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
- 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
- The Sword Stained with Royal Blood ... (Director)
- Masked Avengers ... (Director)
- The Brave Archer 3 ... (Director)
1980
- Two Champions of Shaolin ... (Director)
- The Flag of Iron ... (Director)
- The Rebel Intruders ... (Director)
- Heaven and Hell ... (Director)
- Legend of the Fox ... (Director)
1979
- Kid with the Golden Arm ... (Director)
- The Daredevils ... (Director)
- Ten Tigers of Kwangtung ... (Director)
- The Magnificent Ruffians ... (Director)
- Shaolin Rescuers ... (Director)
1978
- Invincible Shaolin ... (Writer)
- The Five Venoms ... (Director)
- Crippled Avengers ... (Director)
- Life Gamble ... (Director)
- The Brave Archer 2 ... (Director)
- Showdown at the Cotton Mill ... (Writer)
1977
- The Brave Archer ... (Director)
- Magnificent Wanderers ... (Director)
- Chinatown Kid ... (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
- All Men Are Brothers ... (Writer)
- The Four Assassins ... (Director)
- Disciples of Shaolin ... (Director)
- The Young Rebel ... (Presenter)
- The Iron Superman ... (Producer)
- The Fantastic Magic Baby ... (Director)
- The Bloody Escape ... (Director)
1974
- The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires ... (Director)
- Five Shaolin Masters ... (Director)
- The Savage Five ... (Director)
- Heroes Two ... (Director)
- Men from the Monastery ... (Director)
- Shaolin Martial Arts ... (Director)
- Na Cha the Great ... (Director)
- A Mad World of Fools ... (Producer)
- Young Lovers on Flying Wheels ... (Presenter)
- Friends ... (Director)
- Three Styles of Hung School's Kung Fu ... (Director)
1973
- Blood Brothers ... (Director)
- The Pirate ... (Director)
- Iron Bodyguard ... (Director)
- The Delinquent ... (Director)
- The Generation Gap ... (Director)
- Police Force ... (Director)
1972
- The Water Margin ... (Director)
- The Boxer from Shantung ... (Writer)
- The Angry Guest as Boss Yamaguchi (uncredited)
- Trilogy of Swordsmanship ... (Director)
- Man of Iron ... (Director)
- Four Riders ... (Director)
- The Delightful Forest ... (Director)
- Young People ... (Director)
1971
- The New One-Armed Swordsman ... (Director)
- Duel of Fists ... (Director)
- The Deadly Duo ... (Director)
- The Anonymous Heroes ... (Director)
- The Duel ... (Director)
- King Eagle ... (Director)
1970
- The Heroic Ones ... (Writer)
- Vengeance! ... (Director)
- The Wandering Swordsman ... (Director)
- The Singing Killer ... (Director)
1969
- Return of the One-Armed Swordsman ... (Writer)
- The Flying Dagger ... (Director)
- Have Sword, Will Travel ... (Director)
- The Invincible Fist ... (Director)
- Dead End ... (Director)
- The Singing Thief ... (Director)
1968
- Golden Swallow ... (Director)
1967
- The One-Armed Swordsman ... (Director)
- The Assassin ... (Writer)
- The Trail of the Broken Blade ... (Director)
1966
- The Magnificent Trio ... (Writer)
- Tiger Boy ... (Writer)
- The Knight of Knights ... (Writer)
- The Perfumed Arrow ... (Writer)
1965
- Crocodile River ... (Writer)
- Inside the Forbidden City ... (Writer)
- The Mermaid ... (Writer)
- The Butterfly Chalice ... (Writer)
- Call of the Sea ... (Screenplay)
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)