Asian Movies : Romance

Two martial arts schools prepare for an important tournament....

Chen Chen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher's death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on with his mastery of martial arts while investigating his te...

David Chiang plays Johnny, a reformed criminal turned pop headliner at a hip club in Hong Kong. His past isn't exactly common knowledge, but it seems to have inspired some of his biggest hits. "I may be small, but I can kill," he croons in the opening number. Somehow, he doesn't seem so menacing ami...

Ying Ke-Feng, head of Peerless Manor, is an expert swordsman whose escort business transports 200,000 taels of silver to the capital each year. This year, however, he is afflicted with an infirmity that renders him unable to use his sword. Rather than give up this important commission and let the ma...

Movie queen Ivy Ling Po is ideally cast as a male scholar in this historical Huangmei Opera romance. It's a tragic love story between the scholar and a local beauty (played by Fang Ying). He polishes mirrors as a pretext to get closer to his love, who signals her approval by tossing him a bunch of l...

THE MAGIFICENT TRIO, a Shaw Brothers classic from 1966, follows three peasants (each with glorious sword-fighting skills) as they battle to protect their village from the influence of evil businessmen. Directed by the martial arts maestro Chang Cheh, the action-packed tale stars Shaw Brothers favori...

This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her. "The Woman in the Snow": Stranded in a snowst...

Lady General Hua Mulan is a 1963 Chinese movie of the Huangmei Opera genre.....

This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged geisha who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own......

Scholar Li-i married beautiful Huo Hsiao-yu soon after the first time they had met. The purple hairpin marked their intimate bond. Li served the army after their marriage. Later, the Military Head ordered LiA!A|s return because he wanted Li to marry his daughter. Moreover, Li was forbidden from goin...