Movies: Yang Hui-shan

During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, a Chinese woman trains in the covert arts. When she arrives in Hong Kong, she learns that her brother works on behalf the Japanese cause. She then pulls together a team of women warriors to stop her brother...

A female Ninja starts a war against the drug cartel she was forced to work for....

In 2013, the Golden Horse Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary. The ministry of Culture commissioned director Yang Li-chou to make a documentary about the history of Golden Horse. What is unique to this film is that it's not an ode to celebr...

The daughter of a queen and a comet is abandoned by her family. One day, she comes across a prince fighting a multi-headed dragon and falls in love with him. However, some wizards try everything to keep them apart....

A group of women with various criminal skills are thrown into prison during World War 2. They escape and proceed to head off to destroy a chemical lab in a well fortified valley....

In a world where cowboys coexist with Chinese thugs, Arab swordsmen, Nazi troops, Klansmen and spandex-bearing superheroines. Brigette Lin is the "Jackal", a renegade mercenary who betrayed her gang to his Nazi Commander lover and stealing a cache of...

In an attempt to put their Ninja lifestyle behind them, Rodney and Janet retire to the countryside to raise a family. As the old saying goes though, you can't run away from your past and the couple soon find themselves the target of a rather unpleasa...

A businessman and his sister-in-law are targeted for assassination by a band of evil ninjas and their vicious leader (Yasuaki Kurata). The ninjas are committing bizarre murders all over the city, and the police can't seem to pick up their trail -- so...

Semi-naked Amazonian warriors defend their girls only island from from male pirates from the men only island....

After spending ten years in prison Steven Cox has recently been released and his former colleagues will do anything to find out where he stashed his fortune. His former mistress now rules the underworld and she plays the various fractions against eac...

It's all action, all the time, in this seldom-seen kung fu extravaganza starring Tien Peng, who's all dressed up with somewhere to go: He's on his way to kick some butt! In the vaunted tradition of grind-house Hong Kong action flicks, this film featu...

A wealthy kung fu man with exceptional martial arts skills wanders the land fighting for justice....

Chan Jun-Leung's 1982 film based on The Journey to the West....

Snake and Crane Secret is a fast paced martial arts action film about a familys 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 traditi...

Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery is based on a seminal wuxia novel that's been adapted for the screen numerous times throughout the history of Hong Kong martial arts cinema....

In one of her first film appearances Yukari plays an undercover Japanese criminal police officer investigating the gang led by Yamashita (Yasuaki Kurata). As in most of these Taiwanese films, slapstick comedy alternates with intense action. An absurd...

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Set in China during the 1940s, story told through the eyes of a 10 year old boy of the relationship between the boy, his mysterious nanny and her weakling godbrother....

An American in Hong Kong battles mobsters....

The inhabitants of a small village call on a new chief to protect them from bandits. The latter with the help of his two daughters make every effort to thwart the multiple attacks and looting launched on the village....