Han Hsiang Li

The beautiful Betty Loh Ti plays Zhu Ying Tai, a 17 year old girl who longs to get an education. In order to do this, she has to disguise herself as a boy. (imdb)

Taiwanese romantic drama about a man battling against a corrupt legal system.

The winters in Northern China could become rather bitter and harsh especially if one must endure it alone. (imdb)

A young emperor is lured by to a foreign land by stories told to him by his tutor.

A drugged and disgraced wife of a street seller is taken against her will by a son of a royal servent. She's then framed for her husband's murder by her rapist. The hardships never stop. Early filmed Peking opera.

Erotically charged film about two women who are both driven into a life of prostitution but for very different reasons. The first story involves a husband who punishes his wife for cheating; in the other story, a teenager must escape a strange betrothal to an 8-year-old boy. (netflix.com)

Three women in a Chinese brothel explain how they became prostitutes.

Chapters 23-26 of Water Margin, the story of Wu Song.

This dragon lady of the Ching Dynasty was the power behind the throne for 50 years, and her vast tapestry of palace intrigues is vividly brought to the screen in this memorable epic. Lisa Lu's passionate performance won her Taiwan's coveted Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, while the sumptuous costumes and sets won a Golden Horse for Best Colour Art Design, and the film was further awarded a statue for Superior Motion Picture. (hkcinemagic.com)

Schooled in traditional martial art training for film by acclaimed director Liu Chia-liang, Hui Ying-hung was considered one of the top action females of the 1980s. In The Tiger and the Widow, Hui mixed up in a salt smuggling ring led by stalwart Shaw Brothers action star Liu Yung (a Tiger) and famed Taiwanese singer Tanny Tien Ni (a beauteous young widow), that wreaks of missing persons, altruism and bawdry complications. (hkcinemagic.com)

Respected veteran director Li Han-hsiang capped this, one of his best years as a filmmaker, with this fascinating period drama of royal intrigue. Li Kun plays the ingenious Lord Liu, whose intelligence was envied by the Emperor himself, enacted by Liu Yung. Both actors were two of Bruce Lee's favorite co-stars. Serving as a welcome co-star herself is My Young Auntie, Hui Ying-hung, showing once again why she was a favorite of both legendary directors Chang Cheh and Liu Chia-liang. (hkcinemagic.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)

Dramatization of events from the Second Opium War which culminated in the looting and destruction of imperial estate "Yuan Ming Yuan", AKA the Old Summer Palace by invading English and French troops. (imdb)

This sequel to The Empress Dowager equals, and, in some ways, surpasses its predecessor. The attention to historic detail in the sets and costumes is everything one expects from director Li Han-hsiang, the master of the costume drama. Variety hailed the production as "lavish, the script tightly packed," and concluded that the "filmmakers' efforts to try to make things perfect, to put his audience back in the days of the Empress Dowager and her son, have come off once again." (hkcinemagic.com)

A young scholar spends the night in a creepy temple that is said to be haunted. He doesn't believe in the rumors, but after running into a Taoist swordsman, he meets a beautiful lady ghost. She is forced by an evil old witch to seduce young men, so the witch can kill them and drink their blood... (imdb)

Director Li Han-hsiang teams up again with the irreverent comedic talents of Michael Hui Kwun-man in this tongue-in-cheek drama. Corruption is strife in Wan Ping County in Hopei Province. Two good-for-nothing loafers Chen Ming (Michael Hui Kwun-man) and Chia Liang (Wang Sheng) arrive and turn the officials on their head. After a bout of blackmailing, they end up in positions of power themselves. It's all done with the best intentions, or so they believe. (hkcinemagic.com)

Shaw Brothers director Li Han-Hsiang was particularly masterful in 2 genres: erotica and classic Chinese tales. He combined these two loves in this two-part examination of lust. The first story features an elderly jeweler's adventures with his unsatisfied wife, a handsome neighbor, and the neighborhood bordello. The second is a more modern tale of sex, lies, and videotape. (hkcinemagic.com)

The last Huangmei offering from Shaw studio is finally here! It was a very shrewd decision to cast Brigitte Lin, the reigning queen of the 70s Qiong Yao romances as Pao Yu and under the meticulous direction of Li Han Hsiang, she managed to pull it off and made this version of Pau Yu uniquely her own. Sylvia Chang has the esteemed role of Dai Yu but seemed miscast and tried too hard to make herself a tragic figure... (imdb)

Four separate stories by four separate directors make up this feature from Taiwan. The first story tells of ghosts, grave-robbers and the rewards for doing a good deed. The second reveals the fate of some larcenous inn-keepers. The third tells a tragic tale of frustrated vengeance. The last concerns a fisherman and ghosts. (Clarke Fountain, Rovi)

Court intrigue in China after the Taiping Rebellion is suppressed. (imdb)

Tales of adultery.

In Chinese folklore a white snake symbolizes a woman, especially an evil type of woman, while a black bull typifies a man, robust, strong and virile. "Black Bull and White Snake", a film version of Young Nien-ts'u's best-selling novel of the same title, is exactly about a white snake-woman, having been sold into prostitution at an early age, is rescued by a black bull of a man only to fall back into the gutter again. (youtube)

Pan Jinlian (Huang Mei-tsing) is told by wine-stall owner Madam Wang that her brother-in-law, Wu Song, has been released from prison and advised Pan to leave town as she murdered his elder brother, the biscuit seller Da Lang. Pan then recalls her beginnings, especially her introduction to sex. (imdb)

A collection of three ghost stories with some element of sex.

Return Of The Phoenix is yet another masterpiece from prolific director Li Han-hsiang. An imperial minister Cheng Pu (Ching Miao) is faced with a quandary. He’s getting old and his daughters are still not married. Elder daughter Shueh-yeh (Elizabeth Chuang) is so ugly no one wants her. Younger daughter Shueh-wu (Li Hsiang-chun) is beautiful but Mrs Cheng refuses to let her marry before her elder sister. The drama unfolds when Cheng decides to marry Shueh-wu off. (Letterboxd)

Lady Yuhuan Yang is the beloved Imperial Concubine of the Chinese Emperor. Her brother Yang, the Prime Minister, is corrupt, and the Fanyang Chief revolts and imperils the throne. This has grave consequences for the Yangs and the Emperor. (imdb)

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.

In the 18th century, Emperor Chien Lung made a journey into Southern China.

An old man of the village tells kinky ghost stories to a few of its inhabitants after all the kids have gone to bed. What follows are stories that have horror elements and some soft-core nudity thrown in.

A lesser-known Shaw Brothers sex comedy.

Shaw production