Lau Kar-Wing’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Lau Kar-Wing has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2000s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The 36th Chamber of Shaolin.
Recurring themes

The Eiger Sanction
1975
Action · Adventure

The Way of the Dragon
1972
Action · Crime

The Train Robbers
1973
Western · Action

American Ninja
1985
Action · Adventure

Junglee
2019
Action · Adventure

Tarzan's New York Adventure
1942
Action · Adventure

Never Back Down
2008
Drama · Action

Tomb Raider
2018
Action · Adventure

During the Qing Dynasty, a fishmonger is killed by the reigning Manchu government for supporting the anti-government movement; his son manages to escape to Shaolin Temple, where he plans to learn its secretive brand of martial arts to seek revenge.
Dir. Lau Kar-leung · With Gordon Liu Chia-Hui, Lo Lieh, John Cheung Ng-Long

A one-armed martial arts master is being stalked by an Imperial assassin, the master of two fighters killed in the previous film. When the One-Armed Boxer is invited to attend a martial arts tournament, his efforts to lay low are unsuccessful, and the assassin soon tracks him down with the help of his three subordinates: a Thai boxer, a yoga master, and a kobojutsu user.
Dir. Jimmy Wang Yu · With Jimmy Wang Yu, Doris Lung Chun-Erh, Sham Chin-Bo

A movie within a movie, created to spoof the martial arts genre. Writer/director Steve Oedekerk uses contemporary characters and splices them into a 1970s kung-fu film, weaving the new and old together. As the main character, The Chosen One, Oedekerk sets off to avenge the deaths of his parents at the hands of kung-fu legend Master Pain. Along the way he encounters some strange characters.
Dir. Steve Oedekerk · With Steve Oedekerk, Lung Fei, Leo Lee

as Hsi Kwei (Archer)
Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the cause of these phenomena, for the undead are controlled by the most diabolical force of all.... Count Dracula. But he is not alone- to aid him comes a mystical brotherhood of seven martial arts warriors.
Dir. Roy Ward Baker, Chang Cheh · With Peter Cushing, David Chiang Da-Wei, Julie Ege