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River Of Fury (1973)
Douban
other title: 江湖行
本片为倪匡编剧,何莉莉、李修贤及谷峰领衔主演。故事描述,葛衣情(何莉莉)乃江南越剧戏班台柱,为其母之摇钱树;后葛邂逅了船主舵伯(谷峰)的义子野壮子(李修贤),两情相悦,决意结婚,但葛母故意索取巨额聘礼;舵为促成这段姻缘,借钱给野。可惜戏班到了宁波县城,葛母唯利是图,把女儿许给纨裤子弟;当野找葛问究竟,葛却表明移情别恋;野决定听从舵的劝告,充当其助手,暗中作贩毒勾当…… 《江湖行》是现代著名作家徐讦的代表作,文学成就颇高。1973年,这一名著被擅长现代拳脚片的张曾泽(代表作为《路客与刀客》)搬上银幕,故事被大刀阔斧的删繁就简,只保留野壮子(李修贤饰)与长辈舵伯(谷峰饰)的恩怨,以及与名伶葛衣情(何莉莉饰)的恩怨。亦因如此,短短80分钟的影片虽然显得非常紧凑,但野壮子踏入江湖的情感失落只有对葛衣情的负心薄幸有细致的刻画,其余未能细致的展开,显然不及原著来得震撼人心。不过,影片结尾李修贤与谷峰的一场你死我活的打斗戏倒相当精彩,而它的动作设计则是当时还未成名的袁和平(字幕打的是“袁大眼”)和袁祥仁兄弟。 对于李修贤而言,《江湖行》是他最早担纲主演并且引起轰动的作品。当时他刚刚20岁,却已经被张彻领入行三年了。《江湖行》中的男主角由幼稚到反省的心理路程对于一个毛头小子实在有难度,所幸李修贤不负众望,表演出色获得好评,看来日后获得香港金像、台湾金马双料影帝绝非侥幸。

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Death Ring (1983)
擂台
other title: 擂台 / เลือดตี๋ก็สีแดง
The Godfather of the classic Shaw Brothers kung fu films, Chang Cheh directs a group of Shaw superstars which includes Ti Lung and Chen Kuan-Tai in this kung fu thriller. When a father is framed for murder, his son travels to exotic Thailand to find him and ends up fighting in a 'Death Ring' championship.

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The Iron Monkey (1977)
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other title: 铁马骝 / 鐵馬騮 …
Iron is the son of a rebel leader, but prefers to spend his days gambling and getting into fights. When his father's group is arrested and executed, Iron is forced to flee and hide in the woods as a beggar and thief. After being taken in by a Shaolin monastery and trained in the art of Monkey-Style Kung Fu, Iron vows to hunt down his father's killer and avenge his death.

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Brave Archer and His Mate (1982)
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★ 4.4 17 ratings
张彻 actor: 江生 / 郭追 …
other title: 神雕侠侣 / 神鵰俠侶 …
Guo Jing and Huang Rong return to Peach Blossom Island and are shocked to see that Guo's first martial arts teachers, the "Seven Freaks of Jiangnan", have all been murdered except for Ke Zhen'e. Guo Jing is tricked into believing that Huang Rong's father, Huang Yaoshi, is responsible for the murders and he attempts to avenge his teachers by fighting Huang Yaoshi. The intelligent Huang Rong eventually uncovers the truth and reveals that the murders are actually part of a plot masterminded by Ouyang Feng and Yang Kang. Ouyang and Yang want to make Guo Jing and Huang Yaoshi kill each other and Yang can learn Ouyang's newly mastered skills from the fake copy of the Nine Yin Manual.

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The Snake Prince (1976)
Douban
★ 6.2 9 ratings
罗臻 actor: 狄龙 / 林珍奇 …
other title: 蛇王子
本片拍於1976年,由罗臻执导、倪匡编剧,剧情充满奇幻色彩,并由影帝狄龙领衔主演。故事描述广西蛇山中有三条巨蛇──蛇王子(狄龙 饰)、黑蛇(吴杭生 饰)及黄蛇(汪禹 饰);一夜三蛇化成人形与苗寨男女载歌载舞,蛇王子更因此爱上苗寨女子黑琴(林珍奇 饰)。后苗寨旱灾,蛇王子答应率蛇作法,引水入寨,但条件是要娶黑琴为妻……

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Life Gamble (1978)
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★ 6.8 13 ratings
张彻 actor: 傅声 / 郭追 …
other title: 生死门 / 生死門 …
Legendary director Chang Cheh teamed his latest big star, Alexander Fu Sheng, with future Venoms Lo Meng and Kuo Chue to create another winner in his vaunted filmography. Joining them were the top supporting actors and the prettiest starlets, for an entertaining, exciting tale of a kung-fu blacksmith taking on four famous robbers while a villainous gambling boss plots to destroy them.

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The Heroes (1980)
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★ 8.2 6 ratings
午马 actor: 狄龙 / 李修贤 …
other title: 少林英雄 / 侠骨英雄传 …
Former Shaolin man Marshal Kao takes his former classmates prisoner and, instead of executing them, proposes to his Qing commander that he torture them until they're willing to fight on behalf of the Qings. The 'torture' comes to look increasingly like strenuous kung fu training with Kao putting the prisoners through their paces. The Qing governor and his aides become suspicious of Kao's motives, although the beautiful Princess Shao Lung develops her own ideas about him.

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The Spiritual Boxer (1975)
神打
★ 6.3 18 ratings
other title: 神打 / Le boxeur spirituel …
Wang Yu plays Hsiao Chien, a con artist vagabond who uses his kung fu skills and parlor tricks to convince superstitious villagers that he can use his body as a vessel for angry gods. However, when the villagers are threatened by a hostile force, Chien must learn to use his skills to protect the innocent.

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侠客行 (1982)
Douban
★ 5.6 10 ratings
张彻 actor: 郭追 / 唐菁 …
other title: Ode to Gallantry
大導演張徹將金庸名著改編搬上銀幕,動用龐大演員陣容,包括由郭追分飾推動故事發展的骨幹人物石中玉、石中堅兄弟、文雪兒飾女主角叮噹、唐菁飾玄素莊莊主石清、劉慧玲飾閔柔、王力飾「摩天居士」謝煙客等等。故事講述石中堅自幼隨養母梅芳姑於深山居住,一日偶拾「玄鐵令」,並得謝煙客傳授武功,卻被長樂幫幫眾誤認為幫主石中玉;及後更被叮噹所騙,願意替石中玉到雪山派代罪領死。最後真相大白,石中堅竟為石清失散多年的兒子……本片結構緊湊,情節曲折奇詭,既描寫武林恩怨,也刻劃江湖兒女情,顯示了金庸作品的超凡造詣以及張徹導演手法的老到功力,是一部不可多得的佳作。

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Shaolin Executioners (1977)
洪熙官
★ 6.2 17 ratings
other title: 洪熙官 / 洪熙官与洪文定 …
A couple unite - she is fluent in the crane style of kung fu, he in tiger style. They have a son, but the boy's father is killed by the evil eunuch Pai Mei. Disguised as a girl, his mom trains him in crane style while he secretly learns tiger style from his father's training manual.

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To Kill a Mastermind (1979)
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★ 6.0 6 ratings
孙仲 actor: 邓伟豪 / 元彬 …
other title: 七煞 / To Kill A Mastermind
The Chi Sha Clan is a vast network of deadly criminals proficient in martial arts. Growing in number at an alarming rate, the Imperial Court orders Yang Chen-yu and his followers to eliminate them. However, doing this proves difficult as no one knows the identity of the mastermind behind the Chi Sha, not even its own members. Spies infiltrate the organization in an effort to destroy from within. But then, no one knows who the spies are and after a few ambushes and security breaches, clan deputies begin suspecting one another of being traitors. With the Chi Sha dwindling in numbers, it's only a matter of time before the mastermind must reveal himself.

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Lady with a Sword (1971)
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★ 5.0 6 ratings
other title: 凤飞飞 / 鳳飛飛 …
After a trio of rogues murder her sister and leave her nephew for dead, a skilled swordswoman seeks revenge upon them and soon discovers she has a dismaying connection to the main culprit.

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The Drug Addicts (1974)
Douban
★ 6.5 8 ratings
姜大卫 actor: 狄龙 / 王钟 …
other title: 吸毒者
关正群(狄龙 饰)在中药行老板陈尚龙(卢迪 饰)的威逼利诱之下染上了毒瘾,不仅如此,他还以贩养吸,暗地里帮助陈尚龙贩卖毒品。曾健(王钟 饰)是关正群相识多年的老友,不忍心看到关正群就此堕落,曾健苦口婆心的劝说,总算让关正群良心发现想要改邪归正。 在经历了非常痛苦的挣扎后,关正群总算解毒成功了,不仅如此,他还将扫毒人员汤国樑(秦沛 饰)介绍给了曾健,协助他们搜集陈尚龙贩毒的证据。然而,关正群一行人的一举一动早就被狡猾奸诈的陈尚龙尽收眼底,为了保护自己的利益,陈尚龙决定将这些人除之而后快。

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Judgement of an Assassin (1977)
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★ 5.3 6 ratings
孙仲 actor: 姜大卫 / 宗华 …
other title: 决杀令 / 决殺令 …
Sun Chung was already a valued comedy, romance, and modern crime filmmaker, when, through this tale of the 100 Poison Clique's obsessive ambition to destroy all rivals, he started bringing morality and motivation to martial arts movies like never before. Kung-fu superstar David Chiang and prominent choreographer Tang Chia lead the cast in a bloody clan clash centered on the trial of an admitted mass murderer and serial rapist. It was just the beginning of Sun Chung's exploration in emotion.

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Heaven and Hell (1980)
第三類打鬥
★ 5.2 6 ratings
张彻 actor: 傅声 / 姜大卫 …
other title: 第三类打斗 / 第三類打鬥 …
When a fallen angel descends to the Earth on a mission to storm the underworld, a love shared between angels and humans offers telling testament to the power of a lucky ghost. In the battle that follows, both the living and the dead will discover that a war waged in hell could have consequences that resound forever.

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The Condemned (1976)
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★ 6.6 7 ratings
other title: 死囚 / Der Rächer aus der Todeszelle
Chiang plays a righteous character who helps an unjustly imprisoned swordsman accused of stealing. Together they break out of prison and serve notice to all the evil men in their lives that a new deadly duo is in town.