The best Chen Yan-Yan’s action movies

Chen Yan-Yan

Chen Yan-Yan

25/02/1915- 03/05/1999
Today we present the best Chen Yan-Yan’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Chen Yan-Yan’s movies.
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The One-Armed Swordsman

The One-Armed Swordsman
7.2/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 26/07/1967
  • Character: Feng's wife
An evil gang attacks the Chi school of Golden Sword Kung Fu. One student sacrifices his life to save his teacher and his school, his dying wish is that his son be taken in as a student. Young Fang Kang grows up in the school and treasures his father's broken sword and the memory of his father's sacrifice. The other students (including the teacher's daughter) resent him and try to drive him away. The teacher's daughter challenges him to a fight and when he refuses she becomes enraged and recklessly chops off his arm! He retreats, broken and bloody, and is found by a young poor girl living alone who nurses him back to health. Meanwhile, the evil gang who originally attacked the Golden Sword school develops a weapon that renders the Golden Sword useless and starts killing off all of the schools students. Fang Kang eventually recovers with the girl's help but must now face a life with only one arm. Will he be able to recover and live to defend the school as his father did?

The 14 Amazons

The 14 Amazons
6.5/10
The Yang family, men and women, have served their country loyally for generations. During the war General Yang is ambushed and killed. His widow and the entire family set out to avenge his death and defend the country.

The Young Tiger

The Young Tiger
4.3/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 06/09/1973
  • Character: Tiger's mother
A spoilt rich kid turns up at a fu school to show off, but he gets clobbered by the boastful Little Tiger, who is later framed for the kid's murder when a gang of blackmailers make an example of him. The police allow Tiger to escape, in order to find the real culprits. Tiger hides at his girlfriend's place, but a model she works with does some whoring on the side for the blackmailer, and so the crooks are onto his trail...

Lady General Hua Mulan

Lady General Hua Mulan
6.9/10
About a woman who disguises herself as a man to take her father's place in the army.

The Young Avenger

The Young Avenger
6.2/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 20/04/1972
  • Character: Li Kui's Third Sister
After a career spanning more than forty years and dozens of films as director or writer, Yueh Feng used everything he learned on a final few martial arts epics, of which this is one of the most memorable. It's not easy to forget a hunchbacked, one-armed protagonist, nor the "Poisonous Dragon Sword" style, nor the luminous and lethal Shih Szu as the title swordswoman, who is out to avenge her father's death at the mid-autumn festival.

Valley of the Fangs

Valley of the Fangs
6.1/10
Intrigue in the court means that the wife and daughter of framed scholar Sung have to travel to the capital in disguise, as court agents hunt them down. A righteous swordsman and a group of kiln workers get caught up in the action.

The Deadly Knives

The Deadly Knives
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 29/06/1972
  • Character: Jiao's mother
Plotting to obtain the Yen family's land, dastardly Japanese plutocrat Omura (Ching Miao) bribes Yen nephew Hsu Chien (Chen Feng Chen) to steal the family seal and land deed. When Hsu Chien is caught in the act, he viciously beats elderly Master Yen to death to cover his actions. Determined to avenge the wrongs committed on his family and his country, young master Yen Tzu Fei (Ling Yun) blazes a knife-throwing path of revenge that leads him to his love Yue Hua's (Ching Li) father, who has corrupt connections with the Japanese

Heads for Sale

Heads for Sale
6.4/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 06/05/1970
  • Character: Luo's mother
This tale is about a decapitating swordswoman who will let nothing stand in her way when she falls in love with a bandit's son. Chiao Chiao, made famous in One-Armed Swordsman, is the girl who won't let such trifles as craniums keep her from freeing her man from jail.

Mantis Combat

Mantis Combat
4.8/10
When a once infamous criminal decides to give up his lifestyle and return the many treasures he has stolen to their rightful owners; he is promptly murdered by his partners in crime. To avenge his death is his son, with the deadly "mantis fist".

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