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Tsao Chien
Born: 8th Sep 1922 Taiwan - Died 10th Aug 2002
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 85
Film: 82 (96%)
Television: 3 (4%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Family, Music
Filmography
Mar 1993 (first aired)
Justice Bao is a 236-episode television series from Taiwan, first airing on Chinese Television System from February 1993 to January 1994. The show sta ... view
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王延龄 (236 ep.)
Original title: 火燒島
1990
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 ... view
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Fong's Father
Original title: 唐山過台灣
1986
Taiwan's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986. In the story, the kindly and very efficient Chinese settlers are dis ... view
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Original title: 孽子
1986
In 1985, senior high school student A-Qing was found fornicating with a staff member at school and got expelled. His deeply humiliated veteran father ... view
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Original title: 金大班的最後一夜
1984
Set in Shanghai in the 1940s. Story of a ballroom girl Jolie Chan who falls in love with a student and becomes pregnant, but the student's family forc ... view
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Original title: 사랑 그리고 離別
1984
Park Mei Ji receives a phone call from a woman who says she and Mei Ji's husband, Inn Min, are living together in Taipei and raising a son. Mei Ji imm ... view
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General Lei
Original title: 天下第一
1983
It's the 10th century BC, the emperor is not well, and the medicines he is receiving from con artist "Immortal Li" are in reality only making him wors ... view
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Original title: 女忍者
1983
During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, a Chinese woman trains in the covert arts. When she arrives in Hong Kong, she learns that her brother work ... view
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Ninja Sensei
Original title: 小畢的故事
1983
The story follows a young man as he changes from an intelligently aware youth, to a teenager with much less confidence than he once had, and finally, ... view
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Mr. Zhu
Original title: 大輪迴
1983
Jointly and respectively directed by King Hu, Lee Hsing, and Pai Ching-Jui, three major Taiwan directors of the 1970s, this film consist of three shor ... view
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Lu Zizhen, part 1
Original title: 九彎十八轉
1982
A car accident on a curvy road with a history of death is just the beginning of a woman's horror story. ... view
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Original title: 黃埔灘頭
1982
A coolie is ofter a job a policeman after saving a government official, and through treachery and corruption rises through the ranks of the police, th ... view
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Agent
Original title: 隨緣
1981
A TV movie and part of groundbreaking Taiwan TV series “Eleven Women” ... view
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Original title: 名劍風流
1981
Two swordsmen from separate sects band together to kill Ruthless Chi, head of another sect.But did he really die? Events show that the Ruthless killer ... view
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Original title: 聚散兩依依
1981
Kao Han (Kenny Bee) and Pan-yun (Xiu-ling Lu) meet for the first time as strangers in a pet shop. It is destiny that they meet a second time and Kao H ... view
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Mr. Ho
Original title: 冤魂不散
1981
Wong Chi-chae, an ambitious young doctor, is secretly in a relationship with Cheng Yuh-hsya, a nurse. When the president of the hospital selects Wong ... view
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President Her
Original title: 情奔
1979
While taking pictures in a remote forest, a young photographer encounters a beautiful, mysterious girl. The photographer soon discovers that the girl ... view
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Original title: 顺天圣母正传
1979
Mother goddess comes to the rescue of the Chinese people when they are attacked by a giant fish and an angry Sea Dragon. ... view
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Original title: 萬世天嬌
1979
In order to avenge her father's murder, Hsiang Ying trains herself in the deadliest form of swordplay. Her only goal - to kill all of her father's vic ... view
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Healing Master
Original title: 火燄掌與寒冰手
1978
Flame hand wants to rule the martial world and test her skills, therefore she kills off many heroes, and Ice hand seeks to put an end to her. Family o ... view
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Original title: 花樣百出
1978
Young man Po Wen is in hot soup when writing a love story which involves a film star. Po Wen accidentally mails his own photographs to the publishers. ... view
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Original title: 獨霸天下
1978
Angelo Mao, Judy Lee and Barry Chen star in this tale of murder, intrigue and betrayal. When two separate imperial agents stay in the same room at dif ... view
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Lord Ho
Original title: Shen tui tie shan gong
1977
As China and Russia's governments are talking peace, traitorous agents on both sides seek war. Enter John Liu as a special agent sent to identify who ... view
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Chancellor Pu
Original title: 煙水寒
1977
A young doctor, regardless of his family’s objection, had decided to marry his beloved one. When he discovered that he had contracted a terminal dis ... view
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Prof. Lu
Original title: 少林兄弟
1977
Complicated mix of Chinese history and myth, where old Shaolin friends find themselves on different sides, one a Ching general, and the other faithful ... view
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Original title: 少林祖師
1976
The Fighting of Shaolin Monk tells the story of the Famed Monk, Tamo (Chen Sing Hong Kong's most prolific action star) who was one of the original fou ... view
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Chi Yun's Father
Original title: 浪花
1976
A talented woman painter falls in love with a gallery owner, who is married. His son falls in love with her niece at first sight. The painter gets alo ... view
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Original title: 雍正大破十八銅人
1976
Despite the national resistance, the Manchurians have taken over China, but the Ching Emperor fears that the Shaolin Temple disciples would overthrow ... view
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Court Official
Original title: 英烈千秋
1976
A most touching and consistently heart-gripping war drama depicts the heroic deeds of General Chang Tsu-chung who was even held in high esteem and dub ... view
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Original title: 龍虎鳳
1976
A young man joins a kung-fu academy but fails to fit in. He soon runs off with the master's daughter and becomes a salt smuggler. He ends up joining w ... view
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Master Fung
Original title: 獨臂拳王勇戰楚門九子
1976
Watch WANG YU as a one-armed savior battling the local goons in this martial arts classic. He has some rather amazing moves up his sleeve. ... view
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Chow Yi To/Chu
Original title: 詭計
1975
To gain control of a gold mine, the owner Ho Kwai-Shan is poisoned by the Lee family. His daughter Yu-Ling is staying with her uncle at his martial ar ... view
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Original title: 愛的小屋
1974
Lo Wen (Chin Han) is enamored of his college sweetheart Xiao Yu (Brigitte Lin), and the two wish to get married as soon as they possibly can. But Lo W ... view
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Original title: Hu dan zhui hun
1974
Thrilling basher from Taiwan set amidst the dangerous and contemporary world of gangsters & counterfeiters. A young Special agent investigates the cor ... view
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Original title: 誰敢動我
1974
Alan Tang is forced into a swirling dilemma between two antagonistic drug smugglers. Double crossed, he manages to emerge triumphant. See this kung fu ... view
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Original title: 除暴
1974
Chinese mine workers are being cruelly suppressed by the Japanese, and a Chinese officer is sent to the scene. In an effort to hide the evil truth, th ... view
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Original title: 怒娃
1973
A young girl witnesses the massacre of her family at the hands of cold blooded kung fu killers. She spends the next ten years mastering the martial ar ... view
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Original title: 窗外
1973
Brigitte Lin's debut film. A young girl gets romantically involved with a teacher twice her age. ... view
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Original title: Zhan shen tan
1973
In the waning days of the Ming dynasty, Japanese marauders raid villages on the Chinese coast. A wandering swordsman single-handedly dispatches a gro ... view
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Commander Hsiao
Original title: 中國針灸
1973
Kung Fu combined with acupuncture is used with great effect to defeat Japanese invaders in an Eastern Town in China. ... view
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Taoist priest
Original title: 七煞街
1973
A Chinese doctor's assistant fights the morphine-dealing criminals who run a Japanese nightclub. ... view
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Dr. Chau
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Original title: 怒火
1973
The search for the essence of Kung Fu leads our dynamic duo Cherry Pai and Champion Cheng into an adventure of terror, intrigue and blood lust - horri ... view
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Manager Tiao
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Mr. Yeung
Original title: 何日再吻君
1972
A Kiss to Remember is a Taiwanese Romance starring Jimmy Wang Yu. ... view
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Original title: 黑巷
1972
Set against the backdrop of Thai International Boxing, what starts out as a happy love story between Wong, a champion boxer, and his beloved, develops ... view
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Original title: 目中無人
1972
The notorious bandit, Shi Wen Lung breaks out of a California jail and flees back to China to carry on his life of crime. Eventually the Country sheri ... view
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Original title: 縱橫天下
1972
After mistakenly helping Chang-qing, the sister of ruthless Mongol chieftain Liang escape capture by Song forces, Mu-bai sets out to make amends by as ... view
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Original title: 馬永貞
1972
Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil. ... view
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Tea House Waiter (uncredited)
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Original title: 威震四方
1971
A village under the thumb of a band of thugs recruits a hero to help fight them off. ... view
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Chow Chang's Father
Original title: 黑白傘
1971
Top class swordplay action from Taiwan, where umbrellas are used as swords. ... view
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Original title: 隱身女俠
1971
A young woman whose kung fu has reached the point where she can turn invisible runs afoul of a powerful family when she disrupts a wedding. She must ... view
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Bridegroom's father
Original title: 朱洪武
1971
The Founding of Ming Dynasty is a highly fictionalized fantasy retelling of the early years of Zhu Yuanzhang’s life that was obviously geared toward ... view
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Original title: 俠女
1970
Yang Hui-zhen, a mysterious princess on the run from corrupt government officials, is joined in her endeavors by skilled Buddhist monks and an unambit ... view
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Magistrate Xu Zheng-qing
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Original title: 奪命閻羅
1970
A swordsman and swordswoman fight to protect Lady Liu who is trying to return to power. She's traveling in a coffin, the heroes can only hope they al ... view
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Original title: 雪嶺劍女
1970
Snow Maid spends years practicing kung fu under the guidance of Ugly Maid in the mountains. All she has on her mind in these years is to avenge her mo ... view
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Original title: 鐵娘子
1969
Set during the Jin invasion of China in the Southern Song Dynasty, Iron Mistress tell the story of the eponymous heroine who rises up in this turbulen ... view
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Hsin Tsan
Original title: 金沙刀
1969
The Golden Blade should be kept in the hands of a good person; if it fell into the wrong hands the outcome would be terrible. Evil Black Bat asked for ... view
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Original title: 莊子試妻
1969
When the Duke Hsuan Ch'i sends a group of ninjas to kill the elderly General Tieng and kidnap his daughter the beautiful, Szu Chin, she is rescued by ... view
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Original title: 紫金鏢
1969
In an attempt to seize the famous Tai Hsuan Book of Swords the outlaws Wang, Ku, Lu and Pai Feng attack the Hsia Tien Tsai Mansion and slaughter all r ... view
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Original title: 黑帖
1969
Brilliant Taiwan wuxia film Black Invitation directed by Chou Hsu Chiang. Living large in the Fuhu Shan region, Qiu San (Ma Ji) and his ruthless gang ... view
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Father Huang
Original title: 怪俠歐陽德
1969
The arrest and execution of the head of the outlawed Five Flower sect leaves his four offspring thirsty for revenge! But none of his children are more ... view
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Original title: 桃園三結義
1968
A film based on the Oath of the Peach Garden which is a fictional event in the 14th-century Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by ... view
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Original title: 一代劍王
1968
A master swordsman is on a twenty year quest to revenge the death of his parents. ... view
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Yun Chung-Chun
Original title: 小情人逃亡
1968
Yu Kin-sheng, a farmer, was sentenced to ten years for killing a man when drunk. His wife took care of their child, little Hua, and supported her moth ... view
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Original title: 龍門客棧
1967
China, year 1457. The Minister of Defense is executed, and his children are sentenced to exile by order of the tyrannical Tsao. Fearful of future reve ... view
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General Wu Ning
Original title: 西施
1965
Hsi Shih: The Beauty of Beauties was one of the most ambitious films made in the Taiwan film industry in the 1960s. After leaving The Shaw Brothers st ... view
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Original title: 街頭巷尾
1963
An orphaned girl in a poverty-stricken neighborhood is adopted by a kindly neighbor. He struggles to support her honestly, despite opportunities to p ... view
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Chen A-fa