Schedule Week

12:30am

Na Cha the Great

Fu Sheng, Lu Ti, Chiang Tao, Feng Ko An, Yuan Man Tzu

Chang Cheh

Adapted from a chapter of the classic Chinese legend “Investiture of the Gods”, this is the story of Na Cha set 3000 years ago. After Na Cha sacrificed his life to save his parents, he is reincarnated with his spirit embodied in a lotus flower and is armed with two magic weapons to save the people from their despotic emperor.
02:10am

Swordswomen Three

Shen Yi, Essie Lin, Pan Ying-tzu, Chang I, Lo Lieh

Shen Chaing

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon could be called "Swordswomen Two." Three decades earlier, Shen Yi, Essie Lin Chia, and Pan Ying-tzu took on Shaw's first international superstar, Lo Lieh for the Han Family Sword - making this a four-star treat for action fans.
03:55am

Lover's Rock

Cheng Pei-pei , Chiao Chuang

Pan Lei

Pan Lei, winner the China Literary Award for three consecutive years, wrote and directed this film about the lives and loves of a fishing village. It starred the glorious Cheng Pei-pei in her first film as a woman (she had debuted in a man’s role), and her much-lauded performance won her the prestigious Golden Accolade Award from the International Association Of Independent Producers a first for any Asian woman.
05:35am

Mad Monkey Kung Fu

Gordon Liu, Hsiao Ho, Kara Hui

Liu Chia Liang

Master Chen was an esteemed Monkey Kung Fu master, until he is framed and crippled by a ruthless villain and ends up becoming a wandering artiste. When Chen meets a young man, Little Monkey, on the streets, he decides to teach him all his monkey kung fu moves. Both men eventually team up to avenge Chen’s past insult.
07:35am

The Butterfly Chalice

Pat Ting-hung, King Feng

Chang Cheh

Starring the stunning, teenage heartthrob Pat Ting Hung, The Butterfly Chalice marks the important directing debut of the kung-fu film genre's most principle figure Chang Cheh, as he burst the martial arts and swordplay movie doors wide open, announcing the beginning of the end for the Cantonese musicals.
09:10am

Men From The Monastery

Chen Kuan-tai, Fu Sheng, Chi Kuan-chun, Lu Ti

Chang Cheh

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Wu San Gui betrays his people to the Qing officials and recruits fighters from all backgrounds. Members from Wudan and Ermei are the first to yield and collude with local bullies. When they start attacking the Shaolin Monastery, its most famous disciples have to band together and fight against the enemies.
10:50am

Hong Kong Nocturne

Cheng Pei Pei, Peter Chen Ho, Chin Ping, Lily Chao, Ling Yun

Umeji Inoue

This joyous, raucous, & colorful tunefest showcases the little seen dancing talents of celebrated kung-fu swordswoman Cheng Pei-Pei, as one of 3 girls dancing their way to the top.
01:05pm

King Gambler

Tsung Hua, Chen Kuan-tai, Chen Ping

Cheng Kang

This film was actually a lively forerunner to the gambling film craze, which eventually swept Asian cinema. Here, it's cardsharp versus cardsharp with a lot more kung-fu action, in a battle of wits and fists to become the king of the casino. The double stings and triple crosses raise in complexity and imagination until what started as an unusual box office risk became a top ten hit of 1976.
03:10pm

Hong Kong 73

Top Shaws Stars and TVB Popular Artistes

Chu Yuan

In 1973, the Hong Kong Heng Seng Index hit extraordinary peaks and people from all walks of life go stock market crazy. Meanwhile, Hong Kong's social problems build up without anyone paying attention to what are actually happening to the crazy lives of people, in this mad city that many call home...
04:55pm

One-armed Swordsman

Wang Yu, Pan Yin Tse, Chiao Chiao, Chang Pei Shan

Chang Cheh

Accepted to the Golden Sword School after his father sacrificed his life to save his master, Fang Kang is resented by his fellow pupils and decides to leave. His master's daughter challenges him to a fight and cuts off his arm. Fang masters the art of sword fighting with one arm and finds himself returning to the School to save his master again.
06:55pm

Les Belles

Lin Dai, Peter Chen Ho, Fanny Fan, Kao Pao Shu, Mak Kay

Doe Chin

Acknowledged as one of the greatest Hong Kong musicals, this lavish movie starring Linda Lin, who won Best Actress for her performance, infuses its wispy plot with style and wit, and the results are pure pleasure.
09:00pm

My Young Auntie

Liu Chia Liang, Kara Hui, Hsiao Hou, Wang Lung Wei

Liu Chia Liang

An elderly landowner marries young Dai Nan to keep his inheritance away from his unscrupulous nephew before he dies. When Dai Nan brings along the deed to meet his other nephew, a series of amusing incidents happen with this “young” auntie, the nephew and his son. Kara Hui won Best Actress in the first Hong Kong Film Awards for her role as Dai Nan.
11:05pm

Crocodile River

Li Ting, Paul Chang Chung, Lo Wei

Lo Wei

This story has a Romeo and Juliet flavour. Two families who hate each other live across the opposite sides of a river filled with crocodiles and do not bother to have a bridge built. Their respective children meet in university and fall in love, but have to find ways to be together and resolve the hatred between their families.