Schedule Week

12:40am

Little Dragon Maiden

Leslie Cheung, Weng Tsing-tsing, Chen Kuan-tai, Liu Hsueh-yua

Hua Shan

With Hong Kong cinema's new wave, high flying, martial arts action of the 1980's, came a new wave of actors; teeny-bopper, canto-pop singer/stars with little or no martial arts background. However, when a film like LITTLE DRAGON MAIDEN intelligently mixes the old with the new, the results are pure golden magic. This costume-action, drama, love story features relative newcomer Leslie Cheung, who falls in love with the Dragon Maiden while learning the art of swordplay. The recipe is complete when veteran kung-fu stars Chen Kuan-tai and Lo Lieh add just enough weapon-wielding spice to make this film really cook. Cheung garnered international recognition in John Woo's A BETTER TOMORROW and Ronny Yu's THE BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR.
02:20am

The Snake Prince

Lin Chen-chi, Ti Lung, Wang Yu

Lo Chen

The Snake Prince lives on the Snake Mountain of Kwangsi with other snakes and they have lived peacefully with humans for a thousand years. All things change however, when the Snake Prince falls in love with one of the three beauties performing a sensual rain dance in the nearby village one day, and decides to marry her at all costs...
03:55am

The Happiest Moment

Hu Chin, Tanny Tien Ni, Michael Hui

Li Han Hsiang

This erotic comedy anthology features three stories about an old man who dies from an overdose of virility pills, a cop who goes on the run after extorting money from a hooker, and a barber's apprentice who encounters a lively corpse in a night vigil. Through playing all these characters, Michael Hui proves himself as a genius of Hong Kong comedy.
05:30am

Ode to Gallantry

Kuo chui, Tang Tsing, Liu Hui-ling

Chang Cheh

In this surprisingly light-hearted "Venoms" martial arts adventure, a lone wanderer is repeatedly mistaken for someone else and drawn into a number of violent battles.
07:00am

Fast Fingers

Chin Siu-ho, Lo Mang, Tung Piao, Liao Li-ling

Hsu Hsia

After his release from prison, Uncle Bill returns to make a fortune with his past thieving partners. They continue to prey on the unsuspecting public, but are closely watched by the upright police chief, who happens to be the boyfriend of one of Uncle Bill’s nieces!
08:40am

Martial Club

Gordon Liu, Mai Te Lo, Ku Feng, Kara Hui

Liu Chia Liang

The young Wong Fei Hung and his friend Wang Yin Lin offend the young master of another rival school and the expert they hire, causing both martial arts schools to fight against each other. This is Director Liu Chia Liang’s masterpiece and one of the top ten highest grossing movies in 1981.
10:35am

The Blue and the Black

Lin Dai, Kwan Shan

Doe Chin

Set during the Japanese occupation in World War II, a young orphan Tang Qi falls in a love with a young man Chang. However, their love is filled with challenges, from family pressure to the turmoil of war. When Tang Qi was raped, she is expelled from home to become a nightclub singer and embarks on a journey of no return…
12:40pm

The Golden Seal

Wang Ping, Tsung Hua, Tien Feng, Pai Lu

Tien Feng

Dai Tian Chou practices martial arts since young so he can avenge his father’s death. He meets Wu Xiao Yan who is disguised as a man one day and is suddenly beaten by a group of gangsters. Wu begs her father to allow her to take Dai back home to recover. Little does Dai know this is his chance to take revenge.
02:10pm

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Cherie Chung, Yi Lei, David Lu, Tan Tien Nam

Chang Kuo Ming

A beautiful but ignorant woman is abducted by aliens but nobody believes her close encounter. While planning a suicide to prove herself, she meets a failed detective who is also planning his suicide. They change their minds about dying after finding each other and start to encounter bizarre adventures, before falling in love with each other.
03:50pm

Operation Lipstick

Cheng Pei Pei, Paul Chang Chung, Tina Chin Fei

Inoue Umetsugu

A professor’s assistant stole a micro-film storing the secret of a newly invented nuclear reactor and sells it to a crime syndicate. However, the micro-film accidentally falls into the hands of a nightclub dancer and a thief in the process, leading to them being relentlessly pursued by the crime syndicate to retrieve the micro-film.
05:30pm

Summer Heat

Jenny Hu , Chin Han , Yang Fan, Jing Feng

Yang Shu-shih

Aptly described by its original title of "Money, Sex And Love", this is a gripping drama about Judy, a woman with a rich husband as well as two lovers who happen to be brothers. Jenny Hu is Judy, and her knockout beauty makes this summer sizzle...
07:10pm

The Emperor and his Brother

Ti Lung, Pai Piao, Lo Lieh

Chu Yuan

The Emperor Qianlong is not the legitimate successor to the throne at birth, but he only learns the truth when two senior members of a subversive anti-government secret organisation contact him years later. As it happens, the chef of this organisation is Qianlong’s younger brother and they must now confront each other in opposing roles…
09:00pm

Songfest

Margaret Tu Chuan, Julie Shih-yen, Chiao Chuang, Lily Ho

Yuan Chiu-feng

As its name implies, Songfest is an Eastmancolor-Shawscope costume musical, traditionally Chinese and timeless in content; yet revealing a spirited and modern technique. Shot on location at Taiwan's beautiful Sun-Moon Lake, it's a turbulent romance between a passionate tea picker Sung Yu Lan and a charming fisherman Li Chun Yang.
10:25pm

House of Traps

Lu Feng, Wang Li, Lung Hien-Chiang, Chien Hsiao-Hou

Chang Cheh

It all started with THE FIVE VENOMS, the internationally loved kung-fu thriller which introduced director Chang Cheh's recurring cast of martial arts masters. It continued through more than a dozen high-flying, bloody good entertainments featuring the same action actors in pairs, trios, quartets, and, most memorably, quintets. While this is considered the last official "Venoms" movie, what a film it is. The title does not lie: an evil prince has secreted stolen imperial treasures in a building that practically bristles with booby-trapped blades. Bodies are pierced, limbs are cut off, and there's one plasma-spurting attack after another as heroes and rogues alike try to solve the secrets of the hell house. The core Venoms themselves choreograph the gory fun in this fond farewell to their worldwide film series sensation.