Shaw Brothers
Bat Without Wings. Five years ago, 28 of the best boxers of the martial world teamed up to defeat the villainous "Bat Without Wings." In the end, legend has it, he killed 26 of the boxers buy was finally defeated. But it isn't... » MORE
Beyond the Great Wall. He's the worst kind of villain: the small-minded, petty, vindictive, mid-level bureaucrat that ruins people's lives to maintain his status or to revenge for losing status. It's not good for one's blood pressure to watch too many films with this... » MORE
Black Butterfly. What if, after a disaster struck, you are asked by the Red Cross and other organizations for a generous donation? What if you refuse to donate for your own personal reasons regardless of your wealth? The answer here is simple... » MORE
Call-Girls, The. Who knew that 2008 would be the year that Hong Kong learned, in great detail, Edison Chen's sexual proclivities? Oral sex, thankfully off of the front pages of newspapers ever since Bill Clinton left the White House, shot up and... » MORE
Cherie. Utterly charming romantic comedy showcasing one of the most popular stars of the early eighties, Cherie Cheung. I've never really gotten the appeal too much, but here she radiantly beautiful and puts in a good performance as well, so consider... » MORE
Chinatown Kid. Alexander Fu-Sheng is a poor kid from the Mainland who pretty much only cares about money and really nice watches. His watch fetish takes him to San Francisco, and soon he's dressing nice and killing people. ... » MORE
Cohabitation. A contemporary social drama about lovers (Lin Chen-Chi and Tsung Hua) who live together before getting married. Scandalous! Or presumably, it was more so at the time. He's a writer of fiction columns in the newspaper, she ran away from... » MORE
Enchanting Shadow. The famous Pu Songling-inspired supernatural horror film that Tsui Hark and Ching Siu-Tung later adapted for their seminal ghost film, A Chinese Ghost Story. Long recognized as a refernce point of the later film, but rarely seen, until now, as... » MORE
Foxy Ladies. It's Shaw Brothers version of Charlie's Angels! Sort of. Only, they aren't nearly as competent, and most of their best moves seem to center around the use of their own urine.... » MORE
Friends. Hua Heng (David Chiang) is a poor but sensitive artist who paints billboards by day and canvas by night. He hangs out with his youthful friends, generally wrestling, drinking, bouncing on the trampoline with each other, and wrestling some more.... » MORE
Generation Gap. David Chiang, Agnes Chan, and Ti Lung get together for some serious angst in this film about the "generation gap" -- a title which I suppose must pertain to the empty space between the ears of almost every character in... » MORE
Ghost Eyes. I've always thought contact lenses were evil. Manicurist Bao Ling(Chen Szu Chia) accepts some new contacts from a spooky optometrist client (Szu Wei). Unfortunately, he is an undead vampire, and whoever wears his lenses becomes enthralled by his will (Weak... » MORE
Golden Sword, The. The chief of the Golden Sword lodge gets hauled off by masked riders, and is never seen again. His son, Bai Yu Lung (Kao Yuen) resolves to find him, and travels to the frontier in his search. While there, he... » MORE
Guess Who Killed My Twelve Lovers?. A group of singing youths get ditched on an island when a typhoon is approaching, though never for a moment are the seas rough or the sky overcast. They overhear a radio broadcast alert of a woman who killed twelve... » MORE
Hex. Cross, double-cross, and revenge from beyond the grave is the name of the game in this Chinese adaptation of the standard TALES FROM THE CRYPT storyline. Although you may not guess the secret of HEX until the end, you will... » MORE
Kingdom and the Beauty, The. The Ming Emperor Taicheng ruled for one month in 1620, then dropped dead. Rumor has it he passed away from sexual exhaustion after being "served" by eight women at the same time. While this sounds like great fodder for a... » MORE
Lady General Hua Mu Lan. Ivy Ling Po, famous for playing male roles in Huangmei Opera films, this time plays a young woman disguising herself as a man, in the famous story of Hua Mulan, who went to war because her father was drafted but... » MORE
Maid from Heaven, A. The back of the DVD states that it "took two directors, three assistant directors, and four cinematographers to capture the remarkable epic..." which seems hard to believe considering that all together about all they did was set up a camera... » MORE
Maybe It's Love. Maybe it's love, but it looks a whole lot more like deceptive marketing. The sexy, sweaty, Cherie Chung in a nightgown on the front cover and bed scenes on the back give way in the movie itself to a quiet... » MORE
My Darling Genie. Cherie Cheung is a genie who lives inside a paper umbrella. She is found by a construction worker (Derek Yee) who uses her to do his work for him, bail his Uncle Fan (Stanley Fung) out of debt and keep... » MORE
My Rebellious Son. Ku Feng and Alexander Fu sheng play a father son team in this kung fu comedy about the well respected traditional Chinese doctor Master Chang (Ku Feng) and his troublesome, bored, rebel-rousing son Siu Tai(Alexander Fu Sheng). Master Chang tries... » MORE
Ode to Gallantry. With a title like this, it can only be a Chang Cheh film. When it comes right down to it, ALL his films are odes to gallantry. But this movie confounds expectations by being very little about gallantry at all,... » MORE
Pure and the Evil, The. The story of two friends: May (Tai Liang-chun), aka "the pure", a good girl with rich parents and all the social advantages; and Rose (Chen Pei-hsi), aka "the evil", a girl with divorced parents who grew up taken care of... » MORE
River of Fury. Zhou Yezhuang (Danny Lee) is a small town farm boy whose father passed away. He didn't want to end up an impovershed landowner like his father, and set his sights instead of traveling, leading a wandering life. He idolizes the... » MORE
Sexy Playgirls. "My sister is dying of leukemia" is an odd way to start a film about sexy playgirls. In fact one might be forgiven for thinking that there has been some mixup at the plant; the wrong title pressed on to... » MORE
Swift Sword. An adaptation of Jin Yong's Sword Stained with Royal Blood, crammed into a scant 85 minute running time. Bai Yiping (Ling Yun) is on a mission to kill as many of the Leng family as he can, in revenge for... » MORE
Sword of Swords. Everyone wants to get their hands on the Sword of Swords, except honest and hardworking disciple Jimmy Wang Yu, so naturally it falls to him. He hopes to pass it on to the unfortunately named hero, Wang Puke, but the... » MORE
Thundering Sword, The. All the Clans are after the Thundering Sword, the evil clans for power, the good clans so that they can destroy it. On the quest for good are two brothers Yu(Chang I) and Chiang (Lo Lieh). The evil team, poison... » MORE
Woman of the Night. Another anthology film, of the kind that Shaw Brothers made regularly when they couldn't come up with any story actually worth telling, but still needed to fill their theater chain. The three stories contained in this film all concern themselves... » MORE
Young People. David Chiang, Ti Lung, and Chen Kuan-tai are at it again, male bonding up a storm, this time as students in modern Hong Kong. They are the best at what they do, whether its playing basketball or a round on... » MORE
Bat Without Wings. Five years ago, 28 of the best boxers of the martial world teamed up to defeat the villainous "Bat Without Wings." In the end, legend has it, he killed 26 of the boxers buy was finally defeated. But it isn't... » MORE
Beyond the Great Wall. He's the worst kind of villain: the small-minded, petty, vindictive, mid-level bureaucrat that ruins people's lives to maintain his status or to revenge for losing status. It's not good for one's blood pressure to watch too many films with this... » MORE
Black Butterfly. What if, after a disaster struck, you are asked by the Red Cross and other organizations for a generous donation? What if you refuse to donate for your own personal reasons regardless of your wealth? The answer here is simple... » MORE
Call-Girls, The. Who knew that 2008 would be the year that Hong Kong learned, in great detail, Edison Chen's sexual proclivities? Oral sex, thankfully off of the front pages of newspapers ever since Bill Clinton left the White House, shot up and... » MORE
Cherie. Utterly charming romantic comedy showcasing one of the most popular stars of the early eighties, Cherie Cheung. I've never really gotten the appeal too much, but here she radiantly beautiful and puts in a good performance as well, so consider... » MORE
Chinatown Kid. Alexander Fu-Sheng is a poor kid from the Mainland who pretty much only cares about money and really nice watches. His watch fetish takes him to San Francisco, and soon he's dressing nice and killing people. ... » MORE
Cohabitation. A contemporary social drama about lovers (Lin Chen-Chi and Tsung Hua) who live together before getting married. Scandalous! Or presumably, it was more so at the time. He's a writer of fiction columns in the newspaper, she ran away from... » MORE
Enchanting Shadow. The famous Pu Songling-inspired supernatural horror film that Tsui Hark and Ching Siu-Tung later adapted for their seminal ghost film, A Chinese Ghost Story. Long recognized as a refernce point of the later film, but rarely seen, until now, as... » MORE
Foxy Ladies. It's Shaw Brothers version of Charlie's Angels! Sort of. Only, they aren't nearly as competent, and most of their best moves seem to center around the use of their own urine.... » MORE
Friends. Hua Heng (David Chiang) is a poor but sensitive artist who paints billboards by day and canvas by night. He hangs out with his youthful friends, generally wrestling, drinking, bouncing on the trampoline with each other, and wrestling some more.... » MORE
Generation Gap. David Chiang, Agnes Chan, and Ti Lung get together for some serious angst in this film about the "generation gap" -- a title which I suppose must pertain to the empty space between the ears of almost every character in... » MORE
Ghost Eyes. I've always thought contact lenses were evil. Manicurist Bao Ling(Chen Szu Chia) accepts some new contacts from a spooky optometrist client (Szu Wei). Unfortunately, he is an undead vampire, and whoever wears his lenses becomes enthralled by his will (Weak... » MORE
Golden Sword, The. The chief of the Golden Sword lodge gets hauled off by masked riders, and is never seen again. His son, Bai Yu Lung (Kao Yuen) resolves to find him, and travels to the frontier in his search. While there, he... » MORE
Guess Who Killed My Twelve Lovers?. A group of singing youths get ditched on an island when a typhoon is approaching, though never for a moment are the seas rough or the sky overcast. They overhear a radio broadcast alert of a woman who killed twelve... » MORE
Hex. Cross, double-cross, and revenge from beyond the grave is the name of the game in this Chinese adaptation of the standard TALES FROM THE CRYPT storyline. Although you may not guess the secret of HEX until the end, you will... » MORE
Kingdom and the Beauty, The. The Ming Emperor Taicheng ruled for one month in 1620, then dropped dead. Rumor has it he passed away from sexual exhaustion after being "served" by eight women at the same time. While this sounds like great fodder for a... » MORE
Lady General Hua Mu Lan. Ivy Ling Po, famous for playing male roles in Huangmei Opera films, this time plays a young woman disguising herself as a man, in the famous story of Hua Mulan, who went to war because her father was drafted but... » MORE
Maid from Heaven, A. The back of the DVD states that it "took two directors, three assistant directors, and four cinematographers to capture the remarkable epic..." which seems hard to believe considering that all together about all they did was set up a camera... » MORE
Maybe It's Love. Maybe it's love, but it looks a whole lot more like deceptive marketing. The sexy, sweaty, Cherie Chung in a nightgown on the front cover and bed scenes on the back give way in the movie itself to a quiet... » MORE
My Darling Genie. Cherie Cheung is a genie who lives inside a paper umbrella. She is found by a construction worker (Derek Yee) who uses her to do his work for him, bail his Uncle Fan (Stanley Fung) out of debt and keep... » MORE
My Rebellious Son. Ku Feng and Alexander Fu sheng play a father son team in this kung fu comedy about the well respected traditional Chinese doctor Master Chang (Ku Feng) and his troublesome, bored, rebel-rousing son Siu Tai(Alexander Fu Sheng). Master Chang tries... » MORE
Ode to Gallantry. With a title like this, it can only be a Chang Cheh film. When it comes right down to it, ALL his films are odes to gallantry. But this movie confounds expectations by being very little about gallantry at all,... » MORE
Pure and the Evil, The. The story of two friends: May (Tai Liang-chun), aka "the pure", a good girl with rich parents and all the social advantages; and Rose (Chen Pei-hsi), aka "the evil", a girl with divorced parents who grew up taken care of... » MORE
River of Fury. Zhou Yezhuang (Danny Lee) is a small town farm boy whose father passed away. He didn't want to end up an impovershed landowner like his father, and set his sights instead of traveling, leading a wandering life. He idolizes the... » MORE
Sexy Playgirls. "My sister is dying of leukemia" is an odd way to start a film about sexy playgirls. In fact one might be forgiven for thinking that there has been some mixup at the plant; the wrong title pressed on to... » MORE
Swift Sword. An adaptation of Jin Yong's Sword Stained with Royal Blood, crammed into a scant 85 minute running time. Bai Yiping (Ling Yun) is on a mission to kill as many of the Leng family as he can, in revenge for... » MORE
Sword of Swords. Everyone wants to get their hands on the Sword of Swords, except honest and hardworking disciple Jimmy Wang Yu, so naturally it falls to him. He hopes to pass it on to the unfortunately named hero, Wang Puke, but the... » MORE
Thundering Sword, The. All the Clans are after the Thundering Sword, the evil clans for power, the good clans so that they can destroy it. On the quest for good are two brothers Yu(Chang I) and Chiang (Lo Lieh). The evil team, poison... » MORE
Woman of the Night. Another anthology film, of the kind that Shaw Brothers made regularly when they couldn't come up with any story actually worth telling, but still needed to fill their theater chain. The three stories contained in this film all concern themselves... » MORE
Young People. David Chiang, Ti Lung, and Chen Kuan-tai are at it again, male bonding up a storm, this time as students in modern Hong Kong. They are the best at what they do, whether its playing basketball or a round on... » MORE