Tien-Chi Cheng
Five Elements Ninjas
The “Venoms” were no more. After five years and more than a dozen films together, the only one of the original five who proved so successful for the director was the muscleman Lo Meng. But with just that one “venom” and his incredibly agile new star Cheng Tien-chi, he made this spectacular, internationally popular, favorite. Evil ninjas (who attack with, and from, fire, sun, wood, water, and the ground) brutally slaughter a noble Chinese kung-fu school’s students. The one survivor finds a teacher and four students who are ninjitsu experts. The five graduates take revenge. With this strong structure and exceptional kung-fu choreography (from the star and co-star Chu Ke), Chang Cheh produced platinum. This film was one of the director’s best of his superheroic, grand guignol period. By any name, it could be called, almost literally, “bloody good” entertainment!
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The Fearless Hyena
Unge Lung viser talent, men tar ikke treningen på alvor. Farfaren hans, som er shaolinmester, prøver å lære ham både disiplin og kampkunst, men det skal ta en stund før han tar det til seg. I stedet for å fokusere på treningen, bruker han tiden på barer og gambling, og havner ikke så sjelden i gateslagsmål. Når den onde klanlederen Yam ser Lung slåss, kjenner han straks igjen teknikken fra en rivaliserende klan han har møtt tidligere, og plutselig er Lungs farfar i umiddelbar fare. Fearless Hyena er Jackie Chans regissørdebut, og han skrev selv manuset med sin mester Wei Lo.
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Shing Lung bor i en avsidesliggende landsby sammen med bestefaren som lærer ham Kung-Fu. Han havner stadig i slagsmål, selv om bestefaren hans advarer ham om å ikke vise deres Kung-Fu til andre.
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The Weird Man
The Water Margin, Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms are China's most famous literary classics. After director Chang Cheh's film adaptations of the first two classics wowed audiences, Chang completed the circle with The Weird Man, a bizarre variation of Romance Of The Three Kingdoms. Besides Cheng Tien-chi, who starred in Jackie Chan's Fearless Hyena, Chang uses a cast of unknowns and gives the story a ghostly-horror edge. Chang is known for his lone swordsman and hero movies and strangely The Weird Man still reflects this. Cheng plays a righteous, beheaded priest with supernatural powers that returns from the dead to wreak havoc against one of the corrupt kingdoms, making Cheng a heroic "swords-ghost". It is insane sanity to the maximum degree, a must see film.
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House of Traps
It all started with The Five Venoms, the internationally loved kung-fu thriller which introduced director Chang Cheh’s recurring cast of martial arts masters. It continued through more than a dozen high-flying, bloody good entertainment movies featuring the same action actors in pairs, trios, quartets, and, most memorably, quintets. While this is considered the last official “Venoms” movie, what a film it is. The title does not lie: an evil prince has secreted stolen imperial treasures in a building that practically bristles with booby-trapped blades. Bodies are pierced, limbs are cut off, and there’s one plasma-spurting attack after another as heroes and rogues alike try to solve the secrets of the hell house. The core Venoms themselves choreograph the gory fun in this fond farewell to their worldwide film series sensation.
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Chang is renowned for his iconic roles in lone swordsman and hero-themed films, and intriguingly, "The Weird Man" continues to showcase this trend. In this movie, Cheng portrays a virtuous priest who tragically loses his head but gains supernatural abilities upon his resurrection. He uses these newfound powers to unleash chaos upon one of the corrupt kingdoms, effectively becoming a heroic spectral swordsman.
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