Movies: Yi Yuan

Someone in a prison run by a corrupt warden fakes the deaths of convicts to later use them as expendable assassins. A police officer is sent into the prison to gather evidence of the corruption....

Tim Burstall directs then-up-and-comers Mel Gibson and Sam Neill in this action-packed Cannes Film Festival selection about the grim realities of World War II, a gritty drama based on actual events. Sent to rescue survivors from the site of a plane c...

Lui is a powerful ex-minister who opposes the ambitious premier Hu Wei Yen. Lui is assassinated, so his daughter Lui Sin and an assorted band of people loyal to the emperor seeks revenge and justice. The premier made a mistake - he allowed a scroll o...

Robert Tai's first film as a director; uses footage from Best and Worst (1974). A ruthless rapist and jewel thief and his gang are brought to justice by a cop and a young avenger....

An elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII....

The Incredibly valuable Six Gems is stolen from a fortress-like jewelry establishment in medieval China. The plot thickens when the #1 suspect, Pan Chen-Feng (played with sinister glee by Lo Lieh) is mysteriously poisoned in this unique Asian who-dun...

White Dragon must get a list with the names of rebel supporters to Prince Ma Tung, the leader of the rebellion. Trying to stop him in his mission is the evil Prime Minister, who naturally wants the list in order to crush his opposition. Adding anothe...

A grandfather and his young grandaughter travel to atown with a very unusual proposition: if any man can beat her in a fight, she will be his bride....

Complicated mix of Chinese history and myth, where old Shaolin friends find themselves on different sides, one a Ching general, and the other faithful to Ming....

Fantasy film from Taiwan, featuring the Chinese creation mythology of Pangu and Nüwa....

Fists fly when four generations of old-school fighters compete for Madame Green Plum's beautiful daughter in this action-packed martial arts classic. Kung fu masters Silver Spear, Red Leaf, Fast Steed and Green Lotus must survive dangerous obstacles ...

When our hero comes home from working, he finds his father and wife murdered, and a message written in blood. Its vengeance time... He goes in search of those who killed his family and runs into a spoiled brat and later her brother. Trouble ensues....

Leopard killed his wife due to her unfaithfulness and ran away with his daughter, Sung Sung. He joined a horde of bandits lead by Tiger, who is impressed by Leopards ruthless ways and together they make good business. One day, Sung Sung, now a grown ...

A recently jailed martial arts master teams up with a wronged woman to take down the man's brother, a coal baron who rules a small town with an iron fist....

Lady Karate focuses on Yoshiko's mission to persuade China's la emperor, Puyi to leave his comfortable existence in Tientsin and journey back to Manchuria to be the figurehead ruler of Manchukuo under the direction of the Japanese occupiers. She has ...

The traditional martial-arts action film Flying Swordsgirl offers a wealth of fights involving a variety of weaponry while telling the tale of a woman who learns to battle against the men....

Jimmy Wang Yu leads revolutionaries against the Manchus featuring his trademark huge fights....

When To Pa, a member of the prestigious Eagle Claw Clan, commands his followers to carry out a mutinous robbery against the Almighty Imperial Lightning Whip, the victim's children are shaken by his disloyalty. With the help of one of To Pa's former m...

Flight Man takes place in Taiwan in 1933, when the country was under Japanese occupation after the First Sino-Japanese War. The Taiwanese people have signed a petition to have the Japanese establish a Taiwan council, but instead this merely provokes ...

This is a fantastic rare basher from Taiwan with an all-star cast. Non-stop bloody action from start to finish....