Wong Fei Hung and Wang Yin Lin try to pass themselves off as kung fu experts but their boastful ways backfired when Master Shan takes his anger out on Yin Lin. They soon find themselves in direct confrontation as they belong to rivalling martial arts schools. This movie is a masterpiece of Liu Chia Liang and one of the top ten movies in 1981.

castGordon Liu, Mai Te Lo, Ku Feng, Kara Hui

directorLiu Chia-liang

Four martial arts experts live in Seoul after the Korean War in the 1950s. One of them inexplicably crosses path with a drug trafficking syndicate, and his three friends have no choice but to fight a brutal battle on his side...

castDavid Chiang, Ti Lung, Wang Chung, Yasuaki Kurata, Chen Kuan-tai

directorChang Cheh

Acclaimed director Ho Meng-hua tackles fantasy in The Human Goddess, a genre bending film that features a love story between an alluring female fairy, played by the real life sexy goddess Li Ching, who seeks love in the world of mortal men and finds it in a man who takes care of an orphanage. Ho was one of the first directors to give Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung their first breaks as extras in his early martial arts films.

castLi Ching, Chin Feng, Pai Lu, Li Peng-fei

directorHo Meng-hua

The beautiful phantom Hsiao Chien has haunted readers since her appearance in the classic haunted story collection, Strange Stories From A Chinese Studio. Many film makers have tried to adapt the tales, but none have captured the eerie, horrific beauty as well as this expressive, vivid, ethereal and haunting production. It is given extra significance by its star, the enchanting Betty Loh Ti who committed suicide later.

castLo Tih, Chao Lei, Yang Chi-ching, Lo Chi

directorLi Han-hsiang

The story follows Monk Tang San Zang’s (Ho Fan) journey to the West in search of the Buddhist Sutra. On the way, he encounters and takes as disciples, Monkey (Yueh Hua), Pigsy (Peng Peng) and Sha Wu Jing (Tien Shun).

castYueh Hua, Peng Peng, Tien Shun, Ho Fan

directorHo Meng Hua

Besides his pioneering films based on authentic martial artistry and kung-fu comedies during the 1970's, acclaimed director Liu Chia-liang also embraced the master/pupil relationship to form the cornerstone of many of his other works where his characters exhibited physical and moral failure as a means to either "make them or break them". Besides directing MAD MONKEY KING FU, it's also Liu's debut as a lead actor playing down and out, monkey kung-fu master Chen, crippled by the ruthless villain Tuen (Shaw's penultimate bad guy Lo Lieh). Street boy Hsiao Hou (which means "little monkey" and played by popular martial arts aerialist Hsiao Hao) convinces Chen to teach him monkey kung-fu to avenge Chen's shame. The wacky training sequences and outlandish finale fight leave you stupefied.

castLiu Chia-liang, Hsiao Ho, Kara Hui

directorLiu Chia-liang

Ting Ting is a student in an all-girl high school. She tries out for the school’s stage production of Romeo and Juliet with an all-boy school and promptly falls for the lead, Jackson. While Ting Ting is swept away by the excitement of her first love, Jackson turns out to be more of a player than a partner.

castLesile Cheung, Chou Hsiu Lan, Rowena

directorTsai Chi-kuang

A resourceful martial artist Shen Lang (David Chiang) attended a conference with other kung fu experts discuss avenging on Huan His-wang, a notorious gangster who had killed countless people in the martial world. But meanwhile Shen's fiancée, Chu Chi-chi (Ching Li), an arrogant and pretty girl, arrived at the conference and caused troubles without any reason. Embarrassed by her behaviour, Shen left the conference with Chu immediately. Both of them go on their pursue of Huan, but falls into a murder plot set up by Huan...

castDavid Chiang, Ching Li, Chen Ping

directorChu Yuan

There are martial arts epics and "brotherhood hero" films but then there is nothing out there that comes even close to THE WATER MARGIN. Based on the classic novel and true legend, ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS about how 108 rebels bravely fought against the Sung Dynasty, just about every big Shaw Brothers’ star around at the time, David Chiang, Ti Lung and Chen Kuan-tai to name a few, were called in to do this film to make it one of the most dynamic films in the history of cinema. The film exhausts you with its wild and wooly, yet heroically primitive battle scenes that ultimately end in sharp and visually effective images of death, defeat and heroism. It won Honorable Mention for Dramatic Feature at the 1972 Golden Horse Awards.

castDavid Chiang, Ti Lung, Lily Ho, Chin Feng, Yueh Hua

directorChang Cheh

Fu Sheng pairs up with veteran martial arts star Chen Kuan Tai in this Chang Cheh masterpiece of heroism and self-sacrifice. Shaolin student Chen is badly wounded by the Qing army, and the young Fu hands him to the Qing army by mistake. The two heroes must now settle the score with the general once and for all. Witness top-notch performances with action choreography by the famous Liu Chia Liang.

castChen Kuan-tai, Fu Sheng, Fang Hsin

directorChang Cheh

Asiapol agents Yang Ming-hsuan (Wang Yu) is in the Yokohama waterfront to intercept contraband gold being smuggled into Japan from Hong Kong by ADU, an international gang led by George Eaton. In a desperate bid to eliminate Ming-hsuan, George orders his mistress Chin-tse to poison him but got killed. Hsun-tse seeking to avenge her sister Chiu-tse and try and seduce him. Eaton next lures Ming-hsuan to another strip-tease place where he locks them up in the cellar with a planted time-bomb. The resourceful Ming-hsuan again escapes and in a savage life-and-death struggle the ruthless mobster Eaton is crushed to death.

castFang Yiu, Wang Yu, Ryoriko Asaoka, Wang Hsia

directorMa Chi-ho

Guo Jing and Huang Rong return to Peach Blossom Island and discovered that Guo’s martial arts teachers have been murdered. This makes Huang’s father the suspect. Huang insists that there is a conspiracy behind. Can they uncover the truth?

castFu Sheng, Wen Hsueh-erh

directorChang Cheh