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Five Shaolin Masters (1974)
少林五祖
- Year
- 1974
- Art
- Kung fu
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Director
- Chang Cheh
- Cast
- Ti Lung, David Chiang, Alexander Fu Sheng, Wang Lung-wei
- Running time
- 110 min
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis: TMDB
Why it matters
“Five Shaolin Masters” is a 1974 film directed by Chang Cheh (Hong Kong). Starring Ti Lung, David Chiang and Alexander Fu Sheng. It belongs to kung fu cinema’s golden decade, when Hong Kong studios such as Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest took Chinese martial arts to the world. To learn about the art itself, see our Kung fu page.
Official trailer
Official channel: Shaw Brothers Clips · YouTube (youtube-nocookie)
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Sources
- Wikidata: Q644691 (CC0)
- TMDB: 41383 — Poster: TMDB, Synopsis: TMDB
- Official trailer: Shaw Brothers Clips
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Film data: Wikidata (CC0) and TMDB.