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A dandy fop who just happens to be great at Kung-Fu, is traveling the countryside in the Hong Kong of old. He has to negotiate a treacherous landscape filled with tricksters and tough guys, and fight a lot of battles in hand-to-hand martial arts combat, in order to be reunited with his lost love. In order to do this, he teams up with a ragtag bunch of orphans.
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!
A husband buys his wife a ring only to find out it belonged to a crazy woman who had committed suicide and is now terrorizing the family as a ghost.
An anthology of tales from Hong Kong.
Poor Betty gets drugged and kidnapped at a teen beach party and finds herself in clutches of a sleazy prostitution ring. After trying to escape, her head is shaved as punishment. Soon enough, she's the star of the stable for all the local bald freaks.
Robert Ko (Kao Fei) returns home from America and meets Tiger (John Chang), a vagrant. The two become friends and Tiger becomes involved with a girl (Yang Pan Pan) from a family of fighters. The girl has aroused the interest of the local boss (Tiger Yang) and is kidnapped. The Two Wondrous Tigers must now come to her aide.
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Shao Chan has the worst luck. It's so bad, he ends up in jail by accident. He escapes after learning of a buried fortune. He hopes finding it will change his luck. However, he learns it's another scheme, this one could cost him his life.
A young man (Yuan Man Meng) who is forbidden to study kung fu by his grandfather eventually branches out in search of someone to teach him. He encounters three teachers, who each instruct him in a different school of fighting. But when a mysterious killer murders each of the three teachers, the young man must use his newly learned fighting skills to avenge their deaths.