Rendezvous with Death (1980)

Sun Chung had been recognized as an expert comedy and crime thriller director, but he was to gain even greater acclaim for his soulful, powerful, intelligent, and beautifully-made martial arts epics. This stands alongside The Deadly Breaking Sword and The Kung-fu Instructor as one of his very best. It’s not so much the plot – a master swordsman protects a treasure chest on a dangerous journey – that makes this great, but what Sun does with it, inspiring the cast and crew to some of their finest work.

Cast (38)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Wong Yu

Xinshuan (Miserable) / Gu Jian

Lo Lieh

Beggar Yang Feng

Ku Feng

Prince Yan Yikang

Chan Shen

Chi Sifang

Chen Kuan-Tai

Golden Rod Gu Feitian

Lam Sau-Kwan

Shui Xian Hua

Tang Ching

Master Huo

Chen Szu-Chia

Courtesan Sisi

Lau Wai-Ling

2nd Sister

Jamie Luk Kim-Ming

Black Lunatic Shen Shan

Yuen Wah

Poison Scholar Jin Ju

Johnny Wang Lung-Wei

Restaurant attacker with chopper

S

Sek Gong

Tao Yao

Ng Hong-Sang

Panda (One of the Four Killers)

Yuen Bun

One of the Four Killers

Stephan Yip Tin-Hang

One of the Four Killers

Chin Chun

Adviser Wang

Wan Seung-Lam

Soldier

Ngai Tim-Choi

Sifang's thug

Huang Pei-Chih

Gu's man

Yang Hsiung

Sifang’s thug

Wong Chi-Ming

Y

Yao-Tsu Wen

T

Tien Tsai Wei

Tang Wing-Siu

Teng Wei-Hao

Lao Shen

Huang Pei-Chih

Jamie Luk Kim-Ming

L

Liu Wah-Cheong

L

Luo Sheng

L

Luo Jun

K

Kin Ming Ling

Teresa Ha Ping

Chow Kin-Ping

Cheng Kei-Ying

Wong Mei-Mei

K

Ko Mei-Chiu

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