Martial Arts Mayhem
If you can't get enough of highly-trained kung-fu masters with hands that should be registered as lethal weapons beating the heck out of each other in the coolest and most incredibly choreographed ways then you are going to love Martial Arts Mayhem.
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Furious Slaughter
1972 • Hong Kong • Directed by Ting Shan-Hsi
When a martial arts expert discovers the existence of an illegal slave trade in the 1930s, he goes to great lengths to overthrow it.
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Furious Slaughter - Trailer
1972 • Hong Kong • Directed by Ting Shan-Hsi
When a martial arts expert discovers the existence of an illegal slave trade in the 1930s, he goes to great lengths to overthrow it.
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Bat Without Wings (Mandarin version)
1980 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chor Yuen
Acclaimed director Chor Yuen was credited for bringing mystery thriller ingredients into his atmospheric martial arts epics, and this is one of the most impressive examples. The title refers to the feared nickname of a notorious rapist-murderer who swoops...
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The Fake Ghost-Catchers (Mandarin version)
1982 • Hong Kong • Directed by Lau Kar-Wing
This delightful action comedy came out a full two years before Ghostbusters premiered. Coincidence? You be the judge. Whatever the inspiration, nothing can compare to this showcase for international favorite Alexander Fu Sheng’s brother, Chang Chan-pen...
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The Fake Ghost-Catchers (Cantonese version)
1982 • Hong Kong • Directed by Lau Kar-Wing
This delightful action comedy came out a full two years before Ghostbusters premiered. Coincidence? You be the judge. Whatever the inspiration, nothing can compare to this showcase for international favorite Alexander Fu Sheng’s brother, Chang Chan-pen...
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Seeding of a Ghost (Mandarin version)
1983 • Hong Kong • Directed by Richard Yeung Keun
Originally planned to be part three of the Shaw Brothers’ Black Magic trilogy, due to its over-the-top blood-splattering nature and gross-out shock levels, Seeding Of A Ghost ran into censorship problems and was released under a new moniker. It’s...
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Seeding of a Ghost (Cantonese version)
1983 • Hong Kong • Directed by Richard Yeung Keun
Originally planned to be part three of the Shaw Brothers’ Black Magic trilogy, due to its over-the-top blood-splattering nature and gross-out shock levels, Seeding Of A Ghost ran into censorship problems and was released under a new moniker. It’s...
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Black Magic (Mandarin version)
1975 • Hong Kong • Directed by Ho Meng-Hua
Martial arts hero Ti Lung gets to flex his dramatic muscle in this horror movie about evil magic spells. In a departure from his normal roles, Ti plays Hsu Lo who runs up against an evil black magic practitioner San Kan-mi (Ku Feng). San Kan-mi wants to...
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Black Magic (English version)
1975 • Hong Kong • Directed by Ho Meng-Hua
Martial arts hero Ti Lung gets to flex his dramatic muscle in this horror movie about evil magic spells. In a departure from his normal roles, Ti plays Hsu Lo who runs up against an evil black magic practitioner San Kan-mi (Ku Feng). San Kan-mi wants to...
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Black Magic Part 2 (Mandarin version)
1976 • Hong Kong • Directed by Ho Meng-Hua
Young doctor Lin Wei-tu found that many of his patients were suffering from strange symptoms caused by black magic of the wicked Lo Lieh. However, Lin’s friend Ti Lung refused to admit the existence of any black magic, and his wife Tanny Tien Ni offered...
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Black Magic Part 2 (English version)
1976 • Hong Kong • Directed by Ho Meng-Hua
Young doctor Lin Wei-tu found that many of his patients were suffering from strange symptoms caused by black magic of the wicked Lo Lieh. However, Lin’s friend Ti Lung refused to admit the existence of any black magic, and his wife Tanny Tien Ni offered...
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Portrait in Crystal (Mandarin version)
1983 • Hong Kong • Directed by Hua Shan
The master of the modern day crime thriller lends his directing skills to this amazing kung-fu crime fantasy. Hua Shan impressed audiences with such films as The Criminals trilogy, then dazzled them in an entirely different way by helming the superheroic S...
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Portrait in Crystal (Cantonese version)
1983 • Hong Kong • Directed by Hua Shan
The master of the modern day crime thriller lends his directing skills to this amazing kung-fu crime fantasy. Hua Shan impressed audiences with such films as The Criminals trilogy, then dazzled them in an entirely different way by helming the superheroic S...
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Shawscope Volume Three - Trailer
Before Hong Kong's mightiest film studio mastered the art of the kung fu film, Shaw Brothers hit box office gold with a very different kind of martial arts cinema, one that channelled the blood-soaked widescreen violence of Japanese samurai epics and Italian spaghetti westerns into a uniquely Chi...
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Bruce's Deadly Fingers - Trailer
1976 • Hong Kong • Directed by Joseph Kong Hung
After malicious gangsters capture Bruce Lee's ex-girlfriend, a young martial artist attempts to rescue her - and the late master's book containing lethal techniques for killing with one's fingers. Plenty of Kung-fu action and mayhem including a par...
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Bruce's Deadly Fingers
1976 • Hong Kong • Directed by Joseph Kong Hung
After malicious gangsters capture Bruce Lee's ex-girlfriend, a young martial artist attempts to rescue her - and the late master's book containing lethal techniques for killing with one's fingers. Plenty of Kung-fu action and mayhem including a par...
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Challenge of The Masters
1976 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chia-Liang Liu
After masterminding the spellbinding martial arts choreography on dozens of Shaw Brothers’ biggest hits, Lau Kar-Leung became an extraordinary director in his own right. His second film, the thrilling and deeply personal Challenge of the Masters, dra...
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Challenge of The Masters (English version)
1976 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chia-Liang Liu
After masterminding the spellbinding martial arts choreography on dozens of Shaw Brothers’ biggest hits, Lau Kar-leung became an extraordinary director in his own right. His second film, the thrilling and deeply personal Challenge of the Masters, dra...
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Cinema Hong Kong: Kung Fu
Cinema Hong Kong: Kung Fu, the first in a three-part documentary on Shaw Brothers’ place within the martial arts genre produced by Celestial Pictures in 2003, featuring interviews with Jackie Chan, Jet Li, John Woo, Sammo Hung, Gordon Liu, Lau Kar-leung, Cheng Pei-pei, David Chiang and many others.
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The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (English version)
1984 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chia-Liang Liu
After one of its lead actors (cherub-faced action icon Alexander Fu Sheng) unexpectedly died midway through production, master director Lau Kar-leung (The 36th Chamber of Shaolin) retooled his latest martial arts epic, The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter, as ...
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The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (Mandarin version)
1984 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chia-Liang Liu
After one of its lead actors (cherub-faced action icon Alexander Fu Sheng) unexpectedly died midway through production, master director Lau Kar-leung (The 36th Chamber of Shaolin) retooled his latest martial arts epic, The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter, as ...
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The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter
1984 • Hong Kong • Directed by Chia-Liang Liu
After one of its lead actors (cherub-faced action icon Alexander Fu Sheng) unexpectedly died midway through production, master director Lau Kar-leung (The 36th Chamber of Shaolin) retooled his latest martial arts epic, The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter, as ...
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Five Shaolin Masters (English version)
1974 • Hong Kong • Directed by Cheh Chang
After directing a non-stop string of box office hits for Shaw Brothers, the studio gave Chang Cheh his own mini-studio (Chang’s Film Co) and the freedom to produce his own martial arts masterpieces, escaping the usual Hong Kong studio backlot to shoot in...
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Five Shaolin Masters
1974 • Hong Kong • Directed by Cheh Chang
After directing a non-stop string of box office hits for Shaw Brothers, the studio gave Chang Cheh his own mini-studio (Chang’s Film Co) and the freedom to produce his own martial arts masterpieces, escaping the usual Hong Kong studio backlot to shoot in...
