Buddha's Palm

1982 [CN]

Action / Fantasy

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 40%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40%
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 463 463

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Plot summary

An old blind martial master living in a cave teaches a young swordsman the secret of the Buddha's Palm, a legendary martial arts technique, which propels him into a whole new world of evil knights, hidden temples, dragon dogs, and magical objects.

Director

Taylor Wong Photo
Taylor Wong

Top cast

Alex Man Photo
Alex Man as Ku Han-Hun, flaming cloud devil
Kien Shih Photo
Kien Shih as Heavenly Foot
Hsin Nan Hung Photo
Hsin Nan Hung as
Hsiang Lin Yin Photo
Hsiang Lin Yin as
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890 MB
1280*544
Chinese 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 76
1.61 GB
1920*816
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 100+

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ChungMo 8 / 10

Incredible fantasy kung fu film

Towards the end of the Shaw film studio's days, they decided to pull out the stops and make their films as wild as possible. Full of gaudy lighting and crazy animated effects. Mainstay director Yuen Chor didn't do so well at this time as his films became studies in excess instead of entertainment. The Shaw's brought in some new directors and so Taylor Wong is here directing his second feature. The plot, if it can be called that, revolves around a jilted lover who falls from a cliff while being beaten by his girlfriend's husband to be. He is caught by Dameng, a sort of flying Dog Dragon, and brought to the Old Devil, a master of the Buddha Palm. Of course he learns the Palm and gets involved with the Old Devil's past. The Old Devil has a number of enemies.Where other Shaw films in this vein are rather stilted and old fashioned, this film is full of energy and inventive camera work. There are a number of camera moves that didn't become popular until the late 1990's. The lighting is frequently garish but done with some artistic restraint. The fight choreography is absolutely bizarre but it's well filmed and works because of it. Other films like this usually have lots of confusing movement that is only effective because it passes so quickly. Everything is very fake but that shouldn't dissuade you from enjoying it. There are two narrators who make comments from time to time. The narrator's comments make it clear that the film-makers didn't take any of this seriously.Probably one of the best films in this genre. Recommended.
Reviewed by stellan-sjolin 7 / 10

ITS AWSOME AND I LOVE IT!

To be honest, this is most certainly not a good movie. But its is absolutley awsome and i love it! All the way over the top ridiculousness, glorious and cheesy beyond imagination! Its filled with more sfx (oh my! what sfx!) than actual fighting, but there is some of that as well.Its well worth to take the time if you are intressted, id say its about a 50/50 chance you love or hate it. If youre into classic kung fu, the odds that you like it are slightly better, same if you like silly 80's horror movies ( this is completly diffrent, but yeah, trust me on this one ^^)
Reviewed by alisonc-1 8 / 10

More Hilarious Kung Fu from the Shaw Brothers

Young Chien-Fei Lung is a terrible fighter, until he stumbles upon Ku Han-Hun, the Flaming Cloud Devil, who takes him under his wing and teaches him the eight movements of Buddha's Palm, one of the most powerful martial arts in the world. But Ku is blind and so Chien-Fei sets out to find the one item that can cure him; in addition, he's looking for Ku's rivals from 20 years earlier, including Pi-Ku, Sun Pi-Ling, Heavenly Foot and Liu Piao-Piao, all of whom have secret weapons and skills of their own, not to mention convoluted relationships and shifting allegiances. Can Chien-Fei use his powers for good, or will he be destroyed by all these martial arts masters?I can't actually give a synopsis of this film, it's so completely wacky and ludicrous! It may help to know it's from the famous Shaw Brothers, whose martial arts films were so over the top that the only way to view them is to just forget about logic and go with the flow. This film is no exception - it's a wild mix of martial arts, "Star Wars" style light sabers, maniacal laughter and very strange special effects. Often one can tell if a character is a bad guy by his maniacal laugh, but most of the male characters in this film have maniacal laughs at one point or another, so that's no help. A lovely thing in these movies is that there are female martial arts masters as well as male, although for some reason the women are only allowed to learn four of the eight movements of Buddha's Palm, a restriction that is never explained. But there you have it, there's no point to expecting explanations (or logic or to some degree even continuity) with the Shaw Brothers, just go with the flow and enjoy it on its own very silly merits.
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