Lin Shi Rong (1979)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Directors:

Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
Woo-ping Yuen

Writers:

Dang Geng-san (writer)
Jing Wong (writer)

Release Date:

24 July 1980 (South Korea)

Genre:

Action

Plot:

A plump butcher student of Wong Fei Hung, Lam Sai-Wing (Sammo) gets into trouble with a rival kung-fu...

Plot Keywords:

Kung Fu | Revenge | Chicken | Brother Brother Relationship | Kidnapping

Cast

Sammo Hung Kam-Bo	...	Lam Sai-wing / 'Butcher Wing'
Hoi San Lee	...	Master Ko
Pai Wei	...	Chik
Biao Yuen	...	Foon
Tak-Hing Kwan	...	Wong Fei-Hong
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Billy Chan	...	Tai Hoi's man
Qiqi Chen	...	Lan Hsing
Kam Chiang	...	Lam Sai-kwong
Fat Chung	...	Wildcat
Mei Sheng Fan	...	Beggar
Ging Man Fung	...	Chess player
Hark-On Fung	...	Ko Tai-Hoi
Pak-Kwong Ho	...	Blind man
JoJo Chan Kei-kei	...	Lan Hsing
Ching-Ying Lam	...	Killer with Fan
Fung Lee	...	Restaurant worker
Gwa-pau Sai	...	Ah So
Jing Tang	...	Yuet Mei
Choh Lam Tsang	...	Night watchman

Also Known As:

Lam Sai Wing (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
Ren zhe wu di
The Magnificent Butcher (Hong Kong: English title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violent content.

Runtime:

108 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Singapore:NC-16 | Ireland:18 | UK:18 | Australia:M | South Korea:15 | USA:PG-13 | Canada:PG | Canada:G (Quebec)

Company:

Golden Harvest Company

Trivia:

After Siu-Tien Yuen's death, the script was rewritten. Lee Hoi -San originally played a comic relief character and a different actor played Sammo Hung's brother before the rewrite.

Movie Connections:

References "Popeye the Sailor" (1960)

Great fun!

Bravo, 20th Century Fox, for giving this movie a DVD release in North America! And not only with a gorgeous-looking print, but with the option of watching in the original Cantonese with subtitles, unlike other American distributors (coughcoughmiramaxslashdimensioncoughcough).

I hadn't heard of this particular Sammo Hung movie until tonight, when I spotted it at the video store. I took a chance, and I'm really glad to have done it! Completely entertaining, and never dull for a minute. The fights are "old school", but they are still pretty swift, and the various acrobatics and moves are absolutely amazing. Plenty of comedy as well, pretty low-brow slapstick for the most part, but won't help but bring a smile to your lips several times.

Now, as others have said before, there are some brutal and deadly serious moments, and they will seem out of place to most westerners. But from what I've seen from other Hong Kong movies, this kind of thing isn't that unusual. At the very least, such moments like this just further the ways as to how this movie will be unique to anyone raised on western filmmaking.

Don't think this is the cheap kind of martial arts movie you see on Kung Fu Theater or on public domain video labels - give it a try. You won't be disappointed.