
January 17, 1924 · 102 years old
Chang Cheh (Chinese: 張徹, January 17, 1924 – June 22, 2002) was Shaw Brothers Studio's best known and most prolific film director, with such films as The Five Venoms, The Brave Archer (based on the works of Jin Yong), The One-Armed Swordsman, and other classics of wuxia and kung fu film.

The sixth and final disciple of a dying martial arts master is instructed to find the master's five former disciples, each specializing in their own unique kung fu style, and defeat any evil ones amongst them.

A Chinese martial arts school is infiltrated and destroyed by ninjas. Tian Hao survives the massacre and seeks to uncover the trickery of ninjutsu in order to beat the Five Element Ninjas and avenge his family.

Three men who have been physically disabled by a vindictive martial arts master and his physically-disabled son ally together and learn kung fu from an elderly martial-artist and his mentally-disabled pupil, so they can avenge the...

Five Shaolin disciples barely escape from the destruction of the Shaolin Temple. Now, each have to train in their own fighting styles in order to stand-up against the Qing's top martial artists, and avenge their fallen comrades.

Critically acclaimed director Chang Cheh has The Five Venoms turn Shaolin fighters as they challenge the authority of the evil Chings in Invincible Shaolin. Per usual, the fights will knock your socks off.

The indomitable martial arts team of director Chang Cheh and stunt choreographer Liu Chia-liang continues the compelling saga of Golden Swallow from King Hu's Come Drink with Me in this sequel of heartbreaking romance, jianghu int...

The "iron triangle" of director Chang Cheh and protégés David Chiang and Ti Lung make The Heroic Ones a quintessential action epic, set during the waning years of the Tang Dynasty and centering on a royal family rife with intrigue.

Assassin Chang and his brother Hung meet up with a soldier, Mu. Together, they form a small mountain army, but when Hung's wife arrives, emotions swell, and Mu leaves for the army. After long, Mu summons his friends to join him, b...

The masked gang have created a menace, killing many people, now it is up to Philp who once worked for the masked gang to destroy them.

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 Lee, whom the others are to obey.

Ying Ke-Feng, head of Peerless Manor, is an expert swordsman whose escort business transports 200,000 taels of silver to the capital each year. This year, however, he is afflicted with an infirmity that renders him unable to use h...

China 1925, a man returns to track down a kill the men who murdered his brother.

A prince of the Song Dynasty has been taken prisoner by Jin invaders, and is being held in a fortress, and the only way to get to him is through an abandoned, brittle bridge. A group of loyal martial artists set out to free him.

Hung escapes Shaolin after the temple is attacked by the Ching, only to be jailed with the help of Fang (also of Shoalin) who mistakes him for a bandit. Fang must now help Hung escape so they can challenge the Ching together.

After getting in trouble with local gangs, a young man (Fu Sheng) flees to San Francisco, where the same gangs are still causing problems. He becomes a part of a rival gang, and eventually decides to play them against each other i...

A young man must complete a series of martial art tests and overcome assassins along the way.

A team of skilled fighters navigate a house rigged with an array of ingenious and deadly traps.

When director Chang Chen found new talent and blood with "The Five Venoms" actors, most of which were trained in the highly acrobatic Chinese opera and well versed with exotic martial arts weapons, this crated a new spark for his ...

After the end of the Qing dynasty, a young martial arts master, who's inherited a fortune from his father, lures out of work martial artists in order to practice his superior kung fu against them, and kill them for his own enterta...

Based on one of China's enduring epic novels, written in the 14th century, "All Men Are Brothers" continues the patriotic story of righteous warriors battling despotic leaders, featuring mythic characters familiar to every Chinese...