Master Wang, who is actually the 11th prince, poses as an antique connoisseur to hide his true identity. When he meets Dirty Ho, a witty con artist, Wang knows he has found the right man to help him untangle a royal succession plot...
The story happens in a martial arts world where everyone tries to obtain the "Deer Sword". Lian's wife is wounded in an ambush and his rival Xiao saves her. They escape to Xiao’s home and he treats her poisonous wound. This leads Lian to suspect his wife’s faithfulness and results in several blood-splattering duels with Xiao.
Yen Chuan plays the weak emperor, whose obsession with his consort, Yang Kwei Fei (Li Li-hua) makes him ignore the running of the country and leave the reins to his Prime Minister Yang Kuo-chung (Yang Chi-ching), who also happens to be Yang Kwei Fei's brother. Unfortunately, the cruel Prime Minister's selfish decisions leave the empire in shambles. The Magnificent Concubine is one exquisite production not to miss!
Corrupt general Wang Li assumes power by killing his superior. The son of the murdered superior befriends four street performers called “The Venoms”, and they help him take revenge by posing as government officials offering a peace token to the corrupt general. When Wang arrives at a warehouse, he is ambushed by the Venoms!
Although King Cat was one of Chang I’s earliest films, the young actor already showed promise that made him the star of countless Shaw Brothers' martial arts movies till today. Chang plays Chan Chao, a knight of justice, who thwarts the plans of Minister Peng to assassinate the revered Judge Pao Cheng over and over again. Lo Lieh gives Chang a good run for his money as the evil and sinister henchman of Minister Peng.
Pat Ting Hung, Chiao Chuang, Ching Li, Chin Feng, Chang Yi
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).
Just after the Chinese Revolution, Japanese invaders start to infiltrate Northeast China. In the film, a vicious judo expert Arashi Tani (Chen Feng-chen) wants to prove that Chinese are the "sick people of Asia" by sabotaging and killing all the best martial artists in dangerous tournaments. To save his son from such a fate, the head of the Ping Pai Boxing Institute (Fang Mien) sends his son Tieh Wa (Chuan Yuan) to the mountains to be hidden by the master fighter Red Butterfly (Shih Szu). All know only one thing that can set things right: the powerful Thunderbolt Fist kung-fu technique!
Mrs Xu is childless and watches a lonely little girl playing at the rear entrance from afar every day. She warmly nurtures the girl and even adopts her from her uncaring parent. The girl brings happiness to the Xu’s until her long lost mother appears one day and to make her happy, Mrs Xu reluctantly lets the girl reunite with her mother.
Butterfly Woo, Li Hsiang Chun, Wang Ai Ming, Chao Ming
Fighting alongside the Chinese revolutionaries, Shaolin student Hung Hei Gun is badly wounded by the Qing army, and the young Fong Sai Yuk hands him to the Qing army by mistake. The two heroes must now settle the score with the Qing government once and for all.
Singer Qing Qing and architect Tang Peng Nan are a sweet couple. Qing Qing sacrifices herself to help Peng Nan at a time when his family is going through difficulties and is misunderstood by Peng Nan, leading to their break up. When Peng Nan learns the truth and decides to make up with Qing Qing, he found that she is suffering from a terminal illness.
Yi is a skilled disciple of the Hong Quan style kung fu. He works in a textile mill recommended by his senior, Han. Han warns Yi not to show off his martial arts skill so as to avoid getting into trouble. However, Yi does not listen and eventually gets dangerously involved in the conflict between two opposing textile mills.
Not a love triangle but a love 'rectangle', Rose, Be My Love is a romantic drama set on the eve of World War II that represents the high standards achieved by Shaw Brothers in both aspects of star power and technical polish.
Perfectly cast as a woman impersonating a man, Ivy Ling Po - who has made a career in Huangmei Opera playing male roles - is the tomboyish daughter of a general who has grown up fooling everyone that she is a boy. Like Yentl forced into disguise, Pei-ngo (Ivy Ling Po) maintains her masculine facade for the freedom she isn't allowed as a girl. Her act is so good, she has fooled her two closest schoolmates for years. However, her mother believes she has reached an age to contemplate marriage. Which one of her schoolmates will she accept? And how will Pei-ngo break the news to them that she is a girl? Complicating things further, another girl wants to marry the cross-dressed Pei-ngo. It's another historical period triumph with terrific Huangmei Opera music to charm and delight.
Yeh Yung-tsu only directed a precious few films, making each all the more distinguished. This is one of his first, a sword-filled thriller centering on the title location - an inn where the down and dirty meet to plot nefarious doings. Award winning actor Ku Feng stars as the "Whip Devil," while the luminous and lethal Shih Szu plays "The Lady Hermit" who has a surprise in store for all the double-crossing masters of mayhem.
