Jimmy Wang Yu
Wang Zhengquan, better known as Jimmy Wang Yu and Wong Yu-lung, (born March 8, 1944 - died April 5, 2022) was a Chinese actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Wang rose to fame in 1967 with his starring role in The One-Armed Swordsman, a martial arts film produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio. The Chinese Boxer (1969), another film he acted in, is credited as the first Hong Kong action film that kickstarted the unarmed combat genre that took Asia by storm in the 1970s.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.96 |
| Birthday | 1944-03-28 |
| Place of Birth | Wuxi, China |
| Also Known As | Yu Wang, Wang Zhengquan, Wong Yu-lung, Wang Yue, 王羽, |
1975
The Man from Hong Kong
6.7/45
Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong to...
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The Man from Hong Kong
1968
Golden Swallow
6.3/33
Golden Swallow revolves around the further adventures of its title character. This time around, she is forced into violence when a figure from her mys...
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Golden Swallow
1971
Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman
6.7/33
Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering...
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Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman
1970
The Chinese Boxer
6.3/34
Lei Ming, a noble young martial arts student who doesn't know the meaning of giving up. He faces a treacherous, blood-thirsty Japanese karate expert,...
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The Chinese Boxer
1984
Shanghai 13
5.9/8
A patriot finds evidence that the government is collaborating with a foreign power. If the people knew about the deception, they would revolt and over...
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Shanghai 13
1966
The Magnificent Trio
6.5/16
A wandering swordsman named Lu Fang who is returning from battle discovers that several farmers have kidnapped the local magistrate’s daughter. He sid...
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The Magnificent Trio
1969
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
6.742/60
Eight demon swordsmen and their gang have spread menace across many sword teaching schools. The students seek the help of Fang who alone can combat th...
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Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
1972
One-Armed Boxer
7/63
A martial-arts student learns the iron fist and death grip techniques to avenge his teacher's death.
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One-Armed Boxer
2011
Dragon
6.9/261
A sinful martial arts expert wants to start a new tranquil life, only to be hunted by a determined detective and his former master.
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Dragon
1967
The One-Armed Swordsman
6.665/79
A noble swordsman, whose arm had been chopped off, returns to his former teacher to defend him from a villainous gang of rival swordsmen.
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The One-Armed Swordsman
1967
The Assassin
6.5/14
Yu is a two-armed swordsman who is betrayed by a jealous rival, but initially seeks a life of simple pleasures until an accidental meeting with anothe...
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The Assassin
1990
Island of Fire
6.1/113
Someone in a prison run by a corrupt warden fakes the deaths of convicts to later use them as expendable assassins. A police officer is sent into the...
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Island of Fire
1976
Master of the Flying Guillotine
6.586/87
A one-armed martial arts master is being stalked by an Imperial assassin, the master of two fighters killed in the previous film. When the One-Armed...
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Master of the Flying Guillotine
1976
The Killer Meteors
4.8/43
Mi Wey is a local hero named after "Killer Meteors", his secret weapon which makes him invincible. However, when "Immortal" Wa Wu Bin, another powerfu...
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The Killer Meteors
1977
Return of the Chinese Boxer
5.3/10
In wake of the First Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895, a group of Japanese warlords calculate that the best way to prepare an invasion of the rest of China...
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Return of the Chinese Boxer
1973
Knight Errant
4.6/5
Taiwan taxi driver Jimmy Wang Yu has good intentions -- he wants to pay for an operation to help his sister recover her sight -- but he's saddled with...
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Knight Errant
1967
The Sword and the Lute
5.4/6
The adventures of a young married swordfighting couple, Lianzhu and Gui Wu, and the swordfighting members of their different clans.
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The Sword and the Lute
1973
The Screaming Tiger
6.1/8
Rare was the film in 1973 that incorporated the star's name in the title. One of the few such films was Screaming Ninja, aka Wang Yu, King of Boxing....
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The Screaming Tiger
1968
The Sword of Swords
5.9/7
A noble swordsman fights to recover the magical blade that has protected his country for centuries after being blinded and betrayed by a ruthless vill...
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The Sword of Swords
1972
Furious Slaughter
8.2/2
When a martial arts expert discovers the existence of an illegal slave trade in the 1930s, he goes to great lengths to overthrow it.
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Furious Slaughter
1973
A Man Called Tiger
7/1
A young man suspects his father's suicide was actually a murder committed by gangsters. Using his expertise in martial arts, he gets himself hired by...
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A Man Called Tiger
1976
The One Armed Swordsmen
6.4/6
The martial world is now awash in one-armed knights, who aren't inclined to make any permanent alliances among themselves.
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The One Armed Swordsmen
1971
Blood of the Dragon
5.9/10
White Dragon must get a list with the names of rebel supporters to Prince Ma Tung, the leader of the rebellion. Trying to stop him in his mission is t...
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Blood of the Dragon
1965
Temple of the Red Lotus
4.9/10
Jimmy Wang Yu plays a young kid who heads off to Dragon Valley to meet the childhood friend who was promised as his bride. When he gets there, he find...
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Temple of the Red Lotus
1967
The Trail of the Broken Blade
5.8/6
Chivalrous swordsman Jun-zhao goes in search of a fugitive named Li Yueh in order to reunite him with his love, Liu Xian. Though the two men meet and...
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The Trail of the Broken Blade
1965
The Twin Swords
5.3/8
Gui Wu happens upon a kidnapping with his wife Gan Lian-zhu at the Red Lotus Temple. Lian-zhu sends Wu to go for reinforcements while she stays to fig...
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The Twin Swords
2012
The Guillotines
5.5/45
In the time of the Qing Dynasty, the Emperor Yongzheng created a secret army known as the Guillotines. It was the job of the Guillotines to protect th...
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The Guillotines
1971
The Magnificent Chivalry
5.5/4
Hong Kong superstar Jimmy "One Arm Boxer" Wang Yu stars as the Bamboo blade, China's top swordsman. His services are rendered by the Imperial treasury...
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The Magnificent Chivalry
1973
The Two Cavaliers
0/0
Gangster boss Red Rose and his evil gang exploit all regions with their raids and kill everyone that tries to stop them. During one these raids, a gro...
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The Two Cavaliers
1986
The Millionaires' Express
6.4/45
What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards t...
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The Millionaires' Express
1974
Kung Fu Killers
7/2
Australian stuntman Grant Page travels to Hong Kong to find Bruce Lee's successor and looks at the cultural phenomenon that Asian martial arts has bec...
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Kung Fu Killers
1976
One Armed Swordsman Against Nine Killers
5.1/6
Watch WANG YU as a one-armed savior battling the local goons in this martial arts classic. He has some rather amazing moves up his sleeve.
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One Armed Swordsman Against Nine Killers
1976
A Queen's Ransom
4.8/3
A Hong Kong mobster's sister is working with authorities on their investigation into her own brother's plot to assassinate the Queen.
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A Queen's Ransom
1975
The Great Hunter
6.5/1
Wang Yu plays a military captain who forms a bond with orphaned Chia Ling. Together they comb the Taiwanese countryside in search of the person or per...
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The Great Hunter
1987
The Thundering Ninja
5/3
A Ninja Organisation and the C.I.A are fighting each other for the plans for a missile.
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The Thundering Ninja
1993
Dark Society in the East
6.5/4
A story about the activities of Southeast Asian Mafia gangs in Shinjuku. Ryosuke Kano is an ex French Foreign Legion soldier and is now a cocaine smug...
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Dark Society in the East
1972
Boxers of Loyalty and Righteousness
5/2
Warlord Yu Ming gained great power for himself. Anyone he suspected of disloyalty was jailed or murdered. He himself was a notorious killer, having pe...
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Boxers of Loyalty and Righteousness
1977
The Deadly Silver Spear
4/4
Silver Spear (Jimmy Wang Yu) is a deadly Kung Fu bounty hunter who has been hired to kill three martial arts experts. When the white-haired super-warr...
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The Deadly Silver Spear
1972
Showdown
3.5/2
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Showdown
1972
The Lion's Heart
0/0
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The Lion's Heart
1970
My Son
5/1
Jimmy Wang Yu gets to flex his dramatic muscles in this contemporary Lo Chen drama. Wang is a detective's son whose attempt to punish a swindler leave...
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My Son
1972
Fury of King Boxer
5.5/2
Jimmy Wang Yu leads revolutionaries against the Manchus featuring his trademark huge fights.
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Fury of King Boxer
1967
Auntie Lan
0/0
The contemporary issue of single mothers is sensitively handled in this melodrama as a young woman must decide whether she will tell the new man in he...
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Auntie Lan
1971
The Hero
5.8/4
A village under the thumb of a band of thugs recruits a hero to help fight them off.
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The Hero
1967
Asia-Pol
5.9/4
Yang Ming Xuan intercepts a truckload of contraband, but the criminals stage a brazen helicopter attack, ruthlessly eliminating their own operatives a...
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Asia-Pol
1980
The Battle of Ku-Ning-Tou
0/0
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The Battle of Ku-Ning-Tou
1971
The Brave and the Evil
6/1
Wang Yu stars as the charismatic martial arts master Iron Palm who crosses paths on the road with angry swordswoman Hung (Shang-Kuan Ling Feng, Dragon...
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The Brave and the Evil
1983
Fantasy Mission Force
4.767/45
A force of loners and fighters is put together to try and rescue the generals and save the war effort with the promise of gold and pardons of past cri...
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Fantasy Mission Force
1973
The Tattooed Dragon
8/1
Written and directed by Lo Wei for Golden Harvest, this feature stars Wang Yu as a guy known only as The Dragon – he’s got super sharp hearing! He’s a...
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The Tattooed Dragon
1971
The Invincible Sword
4/1
During the Sung dynasty, Ch'in Kuei, a corrupt premier, orders the arrest of Yüeh Fei, an heroic general. Ling Yu Fong, an idealistic follower of the...
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The Invincible Sword
1977
One Arm Chivalry Fights Against One Arm Chivalry
5/1
The story centers on a secret society that plots to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and resume the Ming monarchy. The organization gains the support of num...
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One Arm Chivalry Fights Against One Arm Chivalry
1973
Queen of Fist
5.5/2
Local gangsters apply pressure to the wrong family when they realize that the leader of the family is a mother with powerful kung fu skills.
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Queen of Fist
1973
Beach of the War Gods
5.3/11
In the waning days of the Ming dynasty, Japanese marauders raid villages on the Chinese coast. A wandering swordsman single-handedly dispatches a gro...
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Beach of the War Gods
1976
Tiger & Crane Fists
6/2
Two masters from rival Kung Fu schools must combine their skills to defeat an evil Japanese lord.
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Tiger & Crane Fists
1977
The Criminal
0/0
A court justice finds himself in a bad spot when the criminal case that he hears involves members of his own family. He jails his own son for murder a...
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The Criminal
1973
Seaman No. 7
6.5/2
When a sailor accidentally kills a Japanese man in a bar room brawl, he tries to escape the law by hiding himself in a freighter heading for Japan onl...
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Seaman No. 7
1971
The Gallant Duo
0/0
A merciless professional killer is hired by an evil court official to get rid of his opponents. Soon, the assassin discovers that the official was res...
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The Gallant Duo
1971
The Sword
0/0
This Film Centers On A Famous Sword, A Master Swordsman, And A Young Fighter Obsessed With A Personal Quest
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The Sword
1973
The Black Friday
0/0
Wang Yu as a pimp with redeeming qualities — concern for a hospitalised sister and love for a "good" girl — which throw him into conflict with his bos...
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The Black Friday
1975
My Wacky, Wacky World
10/1
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My Wacky, Wacky World
2005
A Century of Light and Shadow
0/0
Revisit 100 years of Chinese cinema through the RTHK TV program A Century of Light and Shadow. Aired in 2005, this interesting and informative documen...
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A Century of Light and Shadow
1974
Four Real Friends
6/9
When a case of gold is stolen in transit, the surviving member of an escort party, Sung tries to recover it. He initially turns to Master Wu who unfor...
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Four Real Friends
1972
The Rebel Boxer
2/1
Believing that her brother has been murdered, a martial artist (Nancy Yen) sets out to avenge him.
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The Rebel Boxer
1974
My Father, My Husband, My Son
0/0
Taiwanese drama film directed by Pai Ching-jui.
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My Father, My Husband, My Son
1966
The Joy of Spring
0/0
Hong Kong musical directed by Lo Chen.
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The Joy of Spring
1972
The Gallant
0/0
In this martial arts anthology film, Wang Yu plays three different characters, each of whom must employ his fighting skills to the full.
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The Gallant
2013
Soul
6.237/19
Chuan, a quiet 30-year-old man working as a chef in a Japanese restaurant, collapses suddenly and is rushed to a hospital. His colleagues send him to...
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Soul
1992
Requital
5.5/4
A young Taiwanese man after being released from prison starts his life as a gangster. He goes to Hong Kong to do some business with the Triads.
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Requital
1992
Shogun and Little Kitchen
0/0
Bo is the owner of an old building in Hong Kong. He sublets his building to other people, and even though they never pay rent on time, Bo still treats...
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Shogun and Little Kitchen
1972
Iron Fist Adventure
8/3
An action-packed, flamboyant kung-fu adventure, based around a double revenge tale. The hero Kwan, stoic in the face of extremes, grits and airs his '...
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Iron Fist Adventure
1972
The Invincible
5.5/2
After mistakenly helping Chang-qing, the sister of ruthless Mongol chieftain Liang escape capture by Song forces, Mu-bai sets out to make amends by as...
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The Invincible
1994
Cinema of Vengeance
5.4/5
A documentary study of martial arts films and their leading protagonists. Included are profiles of such artists as Bruce Lee, Cynthia Rothrock, Jackie...
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Cinema of Vengeance
1993
The Beheaded 1000
7.7/3
An executioner beheads his 1000th criminal, and unleashes a demon army headed by an evil witch called the Blood Lotus
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The Beheaded 1000
1977
Revenge Of Kung Fu Mao
0/0
A housewife is searching for her errant husband as he seeks revenge on his killers.
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Revenge Of Kung Fu Mao
1973
Heiße Ware aus Hong Kong
0/0
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Heiße Ware aus Hong Kong
1971
The Professional Killer
4/1
Shaw Brothers star Wang Yu plays Ho Gang, a competent swordsman who takes a job as a hired assassin. Though reluctant he ends up becoming highly succe...
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The Professional Killer
2015
Doctor's Innocence
0/0
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Doctor's Innocence
1975
The Double Double Cross
0/0
Jimmy Wang Wu plays an outsider caught between two gangs.
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The Double Double Cross
1973
The Iron Man
4/1
In 1944 Chang Chin's father was murdered by the Japanese with the help of Ching Tang and Fan Hsi-Shang, two collaborators led by Fung Mu. Now a grown...
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The Iron Man
1978
Big Leap Forward
0/0
1978 Hong Kong comedy Big Leap Forward aka Tian jiang heng cai, directed by Kuen Yeung, starring Jimmy Wang Yu.
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Big Leap Forward
1977
The Lantern Street
0/0
The Lantern Street is a taiwanese Martial Arts movie starring Jimmy Wang Yu.
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The Lantern Street
1973
Fast Fists
0/0
The man, the legend, the hero known as Jimmy Wang Yu returns in his greatest adventure since the One Armed Swordsman! Wang Yu must protect an army Ge...
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Fast Fists
2019
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
6.7/45
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong...
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Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
1966
Tiger Boy
0/0
Tiger Boy, an itinerant young knight-errant bent on revenge for his father's death 15 years earlier rescues a young maiden after her brother is killed...
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Tiger Boy
1971
Rage of the Master
4/1
Tiger Wong (Jimmy Wang Yu) is a student of martial arts who made a promise to his late father never to show his martial arts skills in public. a gang...
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Rage of the Master
2003
The Master: Chang Cheh Documentary
0/0
One of the greatest, prolific and most influential action directors in history Chang Cheh! Documentary about the Shaw Brother's most prolific directo...
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The Master: Chang Cheh Documentary
2011
Let's Go!
0/0
Siu Sheung (Juno Mak) is a solitary and frustrated young man. He works as a delivery boy at a small noodle shop and lives with his mother (Pat Ha) in...
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Let's Go!
1985
Clash of the Professionals
0/0
Clash of the Professionals, 1985, Jimmy Wang Yu. Taiwan. Action.
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Clash of the Professionals
1976
The Private Eyes
6.3/29
The film revolves around the exploits of a detective agency in Hong Kong called Mannix Private Detective Agency. It is headed by private detective Won...
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The Private Eyes
1978
Boxer, Lover, Lawyer
0/0
Brothers Zhengxiong and Zhenghan lost their father in their early years. The brothers have been dependent on each other since they were young, and the...
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