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Shih Szu
Born: 24th Oct 1953 Taiwan
Dept: Acting
With parents coming from Hunan (Henan), originally named Lei Qiu-Si, Shih Szu was born in Taiwan. She joined Shaw Brothers in 1970 and appearing as a martial arts heroine. Acclaimed by a wide range of audience, Shaw Brothers regarded her as the next Cheng Pei-Pei. As such she appeared in many martial arts movies which included "The Rescue", "The Lady Hermit", "Heroes of Sung", "The Villains", "The Bloody Scape" and "Lady of the Law" etc. Her agility and skills established her position as one of the top female martial arts stars. After starring in "A Deadly Secret" in 1980, she left Hong Kong and continued her filming career in Taiwan. She retired from the limelight in early 80s.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 57
Film: 56 (98%)
Television: 1 (2%)
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Filmography
Character:
Original title: 符法奇兵
1985
Very weird magic fu, filled from start to finish with evil wizards, laserbeams, and crazy spells. ... view
Character:
Original title: 邪花劫
1983
Young punk Eddy Fong is having an affair with Joyce Ho, who is unhappily married to dull and middle aged office manager Ho Sun. ... view
Character:
Joyce Ho
Original title: 龍女下凡
1982
The heavenly maiden comes to earth in the form of a mortal and with her kung fu skills stamps out some evil doers. ... view
Character:
Original title: Shui yue shi san dao
1982
Bloodshed follows the never-ending struggle of a swordsman's soul to make good of his skills. ... view
Character:
Original title: Sha bao xiong di
1982
Two tough gangsters try to outdo each other to become Shanghai's top gangster and take control of the Wharf area. Some brilliant fights from top kung ... view
Character:
Original title: 功夫皇帝
1981
Don't expect a long life if you are one of the emperor's fourteen sons! For instance, Ninth Prince meets an "accident" while hunting. The (unnamed) Ma ... view
Character:
Lady in Brothel
Original title: 戒賭
1981
Peter LAN, a handsome man and a seasoned gambler, finds upon his return from abroad that his family has been destroyed by the treachery of the unscrup ... view
Character:
Lai Pei-ling
Original title: Ci ke lie zhuan
1980
The swords never stop flying in this action-packed old school hit! Master Wu (Ko Keung from "Fatal Flying Guillotines"), after refusing to help the ki ... view
Character:
Yan Yan
Original title: 少林英雄
1980
Former Shaolin man Marshal Kao takes his former classmates prisoner and, instead of executing them, proposes to his Qing commander that he torture the ... view
Character:
Princess
Original title: 連城訣
1980
A treasure hunt sparks the continuing violence in this Hong Kong action film, yet the film does not focus only on the violent nature of some of the ch ... view
Character:
Ling Seung Wa
Original title: Feng liu can jian xue wu hen
1980
A knife expert arrives to tell the ruler he is to be invaded during his annual knife skills challenge. He coaxes his old enemy (a deaf, blind old man) ... view
Character:
Original title: 風流斷劍小小刀
1979
Leaving behind an inch of sword in the spent corpses of his opponents, Tuan Changqing is known as the Deadly Breaking Sword. After barely surviving a ... view
Character:
Liu Yinxu
Original title: 斷劍無情
1979
Shaw’s superstar, Chi Kuan Chun stars in this brilliant sword film from ace Director Chang Peng Yi, as a sentimental swordsman who tries to give up ... view
Character:
Original title: 人在江湖
1979
Two men meet as old friends but leave as new enemies. Before plans can be expedited the fight starts. As the title clearly gives away, only Shih Szu s ... view
Character:
Kao Jo-hsueh
Original title: 冷血十三鷹
1978
Eagle Chief Yoh Xi-hung raises orphans to be his personal killers. One such is Chik Ming-sing who now wants to put his killer life behind him. When th ... view
Character:
Siu Fung
Original title: 笑傲江湖
1978
Sun Chung had made a name for himself directing satirical comedies and modern day crime thrillers when he started exploring the kung-fu genre with thi ... view
Character:
Bai Yingying / Sacred Lady
Original title: 陆小凤传奇之绣花大盗
1978
The Embroidery Bandit is stealing treasures while blinding his victims. The hero Liu Xiaofeng is called in to solve the mystery. The evidence points t ... view
Character:
Jiang Qingxia, 3rd Sister
Original title: 清宮大刺殺
1978
The emperor's reign of terror expands. Heroic outlaw Ma Teng joins a squad of female rebels, whose leader is torn between family loyalties. ... view
Character:
Na Lan
Original title: 第三把飛刀
1978
The lovely Fire Pheonix comes to the rescue of a young man who is the last survivor after his family has been killed. The entire Martial Arts World is ... view
Character:
Original title: 明月刀雪夜殲仇
1977
The chief of a martial arts school gathers a group of swordsmen in order to find a murderer hiding among them, who he believes will destroy the establ ... view
Character:
Ma's Daughter
Original title: 白玉老虎
1977
Zhao Wuji, son of the leader of the Zhao Clan, embarks on a tragic adventure full of intrigue to avenge his father, who is beheaded by a traitor worki ... view
Character:
Tang Yue
Original title: 海軍突擊隊
1977
The "Godfather Of The Kung-Fu Film" created this rousing epic of a seemingly suicidal mission to destroy the Japanese Navy's flagship in 1937, featuri ... view
Character:
Cui Hsia
Original title: 少林寺
1976
There is no place more hallowed in the martial art world than China's Shaolin Temple. This special place deserves a special epic, which is what the ma ... view
Character:
Yen Yung-chun
Original title: 香港奇案
1976
An anthology film featuring three true-crime stories that took place in Hong Kong in the early 1970's. Part 1: Hidden Torsos' A woman and her daughter ... view
Character:
Jenny
Original title: 馬哥波羅
1975
Set at the time of Italian explorer Marco Polo's historic expedition to China ,during the reign of Monogol ruler Kublai Khan, it stars American actor ... view
Character:
Zu's Widow
Original title: 逃亡
1975
Gu Hui, a member of the ‘Wolf Head Gang’ becomes unhappy after their new chief decides to abandon their old code of conduct. After the chief kills ... view
Character:
Tang Li
Original title: 新啼笑姻緣
1975
Director Chu Yuan was one of the new breed of directors at Shaw who raised the bar of martial arts films, by adding compelling storylines and a good d ... view
Character:
Guan Xiu-Zhu
Original title: 女捕快
1975
A dangerous criminal escapes captivity – but luckily crime-busting super-swordswoman Leng Rushuang (Shih Szu) is on his trail. However, she has doub ... view
Character:
Leng Rushuang
Character:
Lo Kuei-Fang
1975
A look at Shaw Brothers Studios in their prime. Includes: interviews with David Chiang; exploring the Shaw Brothers sets; a look at the craftsmen, fol ... view
Character:
Self
1974
Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants ... view
Character:
Hsi Mai-Kwei
Original title: 鬼馬小天使
1974
The Shaw Brothers version of The Parent Trap, only they found real twins for the roles of the kids! ... view
Character:
Nightclub Visitor
Original title: 香港73
1974
As the Heng Seng Index reaches unprecedented heights, people from all walks of life go stock speculation crazy. A security guard and his landlord lear ... view
Character:
Teacher
Original title: 太極拳
1974
Chen Wo-Fu plays construction worker Ku Ting, whose skill at "tai chi" (shadow boxing) is as great as his pacifism. But when his girlfriend is raped b ... view
Character:
Ah Jen
Original title: 龍虎會風雲
1973
Heroes of Sung stars one of the original kung-fu ladies of the silver screen Shih Szu playing swordswoman Meng Hung who must work with Fan Tien-fu, pl ... view
Character:
Hong-Erh / Meng Hong
Original title: Crash! Che botte... strippo strappo stroppio
1973
Robert Wallace travels to Hong Kong to bust a gang of drug trafficker's. There he finds help from Tang and Suzy, as well as his fellow Supermen Max &a ... view
Character:
Suzy
Original title: 七十二家房客
1973
Set during a period of depression, the film chronicles the daily lives of a single urban building split up into several separate units, and the actual ... view
Character:
Olive Buying Student
Character:
Lin Xiao Hong
Original title: 豪客
1973
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 f ... view
Character:
Chin Chu
Original title: 霹靂拳
1972
A small village is taken over by the nasty Japanese, who kill the town's top kung fu fighter in order to scare the populace into submission. Escaping ... view
Character:
Die Er
Original title: 黑店
1972
A rumor has spread that a retiring corrupt official is traveling with a box filled with all kinds of valuables, and is going to make a stop at a remot ... view
Character:
Zhang Caibing
Original title: 群英會
1972
Three martial arts directors united for this unique anthology film. Yueh Feng writes and directs a clever love-and-kung-fu triangle, Cheng Kang both w ... view
Character:
Ying Ying
Original title: 小毒龍
1972
After a career spanning more than forty years and dozens of films as director or writer, Yueh Feng used everything he learned on a final few martial a ... view
Character:
Li Bao Zhu, the "Young Avenger"
Original title: 血酒天牢
1971
Renowned writer Shen Chiang had become so popular for his scripts that the studio let him direct as well. Here he continued his winning ways with this ... view
Character:
Bai Yaerh
Original title: 血符門
1971
A noble swordsman and a one-armed swordswoman go up against the vicious Crimson Charm gang of thieves and cutthroats. The lovely and lethal Ivy Ling P ... view
Character:
Chiang Shang-Ching
Original title: 鍾馗娘子
1971
A young Kung Fu student seeks a reclusive teacher so that she may learn to defeat the evil Black Demon. She doesn't realize that the servant woman she ... view
Character:
Cui Ping