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Hong Kong movies
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In feudal China, the King of Qin is waging a bloody campaign to conquer the entire land. He has been made a target of three dangerous assassins: spear-wielding Sky, and the lovers Broken Sword and Flying Snow. One day word comes that he has nothing left to fear; a prefect known only as Nameless has killed all three assassins. Nameless is called to the palace and asked to recount the tale of how he accomplished this amazing feat. After he tells his story, however, the King notices some flaws in it... |
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The story takes place in China in the 1940s and revolves around Sing (Stephen Chow), a young charming but clumsy hoodlum who aspires to join the legendary "Axe Gang." Meanwhile, the ruthless lord of the most feared gang, Brother Sum (Kwok-Kwan Chan), who wants to dominate everyone, starts terrorizing a slum small neighborhood called Pig Sty Alley. Nevertheless, an old but spry landlord (Wah Yuen), who rules the neighborhood, and his mean wife (Qiu Yuen) go on a warpath to defend their apartment complex and its residents from their villainous usurpers. |
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A young woman takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters along the way. |
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Hong Kong circa 1973. Lee, a member of a Shaolin Temple, is a master of the physical and spiritual disciplines of the martial arts, and is being visited by Braithwaite, a British law officer. Lee has been invited to a tri-annual martial arts tournament held on an island owned by Han, a reclusive billionaire who was once a member of the Temple but has now become a renegade. Braithwaite believes Han uses his tournaments as cover for narcotic and prostitution activities. Lee reluctantly agrees to enter the tournament, but his reluctance to confront Han disappears when a Shaolin monk reveals that during the previous staging of this tournament, he and Lee's sister were accosted by several toughs led by Han's personal bodyguard, an American named O'Hara. In the ensuing confrontation the monk cut a deep scar on O'Hara's face but Lee's sister ultimately perished, and at her gravesite Lee vowes revenge for her death. Also attending the tournament are two American martial arts experts, John Roper and Kelly Williams, who served together in Vietnam and took differing paths toward martial arts upon their discharge - Roper is on the run from Mafia gambling debt collectors, while Williams was accosted by two racist cops whom he'd dispatched before stealing their car to escape. All three will soon find themselves at the mercy of Han and his army of martial arts fighters as he protects his underground factory of narcotics and prostitution. |
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In this sequel, martial arts expert Wong Fei-Hung faces Kung, a mercenary rival with skills to equal his own. In addition, Canton is convulsed by a struggle between the local representatives of the Chinese government and Europeans who want to control China, and Wong ends up in the middle of this fight. He is again assisted by young Chung, and again must protect Aunt Yee, his young, Westernized aunt-by-adoption with whom Wong has fallen in love. He also ends up with school-full of small children to protect! |
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Set in China, 10th Century, the gripping epic-scale historical drama follows the tragic collapse of the Later Tang dynasty. The imperial court wallows in sin: lust, infidelity, hatred, betrayal, incest, and conspiracy, to name a few. Empress Phoenix (Gong Li) has a liaison with Crown Prince Wan (Liu Ye), her stepson from the Emperor’s first marriage, who maintains a second secret relationship with Jiang Chan (Li Man), the Imperial Doctor’s daughter, and harbours a plan to elope with her. Meanwhile, Emperor Ping (Chow Yun Fat), a man of humble origins and great ambition, doesn’t love his wife, whom he only married to succeed to the throne. He has a nefarious scheme to use a special poison to drive the Empress mad. Moreover, he senses a threat from Prince Jai (Jay Chou), his middle son, and Prince Yu (Qin Junjie), his youngest son, who he thinks may want to take the throne by force or guile. There comes the Chrysanthemum Festival during which the darkest family secrets are revealed. |
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Ma Jun, a cop known for dispensing justice during arrests, teams with Hua Sheng, who's undercover, to try to bring down three merciless Vietnamese brothers running a smuggling ring in the months before the mainland's takeover of Hong Kong. The eldest, Xian Wei Cha (called Zah), is arrested in an operation that exposes Sheng and almost gets him killed. His girlfriend, Qiu Di, who's been unaware of Sheng's profession, wants to see him quit. Jun pursues the gang tirelessly, sometimes ignoring police protocols. Zah's trial approaches, witnesses are in danger, and a showdown is inevitable. |
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Ma Jun, a cop known for dispensing justice during arrests, teams with Hua Sheng, who's undercover, to try to bring down three merciless Vietnamese brothers running a smuggling ring in the months before the mainland's takeover of Hong Kong. The eldest, Xian Wei Cha (called Zah), is arrested in an operation that exposes Sheng and almost gets him killed. His girlfriend, Qiu Di, who's been unaware of Sheng's profession, wants to see him quit. Jun pursues the gang tirelessly, sometimes ignoring police protocols. Zah's trial approaches, witnesses are in danger, and a showdown is inevitable. |
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After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family. Struggling to keep them together, their sensei, Master Splinter, becomes worried when strange things brewing in New York City. Tech-industrialist tycoon Max Winters revives four ancient stone warriors and enlists the help of the foot clan to help capture ancient monsters. |
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Chen Chen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher's death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on with his mastery of martial arts while investigating his teacher's murder. |
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A poor Chinese laborer learns important lessons after his son gets a strange new toy. |
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Jackie Chan, a top secret militant soldier, crashes into the South African jungle after his mission of kidnapping three scientists (who were experimenting with a powerful mineral) has gone array. Waking up in a village of local natives, Chan has no memory of who he is, thus being addressed as "Who Am I". His journey with aid from two female sidekicks to find out his identity leads him all the way to Rotterdam where he coincidentally discovers the location of the organization that kidnapped the three scientists. With no memory, Chan is thirsty for answers by any means necessary. |
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This martial-arts comedy presents a pair of teenagers who help their ex-special agent father, also a kung fu expert to fight his past. The teens find it difficult to believe that their tranquil father was once a 007-like spy until one day when a vengeful enemy appears to get even with their father. The movie is featuring the fight choreographer from The Matrix action, Woo Ping Yuen. |
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Three young martial arts masters emerge from the back streets of Hong Kong to help the powerless fight injustice. |
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When an old Japanese tycoon suspects that he may be murdered, he establishes a huge reward fund for the person who will find his killer. When the old man is killed, out-of-luck con man (Eric Tsang) and struggling "newbie' hitman (Jet Li) band together in hope of a big payday as they try to discover the identity of the "King of the Hitmen." |
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The script of this action comedy revolves around the stolen letter which can expose Mafia bosses. |
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An orphan named Bei (Jackie Chan) is an exercise equipment salesman who has studied martial arts and dreamt of real adventures since childhood. One day he becomes an eyewitness to a jewelry store robbery and helps the police to catch bandits. Due to his publicity, Bei meets a private investigator, Many Liu (Eric Tsang), who thinks that Bei may be the long-lost son of a Korean millionaire. The detective persuades him to travel to Korea to meet his ‘father’ and then to Turkey. Bei is unaware that his father is actually a North Korean spy. Thus the orphan gets involved in a complicated game around lung cancer virus. He will have to use all his martial arts skills and show bravery in order to prevent the virus from falling into the wrong hands. |
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Frankie Lane is an action movie star, he has the bodyguard named Kit Lee. Nobody knows that Kit performs all the stunts in Frankie's films instead of his chicken protegee. But the moment of truth is drawing near: when they unintentionally crash the plans of mobsters headed by the notorious Doctor, Kit has to show all his Kung-Fu professionalism, and to take vengeance on Doctor, his longtime foe...
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A young Chinese Security Officer, Darren, is called for Team 808, which fights against the smuggling of drugs and corruption. Noriko, a Japanese Interpol officer, collaborates with Darren for the destruction of a large international drug cartel. At the same time, a senior government officer's daughter is suspected of corruption. |
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Jet, a young soldier at the end of the second world war must overcome some abusive Americans who are bullying him as well as the Chinese people. |
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