Return to the 36th Chamber (1980)
Reviewed by: SBates on 2001-03-12
Summary: An Exceptional Film
I am not the biggest fan of later Liu Chia Liang. I love Executioners From Shaolin, Challenge of the Masters, maybe Master Killer, and that's about it; his other films are good but not as great as these. , . This is my favorite post 1979 LCL movie, and one of my favorite kung-fu pictures of all time. A clever comic storyline, Gordon Liu plays off his usual persona as the stern Buddhist monk, and the pace and fighting are terrific, the best Liu had done to that point. One of the smartest kung fu comedy films; a far cry ffrom the illiterate slapstick the genre usually provides. .
This was in my opinion his last good movie, with the exception of Legendary Weapons of China.