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Five Fighters From Shaolin (Chk Sen)
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List Price: $14.98
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Manufacturer: Xenon
Starring: Jack Long (II), Jung Chi Sun, Alan Chui Chung San, Mark Long (II), Chi Sang Wong
Directed By: Shu-How Ko
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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781578298334
Format: Color
ISBN: 1578298334
Label: Xenon
Manufacturer: Xenon
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Xenon
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2003-07-08
Studio: Xenon
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Summary: Some very good fights with a large dose of comedy
Comment: A very good film that could turn away some viewers looking for something serious. 5 Fighters From Shaolin starts out very brutal. Then suddenly takes a comedic twist that really does last for too long. At times I found myself wondering would it ever get serious again. Thankfully, it does and delivers some very good fight scenes.
A monk with his own plans leaves the shaolin temple to find fighters. He decides to train them to fight against an enemy and that's pretty much all it is to it. The meetings with his soon to be students deliver some pretty good scenes. The training sessions can be funny at times also. The last fight scenes has its moments and can be brutal. The ending also delivers as well.
The problems I have with this movie. The comedy is delivered in large doses. At times it's done very well but seemed like overkill. Some of the scenes are too dark and I found it hard to track all of the action. Thankfully all of the scenes aren't like that especially the best ones.
I still find this to be a very good watch and the ending paid off. Those who aren't too crazy about comedy in their kung fu, should still give this a try. Once it gets serious, it does pay off. I didn't find my time wasted at all.
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Summary: decent 80's kung fu flick
Comment: The kung fu action is pretty good with all the acrobatic moves, fast hand and leg combat.
The storyline is about a group of bad guys trying to steal a scripture from the shaolin temple for its own evil intention. Then there is a rebel monk who got himself out of the temple to live with his own terms. Soon the monk recruited 5 students. They defend the shaolin temple from the evil group and for their own revenge.
The action is fast and great, the comedy is on point, and u have your typical martial arts storyline. My only complaint is the dvd version. Xenon company says that it is digitally restored but after seeing the movie it seems that the film was just copied straight from a VHS tape without restoration at all except for the sound. The fight scene at night is dark that u have trouble seeing the action. Overall, I still give it 4 star despite the dvd's fail restoration of a classic 80's kung fu movie.
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Summary: I can't believe I just saw one of the greatest kung fu movies ever
Comment: Now I have 100's of fu movies. And I have seen 100's upon 100's more than I have. And this is easily a top 100 for me. Probably a top 50 but it is only slightly better than The Ninja Hunter, a.k.a.-wutang vs. ninja(I think). It has literally ALL my favorite stars in here except hwang lee and jet and bruce themselves. EVERYONE. I will throw some names at you in a sec.
First off, you will be much benefited watching this movie after seeing a number of similiar ones and some others starring the same actors and characters for that matter. Now this I would say is a cross between iron rooster vs. centipede, a.k.a.-last hero in china, a.k.a.-claws of steel(the version I have), a.k.a. dedly china hero, and The ninja hunter. Well the cast from ninja hunter is back. Chen Shan(chang shen)plays a good guy again(2nd time I've ever seen it) and is one of teh five fighers. Jack Long(lung)is back as the evil white brow. He's the pai mei practicioner in 7 grandmasters, yeah, that guy. And mark lung takes up his crazy drunken monk role from shaolin temple strikes back again. Though he doesn't seem to be quite as drunk and has an ugly hair do. But this is one of my fav. roles from him. Ching kuo-chung is anothre 1 of the 5 and has the best fat man jump kick I have ever seen. And he provides some great comic relief(as if the movie wasn't funny enough). He is the fat tall guy from shaolin vs. lama and many others. he's fat but like sammo, he can actually fight. But don't buy this expecting to see a guy as good as sammo, just for the 6 guys that are probably better than him, maybe. Chiang shieng(6th venom, the hybrid), and william yen(lo rei's little kid acrobatic friend form shaolin vs. lama) come along for the fide. And alan chui, a.k.a.-alan hsu(white haired #10 looking baddie of all time from 7 grandmasters). You know him the siinister dude with the white braid wrapped around his neck who stole the last 3 pai mei stikes. 7 grandmasters was the first great fu movie i had ever seen. And it took a while to appreciate the genre after seeing that. Then I found Shen chan, Hwnag Jang Lee, jet and bruce, billy chow, etc. But I still can't find nothing to match corey yuen's action in 7
grandmasters. Not to leave anyone out, Wong chi sang(small fighting roles in hell'z widstaff and secret rivals 3) is good in his usual bad guy role. And Lau yau-bun plays his same big(but not fat) bad guy role. He plays a huge unstoppable general in shaolin strikes back. He is another big man who can move.
Now, I can honestly say that I named everyone important(except that kid with the mullet, lo rei's brother in ninja hunter. Dang).
ALSO THE GREAT ROBERT TAI(choreographer from crippled avengers(a.k.a.-return of five venoms).
Now like I said above, I have a lot of these and knwo actors pretty well, but shen chan is my fav. ever and hwang lee my 2nd. The difference between them is 3 things: shan's fistwork is SECOND TO NONE, his legs aren't quite as limber as hwang's(who's are though?), but in power can only be compared to billy chow. And I know of like a hundred movies with hwang and like 5 with chen shan. Hopefully somebody who knows kung fu will read this and give me at least 1 more movie with him in it or comment on one you have seen. I have always thought he's the best, but man it is sad he didn't star in more movies, and it's also tough to find his stuff cause he only did independent taiwanese kuo and tso-nam stuff. But you will CERTAINLY know him as the baddie form shaolin vs. lama and shaolin temple strikes back.
So the movie kicks off with a woman getting murdered, and a guyser of blood coming out. Nothing to do with the movie, till like an hour in and white brow shows up. So the movie starts with mark lung as the crazy monk much like Sun Jung Chi's crazy monk character in shaolin vs. lama. He needs to get some fighters to stop evil white brow from getting the special kung fu book. He takes along mullet guy and chen shan(no mustache!!!) and stops at a rodside cafe. Not your normal eating stop. The waiters come out to serve doing the most wild flips you have ever seen. Be prepared to see some major undercrnaking, wire use, and reversals. Normally too much of this hampers the action, but this one is so insane it works all too well. So they take along 2 of the waiters(william yen and chiang shieng) and go to train. This is a good showcase for everyone. Sadly chen shan is not shown off as the main star, but evryone is too good not to show them, so bravo joseph kuo. They basically have a ton of crazy and bloody fights and the end I would put slightly above the end of ninja hunter. You just can't beat the long's going at it. Not quite a 5, but all AWESOME fights.
The xenon release is decent. But sadly full screened, and this is one you really need to have widened. The picture quality is fine and a small white fuzzy band appears across the bottom of the screen. Many sctatches and stuff but no distortion, so more than watchable. Didn't test out the 5.1, but it would be the 1st one of theirs that has like really good sound. If you ae a true fu fan, you will have no problem with the picture. And if you know of a better version, that's what this site is for. Enjoy, one heck of a fun movie.
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Summary: Haltingly Poor Film; You don't want to finish it.
Comment: The 2 stars go to the fighting monk and that's all; the rest of the movie is really poor. The 5 fighters couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag and you could care less if all of them are sliced into gong bao ji ding (kung pao chicken). Should be renamed "The 5 Paper Tigers and a annoying girl can ruin your evening."
Seriously- go look at my List "Kung Fu for the Sole" for some great movies- all of which happen to be cheaper than this one.
PS I am usually impressed in Xenon's Digitally remastered DVDs (actually made me buy this one)... but this falls well short in quality and selection.
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Summary: Kung Fu anyone?
Comment: Hello... no, i think i know what eveyones thinking, "just another dull kung fu movie," and "wheres Bruce Lee." Well clear those crab brained mind sets and get ready for the greatest action adventure ever to take place on your TV screen. Watch as the 5 young Kung Fu students learn from the drunk, yet wise, shaolin master, in an array of training sequences that will leave you breathless and asking for more. It also includes the famous "message in a box" kick, that is the most well known scene from all of Kung Fu movies. These masters move so fast that they appear to be flying around the screen, that they'll make your head spin resulting in American Throw Up, Constantly!
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