With parents coming from Hunan (Henan), originally named Lei Qiu-Si, Shih Szu was born in Taiwan. She joined Shaw Brothers in 1970 and appearing as a martial arts heroine. Acclaimed by a wide range of audience, Shaw Brothers regarded her as the next Cheng Pei-Pei. As such she appeared in many martial arts movies which included “The Rescue”, “The Lady Hermit”, “Heroes of Sung”, “The Villains”, “The Bloody Scape” and “Lady of the Law” etc. Her agility and skills established her position as one of the top female martial arts stars. After starring in “A Deadly Secret” in 1980, she left Hong Kong and continued her filming career in Taiwan. She retired from the limelight in early 80s.
Shih Szu Biography / Wiki
| Name | Shih Szu |
| Also Know | æ–½æ€ , Szu Shih, Lei Qiu-si, Szu Szu, Shin Szu, Si Si, Shih Si-Si, Shy Sy |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Taiwan |
| Date of Birth | October 24, 1953 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 69 |
| Deathday |
Shih Szu Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Young Avenger | Li Bao Zhu, the “Young Avenger” | 1972-04-20 | After a career spanning more than forty years and dozens of films as director or writer, Yueh Feng used everything he learned on a final few martial a… |
| The Shadow Boxer | Ah Jen | 1974-03-07 | Chen Wo-Fu plays construction worker Ku Ting, whose skill at “tai chi” (shadow boxing) is as great as his pacifism. But when his girlfriend is raped b… |
| The Black Tavern | Zhang Caibing | 1972-12-16 | This sword-filled thriller centers on the title location–an inn where the down and dirty meet to plot nefarious doings. Award winning actor Ku Feng s… |
| A Massacre Survivor | Kao Jo-hsueh | 1979-01-02 | Two men meet as old friends but leave as new enemies. Before plans can be expedited the fight starts. As the title clearly gives away, only Shih Szu s… |
| The Thunderbolt Fist | Die Er | 1972-12-30 | A small village is taken over by the nasty Japanese, who kill the town’s top kung fu fighter in order to scare the populace into submission. Escaping … |
| Lady of the Law | Leng Rushuang | 1975-06-07 | Jiao is framed for rape and murder (and, later, two more murders) by Chen and his son – the same people who framed Jiao’s father and left him orphaned… |
| Heroes of Sung | Hong-Erh/Meng Hong | 1973-12-01 | Heroes of Sung stars one of the original kung-fu ladies of the silver screen Shih Szu playing swordswoman Meng Hung who must work with Fan Tien-fu, pl… |
| The Revenge Ghost of the Tree | 1988-01-17 | Taiwanese horror film…. | |
| The Woman from Hell | 1981-11-19 | Taiwanese horror…. | |
| Relentless Broken Blade | 1979-07-22 | Shaw’s superstar, Chi Kuan Chun stars in this brilliant sword film from ace Director Chang Peng Yi, as a sentimental swordsman who tries to give up … | |
| The Third Sword | 1978-01-01 | The lovely Fire Pheonix (Shih Szu) comes to the rescue of a young man who is the last survivor after his family has been killed. The entire Martial Ar… | |
| A Fairy to the World | 1982-10-16 | The heavenly maiden comes to earth in the form of a mortal and with her kung fu skills stamps out some evil doers…. | |
| The Reformed Gambler | Lai Pei-ling | 1981-01-01 | Peter Lan, a seasoned gambler, returns from abroad to find that his family has been destroyed by the treachery of the unscrupulous Alfred Wong, who ha… |
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| The Lady Hermit | Cui Ping | 1971-01-01 | A young Kung Fu student seeks a reclusive teacher so that she may learn to defeat the evil Black Demon. She doesn’t realize that the servant woman she… |
| The Proud Youth | Bai Yingying / Sacred Lady | 1978-03-30 | Sun Chung had made a name for himself directing satirical comedies and modern day crime thrillers when he started exploring the kung-fu genre with thi… |
| The Bloody Escape | Tang Li | 1975-10-25 | Gu Hui, a member of the ‘Wolf Head Gang’ becomes unhappy after their new chief decides to abandon their old code of conduct. After the chief kills… |
| Supermen Against the Orient | Suzy | 1973-11-29 | Robert Wallace travels to Hong Kong to bust a gang of drug trafficker’s. There he finds help from Tang and Suzy, as well as his fellow Supermen Max &a… |
| The Criminals | Jenny | 1976-01-16 | An anthology film featuring three true-crime stories that took place in Hong Kong in the early 1970’s. Part 1: Hidden Torsos’ A woman and her daughter… |
| The Heroes | Princess | 1980-10-23 | Former Shaolin man Marshal Kao takes his former classmates prisoner and, instead of executing them, proposes to his Qing commander that he torture the… |
| The Villains | Lin Xiao Hong | 1973-03-09 | shaw production… |
| Flying Guillotine II | Na Lan | 1978-01-19 | The emperor’s reign of terror expands. Heroic outlaw Ma Teng joins a squad of female rebels, whose leader is torn between family loyalties…. |
| The Champion | Chin Chu | 1973-01-12 | A recently jailed martial arts master teams up with a wronged woman to take down the man’s brother, a coal baron who rules a small town with an iron f… |
| The Rescue | Bai Yaerh | 1971-09-24 | Renowned writer Shen Chiang had become so popular for his scripts that the studio let him direct as well. Here he continued his winning ways with this… |
| Night of the Assassins | Yan Yan | 1980-11-11 | The swords never stop flying in this action-packed old school hit! Master Wu (Ko Keung from “Fatal Flying Guillotines”), after refusing to help the ki… |
| The Murder | Joyce Ho | 1983-11-12 | Young punk Eddy Fong is having an affair with Joyce Ho, who is unhappily married to dull and middle aged office manager Ho Sun…. |
| Keep Out of Danger | 1980-03-13 | Taiwanese horror film…. | |
| Chinese Evil Technique | 1985-01-01 | Very weird magic fu, filled from start to finish with evil wizards, laserbeams, and crazy spells…. | |
| The Kung Fu Emperor | Lady in brothel | 1981-10-03 | Don’t expect a long life if you are one of the emperor’s fourteen sons! For instance, Ninth Prince meets an “accident” while hunting. The (unnamed) Ma… |
| The Great Conspiracy | 1980-07-05 | A knife expert arrives to tell the ruler he is to be invaded during his annual knife skills challenge. He coaxes his old enemy (a deaf, blind old man)… | |
| The Deadly Breaking Sword | Liu Yinxu | 1979-12-04 | Leaving behind an inch of sword in the spent corpses of his opponents, Tuan Changqing is known as the Deadly Breaking Sword. After barely surviving a … |
| The Hookers and the Hustlers | 1975-03-08 | shaw production… | |
| Miraculous Sword Art | 1982-09-17 | Bloodshed follows the never-ending struggle of a swordsman’s soul to make good of his skills…. | |
| The Revenger | 1980-12-04 | … | |
| The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires | Hsi Mai-Kwei | 1974-07-11 | Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants … |
| A Deadly Secret | Ling Seung Wa | 1980-09-23 | A treasure hunt sparks the continuing violence in this Hong Kong action film, yet the film does not focus only on the violent nature of some of the ch… |
| The Crimson Charm | Chiang Shang-Ching | 1971-07-01 | A noble swordsman and a one-armed swordswoman go up against the vicious Crimson Charm gang of thieves and cutthroats. The lovely and lethal Ivy Ling P… |
| Trilogy of Swordsmanship | Ying Ying | 1972-11-05 | Three martial arts directors united for this unique anthology film. Yueh Feng writes and directs a clever love-and-kung-fu triangle, Cheng Kang both w… |
| The Naval Commandos | Cui Hsia | 1977-04-10 | The “Godfather Of The Kung-Fu Film” created this rousing epic of a seemingly suicidal mission to destroy the Japanese Navy’s flagship in 1937, featuri… |
| Lover’s Destiny | Guan Xiu-Zhu | 1975-10-04 | Director Chu Yuan was one of the new breed of directors at Shaw who raised the bar of martial arts films, by adding compelling storylines and a good d… |
| Fists of Fire | Herself | 1975-01-16 | A look at Shaw Brothers Studios in their prime. Includes: interviews with David Chiang; exploring the Shaw Brothers sets; a look at the craftsmen, fol… |
| Dirty Angel | 1982-03-12 | Two tough gangsters try to outdo each other to become Shanghai’s top gangster and take control of the Wharf area. Some brilliant fights from top kung … | |
| The Four Assassins | Mrs Zu | 1975-12-25 | Set at the time of Italian explorer Marco Polo’s historic expedition to China ,during the reign of Monogol ruler Kublai Khan, it stars American actor … |
| Pursuit of Vengeance | Ma’s daughter | 1977-12-22 | Master of the “swordplay thriller” genre, Chor Yuen and renowned kung-fu choreographer Tang Chia tell the fabulous tale of the “Fastest Swordsman in t… |
| Clan of Amazons | Jiang Qingxia / 3rd Sister | 1978-02-19 | The Embroidery Bandit is stealing treasures while blinding his victims. The hero Liu Xiaofeng is called in to solve the mystery. The evidence points t… |
| Cheeky Little Angels | Nightclub visitor | 1974-07-06 | shaw production… |
| The Two Faces of Love | 1974-12-22 | shaw production… | |
| Jade Tiger | Tang Yue | 1977-05-07 | Zhao Wuji embarks on an very tragic adventure with full of intrigues to avenge his father, who is beheaded by a traitor working for Tang, on the eve o… |
| Shaolin Temple | Yen Yung-chun | 1976-12-22 | There is no place more hallowed in the martial art world than China’s Shaolin Temple. This special place deserves a special epic, which is what the ma… |
| Top Fighter 2 | Self (Archive Footage) | 1996-09-10 | The sequel of “Top Fighter” focuses in the importance of the women in the martial-arts movies, from her first characters as “hero’s girl” until becomi… |
| The Avenging Eagle | Siu Fung | 1978-09-13 | Eagle Chief Yoh Xi-hung raises orphans to be his personal killers. One such is Chik Ming-sing who now wants to put his killer life behind him. When th… |
| Hong Kong 73 | Teacher | 1974-04-24 | As the Heng Seng Index reaches unprecedented heights, people from all walks of life go stock speculation crazy. A security guard and his landlord lear… |
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