Shaw Brothers Studio

Shaw Brothers was a film production company in Hong Kong, which existed from 1925 to 1985 and especially helped the genre of martial-arts film to break through. Founders were Runme Shaw (1901-1985) and Run Run Shaw ( 1907-2014 ). Numerous technical innovations are attributable to Shaw Brothers.

A lot of the films produced by Shaw Brothers about 1000 was sold in 2000 to the Malaysian company Celestial Pictures, which they are out on DVD ever since.

One of the most famous directors working for Shaw was Chang Cheh, well-known actors are Jimmy Wang Yu, Ti Lung, David Chiang, Gordon Liu, Cheng Pei- pei and Alexander Fu Sheng.

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