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The Hong Kong–based company owns, restores and licenses the world's largest collection of Chinese-made films including the Shaw Brothers library of fan-favourite kung fu and action classics such as The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Five Deadly Venoms, and The One-Armed Swordsman.
Brothers from the Walled City; Curse of Evil; 2.5 CM Young Heroes of the Street; Tiger Killer; The Pure and the Evil; My Rebellious Son. a.k.a. Raging Tiger; Emperor and the Minister; Descendant of the Sun; Mercenaries from Hong Kong; The Boxer's Omen (a.k.a. Mo) Hong Kong Playboys; Little Dragon Maiden; Ode to Gallantry; Lo Yu Tan Chi
'Great Drunken Hero') is a 1966 Hong Kong wuxia film produced by Shaw Brothers Studio and directed by King Hu. Set during the Ming Dynasty, it stars Cheng Pei-pei, Yueh Hua and Chan Hung-lit in the leading roles, and features action choreography by Han Ying-chieh.
In 2000, through his company, Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Limited, he sold his library of 760 classic titles to Celestial Pictures Limited. Shaw Studios also entered a new era with Shaw's majority investment (through his various holding companies) in the US$180,000,000 Hong Kong Movie City project, a 1,100,000 square feet (100,000 m 2 ) studio ...
Alexander Fu Sheng (Chinese: 傅聲; born Cheung Fu-sheng 張富聲; 20 October 1954 – 7 July 1983), [1] also known as Fu Sing, [2] [3] [4] was a Hong Kong martial arts actor. . One of Hong Kong's most talented performers, Fu rose to prominence in the 1970s starring in a string of movies with the Shaw Brothers that accrued him international stardom throughout Asia and parts of North Amer
The studio supplanted Shaw Brothers as Hong Kong's dominant studio by the end of the 1970s and retained that position into the 1990s. Golden Harvest developed a worldwide film distribution operation and started producing films for an international market and had released eight by 1980, including The Amsterdam Kill (1978) starring Robert Mitchum ...
Killer Clans is a 1976 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Chor Yuen and produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. The film is loosely based on the novel Liuxing Hudie Jian by Gu Long . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The Shaw Brothers Studio also nurtured the careers of many modern, talented and high-profile filmmakers, including John Woo, Yuen Woo Ping and Tony Ching Siu-tung. The studio's legendary martial-arts directors include (but are not limited to) Chang Cheh, King Hu, Liu Chia-liang and Chu Yuan. Their distinguished martial arts styles continue to ...