Claim: Hong Kong action cinema (the principal source of the Hong Kong film industry's global fame) a wave of male-oriented action films arrived, even so female action starts were still prevalent in the 1960's.
Evidence: Hong Kong action cinema is the principal source of the Hong Kong film industry's global fame. The New School wuxia wave marked the move of male-oriented action films to the centre of Hong Kong cinema, which had long been dominated by female stars and genres aimed at female audiences, such as romances and musicals. Even so, during the 1960s female action stars like Cheng Pei-pei and Connie Chan Po-chu were prominent alongside male stars, such as former swimming champion Jimmy Wang Yu, and they continued an old tradition of female warriors in wuxia storyte directors of the period were Chang Cheh with One-Armed Swordsman (1967) and Golden Swallow (1968) and King Hu with Come Drink with Me (1966).