The best Wilson Tong’s action movies

Wilson Tong

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We present our ranking of the best Wilson Tong’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 Wilson Tong.
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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.

Dirty Ho

Dirty Ho
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 04/08/1979
  • Character: Mr. Chu Yi Feng
A prince enlists a thief to serve as his bodyguard to protect him from assassins.

Hand of Death

Hand of Death
6/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 15/07/1976
A survivor of an attack on a rebel group opposing the Manchu invasion of China creates the Goose Fist fighting technique and tries for revenge on a traitor.

Duel to the Death

Duel to the Death
7.2/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 13/01/1983
One of the last of the Old School Hong Kong martial arts flicks, this one deals with a legendary competition in swordplay and fighting that ends up being fought between two great warriors, a Chinese man and a Japanese man, who, over the course of the film, have become friends.

The Shadow Boxing

The Shadow Boxing
6.3/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 13/02/1979
  • Character: Xiang
Liu Chia-Liang returns to the success of his first directed film, "The Spiritual Boxer", which also stars the original film's bumbling ghost controller, Wang Yu. Hoping to make the lightning of success strike in the same place, Liu had his two brothers Lau Kar Wing and Gordon Liu not only act but also help with the fights. The end result is a martial arts film masterpiece filled with breathtaking action and set pieces.

Clan of the White Lotus

Clan of the White Lotus
7.1/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/01/1980
  • Character: Priest White Brow
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.

Executioners from Shaolin

Executioners from Shaolin
6.9/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 16/02/1977
  • Character: Governor's fighter
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.

My Young Auntie

My Young Auntie
6.7/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 01/01/1981
  • Character: Sheng's swordsman
Cheng (Kara Hui Ying Hung), a beautiful martial arts ace, battles to keep her inheritance from the ruthless Yun Wei (Johnny Wang Lung Wei), but her efforts are sabotaged by Yu Tao (Hsaio Ho), her wayward and irrepressible great-nephew. Following a frenzy of spectacular comic mishaps, the hapless duo are setup and imprisoned and the deeds to Cheng's estate are stolen. She is held hostage after a doomed attempt to reclaim the papers back from Yu Wei's place, and the stage is set for a savage fight to the death.

Naked Soldier

Naked Soldier
4.8/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/08/2012
  • Character: Iron Wolf, Taiwan druglord
A gorgeous lethal killer, brainwashed by the villain, makes a startling discovery in a mission to eliminate a person she can in no way imagine.

The Brutal Boxer

The Brutal Boxer
4.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 04/10/1972
  • Character: Thug
The bloodiest Kung Fu battles ever fought. The subtitle says it all, as there is hardly any story, but all the more raw fighting.

Challenge of the Masters

Challenge of the Masters
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 07/05/1976
  • Character: Master Tang
The Wong family kung fu school gets smacked around by a rival school. Wong Fei-hong gets fed up with the abuse and goes to learn from his fathers master. After one of the rival schools members kills some of the towns people Wong Fei-hong becomes enraged trains even more comes back and gets his revenge.

Snake in the Monkey's Shadow

Snake in the Monkey's Shadow
6.7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 15/02/1979
  • Character: Snake Style Assassin
A young peasant boy who is bullied by local noblemen seeks to learn drunken boxing from the head of a local martial arts school. When the boy beats up his previous tormentors, the nobles patriarch challenges the boys teacher, the drunken master, who defeats the lot of them. Embarrased, the nobles retain two hired snake style killers. They kill everyone except the peasant boy.

Heroes of the East

Heroes of the East
7.5/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 30/12/1978
  • Character: Martial art student
Gordon Liu stars as a Chinese martial arts student struggling to relate to his new Japanese wife. When a series of martial misunderstandings spirals into an international incident, he's forced to take on seven of Japan's most powerful martial arts masters, each an expert in a different discipline, ranging from karate to samurai to ninjitsu.

The Bastard Swordsman

The Bastard Swordsman
7.1/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 14/09/1983
  • Character: Yen Zhong Tian
Yun Fei Yang is the viciously bullied orphan who takes on the unpleasant tasks at a formidable kung-fu school. Constantly mocked by the other students of the school, Yen counts as his only friend the daughter of the resident master. Any internal wrangling between the various members is put to one side when a swordsman from a rival clan reminds the master of the duel he must take part in once a decade. Unfortunately the defending clan chief is well aware that his rival is more powerful than himself. The expected defeat is further complicated when a wandering swordsman arrives on the scene and joins himself to the injured party, immediately adding to Yen's woes.

The Victim

The Victim
7.3/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 28/02/1980
  • Character: Tong Wai Shing
Chung Yao, a martial arts expert, has long been on the run from his stepbrother, who he caught trying to rape his wife on their wedding night. His brother has never given up the chase however, and Chung Yao live in constant fear that the vengeful stepbrother will murder him and his wife.

Shaolin Mantis

Shaolin Mantis
6.7/10
Skilled martial arts director Lau Ka Leung offers you another Kung Fu treat! this Asian classic introduces viewers to the Shaolin Mantis way of fighting! The tale takes you back to the Qing dynasty & Wei Feng, the son of a Qing official who tries to unveil facts about a revolt. The grand daughter of the farmer community where his investigation takes him, sacrifices her life to save him in the end. Managing to escape unscathed, he promises to hunt down the girl's killer and therefore creates the effective technique of Shaolin Mantis.

When Taekwondo Strikes

When Taekwondo Strikes
6.3/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 09/09/1973
  • Character: Korean at restaurant
The story is about the Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II. A Korean patriot played by Carter Wong gets into a fight with some Japanese people and is chased into a church. The priest there is captured and tortured. Trying to secure his release, the leader of the resistance, Jhoon Rhee is himself captured and tortured by the Japanese. Carter Wong, Angela Mao and Anne Winton have to now try and rescue him. This leads to an explosive climax with the heroes having to fight the likes of Wong In Sik (Hwang In-Shik), Sammo Hung and Kenji Kazama.

Cat vs. Rat

Cat vs. Rat
5.9/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 29/09/1982
  • Character: Thief
Chan Chiao a.k.a. The Cat (Adam Cheng) and Pai Yu-tang a.k.a. The Rat (Alexander Fu Sheng) compete in various flamboyantly choreographed duels before realizing that they must seek the judgment of their master (Lau Kar-wing). He disappoints them by ruling that their abilities are perfectly equal, then being so completely impartial as to give the Rat a nine-ringed sword which he can use to defeat the Cat, and giving the Cat a spear to defeat the sword which he just gave the Rat. A few more contests result in ties before a subplot gets underway involving a precious jade seal owned by the Emperor Yung Hsi (Gordon Lau) and the thieves out to steal it. This, finally, is what forces the Cat and Rat to work together and overcome their rivalry.

Martial Club

Martial Club
7.1/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 19/08/1981
  • Character: Master Zheng Tian Shou
Wong Fei Hung (Gordon Liu) and his friend are constantly having contests to see who has the better martial arts skill. After getting in trouble with their fathers, Wong Fei Hung settles down and starts to train seriously, while his friend still horses around. After his friend is hurt by a rival school, Wong goes to the school for retribution. Instead his skill is tested through a series of events which climax with him taking on a Northern martial artist (Wang Lung Wei). In an excellent battle of skill (and choreography), he earns the respect of the rival school. Also stars Mai Te Lo and Hui Ying Hung.

Treasure Hunters

Treasure Hunters
6.4/10
Fu Sheng and his real-life brother star as friends who are searching for a treasure that a Shaolin priest (Gordon Liu), a villainous traitor (Wang Lung Wei) and his sister (Yang Ching Ching) are also trying to find.

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