Killers On Wheels - Great fun, a biker gang terrorise a group of people on holiday on a small island just off Hong Kong. What starts off as just being out of order turns to murder whilst the holidaymakers defend themselves.
Cool poster.
To Kill A Mastermind - Someone is mastering all the deaths of the clan, but who is it? Fantastic stuff, loads of hectic fights, why IVL never released this on DVD I don’t know. Criminal.
Na Cha And The Seven Devils - Wow! What a whole lot of fun, it’s cheesy as hell but extremely enjoyable. Na Cha attempts to shake some peaches that take 1000 years to grow from the tree and they end up falling to earth and eaten by various evil demons making them immortal. Na Cha being an immortal himself must go down to earth and sort them out.
Curse of Evil - Really enjoyed this one, great twist in the tale. Kuei Chih-Hung certainly knows his stuff when it comes to making films like this.
The One-Armed Swordsman - The IVL Blu Ray looks stunning, looking forward to revisiting the other two.
I love a good Shaw Brothers film. I’ve been watching kung fu films since 1978 and the old grindhouse theater days. In the early '80s, a couple of Asian theaters (one Chinese and the other Vietnamese-owned) were also around, that showed them in original language with subtitles. Sometimes I was seeing up to 8 new movies a week; most of them Shaw Brothers, with many independents, and Golden Harvests. Watching Shaw films especially takes me back to those days when I literally saw hundreds of KF films. They also showed many non-kung fu Shaws, such as horror, musical, crime, situational comedy, etc., films
My very favorites include:
Shaolin Martial Arts
Disciples of Shaolin
Heroes Two
Martial Club
Five Superfighters
My Young Auntie
The Kung Fu Instructor
Stroke of Death (AKA, Monkey Kung Fu)
The Magnificent Ruffians
Shaolin Rescuers
Shaolin Avengers
The Kid From Kwangtung
The Treasure Hunters
Wits of the Brats
There’s actually too many to list. I absolutely love Shaolin Martial Arts and Disciples of Shaolin in particular. I feel they had Fu Sheng’s best performances, especially the latter, when he was at his absolute physical peak.
The Kid From Kwangtung is included because it’s my all-time favorite onscreen villain performance from Hwang Jang Lee, who only made a couple of films for Shaws. Yen Shi-Kwan also excels in a supporting role.
Return Of The One-Armed Swordsman the transfer is even nicer than the first film, I prefer it as a film too, much more fun.
Still keeping my IVL DVD’s though for completism.
This looks both funny and stupid at the same time. Is this what’s coming out of Hong Kong nowadays?
Stephen Chow stuff can be very hit and miss. I’d like to see it though as it’s a Journey to The West story.
After thoroughly enjoying the Cheng Pei Pei flick Dragon Swamp a short while ago I felt in the mood for some more sword wielding girl stuff so had myself a 1971 Lily Ho double Bill today.
Lady With a Sword and Jade Faced Assassin. Both were most enjoyable but preferred the former to the latter marginally. I do like these older style heroine led Wuxia Shaws.
The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires… from 1974. It’s co-produced by Hammer Studios, but I decided to put it in the Shaw Brothers thread because it ‘feels’ like a Shaw film. Hammer constructed the interiors, and provided Peter Cushing’s services. -Who is his usual, sensational self as Professor Van Helsing. He and his son are in Chunking on a lecture-tour when a university-student convinces them to help rid his village of a vampire-plague. (The film’s intro depicts a sinister Chinese nomad, Shen Chan, who’s in Romania to reanimate Count Dracula, John Forbes-Robinson.) There’s plenty of kung-fu action throughout. Even Cushing gets into it, wielding a lit torch. But there’s not a lot of thrills or surprises. Still, a very unique film from a production/packaging standpoint.
I also consider it Shaw, it’s in my Shaw area. Same with Shatter and Cleopatra Jones And The Casino Of Gold.
Me. Too. And I may be going out on a limb here, but I also put Blood Money (AKA, The Master and the Gunfighter), starring Lee Van Cleef and Lo Lieh, into that category, even though it’s primarily a spaghetti western. Some of the scenes were filmed at Shaw Studios.
Of course, along with Three Supermen In The Orient and The Bod Squad/Virgins Of The Seven Seas.
A Mad World Of Fools - Silly but enjoyable series of different situations featuring plenty of familiar faces from the Shaw stable, including Wu Ma as a flasher! Some of the tales are hit and miss but mainly enjoyable enough. Plenty of great music cues throughout also.
This might be of interest to you. Carl Scott, the African American star of such Shaw films as Soul Brothers of Kung Fu, has resurfaced and has launched his own official website:
Another deposit in the “whatever happened to…” bank.
Soul Brothers of Kung Fu isn’t a Shaw flick (as far as I know). Ku Feng is in it though.
Ah yeah you’re right. A quick rundown of his filmography reveals that only one of his movies is a shaw production, Sun Dragon aka Hard way to die 1979.
Greetings.
All of Carl Scott’s films (or movie appearances)…
Bruce Lee: The Man, the Myth
Soul Brothers of Kung Fu
Sun Dragon
Kung Fu Executioners
…were by the Eternal Film company.
Besides Ku Feng, another Shaw actor in Soul Brothers was Lo Meng. I believe this movie preceded his Shaw Bros/Chang Cheh films.