The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978)
Reviewed by: battlemonkey on 1999-12-21
A movie with lots and lots of training, but in a good way. A young man named Liu Yu Te (Chia Hui) escapes to Shaolin temple after his family is massacred by Manchu soldiers. For the next hour of the film (it is nearly two hours long), Yu Te trains as a Shaolin monk. After he has done this for years, he goes out to recruit more soon-to-be famous monks and kill the people who murdered his family. An amazing movie. The training scenes are incredibly inventive and fun, and the fights are superb. This is probably the most well-known and successful martial a rts film outside of Asia, and excluding the obligatory Bruce Lee films. Rightfully so, as the film is great.