Lo Wei — Actor (27)
The Tender Trap of Espionage (1960) [Movie] TMDB
脂粉間諜網
director: Lo Wei actor: Liu Liang-Hua / Lo Wei
other title: 脂粉間諜網
Spy films had always been popular in Chinese-language cinema, with stories set mostly in WWII or the warlord era. The Tender Trap of Espionage, made two years before Dr. No (1962) which kickstarted the Bond film craze, is a story of intrigue between spies and counterspies within the Japanese Occupation force. The film was shot in Taiwan, offering unique visages, with cat-and-mouse mind games set in motion against trust, betrayal and seduction. Based on the British film The Two-Headed Spy (1958), future action maestro Chang Cheh wrote the script while husband-and-wife team Lo Wei and Lau Leung-wah star together as agents, with Lo doubling as director.
Black Butterfly (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
黑蝴蝶
director: Lo Wei actor: Liu Liang-Hua / Lo Wei
other title: 黑蝴蝶
Lau Leung-wah plays the titled character, a Chinese Robin Hood who robs the rich to help the poor. She is an early Republican Era Mulan, who switches effortlessly between charming gentility and agile ferocity, and Lau personifies her character's duality with a balance of grace and vigour. Chang Cheh, on the verge of fostering seismic changes in cinema with his martial-arts machismo, pens a script that captures the spirit of changing Chinese womanhood, underscored by a conflict between Black Butterfly and her father, a veteran detective.
Naughty! Naughty! (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
綽頭狀元
director: Lo Wei actor: Sam Hui / Nora Miao
other title: 綽頭狀元
Wu Te-chuan is a young man trying to make a living in an easy way. But now he is penniless and will being thrown out of his Macau hotel. Kind- hearted hotel maid Hsiao Yen is the only one to help him in the world. One day, Wu plays a trick on the hotel owner. The scheme backfires and Wu has to flee to Hong Kong. Wu saves desperate painter Hsin. He convinces Hsin that his painting will sell if he is dead. After Hsin pretend to be dead, his paintings really can be sold well, but backfires finally. Then, Wu and Hsin team up and engage themselves full time in con games, gambling and sex inclusive. Finally, Wu is being chased by the ring enforcers but is saved. Finding himself in love with Hsiao Yen, Wu decides to turn a new leaf and live properly ever after.
The Magic Lamp (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
寶蓮燈
director: Wong Tin-Lam / Lo Wei actor: Grace Chang / Doreen Chien Rong-Rong
other title: 寶蓮燈
Adapted from one of China's most well-known fairy tales, the Goddess of Mount Hua falls in love with a young mortal scholar Liu Yanchang and gives birth to a baby son, Chenxiang. When Chenxiang grows up, he seeks to unravel the mystery surrounding his mother whom he has never met.
Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive (1989) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
director: Wayne Wang actor: Victor Wong / Lo Lieh
A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found. With no further instructions, he decides to take in the sights of Hong Kong, which consist of him taking part in a great deal of blood, sex and general weirdness, all while wearing a briefcase handcuffed to his arm.
The Criminal Hunter (1988) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
龍虎智多星
other title: 龍虎智多星
Chu Yu (Eric Tsang) is a homicide detective who accidently stabs his girlfriend while wrestling with a murderer. The killer returns later and squeezes her wound until it ruptures, causing her death. But the wily Chu Yu photographs his girlfriend's corpse in a wedding dress, tricking the killer into believing she is not dead and causing him to return for a second try. When he does, Chu Yu is waiting, having rigged the corpse like a marionette and causing it to shoot its own murderer. Co-starring Danny Lee, as Officer Li Ta Hsiu, and Dick Wei in this decidedly offbeat attempt at gallows humor which works extremely well under the direction of action specialist Frankie Chan.
Edge of Darkness (1988) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
陷阱邊沿
other title: 陷阱邊沿
A Hong Kong cop's first undercover assignment sends him on a psychological downward spiral, unable to separate his two identities after unearthing a connection between his supervisor and the crime syndicate he's investigating.
None But the Brave (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
铁娃
director: Lo Wei actor: Cheng Pei-Pei / Ou Wei
other title: Kung Fu Girl / 铁娃
Story is about how a revolutionist, played by Cheng Pei Pei, taking on the identity of a Captain's (Ou Wei) long lost sister who is actually dead. Cheng manages to fool the Captain for a while, but little by little, the Captain catches on to her and the revolutionist's plan to stop Chinese-Japanese relations.
Seaman No. 7 (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hai yuan chi hao
director: Lo Wei actor: Jimmy Wang Yu / Maria Yi
other title: The Fighter - Flucht ins Chaos / Hai yuan chi hao
When a sailor accidentally kills a Japanese man in a bar room brawl, he tries to escape the law by hiding himself in a freighter heading for Japan only to find himself in the middle of a massive drug war.
Madam Slender Plum (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
慾海情魔
other title: 慾海情魔
Before director Lo Wei helped to discover Bruce Lee and the king of kung-fu comedy Jackie Chan, in Madam Slender Plum, Lo perpetuates the career of yet another Shaw's non-action, femme fatale starlet; the sleek and sexy, puppy-eyed Eurasian Jenny Hu. It's a melodrama with a touch of murder-mystery in the vein of an old Alfred Hitchcock movie where Diana Chang plays the mother with Jenny playing her oldest daughter.
Call of the Sea (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
怒海情仇
director: Lo Wei actor: Kang Wei / Lo Wei
other title: 怒海情仇
The son of the town bully lusts after a local beauty in this action-filled thriller of the passions and violence to be found in a fishing village.
Squadron 77 (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
七七敢死隊
director: Yan Jun actor: Li Li-Hua / Yan Jun
other title: 七七敢死隊
Spy thriller set in occupied Shanghai. Li Lihua stars as the woman who is thrust into the role of nationalist freedom fighter when she discovers that her husband is a collaborator with the Japanese.
Crocodile River (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
鱷魚河
director: Lo Wei / Ho Meng-Hua actor: Lee Ting / Paul Chang Chung
other title: 鱷魚河
Crocodile River features Romeo And Juliet-flavored story. Families are against each other. Yodi is the Romeo and Lee Ting is his Juliet. The two students love each other from across a river that is filled with crocodiles.
Forever and Ever (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
金石情
director: Lo Wei actor: Ivy Ling Po / Lin Yu
other title: 金石情
In 1966, like in The Love Eterne, Ling Bo took up the male lead in Forever and Ever, despite Shaw Brothers' earlier plan of having her as the female lead. Facing opposition from fans, they finally arranged for her to star as a male student named Xiaowen. Wicked rich man Liu, portrayed by Lo Wei, the director of this film, wants Xiaowen to marry his daughter (Lin Yu) who is suffering from leprosy, thinking that marriage will take away her disease. Although Xiaowen discovers Liu's plan, he is still in love with her and hopes that a miracle will cure her disease...
The Golden Buddha (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
金菩薩
director: Lo Wei actor: Jeanette Lin Tsui / Paul Chang Chung
other title: 金菩薩
Paul (Zhang Chong) is a businessman who gets caught up in an international espionage plot when he accidentally switches briefcases with a friend aboard a Singapore-bound plane. The friend turns up dead, and Paul discovers a small Golden Buddha inside the briefcase that contains a set of instructions. The instructions are only one of three parts, the other two being held in similar Golden Buddhas by Lo Wei (doing double duty as actor and director) and Lin Cui. When combined, the three Buddhas will lead the bearers to a buried treasure. But the nefarious Skeleton Gang is after the Buddhas, along with a buxom femme fatale (Fannie Fan) who isn't above showing a little skin to get her way. Luckily, Paul knows kung-fu, so the bad guys had better watch out!