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Information
- A.k.a.
- Lightning Fists of Shaolin
- Year
- 1984
- Runtime
- 85 min.
- Director
- Chia Tang
- Genres
- Action, Drama
- Rating *
- 7.0
- Votes *
- 216
- Checks
- 43
- Favs
- 5
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 11.6% (1:9)
- Favs/dislikes
- 5:0
Top comments
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Siskoid
Opium & the Kung-Fu Master features Ti Lung as the title character, a man who loses his edge when he becomes addicted to opium, which leads to tragedy before he can get himself cleaned up. Your usual 19th century clan war stuff acts as background. Interestingly, Tang Chia's film starts out as a comedy, with silly, cross-eyed clowns and funky street fights, but when opium is revealed as the true evil it is, the film gets markedly harsher. One can feel China's national shame dripping from this story. Despite this unusual theme for a Shaw Brothers movie, there's plenty of action to go around (with credits for 6 action choreographers). It was made in 1984, which may explain the more-than-typical reliance on stunt-based action (the influence of Jackie Chan), and it's all quite good. Too bad it's completely studio-bound, because I'd have liked to see this production on a larger canvas. Still, a colorful, action-packed story with a strong tragedy at its core. 8 years 8 months ago -
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