The Winged Tiger is a 1970 Hong Kong wuxia

Wuxia

Wuxia is a broad genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of literature, its popularity has caused it to spread to diverse art forms like Chinese opera, manhua , films, television series, and video games...

film produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio

Shaw Brothers Studio

The Shaw Brothers Studio , owned by Shaw Brothers Ltd., was the foremost and the largest movie production company of Hong Kong movies.From their distribution base in Singapore where they founded parent company Shaw Organization in 1924, and as a strategic development of their movie distribution...

, starring actor Chan Hung-lit, who was well known for playing villain roles, in his first lead role as a protagonist. The film also co-stars Angela Yu Chien, Tien Feng

Tien Feng

Tien Feng is a Hong Kong actor for 60 years. He left for Hong Kong from Taiwan and started his career...

 and David Chiang

David Chiang

John Chiang is a Hong Kong actor. His Chinese name is Chiang Da-wei . He is sometimes credited as David Chiang.-Biography:...

. Lau Kar-leung

Lau Kar-leung

Lau Kar-Leung is a famous Hong Kong martial arts filmmaker, choreographer, and actor.Lau Kar-Leung is best known for his movies which he made during the 1970s and 1980s for the Shaw Brothers Studio...

 served as action director for the film.

Plot

The chief of Mount Hua

Mount Hua

Mount Hua or Hua Shan in Chinese is located in Shaanxi Province, about 120 kilometres east of the city of Xi'an, near the city Huayin in China. Also known as Xiyuè, Western Great Mountain, it is one of China's Five Sacred Taoist Mountains, and has a long history of religious significance...

 and the leaders of Eight Schools sends famed martial artist, Guo Jiou Ru to locate a coveted manual written by the late King of the Martial World. Split into two parts, the manual details skills to turn the practitioner into a supreme fighter. The Yin family possesses one of the books while the Winged Tiger, Teng Fei has the other. In a bid to secure the manuals for himself, the King of Hades sets up his sister to marry Teng Fei. Guo, with his proficiency in ventriloquism and comparable skills to Teng Fei, is to impersonate him and infiltrate the Yin household to steal away the other manual.

Cast

• Chan Hung-lit as Flying Hero Guo Jiou Ru
• Tien Feng
  Tien Feng
  Tien Feng is a Hong Kong actor for 60 years. He left for Hong Kong from Taiwan and started his career...
  
   as Master Yin, King of Hades
• Angela Yu Chien as Yin Cai Fa
• Annette Sam as Liu Yan Qing
• Fang Mian as Master Liu Yi Ying
• Paul Wei
  Paul Wei Ping-Ao
  Wei Ping-Ao was a Hong Kong actor who started his career in Shaw Brothers. He was also notable of playing cunning interpreters in Bruce Lee's film, Fist of Fury and Way of the Dragon, in which he dubbed his own voice. He suffered from jaundice in his later years. Wei died in 1989.-External links:*...
  
   as You Ming
• David Chiang
  David Chiang
  John Chiang is a Hong Kong actor. His Chinese name is Chiang Da-wei . He is sometimes credited as David Chiang.-Biography:...
  
   as Jade Face Bai Yun Sheng
• Law Hon as Iron Hand Zhao Bi
• Tong Hin-hei as Golden Face Liu Kun
• Cheng Lui as Winged Tiger Deng Fei
• Wong Tat-wah as Soul Sucking Lad
• Cheng Miu as Chief of Mount Hua
• Yip Bo-kam as Xin Lu
• Yeung Chak-lam as Zhang Piao
• Wong Chung as martial artist after Winged Tiger's manual
• Wong Ching as martial artist after Winged Tiger's manual
• Yuen Woo-ping
  Yuen Woo-ping
  Yuen Woo-ping is a Chinese martial arts choreographer and film director, renowned as one of the most successful and influential figures in the world of Hong Kong action cinema. He is one of the inductees on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong...
  
   as martial artist after Winged Tiger's manual
• Lau Kar-wing as martial artist after Winged Tiger's manual
• Ho Bo-sing as martial artist after Winged Tiger's manual
• Yeung Jan-sing as martial artist after Winged Tiger's manual
• Lee Siu-wa as martial artist after Winged Tiger's manual
• Hsu Hsia as martial artist after Winged Tiger's manual
• Tam Bo as martial artist after Winged Tiger's manual
• Yen Shi-kwan as martial artist after Winged Tiger's manual
• Yuen Shun-yi as martial artist after Winged Tiger's manual
• Ng Yuen-fan as martial artist after Winged Tiger's manual
• Wong Shu-tong as martial artist after Winged Tiger's manual
• Tung Choi-bo as Master Yin's thug
• Chan Chuen as Master Yin's thug
• Chui Chung-hok as Master Yin's thug
• Yuen Shing-chau as Master Yin's thug
• Fei Ying as Master Yin's thug
• Chan Siu-gai as Master Yin's thug
• Lei Lung as Master Yin's thug
• Lo Wai
  Lo Wai
  Lo Wai is a walled village in Lung Yeuk Tau, Fanling, Hong Kong. It is located along the Lung Yeuk Tau Heritage Trail.The Entrance Tower and Enclosing Walls of Lo Wai are declared monuments.-External links:*...
  
   as Master Yin's thug
• Hao Li-jen as chief of a major martial arts school

External links

• The Winged Tiger at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
  Hong Kong Movie Database
  The Hong Kong Movie DataBase is a bilingual website that was created in 1995 by Ryan Law to provide a repository for information about movies originating from Hong Kong and the people that created them....
  
  
• Winged Tiger at Hong Kong Cinemagic
  Hong Kong Cinemagic
  Hong Kong Cinemagic, sometimes referred to as HKCinemagic, is a bilingual website providing a repository for information about Chinese language films from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, and the people that created them. The website contains news, interviews, film reviews and a database of people,...