The best Lo Lieh’s action movies on Apple iTunes

Lo Lieh

Lo Lieh

29/06/1939- 02/11/2002
We present our ranking of the best Lo Lieh’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Lo Lieh.
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Police Story 3: Super Cop

Police Story 3: Super Cop
6.9/10
A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
7.6/10
The anti-Ching patriots, under the guidance of Ho Kuang-han, have secretly set up their base in Canton, disguised as school masters. During a brutal Manchu attack, Lui manages to escape, and devotes himself to learning the martial arts in order to seek revenge.

Executioners from Shaolin

Executioners from Shaolin
6.9/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 16/02/1977
  • Character: Priest Pai Mei
A couple unite - she is fluent in the crane style of kung fu, he in tiger style. They have a son, but the boy's father is killed by the evil eunuch Pai Mei. Disguised as a girl, his mom trains him in crane style while he secretly learns tiger style from his father's training manual.

Shaolin Abbot

Shaolin Abbot
6.5/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 11/07/1979
  • Character: Pai Mei
While international favorite David Chiang was best known for his roles as a grinning, streetwise, fighter in many Chang Cheh-directed classics, he rarely played a noble warrior monk. But here he portrays the great Chih Shim, the monk who saved the Southern Shaolin Temple. Making this production all the more notable is Lo Lieh, Shaws' first international star, who returns to a role he also made famous - that of Shaolin renegade Pai Mei. This, and even more, makes for a true martial arts epic of the first order.

Killer Clans

Killer Clans
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 19/03/1976
  • Character: Han Tang
As two rival clans vie for dominance in a martial world where loyalty and honor can be bought and friends become enemies, a peerless swordsman (Chung Wa) discovers that the only thing truly worth fighting for is love.

Dirty Ho

Dirty Ho
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 04/08/1979
  • Character: General Liang Jing Cheng
A prince enlists a thief to serve as his bodyguard to protect him from assassins.

Five Fingers of Death

Five Fingers of Death
7.1/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 28/04/1972
  • Character: Chao Chih-Hao
A young boxer joins a martial arts school to increase his skill so he can enter a martial arts competition. He leaves the school when he hears that a local gangster is terrorizing the town. He comes to the aid of a young singer and brings on the wrath of the local gang. He eventually enters the martial arts competition after learning iron palm technique and takes out all competition.

Brothers Five

Brothers Five
6.5/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 26/03/1970
  • Character: Kao Hsia - 5th brother
The 5 Kao brothers, separated since childhood, are unaware that the master Teng Lung Manor, Lung Chen-feng has killed their father. All five, however, seek to defeat the vicious gangsters at the Manor.

Clan of the White Lotus

Clan of the White Lotus
7.1/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/01/1980
  • Character: Priest White Lotus
Shaolin practitioners and brothers Wu and Hung kill the merciless Pai Mei. However, Pai Mei's even more merciless brother White Lotus takes revenge; killing most of the Shaolin disciples, including Wu and Hung's girlfriend, leaving only Wu's pregnant wife and Hung as the only remaining practitioners of Shaolin left to avenge the deaths. But Hung's kung-fu will not be powerful enough so he must learn feminine kung-fu techniques to help him try and defeat White Lotus.

Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman

Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman
6.2/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 13/05/1982
  • Character: Xuanyuan Fourth Light
Chu Liu-hsiang, the charming, capable, and, yes, sentimental, swordsman is back in action for this extremely well-named third in the hit box-office series. The titanic team of director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung wisely choose to give their hero a whole new, non-stop, cliffhanger-fraught adventure featuring a mystery swordsman, a sensual swordswoman, an imperial assassin, a Ghost Mansion, the Bat Island, a booby-trapped tunnel, double crosses, and secret missions. And there are no fewer than three martial arts choreographers on hand to guide the amazing mayhem.

Return of the Sentimental Swordsman

Return of the Sentimental Swordsman
6.6/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 31/01/1981
  • Character: Hu Bugui
Li Xunhuan comes back to his home after three years of wandering. He had decided to have a normal life, but a group of skilled martial arts fighters and leaders are bent on killing him, so they can be ranked top by Bai Xiaosheng in his renowned list of the best warriors in the martial arts world. Li Xunhuan battles them as he searches for his estranged friend A'fei, who is now married and living in seclusion. Li asks A'fei to join forces and fight against a new threat that wants to rule the world: the Money Clan.

Golden Swallow

Golden Swallow
6.7/10
  • Genre: ActionAdventure
  • Release: 03/04/1968
  • Character: Golden Whip Han Tao
Golden Swallow revolves around the further adventures of its title character. This time around, she is forced into violence when a figure from her mysterious past goes on a killing rampage while leaving evidence that holds her responsible. Golden Swallow also makes room for a love triangle involving a mad, but righteous, swordsman named Silver Roc and a gentle warrior named Golden Whip. The three team up to conquer the evil forces of the martial world, but their joint venture only lasts so long, due to the two men's egos. Ultimately, a duel to the death is planned between them, leaving Golden Swallow caught between two men, both of whom she admires.

Flying Guillotine II

Flying Guillotine II
6.3/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 19/01/1978
  • Character: Lord Bao Ying
The emperor's reign of terror expands. Heroic outlaw Ma Teng joins a squad of female rebels, whose leader is torn between family loyalties.

Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre II

Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre II
5.9/10
The thrills continue in this second part of this cherished adventure, created by the renowned director Chu Yuan and ingenious novelist Chin Yung. Only the union of the title weapons can save the six remaining martial arts sects who are vying for mastery. So just sit back and enjoy the movie event which spawned a legacy that continues even today with a long-running, internationally loved television series, a role-playing game, and even collectible replicas of the Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre themselves!

Human Lanterns

Human Lanterns
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionHorror
  • Release: 14/07/1982
  • Character: Chao Chun Fang
This is it: one of the most talked about cult films ever made -- a maniacal masterpiece of the macabre, the martial arts, and the just plain weird. Shaw's first international star Lo Lieh stars as the insane swordsman who makes Chinese lamps from, yes, the skin of his enemies' sisters, mistresses, and wives. Although insanely conceived, it is beautifully filmed and unashamedly performed by a first rate cast of sexy starlets and kung-fu favorites.

Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre

Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre
5.8/10
Director Chu Yuan's titanic teaming with respected, inspired author Chin Yung created this unforgettable saga. Set during the Yuan Dynasty, it tells the fascinating story of the "Sacred Fire" sect, the Wu Tang swordsmanship clan, the disciples of the O Mei group, The Book of Chu Yang (which can make the reader immortal), and the destruction of Shaolin -- complete with a killer cliffhanger. And that's just the start of the fascinating intrigues and ingratiating characters found here.

Buddha's Palm

Buddha's Palm
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionFantasy
  • Release: 20/08/1982
  • Character: Bi Gu of East Island
When Long Jian-fei is tossed from a cliff by the new sweetheart of his meanspirited ex-girlfriend, the friendly Dameng dragon-dog saves the hapless man's life, and brings him to Flame Cloud Devil, the blind master of the Buddha's Palm technique.

Little Dragon Maiden

Little Dragon Maiden
5.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 12/02/1983
  • Character: Ouyang Feng
When Hong Kong's new wave, gravity-defying action-look hit the scene in the early 1980's, so did a new wave of actors; Canto-pop stars. Little Dragon Maiden intelligently mixed the old with the new to create pure golden magic as kung-fu fighting veterans Chen Kuan-tai and Lo Lieh joined relative newcomer Leslie Cheung in a far-out, costume-action love story that really cooks. Cheung garnered international recognition in John Woo's A Better Tomorrow.

The Vengeful Beauty

The Vengeful Beauty
6.7/10
Despite its stand-alone title, this mixture of martial arts and exploitation is a semi-sequel to Shaw Brothers's Flying Guillotine series. This time, the focus is Rong Qui-yan (Chen Ping), a kung fu student turned dutiful wife whose life falls apart when her husband is murdered by a squad of government operatives led by the duplicitous Jin Gang-Feng (Lo Lieh). Qui-yan is forced to go into hiding as she plots her revenge and finds allies in fellow fugitive Ma Seng (Tsui Siu Keung) and ex-lover Wang-jun (Yueh Hua). Meanwhile, Jin Gang-Feng sends out an array of killers to track them down. Complicating things further is the fact that Qui-yan is pregnant and struggling to keep her unborn child safe while fighting her way to safety.

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.

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