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Title: Mad Monkey Kung Fu 瘋猴 Year: 1979 Director:Liu Chia-liang 劉家良 Casts: Liu Chia-liang, 劉家良, Hsiao Ho, 小候, Hui Ying-hung, 惠英紅, Lo Lieh, 羅烈 Besides his pioneering films based on authentic martial artistry and kung-fu comedies during the 1970's, acclaimed director Liu Chia-liang also embraced the master/pupil relationship to form the cornerstone of many of his other works where his characters exhibited physical and moral failure as a means to either “make them or break them“. Besides directing Mad Monkey Kung Fu, it's also Liu's debut as a lead actor playing down and out, monkey kung-fu master Chen, crippled by the ruthless villain Tuen (Shaw's penultimate bad guy Lo Lieh). Street boy Hsiao Hou (which means “little monkey“ and played by popular martial arts aerialist Hsiao Hao) convinces Chen to teach him monkey kung-fu to avenge Chen's shame. The wacky training sequences and outlandish finale fight leave you stupefied. Check us out at the iTunes Store:
