Dean Shek

Total Credits at Criticker: 67 (Actor), 2 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter. (imdb)
Mostly a Kung-fu showcase; a loose script describes Jackie Chan's character learning Kung-fu from a beggar-master and his pupil while guarding a caravan from bandits (imdb)
Jackie Chan plays the part of the class clown in a shaolin temple whose deadliest secret is stolen.... (imdb)
Husker joins forces with the legendary Shaolin monk Brother Tak, and the two embark on a no-holds-barred, eyeball-gouging, back-flipping rampage of kung fu and death.
Sammo Hung and Lau Kar Wing play dual roles as both masters and students of the sword and spear styles of kung fu. Comic mayhem ensues when the students get kidnapped and the masters must rescue them.
Beloved for its combination of thrilling combat choreography and hilarious physical comedy, the film tells the story of a humble cashier who discovers a plot to kill his small town mayor. (imdb)
Jackie Chan is a boy who is used as a janitor at his kung-fu school. Jackie Chan can't fight and is always getting bullied by the teachers and pupils... (imdb)
Jackie Chan is a youngster, living in a remote vllage with his grandfather who teaches him Kong-Fu (naturally). He keeps getting into fights, even though his grandfather warns him not to show their Kong-Fu to others. Jackie, though, is tempted by some thugs he beat up to act as the master of a Kong-Fu school. This school's name apparently spreads far, as an old enemy of Jackie's grandfather (who turns out to be the master of an old gang or something equally obscure) shows up and kills him... (imdb)
Young Jackie was intrigued by Kung-Fu since an early age, but his father strictly forbade its practice. One day, he meets an old beggar who offers to teach Jackie how to fight. Jackie grows up to be quite good though he keeps his knowledge a secret until he is forced to fight by an extortion ring that's putting the squeeze on his uncle's restaurant. (imdb)
A princess goes into hiding when a bandit king takes over as Emperor of China. She eventually meets up with a young hero whom she joins on a quest to find and kill the bandit and return the crown to it's rightful owner.
Multi-Hand Chick asks Crazy Frog for protection after stealing someone's wallet at the casino. Foolishly he accepts, and even more foolishly he follows her home and removes his Invincible Armor when she pretends to be willing to sleep with him. Of course she steals it, and when he tries to follow her, he's stopped by Dirty Tiger who is on a mission to bring Crazy Frog back to his wife. However, Dirty Tiger would really like to have that armor himself... (imdb)
"Snake-Crane Secret" is a fast-paced martial arts action film about a family's battle for survival. A family tries to uphold their honor while keeping their Sacred Kung Fu book from getting into the wrong hands. A tale of deceit, mistrust, and traditional values unfolds, along with spectacular fight sequences necessary to keep the Snake-Crane Secret! (Hong Kong Cinemagic)
A year after training young Jackie Chan in the Drunken Fist, Sam the Seed discovers he has a son, Foggy. He tries to train Foggy but to no avail. Foggy is then trained in Drunken Fist from his uncle as he must face his father's rival, Rubber Legs, another Drunken Fist master who combines it with Mantis Fist to create a deadly style. (imdb)
A pair of evil gung-fu artists, Heaven and Earth, are slaughtering the entire Yin-Yang brotherhood... (imdb)
Historical dramatization of an important day in the life a South China sea pirate. (imdb)
A shmo makes a deal with the devil so he can become a great Pop star just to impress his dream girl. After he makes the deal, a catholic priest hangs around him to try and convince him that he screwed up and he needs to get his soul back or he'll be damned for eternity. Well, everything goes bad for the shmo and he wants his soul back. But, the devil's lacky doesn't want to give it back. (imdb)
Michael Hui and his brother Sam play two fellows who meet in jail. Michael is a real conman and Sam has aspirations to be one. When they get out of prison they decide to team up and hopefully make a lot of money. While discussing their plans, Sam says, "how can we fail?" Throughout the course of the film, we see all the reasons they can fail. (hkcinemagic)
A "James Bond" type burglar named King Kong (Sam Hui) tries to redeem himself and joins forces with Albert "Baldy" Au (Karl Maka), a bumbling police detective from the states, to try to track down a rare set of stolen luscious diamonds before it ends up in the hands of a notorious European gangster named "White Gloves." The two unlikely duo are supervised by Supt. Nancy Ho, a masculine, fiery-tempered policewoman. (imdb)
The 18 Buddha palm styles are used to take on the evil Won Wu Ti and his men. (imdb)
A Hong Kong mobster's sister is working with authorities on their investigation into her own brother's plot to assassinate the Queen.
An orphan girl disguised as a boy seeks revenge against a ruthless gang for the murder of her clan. (Crash Cinema)
The film centers around a ruthless band of criminals called "The Eight Hundred Dragons," who pitilessly track down and kill any defecting members. Snooker (Dean Shek Tien) has held out the longest by hiding out in Russia. When the grand master of the clan learns of Snooker's whereabouts, he kidnaps him and his young daughter. Meanwhile, the villainous master also orders the kidnapping and brainwashing of Snooker's friend Yao (Sam Hui Kook-kit). (allrovi.com)
The portly but agile Hung nimbly evades the Hong Kong police as a benevolent burglar who gives his haul to charity. An amusing martial arts comedy about a Robin Hood-like hero named "FLOWER KID" who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. (hkcinemagic.com)
This story tells a story of an underdog mistreated by his family, given kung fu instruction from an unlikely source, and reddeemed when he comes back to take on foreign champions in a tournament staged before an imperial audience. (dailymotion.com)
Martial arts action film starring Chan Wei Man as a young coolie who gets roped in to help destroy a ruthless gang after a prosperous rice shop owner is brutally slain. (dvdsource.co.uk)
Starring Bruce Liang of Kung Fu Hustle fame. This film is the launching pad for many future stars including Jackie Chan. (cduniverse.com)
Villain Lo Lieh's life changes for the better by the innocence of his love interest (Li Ching). It's a film that heralds the lesser of two evils motif at the expense of becoming a tragic love story leaving the audience in stunned, handkerchief land. (hkcinemagic.com)
The collaboration of director Chang Cheh and action star Chen Kuan Tai proved to be one of the most enduring of kung fu's golden age, and nowhere were the two more inventive than when journeying back to the era when the Ching Dynasty fell and the Chinese Republic was born. Following their landmark successes "Boxer From Shantung" and "Man Of Iron" came this powerful, exciting tale of a patriot committed to ending the corruption of the Ching rulers. (hkcinemagic.com)
This is one of writer/director Shen Chiang's last films, but it's an incredible action-packed adventure of a female Lone Ranger, decades before Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon made feminist-empowerment kung-fu films an international phenomenon. The wonderful Shih Szu is the title character, with Shaw Brothers' first international star, Lo Lieh, joining her as an adoring associate. (hkcinemagic.com)
Minute Fong is a ruthless contract killer who dispatches his victims in precisely sixty seconds. Working exclusively for an organization headed by the Master Chou Jan Tung, Fong begins to take on his assignments with reluctance. Realizing that Fong's days are numbered, Chou hires two new experts to deal with him and his sixty-second technique. (imdb)
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)
The plot is about Hong Kong polluted with muggings, robberies and other criminal activities. After Dean Shek's wife to be was raped and murdered and also Dr Chen's wife was assaulted, Bruce Liang's character decided to take action on his own. The last quater of the movie, we have Sammo Hung who acts as a hoodlum cum drug dealer together with Bolo. As always, the end fights are splendidly done - i guess Sammo must have a hand on it. For once, its nice to see Dean Shek's serious role. (flkcinema.com)
The powerful mobster Leung, who is protected by the dangerous and wicked Huan Fai, sells two hundred Japanese weapons and ammunition to a Chinese gang. He uses the smuggler Luy Fu to bring the weapons but the smalltime thief Kim and his gang heist the shipment on the road and dump the cargo into the sea. However, he lures Luy Fu and asks a large amount to return the weapons with the intention of traveling abroad with his brother. (imdb)
A private detective gets mixed up with stolen Nazi atomic bomb formulas. (imdb)
This intriguing effort has more than a touch of both westerns and detective films in the martial arts mix. It could even be called an "Eastern Mystery" movie. It, of course, lives up to its title, as a noble guard is both attacked by bandits as well as betrayed by a relative. Then it's nephew against uncle, daughter against father, concubine against hero, and the law vs. vigilante justice before the last plot is exposed and the lovers are able to ride off into the sunset. (hkcinemagic.com)
A small-time thief uses his kung fu skills to best local thugs and reap a nice little reward in the process. But his life and livelihood are threatened when a master criminal rolls into town with deadly skills. (Netflix)
A band of idiots are taught the ways of the Super Kung Fu style in order to bring down the dreaded Scarface (Pang Gang) in Crazy Guy With Super Kung Fu. The 3 Donkeys are a group of oddballs whose fighting techniques are immensely improved after being taught by a kung fu master. With their new Super Kung Fu fighting techniques, the group set out to take out the ruthless madman Scarface, who already has another mysterious man on his trail. (allrovi.com)
For noble college and kung-fu student Yen Tzu-fei (played by experienced matinee idol Ling Yun), there can be no forgiveness or mercy, as an unscrupulous Japanese financier's sordid family literally rapes and pillages everything Yen holds dear. It's a fight to the finish against both his oppressors and their even more venal collaborators. (hkcinemagic.com)
Four disabled but determined fighters band together to face a demonic foe in this thrilling martial arts classic. When the old master of the Lung Clan dies, fearsome student Mar Chen Hui takes charge by utilizing the Devil's Palm technique to cripple natural born leader Ku Feng and overpower the rest of the potential leaders. (allrovi.com)
There have been many film versions of "The Golden Lotus", the most erotic novel in Chinese history, but none have combined artistry with sensuality as successfully as this 1974 classic, featuring three of the screen's sexiest stars. The director was already famous for his historical epics and modern sex comedies, but here outdoes himself in this recounting of the murders, corruptions, and sexual exploits of a Sung Dynasty lothario 900 years ago. (hkcinemagic.com)
Another of the Old School indies that helped to establish the kung fu comedy genre, this scattershot effort stars Lau Kar-wing as bumbling conman Peking Dog, who seeks to learns the secrets of the trade from super thief Sting (Dean Shek Tien). The pair begin a lucrative partnership but may end up making even bigger money if Sting accepts an offer from his equally crooked brother (Karl Maka, who also directed) to eliminate notorious assassin Ping the Dreg (Chung Fat). (hkcinemagic.com)
Rampaging bandits are raping and pillaging all over peaceful Chinese villages until the grieving dart master Liu Wen Lung sets out with his student, son, and servant to avenge his murdered wife and set things right. (hkcinemagic.com)
Yueh Wah, a co-star in Trilogy Of Swordsmanship here plays the Sung Dynasty army's Chief Instructor, on a danger-fraught pilgrimage to the Tung Yueh Temple. From his first step, there are deceits, double crosses, and dirty tricks as a corrupt minister plots to ruin him and kidnap his wife. Only a lovable, capable monk played by the noted character actor Fan Mei-sheng can help him take vengeance in this exciting, satisfying chase thriller. (hkcinemagic.com)
Dean Shek, a wanderer, lived his life in poverty and hunger, ran into the chase of the police and Wong Wai, a poor orphan who was used by the villain Karl Maka in committing crimes. They turned out to be good friends. Meanwhile, Dean fell in love with a singer. Later on, he met Wu Ma, who drank his days away because of Karl Maka's abuses. Evil Carl Mak was dealing in slave trading and had captured the singer and the orphan. Dean and Wu Ma ventured their lives to rescue them... (hkcinemagic.com)
After a series of grizzly murders sends the Martial Arts community up in arms, it's up to Inspector Tiger to find the Mantis style killer before he strikes again. (amazon.com)
Fang Zheng awaits the arrival of his cousin Lin by train. Fang's father takes an immediate dislike to Lin since she is the daughter of his enemy. Zheng's brother, Feng spends tons of money on gambling and hookers, but the elder Fang favors him because a fortuneteller said that Feng would become established in the future. Zheng and Lin start to fall in love, but he's forced to leave home when his father becomes convinced he is out for his money.
"Young Lovers" is an Elvis Presley-like musical romp where our "Viva Las Vegas" guitar-playing, handsome playboy is a poor rich guy named Yang, who ventures off to Japan and joins a rock and roll band. A love triangle quickly develops between Yang and two girls, one of them played by the sensational Eurasian model/actress Jenny Hu. And like Elvis, he must prove his manhood with a couple of required martial arts fights. (hkcinemagic.com)
There was a civil strife in the court. In order to protect the king, some loyal ministers and the king hid in an old house. This old house was known as a haunted house; whoever lived in the house shall die for sure. Mr. and Mrs. Tse went to the haunted house but died in it. Their son Tse Tin Jun wanted to find out the truth of his parents' death, so he went to the house. At the mean time, another minister knew the king's hiding in the house. He sent out a military force to kill the king. (hkcinemagic.com)
In a small town the only son of the local influential family is found dead and naked in the bed of wine shop proprietress Cheng Niang.His father Lin Chi-Hsing insists it is a murder committed by Tseng Chai-Chu,Cheng Niang's husband.Tseng claims that he is innocent.However Cheng Niang has disappeared.Old Lin then tries to bribe the Magistrate Tang to sentence Tseng to death and execute him immediately.Cheng Niang learns about her husband's death and hangs herself. (imdb)
Mak Kar, a faithful and honest constable, was ordered to arrest Dean Saki, a pickpocket. However, each time he was caught, he was released by lack of evidence. Although Dean was a tricky man, the money he pickpocketed from those dirty rich people was spent on the seven poor orphans with whom he lived in an old shaky church. Dean had an intention to buy a house where he could keep more orphans. (hkcinemagic.com)
Afro-haired Robert demonstrates over and over to his gawking cousin how easy it is to pick up girls. Robert eventually narrows the field down to two girls. One is a TV model, the other a rich girl with a red sports car working as a waitress. Robert finds the part after the pickup to be a bit more difficult. (hkcinemagic.com)
A group of young men undergo intense training to join the special forces "Flying Tiger Team". (imdb)
Kung fu idol Roc Tien stars as Xiao Feng, the most lethal killer in all of China. His fame and notoriety are known throughout the land. Countless swordsmen and martial arts experts come to test his blade, but the only thing Xiao Feng wants is to live a quiet life with his girlfriend. This proves to be impossible when his past catches up with him and reveals a horrid secret. (hkcinemagic.com)
K.T. Shek, a renowned divorce case lawyer and man about town, also has a name in having affairs with married women. Finally tired of being a swinger, he is determined to find a perfect wife for himself. He has no faith in the girls available so he selects a pretty girl Juliet from Mainland China, confines her to a remote villa to groom and train her according to his exact requirements. But Shek's cousin Rocky returns has been changed everything... (hkcinemagic.com)
A family gathers to be with its dying father. The reunion brings to the surface old rivalries. (imdb)
Three young men flee Hong Kong after stealing diamonds from oppressive older gangsters and attempt to hide with friends in Paris, but professional hitmen peruse them relentlessly throughout France. (imdb)
AKA Snake in the Crane's Shadow; The kung-fu jungle explodes with fury when the masters of combat clash to the death! The Snake Master crosses paths with The Mistress of the Crane Style in search of a stolen treasure. Joining this all-star cast Is the Beggar Clan, who helps the Snake and Crane battle the Golden Eagle- Master of Flight. Hooks, claws, hands and feet collide in this ULTRA-RARE KUNG-FU CLASSIC! (Wu Tang Collection)
A taxi driver can never catch a break. He is often robbed, to the point that his loved ones have come to expect it. His luck changes one evening when he discovers that he holds a winning lottery ticket.
Six guitar playing, rock and roll singing and dancing young people on a boating trip are stranded on a rural island off of Hong Kong during a typhoon. They become suspicious of a woman (Jenny Hu) who matches the radio bulletin description of a murderess who killed twelve men. Can she be trusted? Is she laying a trap for a local youth (Chin Han) housesitting a mansion?
Major Fang is obsessed with Yu Zhen by chance, knowing that she is the daughter of scholar Xu, he decided to enter their house in disguise with his page, and however, Yu Zhen's cousin comes back for the pre-arranged marriage at the same time. Li Han-hsiang both scripted and helmed “Tales of Larceny” about the scams cons worked and the games people played during the corrupt Chinese Warlord era, featuring a cast filled with the best of Shaw's exceptional character actors.
Bumbling detective Chung Kwok Yun stumbles his way through a case involving thieves who disguise themselves as policemen in this wacky martial arts comedy from Ricky Chan.
Slapstick movie about 2 swindlers, Kong Kun Chat (Karl Maka) and Moo Pi Chide (Dean Shek) who gamble with fake money with someone else to get back real money. At least Kong and Moo thought it was real money. Turned out the money was also fake, and a death warrant is issued for them. Luckily, a little kid Mak Tau saves their lives. - Yellow Hammer
Beggar So is trying to train the brother and sister team Chung and Gam Fa, with mixed results! But an enemy from Beggar So's past, Grasshopper Bill Chan and his brother Cougar start causing trouble and throw Beggar So out of his house. Grasshopper Bill helps Kai to be pledged in marriage to Gam Fa against her wishes, but secretly he wants her all to himself, which leads...
A monk is expelled from a monastery because he was found with a dirty magazine under his pillow. He falls in with a gang of villains, who hire him because of his martial arts skills. He later returns to the monastery where (for reasons unexplained), he fights his former buddy-monk.
A comedy about three henpecked men and how they cope with not only their wives but a society that says they should rule the roost. A comedy of errors complicates their already complicated lives and wives.
Tu Cheng Kang (Guan Shan) teaches at the Ta Tap Middle School where pupils are delinquent. Tu’s class is the worst. As the headmaster and his fellow teachers are unable to cope with the unruly students, Tu is determined to win them over with kindness. He fails initially but does not despair. Kao Te Sheng (Chuen Yuen), nicknamed the One-Eyed Dragon, is the chief troublemaker and leader.
Li Hsiang-Chun stars as a poor beauty who is drugged, ravished, lied to, locked in a burning store room, left to drown, and chased by sword-wielding ruffians.