Five Shaolin Masters

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Summaries

Five students escape from the destruction of their beloved Shaolin Temple...now each must take revenge and train in their own seperate fighting styles...they will become The Five Shaolin Masters!!

The story is simple (Shaolin vs. Manchu traitors), but the effect was anything but, as the screen's most charismatic action actors team with a legendary director and revered choreographers (Liu Chia-liang and brother Liu Chia-yung) for scenes of unparalleled power.—Celestial Pictures

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Keywords
  • revenge
  • violence
  • martial arts action
  • escape
  • kung fu classic
Genres
  • Action
  • Drama
Release date Dec 24, 1974
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin Hong Kong Taiwan
Language Mandarin
Filming locations Hong Kong, China
Production companies Shaw Brothers Chang's Film Company

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 49m
Color Color
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

Synopsis

Hu Te escapes 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 (the traitor, played by Wang Lung Wei), 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.

Suffering continuous defeats at the hands of the Qing kung fu experts, the 5 Shaolin patriots return to the temple ruins to perfect their kung fu and take revenge for their destroyed temple and dead comrades.

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