The Shaw Bros Co-Productions Filmography

[Markgway]

These films were produced by Shaw Bros in association with partner companies.

Rights to titles in BOLD not owned by Celestial Pictures.

*Unconfirmed


1965
Crocodile River (Company Unknown/Thailand)

1966
The Monkey Goes West (Shin/Korea)
Princess Iron Fan (Deok Heung/Korea)

1967
Asia-Pol (Nikkatsu/Japan)
Goddess of Mercy (Shin/Korea)
The King With My Face (An Yang/Korea)
That Man in Chang-An (Shin/Korea)

1969
The Invincible Fist (Tae Chang/Korea)
The Partisan Lovers (An Yang/Korea)

1970
Valley of the Fangs (*Asia Films/Korea)

1971
The Bandits (Deok Heung/Korea)
Lady With a Sword (An Yang/Korea)
The Rescue (An Yang/Korea)
The Venus Tear Diamond (An Yang/Korea)
We Love Millionaires (An Yang/Korea)

1972
The Angry Guest (An Yang/Korea)
The Black Enforcer (An Yang/Korea)
The Champion of Champions (Hua Kuo/Taiwan)
Deadly Knives (An Yang/Korea)
Finger of Doom (An Yang/Korea)
King Boxer (An Yang/Korea)
The Thunderbolt Fist (Shin/Korea)

1973
The Bamboo House of Dolls (Shin/Korea)
The House of 72 Tenants (TVB/Hong Kong)

1974
Five Shaolin Masters (Chang's/Hong Kong)
The Ghost Lovers (Shin/Korea)
Gossip Street (TVB/Hong Kong)
Heroes Two (Chang's/Hong Kong)
Hong Kong 73 (TVB/Hong Kong)
Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (Hammer/UK)
Men from the Monastery (Chang's/Hong Kong)
Na Cha the Great (Chang's/Hong Kong)
Shaolin Martial Arts (Chang's/Hong Kong)
Sorrow of the Gentry (TVB/Hong Kong)
Supermen Against the Orient (INDIEF/Italy)
Virgins of the Seven Seas (Rapid/Germany)
Young Lovers on Flying Wheels (Chang's/Hong Kong)

1975
Blood Money (Champion/Italy; Harbour/USA; Midega/Spain)
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (Harbour/USA)
Disciples of Shaolin (Chang's/Hong Kong)
The Fantastic Magic Baby (Chang's/Hong Kong)
Marco Polo (Chang's/Hong Kong)
The Rebel Youth (Chang's/Hong Kong)
Supermen against the Amazons (A Erre Cinematografica/Italy)

1976
Boxer Rebellion (Chang's/Hong Kong)
The New Shaolin Boxers (Chang's/Hong Kong)
Seven Man Army (Chang's/Hong Kong)
The Shaolin Avengers (Chang's/Hong Kong)
Shaolin Temple (Chang's/Hong Kong)

1977
Deadly Angels (Woo Sung/Korea)
Magnificent Wanderers (Chang's/Hong Kong)
The Naval Commandos (Taiwan)

1980
Killer Constable (Hwa Pung/Korea)
Return to the 36th Chamber (Hwa Pung/Korea)

1981
The Battle For the Republic of China (Central/Taiwan)

1983
Mad Mad 83 (Capital Artists/Hong Kong)

1985
Women (Pearl City/Hong Kong)

1988
Starry is the Night (Tomson/Hong Kong)

2003
Drunken Monkey (Super Film/Hong Kong; Beijing Film/China; Beijing Jingu/China)

Possibles:
Flower in the Rain (Korea)
The Heroic Ones (Korea)
The Man With Two Wives (Korea)
The Merry Wife (Korea)
Naked Love (Korea)
Shadow Girl (Taiwan)

Not released in Hong Kong:

Shatter (Hammer/UK)
This Time I'll Make You Rich (Futuramik/Italy; TV13 Filmproduktion/Germany)

[jiujitsu77]

shatter? legend of the seven golden vampires?

[jiujitsu77]

was infra man one...and i know not with japan, but wasnt it indonesia?

[Markgway]

Um, I'm only up to 1972-3.

Hence "WORK IN PROGRESS"

[jiujitsu77]

sorry....a.d.d. i get ahead of things

i also thought shatter was 73

[Markgway]

I don't think SHATTER was ever released in Hong Kong.

Was made around 1973/4. Easy enough to check.

[jiujitsu77]

sorry. i usually choose this to imdb. again not trying to step on toes

[teako170]

I don't think SHATTER was ever released in Hong Kong.

Was made around 1973/4. Easy enough to check.

Sh-sh-sh-shatter..! :D

Yeah, couldn't find any HK release date in my HKFA data however --
the film received plenty of promotion in the Feb & Mar '74 issues of Southern Screen...

Which means the film was "shot" extreme end of '73 or very early '74.

Definitely though "released" in 1974. Why promote something after the fact?
Strange that SS promoted the flick but then didn't give it a HK release.

A little something from the shoot....

http://www.teako170.com/sshatter.jpg
..props to carol

[jiujitsu77]

anyone got info (and the good stuff) on man from hong kong

[Markgway]

Strange that SS promoted the flick but then didn't give it a HK release.

Presumably someone actually saw it... ;)

Cushing rules though, and it's fun to hear Ti Lung and Lily Li speak English.

[Karlos]

Where was Shatter released in 73/74?

I was under the impression it sat on a shelf - along with 7 Golden Vampires - til 78/79?

Finally saw Shatter last night - exactly what I expected! A bit plodding, but enjoyable enough if you lower your expectations!

BTW, apparently, the German DVD restores the 2 cuts from the waterfront fight that are missing from the Anchor Bay disc :)

[Markgway]

Where was Shatter released in 73/74?

Completed in 1974. Shown in the UK in 1975. Never released theatrically in Hong Kong.

I was under the impression it sat on a shelf - along with 7 Golden Vampires - til 78/79?

Golden Vamps was released in the UK and HK in 1974.

BTW, apparently, the German DVD restores the 2 cuts from the waterfront fight that are missing from the Anchor Bay disc :)

The UK cinema version was censored - but I don't know what the cuts were? Never released here on VHS or DVD. Maybe Anchor Bay used the UK print?

[Karlos]

The cuts are:

A guy spitting blood after being shot and a guy being impaled by Ti Lung on a hook - both shots were removed from all prints bar the US cinema print, apparently.

You can spot them easily on the German DVD as they are both washed out in comparison to the rest of the film.

I don't know if these are restored on the Anchor Bay disc or the other, cheaper disc I spotted.

[Markgway]

Could very well be BBFC cuts.

I'm a bit confused though... are they cut from the ABE disc or not?

BTW, apparently, the German DVD restores the 2 cuts from the waterfront fight that are missing from the Anchor Bay disc

I don't know if these are restored on the Anchor Bay disc or the other, cheaper disc I spotted.

[Karlos]

I should apologise for any confusion, MarkGway!

When I said it's cut from the Anchor Bay DISC, the article was from 1999 and should read VIDEO TAPE - I don't know if the cuts were then restored for their DVD release.

[Markgway]

I see. I'd imagine ABE used the same print for VHS and DVD unless anyone knows otherwise.

[The Dragon]

That death scene at the end of Shatter!!! Boy!!:)

And was Stuart Whitman the baddest sh*# talkin' qweilo in HK in this film or what? I was rollin"!
:D

[mantis FIST]

thanks for this thread mark. Did not know disciples of the 36th chamber was a co-production with korea. I guess that might explain why the vhs had korean subs? Did I see superman v. amazons? Speaking of which does anyone know all the films in the superman series? isn't there a film superman v. the orient is it a shaw?

Cheers!

[Stephen LaRocque]

Here's the important part

With the success of martial arts films started by 'Five Fingers of Death' in 1971, Shaw began to co-produce films with western producers for the international market.

Throughout the 1970s, these co-productions resulted in films like Dracula and the 7 Golden Vampires (1974 - a Shaw/Hammer production starring David Chiang and Peter Cushing), Supermen Against the Orient (1974 - a Shaw/Indief Film Co production), Blood Money (1974 - a Shaw/Harbour production), Virgins Of the Seven Seas (1974 - a Shaw/Wolf Hartwig production), Shatter (1974 - a Shaw/Hammer production), Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975 - a Shaw/William Tennant production), Cannonball (1976), Meteor (1978 - a Sandy Howard/Gabriel Katzka production in association with Run Run Shaw), Inseminoid (1981 - a Shaw/Jupiter Films production) and Blade Runner (1982 - a Shaw/Ladd production).




http://www.shaw.sg/sw_abouthistory.aspx?id=193%2028%2038%20182%20251% 2049%20212%20146%2056%20148%20173%20187%2075%20173 %2082%20165

[Markgway]

Sorry guys - I forgot to finish this thread.

Will do so soon.

[Markgway]

That's it done for now. :)

Amything to add or correct...?

Please post.

[douggorius]

I know of a ridiculously bad Thai film called Chorake (aka Crocodile) which was a co-production between a bunch of different countries, including Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and the US. According to this translated Japanese fansite for the movie, Shaw Brothers was involved in the production. In fact, there is even a Shaw actor in it.
http://tinyurl.com/lvojm9

[Markgway]

Anyone heard of this?????

[venoms5]

Anyone heard of this?????

Yes, I've seen it and used to own the VHS tape. Elite released it on DVD here. It's a terrible movie. It's from 1979. '81 may be the US release. One of the worst movies I've seen and it borrows liberally from JAWS. The music is terrible and one of the major problems with the movie is that the (sometimes) fiberglass Crocodile changes size from Godzilla proportions to about 50 feet in length. The opening of the film is pretty good and showcases some good destruction effects, but it's hopelessly downhill from there. There's also a sequel to it which I haven't seen. I haven't seen the film in years but don't recall a Shaw actor being in it at all.

It's here and VCI released the DVD...

http://www.amazon.com/Crocodile-Angela-Wells/dp/B000068TQJ