Taiwan Ghost Comedy

 

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BUSINESS TRIP TO THE NETHERWORLD-(Dao Yin Jian Chu Cha)-1990-A guy Li Bin (Ching Huang Yang) is killed in a car accident. However, he comes back as a ghost no one can see. At first, he has a hard time believing but he meets Mah Tung who convinces him. 

There are a lot of gags in this comedy ghost story. Unfortunately, many go on too long especially the part where a guy wanders around because he thinks he's invisible. Hopping vampires show up later. The version I saw ended abruptly but I didn't care because it wasn't very good anyway. From Taiwan. Written and directed by Chen-Kuo Chao.

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Breakout

 

BREAKOUT FROM OPPRESSION-1982-Fonda Chiu (Fonda Lyn aka Hsiao-Fen lu), a young woman who is haunted by her time in prison (and a murder she didn't commit) gets a job on a newspaper. Her boss Simon (Alan Tam) falls in love with her but two female co-workers don't treat her too nice. After several bizarre incidents it seems one co-worker, Simon's former lover Sheena (Lona Chang), is seeking revenge (her father was the guy Fonda was accused of killing) while taking care of her invalid grandmother. She's also killed the president of the company. Sheena attacks Simon and ties him up in the basement. He really freaks out when he discovers the president's maggot covered body. Everyone thinks Fonda is behind it.

 Eventually Fonda and Sheena have it out and a beheading ends the conflict. Simon escapes and stands by Fonda. This Taiwanese production is director Karen Yang's only credit. Geoffrey Ho is credited a production designer. Also known as EXPOSED TO DANGER. 

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Green Dragon

THE GREEN DRAGON INN-1977-This is another crazy period piece Kung-Fu movie (from Taiwan). It's full of fights, several characters that are hard to distinguish from each other, a confused story and bad dubbing. The son of a local warlord kills a family. 2 swordsmen, Silent Tracker (Lieh Lo from FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH) and Bold Dragon (Yueh Hua) hunt him separately. They clash several times. The son is taken into custody and some incompletent assassins try to free him. It's kept at the title place which is rigged with different deadly trap. This also features a "white ninja" woman (Polly Shang Kuan).

The director was an actor and stuntman too.

Also known as BRUCE IS LOOSE...for some reason...

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Taiwan

ANGEL FORCE-1991-Taiwan sends a government rescue team to free a hostage in Burma. A guy named Peter (Wilson Lam) assembles a team (including his female partner played by Moon Lee) to do the assignment. Strangely Peter gets shot up and his partner has to take over. There's a lot of shoot-outs, fights and a motorcycle chase though the print I saw was badly dubbed and edited. It's sometimes hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys. It starts out as "cops vs gangsters" and switches to a jungle commando action film with some surprising violence. The story goes on too long with a lot of predictable twists. Yukari Oshima plays an arms dealer. Of the two directors credited one Shan Hua directed the crazy INFRA-MAN.

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Short Fu

(THE) BUDDHA ASSASSINATOR-1980-An evil prince (Hwang Jang Lee) is searching for a former Shoalin monk (Chien Yuet San) in this typical martial arts movie. Chow Ya (Mang Hoi), the monk's pudgy faced ex-student fights to protect his former teacher. There's too much talk until the climax. Made in Taiwan by director Chin Hu Tung.

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