Di zi ye feng kuang (1985)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Kar-Hung Yau

Writer:

Hu Sha (screenplay)

Release Date:

5 January 1985 (Hong Kong)

Plot Keywords:

Shaolin

Cast

Shen Chan	...	Highness
Siu-hou Chin	...	Hui-Chien
Philip Kwok	...	Master Kuai
Hoi San Lee	...	Master Kua
Chia Hui Liu	...	Ching
Lieh Lo	...	Chef Chih Lien-Chia
Meng Lo	...	Hung Hsi-Kuan
Yue Wong	...	Fang Chih-Yu
Qiu Yuen	...	Miu Tsui-Fa

Also Known As:

Crazy Shaolin Disciples (Hong Kong: English title)
Dai ji ya fung kong (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
Enter the 36th Chamber of Shaolin (International: English title) (video title)

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese | Mandarin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Shaw Brothers

Shaolin Animal House

Uh....ugh.

Rather disjointed and infantile entry in the Liu Chia Hui playing a Shaolin monk series. A broad comedy. Like other films of this nature it swings between intense violence and the goofiest HK humor. Unfortunately this is bad goofy with lots of "Brown" humor. Snot, farts, excrement, they're all here and more.

Most of the film has the monastery student body divided into two camps; the secular Southern students and the Northern monks in training. It's a series of lame tricks perpetrated by one group on the other. The action is good but swings between exciting kung fu and absurd wire fu. The fight between a monk and a student over a prayer cushion is very good. Unfortunately too much time is spent on the juvenile antics.

Good actors wasted. Skip it.