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Movie poster for 36th Chamber of Shaolin

(111 min)

1978 - Kung Fu - China

During the Qing dynasty, a young student named Liu Yu-De feels hopeless because of the oppressive Manchu forces. His school teacher motivates him to join the rebel causes and a patriotic feeling overwhelms him as he can now do something to help his people. Unfortunately for them, the Manchu forces did not take long to discover that something underground was happening in the small town. In the attempt by the Manchu to capture the rebels, Lius fathers and his teacher get killed. Liu barely manages to escape the raid, but now his only goal is to avenge the death of his father. To attain this goal he decides to go learn kung fu in a Shaolin Temple. But his training is much harder than he expected. The rules of Shaolin are very strict and Liu Yu-De will have to pass through all the 35 chambers, in order, before he can finally complete his training. Each chamber is specially designed to challenge an aspect of the human endurance. However, Liu will also discover that not only physical traini

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Director : Chia Liang Liu, Tang Wei Chen

Cast : Gordon Liu, Lau Kar Wing, Lo Lieh, Wilson Tong, Wong Yu, Simon Yuen

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Eight Diagram Pole Fighter

(93 min)

1984 - Kung Fu - Hong Kong

Seven brothers and the father of the Yang family are renowned for their spear fighting skills, but they are led into a trap in battle. Their betrayer is Pan Mei, who used to be in league with the Yangs, but now recognises them as a threat to his own power. Pan Mei calls upon a group of bandits known as the Tartars to kill all but two of the brothers, one of whom goes insane (Alexander Fu Sheng), and the other seeks to join a Shaolin Temple (Gordon Liu). The temple do not initially believe that their new applicant has the temperament to be a monk, but in a painful display of his determination, he is eventually accepted, despite his need to avenge the deaths of his brothers.

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Director : Lau Kar Leung

Cast : Alexander Fu Sheng, Gordon Liu, Lau Kar-Leung, Lily Li, Wang Yu

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Dirty Ho

(97 min)

1979 - Kung Fu, Comedy - Hong Kong

‘Dirty’ Ho (Wong Yue) is a nasty piece of work He is an arrogant thief who spends his time buying female attention in brothels. One day he meets his match when Wang (Gordon Liu), a travelling jeweller cons him into donating wealth to charity. Several times, Ho attacks Wang with his kung fu, but Ho, apparently not a fighter, always seems to avoid harm. Wang uses his wits to coerce the unwilling Dirty Ho to clean up his act. As the relationship between the two evolves, it becomes apparent that the righteous Wang is in fact a kung fu master, and so much more than a mere jeweller.

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Director : Lau Kar Leung

Cast : Wong Yue, Gordon Liu, Lieh Lo, Lung Wei Wang

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Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2

(111 min)

2003 - Action, Kung Fu, Swordplay, Asian Related - USA

Uma Thurman plays 'The Bride" who takes revenge against Bill and his Deadly Viper Assassination Squad for putting a slug in her head prior to her wedding, bun in the oven and all. Genres are meshed together as Tarantino chronicles her blood soaked journey, scratching names off of her 'Death List" all the way home.

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Director : Quentin Tarantino

Cast : Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Darryl Hannah, Gordon Liu, David Carradine

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The Last Hero In China

(90 min)

1993 - Kung Fu, Comedy - Hong Kong

Po Chi Lam is gaining so many students that Wong Fei Hung needs to relocate. He buys a new place, but after moving in, discovers that there is a brothel next door. A new military officer has taken charge, and from the outset, he’s obviously the maniacal type. Sure enough, he is in league with an evil religious cult and corrupt foreign dignitaries, so it’s up to Wong Fei Hung to dress up as a chicken and save the day (!).

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Director : Wong Jing

Cast : Jet Li, Sharla Cheung Man, Gordon Liu, Anita Yeun, Leung Ka-Yan

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Return To 36th Chamber of Shaolin

(95 min)

1980 - Kung Fu - Hong Kong

A young conman named Chou Jen Chieh (Gordon Liu) pretends to be the famous Shaolin monk San Te in order to scare corrupt bosses into treating their workers fairly. When the bosses uncover Chieh as a fraudster, he decides to join Shaolin monastery for real. He cons his way into the temple, but the abbot turns out to be the real San Te, who has recognised great potential in the young trickster.

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Director : Lau Kar-Leung

Cast : Gordon Liu, Lung Wei Wang, Ching Ching Yueng, Kara Hui

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Shaolin Vs Evil Dead

(95 min)

2004 - Horror, Martial Arts, Fantasy - Hong Kong

Brother White (Gordon Liu) is a travelling priest and an expert in the supernatural. While escorting some vampires to their burial, he chances upon a haunted village where he bumps into his old rival Brother Black (Louis Fan). Brother Black destroys the souls of the dead rather than helping them on their way to reincarnation, and his jealousy of Brother White leads him to resurrect an ancient evil.

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Director : Douglas Kung

Cast : Gordon Liu, Louis Fan, Jackie Woo, Shannon Yoh, Kit Cheung, Shi Xiao-hu

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