The best Don Wong Tao’s action movies

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If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Don Wong Tao’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Don Wong Tao.
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Born to Be King

Born to Be King
6.3/10
Triad member Chicken is designated by Taiwan's San Luen Gang to marry Nanako, the daughter of the fifth generation leader of the Yamada Gang in Japan. Later, the leader of the triad group gets murdered. Actually, all the San Luen Gang members suspect Chicken attacked their leader Liu, in order to make a chance for him to rule the Gang and thus have adopted an extremely hostile attitude towards him...

Drunken Tai Chi

Drunken Tai Chi
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 31/05/1984
  • Character: Ta Sha's father (uncredited)
A spoiled young man - on the run from a ruthless killer - hooks up with a puppeteer and his wife who are masters of the art of tai chi; the only style that can defeat the killer.

Shaolin Iron Claws

Shaolin Iron Claws
5.7/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 09/06/1978
  • Character: Police Commander Hu (as Tao Wong)
A corrupt Shaolin assassin, a master in Iron Claws, is hired to threaten members of the Ching Dynasty into resigning a secret letter for the restoration of the monarchy. The plot is unravelled when a police chief captures one of the assailants. The Shaolin Iron Master must be destroyed...

Fatal Needles vs. Fatal Fists

Fatal Needles vs. Fatal Fists
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 16/02/1978
  • Character: Meng Hu/Chin Chai
Chow Lueng (Lo Leih) and Meng Ho (Wong Tao) are thief catching constables, who roam the land capturing criminals with ease.

Inferno Thunderbolt

Inferno Thunderbolt
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/01/1985
  • Character: (archive footage)
"Cut-and-paste" transformation of Taiwanese movie "The Anger" (1982; directed by Richard Chen Yao-Chi) with new Hong Kong footage.

Snake in the Eagles Shadow 2

Snake in the Eagles Shadow 2
5.4/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 25/05/1978
  • Character: Ah Fu
Ah Fu (Wong Tao) and Chen Ting Kuan (Carter Wong) are a couple of kung fu men in the escort service business with top notch kung fu. Ah Fu gets tired of the escort service and quits to take up the life of a normal man. In his new “life”, Ah Fu runs into a thief named Li Chi (Li Kun), and the two become the best of friends. Life is great! Ah Fu gets married to a pretty girl, Yu Lan (Ha Ling Ling). He has money, servants, and foot massages. What else could you want? Ah Fu’s life gets turned upside down when a mantis fist expert named Nan Kung Ping (Lung Fei) shows up at Ah Fu’s doorsteps seeking to avenge the death of his brother.

Eagle's Claw

Eagle's Claw
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 01/11/1978
  • Character: Lee Cheh
After the Mantis Fist school attacks the Eagle's Claw school and leaves their teacher for dead, the dying master passes over his senior student, Chen Tien Chun, to anoint his second most senior pupil, Lee Cheh, as new master. Dejected, Chen joins the Mantis Fist school and wins the affection of his new master's daughter, while his former schoolmates plot revenge.

Slaughter in San Francisco

Slaughter in San Francisco
4.2/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 16/08/1974
  • Character: Off. Don Wong
A Chinese-American cop, skilled in martial arts, battles the most powerful criminal gang in San Francisco that is responsible for the death of his partner.

Death Duel of Kung Fu

Death Duel of Kung Fu
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 31/12/1979
  • Character: Sun Shing Kwei
Ming General Cheng (Wang Dao) and his band of soldiers escape to Taiwan after Ching forces topple the Ming Dynasty. Still fearing the deposed general's deadly potential, however, the Ching prince Ta orders his own band of ruthless mercenaries to finish off Cheng and his warriors. The rivals prove to be equally skilled, and soon everybody is kung fu-fighting in this action-heavy martial arts spectacular.

Warriors of the Sacred Temple

Warriors of the Sacred Temple
5.3/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/01/1977
  • Character: Chi Yung (one of the 10 brothers)
The High Abbot of Shaolin Temple sends the Ten Brothers, newly finished with their Shaolin training, as escorts to one Master Chu. Master Chu has been living in the Temple for two years waiting for the right time to leave and renew his fight against the Mings. The road to victory is filled with danger--can the Ten Brothers guide Master Chu through?

Shaolin Invincible Sticks

Shaolin Invincible Sticks
6/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 23/11/1978
  • Character: Chen Ku Yung
Lu Tai Yeh (Chang Yi) is a stick fighter who uses his deadly “Tzu Wu” stick to make mince meat of his opponents. Lu Tai Yeh, along with his two sidekicks (Fung Long & Cheng Ching) just about closes down all the gyms in Northern China. Never satisfied, Lu and his men travel down south to clean up the region and take out all gyms and fighters who think they may be good with the stick. Lu’s plan is running without a hitch until he meets a new upstart, Ku Yung (Wang Tao), who plans on fighting Lu to take back the family heirloom - a Tzu Wu stick - and regain the honor of his family.

The Hot, the Cool and the Vicious

The Hot, the Cool and the Vicious
6.1/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 27/01/1977
  • Character: Pai Yu Ching
Captain Lu is the respected head of security of a village, but his wealthy boss runs the town, and is corrupt, while the boss's son is a dissolute skirt-chaser. Pai Yu Ching, the Southern Fist, swaggers into town, and clashes with Captain Lu, which earns him an offer to work for the town boss. However, nearly everyone in the town is something other than what they seem. Lu has a shameful secret in his past, which motivates Miss Li to ask Pai to kill him. The town boss is minting counterfeit coins, and someone is trying to gather the evidence of this. Events bring Lu and Pai onto the same side, which is fortunate, because the town boss brings in Mr Lung, a fearsome martial arts genius, to kill off all his enemies.

Ninja Thunderbolt

Ninja Thunderbolt
4/10
The Ninja Empire has been run by an evil master and one member decides to leave the empire. The ex-Ninja wants a Hong Kong detective to track down the new leader and end his reign of terror.

Night Orchid

Night Orchid
5.7/10
A secret society is out to ruin a nobleman’s reputation and destroy those closest to him while a swordsman returns to find himself embroiled in the plot after discovering that the nobleman has married his childhood love.

Tiger Man

Tiger Man
5.6/10
Don Won's father dies and his home is burned, so he decides to go off to learn kung fu. 10 years later in the city of Taipei, Don interferes with the Tongs while defending his best friend.The gangsters swear that Don can never hide, they’ll find him and kill him. Don's mom gives him money that she saved and tells him to go to America where he'll be safe, but it's not enough, so he ends up in Hong Kong and the gangsters catch up to him again.

Challenge of Death

Challenge of Death
6.4/10
Lee Tso Nam's Challenge of Death features students of two different schools of martial arts, Snake Fist and Dragon Fist, teaming up in order to stop a drug smuggler who fights with the dreaded Spider Claws.

The Secret Rivals

The Secret Rivals
6.4/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 18/06/1976
  • Character: Sheng Ying Wei
Two rivals, Sheng from the South and Shao from the North, have one common enemy, the Silver Fox. The Silver Fox killed Shao's parents and robbed from Sheng's palace. When each one fails to defeat Silver Fox, the two decide to team up and win.

Chinatown Capers

Chinatown Capers
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 04/04/1974
  • Character: Yellow Faced Tiger
Ever the pair of do-gooding drifters, Embroidered Pillow and Chili Boy always come to the aid of Hong Kong's downtrodden and oppressed - even if it means traveling all the way to America! This time the two friends are off to San Francisco's Chinatown in search of a millionaire's missing daughter (Sylvia Chang, who also appears in Slaughter in San Francisco), who has vanished under shady circumstances. Typical Backalley Princess shtick ensues, including the duo's disastrous stint waiting tables in a Chinese restaurant and run-ins with the local street gangs. But just when things are looking hopeless, Sam and Polly find the lead they need, and the chase is on!

Along Comes a Tiger

Along Comes a Tiger
6.5/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/11/1977
After seeing his father killed by the master of the Black Dragon gang, a man known only as Miracle sets about taking revenge on the entire gang.

Shaolin Devil and Shaolin Angel

Shaolin Devil and Shaolin Angel
5.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 14/09/1978
  • Character: Secret Agent
When a Shaolin warlord is murdered the Emperor must discover where the evil lies amongst the warlords. Calling upon a young commander, he sends him on a quest to avenge the warlords death.

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