Thanks, Meredith! One of my intentions in creating this list was for it to be something of a resource for Shaw fans, so I’m glad you’re finding it to be useful. I had a hard time finding a detailed list online myself, so I figured I’d just make one. As for my sources, there is a book called The Shaw Screen: A Preliminary Study that has an appendix in the back listing every film ever produced by the Shaw Studio, ordered by release date. When I lived near Los Angeles and I worked at a library I managed to borrow a copy from the UCLA library and I made copies of these pages. This is also how I was able to read Chang Cheh’s memoir that I make mention of here and there in the reviews, and that book also had a very useful complete filmography for Chang Cheh in the back.

I then cross checked everything against the HKMDB to make sure everything matched up, and also because there’s no genre listed in the book appendix. There were also a few films not in the book appendix that were on HKMDB, although a few of them seem to have been unfinished films. I’ve tried to keep this list to be only those films actually released, but info is kinda scarce on some of them, especially the really rare ones. There’s an old website I found with HK box office data going back to the ’70s that was helpful with this. It’s dead now, but still accessible here thanks to archive.org. Also before I start reviewing a new year, I re-check the list and HKMDB, as sometimes I find movies that I missed or that I feel are worth watching in the chrono context despite not being primarily martial arts films (such as The Casino). It initially took many months of off and on work to get this list done, so I was bound to miss a few things.

I’ve never actually counted the films on the list as I felt that knowing how far away from completion I was would be depressing, but I have faced the fear and counted them for you! There are 343 films on the list, and so far I’ve done the first 98 (100 if you count the two I’ve watched but haven’t published yet). So 29.2% done! Almost there! 🙂 Thanks for being a constant supporter!

Yeah, I heard about that last night, and I actually wondered at the time if you were going to do a Vale post for him. He probably falls outside the usual criteria that you use for those, but in terms of Chinese cinema, there are few people with as much influence and important to the entire industry.

Wow, thanks so much! Your support and enthusiasm for the project is also much appreciated!

Yes, that does come up a lot! It has perplexed me quite a bit. I have wondered if it’s a cultural thing, too, but I’m afraid I have no answers to give. I can say that it’s not just Shaw Brothers movies, it’s throughout many Hong Kong films.