Fatal Strike
Lung Chien (1916 – May 28, 1975), also known by the name Kim Lung, was a prolific Chinese film director and screenwriter active between the 1950s and the 1970s. Career Born in 1916, Lung Chien explores common themes in Hong Kong cinema such as mixed martial arts or violence in everyday life. He directed more than 30 films mostly in Taiwan and Hong Kong. He died in Taipei in 1975 at the age of 59. Filmography As screenwriter As director * '' The Bridge at Lo-Yang'' (1975) * '' Fatal Strike'' (1974) * '' Gold Snatchers'' (1973) * '' Kung Fu Powerhouse'' (1973) * ''Wang Yu, King of Boxers'' (1973) * ''The Angry Hero'' (1973) * '' Blood of the Leopard'' (1972) * ''Boxers of Loyalty and Righteousness'' (1972) * ''Queen of Fist'' (1972)̽ * ''Extreme Enemy'' (1971) * ''Struggle Karate'' (1971) * ''Ghost Lamp'' (1971) * ''The Bravest Revenge'' (1970) * ''The Darkest Sword'' (1970) * ''Golden Sword and the Blind Swordswoman'' (1970) * ''The Ringing Sword'' (1969) * ''Knight of the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Taipei
Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the northern port city of Keelung. Most of the city rests on the Taipei Basin, an ancient lakebed. The basin is bounded by the relatively narrow valleys of the Keelung and Xindian rivers, which join to form the Tamsui River along the city's western border. The city of Taipei is home to an estimated population of 2,646,204 (2019), forming the core part of the Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area, which includes the nearby cities of New Taipei and Keelung with a population of 7,047,559, the 40th most-populous urban area in the world—roughly one-third of Taiwanese citizens live in the metro district. The name "Taipei" can refer either to the whole metropolitan area or just the city itself. Taipei has been the seat of the ROC central government ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Queen Of Fist
''Queen of Fist'', also known as ''Kung Fu Mama'' (), is a 1972 Hong Kong action martial arts film directed by Lung Chien, produced by Raymond Chow, and starring Hsien Chin-Chu and Wong Fei-lung. Plot An elderly mother travels to Shanghai to look for her missing son. To earn a living, she performs as a street artist with her grandchildren. She discovers that Lin Hie, boss of Shanghai French Concession, killed her son and is holding his daughter (her granddaughter) in captivity. So, she wants to kill the gang leader. Cast * Hsien Chin-Chu as Kung Fu Mama * Zhang Qingqing as Ma Ai-Chen * Jimmy Wang Yu as Ma Yung-Chen * Kang Kai * Tzu Lan * Wong Fei-lung as the gang leader * Tang Chin * Tian Ye * Jin Dao * Zhou Gui * Huang Long * Shan Mao Shan may refer to: People *Shan (surname), or 单 in Chinese, a Chinese surname *Shan, a variant of the Welsh given name usually spelled Siân *Occasionally used as a short form of Shannen/ Shannon Ethnic groups *Shan people, Southea ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1975 Deaths
It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up. * January 2 ** The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. ** Bangladesh revolutionary leader Siraj Sikder is killed by police while in custody. ** A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. * January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier , killing 12 people. * January 7 – OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%. * January 10–February 9 – The flight of ''Soyuz 17'' with the crew of Georgy Grechko and Aleksei Gubarev aboard the ''Salyut 4'' space station. * January 15 – Alvor Agreement: Portuga ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1916 Births
Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Empire, British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * January 9 – WWI: Gallipoli Campaign: The last British troops are evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevails over a joint British and French operation to capture Constantinople. * January 10 – WWI: Erzurum Offensive: Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire. * January 12 – The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, part of the British Empire, is established in present-day Tuvalu and Kiribati. * January 13 – WWI: Battle of Wadi (1916), Battle of Wadi: Ottoman Empire forces defeat the British, during the Mesopotamian campaign in modern-day Iraq. * January 29 – WWI: Paris is bombed by German Empire, German zeppelins. * January 31 – WWI: An attack is planned on Verdun, France. February * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chinese Male Actors
Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of various ethnicities in contemporary China ** Han Chinese, the largest ethnic group in the world and the majority ethnic group in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and Singapore ** Ethnic minorities in China, people of non-Han Chinese ethnicities in modern China ** Ethnic groups in Chinese history, people of various ethnicities in historical China ** Nationals of the People's Republic of China ** Nationals of the Republic of China ** Overseas Chinese, Chinese people residing outside the territories of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan * Sinitic languages, the major branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family ** Chinese language, a group of related languages spoken predominantly in China, sharing a written script (Chinese c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hong Kong Film Directors
Hong may refer to: Places *Høng, a town in Denmark *Hong Kong, a city and a special administrative region in China *Hong, Nigeria *Hong River in China and Vietnam *Lake Hong in China Surnames *Hong (Chinese name) *Hong (Korean name) Organizations *Hong (business), general term for a 19th–20th century trading company based in Hong Kong, Macau or Canton *Hongmen (洪門), a Chinese fraternal organization Creatures *Hamsa (bird), a mythical bird also known was hong *Hong (rainbow-dragon), a two-headed dragon in Chinese mythology *Hong (genus), ''Hong'' (genus), a genus of ladybird {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Malaysian Tiger (film, 1966)
The Malayan tiger is a tiger from a specific population of the ''Panthera tigris tigris'' subspecies that is native to Peninsular Malaysia. This population inhabits the southern and central parts of the Malay Peninsula and has been classified as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2015. , the population was estimated at 80 to 120 mature individuals with a continuous declining trend. In the Malay language, the tiger is called ''harimau'', also abbreviated to ''rimau''. It is also known as the southern Indochinese tiger, to distinguish it from tiger populations in northern parts of Indochina, which are genetically different to this population. Taxonomy ''Felis tigris'' was the scientific name used by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 for the tiger. ''Panthera tigris corbetti'' was proposed by Vratislav Mazák in 1968 for the tiger subspecies in Southeast Asia. ''Panthera tigris jacksoni'' was proposed in 2004 as a subspecies as a genetic analysis indicated differences in mtD ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Flying Over Grass
''Flying Over Grass'', (), is a 1969 Hong Kong action martial arts film directed by Lung Chien, and starring Ching-Ching Chang, Pin Chiang, Hsia Chiang. Plot In medieval China, a lone swordswoman called, for her incredible Kung-Fu prowess, "''Flight over Grass Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...''", helps a group of people defeat a warlord. Cast * Ching-Ching Chang * Pin Chiang * Hsia Chiang * Li Chin * Chiang Han * Bao Hsiao * You Hsiao * Chun Huang * You-Min Ko References External links * 1969 films 1960s action films 1960s martial arts films 1960s Cantonese-language films Films shot in Hong Kong Hong Kong action films Hong Kong films about revenge Hong Kong martial arts films Kung fu films 1960s Mandarin-language films Film ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Knight Of The Sword
''Knight of the Sword'', (), is a 1969 Hong Kong action martial arts film directed by Lung Chien, and starring Yeh Tien, Hsiao Yen Chang, Yu-Hua Ho. Cast * Yeh Tien * Chang Hsiao-yen Chang Hsiao-yen (; born 11 August 1948) is a Taiwanese television host and actress. Born in Shanghai, China, Chang relocated to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War where she started her acting career at the age of five as a child actress in cine ... * Yu-Hua Ho * Chun Huang * Wei Ou * Yueh Sun * Lin Tung References External links * 1969 films 1960s action films 1960s martial arts films 1960s Cantonese-language films Films shot in Hong Kong Hong Kong action films Hong Kong films about revenge Hong Kong martial arts films Kung fu films 1960s Mandarin-language films Films directed by Lung Chien 1970s Hong Kong films {{1970s-China-film-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Ringing Sword
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Darkest Sword
''The Darkest Sword'', also known as ''Hei jian gui jing tian'' (), is a 1970 Hong Kong action martial arts film directed by Lung Chien Lung Chien (1916 – May 28, 1975), also known by the name Kim Lung, was a prolific Chinese film director and screenwriter active between the 1950s and the 1970s. Career Born in 1916, Lung Chien explores common themes in Hong Kong cinema such a ..., produced by Yuan Hsiang Wu, and starring Ching-Ching Chang and Pin Chiang. Plot Tun-Shan is grieved because he unintentionally killed an enemy and doesn't want to fight anymore. Then, he destroys his sword. Meanwhile, Su-Chen, in love with him, convinces him to start fighting again. Cast * Ching-Ching Chang * Pin Chiang * Yuan Yi * Ming-Ming Hsiao * Min-Hsiung Wu References External links * 1970 films 1970 martial arts films 1970s action films 1970s martial arts films 1970s Cantonese-language films Films shot in Hong Kong Hong Kong action films Hong Kong films about reve ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Bravest Revenge
''The Bravest Revenge'', also known as ''Wu lin long hu dou'' (), is a 1970 Hong Kong action martial arts film directed by Lung Chien Lung Chien (1916 – May 28, 1975), also known by the name Kim Lung, was a prolific Chinese film director and screenwriter active between the 1950s and the 1970s. Career Born in 1916, Lung Chien explores common themes in Hong Kong cinema such a ..., produced by L.S. Chang, and starring Polly Ling-Feng Shang-Kuan, Peng Tien and Yuan Yi. Plot Polly's father is murdered, and it's duty for her, her brothers and the ''King of Sword'' to revenge him. Cast * Polly Shang-Kuan as Shi Fang Yi * Tien Peng as Cai Ying Jie * Yi Yuan as Chao Mu Tien * Ma Chi as Shi Yu Long * Wan Chung Shan as Zhu Yi Feng * Hsieh Han as Shan Fei * Kao Ming * Huang Chun * Shao Lo Hui References External links * 1970 films 1970 martial arts films 1970s action films 1970s martial arts films 1970s Cantonese-language films Films set in Shanghai Films shot ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |