The Delightful Forest" has been occupied by Chiang Chung. Wu returns to the restaurant-- A place he's dined in previously.
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Have Sword, Will Travel (1969) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
保鏢
director: Chang Cheh actor: David Chiang Da-Wei / Ti Lung …
other title: Le invincibili spade delle tigri volanti / Die Todespagode des gelben Tigers …
Ying Ke-Feng, head of Peerless Manor, is an expert swordsman whose escort business transports 200,000 taels of silver to the capital each year. This year, however, he is afflicted with an infirmity that renders him unable to use his sword.
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Five Shaolin Masters (1974) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
少林五祖
director: Chang Cheh actor: David Chiang Da-Wei / Ti Lung …
other title: Die gnadenlosen 5 / 5 Maîtres de Shaolin …
Hu Te et al. escape the burning Shaolin temple after the Qing soldiers destroyed it in Shaolin Temple. The group of 5 decide to develop secret codes to identify fellow patriots, enlist those patriots and eventually meet up again to escape to the south away from the Qings, and also identify the traitor who sold out Shaolin temple. Ma Fu Yi, joins the Qing top fighters to eliminate the rebels but is exposed by Ma Chao-Tsing who gets captured by Ma Fu Yi. Hu meets up with a group of Shaolin men secretly posing as bandits to rescue Ma as their leader is killed in the process, thus the bandits join the rest of the Shaolin patriots.
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Police Force (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
警察
director: Chang Cheh / Ulysses Tsai Yang-Ming actor: Wang Chung / Lily Li …
other title: Wang Yung: Stahlharte Hongkong-Killer / 警察 …
Liang Kuan is killed during a robbery; his girlfriend Shen Yan and best buddy Huang Gao-tung are seeking for revenge. 5 yrs later Huang is a promoted cop, he fought hundreds of criminals, but the very special guy isn't found yet. Till now....
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Five Element Ninjas (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
五遁忍術
director: Chang Cheh actor: Ricky Cheng Tien-Chi / Lung Tien-Hsiang …
other title: FIVE ELEMENT NINJA / 五遁忍術 …
A young martial artist vows to take revenge against the ninja who murdered his martial arts master and brothers. He finds a new teacher and faces, together with his new brothers, the Five Element Ninja challenge.
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The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
director: Roy Ward Baker / Chang Cheh actor: Peter Cushing / David Chiang Da-Wei …
other title: La leggenda dei 7 vampiri d'oro / Die 7 goldenen Vampire …
Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the cause of these phenomena, for the undead are controlled by the most diabolical force of all.... Count Dracula. But he is not alone- to aid him comes a mystical brotherhood of seven martial arts warriors.
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Friends (1974) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban
朋友
director: Chang Cheh actor: David Chiang Da-Wei / Alexander Fu Sheng …
other title: 朋友 / Die Blutsbrüder des Kung-Fu
Hua Heng is a poverty-stricken aspiring painter whose day job involves painting the ads that go up on the sides of buildings. He and his buddies hang out in a makeshift gym set up in an abandoned building where they train and practice kung fu. His girlfriend is Gao Xin, a bar maid who is in debt to loan sharks. Into their lives comes Jiaji, who happens upon Hua Heng in a street fight with local thugs who'd made fun of the painting he's carrying and decides to help him out.