Shaolin Temple

Shaolin Temple (1976)

少林寺

There is no place more hallowed in the martial art world than China's Shaolin Temple. This special place deserves a special epic, which is what the martial arts maestro delivers in this battle between a brave brand of Chinese boxers and literally thousands of Qing troops - complete with betrayals, intrigues, and such novel fighting machines as 108 wooden robots. The conflicts grow in complexity, intensity and even suspense as monks struggle to stay alive in the face of overwhelming odds.

Date of release
1976-12-22
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (38)
Runtime
2h 6m
Genres
Action, Adventure
Director
Chang Cheh
Collection
Shaolin Temple (1974) Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Shaolin Temple, a.k.a. Death Chamber, is a Shaw Brothers film directed by Chang Cheh. It is one of the Shaolin Temple themed martial arts films and concerns their rebellion against the Qings, with an all-star cast featuring the second and third generations of Chang Cheh's stable of actors including David Chiang, Ti Lung, Alexander Fu Sheng and Chi Kuan Chun, as well as cameo appearances by several of the actors that would later become collectively known as the Venoms mob. The film serves as a pseudo-prequel to Five Shaolin Masters.

Production

Shaolin Temple was the first film made by director Chang Cheh about the destruction of the Henan monastery without the action choreographer Lau Kar-leung.

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