During the opening credits of EXECUTIONERS FROM SHAOLIN, we see the dastardly traitor Bai Mei (Lo Lieh) kill the Master of his Shaolin Temple. The Temple is then burned to the ground and the students scattered or killed. Hong (Chen Kuan-tai) becomes part of a travelling troupe of opera players living aboard a junk, but continues his clandestine operations against the oppressive Manchus. At one point, Hong must forcibly- but humorously- consummate his marriage; foreplay consists of a hand-to-hand struggle on their wedding bed... The junks are burned in retaliation for the troupe's depredations, and many of the rebels are murdered. Hong and his wife escape and, ere long, they have a baby. Hong tries to take on Bai Mei (ignoring his wife's sagely advice to add her crane kung fu to his tiger kung fu), only to find out that Bai Mei is only vulnerable during certain hours of the day... Timing is everything... Hong constructs an elaborate pinball-machine type of dummy and sets out a row of upright sticks to mark the time of day in order to figure out Bai Mei's weakness. (While most men are vulnerable at "6:30"- do the math-, Bai Mei ISN'T...) In some probably unintentionally funny scenes, hands and feet become LODGED in Bai Mei's lower regions, somehow, and our hero is dragged around helplessly.
Review of Executioners from Shaolin
