Five Shaolin Masters

Five Shaolin Masters
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Directed by	Chang Cheh
Produced by	Run Run Shaw
Starring	David Chiang Ti Lung Alexander Fu Sheng Chi Kuan Chun Meng Fei Wang Lung Wei
Distributed by	Shaw Brothers Studio
Release dates	25 December 1974 (1974-12-25)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Mandarin

5 Shaolin Masters aka 5 Masters Of Death is a 1974 Shaw Brothers kung fu film directed by Chang Cheh, with action choreography by Lau Kar Leung and Lau Kar Wing.

The film focuses on Shaolin's historic rivalries with the Qing Dynasty.

Plot

Hu Te et al. escape the burning Shaolin temple after the Qing soldiers destroyed it in Shaolin Temple. The group of 5 decide to develop secret codes to identify fellow patriots, enlist those patriots and eventually meet up again to escape to the south away from the Qings, and also identify the traitor who sold out Shaolin temple. Ma Fu Yi (the traitor, played by Wang Lung Wei), joins the Qing top fighters to eliminate the rebels but is exposed by Ma Chao-Tsing who gets captured by Ma Fu Yi. Hu meets up with a group of Shaolin men secretly posing as bandits to rescue Ma as their leader is killed in the process, thus the bandits join the rest of the Shaolin patriots.

Suffering continuous defeats at the hands of the Qing kung fu experts, the 5 patriots return to the Shaolin temple ruins to perfect their kung fu and take revenge for their destroyed temple and dead comrades.

External links

• Five Shaolin Masters at Hong Kong Cinemagic
• Five Shaolin Masters at IMDb
• Five Shaolin Masters at AllMovie