Shanghai Heroic Story(1992)

Firebrands(ja)

Barely scraping by making an honest living as a rural yakuza, Hachiya (Yasukaze Motomiya) dreams of the City of Flowers. Unable to conceal their growing frustration at their everyday lives, he and his partner, Sagane (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), choose to pursue their own paths as yakuza, hiding a new major source of income from the family. But when the family captain (Kazuyoshi Ozawa) shows up for the first time in ten years...

The Screaming Tiger(zh)

Rare was the film in 1973 that incorporated the star's name in the title. One of the few such films was Screaming Ninja, aka Wang Yu, King of Boxing. The story is set in China in the early 1900x. Essentially playing an extension of himself, action-star Wang-Yu spends much of the time defending himself against evil martial-arts masters. He also tries to make sense of a tragic incident in his past.

Pursuit(en)

Pursuit is a modern take on Irish mythology, adapting the legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne and transforming it into a road movie and gangster thriller for a contemporary audience.

Drunken Arts and Crippled Fist(cn)

At the age of eight years old, Shao is sent to train under the notorious drunkard "Crippled Fist Master". Shao returns home after ten long years of training, to find himself dealing with local criminals and gangsters.

Prison Train(en)

Gangsters plan an assassination of a rival while he rides the train carrying him to prison.

London Belongs to Me(en)

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.

Broadway(en)

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

Blonde Bait(en)

Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is currently in a British prison. Angela has refused to give Nick up to the law, so the combined authorities arrange for Angela to escape, aided by stoolie Gran' Ramsey who is at the same prison. The police will then follow Angela to Nick. Gran' stages the getaway, and the two women, accompanied by a third convict, Marguerite, whose prison-born baby is about to be turned over to welfare authorities. It is up to Gran' to keep the police informed of Angela's movements without being detected by the escapees, until Angela contacts Nick. This film is a reworking of principal footage from the UK film WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (1955), q.v., which, with added new footage (including scenes with original star Beverly Michaels), significantly revises the plot and central characters from a story about a wrongly imprisoned waif to one about a gangster's moll.

The Tip-Off(en)

A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.

Gangster's Law(en)

A con man pulls a double-cross on a gang of vicious bank robbers.

The Black Belt(zh)

A cop seeks revenge on those who murdered his mother, and later kidnap his blind sister for prostitution.

Bachelor Party(ml)

Tony, a former outlaw, decides to lead a quiet life with his wife and newborn child. However, their peaceful household is disrupted after the return of a dangerous gangster, Prakash.

Chaotic Jianghu: Divine Weapons Rivalry(zh)

When a legendary divine weapon resurfaces, it sets off a frenzy in the martial world as heroes compete to claim it and dominate the jianghu. But beneath the hunt lies a shocking secret that triggers a web of rivalries and conspiracies.

The Bastard(it)

A criminal (Giuliano Gemma) seeks vengeance when his double-dealing brother (Klaus Kinski) steals his jewels and mutilates his shooting hand.

The Last Mercenary(fr)

A legendary secret service agent comes out of hiding and returns to France to help the son he's never met get out of trouble.

Dha Dha 87(ta)

A happy-go-lucky guy, who falls in love in his locality, gets the shock of his life when she reveals her real identity to him.

The Song of the Tree(ky)

Esen, a young man who has been expelled from his village, escapes with the daughter of one of the most powerful men in the village. Whilst being pursued, he is forced to fight for her hand in a battle that results in the destruction of a sacred totem tree. This puts the whole village in jeopardy, and it is up to Esen to redeem himself and save them all.

Animal World(zh)

Backed into a corner by mounting debts, a youth agrees to submit himself to a high stakes game of chance in international waters aboard a disused warship.

Just Be Yourself!(en)

A gangster has an announcement for his two henchmen: he's fallen in love, and he's quitting crime... to open a flower shop!

红尘客栈(zh)