Spiritual Kung Fu

Original title: Quan jing

1978
PG
1h 39m

IMDb RATING

5.8/10

2.6K

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Kung Fu Martial Arts Action Comedy Fantasy Mystery

A goofy student is taught a lost martial art style by five ghosts.A goofy student is taught a lost martial art style by five ghosts.A goofy student is taught a lost martial art style by five ghosts.

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IMDb RATING

5.8/10

2.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
Along with Dragon Fist (1979), this movie was filmed in early 1978. As Wei Lo's studio went bankrupt, they shelved both movies due to cost-cutting measures and Chan was loaned out to Seasonal Films for a two-picture deal. While there, he made Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978) and Drunken Master (1978) with Woo-Ping Yuen. The success of these two movies at the domestic box-office prompted Lo to give belated releases to this movie and Dragon Fist (1979).

Goofs
When one of the ghosts tease Yi-Lang with the candle it is clear that there is a pane of glass between Yi-Lang and the candle because there is a clear reflection of that candle visible on-screen.

Alternate versions
In at least the Mandarin, French and English export versions, Ya Long is knocked out with a chop to the neck. In the Cantonese version, he is knocked out with poison.

Connections
Edited into Fearless Hyena 2 (1983)

Soundtracks
Beat
(theme of the Masters of the Five Fists)
Performed by Kitaro

Jackie taught kung fu from five skirt-wearing fairies!

A sacred manual of the Seven Fist technique is stolen from the legendary Shaolin temple, and the only style good enough to conquer it, the Five Fists, has long since vanished. Thankfully a meteor hits the temple walls, unearthing the spirits of the Five Fists style, who summarily teach their deadly animal kung fu to lazy student Jackie Chan, so that maybe he can help when the Seven Fist thief strike again. What makes this Lo Wei adventure so endearing is the shoddy special effects with Star Wars released the year before, Spiritual Kung Fu plainly outlines how behind the times HK was in their effects department (the meteor is a sparkler on a piece of string), and the flame-haired, hula-skirt wearing superimposed ghosts do retain a certain charm despite the cheapness.