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Chang Cheh (pinyin: Zhāng Chè; 10 February 1923 – 22 June 2002) was a Chinese filmmaker, screenwriter, lyricist and producer active in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Chang Cheh directed more than 90 films in Greater China, the majority of them with the Shaw Brothers Studio in Hong Kong.
Chang Cheh was the leading Martial Arts director in Hong Kong in the 1970s, now with close to 100 films to his name. His has influenced other directors such as John Woo and Liu Chiau Liang, and made famous such Hong Kong stars as Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Fu Sheng and Lung Ti.
Nov 8, 2020 · Like any successful Hong Kong director, Chang knew that box-office success lay with finding a new twist to a popular genre, and his idea was to make southern kung fu styles like hung ga (Hong...
Sep 6, 2020 · The director who revolutionised martial arts movies by making his male characters warriors instead of weaklings. Chang Cheh modernised wuxia films in the 1960s by making men, rather than women,...
Jun 22, 2002 · Chang Cheh (Chinese: 張徹, February 10, 1923 – 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 The One-Armed Swordsman, and other classics of wuxia and kung fu film.
Feb 13, 2022 · Jackie Chan and Chang Cheh were two of the farsighted men behind the camera on martial arts films who understood the future of Hong Kong cinema at different times and acted on their hunches.
Nov 4, 2012 · Chang Chen is one of the best directors in Kung Fu cinema, known as the main man behind many Shaw Brothers classics, Chang Chen always brings blood and guts as well as having a great story line and great characters in his movies.
