Lo Wei
notum enim: Directing
dies natalis: 1918-12-12
Locus Natus: 中国, 江苏
Et ut: Luo Wei, Law Wai, Lo Wai, Loh Wei, William Lowe, 羅維, Wai Lo, Wei Luo, Lo Wei, 罗维
Calendar Girl
Musician Sun Ping is estranged from his wife. Second daughter Yinzheng lives with Sun while eldest daughter Jinliu follows her mother. By...
release : 1959.03.04popularis : 0.713
Naughty! Naughty!
Wu Te-chuan is a young man trying to make a living in an easy way. But now he is penniless and will being thrown out of his Macau hotel. Kind-...
release : 1974.07.18popularis : 2.285
Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend
This documentary tells the story of Bruce Lee and his unsuccessful efforts to start a acting career in the U.S., he returned to Hong Kong where he...
release : 1973.10.14popularis : 7.86
Dragon Swamp
After being implicated in the theft of the Jade Dragon Sword, Fan Ying (Cheng Pei-pei) is banished to the Dragon Swamp for 20 years. Now, 20 years...
release : 1969.03.27popularis : 2.969
Lady Balsam's Conquest
Lady Balsam's Conquest. A sequel of General Chai and Lady Balsam.
release : 1955.04.01popularis : 2.3
Camille
A Mandarin adaption of Camille directed by Chang Shan-Kun and Evan Yang.
release : 1955.06.03popularis : 2.553
Death Valley
A hired assassin unknowingly makes friends with the man he's been sent to murder.
release : 1968.10.11popularis : 1.433
The Golden Sword
Bai Yu Lung's father mysteriously disappears one night, and for 10 years Bai searches for him in vain. Finally, he decides to head to the far...
release : 1969.10.15popularis : 4.887
A Man Called Tiger
A young man suspects his father's suicide was actually a murder committed by gangsters. Using his expertise in martial arts, he gets himself hired by...
release : 1973.02.01popularis : 2.589
Sorrowful Glory
This is a historical drama that was produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio.
release : 1953.01.09popularis : 1.169
Black Butterfly
Black Butterfly, steals from the rich and gives to the poor. Trouble starts when a bandit gang, who the Black Butterfly has robbed, come to town...
release : 1968.03.06popularis : 2.147
A Shadow over the Chateau
Hong Kong crime drama thriller film.
release : 1960.03.10popularis : 1.733
Raw Courage
After the Ming Emperor is overthrown and his infant son put in the care of the Black Dragon Society, a traitorous martial arts clan attacks the...
release : 1969.08.13popularis : 2.24
Songs of the Peach Blossom River
Li Ming is collecting folk songs on the banks of the Taohua River and is deeply attracted by the voice of Jin Li Rong, a village girl nicknamed "Wild...
release : 1956.02.21popularis : 0.525
The Pistol
Long unemployed and stone-broke, Shen Jiaguang is dealt a further blow when his wife Lu Xiaoyin has fallen seriously ill and their son Xiaoguang has...
release : 1961.11.01popularis : 0.79
Tears of Songstress
A Songstress Called Hong Lingyan (歌女紅菱艷) aka Tears of Songstress is a 1953 Hong Kong musical drama film directed...
release : 1953.01.22popularis : 1.218
Diau Charn
Based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Diau Charn is a sublime retelling of a familiar tale with iconic actress Linda Lin Dai (Lam Doi) in the...
release : 1958.05.28popularis : 2.061
Triad Story
An aging crime boss discovers his rebellious daughter is dating a punk. His former gang members try to bring her back using tricks and force, only to...
release : 1990.10.11popularis : 4.2
News Attack
News Attack is a 1989 Hong Kong action thriller drama film co-written and directed by Samson Chiu and starring Andy Lau, Michael Miu and Wilson Lam.
release : 1989.05.25popularis : 0.749
The Error
Rich girl, Wu Qiu, is jealous of the relationship between journalist, Xu Shao Tang and singer, Chen Feng Juan. Wu Qiu hatches a plan to separate the...
release : 1956.02.26popularis : 1.74
The Chase
Private Investigator, Wu Feng, is tasked in tracking down his wife, Zhang Xiu Juan, and collecting evidence of her infidelity. He plans to blackmail...
release : 1956.12.19popularis : 0.568
The Comet Strikes
There was a civil strife in the court. In order to protect the king, some loyal ministers and the king hid in an old house. This old house was known...
release : 1971.08.11popularis : 4.267
The Criminal Hunter
Chu Yu (Eric Tsang) is a homicide detective who accidently stabs his girlfriend while wrestling with a murderer. The killer returns later and...
release : 1988.05.19popularis : 1.145
Crusade Against Daddy
A HK comedy film starring Jeanette Lin Tsui and Hung Yeung.
release : 1962.02.03popularis : 0.416
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls...
release : 1958.03.25popularis : 1.464
The Angel Strikes Again
Lily Ho, a secret agent out to thwart the sale of a powerful explosive to the wrong people. It’s a female, Chinese James bond.
release : 1968.05.29popularis : 2.589
Crocodile River
Crocodile River features Romeo And Juliet-flavored story. Families are against each other. Yodi is the Romeo and Lee Ting is his Juliet. The two...
release : 1965.06.22popularis : 0.899
Empress Wu
The renowned Li Li Hua plays Wu Ze Tian, the most famous woman in China's four thousand year history.
release : 1963.06.23popularis : 4.211
Nobody's Child
Melodramatic film about a child prodigy.
release : 1960.02.17popularis : 0.845
Vengeance of a Snow Girl
Sworn-brothers expert martial artists are the targets of a mysterious killer, which seems to bear a grudge against them for what happened several...
release : 1971.10.29popularis : 5.751
Forever and Ever
In 1966, like in The Love Eterne, Ling Bo took up the male lead in Forever and Ever, despite Shaw Brothers' earlier plan of having her as the female...
release : 1968.01.20popularis : 3.195
Madam Slender Plum
Before director Lo Wei helped to discover Bruce Lee and the king of kung-fu comedy Jackie Chan, in Madam Slender Plum, Lo perpetuates the career of...
release : 1967.02.23popularis : 0.889
Summons to Death
A suave swinger and a cool chick have one half of a treasure map, the bad guys have the other half. Who will get the goods?
release : 1967.11.23popularis : 1.581
Angel with the Iron Fists
Via an IMDb reviewer: "The plot involves a high-tech gang of thieves, a legit jeweler (Tang Ching) caught up in their racket, and a female jewel...
release : 1967.01.11popularis : 3.297
The Golden Buddha
Paul (Zhang Chong) is a businessman who gets caught up in an international espionage plot when he accidentally switches briefcases with a friend...
release : 1966.04.27popularis : 2.258
Squadron 77
Spy thriller set in occupied Shanghai. Li Lihua stars as the woman who is thrust into the role of nationalist freedom fighter when she discovers that...
release : 1965.12.02popularis : 1.905
New Fist of Fury
A brother and sister escape from Japanese-occupied Shanghai to Japanese-occupied Taiwan, to stay with their grandfather who runs a Kung-Fu school...
release : 1976.07.08popularis : 13.421
Edge of Darkness
A Hong Kong cop's first undercover assignment sends him on a psychological downward spiral, unable to separate his two identities after unearthing a...
release : 1988.11.17popularis : 1.729
Call of the Sea
The son of the town bully lusts after a local beauty in this action-filled thriller of the passions and violence to be found in a fishing village.
release : 1965.10.30popularis : 1.194
Blood in Snow
A behind the scenes story of a small time folk opera troupe and other performers in Northern China in the 1930s.
release : 1956.01.24popularis : 0.636
None But the Brave
Story is about how a revolutionist, played by Cheng Pei Pei, taking on the identity of a Captain's (Ou Wei) long lost sister who is actually dead....
release : 1973.05.09popularis : 2.181
The Crisis
The Crisis is a Hong Kong Action movie starring Sammo Hung in a child role
release : 1964.10.29popularis : 3.371
Seaman No. 7
When a sailor accidentally kills a Japanese man in a bar room brawl, he tries to escape the law by hiding himself in a freighter heading for Japan...
release : 1973.04.20popularis : 3.072
The Eunuch
This rare release is set in the cloistered halls of the imperial palace, the home to many ghostly stories of wrongful deaths and lonely spirits,...
release : 1971.05.12popularis : 3.587
The Shadow Whip
This top ten box office hit reunites the star duo from Come Drink With Me in another classic action adventure. Cheng Pei-pei radiates her trademark...
release : 1971.08.06popularis : 3.601
Jurang Bahaya
Jurang Bahaya film is a Malay film which was published in Malaysia in 1968. Jurang Bahaya issued in the form of black and white film without color...
release : 1968.01.01popularis : 1.993
Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his...
release : 1989.09.15popularis : 3.388
Fist of Fury
Chen Chen returns to his former school in Shanghai when he learns that his beloved instructor has been murdered. While investigating the man's death,...
release : 1972.03.22popularis : 31.098
The Magic Lamp
Adapted from one of China's most well-known fairy tales, the Goddess of Mount Hua falls in love with a young mortal scholar Liu Yanchang and gives...
release : 1964.01.23popularis : 2.477
Romance of the Forbidden City
Hong Kong drama directed by Wong Tin-Lam.
release : 1964.10.08popularis : 0.874
The Tender Trap of Espionage
Spy films had always been popular in Chinese-language cinema, with stories set mostly in WWII or the warlord era. The Tender Trap of Espionage, made...
release : 1960.05.10popularis : 2.87
Maria Yi: My Recollection
Documentary about Maria Yi recalling her film work in the 1970s, particularly with Bruce Lee.
release : 1979.01.01popularis : 1.411
Black Butterfly
Lau Leung-wah plays the titled character, a Chinese Robin Hood who robs the rich to help the poor. She is an early Republican Era Mulan, who switches...
release : 1960.12.15popularis : 1.801
Sweet Memories
This is a 1952 Hong Kong drama film directed by Bu Wancang, Kuang-Chi Tu, Wang Yin and Shankun Zhang. It stars Chou Man-Hua and Li Li-Hua.
release : 1952.11.29popularis : 2.15
Jackie Chan: My Story
Jackie Chan is one of the world's biggest action stars, famed for his wacky sense of humor, remarkable martial arts techniques, and willingness to...
release : 1998.07.17popularis : 9.986