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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.
Cheh Chang (1923-2002) was a prolific and influential director of over 100 martial arts films in the 1970s. He worked for Shaw Brothers Studios and created classics such as Five Deadly Venoms and Dynasty of Blood.
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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...
Jul 11, 2021 · How Chang Cheh’s Venom Mob martial arts films, starting with 1978’s The Five Venoms, became cult favourites in the West | South China Morning Post. The storylines were gory and cartoon-like,...
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,...
Chang Cheh was undisputedly a master of action movies. He created his own style of films which are characterized by their robustness and highly original action sequences. In 1965 Shaw Brothers promoted coloured films with great efforts and action films became one of the focuses of Shaw's productions.
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Jun 22, 2002 · Chang Cheh was a prolific film director of wuxia and kung fu films at Shaw Brothers Studio. He directed classics such as The Five Venoms, The One-Armed Swordsman, and The Brave Archer.
