A girl raised by apes falls for a prince who is secretly using her kungfu for his personal gain.
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Title: The Ape Girl (1979)
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Cast
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Fung-Ling Chin | ... | Ming Ling Shur |
| Sing Chen | |||
| Lieh Lo | |||
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Shu Lin Chang | ||
| Shen-Lin Chen | |||
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Pin Chin | ||
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Po Chin | ||
| Yun-Kin Chow | |||
| Kang Ho | |||
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Wei-Hsiung Ho | ||
| Han-Chang Hu | |||
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Chang-An Li | ||
| Wen-Tai Li | |||
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Chao-Hsiung Lin | ||
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Ying Lung | ||
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This film tells the story of Ming Ling Shur, a girl raised by apes who is discovered by a kungfu master, who sees that she has a knack for monkey kungfu. When she grows up, her adventuring spirit lands her as a guard for a Prince, who she falls in love with. However, looks are deceiving as he exploits her kungfu prowess to gain him a seat as emperor. And so, the tension rises as Ming Ling Shur begins to learn the truth. Written by N. Cancilla
It opens with a dwarf and fat guy teased by monkeys. Their kung fu master takes on the female monkey as a student. After about one minute of training our monkey girl now speaks English (or Chinese) and has excellent martial arts skills. She goes off to explore the human world.
There is a school of comedy where monkeys are always funny. Personally I find monkeys not even interesting much less funny. If you are from the monkey school of comedy this movie is for you. I can respect that some people enjoy this sort of movie so I will hold back on my criticism.
I rate this movie as below average for a 1979 martial arts movie for other faults. First, the fighting is nothing special and less than I would expect for someone as good as Chan Sing. Second, in his first scenes Chan Sing is one heck of a nice guy. Then on becoming the emperor he goes from nice guy to evil after one page of script. One more detail - her tail. She never had a tail until having a tail was a problem.