Tsao Chien
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1922-09-08
Locus Natus:
Et ut: 曹健, Cao Jian, Tsao Chien, Tso Kin, Cho Gin, Chou Kin, Tsao Chin, Tsang Kin, Chao Chien, Tsao Gen, Cho Kin
The Shaolin Brothers
Complicated mix of Chinese history and myth, where old Shaolin friends find themselves on different sides, one a Ching general, and the other...
release : 1977.03.12popularis : 3.39
Conspiracy
To gain control of a gold mine, the owner Ho Kwai-Shan is poisoned by the Lee family. His daughter Yu-Ling is staying with her uncle at his martial...
release : 1975.12.31popularis : 0.281
The Boxer from Shantung
Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and...
release : 1972.02.11popularis : 10.595
Vengeance of Snow-Maid
Snow Maid spends years practicing kung fu under the guidance of Ugly Maid in the mountains. All she has on her mind in these years is to avenge her...
release : 1970.03.06popularis : 0.207
Fighting of Shaolin Monks
The Fighting of Shaolin Monk tells the story of the Famed Monk, Tamo (Chen Sing Hong Kong's most prolific action star) who was one of the original...
release : 1976.11.19popularis : 2.401
Thunderstorm Sword
A swordsman and swordswoman fight to protect Lady Liu who is trying to return to power. She's traveling in a coffin, the heroes can only hope they...
release : 1970.04.13popularis : 0.914
Leave It to Destiny
A TV movie and part of groundbreaking Taiwan TV series “Eleven Women”
release : 1981.12.05popularis : 0.685
Painted Waves of Love
A talented woman painter falls in love with a gallery owner, who is married. His son falls in love with her niece at first sight. The painter gets...
release : 1976.10.07popularis : 0.972
Snuff Bottle Connection
As China and Russia's governments are talking peace, traitorous agents on both sides seek war. Enter John Liu as a special agent sent to identify who...
release : 1977.01.01popularis : 6.986
Godfather from Canton
A coolie is ofter a job a policeman after saving a government official, and through treachery and corruption rises through the ranks of the police,...
release : 1982.06.11popularis : 1.14
Four Moods
Directed by some of most well known Chinese-language directors of the time, the portmanteau film Four Moods was an attempt to alleviate Li...
release : 1970.10.08popularis : 3.848
Purple Darts
In an attempt to seize the famous Tai Hsuan Book of Swords the outlaws Wang, Ku, Lu and Pai Feng attack the Hsia Tien Tsai Mansion and slaughter all...
release : 1969.01.23popularis : 1.403
Growing Up
The story follows a young man as he changes from an intelligently aware youth, to a teenager with much less confidence than he once had, and finally,...
release : 1983.01.29popularis : 2.555
Beach of the War Gods
In the waning days of the Ming dynasty, Japanese marauders raid villages on the Chinese coast. A wandering swordsman single-handedly dispatches a...
release : 1973.07.13popularis : 3.119
Iron Mistress
During the time of the Sung dynasty (roughly, around the 12th century), rebels in North China are fighting the Tartar invaders. A lady known as the...
release : 1969.10.07popularis : 1.531
Flying Masters of Kung Fu
In order to avenge her father's murder, Hsiang Ying trains herself in the deadliest form of swordplay. Her only goal - to kill all of her father's...
release : 1979.02.01popularis : 2.49
Outside the Window
Brigitte Lin's debut film is a melodrama in which her character gets involved in a socially unacceptable relationship and then forced into marriage.
release : 1973.08.24popularis : 2.796
The Fists of Vengeance
Chinese mine workers are being cruelly suppressed by the Japanese, and a Chinese officer is sent to the scene. In an effort to hide the evil truth,...
release : 1974.01.01popularis : 1.266
The Dragon vs. Needles of Death
A young man joins a kung-fu academy but fails to fit in. He soon runs off with the master's daughter and becomes a salt smuggler. He ends up joining...
release : 1976.01.01popularis : 1.66
Dragon Inn
China, year 1457. The Minister of Defense is executed, and his children are sentenced to exile by order of the tyrannical Tsao. Fearful of future...
release : 1967.10.21popularis : 10.127
The Ferocious Brothers
A man returns to Japan to avenge the death of his father.
release : 1972.01.01popularis : 1.299
A Touch of Zen
Ku Shen Chai, an artist in his early 30s, still lives with his mother, but he is suddenly shaken by the arrival of Yang Hui-ching, a mysterious...
release : 1971.11.18popularis : 11.19
The Trios of the Peach Garden
A film based on the Oath of the Peach Garden which is a fictional event in the 14th-century Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by...
release : 1968.10.17popularis : 0.94
The Absurd Brave
The arrest and execution of the head of the outlawed Five Flower sect leaves his four offspring thirsty for revenge! But none of his children are...
release : 1969.01.01popularis : 1.641
Beauty of Beauties
Hsi Shih: The Beauty of Beauties was one of the most ambitious films made in the Taiwan film industry in the 1960s. After leaving The Shaw Brothers...
release : 1965.10.22popularis : 2.341
Even the Sun is Sobbing
Park Mei Ji receives a phone call from a woman who says she and Mei Ji's husband, Inn Min, are living together in Taipei and raising a son. Mei Ji...
release : 1984.03.10popularis : 2.921
Bachelor's Delight
Young man Po Wen is in hot soup when writing a love story which involves a film star. Po Wen accidentally mails his own photographs to the...
release : 1978.09.11popularis : 2.821
Shadow Girl
The director Hsin Chi is a Taiwanese, and is famous for the Taiwanese-speaking movies. This movie was his first movie shot for Hong Kong company,...
release : 1971.09.10popularis : 0.749
Return of the 18 Bronzemen
Despite the national resistance, the Manchurians have taken over China, but the Ching Emperor fears that the Shaolin Temple disciples would overthrow...
release : 1976.08.14popularis : 2.918
Fist of Shaolin
A man trains in kung-fu to avenge the murder of his father
release : 1975.11.05popularis : 1.222
The Challenge of the Lady Ninja
During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, a Chinese woman trains in the covert arts. When she arrives in Hong Kong, she learns that her brother...
release : 2020.12.02popularis : 6.009
The Swordsman of All Swordsmen
A master swordsman is on a twenty year quest to revenge the death of his parents.
release : 1968.10.07popularis : 1.994
Axing the Coffin: Death is Eternal
When the Duke Hsuan Ch'i sends a group of ninjas to kill the elderly General Tieng and kidnap his daughter the beautiful, Szu Chin, she is rescued by...
release : 1969.06.11popularis : 3.356
The Escape
Everyone seems to want to stop General Tsai from leaving Peking.
release : 1972.11.30popularis : 0.476
The House for Love
Lo Wen (Chin Han) is enamored of his college sweetheart Xiao Yu (Brigitte Lin), and the two wish to get married as soon as they possibly can. But Lo...
release : 1974.11.08popularis : 1.041
Swift Shaolin Boxer
Angelo Mao, Judy Lee and Barry Chen star in this tale of murder, intrigue and betrayal. When two separate imperial agents stay in the same room at...
release : 1978.05.12popularis : 1.996
Errant Love
Kao Han (Kenny Bee) and Pan-yun (Xiu-ling Lu) meet for the first time as strangers in a pet shop. It is destiny that they meet a second time and Kao...
release : 1981.02.05popularis : 2.266
Nightmarish Highway
A car accident on a curvy road with a history of death is just the beginning of a woman's horror story.
release : 1982.09.02popularis : 0.965
A Sword Named Revenge
Two swordsmen from separate sects band together to kill Ruthless Chi, head of another sect.But did he really die? Events show that the Ruthless...
release : 1981.09.11popularis : 0.888
Hot Wave
A taiwanese romance set during the summer starring Brigitte Lin.
release : 1975.06.06popularis : 0.68
"Golden Sand" Sword
The Golden Blade should be kept in the hands of a good person; if it fell into the wrong hands the outcome would be terrible. Evil Black Bat asked...
release : 1969.06.14popularis : 1.754
By Love Obsessed
While taking pictures in a remote forest, a young photographer encounters a beautiful, mysterious girl. The photographer soon discovers that the girl...
release : 1979.10.25popularis : 0.694
Our Neighbor
An orphaned girl in a poverty-stricken neighborhood is adopted by a kindly neighbor. He struggles to support her honestly, despite opportunities to...
release : 1963.11.08popularis : 2.107
The Dark Alley
Set against the backdrop of Thai International Boxing, what starts out as a happy love story between Wong, a champion boxer, and his beloved,...
release : 1972.11.10popularis : 2.138
Desperate Crisis
Thrilling basher from Taiwan set amidst the dangerous and contemporary world of gangsters & counterfeiters. A young Special agent investigates the...
release : 1974.07.19popularis : 0.445
Deadly Opponents
Flame hand wants to rule the martial world and test her skills, therefore she kills off many heroes, and Ice hand seeks to put an end to her. Family...
release : 1978.12.30popularis : 1.393
Man on the Police Gazette
The notorious bandit, Shi Wen Lung breaks out of a California jail and flees back to China to carry on his life of crime. Eventually the Country...
release : 1972.08.19popularis : 1.085
The Outsiders
In 1985, senior high school student A-Qing was found fornicating with a staff member at school and got expelled. His deeply humiliated veteran father...
release : 1986.08.23popularis : 2.736
Chinese Kung Fu and Acupuncture
Kung Fu combined with acupuncture is used with great effect to defeat Japanese invaders in an Eastern Town in China.
release : 1973.07.03popularis : 1.877
The Furious Killer
A young girl witnesses the massacre of her family at the hands of cold blooded kung fu killers. She spends the next ten years mastering the martial...
release : 1973.12.12popularis : 0.605
One Armed Swordsman Against Nine Killers
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.
release : 1976.01.01popularis : 1.658
The Glory of the Sunset
A young doctor, regardless of his family’s objection, had decided to marry his beloved one. When he discovered that he had contracted a...
release : 1977.07.26popularis : 1.431
The Everlasting Glory
A most touching and consistently heart-gripping war drama depicts the heroic deeds of General Chang Tsu-chung who was even held in high esteem and...
release : 1976.07.19popularis : 0.813
News Hen
An early romantic comedy starring Brigitte Lin.
release : 1974.12.05popularis : 0.98
He Loved Once Too Many
An early drama starring Brigitte Lin.
release : 1975.08.30popularis : 1.527
A Story of Lou Po-Wen
Tsu Hong Wu is a highly fictionalized fantasy retelling of the early years of Zhu Yuanzhang’s life that was obviously geared toward younger...
release : 1971.02.18popularis : 0.709
Impetuous Fire
The search for the essence of Kung Fu leads our dynamic duo Cherry Pai and Champion Cheng into an adventure of terror, intrigue and blood lust -...
release : 1973.01.01popularis : 1.305
The Hero
A village under the thumb of a band of thugs recruits a hero to help fight them off.
release : 1971.12.31popularis : 2.442
The Invincible
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...
release : 1972.07.14popularis : 3.661
Black and White Umbrellas
Top class swordplay action from Taiwan, where umbrellas are used as swords.
release : 1971.09.16popularis : 1.663
Heroic Pioneers
Taiwan's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986. In the story, the kindly and very efficient Chinese settlers are...
release : 1986.10.09popularis : 1.343
The Last Night of Madam Chin
Set in Shanghai in the 1940s. Story of a ballroom girl Jolie Chan who falls in love with a student and becomes pregnant, but the student's family...
release : 1984.11.08popularis : 3.062
Love with Cloud
Wong Chi-chae, an ambitious young doctor, is secretly in a relationship with Cheng Yuh-hsya, a nurse. When the president of the hospital selects Wong...
release : 1981.01.01popularis : 1.643
The Wheel of Life
Jointly and respectively directed by King Hu, Lee Hsing, and Pai Ching-Jui, three major Taiwan directors of the 1970s, this film consist of three...
release : 1983.01.01popularis : 2.276
The Playful Girl
1971 movie by Yang Su staring Chen Chen
release : 1971.09.15popularis : 0.928
Black Invitation
Brilliant Taiwan wuxia film Black Invitation directed by Chou Hsu Chiang. Living large in the Fuhu Shan region, Qiu San (Ma Ji) and his ruthless gang...
release : 1969.01.01popularis : 1.841
The Pirate
Pirate Chang Pao-Chai springs a leak after an otherwise successful raid on a foreign ship. He goes ashore to get materials to patch his ship up,...
release : 1973.07.27popularis : 2.187
Bruce Takes Dragon Town
Alan Tang is forced into a swirling dilemma between two antagonistic drug smugglers. Double crossed, he manages to emerge triumphant. See this kung...
release : 1974.01.01popularis : 2.157
The Way of the Tiger
The greatest martial arts spectacular of all time!
release : 1973.02.26popularis : 2.429