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Angela Mao is a Actor Taiwanaise born on 20 september 1950
Angela Mao (chinois : 茅瑛, Máo Yīng) est une actrice taïwanaise née le 20 septembre 1950, à Taïwan.
Angela Mao fut formée en hapkido par Ji Han-Jae et ses assistants, ainsi qu'à d'autres formes d'arts martiaux au cours de sa carrière au cinéma pour se préparer à ses rôles. Elle est d'ailleurs apparue dans le film Opération Dragon.
Vie privée
Elle épousa Kelly Lui en 1974 et donna naissance à un enfant en 1976. Elle se retira des films en 1992 afin de se consacrer à sa famille.
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Elle est la troisième d'une famille de 7 enfants. Son père, Mao Yung Kan, est une ancienne star d'opéra de Pékin. Elle est connue en tant que grande actrice pour ses rôles principaux dans de nombreux films d'arts martiaux dans les années 1970. Elle est aussi surnommée "Lady Tourbillon" et "Lady Kung Fu" par ses fans.Angela Mao fut formée en hapkido par Ji Han-Jae et ses assistants, ainsi qu'à d'autres formes d'arts martiaux au cours de sa carrière au cinéma pour se préparer à ses rôles. Elle est d'ailleurs apparue dans le film Opération Dragon.
Vie privée
Elle épousa Kelly Lui en 1974 et donna naissance à un enfant en 1976. Elle se retira des films en 1992 afin de se consacrer à sa famille.
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, 1h50Directed by Bruce Lee
Origin USA
Genres Martial arts, Documentary, Action, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Films about television, Martial arts films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, George Lazenby, Sammo Hung, Robert Baker
Roles (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rating79%
Bruce Lee, légendaire artiste martial, est le sujet central de ce documentaire de Lee John Little (lui -même fan de Bruce Lee). Au travers d'interviews, de scènes d'action et de prises de vues en coulisses tirées du dernier film inachevé de Bruce Lee, le Jeu de la Mort, Little nous dépeint un portrait détaillé de l'acteur de films d'action le plus renommé du monde.
Eastern Condors (1987)
, 1h34Directed by Sammo Hung
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Actors Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Yuen Wah, Haing S. Ngor, Lam Ching Ying, Yuen Woo-ping
Rating70%
Lieutenant Colonel Lam is an American army officer given a top secret mission by the US military. The mission entails entering Vietnam to destroy an old American bunker filled with missiles before the Viet Cong can get to them.
Genres Martial arts, Action, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films
Actors Angela Mao, Tao-liang Tan, Lo Lieh, Chang Yi
Roles Violet
Rating57%
Scorching Sun, Fierce Wind, Wild Fire is a story about a search for the second half of a treasure map, but it's conveniently forgotten at various points. Angela Mao plays the daughter of a warlord and has a secret identity as the masked freedom fighter Violet, who rides the country righting wrongs and organizing rebels. Tien Peng plays a mysterious stranger who comes to town looking for the other half of the map. Lo Lieh and Tan Tao Liang play prison inmates who escape and end up actually being ex-comrades with Tien Ping and assisting he and Violet in apprehending Master Wu (Chang Yi), the security chief who does most of the fighting for the warlord. Master Wu turns traitor in order to get the map.
Return of the Tiger (1977)
, 1h32Genres Action, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films
Actors Bruce Li, Paul L. Smith, Angela Mao, Chang Yi, Blackie Ko
Roles Chang Hung's Partner
Rating55%
Chang Hung, who works for a rival organization, and his female partner devise an elaborate plan to take out a heroin drug ring led by the nefarious Paul the Westerner.
Broken Oath (1977)
Genres Action
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films
Actors Angela Mao, Dean Shek, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Mars, Corey Yuen
Roles Lotus Lin
Rating68%
A woman lies dying in a women's prison after giving birth and recounts to a pickpocket how she ended up there after her husband was murdered by thugs, one of whom also raped her. The pickpocket agrees to raise her daughter to seek revenge, but in hopes of breaking the cycle of violence she hands the infant girl over to a Shaolin monastery for women. 'Pure Lotus' Liu (Angela Mao) grows up to be a troubled young woman who skips out on Buddhist lessons, but excels at kung fu. She's kicked out after killing several thugs and rejoins the pickpocket, where she discovers the truth about her parents. Using her kung fu and deadly scorpions, Lotus begins a systematic hunt for each of the men who assaulted her family and ends up joining forces with government agents to uproot rebels, two of whom are her targets.
A Queen's Ransom (1976)
Origin Hong kong
Genres Action, Crime
Themes Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Jimmy Wang Yu, Angela Mao, George Lazenby, Bolo Yeung, Dean Shek, Ko Chun-hsiung
Roles Maria
Rating51%
During Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Hong Kong in 1975, a group of criminals plan her assassination.
Kung Fu Killers (1974)
, 1h12Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith
Genres Documentary, Action
Actors Angela Mao, George Lazenby, Stuart Whitman, Carter Wong, Bruce Lee, Jimmy Wang Yu
Roles (archive footage)
Rating65%
Australian stuntman Grant Page travels to Hong Kong to find Bruce Lee's successor and looks at the cultural phenomenon that Asian martial arts has become in the West. He talks to actors such as Angela Mao, Stuart Whitman and George Lazenby – who were all making movies in Hong Kong at the time – and fights Carter Wong twice.
The Shrine of Ultimate Bliss (1974)
, 1h47Origin Hong kong
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films
Actors George Lazenby, Angela Mao, Betty Ting Pei, Sammo Hung, Eric Tsang, Yuen Biao
Roles Angela Li Shou-Hua
Rating54%
When a tough Australian cop named Stoner (George Lazenby) discovers that his sister has overdosed on a deadly new drug called "The Happy Pill" (an aphrodisiac/hallucenogen mixture), he travels to Hong Kong to track down its creators. Along the way, he meets up with a beautiful secret agent (Angela Mao) who's on her own mission to investigate the same drug ring.
Naughty! Naughty! (1974)
, 1h49Directed by Lo Wei
Origin Hong kong
Genres Action
Actors Nora Miao, Betty Ting Pei, Sing-Bor Leung, Angela Mao, Dean Shek, Paul Wei Ping-Ao
Roles Angela Mao
Rating72%
Enter the Dragon (1973)
, 1h38Directed by Bruce Lee, Robert Clouse
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Kung fu, Action, Crime, Martial arts
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films
Actors Bruce Lee, Jim Kelly, John Saxon, Ahna Capri, Kien Shih, Robert Wall
Roles Su Lin
Rating75%
Lee (Bruce Lee) is a Shaolin martial artist from Hong Kong who possesses great philosophical insight into martial arts as well as physical prowess. He receives an invitation to a martial arts competition on an island organised by the mysterious Mr. Han (Shih Kien). Lee learns from his Sifu (teacher) that Han was also once a Shaolin student, but had been expelled from their order for abusing their code of conduct.
The Fate of Lee Khan (1973)
, 1h45Directed by Sammo Hung, King Hu
Origin Taiwan
Genres Drama, Martial arts, Action, Adventure, Martial arts
Themes Spy films, Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films
Actors Roy Chiao, Li Li-Hua, Xu Feng, Tien Feng, Angela Mao, Helen Ma
Roles Hai Mu-tan
Rating71%
In the film, Wendy is a resistance fighter of the Chinese underground who wants to stop Lee Khan from attaining an important map. All of the resistance fighters want to restore Han rule. The villains are Lee Khan and his female partner Wan’er, who want to prevent the resistance fighters achieving vicotry.
When Taekwondo Strikes (1973)
Directed by Sammo Hung
Origin Hong kong
Genres Martial arts, Action, Martial arts
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Political films
Actors Angela Mao, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Lam Ching Ying, Kenji Kazama, Carter Wong
Roles Wan Ling-ching
Rating62%
The story is about the Korea under Japanese rule during World War II. A Korean nationalist played by Carter Wong gets into a fight with some non-Korean Japanese people and is chased into a church. The priest there is captured and tortured. Trying to secure his release, the leader of the resistance, Jhoon Rhee is himself captured and tortured by the Japanese. Carter Wong, Angela Mao and Anne Winton have to now try and rescue him. This leads to an explosive climax with the heroes having to fight the likes of Wong In Sik (Hwang In-Shik), Sammo Hung and Kenji Kazama.
Lady Whirlwind (1972)
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Martial arts, Action, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films
Actors Angela Mao, Sammo Hung, Chang Yi, Yin Chang
Roles Tien Li-Chun
Rating62%
A young man Ling Shih-hua (Chang Yi in a rare good guy role) is severely beaten by Japanese mobsters and left for dead on the beach. He is nursed back to health by a pretty young girl, and he vows to take revenge on the criminals. Meanwhile, Miss Tien Li-Chun (Angela Mao) comes to town with a score to settle with Ling. Apparently, her sister was jilted by Ling and she killed herself, so Tien must avenge her by taking his life. Ling begs her to spare him until after he gets his revenge, to which she reluctantly agrees, only to save his life after he gets mercilessly beaten by his enemies.
Hapkido (1972)
, 1h37Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Martial arts, Action, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films
Actors Angela Mao, Carter Wong, Sammo Hung, Nancy Sit M.H., Paul Wei Ping-Ao, Lam Ching Ying
Roles Yu Ying
Rating67%
It is 1934, in Japanese occupied Korea. Angela, Carter and Sammo are sitting and talking in a park when they are approached by a group of Japanese toughs. The leader of the Japanese begins to make unwelcome advances, and Angela tries her best to ignore him. Sammo loses his temper and a melee ensues. These three have just graduated, learning the art of Hapkido and they return to China in the hopes of setting up their own school, which they do. The Japanese, who consider it an inferior martial art, try to run them out of town with some traitorous Chinese, including Pai Ying. Angela, Carter and Sammo don’t want any trouble as it goes against the wishes of their master and his teachings. It’s Sammo who finally loses it after being insulted by some Japanese. This doesn’t go down well and Sammo becomes a wanted man, having to hide out while Angela and Carter try to reason with The Black Bear Gang without much luck. Finally the Japanese go too far and Angela, Carter and Sammo are forced to fight back with devastating results for the Japanese.
The Angry River (1971)
Origin Hong kong
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Actors Sammo Hung, Lam Ching Ying, Angela Mao, Jackie Chan
Roles Lan Feng
Rating59%