Chang Cheh
Born: 1924-01-17 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Died: 2002-06-22
Known For: Directing
Biography
Chang Cheh (Chinese: 張徹, January 17, 1924 – June 22, 2002) was Shaw Brothers Studio's best known and most prolific film director, with such films as The Five Venoms, The Brave Archer (based on the works of Jin Yong), The One-Armed Swordsman, and other classics of wuxia and kung fu film.
Filmography
2001
- Iron Fist Pillage ... (Archival Footage Coordinator)
1998
1993
- Ninja in Ancient China ... (Director)
1991
- Journey to the West ... (Director)
1990
- Slaughter in Xian ... (Writer)
- Hidden Hero ... (Director)
1989
- Just Heroes ... (Executive Producer)
1988
- Cross the River ... (Director)
1986
- Great Shanghai 1937 ... (Director)
1985
- The Dancing Warrior ... (Director)
1984
- Shanghai 13 ... (Writer)
- Death Ring ... (Director)
- The Nine Demons ... (Director)
1983
- The Weird Man ... (Writer)
- Attack of the Joyful Goddess ... (Director)
1982
- Five Element Ninjas ... (Director)
- Brave Archer and His Mate ... (Director)
- House of Traps ... (Writer)
- Ode to Gallantry ... (Director)
1981
- The Brave Archer 3 ... (Writer)
- The Sword Stained with Royal Blood ... (Director)
- Masked Avengers ... (Writer)
1980
- Two Champions of Shaolin ... (Director)
- Heaven and Hell ... (Director)
- The Flag of Iron ... (Director)
- Legend of the Fox ... (Director)
- The Rebel Intruders ... (Director)
1979
- Kid with the Golden Arm ... (Director)
- Shaolin Rescuers ... (Director)
- Ten Tigers of Kwangtung ... (Director)
- The Daredevils ... (Writer)
- The Magnificent Ruffians ... (Director)
1978
- The Five Venoms ... (Director)
- Invincible Shaolin ... (Director)
- Crippled Avengers ... (Director)
- Life Gamble ... (Director)
- The Brave Archer 2 ... (Director)
- Showdown at the Cotton Mill ... (Writer)
1977
- Chinatown Kid ... (Writer)
- The Brave Archer ... (Director)
- Magnificent Wanderers ... (Director)
- The Naval Commandos ... (Director)
1976
- Shaolin Temple ... (Writer)
- Boxer Rebellion ... (Director)
- 7-Man Army ... (Director)
- The New Shaolin Boxers ... (Writer)
- The Shaolin Avengers ... (Director)
1975
- All Men Are Brothers ... (Director)
- The Four Assassins ... (Director)
- Disciples of Shaolin ... (Director)
- The Fantastic Magic Baby ... (Director)
- The Bloody Escape ... (Director)
- The Young Rebel ... (Presenter)
- The Iron Superman ... (Producer)
1974
- The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires ... (Director)
- Five Shaolin Masters ... (Director)
- The Savage Five ... (Director)
- Shaolin Martial Arts ... (Director)
- Young Lovers on Flying Wheels ... (Presenter)
- Men from the Monastery ... (Director)
- Heroes Two ... (Director)
- Na Cha the Great ... (Director)
- A Mad World of Fools ... (Producer)
- Three Styles of Hung School's Kung Fu ... (Director)
- Friends ... (Director)
- Men from the Monastery ... (Director)
1973
- Blood Brothers ... (Director)
- The Delinquent ... (Director)
- Iron Bodyguard ... (Director)
- The Pirate ... (Director)
- Police Force ... (Director)
- The Generation Gap ... (Director)
1972
- The Water Margin ... (Director)
- The Angry Guest as Boss Yamaguchi (uncredited)
- Four Riders ... (Director)
- The Boxer from Shantung ... (Director)
- The Delightful Forest ... (Director)
- Young People ... (Writer)
- Trilogy of Swordsmanship ... (Director)
- Man of Iron ... (Director)
1971
- The New One-Armed Swordsman ... (Director)
- Duel of Fists ... (Director)
- The Anonymous Heroes ... (Director)
- The Deadly Duo ... (Director)
- King Eagle ... (Director)
- The Duel ... (Director)
1970
- The Heroic Ones ... (Director)
- Vengeance! ... (Director)
- The Singing Killer ... (Director)
- The Wandering Swordsman ... (Director)
1969
- Return of the One-Armed Swordsman ... (Director)
- Have Sword, Will Travel ... (Director)
- The Flying Dagger ... (Director)
- The Invincible Fist ... (Director)
- The Singing Thief ... (Director)
- Dead End ... (Director)
1968
- Golden Swallow ... (Director)
1967
- The One-Armed Swordsman ... (Director)
- The Trail of the Broken Blade ... (Director)
- The Assassin ... (Writer)
1966
- The Magnificent Trio ... (Director)
- The Knight of Knights ... (Writer)
- The Perfumed Arrow ... (Writer)
- Tiger Boy ... (Writer)
1965
- Call of the Sea ... (Screenplay)
- The Mermaid ... (Writer)
- The Butterfly Chalice ... (Writer)
- Crocodile River ... (Writer)
- Inside the Forbidden City ... (Writer)
1964
- The Warlord and the Actress ... (Writer)
- The Amorous Lotus Pan ... (Screenplay)
- The Female Prince ... (Writer)
1962
- Her Pearly Tears ... (Script)
- It's Always Spring ... (Screenplay)
1960
- Black Butterfly ... (Screenplay)
- The Tender Trap of Espionage ... (Screenplay)
1958
- Wild Fire ... (Director)
1950
- The Alishan Uprising ... (Writer)