Tsao Chien
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1922-09-08
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Also Known As:曹健, Cao Jian, Tsao Chien, Tso Kin, Cho Gin, Chou Kin, Tsao Chin, Tsang Kin, Chao Chien, Tsao Gen, Cho Kin

The Shaolin Brothers (1977)
Complicated mix of Chinese history and myth, where old Shaolin friends find themselves on different sides, one a Ching general, and the other...

I Hate You Deeply (1970)
Taiwanese romantic drama

Conspiracy (1975)
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...

The Boxer from Shantung (1972)
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...

Vengeance of Snow-Maid (1970)
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...

Fighting of Shaolin Monks (1976)
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...

Thunderstorm Sword (1970)
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...

Leave It to Destiny (1981)
A TV movie and part of groundbreaking Taiwan TV series “Eleven Women”

Painted Waves of Love (1976)
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...

Snuff Bottle Connection (1977)
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...

Godfather from Canton (1982)
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,...

Four Moods (1970)
Directed by some of most well known Chinese-language directors of the time, the portmanteau film Four Moods was an attempt to alleviate Li...

Purple Darts (1969)
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...

Growing Up (1983)
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,...

Beach of the War Gods (1973)
In the waning days of the Ming dynasty, Japanese marauders raid villages on the Chinese coast. A wandering swordsman single-handedly dispatches a...

Iron Mistress (1969)
During the time of the Sung dynasty (roughly, around the 12th century), rebels in North China are fighting the Tartar invaders. A lady known as the...

Flying Masters of Kung Fu (1979)
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...

Outside the Window (1973)
Brigitte Lin's debut film is a melodrama in which her character gets involved in a socially unacceptable relationship and then forced into marriage.

The Fists of Vengeance (1974)
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 Dragon vs. Needles of Death (1976)
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...

Dragon Inn (1967)
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...

The Ferocious Brothers (1972)
A man returns to Japan to avenge the death of his father.

A Touch of Zen (1970)
Ku Shen Chai, an artist in his early 30s, still lives with his mother, but he is suddenly shaken by the arrival of Yang Hui-ching, a mysterious...

The Trios of the Peach Garden (1968)
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...

The Absurd Brave (1969)
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...

Beauty of Beauties (1965)
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...

Even the Sun is Sobbing (1984)
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...

Bachelor's Delight (1978)
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...

Shadow Girl (1971)
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...

Return of the 18 Bronzemen (1976)
Despite the national resistance, the Manchurians have taken over China, but the Ching Emperor fears that the Shaolin Temple disciples would overthrow...

Fist of Shaolin (1975)
A man trains in kung-fu to avenge the murder of his father

The Challenge of the Lady Ninja (1983)
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...

The Swordsman of All Swordsmen (1968)
A master swordsman is on a twenty year quest to revenge the death of his parents.

Axing the Coffin: Death is Eternal (1969)
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...

The Escape (1972)
Everyone seems to want to stop General Tsai from leaving Peking.

The House for Love (1974)
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...

Swift Shaolin Boxer (1978)
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...

Errant Love (1981)
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...

Nightmarish Highway (1982)
A car accident on a curvy road with a history of death is just the beginning of a woman's horror story.

A Sword Named Revenge (1981)
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...

Hot Wave (1975)
A taiwanese romance set during the summer starring Brigitte Lin.

"Golden Sand" Sword (1969)
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...

By Love Obsessed (1979)
While taking pictures in a remote forest, a young photographer encounters a beautiful, mysterious girl. The photographer soon discovers that the girl...

Our Neighbor (1963)
An orphaned girl in a poverty-stricken neighborhood is adopted by a kindly neighbor. He struggles to support her honestly, despite opportunities to...

The Dark Alley (1972)
Set against the backdrop of Thai International Boxing, what starts out as a happy love story between Wong, a champion boxer, and his beloved,...

Desperate Crisis (1974)
Thrilling basher from Taiwan set amidst the dangerous and contemporary world of gangsters & counterfeiters. A young Special agent investigates the...

Deadly Opponents (1978)
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...

Man on the Police Gazette (1972)
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...

The Outsiders (1986)
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...

Chinese Kung Fu and Acupuncture (1973)
Kung Fu combined with acupuncture is used with great effect to defeat Japanese invaders in an Eastern Town in China.

The Furious Killer (1973)
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...

Keep Out of Danger (1980)
Taiwanese horror film.

One Armed Swordsman Against Nine Killers (1976)
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.

The Glory of the Sunset (1977)
A young doctor, regardless of his family’s objection, had decided to marry his beloved one. When he discovered that he had contracted a...

The Everlasting Glory (1976)
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...

News Hen (1974)
An early romantic comedy starring Brigitte Lin.

He Loved Once Too Many (1975)
An early drama starring Brigitte Lin.

A Story of Lou Po-Wen (1971)
Tsu Hong Wu is a highly fictionalized fantasy retelling of the early years of Zhu Yuanzhang’s life that was obviously geared toward younger...

Impetuous Fire (1973)
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 -...

The Hero (1971)
A village under the thumb of a band of thugs recruits a hero to help fight them off.

The Invincible (1972)
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...

Black and White Umbrellas (1971)
Top class swordplay action from Taiwan, where umbrellas are used as swords.

The Last Night of Madam Chin (1984)
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...

Heroic Pioneers (1986)
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...

Love with Cloud (1981)
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...

The Wheel of Life (1983)
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...

The Playful Girl (1971)
1971 movie by Yang Su staring Chen Chen

The Hero of Chiu Chow (1972)
1973 kung fu movie

Black Invitation (1969)
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...

Bruce Takes Dragon Town (1974)
Alan Tang is forced into a swirling dilemma between two antagonistic drug smugglers. Double crossed, he manages to emerge triumphant. See this kung...

The Way of the Tiger (1973)
The greatest martial arts spectacular of all time!

Infernal Street (1973)
A Chinese doctor's assistant fights the morphine-dealing criminals who run a Japanese nightclub.

Island of Fire (1990)
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...

Justice Pao (1993)
Justice Bao is a 236-episode television series from Taiwan, first airing on Chinese Television System from February 1993 to January 1994. The show...