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 ... (Director)
- The Nine Demons ... (Director)
- Death Ring ... (Director)
1983
- The Weird Man ... (Director)
- Attack of the Joyful Goddess ... (Director)
1982
- Five Element Ninjas ... (Director)
- Brave Archer and His Mate ... (Director)
- House of Traps ... (Director)
- Ode to Gallantry ... (Director)
1981
- Masked Avengers ... (Director)
- The Sword Stained with Royal Blood ... (Director)
- The Brave Archer 3 ... (Director)
1980
- Two Champions of Shaolin ... (Director)
- Heaven and Hell ... (Director)
- The Rebel Intruders ... (Director)
- The Flag of Iron ... (Director)
- Legend of the Fox ... (Director)
1979
- Kid with the Golden Arm ... (Director)
- Ten Tigers of Kwangtung ... (Director)
- The Magnificent Ruffians ... (Director)
- Shaolin Rescuers ... (Director)
- The Daredevils ... (Director)
1978
- The Five Venoms ... (Director)
- Crippled Avengers ... (Director)
- Invincible Shaolin ... (Director)
- The Brave Archer 2 ... (Director)
- Life Gamble ... (Director)
- Showdown at the Cotton Mill ... (Writer)
1977
- Chinatown Kid ... (Director)
- Magnificent Wanderers ... (Director)
- The Brave Archer ... (Director)
- The Naval Commandos ... (Director)
1976
- Shaolin Temple ... (Director)
- The Shaolin Avengers ... (Director)
- 7-Man Army ... (Director)
- Boxer Rebellion ... (Director)
- The New Shaolin Boxers ... (Director)
1975
- The Fantastic Magic Baby ... (Director)
- All Men Are Brothers ... (Director)
- The Four Assassins ... (Director)
- Disciples of Shaolin ... (Director)
- The Iron Superman ... (Producer)
- The Young Rebel ... (Presenter)
- The Bloody Escape ... (Director)
1974
- Five Shaolin Masters ... (Director)
- The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires ... (Director)
- The Savage Five ... (Director)
- Shaolin Martial Arts ... (Director)
- Heroes Two ... (Director)
- Young Lovers on Flying Wheels ... (Presenter)
- Men from the Monastery ... (Director)
- A Mad World of Fools ... (Producer)
- Na Cha the Great ... (Director)
- Men from the Monastery ... (Director)
- Friends ... (Director)
- Three Styles of Hung School's Kung Fu ... (Director)
1973
- Blood Brothers ... (Director)
- Iron Bodyguard ... (Director)
- The Pirate ... (Director)
- Police Force ... (Director)
- The Delinquent ... (Director)
- The Generation Gap ... (Director)
1972
- The Water Margin ... (Director)
- The Delightful Forest ... (Director)
- The Boxer from Shantung ... (Director)
- The Angry Guest as Boss Yamaguchi (uncredited)
- Four Riders ... (Director)
- Man of Iron ... (Director)
- Trilogy of Swordsmanship ... (Director)
- Young People ... (Director)
1971
- The New One-Armed Swordsman ... (Director)
- The Deadly Duo ... (Director)
- The Anonymous Heroes ... (Director)
- Duel of Fists ... (Director)
- The Duel ... (Director)
- King Eagle ... (Director)
1970
- The Heroic Ones ... (Director)
- Vengeance! ... (Director)
- The Wandering Swordsman ... (Director)
- The Singing Killer ... (Director)
1969
- Have Sword, Will Travel ... (Director)
- Return of the One-Armed Swordsman ... (Director)
- The Invincible Fist ... (Director)
- The Flying Dagger ... (Director)
- Dead End ... (Director)
- The Singing Thief ... (Director)
1968
- Golden Swallow ... (Director)
1967
- The One-Armed Swordsman ... (Director)
- The Assassin ... (Director)
- The Trail of the Broken Blade ... (Director)
1966
- The Magnificent Trio ... (Director)
- The Knight of Knights ... (Writer)
- Tiger Boy ... (Writer)
- The Perfumed Arrow ... (Writer)
1965
- The Mermaid ... (Writer)
- The Butterfly Chalice ... (Director)
- Call of the Sea ... (Screenplay)
- Crocodile River ... (Writer)
- Inside the Forbidden City ... (Writer)
1964
- The Amorous Lotus Pan ... (Screenplay)
- The Warlord and the Actress ... (Writer)
- The Female Prince ... (Writer)
1962
- Her Pearly Tears ... (Script)
- It's Always Spring ... (Screenplay)
1960
- The Tender Trap of Espionage ... (Screenplay)
- Black Butterfly ... (Screenplay)
1958
- Wild Fire ... (Director)
1950
- The Alishan Uprising ... (Director)