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Shaolin temple

posted 20 years ago by jvadot
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I have a wonderful recollection of this kung fu movie : the way each warrior is slowly trained is awsome. One must jump with heavier and heavier weights on his ankle till he can jump over the wall. Each of them must wait before the temple gate, seated, without anything to eat or drink until the gate opens. The movie is interesting and powerful.
I can't wait till somebody at last issues a DVD version of this memorable feature, i'm ready to pay a nice sum to get this jewel.
Jack, France.

[–] hartono 20 years ago

Man, I just bought this DVD on-line from Hong Kong. Try dddhouse.com for newly remastered Shaw Brothers DVD's. The picture is nice (my only complaint: it is letterbox, not anamorphic; they issue anamorphic DVD's for all later batches of Shaw Brother movies).

[–] Green-Eyed-Girl31 9 years ago

This is a very late comment in reply to yours but in case you are still interested they are showing it on the "ElRey" channel (and uncut!) via Bright House Cable. I happened upon it this morning and though I don't usually get into Kung Fu movies, I am really enthralled and cannot wait to see how it all plays out! It's up to the point now where the one guy that had been being lazy and just "getting along" has been being harassed by this one bully fighter and he's now starting to step up and really try. Very cool!

"You met me at a very strange time in my life"

[–] ustayherepenny 9 years ago

It's also on Netflix but I'll be honest, i got as far as the part where the woman was protecting the lambs and turned it off, it looked like the lambs were genuinely suffering and I'm getting a bit intolerant of that stuff in my old age, shame because i love me some kung fu.

[–] The_BIFTAs 8 years ago

Different film. Same title. No animals in this, wouldn't watch that other one from 1982 for the same reason.

[–] santosreyesgar-sr 8 years ago

It's on el rey network watching rt now august 28th 2016 awesome flick