Acting

James Tien Chun

Born May 28, 1942 · Guangdong Province, China (age 84)

James Tien-Chun (Chinese: 田俊; born 28 May 1942) is a Hong Kong actor from Guangdong, China. He appeared in almost 70 films, primarily in Hong Kong action cinema, including roles in the films of martial arts stars including Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung. He often played villains or supporting roles. He retired from the Hong Kong film industry in 1996.

Known For

Fist of Fury

Fist of Fury · 1972

MovieDramaAction

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.

Millionaires' Express

Millionaires' Express · 1986

Millionaires' Express

MovieActionComedy

What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards the small town of Hanshui, where escaping bank robbers, corrupt officials, and gamblers await? Well, let's just say the Titanic had a smoother maiden voyage.

Game of Death

Game of Death · 1978

MovieDramaAction

A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

The Big Boss

The Big Boss · 1971

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.

Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars

Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars · 1985

Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars

MovieActionComedy

The third installment in the Lucky Stars series, following Winners and Sinners and My Lucky Stars. The team are released from prison to play detective in order to stop a ruthless gang from ruining their reputations, taking their lives, and that of a key witness in an upcoming trial. They must battle their way through and with the help of Muscles, take down the bad guys.

My Lucky Stars

My Lucky Stars · 1985

MovieActionComedy

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.

Winners & Sinners

Winners & Sinners · 1983

Winners & Sinners

MovieActionAdventure

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.

Dragons Forever

Dragons Forever · 1988

Dragons Forever

MovieActionComedy

A hot-shot lawyer is hired by a Hong Kong chemical plant to dispose of opposition to their polluting ways. But when he falls for a beautiful woman out to stop the plant, he is torn in a conflict of interest and asks his trusty friends Samo and Biao to help out at least until they discover the true purpose of the plant.

Filmography

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Fist of Fury

Fist of Fury · 1972

MovieDramaAction

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.

Fan Chun-hsia

Millionaires' Express

Millionaires' Express · 1986

Millionaires' Express

MovieActionComedy

What happens when a glamorous express, with high government officials, wealthy merchants, concubines and a gang of brigands on board, speeds towards the small town of Hanshui, where escaping bank robbers, corrupt officials, and gamblers await? Well, let's just say the Titanic had a smoother maiden voyage.

Shi Yu

Game of Death

Game of Death · 1978

MovieDramaAction

A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

Charlie Wang

The Big Boss

The Big Boss · 1971

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.

Hsiu Chien

Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars

Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars · 1985

Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Stars

MovieActionComedy

The third installment in the Lucky Stars series, following Winners and Sinners and My Lucky Stars. The team are released from prison to play detective in order to stop a ruthless gang from ruining their reputations, taking their lives, and that of a key witness in an upcoming trial. They must battle their way through and with the help of Muscles, take down the bad guys.

Boss Lau Yan Foo

My Lucky Stars

My Lucky Stars · 1985

MovieActionComedy

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.

Prison Warden

Winners & Sinners

Winners & Sinners · 1983

Winners & Sinners

MovieActionAdventure

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.

Chan Chiu

Dragons Forever

Dragons Forever · 1988

Dragons Forever

MovieActionComedy

A hot-shot lawyer is hired by a Hong Kong chemical plant to dispose of opposition to their polluting ways. But when he falls for a beautiful woman out to stop the plant, he is torn in a conflict of interest and asks his trusty friends Samo and Biao to help out at least until they discover the true purpose of the plant.

Boss Feng

Mr. Vampire II

Mr. Vampire II · 1986

MovieHorrorAction

Chaos ensues after a team of archaeologists accidentally breaks the seals of a sleeping vampire family, which prevent them from waking up.

Officer Tien

Fearless Hyena

Fearless Hyena · 1979

MovieActionComedy

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.

Chen Peng-fei

Heart of Dragon

Heart of Dragon · 1985

Heart of Dragon

MovieActionComedy

A policeman forsakes his dream of world travel to care for a mentally impaired brother, who is later kidnapped by gangsters.

Mr. Kim Tin Chun

Yes, Madam!

Yes, Madam! · 1985

MovieActionComedy

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.

Henry Tin Wai Keung

Spiritual Kung Fu

Spiritual Kung Fu · 1978

Spiritual Kung Fu

Jackie Chan plays the part of the class clown in a shaolin temple whose deadliest secret is stolen. All is lost until Jackie's character discovers dancing blue ghosts with bright red hair who haunt the library.

Lu Qing

The Iron-Fisted Monk

The Iron-Fisted Monk · 1977

The Iron-Fisted Monk

MovieActionComedy

Husker is a student of the Shaolin monks, learning kung fu so that he can avenge his uncle who was murdered by the Manchus who control the province. He leaves his training early, desperate to teach the killers a lesson, and teams up with a martial artist monk who is teaching a group of factory workers how to defend themselves. When the Manchus strike again, Husker and his Buddhist pal decide it's time to even the score.

Shaolin Instructor

Fearless Hyena 2

Fearless Hyena 2 · 1983

Fearless Hyena 2

MovieActionComedy

A pair of evil kung-fu artists, Heaven and Earth, are slaughtering the entire Yin-Yang brotherhood.

Ching Tsun-nam

Eastern Condors

Eastern Condors · 1987

Eastern Condors

MovieActionAdventure

A motley group of Chinese prisoners held in the US is sent on a covert mission with the promise of a pardon: to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missiles that the US left behind during the pull-out.

Angry Customer

The Prodigal Son

The Prodigal Son · 1981

The Prodigal Son

MovieActionComedy

A rich man's son believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of an actor in a traveling theatre company, the son resolves to find a better teacher.

Broken Right Arm Fighter

Dragon Fist

Dragon Fist · 1979

MovieActionDrama

After the death of his master, martial arts student Tong Huo-wan travels with his adoptive family to seek redress from the man responsible but finds himself torn between righteousness and filial piety after becoming entangled in a feud between a local clan and gangsters.

Fong Gong

Hand of Death

Hand of Death · 1976

MovieActionDrama

A young monk must face the Extended Iron Claw technique of a powerful warlord seeking to destroy Shaolin.

Commander Shih

Half a Loaf of Kung Fu

Half a Loaf of Kung Fu · 1978

Half a Loaf of Kung Fu

MovieComedyAction

A young daydreamer assumes the identity of a dead martial arts hero and quickly finds himself caught up in a plot by several clans to steal famous martial arts artifacts being transported by an escort company.

Master Mao

Lee Rock

Lee Rock · 1991

MovieDramaCrime

Lee Rock starts his career in the Hong Kong police force as an incorruptible officer. However, he becomes desperate for money and slowly starts to dive into corruption.

Silverfish

Righting Wrongs

Righting Wrongs · 1986

Righting Wrongs

MovieActionComedy

Jason Chan, a Hong Kong lawyer, is angry at the way the law protects criminals and decides to take the law into his own hands, dishing out vigilante justice when a key witness and his entire family are murdered. But hotshot cop Cindy Si is soon on Chan's case, and the situation unravels into a fight that only a few will survive.

Assistant Director

Burning Sensation

Burning Sensation · 1989

Burning Sensation

MovieComedyHorror

A firefighter salvages a spiritual shrine from an old burning building, which releases the gentle ghost of a Chinese opera singer, killed in a stage fire 30 years before. Grateful for saving her, the ghost falls for the firefighter and will stop at nothing to ensure his safety from the evils that lurk ahead. At the same time, the firefighter doesn't realize he is dating a ghost.

Fire Dept Commander

Lucky Stars Go Places

Lucky Stars Go Places · 1986

Lucky Stars Go Places

MovieComedyAction

Lucky Stars Go Places, also known as The Luckiest Stars, is a 1986 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Eric Tsang. It is the fourth film in the Lucky Stars series. It was an attempt to combine the original Lucky Stars troupe with the similar action comedy ensemble from the Aces Go Places series.

Police Special Force Commander