Chang Cheh — Director (66)
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Police Force (1973) WikiData IMDb TMDB
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 Shaolin Masters (1974)
少林五祖
director: Chang Cheh actor: David Chiang Da-Wei / Bryan Leung Kar-Yan …
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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Have Sword, Will Travel (1969)
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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7-Man Army (1976)
八道樓子
director: Chang Cheh / Wu Ma … actor: Bryan Leung Kar-Yan / David Chiang Da-Wei …
other title: Die unschlagbaren Sieben / 7 Man Army …
In 1933, 20,000 Japanese soldiers and 50 tanks invaded the Pa Tou Lou Tzu, a strategic key point of the Great Wall. With only seven men stationing, these heroes took on the entire army for five days before succumbing. Director Chang Cheh recreated this epic battle with his favorite cast including Ti Lung, David Chiang, Alexander Fu Sheng and Chen Kuan-tai, as a celluloid tribute to these nameless souls.
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The Delightful Forest (1972)
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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The Wandering Swordsman (1970)
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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Kid with the Golden Arm (1979)
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 Daredevils (1979) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
雜技亡命隊
director: Chang Cheh actor: 郭追 / Chiang Sheng …
other title: Die Todesfalle der Shaolin / Les combats musclés du Kung Fu …
The General's son Yang escapes a massacre at his home that subsequently sees a corrupt, criminal syndicate in charge of the local forces. Seeking shelter with four good friends who are street performers, Yang plots his revenge though refuses to acknowledge the fearsome odds he faces. The quartet try to convince him to bide his time, but the young avenger sneaks into his former home and, after a battle against a few top fighters, is killed by their leader. When Yang's friends discover his tragic fate, they devise a way of defeating the killers without having to face their mighty army directly.
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Masked Avengers (1981)
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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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 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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Invincible Shaolin (1978)
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) IMDb 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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The Water Margin (1972)
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.