Schedule Week

12:30am

Challenge of the Masters

Gordon Liu Chia-hui, Chen Kuan-tai, Wang Yu, Lily Li

Liu Chia-liang

Young Wong Fei Hung must prove himself worthy to be taught by Master Lu, the same martial arts teacher of his father. Although he is defeated in the competition, Wong Fei Hung’s passion in Kung Fu finally allows him to become Lu’s disciple.
02:15am

King Drummer

Lily Ho, Ling Yun, Yang Fang, Cheng Wen-ching

Inoue Umetsugu

A young musician Chi Chiang is hired by the manager of a popular band when the group's drummer/leader Charlie, quits to join a rival group. The new drummer becomes an immediate hit, causing Charlie to be very jealous. Furthermore, the young drummer's mother is dead set against him having a music career.
04:00am

Mist Over Dream Lake

Fang Yin, Chiao Chuang, Yueh Hua, Wang Hsia, Ching Li

Yen Chun

Melodrama maestro Yen Chun, directed and co-starred in this heartwarming drama about a young girl, Chen (Fang Ying) whose parents send her away to stay with the Changs to escape her disintegrating family life. On the Changs' farm, Chen meets their daughter, Ling Yun (Ching Li), the young artist, Hsu (Yueh Hua) and the eldest son, Ling Hsiao (Wang Hsia). She spends a summer she will never forget...
05:50am

The Singing Escort

Betty Ting Pei, Jimmy Lin Chung, Chao Hsin-yen, Kao Ling

Inoue Umetsugu

Betty Ting plays Susan, a young woman hiding from her father by being a nightclub singer in Japan. Pop singer Chao Ke-jen (Lin Chong) gets permission from his boss to visit Japan, with the condition that he finds the boss's daughter. Boy finds girl, boy falls in love. But will the father approve?
07:30am

The Vengeful Beauty

Chen Ping, Yueh Hua, Lo Lieh, Tsui Siu-keung

Ho Meng-hua

Of all the many kinds of films Ho Meng-hua directed for the Shaw Brothers, quite possibly his most internationally popular was THE FLYING GUILLOTINE. While he did not direct its like-titled sequel, he did helm this great flying guillotine follow-up, which critics considered among his best. It was also one of his last for the studio before continuing his filmmaking career in Taiwan. It stars the gorgeous Chen Ping (THE MINISKIRT GANG, LADY EXTERMINATOR) as the sole survivor of a despotic emperor's latest foray into decapitation. Fearlessly she takes on the entire flying guillotine gang, despite the fact that she's pregnant! Lo Lieh, Shaw Brothers' first international superstar, is brilliant as the vindictive gang boss, while revered action choreographer Tang Chia mounts stupendous battles between the soaring beheaders and an astonishing wushu woman warrior with child.
08:55am

Shaolin Rescuers

Pai Piao, Kuo Chue, Lu Feng, Lo Meng, Sun Chien

Chang Cheh

Hong Xi Guan of Shaolin is chased and wounded by a martial arts scum who took refuge in the Qing court. He is saved and healed by friends from the wet market and they hide Hong in a bean curd shop to protect him. However, Hong’s enemy finds him and ambushes him at the shop, hoping to capture Hong and all his friends.
10:45am

The Merry Wife

Li Ching, Ling Yun, Ling Ling, Chang Pei-shan

Chin Chu-yung

A 17-year old schoolgirl marries her 35-year-old teacher. Comedy ensues when they attempt to keep their relationship a secret despite being in the same school. When they discover unwanted suitors going after their other halves, jealousy threatens to expose their marriage any minute!
12:20pm

The Magnificent Ruffians

Lu Feng, Lo Meng, Kuo Chue

Chang Cheh

Revered director Chang Cheh hit international gold by teaming three Taiwanese Opera artists (Lu Feng, Chiang Sheng, and Kuo Chue) with a Chinese muscleman (Lo Meng) and a Korean kicker (Sun Chien). The quintet starred in more than a dozen movies together, which were popular worldwide. This time it's a battle between security agencies, and the men known as Twin Blades (Chiang Sheng), Magnificent Kicks (Sun Chien), Sharp Axe (honorary "Venom" Wang Li), Magic Pole (Kuo Chue), and Golden Sword (Lu Feng) take each other on until the last drop of blood is spilled.
02:10pm

The Lotus Lamp

Lin Dai, Cheng Pei-pei, Li Jing

Yueh Feng

Linda Lin Dai plays both mother and son in this lavish fable about a goddess who falls in love with a mortal scholar (Cheng Pei-pei in her debut role). Over two years in production, it was released on the first anniversary of Linda's tragic suicide.
04:00pm

Shaolin Hand Lock

David Chiang, Chen Hu-min, Lo Lieh, Chen Ping

Ho Meng-hua

Prominent kung-fu actor David Chiang teams up with Chang Cheh's award winning screenwriter Ni Kuang to create a visual masterpiece full of exotic martial arts skills and fights in Shaolin Hand Lock. Chiang, who learned the secret 'Shaolin Handlock' technique from his father, is on a mission to avenge his father's death, which was ordered by the evil Ling Hao, played by Shaw Brothers' penultimate bad guy, kung-fu star, Lo Lieh. Adding to the great success of this film was the glamorous yet outlandishly inventive action sequences staged by acclaimed martial arts choreographer Tang Chia and an imposing visual edge and meticulously stylish directing by the brilliant director Ho Meng-hua who was responsible for giving early film breaks to Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung.
05:35pm

Inside The Forbidden City

Ivy Ling Po, Chin Feng, Kao Pao-shu, Ching Miao

Kao Li

Lord Bao discovers that Consort Li’s new born son was swapped at birth and that she was expelled from the palace by Empress Liu twenty years ago. He sets Eunuch Guo up to confess his conspiracy with the empress. Consort Liu is convicted for her act and Consort Li finally reunites with her son who is now the Emperor.
07:20pm

Swordsman at Large

Margaret Hsing Hui, Tina Chin Fei, Frankie Wei, Yu Feng

Hsu Tseng-hung

Frankie Wei Hung is the Swordsman At Large, who is hunted down by practically everyone. A superlative sword is created just for the purpose of taking his life, but the blade becomes more coveted than the hero's death by it! Bandits, beauties and blade masters battle for grandeur in this exciting story of deceit, betrayal and death; expertly guided by the director who brings showcases to the Shawscope screen!
09:00pm

Guess Who Killed My Twelve Lovers?

Jenny Hu, Chin Han, Irene Chen I-ling

Wu Chia-hsiang

Jenny Hu, Shaw Brothers' gorgeous Chinese-German star, was given her first comedy role in the wild and wacky Guess Who Killed My Twelve Lovers? Described as "a comedy of belly laughs and chilling murders", it is a unique entry in the Hong Kong theater of the absurd.
10:40pm

Shaolin Mantis

David Chiang, Gordon Liu, Lily Li, Huang Hsing Hsiu

Liu Chia Liang

The Emperor orders Feng to find proofs of Master Tian’s rebellion in his house. Feng falls in love with Tian’s granddaughter and marries her. When he finds the proofs and tries to leave with her, his wife is killed in the fight against Tian. Feng creates the mantis-style martial arts and vows to avenge her death.