Li Han-Hsiang

• A Mating Story
• Diau Charn
• A Kiss for Me
• Lady In Distress
• Tiger Killer
• The Angel
• Lady from the Moon
• The Empress Dowager
• A Mellow Spring
• Scandalous Warlord
• The Mad Monk
• Love Swindlers
• The Last Emperor
• That's Adultery
• Sensual Pleasures
• Dan Fung Street
• Burning of Imperial Palace
• Dun Huang Tales of the Night
• Illicit Desire
• The Warlord
• Tales of Larceny
• Red Bloom in the Snow
• The Beauty of Beauties
• Emperor and the Minister
• Adventure of the 13th Sister
• Beyond the Great Wall
• The Yangtze Incident
• Kingdom and the Beauty
• The Happiest Moment
• Golden Lotus
• Sinful Confession
• Passing Flickers
• Empress Wu Tse-tien
• Beyond the Blue Horizon
• Little Angel of the Streets
• He Has Taken Him for Another
• Adventures of Emperor Chien Lung
• Emperor Chien Lung and the Beauty

Also See In Memory Of

Outside of Chang Cheh and Chu Yuan, he was the most famous director at Shaw Brothers. His films dealt with historical costume dramas and "sexual" themes (often in the form of Comedies) and they were some of the most famous films around. Born in 1926, his films did for custome dramas what Chang Cheh's films did for "Kung-fu" films. With that being said, you can tell that he was a very insightful, creative, and important figure at Shaw studios.

He had been making films with Shaw Bros' since 1956, and his popularity only gained momentum with each film he made. Not only was he an excellent screenwriter, but he also excelled in "Set Design", designing so of the most beautiful set and backdrops the studio had seen. He became so popular that he eventually left the Shaw Bros' in 1964 and opened his own film studio (Grand Motion Picture) in Tawain. His films did quite do as well in Taiwain and he returned back to Shaw studios.

In his return to Shaw Bros' in 1972, he introduced the world the stylings of "Michael Hui", the lead actor in his film The Warlord. Hui would go on to bigger things when he went to rival studio Golden Harvest, where he would break Bruce Lee's box-office records with a string of "off-the-wall" Comedies. This was done years before Jackie Chan became a star at the studio. He also made stars out such people as Hu Chin (his God-daughter), Tien Ni, and ex-Golden Harvest actor Liu Yung, who wasn't accepted at the studio until Li raised his profile by casting him in a series of his "Emperor Chien Lung" films.

My Favorite Films:

• Tiger Killer
• The Warlord
• Illicit Desire
• Passing Flickers
• The Empress Dowager
• The Happiest Moment