Movies: Tsao Chien

  • 1990
    Island of Fire

    Island of Fire (1990)

    Island of Fire

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    Someone in a prison run by a corrupt warden fakes the deaths of convicts to later use them as expendable assassins. A police officer is sent into the prison to gather evidence of the corruption....

    Island of Fire
  • 1972
    The Boxer from Shantung

    The Boxer from Shantung (1972)

    The Boxer from Shantung

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    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 Boxer from Shantung
  • 1970
    A Touch of Zen

    A Touch of Zen (1970)

    A Touch of Zen

    7.71970HD

    Ku Shen Chai, an artist in his early 30s, still lives with his mother, but he is suddenly shaken by the arrival of Yang Hui-ching, a mysterious princess on the run. Yang brings Ku into her circle of protectors, including a nameless monk whose spiritu...

    A Touch of Zen
  • 1967
    Dragon Inn

    Dragon Inn (1967)

    Dragon Inn

    7.31967HD

    China, year 1457. The Minister of Defense is executed, and his children are sentenced to exile by order of the tyrannical Tsao. Fearful of future revenge from the young people, Tsao sends cruel soldiers to murder them, but a brave group of swordsmen ...

    Dragon Inn
  • 1965
    Beauty of Beauties

    Beauty of Beauties (1965)

    Beauty of Beauties

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    Hsi Shih: The Beauty of Beauties was one of the most ambitious films made in the Taiwan film industry in the 1960s. After leaving The Shaw Brothers studio in Hong Kong and moving to Taiwan, filmmaker Li Han-hsiang mounted this historical epic. Told t...

    Beauty of Beauties
  • 1973
    Outside the Window

    Outside the Window (1973)

    Outside the Window

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    Brigitte Lin's debut film is a melodrama in which her character gets involved in a socially unacceptable relationship and then forced into marriage....

    Outside the Window
  • 1970
    Four Moods

    Four Moods (1970)

    Four Moods

    6.81970HD

    Directed by some of most well known Chinese-language directors of the time, the portmanteau film Four Moods was an attempt to alleviate Li Han-hsiang’s financial troubles during the late 1960s. Arguably one of his best works, King Hu’s short Anger is...

    Four Moods
  • 1976
    Return of the 18 Bronzemen

    Return of the 18 Bronzemen (1976)

    Return of the 18 Bronzemen

    5.71976HD

    Despite the national resistance, the Manchurians have taken over China, but the Ching Emperor fears that the Shaolin Temple disciples would overthrow the dynasty. So he disguises himself as a disciple, in order to become a kung fu master and control ...

    Return of the 18 Bronzemen
  • 1977
    Snuff Bottle Connection

    Snuff Bottle Connection (1977)

    Snuff Bottle Connection

    5.61977HD

    As China and Russia's governments are talking peace, traitorous agents on both sides seek war. Enter John Liu as a special agent sent to identify who the Russian traitor is, and who his contact is within the walls of the Forbidden City....

    Snuff Bottle Connection
  • 1982
    Godfather from Canton

    Godfather from Canton (1982)

    Godfather from Canton

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    A coolie is ofter a job a policeman after saving a government official, and through treachery and corruption rises through the ranks of the police, then becomes a gangster....

    Godfather from Canton
  • 1983
    Growing Up

    Growing Up (1983)

    Growing Up

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    The story follows a young man as he changes from an intelligently aware youth, to a teenager with much less confidence than he once had, and finally, to a stable adult....

    Growing Up
  • 1983
    The Challenge of the Lady Ninja

    The Challenge of the Lady Ninja (1983)

    The Challenge of the Lady Ninja

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    During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, a Chinese woman trains in the covert arts. When she arrives in Hong Kong, she learns that her brother works on behalf the Japanese cause. She then pulls together a team of women warriors to stop her brother...

    The Challenge of the Lady Ninja
  • 1974
    The Fists of Vengeance

    The Fists of Vengeance (1974)

    The Fists of Vengeance

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    Chinese mine workers are being cruelly suppressed by the Japanese, and a Chinese officer is sent to the scene. In an effort to hide the evil truth, the East Asia society decides to hire a samurai to kill the diligent young Chinese investigator....

    The Fists of Vengeance
  • 1963
    Our Neighbor

    Our Neighbor (1963)

    Our Neighbor

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    An orphaned girl in a poverty-stricken neighborhood is adopted by a kindly neighbor. He struggles to support her honestly, despite opportunities to participate in a neighbor’s scurrilous get-rich-quick schemes. Invoking the pain of Chinese exiles li...

    Our Neighbor
  • 1968
    The Swordsman of All Swordsmen

    The Swordsman of All Swordsmen (1968)

    The Swordsman of All Swordsmen

    5.71968HD

    A master swordsman is on a twenty year quest to revenge the death of his parents....

    The Swordsman of All Swordsmen
  • 1976
    The Everlasting Glory

    The Everlasting Glory (1976)

    The Everlasting Glory

    5.51976HD

    A most touching and consistently heart-gripping war drama depicts the heroic deeds of General Chang Tsu-chung who was even held in high esteem and dubbed as “Mars of China” by his Japanese counterpart, General Itagaki during Sino-Japanese war....

    The Everlasting Glory
  • 1978
    Swift Shaolin Boxer

    Swift Shaolin Boxer (1978)

    Swift Shaolin Boxer

    6.51978HD

    Angelo Mao, Judy Lee and Barry Chen star in this tale of murder, intrigue and betrayal. When two separate imperial agents stay in the same room at different times are both offed, foul play is afoot. After passing his five challenges required to quali...

    Swift Shaolin Boxer
  • 1971
    The Playful Girl

    The Playful Girl (1971)

    The Playful Girl

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    1971 movie by Yang Su staring Chen Chen...

    The Playful Girl
  • 1983
    The Wheel of Life

    The Wheel of Life (1983)

    The Wheel of Life

    7.21983HD

    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 differe...

    The Wheel of Life
  • 1984
    The Last Night of Madam Chin

    The Last Night of Madam Chin (1984)

    The Last Night of Madam Chin

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    Set in Shanghai in the 1940s. Story of a ballroom girl Jolie Chan who falls in love with a student and becomes pregnant, but the student's family force her to have an abortion....

    The Last Night of Madam Chin