Magnificent Wonderman
When the Mongolian Salitai raids the Shaolin Temple, the head Buddhist priest of the temple, Won-kak, meets by chance the mute So-sun and the Mongolian Il-gong. They shave their heads and enter the temple. Buddhist priest Won-kak gets the Buddhist soldiers together and tells them to protect to the end the national treasure, the golden Buddhist statue that is at Shaolin temple. The mute So-sun works as the lowest servant at the temple and learns how to fight. One day, evil men come and steal the gold statue. So-sun sees this and tells Buddhist priest Sio but the ringleader of men is none other than the Mongolian informant Il-gong. So-sun ends up on the run due to scheming of Il-gong. After training with the Pungdo-hyub fighting technique, Il-gong turns the Shaolin Temple into the bandits' headquarters. So-sun searches out the 'Hwa-gong Secret Fighting Technique' scriptures and trains under it to defeat the Pungdo-hyub fighting technique.
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Cast
20 people
Godfrey Ho Director · Kim Seon-gyung Director Jeong Min-seob Composer
First release May 13, 1978 · Produced in Hong Kong SAR China, South Korea · Languages Chinese, Korean
Production
Asso Asia Films
Production
IFD Films & Arts Ltd.
Production
IFD Films and Arts
Production
Hong Kong SAR China · South Korea
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Original title
陰陽十八翻
Original language
Chinese
Spoken on screen
Chinese · Korean
Release dates
Hong Kong SAR China · May 13, 1978
Theatrical · Original Release
No release date listed for United States.
France
July 14, 1982 · Theatrical
Italy
August 24, 1988 · Theatrical · Italia7
South Korea
May 13, 1978 · Theatrical
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