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** SHAW BROTHERS ** CELESTIAL CLASSIC MOVIES Fans thought that Chang Cheh couldn't out-do his previous star-making box office hits, but once this landmark saga hit the screen, they had to raise their expectations once again. The story was simplicity itself: Shaolin renegades fight against their Manchu oppressors and traitorous collaborators. But the finest martial art actors, led by revered choreographers Liu Chia-liang and his brother Liu Chia-yung, created emotionally involving action ...

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** SHAW BROTHERS ** CELESTIAL CLASSIC MOVIES Internationally acclaimed director Chang Cheh brings back David Chiang and Ti Lung for the second time in this classic "heroic bloodshed" epic Have Sword, Will Travel, it's title inspired by the "lone gunman," Hollywood hit TV show Have Gun Will Travel. Ti Lung is the armor of an "armored van" taking silver to the capital. Along the way a mysterious knight stalks him, David Chiang. Although he appears to be the robber, he turns out to be his ...

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** SHAW BROTHERS ** CELESTIAL CLASSIC MOVIES Star Jimmy Wang Yu and director Chang Cheh revolutionized Hong Kong kung-fu cinema and broke box office records across Asia with this brilliant action epic where the loss of an arm not only created suspense but symbolized teenage alienation. Universally acknowledged as the start of a new era in authentic and exciting Hong Kong filmmaking, this first great yanggang (macho) film even prepared audiences for the power of Bruce Lee. ... SHAW BROTHERS ...

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** SHAW BROTHERS ** CELESTIAL CLASSIC MOVIES One great movie deserves another, and this is one of those rare sequels that many feel is superior to the original. The audience certainly seemed to think so, making this one of the Shaw Studio's highest grossing movies ever. And why not? Ti Lung is back as Li Chin Huan, the renowned, charming, elegant, majestic, and yes, sentimental, swordsman who must face the Chief of the Money Clan and his legion of assassins for the fate of the "Martial Arts ...

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** SHAW BROTHERS ** CELESTIAL CLASSIC MOVIES The Weird Man is popular director Chang Cheh's bizarre screen adaptation of the famous Chinese literary classic Romance Of The Three Kingdoms. Chang is famous for his lone swordsman and hero films, and freakily, The Weird Man is no exception. The film's star Cheng Tien-chi playing a righteous, beheaded priest with supernatural powers that returns from the dead to wreak havoc against one of the corrupt kingdoms, making Cheng a heroic "swords-ghost ...

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** SHAW BROTHERS ** CELESTIAL CLASSIC MOVIES In The Master Strikes Back, Hong Kong's Steadicam pioneering director Sun Chung brings back legendary Ti Lung to play famous weapons instructor Tung Tieh-cheng, who is invited to teach a Ching official's soldiers, in this unofficial sequel to The Kung-fu Instructor. But after his son is kidnapped and castrated what follows is a chaotic, human whirlwind of slicing and dicing compliments of the highly touted martial arts director and one of Jackie ...

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** SHAW BROTHERS ** CELESTIAL CLASSIC MOVIES When director Chang Cheh discovered the highly acrobative The Five Venoms, who were all well versed with exotic martial arts weapons, this created a new spark for his use of bizarre weapons in his films. The Flag Of Iron is good clan versus bad clan in a movie so filled with "don't-blink-or-you-will-miss-something" gags, you will need to watch it over and over again so you can see the things you missed.

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** SHAW BROTHERS ** CELESTIAL CLASSIC MOVIES What's one good kung-fu epic without a fast and sexy exploitation? Yes, this film's Chinese title translates as 36th Chamber of Girl-Chasing -- an obvious allusion to the mega-martial arts hit 36th Chamber of Shaolin (aka Master Killer). By any title, this erotic comedy features three lotharios who vie to become principal of the Macho Man Training School -- an extremely non-monastic institution dedicated to extremely non Shaolin-types of physical ...

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** SHAW BROTHERS ** CELESTIAL CLASSIC MOVIES The beloved king of Hong Kong comic book characters, Old Master Q, is back in live action again by popular demand. This hilarious sequel to Mr Funnybone finds him, and his delightful sidekick "Big Potato", opening an old-fashioned healing clinic -- leading to a fun and fascinating clash (cultural and otherwise) when the old ways smack face first into ultra-modern Hong Kong. But, this being the great Mr Funnybone, he triumphs in spite of himself ...

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** SHAW BROTHERS ** CELESTIAL CLASSIC MOVIES In America, it's Mickey Mouse. In France, it's Tintin. But in Hong Kong, no comic book character is more famous or beloved than Old Master Q, otherwise known as Mr. Funnybone. He's a Confucius-type fellow who travels about with his sidekick, Big Potato (aka Big Dumb), getting involved in all manner of charming comic mishaps... which always turn out just right. This beautifully cast, live action adaptation proved so popular that it spawned the ...

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