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Sun Chien
Born: 1st Jan 1955 Taiwan
Dept: Acting
Born January 26, 1955 in Taiwan under the name Suen Jian-yuan, Sun Chien (Chinese: 孫建) lost both parents while young and was brought up by his two sisters. In 1976, director Chang Cheh was recruiting new stars in Taiwan for the movie Chinatown Kid. Tae kwon do veteran Sun was selected among many competitors and was given the supporting role in the movie. Sun since developed his career in Hong Kong (notably as one of the 5 Venoms) and signed as a contract actor with Shaw Brothers for eight years. Being one of "Chang's Cohorts," he often starred in the director's action and martial arts movies. After Shaw Brothers ceased film production in 1986 to focus on TV projects, Sun lent his talents to subpar "cut-and-paste" productions for producer Tomas Tang's Filmark International. In the early 90s he served as an action director and assistant director on several films before retiring in 1992.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 57
Film: 56 (98%)
Television: 1 (2%)
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Filmography
Original title: 火爆浪子
1991
A man returning to his old neighbourhood after a prison term finds that the friends he used to hang out with are now a violent street gang that is ter ... view
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Big Circle Han
Original title: 佈局
1991
A triad boss runs a family business, who deals in arms. He has a good relationship with his sister Amy, until she finds out that he killed their fathe ... view
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Chan Nam
1989
The heirs to a major corporation are being brutally killed off one by one, and John Lee, the company's chairman, suspects that a mafia takeover is beh ... view
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Original title: 奪寶龍虎鬥
1989
Two gangs of gangsters fight over a unique crystal in the jungles of Thailand! ... view
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1988
Upon returning from the war, a man discovers that his family has been killed and his lands taken away. Desperate, he turns to a mystic who will transf ... view
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1988
Police are hot on the heels of ninjas involved in international espionage and that's got ninja gang leader Willie worried. When the police try to tric ... view
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1988
A rare Filmark production. This uses over an hour of new footage from the 1983 Thai action film เสือภูพาน ("Tiger Phu Phan") starrin ... view
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1988
Witch Monica has the power to resurrect vampire that can destroy everything that exists on earth. The situation worsens when Monica starts working wit ... view
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1988
The Russian operations in Asia are ruined by the American agents. Ivan, a KGB, is sent to Kampuchea and terminates the op-posing American forces. John ... view
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1988
Another Filmark cut-and-paste movie. This one adds new scenes to a Thai film originally titled "Black Pearl Treasure" and starring Sorapong Chatree. ... view
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1988
The fate of the entire hotel industry is at stake. A group of evil black ninjas have threatened to insinuate themselves into the industry, take over, ... view
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Original title: 足本玉蒲團
1987
Before Michael Mak’s Sex And Zen became a cult favourite in the ’90s, there was Ho Fan’s Yu Pui Tsuen (The Carnal Prayer Mat, 1987). But without ... view
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Woodcutter
1987
After spending ten years in prison Steven Cox has recently been released and his former colleagues will do anything to find out where he stashed his f ... view
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1987
In his attempt to be the most powerful man in the world, Justin Taylor, leader of a sinister Ninja army, has become the largest narcotics smuggler in ... view
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1987
Cut & paste film that uses footage from the Thai movie ตามฆ่า 20000 ไมล์ ... view
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1987
War film set in South Vietnam in the 1960s. Paul, a young Vietnamese doctor, enlists in the ARVN over his family’s objections. He participates in a ... view
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1987
An organized gang specializing in high ranking military assassinations bewilders the police. However, their headquarters are located and a special age ... view
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1987
Criminal activities of the spiritual ninja are headed by a ruthless ninja warlord and follows the CIA's subsequent attempts to bring them to justice. ... view
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1987
Paula is a reporter that has in her possession a set of photographs that would expose a known businessman as a drug smuggler. In the crosshairs of the ... view
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Original title: Ninja 8: Warriors of Fire
1987
The Black Ninja Empire want a "confidential blueprint" in the possession of Vietnam vet Robin and will stop at nothing to get it. When Robin's fiancé ... view
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1987
A ninja hero stealthily sets out to get revenge upon the mobsters who murdered his brother. ... view
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Original title: 野戰忍者
1987
The government seems powerless against the brutal activities of the ninjas and requests the help of the powerful task force of the American drug fight ... view
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1987
A screenwriter working on a film script in an old haunted house unleashes an army of the undead including a robot-vampire and a Freddy Kruger-like cre ... view
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Three Killed Warriors
1986
Thomas [sic] Tang unleashes yet another assault on human sanity with this Z-grade, cut and splice ninja crap-fest featuring drug dealing ninja, CIA op ... view
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Original title: 江湖了斷
1985
This is one of those -"who did it" -murder movies put out by Shaw Brothers. In this one, a bunch of Mainlanders come to Hong Kong for a better life. I ... view
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Lei Kung
Original title: 霹靂十傑
1985
Monk San Te tries to support and protect Shaolin and her Fang Shih-yu who purposely attacks corrupt Ching officials. ... view
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Governor's Man
Original title: 錦衣衛
1984
The sergeant of the Brocade Guards, the government's secret police, fights back against a traitorous eunuch who wishes to take the throne. ... view
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Li Yi
Original title: 天蠶變之布衣神相
1984
Wudang is in trouble again, with both Dugu Wu Di planning to attack the Wudang temple and an interloping group of martial artists from Japan waiting i ... view
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Xie Ping
Original title: 楊過與小龍女
1983
Seeking to improve his combat skills, a young man falls in love with a woman with mystical powers but his past stands in the way of their union. ... view
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Chief Qiu
Original title: 天蠶變
1983
Yun Fei Yang is the viciously bullied orphan who takes on the unpleasant tasks at a formidable kung-fu school. Constantly mocked by the other students ... view
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Xie Ping
Original title: 掌門人
1983
Wong Hsia Yuan is an old-fashioned martial arts master who's so behind the times that he'd rather his school be destroyed than change its ways. He may ... view
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Ah Chang
Original title: 清宮啟示錄
1983
Veteran action actor and director Lu Chun-ku set his sights on a tale of Ching Dynasty royal intrigue as an excuse to hire his favorite action stars, ... view
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Kam Fung Chi
Original title: 俠客行
1982
A lone martial artist nicknamed “Mongrel” is continually drawn into an intense struggle between several warring martial arts clans after he stumbl ... view
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Bei Haishi
Original title: 人皮燈籠
1982
A psychotic craftsman pits two rival Kung-Fu masters against each other while designing special lanterns from a disturbing source. ... view
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Sgt. Poon
Original title: 浣花洗劍
1982
In this film, there are 5 main clans ruling the martial world, each representing one of the 5 elements - fire, metal, water, wood and earth. Each year ... view
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Bai Zhong
Original title: 大旗英雄傳
1982
Two young lovers, Yun Keng and Ching Shuang belong to opposing clans. Their relationship is a secret for a time. Once Master Diao, head of the Great B ... view
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Little Prince
Original title: 沖霄樓
1982
It all started with The Five Venoms, the internationally loved kung-fu thriller. It continued through more than a dozen bloody good entertainments fea ... view
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Yan Chun Min
Original title: 目無王法
1981
Police corruption is the theme of this brutal harbinger of the bleak "new wave" crime thriller. Pai Piao, Danny Lee, and "Venom" Sun Chien star as ide ... view
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Luo Zhang
Original title: 黑蜥蜴
1981
Young swordsman Lung Fei encounters strange omens portending the death of his fiancee Ting Tzu-chu. His enquiries with the help of Chief Constable Tie ... view
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Constable Tieh Fu
Original title: 射鵰英雄傳第三集
1981
Guo Jing and Huang Rong pursue Yang Kang to Iron Palm Peak, where Qiu Qianren and the Iron Palm Sect is based. Huang is injured by Qiu in a fight and ... view
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Scholar
Original title: 陸小鳳之決戰前後
1981
This mystery-tinged 'Martial Arts World' epic was one of director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung's last together for the Shaw Studios, but it's another ... view
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Hua Manlou
Original title: 書劍恩仇錄
1981
A young boy betrays his family who hides a refugee and tells the pursuer where the hiding-place is - just because he wants a valuable telescope for re ... view
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No. 7, Hu Tin Wang
Original title: 大殺四方
1980
China is ripped apart by a civil war, and thousands of displaced refugees swarm into towns not yet ravaged by war. Three such refugees arrive in one t ... view
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Tang Yu-Tung
Original title: 少林與武當
1980
Shaolin warrior Tung Chien-chen is injured in battle against the hated Wu Tang clan, and nursed back to health by a knife-throwing master. As he recov ... view
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Chin Ta Lei (Jin Tailai)
Original title: 第三类打斗
1980
When a fallen angel descends to the Earth on a mission to storm the underworld, a love shared between angels and humans offers telling testament to th ... view
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Lin Wei Gang
Original title: 廣東十虎與後五虎
1979
Ming partisan Chu who is on the run from Manchu forces. Local merchant and kung fu enthusiast Li Chen-chau gives the fugitive shelter in his pawnshop ... view
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Wang Yin Lin
Original title: 金臂童
1979
Jin bei tong opens with a group of escort guards preparing to move a shipment of gold from the local government to an area stricken by famine... one o ... view
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Yang Hu Yun / Iron Feet Lad
Original title: 賣命小子
1979
Venom regulars Philip Kwok, Chiang Sheng, and Sun Chien star as a gang of unemployed martial artists who spend their days stuffing their faces at loca ... view
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Feng Jia Ji
Original title: 雜技亡命隊
1979
The General's son Yang escapes a massacre at his home that subsequently sees a corrupt, criminal syndicate in charge of the local forces. Seeking shel ... view
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Xinzheng
Original title: 街市英雄
1979
Two friends who long to be heroes join the fight against a Ching warlord and his students. They get help from a Kung Fu student and a rebel. They also ... view
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Zhu Cai
Original title: 残缺
1978
A group of martial artists seek revenge after being crippled by Tu Tin-To, a martial arts master, and his son. ... view
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Hu Ah-Kue
Original title: 南少林與北少林
1978
Three North Shaolin teachers are called on by the Manchus to teach their soldiers and are urged to challenge the current South Shaolin teachers. They ... view
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Hsu Fong
Original title: 五毒
1978
A dying master sends his last student to check up on five former pupils, who each know a special style of kung-fu. ... view
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Gao Ji, the Scorpion / Chief Constable Ma
Original title: 射鵰英雄傳續集
1978
Our hero Kuo Tsing is winning the hand of fair maiden Huang Yung. However, almost immediately, clan rivalries in the "Martial Art World" lead to Kuo b ... view
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Luk Koon Ying
Original title: 唐人街功夫小子
1977
Struggling to survive the murderous gang wars of Hong Kong, Tan Tung, a young martial arts street fighter, successfully takes on all challengers—unt ... view
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Yang Jian Wen