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* BloodBrothers: The Five Shaolin Masters are not born of the same family, but after being the only survivors of the Shaolin Temple's massacre they swore to be brothers and to go through thick and thin together, at all costs.
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* SwornBrothers: The Five Shaolin Masters are not born of the same family, but after being the only survivors of the Shaolin Temple's massacre they swore to be brothers and to go through thick and thin together, at all costs.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: During the battle between Tsai Te-Chung and the villain Flying Ax, Tsai managed to disarm Flying Ax of his weapon by separating his ax and rope dart apart. Cue Flying Ax picking up his ax-head and a wooden pole, turning these into an improvised BladeOnAStick.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: During the battle between Tsai Te-Chung and the villain Flying Ax, Tsai managed to disarm Flying Ax of his weapon by separating his ax and rope dart apart. Cue Flying Ax picking up his ax-head and a wooden pole, turning these into an improvised BladeOnAStick.halberd.
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* FiveManBand: The titular five Shaolin Masters all qualifies.
** TheHero: Hu De-di, elected to lead the five, and personally taking on General Chen.
** TheLancer: Tsai Te-Chung, who gets plenty of fight scenes with his staff and takes on TheDragon in the finale.
** TheBigGuy: Li Shih-kai, the strongest with a montage of him building his strength by carrying water buckets.
** TheHeart: Ma Chao-Hsing, the youngest and Fang Da-hong, both serving as the emotional center of the five.
** TheHero: Hu De-di, elected to lead the five, and personally taking on General Chen.
** TheLancer: Tsai Te-Chung, who gets plenty of fight scenes with his staff and takes on TheDragon in the finale.
** TheBigGuy: Li Shih-kai, the strongest with a montage of him building his strength by carrying water buckets.
** TheHeart: Ma Chao-Hsing, the youngest and Fang Da-hong, both serving as the emotional center of the five.
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* SimpleStaff: Tsai Te-Chung uses a wooden staff as his preferred weapon.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: This is General Chen's reaction after Hu De-di killed both his elite bodyguards via OneHitPolyKill. He didn't get far when Hu catches up with him and executes him with the same flail.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: This is General Chen's reaction after Hu De-di killed both his elite bodyguards via OneHitPolyKill.OneHitPolykill. He didn't get far when Hu catches up with him and executes him with the same flail.
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After the destruction of the Shaolin Temple (as seen in the previous movie, ''Film/TheShaolinTemple1976''),the Qing Imperial Court is determined to have all members of the Shaolin sect massacred for their participation in the resistance. Only five novice warriors escaped, them being flail-wielder Hu Te-Ti (Creator/DavidChiang), staff fighter Tsai Te-Chung (Creator/TiLung), rookie Ma Chao-Hsing (Creator/AlexanderFuSheng), brawler Li Shih-Kai (Chi Kuan-chun) and trainee Fang Ta-Hung (Meng Fai). Double-crossed and hunted by assassins at every turn, the five patriots return to the ruins of the Shaolin temple to perfect their training and take their revenge.
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After the destruction of the Shaolin Temple (as seen in the previous movie, (see ''Film/TheShaolinTemple1976''),the Qing Imperial Court is determined to have all members of the Shaolin sect massacred for their participation in the resistance. Only five novice warriors escaped, them being flail-wielder Hu Te-Ti (Creator/DavidChiang), staff fighter Tsai Te-Chung (Creator/TiLung), rookie Ma Chao-Hsing (Creator/AlexanderFuSheng), brawler Li Shih-Kai (Chi Kuan-chun) and trainee Fang Ta-Hung (Meng Fai). Double-crossed and hunted by assassins at every turn, the five patriots return to the ruins of the Shaolin temple to perfect their training and take their revenge.
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After the destruction of the Shaolin Temple,the Qing Imperial Court is determined to have all members of the Shaolin sect massacred for their participation in the resistance. Only five novice warriors escaped, them being flail-wielder Hu Te-Ti (Creator/DavidChiang), staff fighter Tsai Te-Chung (Creator/TiLung), rookie Ma Chao-Hsing (Creator/AlexanderFuSheng), brawler Li Shih-Kai (Chi Kuan-chun) and trainee Fang Ta-Hung (Meng Fai). Double-crossed and hunted by assassins at every turn, the five patriots return to the ruins of the Shaolin temple to perfect their training and take their revenge.
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After the destruction of the Shaolin Temple,the Temple (as seen in the previous movie, ''Film/TheShaolinTemple1976''),the Qing Imperial Court is determined to have all members of the Shaolin sect massacred for their participation in the resistance. Only five novice warriors escaped, them being flail-wielder Hu Te-Ti (Creator/DavidChiang), staff fighter Tsai Te-Chung (Creator/TiLung), rookie Ma Chao-Hsing (Creator/AlexanderFuSheng), brawler Li Shih-Kai (Chi Kuan-chun) and trainee Fang Ta-Hung (Meng Fai). Double-crossed and hunted by assassins at every turn, the five patriots return to the ruins of the Shaolin temple to perfect their training and take their revenge.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: This is General Chen's reaction after Hu De-di killed both his elite bodyguards via MutualKill. He didn't get far when Hu catches up with him and executes him with the same flail.
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* EyeScream: In their final duel, Ma Chao-Hsing defeats the traitor, Ma Fu-yi, by blinding him with a kick thatcrushes his eyeballs.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Five Masters, ready to live up to their names. Cue showdown for glory! [[note]] (L - R: Fang Da-hung (Mang- fai), Hu De-di (David Chiang), Ma Chao-Hsing (Alexander Fu Sheng), Li Shih-Kai (Chi Kuan Chun), Tsai Te-Chung (Ti Lung) [[/note]] ]]
''Five Shaolin Masters'', also known with the even cooler [[TheForeignSubtitle foreign title]] ''Five Masters of Death'', is a 1974 MartialArtsMovie released by Creator/ShawBrothers, directed by Chang Cheh and starring Chang's Venom Mob and his best players, in a kung-fu fighting epic with an EnsembleCast playing the five.
After the destruction of the Shaolin Temple,the Qing Imperial Court is determined to have all members of the Shaolin sect massacred for their participation in the resistance. Only five novice warriors escaped, them being flail-wielder Hu Te-Ti (Creator/DavidChiang), staff fighter Tsai Te-Chung (Creator/TiLung), rookie Ma Chao-Hsing (Creator/AlexanderFuSheng), brawler Li Shih-Kai (Chi Kuan-chun) and trainee Fang Ta-Hung (Meng Fai). Double-crossed and hunted by assassins at every turn, the five patriots return to the ruins of the Shaolin temple to perfect their training and take their revenge.
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!! Five Shaolin Tropers:
* BadassCrew: The titular five, a quintet of FireForgedFriends seeking to avenge the fallen Shaolin temple and capable on taking down General Chen's best warriors single-handedly.
* BallsOfSteel: In the final fight, Fang Da-hong managed to score a GroinAttack on his opponent, Chien-san. It barely slows him down, Chien keeps on attacking despite visibly bleeding between the legs.
* BloodBrothers: The Five Shaolin Masters are not born of the same family, but after being the only survivors of the Shaolin Temple's massacre they swore to be brothers and to go through thick and thin together, at all costs.
* CoDragons: General Chen's bodyguards, a pair of [[LawmanBaton tonfa-wielding]] expert fighters who tags behind their boss. They fight and act in unison, and gives Hu De-di a hard time in the final battle.
* EpicFlail: Hu De-di's preferred weapon is his chain dart. There's also Flying Ax, General Chen's [[TheDragon dragon]] who uses a heavy ax-head attached to a rope.
* EyeScream: In their final duel, Ma Chao-Hsing defeats the traitor, Ma Fu-yi, by blinding him with a kick thatcrushes his eyeballs.
* FiveManBand: The titular five Shaolin Masters all qualifies.
** TheHero: Hu De-di, elected to lead the five, and personally taking on General Chen.
** TheLancer: Tsai Te-Chung, who gets plenty of fight scenes with his staff and takes on TheDragon in the finale.
* TheBigGuy: Li Shih-kai, the strongest with a montage of him building his strength by carrying water buckets.
** TheHeart: Ma Chao-Hsing, the youngest and Fang Da-hong, both serving as the emotional center of the five.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Ma Chao-Hsing, Li Shih-Kai and Fang Ta-Hung fights bare-handed and could kick all sorts of ass with their bare hands.
* AHandfulForAnEye: A variant; when the battle between Tsai Te-Chung and Flying Ax culminates with both of them taking the fight into a muddy stream. Remebering part of his training, Ma improvises a strategy involving twirling his staff while submerged, causing the water to catch Flying Ax off-guard allowing Tsai to gain an advantage.
* ImprovisedWeapon: During the battle between Tsai Te-Chung and the villain Flying Ax, Tsai managed to disarm Flying Ax of his weapon by separating his ax and rope dart apart. Cue Flying Ax picking up his ax-head and a wooden pole, turning these into an improvised BladeOnAStick.
* MutualKill:
** The duel between Fang Da-hong and his designated opponent, Chien-san, ends with Fang crushing Chien's guts with a kick, but Chien at the same time uses his bare hands to crush Fang's skull. In his dying throes, Fang deliberately drags Chien into a nearby stream, ensuring that both of them drowns.
** Li-Shih-kai's battle against Chin ends with both men mortally wounding each other at the same time, respectively via giving each other the NeckSnap and AgonizingStomachWound simultaneously. Chin goes down first, and Li survives long enough to see Hu De-di, Tsai Te-Chung and Ma Chao-Hsing arriving as he succumbs.
* OneHitPolykill: In the final battle against the twin bodyguards, Hu De-di managed to defeat both of them at the same time by sending his flail's tip through both their chests as they're standing in a straight line.
* PrehensileHair: A variant, where General Chen's long braid ends with a hidden blade embedded in it's tip, which can be used as a deadly whip to great effect.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: This is General Chen's reaction after Hu De-di killed both his elite bodyguards via MutualKill. He didn't get far when Hu catches up with him and executes him with the same flail.
* SimpleStaff: Tsai Te-Chung uses a wooden staff as his preferred weapon.
* SlowMotionFall: For most of the villains, who takes at least 18 seconds each to collapse and fall upon their deaths.
* TrainingMontage: The five titular characters doesn't start immediately as masters, and need to go through a lengthy training scene to reach the peak of their skills.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: With the exception of Hu De-di, the other four of the titular five are often bare-chested, exposing their abs and muscles during their training and fight scenes. On the villain side, Chien-san and Flying Ax fights shirtless as well.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Five Masters, ready to live up to their names. Cue showdown for glory! [[note]] (L - R: Fang Da-hung (Mang- fai), Hu De-di (David Chiang), Ma Chao-Hsing (Alexander Fu Sheng), Li Shih-Kai (Chi Kuan Chun), Tsai Te-Chung (Ti Lung) [[/note]] ]]
''Five Shaolin Masters'', also known with the even cooler [[TheForeignSubtitle foreign title]] ''Five Masters of Death'', is a 1974 MartialArtsMovie released by Creator/ShawBrothers, directed by Chang Cheh and starring Chang's Venom Mob and his best players, in a kung-fu fighting epic with an EnsembleCast playing the five.
After the destruction of the Shaolin Temple,the Qing Imperial Court is determined to have all members of the Shaolin sect massacred for their participation in the resistance. Only five novice warriors escaped, them being flail-wielder Hu Te-Ti (Creator/DavidChiang), staff fighter Tsai Te-Chung (Creator/TiLung), rookie Ma Chao-Hsing (Creator/AlexanderFuSheng), brawler Li Shih-Kai (Chi Kuan-chun) and trainee Fang Ta-Hung (Meng Fai). Double-crossed and hunted by assassins at every turn, the five patriots return to the ruins of the Shaolin temple to perfect their training and take their revenge.
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!! Five Shaolin Tropers:
* BadassCrew: The titular five, a quintet of FireForgedFriends seeking to avenge the fallen Shaolin temple and capable on taking down General Chen's best warriors single-handedly.
* BallsOfSteel: In the final fight, Fang Da-hong managed to score a GroinAttack on his opponent, Chien-san. It barely slows him down, Chien keeps on attacking despite visibly bleeding between the legs.
* BloodBrothers: The Five Shaolin Masters are not born of the same family, but after being the only survivors of the Shaolin Temple's massacre they swore to be brothers and to go through thick and thin together, at all costs.
* CoDragons: General Chen's bodyguards, a pair of [[LawmanBaton tonfa-wielding]] expert fighters who tags behind their boss. They fight and act in unison, and gives Hu De-di a hard time in the final battle.
* EpicFlail: Hu De-di's preferred weapon is his chain dart. There's also Flying Ax, General Chen's [[TheDragon dragon]] who uses a heavy ax-head attached to a rope.
* EyeScream: In their final duel, Ma Chao-Hsing defeats the traitor, Ma Fu-yi, by blinding him with a kick thatcrushes his eyeballs.
* FiveManBand: The titular five Shaolin Masters all qualifies.
** TheHero: Hu De-di, elected to lead the five, and personally taking on General Chen.
** TheLancer: Tsai Te-Chung, who gets plenty of fight scenes with his staff and takes on TheDragon in the finale.
* TheBigGuy: Li Shih-kai, the strongest with a montage of him building his strength by carrying water buckets.
** TheHeart: Ma Chao-Hsing, the youngest and Fang Da-hong, both serving as the emotional center of the five.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Ma Chao-Hsing, Li Shih-Kai and Fang Ta-Hung fights bare-handed and could kick all sorts of ass with their bare hands.
* AHandfulForAnEye: A variant; when the battle between Tsai Te-Chung and Flying Ax culminates with both of them taking the fight into a muddy stream. Remebering part of his training, Ma improvises a strategy involving twirling his staff while submerged, causing the water to catch Flying Ax off-guard allowing Tsai to gain an advantage.
* ImprovisedWeapon: During the battle between Tsai Te-Chung and the villain Flying Ax, Tsai managed to disarm Flying Ax of his weapon by separating his ax and rope dart apart. Cue Flying Ax picking up his ax-head and a wooden pole, turning these into an improvised BladeOnAStick.
* MutualKill:
** The duel between Fang Da-hong and his designated opponent, Chien-san, ends with Fang crushing Chien's guts with a kick, but Chien at the same time uses his bare hands to crush Fang's skull. In his dying throes, Fang deliberately drags Chien into a nearby stream, ensuring that both of them drowns.
** Li-Shih-kai's battle against Chin ends with both men mortally wounding each other at the same time, respectively via giving each other the NeckSnap and AgonizingStomachWound simultaneously. Chin goes down first, and Li survives long enough to see Hu De-di, Tsai Te-Chung and Ma Chao-Hsing arriving as he succumbs.
* OneHitPolykill: In the final battle against the twin bodyguards, Hu De-di managed to defeat both of them at the same time by sending his flail's tip through both their chests as they're standing in a straight line.
* PrehensileHair: A variant, where General Chen's long braid ends with a hidden blade embedded in it's tip, which can be used as a deadly whip to great effect.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: This is General Chen's reaction after Hu De-di killed both his elite bodyguards via MutualKill. He didn't get far when Hu catches up with him and executes him with the same flail.
* SimpleStaff: Tsai Te-Chung uses a wooden staff as his preferred weapon.
* SlowMotionFall: For most of the villains, who takes at least 18 seconds each to collapse and fall upon their deaths.
* TrainingMontage: The five titular characters doesn't start immediately as masters, and need to go through a lengthy training scene to reach the peak of their skills.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: With the exception of Hu De-di, the other four of the titular five are often bare-chested, exposing their abs and muscles during their training and fight scenes. On the villain side, Chien-san and Flying Ax fights shirtless as well.
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