Martial Arts Movie Where Guy Rips Someones Nuts Off
| Executioners from Shaolin | |
|---|---|
 Hong Kong theatrical poster | |
| Directed past | Lau Kar-leung |
| Written by | Kuang Ni |
| Produced by | Run Me Shaw |
| Starring | Chen Kuan-tai Li-Li Li Wong Yue Lo Lieh Gordon Liu |
| Cinematography | Yun-Cheng Lo |
| Edited by | Hsing-Lung Chiang |
| Music past | Yung-yu Chen |
| Distributed by | Shaw Brothers Studio |
| Release date | 16 Feb 1977 |
| Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Languages | Mandarin Cantonese |
Executioners from Shaolin or Hung Hsi Kuan is a 1977 Shaw Brothers kung fu picture show based on the life of Hung hsi Kuan directed by Lau Kar-leung. It is released as Shaolin Executioners exterior of Hong Kong and as Executioners of Death in North America.
The flick is a multi-generational story of revenge pitting the disciples of Shaolin temple against the historical figure of Pai Mei, founder of Pai Mei kung fu.
Later on, the movie was released on DVD by Dragon Dynasty.
Plot [edit]
Opening crawl: "Having learned that the revolutionaries were using Shaolin Temple equally an undercover, the Manchurian Count ordered Priest Pai Mei and his top disciple Kao Tsin Chung, Governor of Kwangtung and Kwangsi, to raid the shaolin Temple. They surrounded the Temple and gear up burn down to it. In an attempt to rescue his disciples, Priest Chi Shan enter into a crucial duel with Priest Pai Mei."
The title scene is a battle between Pai Mei and Master Chi Shan in an empty blood-red backdrop (this blazon of opening is a trademark of managing director Lau Kar-leung). Here we go the first display of Pai Mei's mastery of internal kung-fu techniques that allow him to retract his privates into his groin. After using his body protection techniques to ward off a clawing set on to the confront, he traps a kick to the groin from Master Zhishan and delivers his own coup de grâce.
Principal Zhishan's vision blurs as the scene changes to a more realistic scene of the aftermath of the temple's destruction. Pai Mei's protégé, area governor Kao Tsin-chung (Kong Do) and his army, chase the fleeing ex-students of Shao Lin. Tung Chin-mentum, (Gordon Liu) after watching waves of other students fall to the pursuing ground forces'southward arrows, makes a heroic last stand up to divert their attention. He falls to a hail of arrows, crushing the throats of the soldiers he is closest to. Information technology is left to Hung Hsi-Kuan to lead the remaining students to safety.
They join an afoot opera group which travels from town to town on iconic ruddy junks equally a front end for anti-Qing forces. Along the way he encounters the comely Wing Chun (Lily Li), herself a master of the Crane style. Together, they have a son, whom both of them train. When area governor and educatee of Pai Mei, orders the devastation of the cherry-red junks, the couple retreat to a modest dwelling house where they raise their son (Wen-Ding) and Hong begins mastering the Tiger way of kung fu in preparation for challenging Pai Mei.
After a decade of training, Hsi-Kuan goes to face Pai Mei, defeating several of his henchmen before retreating from his temple stronghold. Along the way, he discovers Pai Mei's weakness: he's vulnerable betwixt one and 3 o' clock. Hung trains with renewed zeal on a sophisticated life-size bronze dummy fitted with grooves representing acupuncture meridians forth its surface. By releasing a vessel in the head, metal balls pour along these grooves and so that he can snatch them to train his speed and accurateness. Still, he refuses to integrate his wife's Crane style, to his ultimate detriment.
In the concluding act, Hung goes to face Pai Mei at his temple once once more. He uses his training in vital point hitting to take hold of Pai Mei off-guard. But once more, he gets his foot trapped in Pai Mei's groin. Pai Mei tells Hung that he moves his vulnerable signal up and downward at will. After incapacitating Hung, Pai Mei tells the governor to keep him live, only for Hung to kill the governor as he comes nearly. Pai Mei kills him with a swift merely powerful blow.
Wen-Ding returns to avenge his father'south expiry having been forced to synthesize his father'south Tiger fashion with the crane style his female parent taught him. Once once more, he besides lands in boxing with Pai Mei, getting his foot trapped in Pai Mei's groin. But when Pai Mei goes to break Wen-Ding's leg, he jumps on Pai Mei's shoulders piggyback-style. Wen-Ding rips off Pai Mei's topknot, smashes him on the now unprotected crown of his head and, equally his optics are startled open up, blinds him with a brutal dual jab in the eyes. They both tumble down the temple steps as the ending explains, "A combination of Tiger and Crane kung fu is what finally killed Pai Mei."
Reception [edit]
Marking Pollard of Kung Fu Movie theater calls the film an "essential erstwhile school classic", but the reviewer at LoveHKFilm.com says Executioners from Shaolin is "so-so".[ane] [2]
References [edit]
- ^ Pollard, Marker (xi November 2007). "Movie Reviews: Executioners from Shaolin". Kung Fu Movie theatre. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2008.
- ^ Sanjuro (2004). "Reviews: Executioners from Shaolin". LoveHKFilm.com.
External links [edit]
- Executioners from Shaolin at Hong Kong Cinemagic
- Executioners from Shaolin at IMDb
- Executioners from Shaolin at AllMovie
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executioners_from_Shaolin
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