1979 · kung-fu · shaw-brothers · martial-arts
Five Superfighters
Directed by John Law Ma1h 40m1979
Three young martial arts students and their teacher are beaten up badly by a wandering man who proclaims himself "a corrector of bad kung-fu." Determined to avenge their teacher and regain their honor, the three students all go their separate ways to find kung-fu masters who will take them as students.
Our read: Five Superfighters (1979) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded kung-fu · shaw-brothers · martial-arts entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured kung-fu / shaw-brothers, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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