Five Shaolin Masters (1974)
少林五祖
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.
- Date of release
- 1974-12-25
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (36)
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Action, Drama
- Director
- Chang Cheh
Casting
- David Chiang Da-Wei — Hu Te-Ti
- Ti Lung — Tsai Te-Chung
- Alexander Fu Sheng — Ma Chao-Hsing
- Chi Kuan-Chun — Li Shih-Kai
- Mang Fei — Fang Ta-Hung
- Bryan Leung Kar-yan — Chien San
- Fung Hak-on — Chang Chin-Chiu
- Tsai Hung — Pao Yu-Lung, Flying Axe
- Johnny Wang Lung-Wei — Ma Fu-Yi
- Chiang Tao — General Chen Wen-Yao
- Li Chen-Piao — Kao Fung, Iron Face
- Gordon Liu Chia-hui — Chang Yun (cameo)
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