1978 · kung-fu · shaw-brothers · venoms
The Five Venoms
Directed by Chang Cheh1h 41m1978
A dying master sends his last student to check up on five former pupils, who each know a special style of kung-fu.
Our read: The Five Venoms (1978) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive kung-fu · shaw-brothers · venoms entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme kung-fu / shaw-brothers, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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“You want Shaw Brothers mystery kung fu with animal styles and whodunit tension.”
Skip it tonight — Dubbed 1970s pacing and wire-fu plotting will lose you fast.
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