The best Yue Tau-Wan’s movies

Yue Tau-Wan

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If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Yue Tau-Wan’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 Yue Tau-Wan.
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The Young Master

The Young Master
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 09/02/1980
  • Character: Cross eyed constable
Youthful martial arts master Lung is searching for his missing brother, when he is mistaken for a criminal on the run. He must prove his innocence by solving the case himself, while local lawmen and merciless mercenaries are hot on his trail.

The Champions

The Champions
6.7/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 11/10/1983
  • Character: Social soccer player
Ah Biao stars as an acrobatic country hick who must flee out of town after injuring a wealthy socialite during an innocent competition. While exploring the area, he runs into a soccer team who discovers his talents.

Dreadnaught

Dreadnaught
7.1/10
A short-tempered, violent criminal named "White Tiger" is on the run from the police and joins a theater troupe for disguise, killing anyone who angers him or who suspects his identity. One person he unsuccessfully tries to kill several times is a cowardly laundry man named "Mousy" who manages to escape mostly by running and hiding. When a very close friend of Mousy's is killed by the White Tiger, Mousy overcomes his cowardliness enough to seek revenge. Spectacular martial arts and acrobatics highlight the film, including a well choreographed fight between two pairs of men in dragon costume.

Odd Couple

Odd Couple
7.1/10
Hailed as possibly the greatest classical weapons movie ever made and starring world-renowned martial arts master, director and action-choreographer, Sammo Hung. This film showcases some of the most spectacular and intricate weapons duels ever committed to film. Sammo Hung and Lau Kar Wing play dual roles as both masters and students of the sword and spear styles of kung fu. Comic mayhem ensues when the students get kidnapped and the masters must rescue them.

Security Unlimited

Security Unlimited
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/01/1981
  • Character: Cross-eyed robber
This is a story about a security guard agency and its three agents-Michael, Sam and Ricky. Sam and Ricky are delivering a large sum of money to a bank when a robbery takes place under their nose. after a series of hair-raising about hilarious chases, the agents get their men. With Michael and Sam giving their reward money to Ricky. They live haphazardly ever after.

Teppanyaki

Teppanyaki
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/01/1984
  • Character: On plane [cameo]
Mr. Wong (Michael Hui) is the chief chef in a Teppanyaki restaurant. His overbearing wife and sadistic father-in-law make his home life a misery, so he spends all day dreaming about his dream girl, Sissy (Sally Yeh). When she comes into the restaurant, Wong seizes the opportunity and arranges to take her on a tour of the Paradise Island. Unfortunately, his wife and her friend go with him.

The Pretty Ghostress Story

The Pretty Ghostress Story
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/01/1992
A young man gets involved with a female ghost. He finds himself caught in the middle of a fight between a monk and The King of Hell.

The Ghost Snatchers

The Ghost Snatchers
6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 30/09/1986
  • Character: Big B
The story is about a new high rise office building that's haunted by a ghost patrol of Japanese soldiers from W.W. II. The angry ghosts want revenge and they'll do anything to achieve that goal.

Hex

Hex
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionHorror
  • Release: 09/07/1980
  • Character: Furniture mover
Constantly mistreated by her cruel husband, the frail Chan Sau-ying awaits certain death from tuberculosis. The new servant girl, Yi-wah takes pity on her mistress' plight and the pair proceed to drown him one evening. They dump his body in a near-by pond but Sau-ying believes that the man's bloated corpse has risen from the bog to seek vengeance.

Hex After Hex

Hex After Hex
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 01/01/1982
  • Character: Arsonist
Hell may have no fury like a woman scorned, but hell, literally, really has no wrath like a lusting ghost scorned! Muscular "Venom" Lo Mang discovers just that when the demon arranges to have his true love killed in order to possess her. Chaos, revenge, insanity, violence, tragedy, and even romance ensue. Director Kuei Chih-hung, already famous for Bamboo House of Dolls, Killer Snakes, Ghost Eyes, Corpse, Hex, and many other cult classics, shoots the works with this amazing horror love story.

Pom Pom Strikes Back

Pom Pom Strikes Back
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 14/08/1986
  • Character: You Foo
The Hong Kong detectives, Chau and Beethoven, are back once more. This time, their mission is to protect a young girl from a gang boss' henchmen, who are trying to eliminate her so she couldn't testify in court against their boss. Meanwhile, the plot thickens when a police medical report revealed that Chau apparently has cancer; therefore, Beethoven will see to it that his partner will have a well-deserved vacation in his remaining months.

Profiles of Pleasure

Profiles of Pleasure
6.2/10
  • Release: 05/05/1988
  • Character: Rickshaw puller
Before the Big Ban on prostitution, West Hong Kong is famous for its houses of pleasure. The most infamous of them all is Floral Ode House. Among its girls are Yen Hung, who becomes a widow regularly; aristocratic Chien Chien; Cherry Fun, who manages to lose the nickname; and a bevy of beauties. The madam who is on good terms with the police chief claims the best business this side of virtue. Then there comes from England Cheng Li-Peng, commissioned to ban prostitution. He is engaged to Lily, the police chief's daughter. But his parents had arranged a wife for him when he was an infant. They have lost trace of each other. Cheng Li-Peng starts his investigation, which lead him to Yen Hung's and Chien Chien's bedrooms. He is surprised to find himself in love with all three girls. And one of them turns out to be his missing fiancee!

Shaolin Prince

Shaolin Prince
7/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 01/01/1982
  • Character: Monk Wu Li
Two princes are seperated by birth. One is raised by the Prime Minister. The other is raised by three mad Shaolin Monks. They both learn kung-fu. When they are 23, they meet and combine there forces to defeat the evil 9th Prince.

Lost Souls

Lost Souls
5.6/10
Like many Hong Kong people, the Ling family are hoping to immigrate to Canada - but then they all die in a gas poisoning accident. Something wimpy like dying isn't going to stop them from their Canadian dreams, but it turns out migrating in the next life takes money, too. In order to raise funds to head west, the Lings return to the mortal world and get to work making money through various jobs, raising plenty of hilarious havoc and misunderstandings along the way.

The 82 Tenants

The 82 Tenants
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/08/1982
  • Character: Mr. Zha's Thug
In “82 Tenants” the widow Zhang and Bing, her new young consort, want to sell an apartment house to a property developer but old man Zhang's will provided that the current tenants can stay there as long as they want or the building survives. So it is clear who the villains are—joining the greedy couple is Chao who has purchased all the land around the building but needs this final piece so he can know everything down and build a money spinning edifice. One the other side are the tenants, a disparate group whose grudgingly and occasionally antagonistically shared communal life, while not ideal, is certainly better than not having a place to live.

Kung Fu Master Named Drunk Cat

Kung Fu Master Named Drunk Cat
6.2/10
Given a jar of sweets by a beautiful air-hostess, Chan finds that each one contains a diamond (diamonds belonging to a ruthless smuggling gang). Chan finds out the hard way that when there’s no place to hide and nowhere left to run, a fight to the finish is the only way out!

Who Cares

Who Cares
5/10
Tough female cops tussle with Hong Kong Triad societies and also a recently resurrected hopping vampire. Chaos reigns.

The Buddhist Fist

The Buddhist Fist
6.5/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 07/05/1980
Two orphans raised by monks are taught divine secrets of kung fu. As adults, one chooses the path of the monks while the other opts for the outside world. Aspiring barber and experienced kung-fu fighter Shang learns that his childhood friend, Siu Ming, has been framed for murder by an unknown villain.When Shang begins looking into the crime, he soon finds himself the target of an assassination attempt. They reunite to find their missing godfather and seek vengeance on his kidnappers. Who is behind all these crimes, and can Shang stop them?

My Kung Fu Master

My Kung Fu Master
My Kung Fu Master is a Hong Kong Martial Arts Comedy

Devil and the Ghostbuster

Devil and the Ghostbuster
5/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 28/01/1988
  • Character: Taoist
Beautiful Wan Wen Zheng plays a ghost bent on revenge. Originally killed while being raped, she gives supernatural fighting powers to a Kung Fu boxerin this rather slow, atmospheric, serious film.

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