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One evening, scholar Nie Yun Peng (Yang Fan) and his servant Da Huo Zi (Ko Hsiao Pao) come across a woman in a lake side and, thinking that she’s a ghost, they bolt away from her. Soon it gets dark but they manage to seek shelter in a house in which an attractive young maiden Feng Ah Nu (Margaret Hsing Hui) and her servant Yin Er (Carrie Ku Mai) live. During the night, while wandering around, Nie sees the fully naked Ah Nu in her bedroom, the same incident also happens to his servant who in turn witnesses Yin Er in the nude. Obviously upset, the devastated women start to cry, and it looks like the logical thing to do is for the men to offer a marriage proposal in which they happily accept.

The Nie family is thrilled to welcome Ah Nu just the same,...

After seeing Jimmy Wang Yu in so many swordplay wuxia movies, it’s a bit odd to see him in a suit, without a sword, living in a big modern brick house and driving a convertible sports car. “My Son” is an early 70s song and dance, family tragedy about an angry young man, Yang Kuo Liang (Jimmy Wang Yu), the rebel son of Detective Yang.

Kuo Liang lives with his father whom he blames for the death of his mother. The two of them are forever arguing and behaving like enemies. He doesn’t have a job, spends his time playing pool in night clubs and gets into fights all the time. Actually he behaves like a spoiled kid with no future. One night, he rescues Mei Lin (Margaret Hsing Hui), a young girl, from being raped and they become worthy friends. Mei Lin comes from a poor family,...

The Swift Knight

Written by Jeng Cheong-Woh

Directed by Jeng Cheong-Woh

Hong Kong, 1971

Writer-director Jeng Cheong-Woh was the instigator for one of the most important films to have ever been produced by the Shaw Brothers studio, Five Fingers of Death (also known as King Boxer). Not only is said film widely considered to be among the very best kung fu pictures ever made, it played a pivotal role for the unparalleled popularity of martial arts films in the United States since the 1970s. True enough, Bruce Lee’s filmography also aided in the rise of the kung fu flick in North American, but Five Fingers of Death’s influence is not to be overlooked. That movie was originally released in China in 1972. Just one year prior, the Korean genre filmmaker directed another Shaw Studio production, The Swift Knight, a project that does not reach the soaring heights Fingers but shows...