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
- Hidden Hero ... (Director)
- Slaughter in Xian ... (Writer)
1989
- Just Heroes ... (Executive Producer)
1988
- Cross the River ... (Director)
1986
- Great Shanghai 1937 ... (Director)
1985
- The Dancing Warrior ... (Director)
1984
- The Nine Demons ... (Director)
- Shanghai 13 ... (Writer)
- Death Ring ... (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 Sword Stained with Royal Blood ... (Director)
- Masked Avengers ... (Writer)
- The Brave Archer 3 ... (Writer)
1980
- Two Champions of Shaolin ... (Director)
- The Rebel Intruders ... (Director)
- Legend of the Fox ... (Director)
- The Flag of Iron ... (Director)
- Heaven and Hell ... (Director)
1979
- The Daredevils ... (Writer)
- Kid with the Golden Arm ... (Director)
- Ten Tigers of Kwangtung ... (Director)
- Shaolin Rescuers ... (Director)
- The Magnificent Ruffians ... (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
- The Brave Archer ... (Director)
- Chinatown Kid ... (Writer)
- Magnificent Wanderers ... (Director)
- The Naval Commandos ... (Director)
1976
- Shaolin Temple ... (Writer)
- Boxer Rebellion ... (Director)
- The Shaolin Avengers ... (Director)
- 7-Man Army ... (Director)
- The New Shaolin Boxers ... (Writer)
1975
- The Iron Superman ... (Producer)
- All Men Are Brothers ... (Director)
- The Four Assassins ... (Director)
- The Fantastic Magic Baby ... (Director)
- Disciples of Shaolin ... (Director)
- The Young Rebel ... (Presenter)
- The Bloody Escape ... (Director)
1974
- The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires ... (Director)
- Five Shaolin Masters ... (Director)
- Heroes Two ... (Director)
- The Savage Five ... (Director)
- Na Cha the Great ... (Director)
- Shaolin Martial Arts ... (Director)
- Men from the Monastery ... (Director)
- A Mad World of Fools ... (Producer)
- Friends ... (Director)
- Young Lovers on Flying Wheels ... (Presenter)
- Men from the Monastery ... (Director)
- Three Styles of Hung School's Kung Fu ... (Director)
1973
- Blood Brothers ... (Director)
- Iron Bodyguard ... (Director)
- The Pirate ... (Director)
- The Delinquent ... (Director)
- Police Force ... (Director)
- The Generation Gap ... (Director)
1972
- The Water Margin ... (Director)
- Four Riders ... (Director)
- The Angry Guest as Boss Yamaguchi (uncredited)
- The Delightful Forest ... (Director)
- Man of Iron ... (Director)
- The Boxer from Shantung ... (Director)
- Young People ... (Writer)
- Trilogy of Swordsmanship ... (Director)
1971
- The New One-Armed Swordsman ... (Director)
- The Deadly Duo ... (Director)
- The Duel ... (Director)
- Duel of Fists ... (Director)
- The Anonymous Heroes ... (Director)
- King Eagle ... (Director)
1970
- The Heroic Ones ... (Director)
- Vengeance! ... (Director)
- The Wandering Swordsman ... (Director)
- The Singing Killer ... (Director)
1969
- Return of the One-Armed Swordsman ... (Director)
- Have Sword, Will Travel ... (Director)
- The Flying Dagger ... (Director)
- Dead End ... (Director)
- The Singing Thief ... (Director)
- The Invincible Fist ... (Director)
1968
- Golden Swallow ... (Director)
1967
- The One-Armed Swordsman ... (Director)
- The Trail of the Broken Blade ... (Director)
- The Assassin ... (Writer)
1966
- Tiger Boy ... (Writer)
- The Magnificent Trio ... (Director)
- The Knight of Knights ... (Writer)
- The Perfumed Arrow ... (Writer)
1965
- The Butterfly Chalice ... (Writer)
- The Mermaid ... (Writer)
- Inside the Forbidden City ... (Writer)
- Call of the Sea ... (Screenplay)
- Crocodile River ... (Writer)
1964
- The Amorous Lotus Pan ... (Screenplay)
- The Warlord and the Actress ... (Writer)
- The Female Prince ... (Writer)
1962
- It's Always Spring ... (Screenplay)
- Her Pearly Tears ... (Script)
1961
- You Were Meant for Me ... (Writer)
1960
- Black Butterfly ... (Screenplay)
- The Tender Trap of Espionage ... (Screenplay)
1958
- Wild Fire ... (Director)
1950
- The Alishan Uprising ... (Writer)