The best Yen Shi-Kwan’s movies

Yen Shi-Kwan

Yen Shi-Kwan

01/01/1947 (77 años)
Today we present the best Yen Shi-Kwan’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 Yen Shi-Kwan’s movies.
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The Legend of the Swordsman

The Legend of the Swordsman
7.1/10
Jet Li plays Ling, a student from the Blue Mountain school of martial arts, who, along with fellow students and Kiddo, find themselves embroiled in a country-wide political/clan war with the Highlander clan in the forefront of the battle.

Iron Monkey

Iron Monkey
7.5/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 03/09/1993
  • Character: Wonder Palm Monk Hin Hung
Iron Monkey is a Hong Kong variation of Robin Hood. Corrupt officials of a Chinese village are robbed by a masked bandit known as "Iron Monkey", named after a benevolent deity. When all else fails, the Governor forces a traveling physician into finding the bandit. The arrival of an evil Shaolin monk, brings the physician and Iron Monkey together to battle the corrupt government.

Once Upon a Time in China

Once Upon a Time in China
7.2/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 15/08/1991
  • Character: Iron Robe Yim Chun Tung
Set in late 19th century Canton, this martial arts film depicts the stance taken by the legendary martial arts hero Wong Fei-Hung against foreign forces' plundering of China.

Once Upon a Time in China II

Once Upon a Time in China II
7.3/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 16/04/1992
  • Character: Governor Chung
Wong Fei-Hung faces the White Lotus Society, a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence, even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend Dr. Sun Yat Sen, a revolutionary, from the military.

Fearless Hyena

Fearless Hyena
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 17/02/1979
  • Character: Yen Chuen Wong
Lung is a talented fighter but prefers to spend his time loafing around and picking fights, despite orders from his grandfather not to fight. Unknown to him, a brutal general has been slaughtering all the people from his grandfather’s clan. When the general recognizes Lung’s style of kung fu during one of his street fights, he hunts down Lung’s grandfather and kills him.

Royal Tramp 2

Royal Tramp 2
7/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 24/09/1992
  • Character: Feng Shi Fan
Following on from the Royal Tramp I, after discovering that the Empress is actually Lone-er, a member of the St Dragon Sect, and that she imprisoned the real empress. Lone-er is bent on eliminating the person who disclosed her true identity, Wilson Bond. But more complications ensues when Lone-er is assigned to protect the Prince, whose servant is none other than Wilson Bond.

Dragon Fist

Dragon Fist
6.1/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 21/04/1979
  • Character: Master Zhong Jian Jun
After the death of his master, martial arts student Tong Huo-wan travels with his adoptive family to seek redress from the man responsible but finds himself torn between righteousness and filial piety after becoming entangled in a feud between a local clan and gangsters.

Five Fingers of Death

Five Fingers of Death
7.1/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 28/04/1972
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.

The Heroic Trio

The Heroic Trio
6.5/10
Tung and Ching were both adopted by the same master. But later Ching was abducted by the eunuch-Chan. Ching grew up and became scientist Li's assistant and Tung married officer Lau. Chat had escaped from Chan at 15 and became a thief-catcher. During Chan's intrigue the trio united to become "The heroines of the East".

Swordsman III: The East Is Red

Swordsman III: The East Is Red
6.1/10
A royal official accompanies a Portuguese warship to the Black Cliffs to see the site of the defeat of the evil Invincible Asia, who attained supernatural abilities by following the sacred scroll and castrating himself.

New Dragon Gate Inn

New Dragon Gate Inn
7.2/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/01/1992
  • Character: Ho Fu
During the Ming Dynasty, Tsao Siu-yan, a power-crazed eunuch who rules his desert region of China as if he were the Emperor, ruthlessly thwarts plots against him and sets a trap for one of his enemies at the Dragon Gate Inn.

The Iron-Fisted Monk

The Iron-Fisted Monk
6.6/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 24/08/1977
  • Character: Thug
Husker is a student of the Shaolin monks, learning kung fu so that he can avenge his uncle who was murdered by the Manchus who control the province. He leaves his training early, desperate to teach the killers a lesson, and teams up with a martial artist monk who is teaching a group of factory workers how to defend themselves. When the Manchus strike again, Husker and his Buddhist pal decide it's time to even the score.

Dance of the Drunk Mantis

Dance of the Drunk Mantis
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 26/06/1979
  • Character: Sick Fist Master
A year after training young Jackie Chan in the Drunken Fist, Sam the Seed discovers he has a son, Foggy. He tries to train Foggy but to no avail. Foggy is then trained in Drunken Fist from his uncle as he must face his father's rival, Rubber Legs, another Drunken Fist master who combines it with Mantis Fist to create a deadly style.

Truant Heroes

Truant Heroes
5.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/02/1992
  • Character: Ti Chun Tung
The war against organized crime in Hong Kong has opened a new front: the school. And police Commandant Wong orders officer Kin to go under cover as a school teacher. Kin's assignment: to stop the infiltration by Taiwan's underworld. Kin's girl friend Hyun has jilted him. Once in school, Kin falls madly in love with the sexy teacher Moon. The students, however, make fun of him. Among his mentors, student leader Aaron stands out. But Hyun is also assigned to the school as an undercover student...

The Flying Dagger

The Flying Dagger
6.4/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 18/06/1969
  • Character: Green Dragon's thug
The Yu family earn the ire of the Green Dragon clan when the daughter (Cheng Pei-Pei) kills the clan chief's son (a rapist and murderer). The Green Dragon chief wounds family head Yu Yuan with his flying daggers, and kills many others who try to protect the noble family. Wandering swordsman Ying Qing (Lo Lieh) saves the family in a fight, using his own flying dagger skills, but his allegiances and motives are unclear.

Trilogy of Swordsmanship

Trilogy of Swordsmanship
6.5/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 05/11/1972
  • Character: 3) Soldier
3 martial arts directors united for this unique anthology film. Yueh Feng writes and directs a clever love-and-kung-fu triangle, Cheng Kang both writes and directs kung-fu courtesans battling brigands, and the ""godfather of the kung-fu film,"" Chang Cheh, creates a cliff-hanging, swashbuckling mini-movie with maxi-action.

Kickboxer

Kickboxer
5.9/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 06/02/1993
  • Character: Gold Panther
While master Wong Fei Hung is away traveling, the impulsive Lau Zhai (Yuen Biao), an initiate into Wong's kung fu school, begins wandering town. He soon allies with police chief Panther in order to offer assistance in toppling an opium distribution ring.

Shadow Ninja

Shadow Ninja
  • Release: 01/01/1983
It's a buddy-cop kung-fu movie.

The Oily Maniac

The Oily Maniac
5.7/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 18/09/1976
A cripple takes revenge on criminals by using a magic spell that transforms him into an oily monster/superhero.

Kid from Kwangtung

Kid from Kwangtung
5.8/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 07/02/1982
  • Character: Zhang Liyi
Respected actor and action choreographer Hsu Hsia didn’t waste his chance to direct — inviting three other kung-fu designers to help on this fight-filled thriller. Wang Yu, co-star of such classics as Dirty Ho and The Kid With A Tattoo, here takes center stage as a young rascal caught between master martial arts actor Jen Shih-kuan (Once Upon A Time In China) and violent Huang Cheng-li (Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow). From there on, it’s one masterful kung-fu bout after another.

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