Shaw Bros. Spotlight: The Flying Guillotine Despite all the genuine thrills Shaw Brothers films can produce, it is quite apparent that the studio always had half...
Shaw Bros. Spotlight In some special cases, films win a viewer over for a reason that cannot be singularly attributed to just the direction, the acting,...
Shaw Bros. Spotlight What would life be like if, rather than face problems head-on with courage, honour, and a sense of duty, people opted out of...
Liu Wen-lung's home is attacked by bandits led by Chou Chao. Liu's wife was killed, but his son Yu-long was saved by a faithful servant by...
The Wu Tang chief sends out his men, each of whom is given a symbol so they can recognize each other. The largest is given to...
The bandits of Hulu Valley murder the chief of Mei Clan while searching for a treasure map.
This sword-filled thriller centers on the title location-an inn where the down and dirty meet to plot nefarious doings.
Shaw Bros. Spotlight It should come as no surprise that family is as important a factor in character relationships and motivations in Shaw studio pictures. What...
A magician-warrior protects a man from an ambush, not knowing of his true villainous nature.
Uninhibited youth Zhang Chun and his friends David and Mary, while cruising on their car, meets rich heiress Wen Rou. Chun and Rou fall in love...
Shaw Bros. Weekend Spotlight Historically, not many non-Chinese directors had the privilege of working within the Shaw Brothers studio system. Unlike with major American studios, where...
Anyone who has seen just a few Shaw martial arts films has noticed a trend: all of the stories transpire centuries ago, during the era of...
Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and...
Shaw Bros. Spotlight At what point should movie watchers applaud a film which borrows heavily from other familiar sources for the quality of the filmmaking and...
Shaw Bros. Spotlight Honour can be a tremendously important element between great warriors of high ranking. While in today’s military culture it would appear unthinkable for...
Shaw Bros. Spotlight Heroes behaving virtuously and villains relishing in evildoing are the archetypical behaviours of characters that make up action-adventure films. This is the easiest...
Shaw Bros. Spotlight: The Heroic Ones Every so often one watches a film that simply must be accepted on its own terms if said viewer is...
Shaw Bros. Spotlight On a windy, wintry night deep inside a prison cell for female inmates, with searing pain erupting through her body, a woman delivers...
Shaw Bros. Spotlight: Golden Swallow Who has never watched a film a second, third, or even fourth time and only then come to understand some of...
Shaw Bros. Spotlight The Invincible Fist (Lo Lieh) is a government-assigned bounty hunter whose latest mission is to track down a quartet of thieves and murderers...