Executioners From Shaolin

Rating:
Summary: One of the best with Pi May the priest(Lo Lieh White lotus
Review: Here is a Classic Kung Fu Flim of Lo Lieh as the High Priest Bi May or Pi May either name is not important but the kung fu is the very best in Kung fu action .... it all starts with the evil Manchu's Burning down the beloved "Shaolin Temple" and Gordon Master Killer Lu dies in the beganing of this flim what a pity but never the less Hung Se'Qwan the star of this flim wants revenge against the Manchu's but he spends 20 yrs to take on the Man who Killed his teacher The evil Pi' May the priest aka Lo Lieh this is one of the three flims with Lo Lieh as Pi may the priest and the best one of them all Hung se qwan Dies in his epic battle with pi May" but Low and behold "Wing ding " his son takes revenge for his fathers death using the Crane and tiger style Kung ku to defeat Pi May... BUy this flim if you like White Lotus
chief Pi May it belongs in your collection if your serious about Kung Fu.......

Rating:
Summary: What style of Kung Fu is this?!
Review: Oh man! This is one of my all-time fave Kung Fu films. I remember rushing home from my paper delivery route so that I could enjoy the brutal and mind-blasting Kung Fu action-blast that was known as "Action Kung Fu Theatre" on Buffalo 29. This was in the early eighties before uptight network executives sold every last minute of air time to infomercials and dull reality television shows.

If you watch any of the classic Shaw Brothers films today, they will take you back to those golden pre-teen years when late night television exploded with great Kung Fu action.

This film represents the nutty and off the wall best that the Kung Fu films of the seventies genre had to offer. The Shaw brothers created Kung Fu films that were a sort of high water mark from which the genre has never recovered. Crouching Tiger got great reviews from people who don't love Kung Fu films but, the latest wave of " art " Kung Fu films lack the crazy dialogue and over-the-top fight sequences that make films like Exicutioners From Shaolin so amazing. This is Shaw Brothers style Kung Fu! Top notch Kung Fu for real fans of the genre.

Rating:
Summary: What style of Kung Fu is this?!
Review: Oh man! This is one of my all-time fave Kung Fu films. I remember rushing home from my paper delivery route so that I could enjoy the brutal and mind-blasting Kung Fu action-blast that was known as "Action Kung Fu Theatre" on Buffalo 29. This was in the early eighties before uptight network executives sold every last minute of air time to infomercials and dull reality television shows.

If you watch any of the classic Shaw Brothers films today, they will take you back to those golden pre-teen years when late night television exploded with great Kung Fu action.

This film represents the nutty and off the wall best that the Kung Fu films of the seventies genre had to offer. The Shaw brothers created Kung Fu films that were a sort of high water mark from which the genre has never recovered. Crouching Tiger got great reviews from people who don't love Kung Fu films but, the latest wave of " art " Kung Fu films lack the crazy dialogue and over-the-top fight sequences that make films like Exicutioners From Shaolin so amazing. This is Shaw Brothers style Kung Fu! Top notch Kung Fu for real fans of the genre.

Rating:
Summary: Executioners from Shaolin
Review: The second dual between Ho Si Quan and Pai Mai is,
in my opinion, one of the best in cinematic history...
A classic-I remember seeing this on kung fu theater
20 years ago and seeing it in a roomful of my high school
buddies-we still talk about this movie-:)
See it if you like good kung fu movies!!!
...

Rating:
Summary: Good film but poor audio quality
Review: The story is excellent as is the style of kung fu. This film stresses the finding of the weak points on a person in order to defeat him. Lo Lieh as Bai Mei (white eyebrows) is especially good. He has an arrogant attitude that no one can defeat him down to a science.

The audio quality is quite poor however. The dubbing itself is clear though. It is just that they didn't dub everything. So you don't get the grunts and yell in the film, just the oral conversations. So the fight scenes, which would have been very good in the original chinese language version, lost some of its excitement.

I would wait for the original DVD transfer in the original chinese language to come out.

Rating:
Summary: Good film but poor audio quality
Review: The story is excellent as is the style of kung fu. This film stresses the finding of the weak points on a person in order to defeat him. Lo Lieh as Bai Mei (white eyebrows) is especially good. He has an arrogant attitude that no one can defeat him down to a science.

The audio quality is quite poor however. The dubbing itself is clear though. It is just that they didn't dub everything. So you don't get the grunts and yell in the film, just the oral conversations. So the fight scenes, which would have been very good in the original chinese language version, lost some of its excitement.

I would wait for the original DVD transfer in the original chinese language to come out.

Rating:
Summary: Classic
Review: This ranks as one of the best from Shaw Brothers and director Liu Chia Liang. Anyone familiar with "old school" martial arts films knows this movie. Memorable roles of Lo Lieh as the calm and highly-skilled but traitorous Wu Tang priest, Chen Kuan Tai as the legendary Shaolin hero, and Wang Yu as Hung Hsi Kuan's mischievous son. It was great for its time, with a love story between Hung Hsi Kuan and a female Crane Style expert and a war between Shaolin and the Wu Tang and Chings. It also had fascinating displays of Shaolin training techniques. My only complaint is with the DVD sound quality: only half of the sound is audible. It's as if the left sound track was silenced. This is easily confirmed by playing the VHS version at the same time. Lo Lieh's best line: "You're still not good enough to avenge your master." Best fight: Hung Hsi Kuan's second duel with Pak Mei.