WU
TANG V NINJA
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Aka:
NINJA HUNTER / SHAOLIN HERO
- Stars:
Alexander Lo Rei, Jack Long, Chang Shan, William Yau
- Director:
Wu Kuo Jen
- 1984,
Hong Kong
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- Ohh
mercy!!!
- It
starts with Wu Tang Abbot White (Jack Long) in a supposedly friendly fight
against a Shaolin master (Chang Shan). When the master beats him using Shaolin
Finger Jab, White gets jealous and joins the Japanese Ninjas. Together they
plan the destruction of the Shaolin Temple and White starts training on his
new style (he’s obviously not doing Wu Tang, cause the Wu Tang I’ve seen is
a Tai Chi style preferred by old people) which consists of making Hokus pokus
at girls.
- Then
they burn down the Shaolin Temple and only some of the monks can escape. One
of them (Chang Shan) gives a Shaolin Finger Jab manual to hisdaughter before
he dies so she can pass it on the next generation of Shaolin and rebuild the
temple. Will the descendants of Shaolin be able to rebuild the temple and
stop the evil Abbot White?
-
- Well,
what should I say about this movie? It’s the craziest and most nonsensical
movie I’ve seen.
- I
was actually going to buy "Hand of Death" with Tan Tao Liang, Jackie
and Sammo but it wasn’t available. Then suddenly
I saw the irresistibly cool sleeve of "Wu Tang v Ninja". It couldn’t
be bad it had both Jack Long and Alexander Lo Rei and a lot of cool pictures
of Shaolin monks on the back. Well the fights aren’t bad and it’s never boring,
but GEE, it’s absurd and bad tasted like nothing else I’ve seen. It also has
lots of unfitting music.
- The
fact that the Wu Tang Abbot gets powers that give him some kind of Iron Body
skill from doing magic stuff on lightly dressed girls, is the silliest thing
I’ve seen.
- There’s
even a scene with a melting man that burns everything he touches.
- Another
stupid thing is the movie’s title "Wu Tang v Ninja", as they both
co-operate and don’t fight each other.
- One
thing you should watch for is at the end when they find Whites weak spot;
think of the silliest place you can imagine and that makes no sense.
- But
I got to admit that I enjoyed it quite a bit, and it was thanks to the skilled
martial artists.
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- Chang
Shan, Alexander Lo Rei and his partner, Cheng Tien Chi, have all excellent
Taekwondo kicks and are acrobatic; also the golden Ninja is good and moves
like a monkey stylist at the beginning.
- But
the training at the end is quite silly with made up moves that don't make
to much sense.
- If
you haven’t recognized the story yet, it’s the one on the famous burning of
the Shaolin Temple but a made-up crazy fantasized version.
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