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1 comments about Iron Lion.

1. This riveting film depicts the latter years of the Ming Dynasty and is filled with expert twists and turns of the plot keeping the viewer's attention in full focus from start to finish. The breath-taking artistically filmed scenery and colorful period costumes add a magical quality to the superbly choreographed martial arts fighting which flows naturally within the drama and plot of the film. There is a Lion Dance/Competition sponsored by a wealthy patron held in the city Zhao Qing. The event is very popular among the locals who relish watching the best martial arts fighters compete to win the golden ball. A very well regarded martial arts school and its opposition are the two main contenders for this great honor. The competition is so fierce that illegal gambling is encouraged and sponsored ... to the point of deliberately placing the odds in the favor of one side.
   
   The best fighter of the Liu School of Martial Arts is ambushed and killed. His brother tries to discover who murdered his brother, which was labelled a suicide by a local investigation. The governor's daughter learned martial arts for health reasons and she gets involved trying to improve her skills. Wu, the wealthy patron ensures the gambling scheme is set up in his favor. The second best fighter of the Liu School, Ji Zhi, is viewed as a fierce contender and therefore set up as a thief and arrested ... Wu's daughter Rong, who is blind had attended the previous competition games with her servant. Rong is in love with Ji Zhi and has been for a long time, since childhood. Unexpectedly, the governor's daughter participates in martial arts fighting practice, demonstrating extraordinairy skills, disguised as a young man ... but she is discovered. Tension develops between Rong and the governor's daughter as each has their eyes and hearts set on winning Ji Zhi ...
   
   The two best fighters of the main competing local martial arts schools secretly meet. They vow to be "worthy opponents". They will participate and fight only if the competition is fair and just. Meanwhile, Wu, Rong's father arranges for her to be examined by the best eye doctor of the province in order to cure her blindness. It is exactly around the time when the Lion Competition will take place. Rong manages to convince her father she needs to stay and witness the Lion competition. Unexpectedly, she is nearly kidnapped, by a stranger, someone she knew in the distant past. This event ties together many of the complex plots within the story. This surprise provides a creative and satisfactory twist to an already complex story. Naturally the plot thickens and he is ... of course, discovered and eliminated by Ji Zhi. The Governor's daughter is confronted in a most unexpected manner regarding her romantic feelings for Ji Zhi ... the dilemma is resolved ... without hurt feelings on anyone's side. This film has much depth and easy to miss subplots ... making it almost necessary to view more than once. It is quite amazing to discover how much one missed during the first viewing ... Anyone who enjoys this DVD would likely also appreciate The White Dragon. Erika Borsos [pepper flower]

5 comments about 8 Masters.

1. Star Carter Wong and director Joseph Kuo team up once again for ostensibly the third of three installments of the 18 Bronzemen. While Bronzemen 1 and Bronzemen 2 are heavily laden with 18 Bronzemen confrontations and trips through the cavernous chamber of Bronzemen in spectacular satisfyling choreography and attentive to the mystique and pageantry of the Bronzemen themself, this film seems like the odd man out. The story and characters are different, but thats OK. But after a brief set-up, Carter Wong is in and out of the 18 Bronzemen chamber for good (and he's succussful on the first try) in about 10 minutes in the first 20 minutes of the film. He must "endure" a grand total of about FOUR skills. After this walk in the park, he even earns the coveted honor of carrying out the big burning urn. Whaaaaaah? His bronzemen fights are clumsily and choppily edited without even the gratuitous walking through corridors from one chamber to another. A movie fan who has seen alot of these films would clearly suspect that the whole "bronzemen" sequence came from "outtakes" from the previous 2 films. The bronzemen seqeunce is treated almost dismissively. The remainder of the film deals with the newly disciplined Shaolin student RESISTING challenge after challenge from rival kung-fu masters. Whaaaaaah? This occupies the middle two-thirds of the film. Sound entertaining? Predictably, he does take on the masters in the end in enlivened somewhat satisfying, yet non-memorable, fight seqeunces. So in the end, this is a barely passable Carter Wong flick with some nothing-new fighting of 18 Bronzemen spuriously, shamelessly, and briefly thrown into the film, adding little to the substance or content of the core film.



2. EIGHT MASTERS (1977) is part of the 18 BRONZEMEN series of kung fu films produced in Taiwan by Joseph Kuo. Not exactly a sequel to the previous films in the series (although it was long available only in a ... VHS edition under the title, 18 BRONZEMEN 3), it nonetheless features series regular Carter Wong as a student who undergoes years of training at Shaolin Temple, beginning as a child, and graduates by fighting the 18 Bronzemen in a series of contests. After the first half-hour, the story takes a different turn as Chu Shiao Chieh (Carter) reunites with his now-blind mother and meets Ming Chu (Lung Chun Erh), the girl who's been taking care of her and whom Mom now wants Carter to marry. Unfortunately, the Eight Masters of the title won't let things rest and persist in harassing Carter, demanding a match with him in order to allow them to avenge the death of one of their number at the hands of Carter's father (in a fight seen under the film's opening credits).

   Carter tries to avoid fighting so as to live up to his Shaolin master's admonitions: "Keep the peace; have patience; forgive offense." Eventually it becomes too much for him and he takes on all eight of the masters in a series of furious kung fu fights, all masterfully staged by Wong Fei Lung, who also appears in the role of the chief villain, Tu Lung. Female star Chia Ling has a small but important role as one of the eight and has one great fight scene with Carter. Miss Chia (aka Judy Lee) was one of the greatest of '70s kung fu divas and her appearance elevates the film by a few notches.

   The lead actress, Lung Chun Erh (SHAOLIN INVINCIBLES, THE STOMP), co-stars as Ming Chu and gets plenty of opportunities to emote as she's torn between her growing love for Carter and loyalty to a mysterious "uncle" who keeps appearing at night to demand that she betray Carter. She has some highly emotional scenes, helped considerably by superb English voice dubbing (well above average for the entire cast).

   Ultimately, however, the chief draw of this film remains the abundant kung fu, especially in the nonstop series of final battles. This DVD was made from a high-quality print and superb transfer, suffering only from the lack of letter-boxing, which kung fu films like this so sorely need in order to show off all the fight action. In addition there's an evocative and dramatic original Chinese music score.




3. ,,I do agree with the previous 3 reviewer,,,this flick is a water-down, monday night quarterback, and pre-modonna version of the 18 brondsmen,,,,a poor idea of a sequal. However, don't get me wrong,,,this flick is still a great watch,,,,as it's well choreographed and beautifully put together. The fight scenes are simply amazing,a very tight plot,,,truly an entertaining and brilliant performance by Cater Wong!!



4. Oh My God..., What Can I Say...?! Carter Wong Delivers Everytime. I'm Just So In Awe Of This Movie, I Can't Even Say Much More. You've Gotta Go Get It...!!! Ugh...!!! Carter, You're Simply The Best !



5. Carter Wong's dad is killed by one of the 8 Masters when he is just a little kid. Who are the 8 Masters? They are a bunch of tough guys, I guess. This is a Joseph Kuo movie, so it doesn't have the greatest depth to it. Carter Wong trains his whole life to become a kung fu master, but he doesn't want to fight the 8 Masters once he is grown up. But the 8 Masters really want to fight him, and they end up forcing Carter to fight. This is where the movie gets good. The last 30 or 40 minutes is pretty much nonstop fights. I like Joseph Kuo's method of making Carter Wong look better by speeding the film up. I'm not a big fan of undercranking, but it helps Carter Wong. So if you can make it through the first half of the movie, you are in for a treat in the second half watching Carter Wong fight Judy Lee, Phillip Ko, and many others.
   
   3.5/5
   
   I have this DVD in the Wu Tang 8 Diagram Collection and the picture quality is decent and it's full screen.

3 comments about Ten Tigers of Shaolin.

1. There aren't many name actors in TEN TIGERS OF SHAOLIN (1979), but the performers are all quite good and the fights well staged, culminating in a final battle that takes up the last 25 minutes of an 85-minute film and involves at least two dozen principal players fighting with fists, feet, sticks, knives and swords in an open field.
   
   The lead actor is Bruce Leung, who has fortunately been rediscovered thanks to Stephen Chow's KUNG FU HUSTLE, in which he plays an institutionalized kung fu master known as "the Beast," who is broken out of an asylum to fight the hidden masters of Pig Sty Alley. Leung was quite a busy actor and fight director in the good ol' days of old-school kung fu and it was the 2005 release of KUNG FU HUSTLE which inspired me to seek out his earlier films. In TEN TIGERS, he's one of the title group of kung fu fighters and gets to battle early and often, starting with the opening fight sequence. There are other familiar faces in the solid kung fu cast, although the only other "name" player is Jason Pai Piao (HELL'S WINDSTAFF, SHAOLIN RESCUERS).
   
   The simple plot has to do with the Ten Tigers running afoul of a corrupt official who, at various points, kidnaps one or another of the Ten Tigers' women, prompting a series of escalating encounters culminating in the huge brawl at the end. The action is frequent and furious and certain to please hardcore kung fu fans. And it is a pleasant surprise to see the earlier work of one of the key performers from KUNG FU HUSTLE.
   
   Ground Zero's DVD of TEN TIGERS boasts print quality and a video transfer that are much better than average for this company.



2. AKA 10 Tigers Of Kwangtung.
   
   What I have noticed about this flick,,,it has several names. The original name for this flick is " 10 tigers From Kwangtung",(SEE DETAILS IN GOOGLE.COM) "10 Tigers From Kwingtung",AKA "10 Tigers from shaolin". When this movie was reviewed under the original name," 10 tigers From Kwangtung",it got a 5 star, and when reviewed under the name "10 Tigers from Shaolin",,it only got 3 stars. Now this is a little disconcerting to me as it appears most people, SO CALLED KUNG FU LOVERS tend grade or rate movies, based on what others have to say! That is extremely sad I think, since I usually buy kung fu movies based on my Amazon colleagues!! THIS MOVIE OVER-ALL WAS AMAZING, and deserve nothing less than 5 stars. I recommend it highly!! So those who graded it 3 Stars, are all IDIOTS AND FOLLOWERS,,,,,,I never liked followers, they usually make me ill!!!



3. Not really much of a story here. Basically the Ten Tigers help the common people battle evil kung fu masters. Among the cast of the Ten Tigers are Bruce Leung Siu Lung, Jason Pai Paio, Lau Hok Nin, Han Kwok Choi, Larry Lee and Wong Yuen San. The villains include San Kuai, Charlie Chan and Kong Do. All of the fights are good, and the last 25 minutes is literally nonstop action. I am a big Bruce Leung fan and this is definitely one of his best movies.
   
   4/5
   
   Picture quality is decent and its partly widescreen.

1 comments about Kickboxer From Hell.

1. I bought this movie at the Movie Trading Company for comical value and because it was $3.99, if I could make a deal with the devil it would be to get that 2 hours wasted watching this and the $3.99 back. It was obviously 2, unrelated movies spliced together roughly - one is an Asian horror movie and the other is a home-made kung fu movie which is only about 10 minutes of the 2 hours. THIS MOVIE IS NOT EVEN FUN TO MAKE FUN OF, DO NOT BUY IT!!!

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1 comments about Tai-chi-Chuan: Movements of Power DVD.

1. This DVD teaches the 60 movement "Yang Short Form". It shows the entire form once and then breaks down each movement into classroom training. It seems like it was taped during classes at the teacher's school. The best part of this program is that it shows students making mistakes and being corrected so you can be aware of the mistakes you, too, might make. Each movement is also shown from a rear and side view with instructions on sinking and rising, and when to breathe in and out.

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