The Boxer from the Temple
5.8
Complex plots? This director didn't want them. Expensive, famous stars? Didn't need them. Glorious sets and costumes? He could take them or leave them. With his choreographer Hsu Hsia, John Lo Mar liked making lean, mean, fighting movies, and fans rejoiced. Here Wu Yuan-chin stars as "the Kid," a monk whose education in the aptly named "Crazy Lo Han Fist" finds him battling a cruel bandit's son and befriending an abused prostitute. From then on, it's one fight after another in another John Lo Mar martial arts marvel.
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Cast
13 people
Ng Yuen-Jun
Crazy Kid
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Sword Master
Kwan Fung
Master Wang Chang Huai
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Five Element Ninjas
Wong Mei-Mei
San Niang
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Lau Fong-Sai
Xiao Hei
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The Five Venoms
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Wang Sha
Wu Zu De
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Bruce Lee and I
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Lam Fai-Wong
Xiao Fu Lu
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Clan of the White Lotus
The Five Venoms
Lau Hok-Nin
Liang Shan Yao
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Legend of a Fighter
Dragon's Claws
Keung Hon
Master Wing
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The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Ching Miao
Mr Yin Chun Bong
Known for
Heroes of the East
Disciples of the 36th Chamber
Chiang Cheng
Abbot
Also in
Shaolin Drunken Fight
Tiger Love
Wang Han-Chen
Military officer
Known for
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
Legendary Weapons of China
Lee Kim-Chung
Xiao San
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Hex
Against All
John Law Ma Director · Ni Kuang Writer Chiang Hsing-Lung Editor
First release January 1, 1980 · Produced in Hong Kong SAR China · Original title 佛家小子
Production
Shaw Brothers
Production
Hong Kong SAR China
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Languages
Original title
佛家小子
Original language
Cantonese
Release dates
Hong Kong SAR China · January 1, 1980
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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