Chih-Hung Kuei

A young man who has been beaten, abused, humiliated and laughed at all his life finds that he has an unusual empathy with snakes. He can talk to them and they understand him, and eventually he finds that he can get them to do his bidding. He decides to use his newfound friends to take his revenge on everyone who ever did him wrong. (imdb)

While in Thailand to avenge his brother who was crippled in a fight with a corrupt Thai boxer, a man gets caught up in a web of fate, Buddhism and black magic.

A murderous psychopath is carving up the prostitutes at a ritzy Hong Kong brothel, and as the madam watches her stable dwindle by the day, suspicions soon fall on a recently-released asylum inmate who had previously been imprisoned for a strikingly similar crime.

A nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee. (imdb)

Five Western girls are kidnapped by Chinese pirates and sold to a brothel. While they are being trained to become prostitutes, a couple of local citizens take mercy on them and plots their escape by teaching them kung-fu. The five scantily-clad girls, using their newfound martial arts skills then fight their way to freedom. (imdb)

From the legendary Shaw Brothers, and succeeded by the equally surreal "Mo", Gu follows detective Bobby Wong (Melvin Wong) in the investigation of the murder of a young girl. When the girl's father (Fei Ai) admits to the murder, claiming he was under a black mage's spell (with physical proof), Bobby delves further. What follows is a colorful and occasionally sickening look at a reality-bending battle between the black mage and a monk called to battle him.

Kuan Tai Chen plays a refugee from mainland China who opens a teahouse in Hong Kong. He'd like nothing more than run an honest business, but the streets are filled with thugs from rivaling triads. After witnessing over and over that the authorities are powerless to stop the crime, he starts a dangerous game to try and take matters into his own hands by impersonating a triad boss himself.

Bruce Li, one of the best of the Bruce Lee wannabes, is the Iron Dragon. Li "strikes back" at the men who killed his martial-arts master. As often happens in films of the sort, the rate of attrition in the ranks of the villains is astonishing. And, as always happens in films of this sort, it's one-on-one at the finale. (allrovi.com)

Although director Kuei Chih-hung is noted for horror flicks that best many of Hollywood's "slashers," he began with martial arts films under legendary Chang Cheh. In Godfather From Canton, Kuei returns to his roots starring the Yul Brynner of Shaolin movies Gordon Liu Chia-hui as policeman on the take who ends up becoming a powerful mob boss. (hkcinemagic.com)

Shaw Brothers' number one action hit of 1975, and deservedly so. The character of one-man kung-fu dynamo Big Brother Cheng and kung-fu superstar Chen Kuan-tai were made for each other. A Robin Hood-like restaurant manager who socks it to the thugs in order to make the mean streets of Hong Kong a little less mean, Big Brother Cheng made his first appearance in the extremely popular The Tea House, the success of which spawned this even more successful sequel. (hkcinemagic.com)

Kuei Chih-hung was famous for his modern day crime thrillers, his horror flicks, and even his comedies, but many feel this was his best kung-fu film. Many also consider this real life martial arts champion Chen Kuan-tai's best performance. As a deeply, even obsessively, dedicated Chief Court Constable, he illuminates the screen with fighting skill and emotional passion. (hkcinemagic.com)

Lily Ho is perfectly cast as a gun-for-hire who always gets her man, in more ways than one. Shaw Brothers imported Japanese director Matsuo Akinori (giving him the Chinese name Mai Chi-ho) to give Lily's exploits an exotic flair, and the cast and crew shot on location in such Japanese scenic spots as Mount Fuji. There are plenty of over-the-top thrills as Lily even masquerades as a nun. Hong Kong Movie News pronounced this "A must for Lily Ho's fans." (hkcinemagic.com)

The Rat Catcher follows the adventures of single father Lin as he tries to scrape a living in the mean streets of Hong Kong and keep his children in their New Territories nursery. In doing so, he continually comes into contact with bumbling traffic cop Brother Neoi and sassy pickpocket Anna. The former finds that arresting Lin gets him rapidly promoted, and the latter finds the man to be a soft touch and rips him off at every opportunity. (imdb)

A woman, who believes she has murdered her abusive husband, then sees him return as a vengeful ghost. (imdb)

Joined by Mou Tun-fei, director Kuei Chih-hung takes his fascination of some of Hong Kong's most spectacular crimes in the fifth instalment of The Criminals. In Part 5's The Teenager's Nightmare, police have their hands full with a slippery rapist preying on helpless teenaged girls living in a resettlement area. Police are forced to use a decoy to ambush the rapist. In Gun, three teenagers' lives change forever when they find a package containing a gun, hand grenades and ammunition.

A female ghost possesses the body a dead girl in order to get a muscular stuntman for a boyfriend. (imdb)

A compulsive gambler with bad luck owes money to a violent gangster boss. A mysterious old man offers him a proposal to marry the ghost of his dead daughter in exchange for cash and an expensive apartment. (imdb)

Two guys and their women constantly get harassed by a group of young motorcycle outlaws on a small island. The situation becomes deadly when one of them gets killed. (imdb)

13 family members are murdered and then dumped in a well. 30 years later their descendants are cursed... (letterboxd)

Ghost Eyes concerns a female hair stylist (Chen Szu-chia) who is seduced by the vampiric ghost of a former optometrist (Szu Wei). Using supernatural contact lenses to control her mind, he gradually drains her life essence as she is forced to find new victims until tries to make a stand and rid herself of this terror once and for all. (themoviedb)

The beloved cartoon character Master Q gets a hilarious live-action adaptation in the side-splitting comic adventure Mr. Funny-Bone! Join Master Q for a series of comic vignettes as he attempts to win the heart of the lovely Li Jing. Along for the ride is Master Q's loyal sidekick Potato, a stout fellow who's forever getting into silly mishaps. The pair get involved in plenty of shenanigans and gags, including pratfalls, low-brow bathroom humor, and even some fun fighting sequences.

Accompanied by his old manservant, scholar Sung Li Ho is on his way to the capital for the imperial exam. They spend a night in the house of Mrs. Yuan and Li Ho takes a fancy to her pretty daughter, Pei Fang. Li Ho is discovered by a maid peeping at Pei Fang as she takes a bath. He slips and falls into the bathtub, creating a most embarrassing situation. His old servant is also implicated and both are beaten up before being thrown out. Continuing their journey in the desolate countryside, ...

A Shaw Brothers production featuring a supernatural tale of revenge. Liu Miao-Li suffers a string of terrible events. Once pushed to her limit, she decides to take back control of her existence but chooses an unlikely path to vengeance.

The plot is a trifle about an obnoxious restaurant delivery boy causing trouble with some local bad guys for the cook who secretly knows kung fu, eventually learning some techniques and finally, with the cook, confronting the bad guys.

Fang Chih Kien witnesses a triad murder. When he picks the killer out of a lineup, the triad gang goes out of their way to make his family’s life a living hell, until he can take no more and seeks revenge.

A Shaw Brothers production directed by Kuei Chih-hung.

An anthology film featuring four true-crime stories that took place in Hong Kong in the early 1970's.

Part 1 : ‘Gun Snatchers’ - Two criminals wanted for murder are turned in by one of their own. Part 2: ‘Arson’ - A Triad revenge plan to burn down a nightclub goes wrong and results in the deaths of five people.

Part 1 : ‘Maniac’ - A gang is kidnapping and raping young women. Part 2: ‘Queen of Temple Street’ - A gambling addict sells his wife to a brothel to pay off his debts.