Schedule Week

12:20am

Woman of the Night

Tien Ni , Chin Han , Margaret Hsing Hui , Li Hsiang

Yu Kuan-jen

A captivating examination of human obsession and love, Woman Of The Night offers three stories in one film. In the first tale, a perverse young student with a voyeuristic habit spies on two of his female roommates. The second story follows an office manager who develops an infatuation for his secretary. The last part is a complex family drama about a debilitated father who forces his family to leave him, only to have a bittersweet reunion when his daughter's life is threatened.
02:00am

The Magnificent Swordsman

Shu Pei-pei, Huang Tsung-hsing, Tien Feng, Ching Miao

Yueh Fung, Cheng Kang

Like many of the swordsman films of the sixties, The Magnificent Swordsman centers on the hero vowing vengeance against evil bandits that killed his family when he was a child. Influenced by Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, the hero (played by Huang Tsung-shun who starred in Bruce Lee's Fist Of Fury), recruits several friends to help peasants rid their village of marauding bandits, the leader of course being the man that killed his family.
03:30am

Return of the Crazy Bumpkins

Yeh Feng, Wang Sha, Ai Ti, Liu Hui-ju, Mi Lan

John Lo Mar, Chang Yang

The crazy bumpkin returns in a sequel for more bittersweet laughs and heart-wrenching misfortune, as his true love becomes the wife of an abusive husband and his uncle further exploits his naïve nature.
05:20am

Beyond the Great Wall

Lin Dai , Chao Lei , Hung Por ,Wang Yueh-ting , Chang Tsui-yin , Li Yin

Li Han-hsiang

Linda Lin Dai gives a soul-stirring performance as a real-life beauty that is tricked into sacrificing herself for the good of the Chinese people. Truth is revealed too late, and she kills herself. Life imitates art and years later, Linda committed suicide.
07:00am

The Casino

Lily Ho, Yueh Hua, Chin Feng, Fan Mei-sheng, Shih Chien

Chang Tseng-chai

After being separated for many years, two lovers meet in a possibly mythical "Lucky Casino" and vow to rid the establishment of the corrupt military generals, criminals and extortionists!
08:25am

The Tiger and the Widow

Liu Yung, Tanny

Li Han-hsiang

The Liu Chia-liang trained Hui Ying-hung was considered the top action martial arts female star in the 1980s. It is her martial arts abilities that Michelle Yeoh tries to emulate. In The Tiger and the Widow, Hui Ying-hung is somehow mixed up in a salt smuggling ring that stinks of missing persons and rotten dilemmas. The film gathered two Golden Horse Awards in 1981; Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction.
10:00am

The Grand Substitution

Li Li-hua, Ivy Ling Po, Yen Chun

Yen Chun

In this Opera epic, a loyal Imperial Court servant gives up his own newborn son to save the prince from an evil official.
12:00pm

The Condemned

Lily Li, Tsai Hung, David Chiang

David Chiang

David Chiang teams up with Chang Cheh's acclaimed screenwriter Ni Kuang (who has written over 300 screenplays) to continue his epic "heroic brotherhood" caricature in his second directorial feature, The Condemned. In the film, Chiang plays a righteous character who helps an injustly imprisoned swordsman accused of stealing. Together they break out of prison and serve notice to all the evil men in their lives that a new deadly duo is in town.
01:50pm

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.
03:30pm

My Young Auntie

Liu Chia-liang , Hui Ying-hung , Hsiao Hou , Wang Lung-wei

Liu Chia-liang

Martial arts master Lau Kar Leung directs and stars in this beloved kung-fu comedy as the psychotic nephew-by-marriage of the gutsy Kara Hui, which features a show-stopping finale.
05:35pm

The Dream of the Red Chamber

Loh Tih, Pat Ting Ning, Ting Hung, Tu Chuan, Jen Chieh

Yuan Chiu-feng

Adapted from the most widely read Ching Dynasty novel, this touching love story has proven a challenge to many filmmakers, and it is acclaimed as the most successful one. A sumptuous feature that took three years of planning and production, it was a hugely popular and critiqued hit which stands out as a classic combination of both 18th century literature and 1960s moviemaking.
07:25pm

Perils Of The Sentimental Swordsman

Ti Lung, Teng Wei-hao, Tai Liang-shun

Chu Yuan

Chu Liu-hsiang, the charming, capable, and, yes, sentimental, swordsman is back in action for this extremely well-named third installment of the hit box-office series -- which won majestic star Ti Lung a whole new legion of fans. The titanic team of director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung wisely choose to give their hero a whole new, non-stop, cliffhanger-fraught adventure featuring a mystery swordsman, a sensual swordswoman, an imperial assassin, a Ghost Mansion, the Bat Island, a booby-trapped tunnel, double crosses, and secret missions. No fewer than three martial arts choreographers are on hand to guide the amazing mayhem, featuring such favorites as award-winning kung-fu actor Ku Feng and Shaw's first international star, Lo Lieh.
09:00pm

Song of Tomorrow

Ivy Ling Po, Chiao Chuang, Chin Han

Doe Chin

Chiang Sung-ping (Chiao Chuang) is a nightclub drummer, he take care of his passed-away teacher, Su's daughter Su Ling (Ivy Ling Po). Chiang trains Su Ling to be a popular singer and they admire each other. Vocalist Pai Lu (Shen Yi), who has feel affection on Chiang, worried he may fall for Su Ling. Pai Lu starts Chiang off on drug habit and tells Su Ling. In desperation, Su Ling decides to leave Chiang...
10:40pm

Unfinished Melody

Kwan Shan, Yeh Feng, Essie Lin Chia, Ku Wen-chung

Chin Chien

A love triangle of the first order by one of Shaw's top directors Chin Chien. A psychiatrist falls for one of his patients at the same time another girl proclaims her love for him. An explosive mix of passion and misunderstanding...