BigList
Login / Sign up
Five Shaolin Masters (1974)

Five Shaolin Masters (1974)

Action Drama
Release Date: 1974, December 25
Directors: Chang Cheh
Countries: Hong Kong
Production: Chang's Film Company, Shaw Brothers
Cast: Gordon Liu Chia-Hui, Fung Hak-On, Ti Lung, Eric Tsang Chi-Wai, Lau Kar-Wing, Huang Ha, Law Keung, Jamie Luk Kim-Ming, David Chiang Da-Wei, Bryan Leung Kar-Yan, Chan Dik-Hak, Wong Shu-Tong

Overview:

Hu Te et al. escape the burning Shaolin temple after the Qing soldiers destroyed it in Shaolin Temple. The group of 5 decide to develop secret codes to identify fellow patriots, enlist those patriots and eventually meet up again to escape to the south away from the Qings, and also identify the traitor who sold out Shaolin temple. Ma Fu Yi, joins the Qing top fighters to eliminate the rebels but is exposed by Ma Chao-Tsing who gets captured by Ma Fu Yi. Hu meets up with a group of Shaolin men secretly posing as bandits to rescue Ma as their leader is killed in the process, thus the bandits join the rest of the Shaolin patriots.

Keywords:

fighting martial arts training fistfight shaolin kung fu