5 Fingers of Death

Starring:Lieh Lo, Bolo Yeung, Feng Tien, James Nam, Lam Tung, Chia Yung Liu, Hsia Hsu, Ching Wong, Ha Wong, Min Fong, Chin-Feng Wang, Pei Chi Huang, Fat Tsui, Lin Tung, Chak Lam Yeung, Fei Meng, Choh Lam Tsang, Shun-Yee Yuen, Hung Sing Chung, Ping Wong
Director: Chang-hwa Jeong
Studio: ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS INC.
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

The one and only!!!
Classic Martial Arts 70's style!
Kung Fu Classic
A great classic of the genre
a woman's slant on this movie

5 Fingers of Death
Starring: Lieh Lo , Bolo Yeung , Feng Tien , James Nam , and Hsiung Chiao
Director: Chang-hwa Jeong
Manufacturer: ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMS INC.
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00004TJS4
Release Date: 2000-05-16

Customer Reviews:

The one and only!!!.......2007-03-25

This film is one of the best old skool kung fu flicks ever. But maybe I feel this way about the film because it was the first Shaw Brothers film, hell the first kung fu film i had ever seen. After seeing it, a lifelong love for this sub-genere of movies was born. I must set the record strait and say emphatically that it IS one of the 5 best old skool flicks. The print of this film is presented in a beautiful widescreen format with vibrant color and crystal clear imagery. It is also well dubbed and the story, though simplistic, is neither typical or uninspired. Don't be fooled by the "kung fu snobs" who will tell you that this is just a so-so flick, or that you need to buy a foreign import DVD to "truely enjoy it". This film is the "one and only".

Classic Martial Arts 70's style!.......2007-01-16

Can't beat it. Honor your teacher, honor your school then honor your woman to be...

Kung Fu Classic.......2007-01-10

This was the film that got me interested in Kung Fu films. It was as good as I remembered and I would pit it against some of the films made in recent times.

A great classic of the genre.......2006-11-26

This may have been the first Kung Fu movie I saw. It made a big impression on me at the time. While the martial arts are stagy and the music swiped from American movies and TV (Ironside and Diamonds are Forever) it is a seminal film for it's clever script.

Unlike the hackneyed plots of other such films, this movie throws some real curve balls at you. It also has a delicious villain who is much more clever than we're used to seeing in these movies. Even to this day I find some of the stuff he does disturbing, and I'm pretty jaded at this point. It's all in the nature of his underhanded methods.

The transfer on this DVD isn't that good. But this is an important film in the Kung Fu canon and should not be missed. It's also one of the many influences on Kill Bill 1. Notice the Ironside music and smash zoom close ups in that movie area direct swipe from 5 Fingers of Death.

a woman's slant on this movie.......2006-10-16

I was surprised to see some reviewers give this movie a lukewarm rating--not for the fighting as much as for the movie's plot. I've seen maybe 12 martial arts fliks--fewer than many reviewers, so maybe I'm a bit green. But I thought the plot was FASCINATING, and the acting outstanding. Although the plot features very typical outcomes for the good and the bad guys, and predictable subplots (like the hero's faithfulness to his first girl back home in the little village in spite of the very hot but proper second girl who tempts him),the magic is in the details--we can guess that A will lead to B, but HOW THIS MOVIE GETS FROM A TO B is VERY WELL CRAFTED. As for the acting, the hero truly manages to be subtle at the same time that he is passionate. He shows a nice mix of the old-fashioned vs. the flashy (though still understated) hero. I loved the clever switch from his playing the role of submissive reserved student who crawls out of the bar after being humiliated by the newly arrived fearsome bad guy one day, to his return the next day to the bar in an oustandingly heroic and funny payback scene. The women were stereotyped, but managed to play their roles with that sexy Asian girl grace, and with a sweetness that didn't seem overdone. As for the fighting? Who am I to say, but my eyes feasted. There was always a nice balance between the fighters so that it wasn't obvious till the very end who would win. And the transitions from one fighting scene to the next in the last half hour were done so well, and with such surprising plot twists and drama that I was on the edge of my seat!

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