Five Shaolin Masters

少林五祖

“Fäuste die Granit zerschmettern (Fists that crush granite) (German poster)”

1974·110 min·Released

Studio: Chang's Film Company, Shaw Brothers

7.3TMDb

6.6IMDb

Theatrical Dec 25, 1974

Nexus ms28116TMDb 41383IMDb tt0072991

Action Drama

Overview

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.