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1. Shaw Brothers Kung-fu On Youtube

The Famed Shaw studio was at its heights during the 70s and early 80s. It brought us some of the greatest kungfu/wuxia films to date. A huge list of stars careers began at this studio. So heres the best that runme shaw and run run gave us. If you want to get into the shaw studios , then these 20 i beleive are the best kung fu / wuxia films.
Their are soo many more, some are missing. Some due to IMDB not having box cover or an english name [which ive translated some].
worthy mentionsThe assassin 1967 new one armed swordsmandeadly duothe water marginreturn of the sentimental swordsman
few others But their is a huge libary of fantastic films.

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1.The 36th Chamber of Shaolin(1978)

R115 minAction, Adventure, Drama

A man studies kung fu at the Shaolin Temple to fight back against the oppressive Manchu government.

Director:Chia-Liang Liu Stars:Chia-Hui Liu, Lieh Lo, Chia Yung Liu, Norman Chu

Votes:12,923

2.Five Fingers of Death(1972)

R104 minAction, Drama, Romance

Two martial arts schools prepare for an important tournament.

Director:Chang-hwa Jeong Stars:Lieh Lo, Ping Wang, Hsiung Chao, Chin-Feng Wang

Votes:2,546

KING BOXER AKA FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH . one of the first kung fu films to be shown to the west.

3.Return of the One-Armed Swordsman(1969)

R101 minAction, Adventure

After defeating The Long-Armed Devil and his armies, our nubbed hero has been living in retirement as a farmer, but circumstances causes him to come out of retirement and take on The Eight .. See full summary »

Director:Cheh Chang Stars:Jimmy Wang Yu, Chiao Chiao, Chia Essie Lin, Feng Tien

Votes:1,013

4.Der Todesschlag der Stahlfinger(1976)

Not Rated86 minAction, Drama

Don't miss this one it is excellent. Chinese sword masters pair up to fight off yet another villain for the deadly PeacockDart. The ending is eye popping don't miss this one. Shaw Brothers come thru yet again

Director:Yuen Chor Stars:Lung Ti, Lieh Lo, Li Ching, Ni Tien

Votes:615

Magic blade, fames wuxia film , exellent starring Ti lung .

5.Das Schwert der gelben Tigerin(1966)

Not Rated95 minAction, Crime

A group of bandits kidnaps the governor's son and demands their imprisoned leader to be set free in exchange.

Director:King Hu Stars:Pei-Pei Cheng, Hua Yueh, Chih-Ching Yang, Hung Lieh Chen

Votes:3,262

6.Der Todesstab des Shaolin(1984)

Not Rated98 minAction, Drama

The Yang family was the loyal strong-arm of the Imperial army. But a jealous General betrays the Eilte Spearman and their father to the opposing Mongol army. After an ambush of a battle, .. See full summary »

Director:Chia-Liang Liu Stars:Chia-Hui Liu, Sheng Fu, Lily Li, Kara Wai

Votes:2,254

8 diagram pole fighter

7.Die Herrschaft des Schwertes(1976)

PG-1391 minAction, Drama

Two clans compete for dominance over the martial arts world in this classic of violent swordplay and political intrigue. A complex tale of deception and double crosses. Killer Clans leaves .. See full summary »

Director:Yuen Chor Stars:Fei Ai, Kwok Kuen Chan, Shen Chan, Ping Chen

Votes:461

8.Five Deadly Venoms(1978)

R97 minAction

The final student of a dying martial arts master is instructed to locate the previous five students and defeat any evil ones among them.

Director:Cheh Chang Stars:Sheng Chiang, Chien Sun, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Meng Lo

Votes:5,458

9.Der Schrei des gelben Adlers(1978)

R90 minAction, Adventure, Drama

Chi Ming-sing is a former disciple of a gang run by overlord Yoh Xi-hung. Yoh's disciples hunt Chi relentlessly as he travels on a soul-searching journey. He comes to the aid of a seemingly.. See full summary »

Director:Chung Sun Stars:Sheng Fu, Lung Ti, Feng Ku, Lung Chan

Votes:705

10.Das Höllentor der Shaolin(1978)

R98 minAction, Drama

Three North Shaolin teachers (Lu Feng, Chang Sheng, and Sun Chien) are called on by the Manchus to teach their soldiers and are urged to challenge the current South Shaolin teachers. They .. See full summary »

Director:Cheh Chang Stars:Feng Lu, Sheng Chiang, Chien Sun, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok

Votes:863

11.My Young Auntie(1981)

Not Rated121 minAction, Comedy

Cheng Tai-Nan (Kara Hui) is an honest and faithful servant of a dying patriarch who wants nothing more than to protect his vast wealth from his selfish, conniving nephew, Yung-Sheng. .. See full summary »

Director:Chia-Liang Liu Stars:Chia-Liang Liu, Kara Wai, Hou Hsiao, Lung Wei Wang

Votes:576

12.Dirty Ho(1976)

R103 minAction, Comedy, Drama

A prince enlists a thief to serve as his bodyguard to protect him from assassins.

Director:Chia-Liang Liu Stars:Yue Wong, Chia-Hui Liu, Lieh Lo, Lung Wei Wang

Votes:817

Dirty Ho lol what a name.

13.Das goldene Schwert des Königstigers(1967)

R111 minAction, Drama

A noble swordsman, whose arm had been chopped off, returns to his former teacher to defend him from a villainous gang of rival swordsmen.

Director:Cheh Chang Stars:Jimmy Wang Yu, Chiao Chiao, Chung-Hsin Huang, Yin-Tze Pan

Votes:2,515

14.Boxer from Shantung(1972)

Unrated126 minAction, Crime, Drama

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 evil.. Where his only protection is his famed fighting technique.

Directors:Cheh Chang, Hsueh Li Pao Stars:Kuan Tai Chen, Li Ching, David Chiang, Mario Milano

Votes:802

Boxer from shantung . one of chen kuan tais breakthroughs

15.Heroes of the East(1978)

R105 minAction, Comedy

A Chinese man (Liu) marries a Japanese woman through an arranged marriage and manages to insult all of her Japanese martial arts family by issuing a challenge to her that is misinterpreted .. See full summary »

Director:Chia-Liang Liu Stars:Chia-Hui Liu, Yuka Mizuno, Yasuaki Kurata, Naozo Kato Ppsspp roms android.

Votes:1,807

shaolin challenges ninja

16.Die fliegende Guillotine(1975)

Not Rated111 minAction, Drama

An assassin, trained in the use of a throwing weapon that can behead its victims from a distance, questions the morality of his missions and becomes a fugitive hunted by his former comrades.

Director:Meng Hua Ho Stars:Kuan Tai Chen, Feng Ku, Hung Wei, Wu Chi Liu

Votes:840

17.Legendary Weapons of China(1982)

R109 minAction, Comedy, Drama

A band of killers from an ailing kung fu and magic society are sent on a manhunt for a former member of the society, whose bad mouthing threatens it's existence.

Director:Chia-Liang Liu Stars:Chia-Liang Liu, Chia Yung Liu, Kara Wai, Hou Hsiao

Votes:1,060

legendary weapons of china

18.The Heroic Ones(1970)

PG-13117 minAction, Drama, History

A Mogul king decides to take stealthy action to help overpower his greatest rivals. He chooses nine out thirteen of his loyal generals (who he treats as sons) to embark on the mission. .. See full summary »

Director:Cheh Chang Stars:David Chiang, Han Chin, Lung Ti, Lily Li

Votes:578

Ignore the IMDB box cover. Heroic ones featuring , , Ti lung. david chiang

19.Return to the 36th Chamber(1980)

R99 minAction, Comedy

The workers of a dye factory have their pay cut by 20% when the factory owner brings in some Manchu thugs to try and increase production. Desperate to reclaim their full wages, the workers .. See full summary »

Director:Chia-Liang Liu Stars:Chia-Hui Liu, Lung Wei Wang, Hou Hsiao, Lun Hua

Votes:2,767

return to the 36th chamber

20.Vier gnadenlose Rächer(1978)

R107 minAction, Drama

Three men, crippled by an evil warlord, become friends and learn kung fu with the help of an old teacher and his idiot pupil.

Director:Cheh Chang Stars:Kuan-Tai Chan, Feng Lu, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Meng Lo

Votes:1,970

Run Run Shaw, the colorful Hong Kong media mogul whose name was synonymous with low-budget Chinese action and horror films — and especially with the wildly successful kung fu genre, which he is largely credited with inventing — died on Tuesday at his home in Hong Kong. He was 106.

His company, Television Broadcasts Limited, announced his death in a statement.

Born in China, Mr. Shaw and his older brother, Run Me, were movie pioneers in Asia, producing and sometimes directing films and owning lucrative cinema chains. His companies are believed to have released more than 800 films worldwide.

After his brother’s death in 1985, Mr. Shaw expanded his interest in television and became a publishing and real estate magnate as well. For his philanthropy, much of it going to educational and medical causes, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and showered with public expressions of gratitude by the Communist authorities in Beijing.

Mr. Shaw enjoyed the zany glamour of the Asian media world he helped create. He presided over his companies from a garish Art Deco palace in Hong Kong, a cross between a Hollywood mansion and a Hans Christian Andersen cookie castle. Well into his 90s he attended social gatherings with a movie actress on each arm. And he liked to be photographed in a tai chi exercise pose, wearing the black gown of a traditional mandarin.

Asked what his favorite films were, Mr. Shaw, a billionaire, once replied, “I particularly like movies that make money.”

Run Run Shaw was born Shao Yifu in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, on Nov. 23, 1907. As a child, he moved to Shanghai, where his father ran a profitable textile business. According to some Hong Kong news media accounts, Run Run and Run Me were English-sounding nicknames the father gave his sons as part of a family joke that played on the similarity of the family name to the word rickshaw.

Evincing little interest in the family business, Run Run and Run Me turned instead to entertainment. The first play they produced was called “Man From Shensi,” on a stage, as it turned out, of rotten planks. As the brothers often told the story, on opening night the lead actor plunged through the planks, and the audience laughed. The Shaws took note and rewrote the script to include the incident as a stunt. They had a hit, and in 1924 they turned it into their first film.

After producing several more movies, the brothers decided that their homeland, torn by fighting between Nationalists and Communists, was too unstable. In 1927 they moved to Singapore, which was then part of British colonial Malaya.

Besides producing their own films in Singapore, the brothers imported foreign movies and built up a string of theaters. Their business boomed until the Japanese invaded the Malay Peninsula in 1941 and stripped their theaters and confiscated their film equipment. But according to Run Run Shaw, he and his brother buried more than $4 million in gold, jewelry and currency in their backyard, which they dug up after World War II and used to resume their careers.

With the rise of Hong Kong as the primary market for Chinese films, Run Run Shaw moved there in 1959, while his brother stayed behind looking after their Singapore business.

In Hong Kong, Run Run Shaw created Shaw Movietown, a complex of studios and residential towers where his actors worked and lived. Until then, the local industry had turned out 60-minute films with budgets that rarely exceeded a few thousand dollars. Shaw productions ran up to two hours and cost as much as $50,000 — a lavish sum by Asian standards at the time.

Mr. Shaw went on to plumb the so-called dragon-lady genre with great commercial success. Movies like “Madame White Snake” (1963) and “The Lady General” (1965) offered sexy, combative, sometimes villainous heroines, loosely based on historical characters. And by the end of the 1960s, he had discovered that martial-arts films in modern settings could make even more money.

His “Five Fingers of Death” (1973), considered a kung fu classic, was followed by “Man of Iron” (1973), “The Shaolin Avengers” (1976) and many others. Critics dismissed the films as artless and one-dimensional, but spectators crowded into the theaters to cheer, laugh or mockingly hiss at the action scenes. To ensure that his films were amply distributed, Mr. Shaw’s chain of cinemas grew to more than 200 houses in Asia and the United States. “We were like the Hollywood of the 1930s,” he said. “We controlled everything: the talent, the production, the distribution and the exhibition.”

Other Hong Kong producers, directors and actors called Mr. Shaw’s methods iron-fisted. In 1970, Raymond Chow, a producer with Mr. Shaw’s company, Shaw Brothers, left to form his own company, Golden Harvest, which gave more creative and financial independence to top directors and stars.

Mr. Chow’s biggest success, and Mr. Shaw’s most notable loss, was his decision to bankroll Bruce Lee. Mr. Lee initially approached Shaw Brothers, which turned down his demand for a long-term contract of $10,000 per film. Golden Harvest then offered Mr. Lee creative control and profit-sharing.

“The Big Boss,” better known as “Fists of Fury” (1971), was Mr. Lee’s first film with Golden Harvest, and it broke all Hong Kong box-office records. Other big-name actors and directors flocked to Golden Harvest, breaking Shaw Brothers’ virtual monopoly.

But Run Run Shaw had already expanded beyond the film industry. His investments in the new phenomenon of Asian television were to prove even more lucrative than his movie productions. In 1972 he began Television Broadcasts (TVB), and he soon gained control of 80 percent of the Hong Kong market. TVB churned out 12 hours of its own programming a day, much of it soap operas and costume dramas that riveted Chinese television viewers on the mainland and throughout Southeast Asia.

As his fortune grew, Mr. Shaw donated generously to hospitals, orphanages and colleges in Hong Kong, for which he was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1974 and awarded a knighthood in 1977. In 1990 he donated 10 million pounds to help establish the Run Run Shaw Institute of Chinese Affairs at Oxford University, where his four children had studied. In 2004 he established the Shaw Prize, an international award for research in astronomy, mathematics and medicine.

As Hong Kong’s days as a British colony dwindled, Mr. Shaw stepped up his philanthropy in China. He contributed more than $100 million to scores of universities on the mainland and raised money in support of Chinese victims of floods and other natural disasters. Chinese leaders toasted him for his generosity at banquets in Beijing.

Mr. Shaw’s philanthropy did not extend to the United States, but he was once viewed as a white knight in New York. In 1991, when Macy’s was on the verge of bankruptcy, he bought 10 percent of its preferred shares for $50 million, becoming one of the largest shareholders in R. H. Macy & Company.

The investment had a personal aspect. Ten years earlier, Mitchell Finkelstein, the son of Macy’s chief executive, Edward S. Finkelstein, had married Hui Ling, a Shaw protégée who appeared in many of his movies. Mr. Shaw met the older Finkelstein at the wedding, and they became friends.

In later years, the aging mogul himself seemed in need of help to keep his media empire intact. Concerned with the rise of cable and satellite television, he sold a 22 percent stake in TVB to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation in 1993.

Mr. Shaw had intended to maintain control over his media business by balancing his one-third share in TVB against Mr. Murdoch’s 22 percent and the 24 percent held by Robert Kuok, one of Hong Kong’s richest entrepreneurs. But the balance of power shifted when Mr. Murdoch sold his equity to Mr. Kuok shortly afterward. Then, in 1996, in Hong Kong’s first case of a hostile takeover, Mr. Kuok forced Mr. Shaw to sell him his shares in TVE, the lucrative publishing, music and real estate subsidiary of TVB. The deal reduced Mr. Shaw’s TVB stake to 23 percent.

Mr. Shaw’s business situation was also hindered by his inability to groom credible successors. His sons, Vee Meng and Harold, were at one time heavily involved in the family enterprises, but their relationship with him had become strained.

Mr. Shaw’s first wife, Wong Mee Chun, died in 1987. He married Mona Fong, a former singer and actress, in 1997. She survives him. Other survivors include his sons and two daughters, Dorothy and Violet, also from his first marriage.

Even after turning 90, Mr. Shaw maintained a powerful presence in the Hong Kong film world through his control of Shaw Studios. But a newer generation of independent producers came to dominate the Hong Kong market with their own violent brand of police and gangster films.