Can que (1978)

Director:

Cheh Chang

Writers:

Cheh Chang (writer)
Kuang Ni (writer)

Release Date:

November 1981 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama

Plot:

Three men, crippled by an evil warlord, become friends and learn kung fu with the help of an old teacher and his idiot pupil.

Plot Keywords:

Kung Fu | Martial Arts | Fighting

Cast

Kuan Tai Chen	...	Dao Tian-du
Feng Lu	...	Dao Chang
Philip Kwok	...	Chen Shuen (as Kuo Chui)
Meng Lo	...	Wei Jia-jie
Chien Sun	...	Hu Ah-Kuei
Sheng Chiang	...	Wang Yi
Jamie Luk	...	Tinan Tiger #3 (as Lu Chien Ming)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Miao Ching	...	Li Jing-ying
Helen Poon
Chen Tung Tan
Wei Hao Teng
Lung Wei Wang	...	Wan
Dick Wei	...	Tinan Tiger #1 (as Tu Lung)
Hsiung Yang		(as Yang Hsi)
Tai Ping Yu

Also Known As:

Crippled Avengers (Hong Kong: English title) (International: English title)
Avengers Handicapped (Hong Kong: English title) (original subtitled version)
Chaan kuet (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
Crippled Heroes
Mortal Combat (USA) (dubbed version)
Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms (USA) (DVD title)

Runtime:

USA:100 min (DVD) | Hong Kong:107 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Mandarin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R | West Germany:18 (cut) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Ontario) | Singapore:PG | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Company:

Shaw Brothers

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in "Futurama: The Series Has Landed (#1.2)" (1999)

NOT a sequel and slow start up as well

This movie has two major problems. First despite what the DVD and VHS covers say it is NOT a sequel to "Five Deadly Venoms". About the only thing it has in connection with "Five Deadly Venoms" is the main cast and director. Everything else is different and as a result anyone who is expecting a true sequel to "Five Deadly Venoms" will be sadly disappointed.

This wouldn't be that big a problem if the movie went straight into the action but here too the movie differs from "Five Deadly Venoms". Only after four of the characters are crippled are they trained and then it is not in the venom styles. That all said the fighting scenes that do happen are top notch but they and the movie would have been better served by a tighter storyline and not being called a sequel to "Five Deadly Venoms".