Tsao Chien

AKA: 曹健, Cao Jian, Tsao Chien

4.5744

1922-09-08

Taiwan

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {84}

1977-03-12 3

The Shaolin Brothers

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. ...

Genre :Action, Horror

1970-01-01 0

I Hate You Deeply

Taiwanese romantic drama ...

Genre :Drama

1975-12-31 3

Enter the Panther

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 arts school and was due to return home. Just before ...

Genre :Action, Drama

Tea House Waiter (uncredited)

1972-02-11 6.8

The Boxer from Shantung

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... Where his only protection is his famed fighting ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1970-03-06 0

Vengeance of Snow-Maid

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 mother’s death. Nevertheless, after she bids farewel ...

Genre :Action, Adventure

Chi Yun's Father

1976-11-19 6.5

Fighting of Shaolin Monks

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 founders of the Shaolin Temple. Monk Tamo travels fr ...

Genre :

1970-04-13 0

Thunderstorm Sword

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 all aren't sent home in one. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure

1981-12-05 0

Leave It to Destiny

A TV movie and part of groundbreaking Taiwan TV series “Eleven Women” ...

Genre :

1976-10-07 0

Painted Waves of Love

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 along well with the gallery owner's grown son and dau ...

Genre :

Chancellor Pu

1977-09-15 5.6

Snuff Bottle Connection

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 the Russian traitor is, and who his contact is wit ...

Genre :Action

Agent

1982-06-11 4

Godfather from Canton

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, then becomes a gangster. ...

Genre :Action

1970-10-08 6.8

Four Moods

Directed by some of most well known Chinese-language directors of the time, the portmanteau film Four Moods was an attempt to alleviate Li Han-hsiang’s financial troubles during the late 1960s. Arguab ...

Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Romance

1969-01-23 6.7

Purple Darts

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 righteous opponents. Only Hsia’s baby daughter surv ...

Genre :Action, Adventure

Mr. Zhu

1983-01-29 7

Growing Up

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, to a stable adult. ...

Genre :Drama

Commander Hsiao

1973-07-13 6.1

Beach of the War Gods

In the waning days of the Ming dynasty, Japanese marauders raid villages on the Chinese coast. A wandering swordsman single-handedly dispatches a group of the foreign thugs, and agrees to help defend ...

Genre :Action, War

Hsin Tsan

1969-10-07 0

Iron Mistress

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 turbulent time to lead a rebellion against their tyrannica ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama, Action

Healing Master

1979-02-01 5.5

Flying Masters of Kung Fu

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 vicious killers. From hand-to-hand combat to uniquely ...

Genre :Action, Fantasy

1973-08-24 6

Outside the Window

Brigitte Lin's debut film. A young girl gets romantically involved with a teacher twice her age. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

1974-01-01 6

The Fists of Vengeance

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, the East Asia society decides to hire a samurai to k ...

Genre :Action, Adventure

Master Fung

1976-01-01 5

The Dragon vs. Needles of Death

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 with the school's top fighter - his former rival - ...

Genre :Action

1979-12-13 0

Love Under a Rosy Sky

Genre :Romance

General Wu Ning

1967-10-21 7.313

Dragon Inn

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 revenge from the young people, Tsao sends cruel soldie ...

Genre :Action, Adventure

1972-01-01 0

The Ferocious Brothers

A man returns to Japan to avenge the death of his father. ...

Genre :Action

Magistrate Xu Zheng-qing

1970-07-10 7.6

A Touch of Zen

Gu Sheng-zhai, an artist in his early 30s, still lives with his mother, but he is suddenly shaken by the arrival of Yang Hui-zhen, a mysterious princess on the run. Yang brings Gu into her circle of p ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Fantasy

1968-10-17 0

The Trios of the Peach Garden

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 Luo Guanzhong. ...

Genre :History, Drama

1969-01-01 0

The Absurd Brave

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 bloodthirsty than his eldest daughter. She leads ...

Genre :Adventure, Action, Comedy

1965-10-22 7

Beauty of Beauties

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 studio in Hong Kong and moving to Taiwan, filmmaker ...

Genre :History, Drama, War

1980-07-24 0

Don't Forget the Promise

Genre :

General Lei

1984-03-10 0

Even the Sun is Sobbing

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 immediately leaves Seoul and flies to Taipei with a f ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

1978-09-11 0

Bachelor's Delight

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. As a result, he gets girlfriend Mei Chu quite jea ...

Genre :Comedy

Bridegroom's father

1971-09-10 10

Shadow Girl

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 fight off kung fu masters and even a poisonous cen ...

Genre :Drama, Action

Court Official

1976-08-14 5.7

Return of the 18 Bronzemen

Despite the national resistance, the Manchurians have taken over China, but the Ching Emperor fears that the Shaolin Temple disciples would overthrow the dynasty. So he disguises himself as a disciple ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, War

1975-11-05 4

Fist of Shaolin

A man trains in kung-fu to avenge the murder of his father ...

Genre :Action

Ninja Sensei

1983-02-13 5.4

The Challenge of the Lady Ninja

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 works on behalf the Japanese cause. She then pulls tog ...

Genre :Action

Yun Chung-Chun

1968-10-07 6

The Swordsman of All Swordsmen

A master swordsman is on a twenty year quest to revenge the death of his parents. ...

Genre :Action, History, Drama

1969-06-11 0

Axing the Coffin: Death is Eternal

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 their friend, Chang Chou. However their freedom is ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Horror

Mr. Yeung

1972-11-30 7

The Escape

Everyone seems to want to stop General Tsai from leaving Peking. ...

Genre :Action

1974-11-08 0

The House for Love

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 Wen's uncle and Xiao Yu's parents are opposed to an ...

Genre :Romance

Lord Ho

1978-05-12 6.5

Swift Shaolin Boxer

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 different times are both offed, foul play is afoot. A ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Mr. Ho

1981-02-05 0

Errant Love

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 Han takes a chance in this second meeting to pursue ...

Genre :Romance

1982-09-02 0

Nightmarish Highway

A car accident on a curvy road with a history of death is just the beginning of a woman's horror story. ...

Genre :Horror

1981-09-11 5

A Sword Named Revenge

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 stills controls the strings and its up to the swo ...

Genre :Action

1975-06-06 0

Hot Wave

A taiwanese romance set during the summer starring Brigitte Lin. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

1969-06-14 5

"Golden Sand" Sword

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 the sword, but the sword smith refused the demand ...

Genre :

1979-10-25 0

By Love Obsessed

While taking pictures in a remote forest, a young photographer encounters a beautiful, mysterious girl. The photographer soon discovers that the girl has been missing and is being held captive in the ...

Genre :Romance

Chen A-fa

1963-11-08 5

Our Neighbor

An orphaned girl in a poverty-stricken neighborhood is adopted by a kindly neighbor. He struggles to support her honestly, despite opportunities to participate in a neighbor’s scurrilous get-rich-qui ...

Genre :Drama

1972-11-10 0

The Dark Alley

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 into a violent and explosive saga of blood and gu ...

Genre :Action

1974-07-19 0

Desperate Crisis

Thrilling basher from Taiwan set amidst the dangerous and contemporary world of gangsters & counterfeiters. A young Special agent investigates the core of the racket. ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

1978-12-30 0

Deadly Opponents

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 of slain heroes seeks revenge. A brilliant shapes f ...

Genre :Action, Adventure

1972-08-19 0

Man on the Police Gazette

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 sheriff catches up with him looking for the bounty on h ...

Genre :Crime, Action

1986-08-23 3.5

The Outsiders

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 has since cast him out of the family, leaving him ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Taoist priest

1973-07-03 0

Chinese Kung Fu and Acupuncture

Kung Fu combined with acupuncture is used with great effect to defeat Japanese invaders in an Eastern Town in China. ...

Genre :Action

1973-12-12 0

The Furious Killer

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 arts in order to avenge her family tracking down the ...

Genre :Action

1979-01-01 0

The Fate

Taiwanese horror film. ...

Genre :Horror, Drama

1980-03-13 0

Keep Out of Danger

Taiwanese horror film. ...

Genre :Horror

Chow Yi To/Chu

1976-01-01 5.1

One Armed Swordsman Against Nine Killers

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. ...

Genre :Action

Prof. Lu

1977-07-26 0

The Glory of the Sunset

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 disease and had only a few months to live with, he left ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1976-07-19 5.5

The Everlasting Glory

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 dubbed as “Mars of China” by his Japanese counterpart ...

Genre :War, Drama

1974-12-05 0

News Hen

An early romantic comedy starring Brigitte Lin. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

1975-08-30 0

He Loved Once Too Many

An early drama starring Brigitte Lin. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1971-02-18 5

A Story of Lou Po-Wen

Tsu Hong Wu is a highly fictionalized fantasy retelling of the early years of Zhu Yuanzhang’s life that was obviously geared toward younger audiences. The tale actually begins in Heaven, where the var ...

Genre :Fantasy, Adventure

1973-01-01 3

Impetuous Fire

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 - horrific fighting with spirits of dead warriors! Electr ...

Genre :

Chow Chang's Father

1971-12-31 5.8

The Hero

A village under the thumb of a band of thugs recruits a hero to help fight them off. ...

Genre :

1972-07-14 5

The Invincible

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 assassinating the Mongol warlord single-handedly. ...

Genre :

1971-09-16 0

Black and White Umbrellas

Top class swordplay action from Taiwan, where umbrellas are used as swords. ...

Genre :Adventure, Action

1986-10-09 5

Heroic Pioneers

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 distrusted by the natives until they show that they a ...

Genre :Drama

1984-11-08 7.5

The Last Night of Madam Chin

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 force her to have an abortion. ...

Genre :Drama

President Her

1981-01-01 0

Love with Cloud

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 to be his daughter's suitor, the doctor breaks off ...

Genre :Drama, Horror

Lu Zizhen, part 1

1983-01-01 7.2

The Wheel of Life

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 shorts with the same cast of two actors and one actres ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

1975-03-27 0

Land of the Undaunted

Genre :Drama, History

1971-09-15 0

The Playful Girl

1971 movie by Yang Su staring Chen Chen ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Manager Tiao

1972-12-29 4

The Hero of Chiu Chow

1973 kung fu movie ...

Genre :Action

Father Huang

1969-01-01 3

Black Invitation

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 extort money from the local people by sending out ...

Genre :Action

1974-01-01 5

Bruce Takes Dragon Town

Alan Tang is forced into a swirling dilemma between two antagonistic drug smugglers. Double crossed, he manages to emerge triumphant. See this kung fu extravaganza explodes in a bloody spectacle of wr ...

Genre :Crime, Action

1973-02-26 6.5

The Way of the Tiger

The greatest martial arts spectacular of all time! ...

Genre :Action, Drama

Dr. Chau

1973-05-31 3.9

Infernal Street

A Chinese doctor's assistant fights the morphine-dealing criminals who run a Japanese nightclub. ...

Genre :Action

Fong's Father

1990-03-28 6.194

Island of Fire

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. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1983-10-19 7

All the King's Men

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 worse. ...

Genre :Action, Drama

1968-01-01 0

The Young Lovers and the Escaped Prisoner

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 mother-in-law in the hospital. When Hua was five years ...

Genre :Drama

1970-06-15 0

Clover

Won the 8th Golden Horse Award for Best Color Art Design in 1970. ...

Genre :Romance

1979-04-25 0

Legend of Heavenly Mother Ma-Tsu

Mother goddess comes to the rescue of the Chinese people when they are attacked by a giant fish and an angry Sea Dragon. ...

Genre :Adventure, Fantasy

1992-10-01 0

玉琳国师之再世情缘

Genre :Drama

王延龄

1993-03-23 8.4

Justice Pao

Justice Bao is a 236-episode television series from Taiwan, first airing on Chinese Television System from February 1993 to January 1994. The show stars Jin Chao-chun as the Chinese official Bao Zheng ...