Moonlight Sword & Jade Lion

Starring:Tao Wong, Angela Mao, Luo Hui Shaw, Sam Yuen, Chiang-lung Wen, Chung-erh Lung
Director: Karl Liao
Studio: Crash Cinema Media
Product Type: DVD

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Save yourself the trouble and get the Crash Cinema version of Bloody Fists

Moonlight Sword - Jade Lion/ The Bloody Fists (Martial Arts Classics Double Feature)
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B000ION24O
Release Date: 2007-01-02

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MIDNIGHT SWORD & JADE LION: The trailblazing "Lady Kung Fu" ? Mao Yin (aka Angela Mao, from Enter the Dragon) ? stars in this sword-clanging, fist-flying tale of a heroic quest set in a China of generations ago. Highlights include Mao Yin's astonishingly acrobatic dispatching of a threatening gang and a table-flinging, gravity-defying melee in a rural dumpling house. Wow! BLOODY FISTS: If there's a name synonymous with dazzling martial arts sequences, it's Yuen Wo Ping, whose astonishing fight choreographies fill The Matrix and Kill Bill movies plus numerous overseas productions like this thrilling classic rumble. The story: a fugitive loner defends villagers against marauding intruders. The action: wall-to-wall, man-to-man, start-to-finish excitement as only Yuen Wo Ping can deliver!

Customer Reviews:

Save yourself the trouble and get the Crash Cinema version of Bloody Fists.......2007-02-17

THE BLOODY FISTS-This is a classic basher movie with Chen Sing and Chen Kuan Tai, and also features San Kwai and Fong Yeh in great villian roles. San Kwai is awesome in this but Chen Sing is just flat out the man. From 1973 so don't expect great fights, but expect plenty of them. One of the best bashers ever. 3.5/5

Picture quality is fine but WB added in a ton of bad music that almost ruins the movie. This is not a bad thing for WB to do since the music in the movie was originally stolen 34 years ago. But, since they are such a huge company, they would be easy to sue and they can't really risk something like that. Crash Cinema version is definitely the one to get if you are a fan of this classic.

MOONLIGHT SWORD AND JADE LION-Angela Mao Ying in a mindless movie with Don Wong Tao. Made in the Shaw Brothers tradition with great sets and costumes, but without the excitement. The fights are boring and short and the director is completely clueless on how to make a movie. 1.5/5

Picture quality is great and it is widescreened in a letterboxed format. Sound in fine.

Average customer rating:

Bad movie, but a good substitution for a sleeping pill
High-quality transfer of lesser Angela Mao vehicle
A serious Martial Arts Movie
A serious Martial Arts Movie
Good but not enough

Moonlight Sword & Jade Lion
Starring: Tao Wong , Angela Mao , Luo Hui Shaw , Sam Yuen , and Chiang-lung Wen
Director: Karl Liao
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Lady Whirlwind and the Rangers (1974)

ASIN: B00001U0EB
Release Date: 2000-01-04

Customer Reviews:

Bad movie, but a good substitution for a sleeping pill.......2007-02-17

This is one of those movies where they suck you in with big names like Angela Mao and Don Wong Tao. The characters just basically walk around the whole movie and in the scenes where they do actually fight, it is horrible choreography. It is not the worst fighting I have ever seen but there was just no thought put into it. The choreography is just your standard hit the guy once, and then hit him another time in a different area of his body, and that's it. All of the blows being traded just have one person striking and the other person moving their head left to right dodging. It is very clunky and there are no good fights, until the end. The final fight I thought was OK with decent stunt doubling acrobatics. Don't expect to be blown away or anything. The main problem in this movie is that the action director didn't have a clue on choreographing scenes and how to shoot them. The actors(and actresses)presence are the only thing that make the fights even close to watchable. Look for Angela Mao's metal spear that she uses, it looks to be made out of rubber.

I fell asleep the first 2 times I saw this and had to watch it during the daytime so I could make it all the way through. Every line of dialogue is almost meaningless. Everything is so done badly done I could never come close to listing all that is wrong. The great sets and costumes are really the only thing saving this movie from being a complete waste. 1.5/5

The only real positive here is that the Crash Cinema version is letterboxed with good picture quality.

High-quality transfer of lesser Angela Mao vehicle.......2003-01-01

1970s kung fu diva Angela Mao has a bigger part in MOONLIGHT SWORD AND JADE LION (1979) than in some of her other later films (e.g. SNAKE DEADLY ACT, THE LEGENDARY STRIKE) and cuts a striking figure as a swordswoman seeking the identities of the men who killed her parents when she was a baby. The fights tend to be too short and overly reliant on gimmicky stunts involving flying chopsticks and plates and the like, but Angela does get to do a lot of swordplay and acrobatics. However, the simple plot is made much more confusing than it needed to be thanks to all sorts of additional characters who skulk about plotting each other's murders for no discernible reasons. Kung fu star Wong Tao (CHALLENGE OF DEATH, DEATH DUEL OF KUNG FU) pops up early as a potential partner for Angela but then disappears for most of the movie. Another fighting femme, Lung Chun Erh (aka Doris Chen, star of THE MAGNIFICENT), appears briefly and has one fight with Angela over the Jade Lion of the title.

While it's strictly a minor entry in the kung fu genre, the good news is that it comes to us in a high-quality tape and DVD edition (from Crash Cinema) boasting a letter-boxed transfer which enables fans to see all of the action. The sets and costumes are all attractively designed and help make it, at the very least, a good-looking kung fu film. The English-language soundtrack is another matter, however, suffering as it does from a truly atrocious dub job featuring a particularly annoying voice for Angela. The music score will certainly sound familiar to fans of Italian westerns, whose soundtracks were often ripped off by kung fu movie producers.

A serious Martial Arts Movie.......2001-03-23

Although the action sequences were quite short(except for the final duel), this is one of the more serious martial arts movie I have seen. Angela Mao and Wang Tao were spectacular. Mao was so serious that you rarely saw her smile. The plot was twisted and good, and it was hard to tell who the bad guys were. A story of deceipt and betrayal. There was a good reason behind all the fight scenes, rather than people looking for every excuse to fight like in some other kung-fu movies. Though you might think it is slow paced at times, this is a good movie to keep. The sound quality was not very good though.

A serious Martial Arts Movie.......2001-03-23

Good but not enough.......2000-06-29

I like it becuase it has a very cool in focus action , but if you compared the movie whit the real book , you realized that the movie has a lack of drama , but its a good option anyway .

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