Lee Man-Tai
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The place: Shanghai. The time: 1921. The Japanese aggression towards China is getting stronger each day. Enter Hsueh Ao-Lin, an agent of the government sent to uncover the Chinese traitors helping the enemy. Once inside, Hsueh must fight both the Japanese and his countrymen for his sake, and the future of China.
Run Away
Kidnapped by a group of bandits and raped by their chief, Dan Zhu slowly develops feelings for the perpetrator. Echoing the social realism of Taiwanese new wave filmmaking, director Wang Tung revisits the wuxia genre, with the emphasis on psychology rather than action.
Raining in the Mountain
In Ming Dynasty China, the retiring abbot of a Buddhist monastery invites two dignitaries to help him choose a successor, not suspecting that both of them have hired help to steal a priceless parchment kept in the temple.
The Wheel of Life
Jointly and respectively directed by King Hu, Lee Hsing, and Pai Ching-Jui, three major Taiwan directors of the 1970s, this film consist of three shorts with the same cast of two actors and one actress, who through reincarnation meet in three different times.
Miracles: The Canton Godfather
A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.
The Prodigal Son
A rich man's son believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of an actor in a traveling theatre company, the son resolves to find a better teacher.
Retreat of the Godfather
Kwong is a mafia king. When a rival gang steals a rare chinese artifact from him, he blaims his two "bag-men" and threatens to "cut their life" if they don't recover the treasure.
All the King's Men
It's the 10th century BC, the emperor is not well, and the medicines he is receiving from con artist "Immortal Li" are in reality only making him worse.
The Boxer from Shantung
Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection is his famed fighting technique.
The Valiant Ones
A righteous husband-and-wife swordfighting duo struggle to protect China from the machinations of Japanese pirates and corrupt officials.
Filmography
as Granny Tai Tai
as Chen Wah's Man
as Ah Sing
as Brother Wang
as Mountain Bandit
as The Mute, part 1
as Angry Kungfu Master
as Complaining Monk
as Beggar
as Senior Monk
as Old Beggar
as Bearded Shaolin Abbot
as Teacher
as Old Beggar
as Master's Assistant
as Twitching Abbott
as Devil Monk
as Lu Shao-Tan
as Rickshaw Driver
as Zhang An
as Hired fighter with braid #1
as Lee Khan's Bodyguard
as Yuen Tai-Heng
as Inspector Wei
as Dock Foreman
as Bandit Killed by Wu
as Sha Ming Lee
as Prison Warden
as Escort Guard Hsueh Pa
as Innkeeper (uncredited)
as Han's thug
as Hsiao Sung
as Li San