Filmmaker Ian Taylor examines the impressive legacy of Hong Kong cinema -- specifically, how martial arts crossed borders and become an international phenomenon -- with the help of footage and interviews with the stars who made the genre what it is today. Director Lau Ka Leung (who helmed The 36th Chamber of Shaolin) joins in, sharing his thoughts on how certain cinematic technologies have improved martial arts films and expanded their appeal, on the set of Drunken Monkey (2003).

A dimwitted thief, mistakes for a spy, in order to free himself he holds the honest driver, as a hostage. They end up in a tunnel and traveled back in time. Throughout their travels, they meet figures in the martial arts world including the "God of Sabre" and "Sword Saint."

Nam was originally a Vietnamese soldier, yet because he hated the cruelty of war, he fled to Hong Kong and was placed in a refugee camp. Anan reunites with his long-lost brother in the camp. The two hope to immigrate to France and have a new life. In the refugee camp, the two gangs headed by big bully Kei and Kuen, who often fight openly and secretly for power.

In British-ruled Hong Kong, a powerful British prosecutor attempts rape, leading to the victim’s death. Maggie Chan, the lawyer seeking justice, faces bribery and corruption that jeopardize the case. She takes a daring risk in court to uncover the truth.

Lung’s wife was raped and murdered, and the killer escaped justice. Consumed by grief and rage, Lung killed him and fled to Hong Kong, only to fall into the hands of a snakehead gang and be forced into a life of crime as a bank robber.

A healer, Lau Ching, falls in love with opera performer Fa Ying Hung, but their romance is shattered when a martial artist using dark magic seeks revenge.

"Rainy Night Butcher" Lam Gor-Wan, a night shift taxi driver who dismembers prostitutes by day in his family's tiny Tsim Sha Tsui apartment without arousing suspicion, until he delivers a roll of film containing pictures of his latest trophy to a local photography shop.

The Set Up is a made-for-TV movie starring Anthony Wong

Hung, a struggling middle-class man crushed by work pressure and family responsibilities, faces a breaking point when his vengeful former colleague kidnaps his daughter and pregnant wife. Desperate to save them, Hung’s reckless actions, including stealing a police officer’s gun, spark a city-wide panic as he’s misjudged as a dangerous madman. Caught between his love for his family and the chaos he’s unleashed, Hung races against time to redeem himself and bring his family home.

In December 1974, a 16-year-old girl was murdered after borrowing a phone at an ice cream shop. The next day, her naked body was found hidden in a TV box on the street. The only suspect in the case was the owner of the ice cream shop, Au-Yeung Wing Cheung.

Three teenage girls living in the village of masculism, where life is absolutely crap, what are they gonna do?

After a masked killer murders a man’s wife and attacks him, a lawyer takes his case, convinced of his innocence. As she fights to clear his name, she finds herself falling in love with him.

One Bon Lan Festival night, Detective Ma Rufei (played by Fang Zhongxin) accidentally looked through the files of a theater fire that happened more than 20 years ago and decided to find out the truth. In the process, he meets the beautiful Qin Xiaohong (played by Guo Aiming), whose cold and arrogant character makes Fei determined to pursue her. Hong's adoptive father, Qin Baojian (played by Liu Jiang), is a master of numerology. He told Hong not to get married before he was thirty years old, otherwise his life would be in danger.

Tomorrow is a Hong Kong made-for-TV movie starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

The fourth episode of Patrick Tam’s anthology series “Seven Women” (1976), which adapted from Swedish play “Miss Julie”

Chik Chi Ming is promoted to senior inspector after solving a major case while in prison. However, he learns that his old friend, Sai, who was released and has returned to a life of crime. To help him reform, Chik arranges for Sai to go undercover in a notorious gang. Sai earns the trust of the gang leader’s mistress and becomes her driver, but discovers her affair.

A man with a shadowy past becomes obsessed with a female detective and starts stalking her. As she uncovers his murderous spree, which includes her boyfriend and others close to her, she is forced into a deadly showdown with him.

A forensic expert discovers the remains of two murder victims and a baby, claimed to be the orphan child of the deceased. He asks his girlfriend, who has been longing for their own child, to help care for the baby. However, she begins to observe strange behaviors in the child, as if the spirits of the murdered parents are somehow influencing it.

Tulips in August is a Hong Kong made-for-TV movie starring Lau Ching Wan

Wong Tat Lung was hunted down by the triads in Hong Kong twenty years ago and became a resident of the black market in Toronto, where he stayed for twenty years without an identity card. He joined a gang and made a lot of money by working as a black market gambler. He has not returned to Hong Kong for 20 years and has not fulfilled his fatherly duties. His daughter, Wong Siu Ming, hates him, but because she is entrusted by her late mother, she has to go to Toronto to see her father. In order to meet his daughter, Lung buys a big house and participates in a coke deal in order to give her some money, but the deal goes bad and is busted by the police. Lung even betrays Tony, a gangster, and is hunted down by him. When Lung meets his daughter for the first time, he is killed by Tony, but there is video evidence of Tony's murder. Tony then hunts down and kills Sau Ming and Lung's henchman, Fu Chai, and Fu Chai and Sau Ming are forced to flee for their lives and fight with Tony.

The film tells the story of Chen Baili's father, the director of the Shanghai Police Department, who was bizarrely murdered for investigating the theft of state secrets. In order to find out the truth, Cha Li and his assistant Ai Li returned to Shanghai from the United States for investigation.

Four episodes combined. Dawn: the first cop goes to interrogate the parents of a babygirl who got burnt by an iron. These, eventually admit to be the one responsible but they state it was an accident. Going back on a bus, he reads a newspaper article reporting another case of violence against minors. Noon: the moustached cop cop collects the report of a mother regarding the presence of perverts in her building. A thirteen-year-old girl is spotted with a man in equivocal acts: when she is interrogated she shows no signs of anxiety. Dusk: in a nursing home a guest kills another old man with an axe. He is interrogated by the older cop who, once back home, talks with his wife and daughter while watching sadly TV. Night: the fourth cop is in a disco when he gets the call that a collegue’s wife was the victim of a hit and run. The following morning he goes back to the office.

The police feel the case is serious, then send Shan, Hui even hand investigation, two at first did not and, as understanding deepens, emotional surge; and Ling-hui is the subordinate Li Jian fell in love. Hui Shan and strengthen business gang raids, thereby forcing each gang leader to surrender Aberdeen, against being next use, health and more were killed.

One of the first single-episode special dramas shot on film, this episode of Superstar Special stars Barbara Wong Chuen-yu as a lonely housewife who is introduced to the idea of a "temporary boyfriend. "Breaking the constraints of traditional television storytelling, Patrick Tam and Joyce Chan give a surprisingly in-depth exploration into the modern female psyche, exposing their fears and their desires.

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Famous actress, Sharla Cheung, was first made known to the audiences prior to her fim debut with this story of Lee Nan (Sharla Cheung), who came to Hong Kong to be reunited with her husband, but later she depraved.

Li Hong (Kenix Kwok), a young woman from mainland China who comes to Hong Kong to seek her fortune, encounters Ho Kwong-leung (Alex Fong), an informant for both the legitimate and criminal worlds, thus beginning a poignant and legendary story.

A man serving a sentence for a white-collar crime navigates the thorny realities of prison life.

Siu-Man and Kar-Wai enroll into the university and hear a rumor that a female student disappeared five years ago, seemingly related to Chi-Ming, an introverted weirdo who has been on the campus for a long time.

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T.V. movie based off of the Eight Immortals Restaurant Murders (which was also the inspiration for the film Untold Story). The Macau Judicial Police Serious Crime Squad, Mr. Li, received multiple letters looking for the Zheng Lin family at the Baxian Hotel in Heisha Bay, so he started an investigation and found that the Zheng Lin family was missing. . Li Sir felt that something was wrong, and later found a human bone on the beach, so he arrested Wang. After Wang was tortured and forced to confess, he finally revealed the motive for the murder and the process of making human flesh into barbecued pork...

The first episode of Patrick Tam’s anthology series “Seven Women” (1976)

A Story in Beijing City is a Hong Kong made-for-TV movie starring Kara Hui.

Australian stuntman Grant Page travels to Hong Kong to find Bruce Lee's successor and looks at the cultural phenomenon that Asian martial arts has become in the West. He talks to actors such as Angela Mao, Stuart Whitman and George Lazenby - who were all making movies in Hong Kong at the time - and fights Carter Wong twice.

One of Ann Hui's most admired works for the small screen, The Bridge examines a complex web of bureaucracy, vested interests, disillusionment and grass-roots campaigning. The title refers to a footbridge closed for demolition by the government, effectively cutting the main route to and from a roadside shantytown and triggering further local issues.

A young girl with a passion for music dreams of a career in it, but her parents insist she prioritize academics and a traditional path. Along the way, she discovers her father once had dreams he sacrificed for the family. Her determination reignites his own ambitions, and together, they realize it’s never too late to pursue their dreams.

Yet another Wong Jing gambling comedy but this time a TV movie production.

A young adolescent man (Tony Leung) gets into a scuffle with some local punks and things escalate into a crime. With his single mother ailing from a sickness, the young man contemplates turning himself in at the cost of leaving his mother.

The Big Friday is a Hong Kong made-for-TV Drama directed by and starring Stanley Fung.

The sixth episode of Patrick Tam’s anthology series “Seven Women” (1976), which adapted from Pat Flower’s “The Tape Recorder”

In the last episode of Patrick Tam’s anthology series “Seven Women” (1976), Lisa (Lisa Wang) suffers from "environmental depression" and those around her treat her like a lunatic. Joyce deploys a creative mix of dialogue and monologue to illustrate Lisa's complicated personality. She might act like any normal obedient daughter around her parents, yet other times she reveals her overly sensitive and suspicious mind as her moods run the gamut from poetic to violent. The villa where Lisa is sent to heal becomes a tumultuous battleground when a young doctor who has his own psychological hang-ups begins treating her and a conflict of egos is ignited.

After a family tragedy, Wing-Si is adopted by her estranged uncle and aunt. Soon, she starts experiencing eerie visions connected to her late father. When no one believes her, Wing-Si takes matters into her own hands, uncovering a dark family secret.

Decision: Ma Ji (Liu Dehua) and Zhu Nu (Liu Yijun) are good brothers who have sympathy for brotherhood. They have experienced all kinds of storms and waves together, and their feelings are very firm. However, in an accident, the two unintentionally set off a fire which caused heavy casualties. Ma Ji decided to make a good man from now on, but Zhu Nv still went her own way and gradually drifted away. "Pocket money": A Bang (Stephen Chow) is a son-in-law born with a golden spoon, but in an accident, he became addicted to drugs, and from then on he went deeper and deeper into extinction. Wrong Way: Arvin (Tony Leung) is a kind and filial boy who always takes care of his sick mother. One day, on the basketball court, Ah Wen was repeatedly harassed and provoked by gangsters. Untolerable, he clashed with the other side, resulting in a homicide. Ah Wen was immediately pursued by the police.

The third episode of Patrick Tam’s anthology series “Seven Women” (1976), with three short stories combined.