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James Tien Chun has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1980s.
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Flatfoot in Africa
1978
Action · Comedy

Brannigan
1975
Action · Crime

Drunken Master
1978
Action · Comedy

Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
1978
Action · Comedy

Dolemite
1975
Action · Comedy

Running Scared
1986
Comedy · Crime

Enter the Ninja
1981
Action · Crime

Wasabi
2001
Drama · Action

Cheng is a young Chinese mainlander who moves in with his expatriate cousins to work at an ice factory in Thailand. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fights. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factory, the resulting mystery and pressures force him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the Big Boss.
Dir. Lo Wei · With Bruce Lee, Maria Yi, James Tien Chun
Two unlucky thieves break into a just murdered man's hotel room and steal his passport, with a hidden microfilm, wanted by a triad boss. Two ass-kicking women cops—one Chinese, one British—are on the case.
Dir. Corey Yuen · With Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Rothrock, John Shum Kin-Fun
A policeman forsakes his dream of world travel to care for a mentally impaired brother, who is later kidnapped by gangsters.
Dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo · With Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Emily Chu Bo-Yee

Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. While trying to mind their own business (and run their 5-Star Cleaning Service), they are caught up in a war between rival Triad gangs fighting for control of the counterfeit currency market.
Dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo · With Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Stanley Fung Shui-Fan

During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Chen Zhen, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial arts teacher battles a Japanese dojo which seeks the demise of his fighting school.
Dir. Lo Wei · With Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Maria Yi

Lung is a talented fighter but prefers to spend his time loafing around and picking fights, despite orders from his grandfather not to fight. Unknown to him, a brutal general has been slaughtering all the people from his grandfather’s clan. When the general recognizes Lung’s style of kung fu during one of his street fights, he hunts down Lung’s grandfather and kills him.
Dir. Jackie Chan · With Jackie Chan, James Tien Chun, Yen Shi-Kwan
Two Hong Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a large amount of money in diamonds. After one is captured by the Ninja-gang protecting the rogue cop, the other one gets his old Orphanage gang, dubbed the "Five Lucky Stars," to help him. They don't like this much, but they do it.
Dir. Sammo Hung Kam-Bo · With Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao
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