Schedule Week

12:05am

The Adulteress

Li Li-hua, Kao Pao-shu, Ouyang Sha-fei, Kwan Shan, Ku Wen-chung

Li Han-hsiang, Ho Meng-hua

The noted actress Li Li-hua, star of more than sixty films since 1947, beautifully portrays the drugged, then disgraced wife of a peddler in the waning days of the Ching Dynasty. To make matters worse, she's soon framed for her husband’s murder by her rapist - the son of the local magistrate! And even that isn’t the end of her woes. It's best to have a box of tissues nearby as two expert directors ratchet up the emotional suspense in this consummate tearjerker.
02:15am

Long Road to Gallantry

Hui Ying-hung, Ho Chia-chin, Kuan Tzu-lin, Pai Piao

Lung Yi-sheng

Hui Ying-hung stars in Long Road To Gallantry, a riveting swordswoman epic, in a quest to find a missing martial arts manual. This movie starts when roving swordsman Tu Meng-fei (Ho Chia-chin) chances to rescue a female pupil Mu Wan-erh (Rosamund Kwan) and later, another girl Li Sai-nan (Hui Ying-hung) from underworld leader Leng Tien-lei (Lung Tien-chiang). Li wants to take vengeance on Leng who murdered her parents. Leng, at the same time, is Mu's long-lost father...
03:55am

The Drug Addicts

Li Szu-chi, Ti Lung, Wang Chung

David Chiang

Shaw Brothers’ superstar David Chiang displays a unique take on the narcotics racket in his directorial debut, The Drug Addicts. Addicted kung-fu instructor Ti Lung not only kicks the habit but smashes a drug smuggling ring. His fantastic performance befits as that of a martial-arts superstar.
05:40am

Killer Clans

Ching Li, Yueh Hua, Tsung Hua

Chu Yuan

Ask any martial arts movie aficionado for his or her list of all-time action greats, and there's a good chance that Killer Clans ranks somewhere near the top. Based on a popular swordplay novel, Killer Clans (whose Chinese title literally translates into the poetic "Meteor, Butterfly, Sword") has enough conspiracies, stratagems, and sword fights to make even non-action fans happy. They are masterfully staged by Yuen Cheung-yan, brother of Matrix martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping. The cast includes some of Shaw Brothers' leading swordsmen and swordswomen, and they bring to life the novel's epic battles between underground clans, where the line between good and evil is not always so clear-cut or obvious.
07:25am

The Pure and the Evil

Liu Shao-chun, Chen Pei-hsi, Tai Liang-shun

Chin Hai-lin

The Pure and The Evil begins with two teen girls who are inseparable but ends like Fatal Attraction where guttered sexuality leads to insanity. Rose and Fang were from opposite ends of the spectrum, but nevertheless were close. The refined Fang moves to America but returns years later to see her old buddy Rose who immediately takes an eye to her fiancé. Things quickly digress into erotic deteoriation as Rose's thorns begin to stick in Fang's and her fiancé’s sides.
09:05am

The Forbidden Past

Ching Li, Ling Yun, Chang Tzu-le

Chu Yuan

This is a heartstring-tugging Christmas story about a bar lady who serves drinks to a man that looks like her long gone husband. She convinces him to fulfill her son's wishes of having the father he's never seen show up for Christmas.
10:30am

Judgement of an Assassin

David Chiang, Tsung Hua, Ching Li, Chen Hui-min

Sun Chung

Sun Chung, an established comedy, romance, and modern crime filmmaker, now breathes mortality into this tale of the 100 Poison Clique's obsessive ambition to destroy all rivals. This is one spectacular martial arts viewing like never before. Kung-fu superstar David Chiang and prominent choreographer Tang Chia lead the cast in a bloody clan clash centered on the trial of an admitted mass murderer and serial rapist.
12:10pm

The Millionaire Chase

Lily Ho, Chin Ping

Inoue Umetsugu

It's a fun and wild romp that mixes pleasure with pleasure. A nightclub owner, playboy Peter Chen Ho, has his ways with three sisters while gallivanting across Asia. Each one has a dangling relationship to save - ensuring a series of mishaps and comic moments. The film also introduces young up and coming starlet Betty Ting Pei as one of the sisters.
02:10pm

The Illegal Immigrant

Ching Yung-cho, Wu Fu-sheng, Liao Chung-yu

Chang Wan-ting

A gritty, realistic Chinatown tale about the life of an illegal immigrant who went through a sham marriage is indebted to thugs in this critically-acclaimed film.
03:50pm

Death Valley

Angela Yu Chien, Yueh Hua, Chen Hung-lieh, Lo Wei

Lo Wei

When Jianying discovers the Zhao clan's fortune will be left to his brother Yulong, he engineers his parents' death and sends his own son out to kill Yulong.
05:35pm

Love in a Fallen City

Cora Miao, Chou Yun-fa, Chiang Chung-ping

Ann Hui

Based on a novel by the great Eileen Chang and directed by the equally acclaimed Ann Hui, this sad but beautiful romance story sets during the World War II, where dreams of riches and love are shattered by reality.
07:20pm

The Lady is the Boss

Liu Chia-liang, Hui Ying-hung, Liu Chia-hui, Chang Chan-peng

Liu Chia-liang

The pre-eminent martial art moviemaker Liu Chia-liang (a.k.a. Lau Kar-leung) came up with the novel idea for this exciting and hilarious kung-fu clash between an old-fashioned kung-fu master and a hip and beautiful marketing wiz.
09:00pm

Tragic Commitment

Anita Yuen, Cheung Chi-lam, Deanie Yip, Ho Chiu-yee

Frankie Chan

When the husband of a doctor, Tung, (Anita Yuen), is fatally wounded in an accident, he reveals to her about his affair with Blackie (Josie Ho), who is impregnated with his baby. Despite the devastation of the betrayal and the eventual death of her husband, Tung is pressured by her mother-in-law into putting up with Blackie and offer $1M for her baby...
10:45pm

The Killer

Tsung Hua, Chin Han, Wang Ping

Chu Yuan

Hsieh Choun, the Black Dragon, is in trouble with the police since Wang Sien Tien's gang is helping them; he is no longer free to conduct his drugs shipments out of the port freely as he used to. He buys more thugs and killers to dispose of the young upstart, and soon Wang is in dire straits, in the port of Hong Kong.