Buddha's Palm

1982 [CN]

Action / Fantasy

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 40%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40%
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 488 488

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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
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 9
1.61 GB
1920*816
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 28

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Blazehgehg 7 / 10

Chaotic insanity

This is maybe one of the fastest paced, most incoherent movies I've ever seen. Every five minutes feels like you walked into the middle of a different movie. There are SO many characters and SO much plot all compressed into some very small spaces that at some point you just have to smile and nod, like, yeah sure, the dragon's egg, it cures any illness and only appears once every century, and it'll appear tomorrow, of course.Eventually threads of a plot do gradually emerge, but it's always slathered in this hyperactive editing style. The dub doesn't help matters either, with stilted dialog and strange performances. You'd almost be forgiven thinking this movie was supposed to be a comedy with how weird and over the top it is.The sort of movie where 90 minutes feels like an eternity because everything is constantly happening all the time. It's honestly kind of exhausting. A fun, strange ride I'll probably only ever take once.
Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 7 / 10

CRAZY

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.
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