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(Synopsis)
Wild kung fu fantasy filled with elaborate special effects that deals with clan rivalries among extravagantly costumed groups with names like Dark Moon Clan, Ten Thousand Swords and Heavenly Fragrance Cult. It's filled with superheroic characters, including one named Flaming Cloud Devil, who've mastered various degrees of the Buddha's Palm technique, which gives them the power to emit energy blasts from their palms to ward off such super-powerful opponents as Foot Monster, whose foot grows huge and extends out from his body by several dozen yards in order to kick or stomp an adversary.
Based on a popular Hong Kong comic book (which had been adapted before, as a series of films, in 1964), the film owes more than a little to Chor Yuen's alternate swordplay universe, as dramatized in such films as KILLER CLANS, THE MAGIC BLADE and CLANS OF INTRIGUE, as well as to earlier "wu xia" swordplay films of the 1960s (TWIN SWORDS, COME DRINK WITH ME). More importantly, it looks forward to the "wire fu" fantasy films of the 1990s (most notably THE MAGIC CRANE and KUNG FU CULT MASTER) and seems to have particularly influenced Tsui Hark, who made his first big splash a year after BUDDHA'S PALM with ZU WARRIORS OF THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN (1983), another magical swordplay epic filled with wire-fu and enhanced effects, but with more of a mystical flavor than this film.
Director
Taylor Wong
Cast
Alex Man
Chan Lap Ban
Chan Si Gaai
Ching Miao
Feng Feng
Kara Hui
Ku Kuan-chung
Lam Fai Wong Lam
Lam Wai
Lo Lieh
Lung Tien Hsiang
Sai Gwa-pau
Sek Kin
Shen Lao
Siu Yam Yam
Yee Tung-Shing
Yu On-on
Publisher : HKV
Audio : English
Video : WideScreen
Subtitles : N/A
Running Time : 93mins
Release Year : 1982
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