The Boxer from the Temple
Complex plots? This director didn’t want them. Expensive, famous stars? Didn’t need them. Glorious sets and costumes? He could take them or leave them. With his choreographer Hsu Hsia, John…
House of Traps
It all started with The Five Venoms, the internationally loved kung-fu thriller. It continued through more than a dozen bloody good entertainments featuring the same actors in different roles. This…
The Magnificent Ruffians
Venom regulars Philip Kwok, Chiang Sheng, and Sun Chien star as a gang of unemployed martial artists who spend their days stuffing their faces at local restaurants and letting the…
Masked Avengers
Philip Kwok plays a repentant killer who vows to destroy the masked gang of which he was a member. A young fighter and his martial arts brothers come to the…
The Five Venoms
A kung-fu student is instructed by his dying teacher to track down five of the teacher’s ex-students. Each of the five is equipped with a lethal martial arts skill, and…