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Return to the 36th Chamber(1980)
Status: Released
Date: 1980-08-24
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230 Votes
Time: 1h 41m
Back for the rest!
Overview:
The workers of a dye factory have their pay cut by 20% when the factory owner brings in some Manchu thugs to try and increase production. Desperate to reclaim their full wages, the workers hire an actor to impersonate a priest and kung-fu expert from the temple of Shaolin. The factory owner proves the actor a fraud, and punishes all those involved. The young actor feels he has let the workers down, and promises to atone. He sets out for Shaolin, determined to be accepted as a kung-fu pupil at the elite temple.
Languages: Mandarin, Cantonese.
Countries:
Hong Kong
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: Return to the 36th Chamber
Top 10 Billed Cast
劉家輝
Chou Chun Chi
惠英紅
Hsiao Hung
Hsiao Ho
Ah Chao
Wong Ching-Ho
Uncle Li
Wa Lun
Chou Shih Sheng
李擎柱
Monk San Te
Yau Chui-Ling
Worker
陳思佳
Ah Fen
권영문
Chuan Min
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