Arguably the director's best-loved movie, there's no argument about just how exciting and fun this super-fight film is. The plot is thrilling simplicity: an old medicine seller and his three apprentices learn Chinese, crane, pole, and drunken fighting to defeat an arrogant bully. When kung-fu film fans see the title Five Superfighters, they know they're going to see one of director John Lo Mar's best flat-out, fight-filled, non-stop minimal martial arts masterpieces. Thumbnail, 5 Superfighters (1979) Cult Movie Theater - Mart (1:35:50) View Thumbnail, Five Superfighters (1979) - Fight Scene (3:12) View Thumbnail, Five. Region 0 (ALL REGION PLAY / NO REGION CODE) - NTSC Format *CUSTOM DVD* This is one of director John Lo Mar’s best flat-out, fight-filled, non-stop minimal martial arts masterpieces. Two sentence or less excerpts and links may be used provided that full and clear credit is given to HT Heroic Times with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.AKA: The Drunken Fighter Five Super Fighters The Super Fighters Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. © All content copyright Masai Inc and Heroic Times. A nice little twist, so that ending and the beautifully choreographed fight scenes, and the almost painterly use of color, moves this up to a solid B/B+. This film tackles the origins of Drunken Boxing. However in the end fight you realize that (again huge SPOILER) all throughout the movie he was devising a new style… DRUNKEN BOXING, to beat his unbeatable nemesis. Going so far as to attack his friend when he is drunk. Watch Five Superfighters Three young martial arts students and their teacher are beaten up badly by a wandering man who proclaims himself a corrector of. Particularly the Teacher, who devolves into a drunk after back to back losses to the Antagonist. Initially through most of the run-time, the ones seeking revenge come off as petty and mean-spirited as the antagonist of the film. In comes 5 Superfighters, a high-octane kung fu flick from the Shaw bros. The ending of this film there is a bit of a revelation that raises the film up a notch for me. SPOILER: Read only after viewing the movie…. Three young martial arts students and their teacher are beaten up badly by a wandering man who proclaims himself 'a corrector of bad kung-fu. The bare storyline is about a crazy, black-garbed kung fu fighter who travels around the land, 'correcting' the kung fu of people he meets, which. It is nice to see the traditional steps of making Tofu, which is very much still relatively new in the west.Īdd to that these widescreen remastered prints on Amazon, look WAY better than these films ever looked in the theaters or on TV back in the day, and you have an enjoyable streaming watch for the day. FIVE SUPERFIGHTERS is a serviceable kung fu flick from the Shaw Brothers stable, very much one of their lesser-budgeted productions but nonetheless a film which proves to be reasonably enjoyable. One of the Kung Fu teachers is a woman, and she makes tofu for a living. And there are nice little flourishes in this film from 40 years ago that I haven’t seen before. Nicely filmed, well staged fight scenes, and good editing. It is a common plot in these movies, but this one wastes no time getting to it. Three kung-fu students search for new masters after theirs is beaten be a wandering man. Currently watching the Shaw Brothers fun FIVE SUPERFIGHTERS, that starts typically enough, with a guy who styles himself THE CORRECTOR OF BAD KUNG FU :), and he just goes around picking fights with every martial arts school, he comes across.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |