Monday, June 20, 2011

Five Superfighters (1983, HK)

Starring: Kuang Hsiung, Hau Chiu-Sing, Austin Wai, Wong Mei-Mei. Directed by: Lo Mar

This is one of the lesser-known movies from Shaw Bros, and one that was filmed on a relatively low budget.

In "Five Superfighters", a wandering kung fu master (Kuang) with a huge ego comes to a Chinese town, goes to the local monkey kung fu school, and gives the sifu (Hau) and his students a pretty bad beating as a way to "correct their bad kung fu."

The sifu, feeling humiliated and worthless, quickly takes to the bottle. One night his students quietly leave him to learn better kung fu skills from other masters and promise to return after six months to defeat the wandering master.

One student goes to a poor crippled old man, the other a widow (Wong), and the third student a fisherman. All three are kung fu experts, but can they teach the young men the skills they will need to restore honor to their school and redeem themselves and their master?

This movie has some awesome, high-octane kung fu action throughout that will blow you away! The scenes with Wong Mei-Mei and Jamie Luk (the fisherman) are particularly amazing to watch and of course, the movie's main protagonist is every bit as good as he says.

If you can find a copy of this movie, this is a minor Shaw Bros. classic that you won't want to miss!

Also known as: Tong San ng foo (original Cantonese title-HK), Tang shan wu hu (original Mandarin title-HK), The Drunken Fighter/Superfighters (unknown English titles), Das Schlitzohr mit dem Dampfhammer (West Germany), Los cinco superluchadores (Spain), Bruce Lee lotta di titani/I maestri del kung-fu (Italy)

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