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Pedicab Driver (1989) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
群龍戲鳳
director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo actor: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo / Nina Li Chi …
other title: 群龍戲鳳
Lo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen in love. The problem is that both their objects of affection - one a baker, the other a prostitute - are working under cruel and lecherous bosses. Somehow, the pair must find a way to win the ladies' hearts and free them from their unpleasant jobs.
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The Club (1981) WikiData IMDb
舞廳
director: Kirk Wong Chi-Keung actor: Michael Chan Wai-Man / Norman Tsui …
other title: 舞廳
Mainly the story of Sai, a rascal who works at a gang-operated nightclub, and his conflicts with a rival gang.
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Five Fingers of Death (1972) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
天下第一拳
director: Jeong Chang-hwa actor: Lo Lieh / Wang Ping …
other title: Cinque dita di violenza / Zhao, der Unbesiegbare …
A young boxer joins a martial arts school to increase his skill so he can enter a martial arts competition. He leaves the school when he hears that a local gangster is terrorizing the town. He comes to the aid of a young singer and brings on the wrath of the local gang. He eventually enters the martial arts competition after learning iron palm technique and takes out all competition.
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The Screaming Tiger (1973) IMDb WikiData
唐人票客
director: Chien Lung actor: Jimmy Wang Yu / Liu Ping …
other title: Wang Yu - Stärker als tausend Kamikaze / Mano de hacha (El hacha del dragón) …
Rare was the film in 1973 that incorporated the star's name in the title. One of the few such films was Screaming Ninja, aka Wang Yu, King of Boxing. The story is set in China in the early 1900x. Essentially playing an extension of himself, action-star Wang-Yu spends much of the time defending himself against evil martial-arts masters. He also tries to make sense of a tragic incident in his past.
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The Chinese Boxer (1970) TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
龍虎鬪
director: Jimmy Wang Yu actor: Jimmy Wang Yu / Lo Lieh …
other title: La morte nella mano / Wang Yu - Sein Schlag war tödlich …
Lei Ming, a noble young martial arts student who doesn't know the meaning of giving up. He faces a treacherous, blood-thirsty Japanese karate expert, which leads to many memorable battles as well as several unforgettable training sequences.
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The One-Armed Swordsman (1967) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
獨臂刀
director: Chang Cheh actor: Jimmy Wang Yu / Lisa Chiao Chiao …
other title: Mantieni l'odio per la tua vendetta / A Raiva do Tigre …
A noble swordsman, whose arm had been chopped off, returns to his former teacher to defend him from a villainous gang of rival swordsmen.
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The Boxer's Omen (1983) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
魔
director: Kuei Chih-Hung actor: Phillip Ko Fai / Elvis Tsui Kam-Kong …
other title: Mo
After his brother was crippled in the ring by a cheating Thai boxer, Chan Hung goes to Thailand to avenge his brother, and finds the key to an omen which may release their family from an ancient curse. He is then caught up in a spiraling web of fate, Buddhist curses, and black magic.
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Tai-Chi Master (1993) TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
太极张三丰
8.4 (5 ratings) director: Yuen Woo-Ping actor: Jet Li / Michelle Yeoh …
other title: Batalha de Honra / Tai Chi …
Falsely accused for cheating in a martial arts competition, two boyhood friends are banished from their Shaolin Temple and go their separate ways. As adults, they join opposing sides in a civil war. When one betrays the other, they settle their differences mano-a-mano.
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The Man from Hong Kong (1975) NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
直搗黃龍
director: Brian Trenchard-Smith actor: Jimmy Wang Yu / George Lazenby …
other title: Der Mann von Hongkong / L'Homme de Hong Kong …
Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong to question him. After the alleged criminal is assassinated, Inspector Leng and the Sydney police try to hunt down those responsible and hope to solve their case along the way.
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Yes, Madam! (1985) TMDB IMDb
皇家師姐
director: Corey Yuen Kwai actor: Michelle Yeoh / John Shum Kin-Fun …
other title: Yes, Madam / Ultra Force 2 …
Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport with a hidden microfilm wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women cops—one Chinese, one British—are on the case.
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Heroes Two (1974) IMDb WikiData
方世玉與洪熙官
director: Chang Cheh actor: Chen Kuan-Tai / Alexander Fu Sheng …
other title: Heroes Two - I due eroi / Die tödlichen Fäuste der Shaolin …
A band of fighting Ming Dynasty loyalists branded as enemies of the state are driven underground following the burning of the Shaolin Temple by Qing Dynasty officials. Due to a misunderstanding, Shaolin kung fu prodigy Fong Sai-yuk is duped into helping Qing agents to capture leading Shaolin rebel Hung Hei-gun. Upon discovering his mistake, Sai-yuk teams up with the remaining rebels to free Hei-gun before his planned execution. Plotting to stop them is General Che Kang, a formidable Tibetan kung fu master who commands an army of fighters including four deadly Tibetan llamas.
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The Legendary Strike (1978) WikiData IMDb
浪子一招
director: Huang Feng / Kim Jong-seong actor: Chan Sing / Angela Mao Ying …
other title: La Légende de Shaolin / 浪子一招 …
The plot deals with a search for a valuable pearl, dubbed the Buddha's Relic, which is sold to an unwitting Japanese emissary by a corrupt Ching Dynasty prince who seeks to steal it back for his own purposes.
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The Heroes (1980) IMDb WikiData
少林英雄
director: Pao Hsueh-Li / Wu Ma actor: Ti Lung / Shih Szu …
other title: Ti Lung - Die tödliche Kobra / 少林英雄 …
Former Shaolin man Marshal Kao takes his former classmates prisoner and, instead of executing them, proposes to his Qing commander that he torture them until they're willing to fight on behalf of the Qings. The 'torture' comes to look increasingly like strenuous kung fu training with Kao putting the prisoners through their paces. The Qing governor and his aides become suspicious of Kao's motives, although the beautiful Princess Shao Lung develops her own ideas about him.
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Rigor Mortis (2013) TMDB NeoDB Douban
殭屍
7.7 (10 ratings) director: 麦浚龙 actor: 钱小豪 / 惠英红 …
other title: 僵尸 / 殭屍 …
When a former actor moves into an apartment building with the intention of commiting suicide, he is saved by a Taoist priest who used to specialize in hunting Chinese hopping vampires: or Jiāngshī. Elsewhere in the building, a woman turns to a specialist in black magic to bring her husband back to life.
Oct. 31, 2021 watched
Serious horror homage to the comedy horror "goengsi" (biting undead) films of the 80s, many of whose actors feature in this.
2010s Goengsi HongKong Horror 殭屍
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The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
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.