Xing xing wang (1977)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Meng Hua Ho

Writer:

Kuang Ni (writer)

Release Date:

March 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Action...Excitement...Spectacle beyond your wildest dreams!

Plot:

Word of a monster ape ten stories tall living in the Himalayas reaches fortune hunters in Hong Kong...

Plot Keywords:

Hong Kong | Monster | Quicksand | Ape | Plane Crash

Cast

Evelyne Kraft	...	Ah Wei
Danny Lee	...	Johnnie Fang (as Li Hsiu-Hsien)
Feng Ku	...	Lu Tiem
Wei Tu Lin	...	Chen Shi-yu
Norman Chu	...	Ah Lung (as Shao-Chiang Hsu)
Hang-Sheng Wu	...	Ah Pi
Theodore Thomas		(as Ted Thomas)
Steve Nicholson
Yao Hsiao	...	Huang Tsui-hua
Ping Chen	...	Lucy

Also Known As:

The Mighty Peking Man (Hong Kong: English title) (International: English title) (USA) (DVD title)
Colossus of Congo (Europe: English title)
Goliathon (USA)
Mighty Peking Man (USA) (reissue title)
Sing sing wong (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence and sensuality.

Runtime:

Japan:87 min | USA:90 min | Hong Kong:86 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Mandarin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-11 (2006) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Hong Kong:I | USA:PG-13 (re-rating) (2000) | USA:PG (original rating) (1980) | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Mysore, Karnataka, India

Company:

Shaw Brothers

Trivia:

From approximately the 1 hour 14 minute mark (the close-up of the flashing blue light) and almost until the end of the film, there is the uncredited use of music from the first movement of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. The final moments of the film use the closing bars of the fourth movement of the same symphony.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Be Kind Rewind (2008)

Excellent giant monster film!

Mighty Peking Man was done in the seventies after the last Godzilla film of the original Godzilla series (Terror of Mechagodzilla, 1975) and this totally takes up the slack. It's even at least as entertaining as the last Godzilla films easy. It's a rip-off of King Kong and Godzilla but never tries to be anything more than it is, and that's what makes it honest and fun.

The miniatures is this film are fantastic, especially near the end where the giant is walking around the city and elevated roadways. The action even starts early, no waiting an hour for the monster's first appearance. This is one of my personal fave giant monster films, definitely gonna buy it on DVD! This even had a recent successful midnight run here in New York City. Don't miss it!