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なつかし香港映画:"Shaolin Traitor"(1983:Carter Huang)

「なつかしの香港映画ブログ」Mysterious incidents occur at Shaolin Temple, and a young man (Carter Huang) tries to find a traitor. Kung fu movie from Taiwan.

Cast
1. Lei Pang Fei (Carter Huang)
A man who lives in Shaolin Temple. He is young but a master of kung fu.
(Kung fu star. He played "Silver Devil" in "Born Invincible" (1978), kung fu master in "THE 18 BRONZE MEN" (1981) and a bad wizard in Kurt Russell's "Big Trouble in Little China" (1986). )

2. Ten Chi (Chang Yi)
Master of Pang Fei. He is imprisoned in a place where criminals reflect on their past behaviours deeply because he once abused kung fu. Pang Fei is ordered by him to find a traitor who is trying to trap Shaolin Temple.
(Actor who has appeared in many movies)

3. Abbot (Yuan Shen?)
Old monk of Shaolin Temple. At Shaolin Temple, monks are killed one after another and valuables given by the emperor are robbed. He is too worried about that and suspects Pang Fei as the culprit for no good reason.

4. Chief Abbot (Ko Yu-Min)
A senior monk of Shaolin Temple. He becomes the new leader of Shaolin Temple and tries to arrest Pang Fei who has escaped from Shaolin Temple.
(Actor who has appeared in many movies. He is a "THE 18 BRONZE MEN" series regular.)

5. Hu Fa (Lu Ping)
A monk in the same rank as Yuan Fu. He tries to protect Pang Fei, who has been suspected by everyone.
(Actor who has appeared in many movies)

6. Yuan Fu's student (Polly Shang-Kuan)
She is worried about the future of Shaolin Temple. In the final battle she and Pang Fei fight enemies with kung fu.
(Actress who has appeared in many movies. In "THE 18 BRONZE MEN" (1981), she played the protagonist's fiance.)

7. Assassins
Shaolin issues a permit to assassinate Pang Fei. Then the assassins carry out an operation to keep Pang Fei off guard and attack him one after another. These scenes are big highlights of this movie, with some comical renditions.
(Liu Shan, etc.)

8. Princess (Doris Lung)
The emperor's younger sister. She bothers Shaolin with her brother.
(Cute actress with distinctive eyes. She co-starred with Jackie Chan in "Shaolin Wooden Men" (1976) and "Half A Loaf Of Kung-Fu!" (1978).)

9. Emperor (Chiang Nan)
A man who hates Shaolin Temple. Shaolin does not rebel against him, but he is afraid that Shaolin will rebel against the emperor's rule with kung fu.
(A "THE 18 BRONZE MEN" series regular. In "THE 18 BRONZE MEN" (1981), he played a young man of Shaolin who practices kung fu with the main characters.)

Scenes
・A series of mysterious incidents at Shaolin Temple (incidents give the movie a suspenseful atmosphere)
・Ten Chi tests Pang Fei's abilities
・Everybody often suspects Pang Fei
・Pang Fei flies like Superman
・cute but evil Princess
・a permit to assassinate Pang Fei
・Assassins use traps and attack Pang Fei
・Battle in the restaurant
・The truth of the incidents that took place at Shaolin Temple
・A traitor vs. Pang Fei (with princess and Yuan Fu's female student)

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