Chinese Odyssey: Pandora's Box/ ai yau gei:Yut gwong bou HapTo subscribe to or rate a podcast, you must be logged in. To showcase his incredibly agile new star, Cheng Tien-chi, veteran, venerated martial arts movie director Chang Cheh made this spectacular, internationally popular, favorite about evil ninjas and the five Chinese kung-fu masters who beat them at their own game. The production values are also pretty solid for this kind of movie, even though it's clear that the "outdoor" sequences are actually on a soundstage. Director Chang Cheh reunites the Five Venoms in his second biggest cult hit in the West. Gordon Liu Chia-hui reprises his famous Monk San Te role as he tries to support and protect Shaolin her Fang Shih-yu who purposely attacks corrupt Ching officials.
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The script does have a few patches that while I won't say are boring, do come off as kind of padding and may have you mildly urging the movie to get on with it. Starring Cheng Tien Chi, Lo Mang, Lung Tung-Sheng and the ever cool/sinister Michael Chan as the evil video game boss. The storyline hurls the audience headlong into a steadily-paced array of bizarre fighting techniques, exotic weaponry and frequent outbreaks of gory hand-to-hand combat. An assassin, trained in the use of a throwing weapon that can behead its victims from a distance, questions the morality of his missions and becomes a fugitive hunted by his former comrades.
Distrustful of her, Hao accuses her of hiding his weapon when she cleans his bedroom and demands to taste-test the soup that she has poisoned before letting her serve it to Zeng; to maintain her cover, she intentionally drops it. Action Five Element Ninjas is a legend amongst fans of Asian cult fare and for once, the legend lives up to the hype. The Wu Tang chief sends out his men, each of whom is given a symbol so they can recognize each other. Zeng's student Liang Zhi Sheng defeats the samurai, but before the samurai commits suicide, he warn
As the four Chinese ninjas face off against him, he sneaks leg shackles onto Hao. but the actual methods used are so off the wall that no fan will care. Hao easily detects her, but when he also sees the ninjas, he accuses Senji of trying to trap him and kills her. Together the four pupils face the Five Element Ninja challenge: Wood, Earth, Gold, Water, and Fire. It's Lo Meng's most memorable performances whose showdown with fellow Venom Kuo Chue is artistically violent while being graphically artsy. ENTER CITY, STATE OR ZIP CODE GO.
Now well-trained in ninjutsu and aware of the ninjas' trickery, Hao and his fellow martial arts students easily defeat the Japanese ninjas. The Shaw Brothers 1982 Five Element Ninjas is chock-a-block full of fists, flips, swords and one of the more wince inducing injuries we've seen for a while. The one survivor finds a teacher and four students who are ninjitsu experts.
When five ninjas whose fighting styles are based on natural elements unleash their fury on a rival school, a lone survivor vows deadly revenge. A young martial artist seeks revenge on the Ninja who kills his martial arts brothers and teacher. Fandango FANALERT® Sign up for a FANALERT® and be the first to know when tickets and other exclusives are available in your area.
Hong agrees, and Mudou sends a female spy, Senji, to infiltrate the school. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. The five graduates take revenge. Hao delivers a challenge to Mudou, who sends Senji to spy on Hao and report who his new master is; he also sends four ninjas to spy on Senji herself.