If your looking for movies like that don't bother watching this. This type of movie is nothing like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or Iron Monkey. The quality of the DVD has little to do with how I rate these types of movies. There are a 3-4 instances where the sound is turned down during fight sequences, which doesn't really hurt the movie.I rate movies based upon the content, the actors, and costumes and humour. Thumbnail, 5 Superfighters (1979) Cult Movie Theater - Mart (1:35:50) View Thumbnail, Five Superfighters (1979) - Fight Scene (3:12) View Thumbnail, Five. This is quite normal for a movie of this type and any true kung fu movie collector wouldn't worry about this. Many Shaw style training sequences take place during the movie and the students return on their masters birthday to fight the stranger.This is really a great movie to see monkey stlye, I believe these 3 students are in Two Champions of Death and play monkey style fighers hired by the Bad Guys.The DVD quality is what is you can expect from from a dubbed VCR tape to DVD. Unaware of the decision of his students the old master turns to the bottle and stops teaching. Each student vows to find a new teacher and return to fight the stranger in 6 months. Three students of Monkey Style are forced to take revenge for their master when he is beaten up by a stanger. Two sentence or less excerpts and links may be used provided that full and clear credit is given to HT Heroic Times with appropriate and specific direction to the original content."Why its called 5 Super Fighters, I don't know. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. © All content copyright Masai Inc and Heroic Times. A nice little twist, so that ending and the beautifully choreographed fight scenes, and the almost painterly use of color, moves this up to a solid B/B+. This film tackles the origins of Drunken Boxing. However in the end fight you realize that (again huge SPOILER) all throughout the movie he was devising a new style… DRUNKEN BOXING, to beat his unbeatable nemesis. Going so far as to attack his friend when he is drunk. It has received moderate reviews from critics and viewers. Particularly the Teacher, who devolves into a drunk after back to back losses to the Antagonist. Five Superfighters is an Action movie that was released in 1979 and has a run time of 1 hr 35 min. Initially through most of the run-time, the ones seeking revenge come off as petty and mean-spirited as the antagonist of the film. The ending of this film there is a bit of a revelation that raises the film up a notch for me. SPOILER: Read only after viewing the movie…. It is nice to see the traditional steps of making Tofu, which is very much still relatively new in the west.Īdd to that these widescreen remastered prints on Amazon, look WAY better than these films ever looked in the theaters or on TV back in the day, and you have an enjoyable streaming watch for the day. One of the Kung Fu teachers is a woman, and she makes tofu for a living. And there are nice little flourishes in this film from 40 years ago that I haven’t seen before. Nicely filmed, well staged fight scenes, and good editing. It is a common plot in these movies, but this one wastes no time getting to it. Currently watching the Shaw Brothers fun FIVE SUPERFIGHTERS, that starts typically enough, with a guy who styles himself THE CORRECTOR OF BAD KUNG FU :), and he just goes around picking fights with every martial arts school, he comes across.
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