Cheung-Yan Yuen
Total Credits at Criticker: 25 (Actor), 6 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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In 1937, a Chinese martial artist returns to Shanghai to find his teacher dead and his school harassed by the Japanese. (imdb)
Jet Li was a monk in Shaolin. In a friendly competition for a higher place in Shaolin, he was betrayed... (imdb)
This big hit at the Sundance Film Festival had audiences cheering. Set during the Ming Dynasty, this acclaimed production tells the story of a power hungry eunuch who employs an evil sect in his quest to rule China (imdb)
Set in Imperial China, Stephen Chiau plays Fat, a guard in the Forbidden City. (imdb)
A drunken monk recruits a young magician to recapture an escaped evil sorcerer.
A young kung fu student is haunted by a puppeteer who goes around to kill his teacher and friend
A police sting takes place in a haunted apartment building. The sting goes bad when a female ghost crashes the party. Lots of chase scenes involving floating heads and headless bodies.. and, oh yes.... toy helicopters. And then it gets weird...A band of Chinese elves save the day (one of them plays a mandolin). (imdb)
Michael Hui both directed and stars in this entertaining comedy as an inventive, plucky musician. He overhears some gangsters plotting a murder in an alleyway and when he is caught, he tries to fake blindness to escape with his life (and limbs) intact. Ultimately, the hapless musician is rescued by his roommate, a female band member. He ends up tagging along on a trip to Bangkok with her all-girl band. (allmovie.com)
Patriots during the Sung Dynasty attempt to rescue a kidnapped prince from Ching troops who have invaded the north of China. The patriots are led by Ti Lung who recruits a mysterious but seemingly superhuman fighter to find a way to cross a perilous bridge to enter an impregnable fortress to locate and rescue the imprisoned prince. (imdb)
The Flying Dagger brothers and the Bewitchment sisters are competing bounty hunters who unite to hunt down Red Fox.
Hong Kong martial arts film based on the story of Chinese martial artist Huo Yuanjia.
Two elderly Taoist priests, Chi Men (Leung Kar Yan) and Dun Jai (Yuen Cheung Yan), who learn their magic from the same teacher always quarrel with each other. They provide mirth and expert kung fu tuition to young man (Yuen Yat Chor) who is mistakenly presumed to be the crown prince of the Imperial Court, missing since childhood. The emperor dispatches an eunuch with the magic powers to apprehend the young man. But he must first deal with Chi Men and Dun Jia who are the young man's protector. (hkcinemagic.com)
While American and European movies feature "security guards," they are virtually never the kind of heroes who appear in many great kung-fu thrillers. This time Wu Ma, who had cut his teeth as Chang Cheh's assistant director, decided to go to the heart of the matter. He cast Lo Lieh, the Shaw Studios first international star (from King Boxer), as the best of the best, who must protect a shipment of silver from both thieves and treachery alike. (hkcinemagic.com)
It is set in Huan Wanling, a place where corpses are preserved to prevent them from rotting. However this means that an exorcism has to be performed every 50 years to prevent them rising as vampires. (http://taliesinttlg.blogspot.com)
A laborer moves to Shanghai in the hope of becoming rich. But ends up using his kung fu skills to survive. (imdb)
Mr. and Mrs. Luo are addicted to gambling, but their luck is not good and always lose money. They see their gambling friend 'Snake boy' suddenly becomes rich, and they find out that the luck of "Snake boy" is depended on the ghost, however, his life time will be reduced. (imdb)
A rather unusual vehicle for Lin Hsiao Lan. Set amidst Hong Kong's then-hyperactive film industry, it features Lin in modern dress and gives her stunt work far more prosaic than the flying, wire fu and sorcery she engaged in in her other films. The actress always played male parts and this one is no exception, although, curiously, here she plays an actor who does female roles(!). (imdb)
The "Saint" is a secret group comprised of a martial arts master and his two oddball daughters. They were brought to this earth to uphold justice by robbing from the rich and giving to the poor. A Robin Hood like saga set during modern-day Hong Kong. (hkmdb)
Detective Johnny Du is smart and agile, but his sassy girlfriend Angel bullies him all the time, leaving him depressed at work and at home. His helplessness soon attracts Vincent, the Devil Prince and Jim, the Angel to fight for his soul. (imdb)
Shek Kin plays the head of a large crime family. His sons get into all sorts of trouble with the other triad bosses. They both escalate the situation with drugs and murder and create a bitter feud with a rival family. AKA Last Challenge of the Dragon (The Movie Database)
AKA Village on Fire, Fury of the Black Belt;
Chung is a reformed professional fighter who has to hide his identity and take revenge on Black and White Fan, after they murder his family. (Wu Tang Collection)
A corrupt mayor robs a large cargo of food and money being sent to a famine area in eastern China. The Chief escort of the Cargo is then framed for the robbery and sentenced to death. His fiancée seeks the help of a constable to investigate the robbery and together they expose the heinous plot and bring the culprits to justice in an epic martial arts fight to the finish, choreographed by Yuen Woo Ping.
This film is a rare old school sword play. The Little White Dragon is employed to recover huge amount of silver bullion from a ruthless warlord (Shek Kin) who sends three grand masters after the white dragon to try to stop her in her mission. (Wu Tang Collection)