[1][2] In the past, very few titles from the Shaw Brothers film archive had previously appeared in any electronic multimedia form since their original cinema release in the 50s-90s.
Beginning in 2002, Celestial Pictures employed the use of state-of-the-art digital technology to restore each and every frame (150,000 on average) from the original negatives for over 760 films.
An A-list lineup of film stars is one of the major attractions of the library, many of whom still dominate the East Asian film industry, including Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat, Stephen Chow, Gordon Liu, Cheng Pei-pei, Maggie Cheung, and Andy Lau.
The studio's legendary martial-arts directors include (but are not limited to) Chang Cheh, King Hu, Liu Chia-liang and Chu Yuan.
Their distinguished martial arts styles continue to influence action films around the world to this day.