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Shanghai 13, the Glossary

Shanghai 13, also known as The Shanghai Thirteen, is a 1984 Hong Kong-Taiwanese martial arts film written and directed by Chang Cheh and starring an ensemble cast of notable film stars such as Andy Lau, Jimmy Wang Yu, Ti Lung, Chen Kuan-tai, Danny Lee, Bryan Leung, David Chiang, Chiang Sheng, Chi Kuan-chun, Chan Sing, Lu Feng and more.^[1]

Andy Lau

Andy Lau Tak-wah (born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer.

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Andy Lau filmography

This is the filmography of Hong Kong singer, actor and film producer Andy Lau.

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Bryan Leung

Bryan Leung Kar-yan (Chinese: 梁家仁, born 20 January 1948) is a Hong Kong film and television actor and film director who has played roles in numerous acclaimed martial arts films.

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Chang Cheh

Chang Cheh (10 February 1923 – 22 June 2002) was a Chinese filmmaker, screenwriter, lyricist and producer active in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

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Chang Feng

Chang Feng (6 April 1923 – 6 February 2022) was a Chinese actor based in Taiwan.

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Chen Kuan-tai

Chen Kuan-tai (born 24 September 1945) is a Hong Kong martial arts actor, director, and action choreographer.

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Chi Kuan-chun

Chi Kuan-Chun (born June 14, 1949), also known as Chik Goon-Gwan, is a Hong Kong-based Chinese actor, martial artist, and Hung Ga practitioner.

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Chiang Sheng

Chiang Sheng (born Chiu Kang Sang 趙岡生; April 27, 1951 - August 18, 1991) was a Taiwanese martial arts actor, director, and action director.

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Danny Lee (actor)

Danny Lee (born 6 August 1952) is a Hong Kong actor, film producer, screenwriter, director, action director and presenter.

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David Chiang

David Chiang Tai-wai (born Chiang Wei-nien; 29 June 1947) is a Hong Kong actor, director, producer and martial artist.

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Ensemble cast

In a dramatic production, an ensemble cast is one that comprises many principal actors and performers who are typically assigned roughly equal amounts of screen time.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Hong Kong Cinemagic

Hong Kong Cinemagic, sometimes referred to as HKCinemagic, is a bilingual (French and English) website providing a repository for information about Chinese language films from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, and the people who created them.

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Jimmy Wang Yu

James Wang Yu (28 March 1943 – 5 April 2022) was a Hong Kong-Taiwanese martial artist, actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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Lau Kar-wing

Lau Kar-wing (born 1944) is a martial artist, Hong Kong film director, action choreographer and actor.

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Lu Feng (actor)

Lu Feng (born April 3, 1956) is a Taiwanese-born Hong Kong-based martial artist actor, action choreographer, and director.

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Martial arts film

Martial arts films are a subgenre of action films that feature martial arts combat between characters.

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Second Sino-Japanese War

The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931.

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Shanghai

Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.

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Shaw Brothers Studio

Shaw Brothers (HK) Limited was the largest film production company in Hong Kong, operating from 1925 to 2011.

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Standard Chinese

Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.

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Ti Lung

Tommy Tam Fu-wing (born 19 August 1946), known professionally by his stage name Ti Lung, is a Hong Kong actor, known for his numerous starring roles in a string of Shaw Brothers Studio's films, particularly The Duel, The Blood Brothers, Clans of Intrigue, The Avenging Eagle, The Sentimental Swordsman and its sequel, as well as the classic John Woo film A Better Tomorrow and its sequel.

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Wang Jingwei regime

The Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China, commonly described as the Wang Jingwei regime, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in eastern China.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_13