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The Rescue (1971)
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Original name: 血酒天牢
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Renowned writer Shen Chiang had become so popular for his scripts that the studio let him direct as well. Here he continued his winning ways with this tale of the end of the Sung Dynasty and the survivors who band together to save their prime minister. Shen outdoes himself with this bold and stirring story of daring Sung avengers (led by Shaws' first international star, Lo Lieh), who must fight their way out of trap after trap.
Plot:
martial arts, prison escape, torture, patriotism, dissident, dungeon, beating, hung by wrists
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 81 min.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
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Duration: 103 min.
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A wandering swordsman named Lu Fang (Jimmy Wang Yu) who is returning from battle discovers that several farmers have kidnapped the local magistrate’s daughter. He sides with them after learning that this is an act of desperation to improve their ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 101 min.
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Shaolin firebrands Fang Shih-yu, Hung His-kuan, and Hu Huei-chien are as famous in Asia as the Three Musketeers are in America and Europe. So when the “godfather of the kung-fu film,” Chang Cheh decided to tell their stories with Alexander Fu ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
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Duration: 95 min.
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Shaolin practitioners and brothers Wu and Hung kill the merciless Pai Mei. However, Pai Mei's even more merciless brother White Lotus takes revenge; killing most of the Shaolin disciples, including Wu and Hung's girlfriend, leaving only ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 82 min.
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Venom regulars Philip Kwok, Chiang Sheng, and Sun Chien star as a gang of unemployed martial artists who spend their days stuffing their faces at local restaurants and letting the staff beat them up instead of paying the bill. Their fortunes appear ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
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Duration: 103 min.
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Genre: Action, Drama
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Duration: 104 min.
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Duration: 107 min.
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Duration: 90 min.
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Duration: 95 min.
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