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Dance of Death(1980)
Status: Released
Date: 1980-07-04
65%
6 Votes
Time: 1h 30m
Care to dance?
Overview:
An orphan boy seeks revenge upon a villainous kung-fu sect that killed his friends. He chances upon two old kung fu masters who are fighting to determine who's the better fighter; one is a drunk, the other puffs constantly on a pipe. Fei Fei convinces them to teach him kung fu, and then he'll fight using both of their techniques and will discover which is superior. So Fei Fei ends up fighting his way up the ranks of the evil sect with the two old men trailing after him, evaluating the battles and counting how many of their individual moves Fei Fei uses. The final battle with the white-haired master of the sect, using new kung fu moves inspired by dancers in a brothel, is amazingly gymnastic. --Bret Fetzer
Languages: Mandarin.
Countries:
Taiwan,
Hong Kong
ProductionCompanies:
Fortuna Film Company
Movie: Dance of Death
Top 10 Billed Cast
Angela Mao Ying
Fei Fei
秦沛
Ku Cheng-Yuan
石天
Bird Egg
許不了
Madman Lu
Sun Jung-Chi
Yu Sung-Chao
Chi Fu-Chiang
呂雲保
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Overview
An orphan boy seeks revenge upon a villainous kung-fu sect that killed his friends. He chances upon two old kung fu masters who are fighting to determine who's the better fighter; one is a drunk, the other puffs constantly on a pipe. Fei Fei convinces them to teach him kung fu, and then he'll fight using both of their techniques and will discover which is superior. So Fei Fei ends up fighting his way up the ranks of the evil sect with the two old men trailing after him, evaluating the battles and counting how many of their individual moves Fei Fei uses. The final battle with the white-haired master of the sect, using new kung fu moves inspired by dancers in a brothel, is amazingly gymnastic. --Bret Fetzer
Release Date
1980-07-04
Average
6.5
Rating:
3.3 startsTagline
Care to dance?
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Languages:
普通话Keywords
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