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"Liuhe Thousand Hands" is a traditional Hong Kong kung fu film released in 1979, which tells the story of Japanese karate master Ximen Guang (Gao Fei) kicking the museum around the Central Plains, and several humiliated old museum owners offer huge bonuses and appoint the owner of the Great Saint Split Hanging Door Pavilion (Xian LinYu) to find a master to defeat Ximen Guang and rebuild the prestige of Chinese kung fu.
The opening credits take more than five minutes to introduce the main actors and what they are good at. It's a really amazing cast that makes people look forward to this film.
Golden Boy
1. The Golden Boy of The Six-in-Eight Law. He is the Yuan Bin of the "Seven Little Blessings" and won the 2nd Southeast Asian International Wushu Championships in Singapore in 1971.
Li Guanxiong
2. Cai Li Fo Li Guanxiong. Master of Cai Li Buddha, Vice Chairman of Chen Xiang (Founder of Cai Li Buddha) Memorial Association, Owner of Hongsheng Hall in Hawaii. He died in Florida in 1996 at the age of 54.
Zhao Zhiling
"Strange Tricks and Tricks five lucky stars", Zhao Zhiling
3. Hong Fist Zhao Zhiling. The famous Master Zhao has guest starred in many movies and became popular again for playing a girly tailor in "Kung Fu". He is the grandson of Lin Shirong and the president of the Hong Quan International Association.
Chen Xiuzhong
Fourth, loudly chop Chen Xiuzhong. Chen Xiuzhong was the head of the Hong Kong Grand Saint Splitting Hanging Gate. At the age of twelve, he worshiped the Great Sage Sect Master Geng Dehai as his teacher, and did his best to pass on the true tradition, and was known as the Monkey King. He also served as the vice chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese Wushu Association and the chairman of the Hong Kong Kung Fu Association, and trained famous movie stars such as Chen Guantai, Kaohsiung, Huang Qiusheng and so on. He died in February 2020 at the age of 87.
Sin Lin Yu
5. Xian Linyu, a disciple of Chen Xiuzhong. He won the 3rd Southeast Asian International Wushu Championships in Malaysia in 1973 and was then the assistant coach of The Great Saint Split Gate. He is also the master of the famous movie star Qian Xiaohao, and the cousin of Hong Kong drama gold medal Lu Ye Xian Haoying.
Lin Wenwei
"Underworld", Left Sanlin Wenwei
6. Wing Chun Lam Man Wai, winner of the Hong Kong Boxing Championships from 1969 to 1971. Birthday unknown, died in 2019. His last film was Du Qifeng's Underworld in 2005, playing "Fire Bull".
Yang Panpan
7. Yang Panpan, who studied Peking Opera with Pink Chrysanthemum at the Spring and Autumn Drama School, later learned Cai Li Fo from Li Guanxiong, learned karate from Liang Xiaolong, and learned boxing from Dan Yilushandu, and is one of the famous "beating girls" in the Hong Kong film and television circle.
Han Yingjie
"Big Brother Tangshan", Han Yingjie
8. Han Yingjie, senior martial arts finger, son-in-law of "Seven Little Fortune" master Yu Zhanyuan, and "Big boss" in "Big Brother Tangshan". Hong Jinbao, Yuan Kui, Jackie Chan and other members of the "Seven Little Fortunes" entered the film world, and it was also his matchmaking. He died in October 1991 at the age of 64.
Goofy
Mars, goofy
9. Karate flying high. Instructor of Chung Yi Tong in Taiwan, Director of the Hong Kong Karate Association. His career as a filmmaker is known for his villain roles. He died in March 2017 at the age of 65.
In fact, the Dragon and Tiger Martial Masters appearing in this film are far more than these nine.
Chen Shaopeng
The film begins with a contest at the Shaolin Temple. These two seemingly funny old men are actually not simple. The tallest man is the film's martial arts instructor, Chen Shaopeng, whose master is Guo Hongbin, hong Kong's first generation of dragon and tiger martial artists. Chen Shaopeng also has his own martial arts team, Bai Biao, Lu Jungu, Yutou Yun, and Song Jinlai (big and small eyes) are his apprentices. Chen Shaopeng died in 2005 at the age of 72.
The slightly shorter one was Chen Xiuzhong.
The failed monk crossed the Ryukyu Islands and founded the Tang Te Do, the predecessor of karate. This leads to the follow-up story.
Justice Eight
The film devotes a great deal of space to describing the process of gathering people. The team members who joined successively were: Zhao Tianlong (played by Han Yingjie) and his daughter Feng Ying (played by Yang Panpan), Cai Li Fo Liu Zisheng (played by Li Guanxiong), Hong Quan Guan Shanhu (played by Zhao Zhiling), dragon-shaped Moqiao Ma Ruyun (played by Chen Yaolin), Wing Chun Jiang Shangqing (played by Lin Wenwei) and Liuhe Bafa Pei Shaotang (played by Golden Boy).
Casava, Golden Boy
During this period, Li Fayuan, Taishan, Chen Lou, Shan Wei, Han Yisheng, Liang Xiaoxiong, Lin Keming, Yutou Yun and other dragon and tiger martial artists yu guan appeared, and One of the "Four-legged King", Kasava, also made a cameo appearance.
It's hard not to think of the Seven Samurai as an ever-expanding team. Unfortunately, this film is very perfunctory in explaining the origins and personalities of each character, and its ideological and depth cannot be compared with Emperor Kurosawa Akira. Of course, this film is just an assembly line kung fu film, and there is no need to be too demanding.
Every character appears, and naturally there is a fight. Although the participants are all real martial artists and masters of national arts, they are still slightly restrained in front of the camera, and the martial arts instructor Chen Shaopeng has not fully released your true strength.
Gao Fei, Li Guanxiong
When the centaurs gather to meet the villain in the narrow road, Goofy shows his super combat effectiveness. The eight decent people used wheel warfare against him alone, and even used the plot to "step on his toes", but he was still beaten to pieces, either dead or injured. Goofy designed a victory action for Ximen Guang to tidy up his hairstyle, which highlighted the domineering and arrogant nature of the character.
Justice Seven
When Zhao Tianlong was dying, he instructed everyone to integrate each person's strengths into one and pass it on to the only person with a sound body part, Pei Shaotang.
Li Guanxiong, Golden Boy
Golden Boy, Zhao Zhiling
The six masters adjust pei Shaotang, which is the essence of this film. In cai li fo's horse steps alone, there are four flat horses, kneeling horses, hanging horses, winding silk horses, walking horses, stealing horses, and lifting horses; in addition to the standard bullets of the technique, the dragon shape is heavy and fast, swallowing and floating, sinking and sinking, sinking elbows and falling arm; it is also supplemented with forcing steps, forward bows and back arrow horses, oblique out horses, oblique horses, and sheep horses; Wing Chun fist methods have blocks, stalls, whisks, arrows, and inches, and the mouth technique is "to stay and send, throw hands forward"; the twelve-character recipe of Hong Fist is "rigid, soft, forced, straight, divided, fixed, inch, lifting, flowing, transporting, system, and fixing"... The masters poured out their money to teach each other, and it can be said that they were full of dry goods.
The training process is full of hardships. The Golden Boy showed his excellent "Boy Skills", flashing and moving, groping and rolling, all of which were personally involved, whether it was physical fitness or learning ability, it was first-class.
Goofy, Golden Boy
But with all duel, the final duel, if you ignore the protagonist's aura, seems to have a better chance of winning. Of course, the invincibility of evil is the eternal theme. Pei Shaotang, who gathered the heads of the family, carried forward the kung fu of "stepping on the toes" and won the match point. In the end, he kicks Ximen Guang into the water, and the film stops abruptly.
That's all there is to it. The plot is simple, the production is rough, and it is rare that so many martial arts masters are gathered, just watching the fight is still OK. But to be honest, although the golden boy is the first male protagonist, the real dazzling soul figure is the villain Gao Fei. His nearly ten minutes of continuous fighting with one enemy and eight victories is simply a spectacle in the history of kung fu films, whether it is the action design or the performance of the actors, it is amazing, friends who like kung fu movies should not miss it.
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