Posted on 10:14 AM | By CroakerBC | In Alexander Fu Sheng , johnny wang , leung kar yan
This is before Fu Sheng discovered his comedic 'talent' and started doing more comedy, less kung fu, which was a big loss for us all.
He really excelled in this film, demonstrating great skill and lots of energy. One of his best and also one of the best kung fu films ever. The Tsai Li Fu Fist is also something we rarely see so it's a novelty, too.
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After watching this film, audiences in the 1970's cannot have been in any doubt that Fu Sheng was a star. 'New Shaolin Boxers' was his first opportunity to carry a film on his own and he does it brilliantly. Here he delivers everything you would want from the leading man in a kung fu film - he's handsome, charismatic, endearingly naive and carries himself with enough cocky swagger to give him an 'edge'. He excels in the films many action sequences too, Fu really attacks the fights with conviction and energy. Choi Li Fut is the style of choice in the film, which Fu ably shows at the beginning with a demonstration of some of the forms along with a short history on the style. The Choi Li Fut is only really used at the end of the film after the obligatory training sequences. Chang Cheh adds something a little different to the final bout by intercutting the training scenes with the fight to show how the style is taken from practice to proper use. This technique works really well and manages to stay the cool side of gimmicky.
Download:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5D3C0GRW (337mb)
Thanks go to IdontexistM8 on CG for this rip.
Note: unfortunately, the ripper decided to use a really high resolution 848x362, which makes this rip un-compatible for most standalone players. High res doesn't always mean high quality.
File : 337 MB, duration: 0:16:36, type: AVI, 1 audio stream
Video : 327 MB, 2762 Kbps, 25.0 fps, 848*362 (Unknown), XVID
Audio : 9.32 MB, 78 Kbps, 32000 Hz, 2 channels, MP3, CBR
