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Five Shaolin Masters

Five Shaolin Masters

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 25, 1974

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Action, Drama

User Score

73%

Original Title

少林五祖

Production Companies

Chang's Film Company, Shaw Brothers

Director

Chang Cheh

Description

Hu Te et al. escape the burning Shaolin temple after the Qing soldiers destroyed it in Shaolin Temple. The group of 5 decide to develop secret codes to identify fellow patriots, enlist those patriots and eventually meet up again to escape to the south away from the Qings, and also identify the traitor who sold out Shaolin temple. Ma Fu Yi, joins the Qing top fighters to eliminate the rebels but is exposed by Ma Chao-Tsing who gets captured by Ma Fu Yi. Hu meets up with a group of Shaolin men secretly posing as bandits to rescue Ma as their leader is killed in the process, thus the bandits join the rest of the Shaolin patriots.