Chan Shen (Actor)

Reviews of Chan Shen Movies

Looking for reviews of Chan Shen movies? Cinafilm has a total of 106 reviews across 9 movies.

Movies starring Chan Shen have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 61%.

Five Element Ninjas - released in 1982 - is Chan Shen's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 43 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Chan Shen is Lost Souls - released in 1980 - with a score of 36% based on 1 reviews.

Actor Biography

Chan Shen (Chinese: 詹森, 11 March 1940 - 26 April 1984) was a Taiwanese-born Hong Kong film actor. He is best known for his roles as gangsters or villains in Hong Kong action cinema in the 1970s.

Already an established film actor in Taiwan, he entered the Hong Kong film industry in 1971. He was a particularly prolific actor and would often appear in as many as ten films a year. In his fourteen-year film career in Hong Kong, he appeared in 160 action films.

Much of his career was spent at Hong Kong's Shaw Studio. He died because of a brain hemorrhage 26th of April 1984.

Chan Shen has acted in films with Wong Ching-Ho, Shum Lo, Ai Fei and Chow Kin-Ping.

Chan Shen has worked with these film directors: Chang Cheh, Chor Yuen, Lau Kar-Leung and Mou Tun-Fei.