Do you enjoy old Kung Fu films?

[samurainoir]

I've been rewatching a pile of old school kung fu films lately.... youtube is a treasure trove.

Crippled Avengers! (AKA the Return of the Deadly Venoms) Full movie here:

[samurainoir]

it was unrelated to the original 5 Deadly Venoms other than the same cast.

trailer:

[Duncan]

They were called Venom Mob. I stumbled across this last year when looking up 5 Deadly Venoms. Kind of cool...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venom_Mob

[nvmbrsdoom5]

Oh I love these films, I still watch them whenever I get the chance!

FIVE DEADLY VENOMS, as others have already mentioned here, is a classic and is probably my favorite. I've watched it so many times I can quote the (poorly done) English dialogue!

THE RETURN OF THE 5 DEADLY VENOMS is really good too. I think it actually has a bit better of a storyline to follow than it's predecessor, but overall it's not as good as the original.

EAGLE'S CLAW and THE KID WITH THE GOLDEN ARM are two other favorites of mine, if you're into these kinds of flicks I highly recommend them! They're viewable on YouTube

[samurainoir]

Nah, it was colour and shot on video, looked late 70s. Seemed to follow a bunch of Ronin around. I never made heads or tails of it but channel choices being what they were I had to watch a lot of MTV.

MTV was "Multicultural Television" here until they changed their name to CFMT in the middle 80s. They played a lot of Chinese and Italian movies including some really dirty ones late at night. I'm pretty sure their main audience were english speaking high school boys....

I thought it was the funniest thing when I went to film school, and took a course which had a Fellini section in it. Turned out I had seen a number of them under the guise of Dirty Italian Movies on CFMT as a kid (SCTV had that great sendup of them at one time as well).

I was hanging out with my dad this morning and asked him what the Chinese Kung Fu show was that he watched religiously for years in the evenings during the early 80's on CFMT. "Tien Can Bian" AKA Reincarnated.

This theme song brought it all back for me when I googled it just now.

[palitoy]

I thought it was the funniest thing when I went to film school, and took a course which had a Fellini section in it. Turned out I had seen a number of them under the guise of Dirty Italian Movies on CFMT as a kid (SCTV had that great sendup of them at one time as well).

Yeah, they particularly nailed it when they dubbed the children's voices with shrill adult women.

I was hanging out with my dad this morning and asked him what the Chinese Kung Fu show was that he watched religiously for years in the evenings during the early 80's on CFMT. "Tien Can Bian" AKA Reincarnated.

This theme song brought it all back for me when I googled it just now.

That's it, I should have just asked you. I used to leave this on as background noise, I preferred it over "Sha-Na-Na"

[Blue Meanie]

Two words...Shaw Brothers. Nuff Said. I LOVED!!! Saturday afternoon Kung Fu Theater here in NY on channel 5 WNYW. From about 1PM - about 5PM it was nothing but Kung Fu Theater.

[samurainoir]

That's it, I should have just asked you. I used to leave this on as background noise, I preferred it over "Sha-Na-Na"

I had forgotten about it until your prompt in this thread tweaked my memory of it. If I'm remembering correctly, it played on Saturday nights, before the chinese late night news program, and then the Italian movie would play after that closer to midnight?

This show was a huge hit in Hong Kong and it lagged behind a few years or so when it played on TV here in Canada (kinda like Doctor Who). We'd visit Hong Kong and watch much newer shows in the series, which felt a bit like looking into a crystal ball without the context of the year or so worth of episodes in between.

With VHS coming on the scene in the 80's, my parents started renting bootlegs from chinese video stores to watch the episodes unaired in Canada.

I don't remember much about the show, but the big shockers was when the lead actor was replaced by another actor partway through the series. In a "Regeneration" premise, not unlike Doctor Who.

[El Hombre Nuclear]

This is going way off topic here, but you guys talking about those "Dirty Italian Movies" reminds me of something. When I was a teenager, my friends and I used to raid the local video stores late at night on weekends for the weirdest, lewdest looking stuff we could get away with and then go back and watch them all until passing out at around 5 AM. One time (circa 1988), we found this sleazy looking thing called "Naughty Coeds". We figured it would just be your typical Cinemax style affair, but it turned out to be much, much weirder. Dubbing that was so out of sync that entire lines of dialog were spoken before the actor's mouths had even moved, outbursts of crazed, shrieking laughter out of nowhere, disorienting sudden camera shifts, bizarre sound effects that seemed to have no on-screen source, etc. We were all flabbergasted and rented it over and over until it disappeared from the store one day and never returned. Years later, I found out it was a heavily edited US version of some crazed early/mid '70s German porno series called "Schulmadchen Report". It haunts me to this day...

[Blue Meanie]

Watched this last night and it brought me back to that 13 year old kid that used to watch Kung Fu Theatre on Channel 5 here in NY:



Found it at a thrift store for $2. Never even played. Don't know if it is original or a bootleg. It is in Widescreen and it has a trailer for Crippled Avengers I think.

[MysteryWho]

"A Violent Confrontation of Super Powered Martial Artists" That's my jam!
I've been watching a lot of this stuff lately. So far I haven't seen anything I like better than the Shaw stuff, although I'm sure there must be non-Shaw goodies that are in that wuxia style. Also really getting into Peplum, they are so much fun.

[toys2cool]

when I was like 6 and there was nothing else on tv I did

[samurainoir]

Had the pleasure of seeing Snake in Eagle's Shadow on the Big Screen as Kung Fu Fridays returned to Toronto after a long absence.



Gonna catch one of my fave's, Master of the Flying Guillotine in a couple of weeks.