Screenshot of FreeTube showing the Shaw Brothers Cinema channel on Youtube

The Youtube channel Shaw Brothers Cinema appears to be a licensed outlet for Celestial Pictures, owners of the Shaw Brothers back catalogue, managed by media service provider The Lasso Group.

I’ve added it to the Free, legal streaming action movies & shows pinned post.

Not all the films are action / martial arts /wuxia movies, but plenty are.

The films are in high definition, restored and in Chinese language (Mandarin mainly, it seems to me so far) with legible English soft subtitles. Thumbnails are legit scenes from the movie with the actual actors.

They are not the crappy low-res captures with poorly-translated burned-in bilingual hard subs you might find elsewhere. And they do not use clickbaity thumbnails with hot models not actually in the film (looking at you, The Stream.)

And so far, no one has complained of geo-blocking, so hopefully can be viewed by anyone anywhere in the world (where Youtube is available).

I believe films don’t stay there forever but are cycled, so you need to subscribe & watch before they disappear.

This is a great resource, found by (IIRC) @sesamesquirrel@mastodon.social (please correct me if I’m wrong) and often used now for the #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon.