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Five Elements Ninjas

Original title: Ren zhe wu di
  • 19821982
  • RR
  • 1h 47m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
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Five Elements Ninjas (1982)
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A Chinese martial arts school is infiltrated and destroyed by ninjas. Tian Hao survives the massacre and seeks to uncover the trickery of ninjutsu in order to beat the Five Element Ninjas an... Read allA Chinese martial arts school is infiltrated and destroyed by ninjas. Tian Hao survives the massacre and seeks to uncover the trickery of ninjutsu in order to beat the Five Element Ninjas and avenge his family.A Chinese martial arts school is infiltrated and destroyed by ninjas. Tian Hao survives the massacre and seeks to uncover the trickery of ninjutsu in order to beat the Five Element Ninjas and avenge his family.
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
2.9K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
32,075
5,745
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    • Director
      • Cheh Chang
    • Writers
      • Cheh Chang(screenplay)
      • Kuang Ni(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Tien-Chi Cheng
      • Tien-Hsiang Lung
      • Meng Lo
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Cheh Chang
    • Writers
      • Cheh Chang(screenplay)
      • Kuang Ni(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Tien-Chi Cheng
      • Tien-Hsiang Lung
      • Meng Lo
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    • 35User reviews
    • 20Critic reviews
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    Tien-Chi Cheng
    Tien-Chi Cheng
    • Shao Tien-hao
    Tien-Hsiang Lung
    Tien-Hsiang Lung
    • Brother Li
    Meng Lo
    Meng Lo
    • Shi Shang
    Michael Wai-Man Chan
    Michael Wai-Man Chan
    • Chin Tien Chun
    • (as Hui-Min Chen)
    Pei-Hsi Chen
    • Senji
    Li Wang
    Li Wang
    • Lien Mu
    Ke Chu
    • Chen Chun
    Tai-Ping Yu
    • Huang Fa
    Shen Chan
    Shen Chan
    Yung Chan
    Kuo Chao
    • Huang Han
    Hui-Men Chen
    • Chien Yuan
    Hung Chen
    Yiu-Sing Cheung
      Kin Ping Chow
      Kin Ping Chow
      Siu-Loi Chow
      Siu-Loi Chow
      Kwok Wing Ha
        Yung-Chang Ho
        • Director
          • Cheh Chang
        • Writers
          • Cheh Chang(screenplay)
          • Kuang Ni(screenplay)
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        Storyline

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        • Alternate versions
          The broadcast version of the film edits the scene where the heroes rip the lead villain in half, making it look as if he is still in one piece, as well as an extra scene involving Tien-Hao and Shi Sheng speaking after the master's plan is discussed is deleted.
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        User reviews35

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        Top review
        8/10
        Chang Cheh's last Shaw kung fu spectacular is equally daft and incredible
        Cheh had a long and colorful career as one of the top directors at the Shaw studio but by 1982 his stock had fallen as trends moved away from the period costume kung fu action films he was so fond of. While fellow kung fu film director, Liu Chia Liang was still able to pull off hits, Cheh was perhaps getting too quirky and obvious with his favorite themes of heroic men in revealing outfits, gruesome fights and few if no women in the story. A few films followed in this year with one released the next, but none rival Five Element Ninjas. Cheh was out of the Shaw studio by 1983 and working in low budget Taiwanese cinema he never was able to achieve anything remotely near his past successes. This is his swan song at the Shaw studios,

        The plot is absolutely silly and full of absurdities even for your average Chinese made Ninja film. It's as if Cheh saw the competition and said, "Oh yeah? Well watch this!". Except for Venom star Lo Meng, the cast is composed of Shaw second stringers but that doesn't mean the action is anything less then excellent. This film has the best fight scenes in a Cheh film since "The Crippled Avengers" of 1979. Everyone is fighting with weapons in mass fight scenes that are incredibly choreographed. Unfortunately, many production credits are not translated and I don't know who was the genius behind the fight scenes. Lo Meng is the only one doing open hand fighting and he fights a samurai in the first extended fight scene! Granted the samurai sword skills on display are from outer space but it goes with the absurd nature of the entire movie. So much of this film is wacky that it's a waste of your time to recount it. It's as if everything you'd expect from a late Cheh film (good and bad) was turned up to "11" including the pace.

        Bloody and nuts. Just the way a good Cheh film should be. See it.
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        • ChungMo
        • Nov 4, 2007

        Details

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        • Release date
          • April 21, 1982 (Hong Kong)
        • Country of origin
          • Hong Kong
        • Language
          • Mandarin
        • Also known as
          • Chinese Super Ninjas
        • Production company
          • Shaw Brothers
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        Technical specs

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        • Runtime
          1 hour 47 minutes
        • Color
          • Color
        • Sound mix
          • Mono
        • Aspect ratio
          • 2.35 : 1

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