Martial Arts Film Where Master Blocks Monks From Crossing Stream Bridge

1978 film

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
36th Sleeping room of Shaolin poster
Traditional	少林三十六房
Simplified	少林三十六房
Mandarin	Shǎolín sānshíliù fáng
Cantonese	Siu 3 Lam four saam 1 sap 6 luk 6 fong 4
Directed by	Lau Kar-leung
Written by	I Kuang
Produced by	Mona Fong Run Run Shaw
Starring	Gordon Liu Lo Lieh
Cinematography	Huang Yeh-tai
Edited by	Geung Hing Lung Li Yen-Hai
Music past	Chen Yung-Yu
Distributed by	Shaw Brothers Studio
Release date	1978 (1978)
Running fourth dimension	115 minutes[1]
Countries	Hong Kong, Mainland china
Linguistic communication	Mandarin

The 36th Chamber of Shaolin , also known equally The Master Killer , Shaolin Master Killer and Shao Lin San Shi Liu Fang , is a 1978 Hong Kong kung fu film directed by Lau Kar-leung and produced past Shaw Brothers, starring Gordon Liu. The picture follows a highly fictionalized version of San Te, a legendary Shaolin martial arts disciple who trained under the general Chi Shan.

The 36th Sleeping accommodation of Shaolin is widely considered to be 1 of the greatest kung fu films and a turning point in its director's and star's careers.^{[2] [3] [4]} It was followed past Return to the 36th Sleeping room, which was more comedic in presentation and featured Gordon Liu as the new main character with another actor in the smaller part of San Te, and Disciples of the 36th Chamber.

Plot [edit]

A immature pupil named Liu Yude is drawn by his activist instructor into the local rebellion against the Manchu government. The government officials, headed by the fell General Tien Ta, however, speedily find and suppress the insurgence, liquidating the schoolhouse and killing the students' friends and family members. Yude decides to seek vengeance and liberation for the people, and heads for the Shaolin temple to learn kung fu.

Wounded by Manchu henchmen during an escape, Yude reaches the temple and seeks sanctuary. Initially the monks reject him, since he is an outsider, but the chief abbot has mercy on the fellow and lets him stay. One year subsequently, Yude - now known equally San Te - begins his martial arts training in the temple'southward 35 chambers, in each of which the temple's novices are trained in one aspect of the kung fu fighting arts.

The chambers shown in San Te's training are equally follows (names of the chambers, if given, are from the subtitles and in quotation marks):

• "Top Chamber": This is considered the highest-level chamber, where the monks are reciting the Buddhist sutras from retention. When the caput master of the bedchamber tells San Te to leave due to his ignorance of the sutras, San Te protests, but for the head main to knock him down from a altitude. San Te flees the chamber, and agrees to start at a lower level.
• "35th Sleeping accommodation": This chamber teaches lightness and residual. Monks in training must jump on a bundle of sticks floating in a puddle of water to reach the dining hall. Falling in the water requires the monk to dry out his apparel off before inbound the dining hall (by which time the food is all gone).
• 3rd Chamber: This chamber trains arm strength. Monks must conduct water in buckets with blades attached to their arms to continue the arms held straight out. The sleeping room also serves as the monastery'south laundry.
• Fourth Bedroom: This chamber trains wrist strength. Monks must strike a gong with a weighted pole to the rhythm of the head master's striking his wooden fish.
• Fifth Chamber: This chamber trains eyesight. Monks must follow a light without turning their heads, or risk getting burned by big sticks of incense.
• Sixth Bedroom: This sleeping room trains head forcefulness. Monks must headbutt their way through a corridor of sandbags and then place incense sticks on an altar. This is the last workout chamber; after passing this bedroom, San Te is immune to learn kung fu techniques.
• Seventh Chamber: This is the chamber for training empty-hand forms and techniques.
• "Leg Sleeping room": This sleeping accommodation trains kicking techniques.
• "Sword Bedroom": This sleeping room trains broadsword techniques.
• Ninth Chamber: This chamber trains staff techniques.

San Te advances more quickly than any previous student, reaching the rank of deputy overseer inside the space of half-dozen years. Challenged by the monastery's Subject field Chief, who thinks him unfit for his part, San Te has several exhibition matches with him, only to be beaten each time. However, afterward inventing the three section staff, San Te finally prevails and gains the principal abbot's permission to become overseer of one of the chambers.

When San Te professes that he wants to create a new chamber where he tin can train ordinary people in the basics of kung fu so they can defend themselves against their oppressors, the temple officially banishes him in a hole-and-corner way to allow him to carry out his mission. He returns to the outside world, namely to his hometown, and assists the people, gathering several immature men who loyally follow him and get his commencement students. Before the political revolution where his aspirations attain completion, he is forced into disharmonize with Tien Ta. A fierce duel ensues, where San Te is victorious. Finally, he returns to the Shaolin temple, where he establishes the 36th sleeping room, a special martial arts class for laypeople to acquire kung fu.

Cast [edit]

• Liu Yude/Monk San Te - portrayed by Gordon Liu
• Full general Tien Ta - portrayed past Lo Lieh
• Rice Miller Six - portrayed past Wong Yue
• Hung Hsi-Kuan - portrayed by Yu Yang
• Lu Ah-Tsai - portrayed past Hsu Shao-Chiang
• Tung Chien-Ching - portrayed past Wu Hang-Sheng
• Abbot of Justice Office - portrayed past Lee Hoi-sang

Production [edit]

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Release [edit]

The film was released on VHS as early as 1993.^[5] Information technology was released on DVD in February 2000 past Crash Cinema Media under the championship Shaolin Main Killer.^[6] In 2007, information technology was released on DVD past Dragon Dynasty every bit The 36th Sleeping room of Shaolin.^[vii] It was released on Blu-ray on 2 March 2010 from Vivendi Visual Amusement. The film aired on the El Rey Network in 2016,^[8] and is now available on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.

Reception [edit]

36th Chamber of Shaolin has received massive universal acclaim and is widely considered to be i of the greatest kung fu films ever made and a highly influential entry in the genre.^{[2] [3] [iv]}

According to the Harvard Film Archive, the film is an "exhilarating rendition of the legendary broadcasting of the Shaolin martial arts" and an "arresting account of [an] initiation into the vaunted Shaolin style, ... depicted here [as] an inner voyage of discovery."^[i]

In 2014, Fourth dimension Out polled several film critics, directors, actors and stunt actors to list their top action films.^[9] The 36th Chamber of Shaolin was listed in 22nd place on this list.^[10]

Influences [edit]

• The Wu-Tang Clan'southward debut album Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) got the latter part of its name from the film. In addition, Wu-Tang Clan member Masta Killa takes his proper noun from i of the film'due south alternate titles.^[11]

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} "Shaw Telescopic: A History of the Shaw Bros. Studio". Harvard Film Archive. 2008. Retrieved 12 Apr 2014. A baldheaded and tautly muscled Lau Kar-fai (Gordon Liu Jiahui) headlines this exhilarating rendition of the legendary dissemination of the Shaolin martial arts. Lau plays a real-life figure long-since transmuted into myth, a Chinese commoner on the run from Manchu oppressors (including a glowering Luo Lie) who seeks refuge at the Shaolin Temple. The motion-picture show is an absorbing business relationship of his initiation into the vaunted Shaolin style, known for its emphasis on the external and the physical. Merely as depicted here the training process is very much an inner voyage of discovery; the novice must work his style through a series of torturous "chambers" before becoming the newly minted monk, San De.
2. ^ ^{a b} Pollard, Mark (26 June 2007). "Movie Reviews: 36th Bedchamber of Shaolin". Kung Fu Cinema. Archived from the original on 10 December 2012.
3. ^ ^{a b} Neveu, Janick (27 August 2003). "36th Chamber of Shaolin Review". Kung Fu Cult Movie theatre. Archived from the original on fourteen May 2008.
4. ^ ^{a b} Sanjuro (2003). "Reviews: The 36th Sleeping accommodation of Shaolin". LoveHKFilm.com.
5. ^ Master Killer [VHS]. ASIN 6302860717.
6. ^ Shaolin Master Killer (Widescreen ed.). ASIN 6305511705.
7. ^ Gibron, Neb (24 Jan 2008). "Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2014. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin represents a directorial tour de force for Chia-Liang Liu. It is a sumptuous movie to look at, a movie that takes its varying fight facets very seriously.
8. ^ "Schedule". El Rey. ten June 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
9. ^ "The 100 all-time activity movies". Time Out . Retrieved 7 November 2014.
10. ^ "The 100 best action movies: thirty-21". Time Out. 3 November 2014. Retrieved vii November 2014.
11. ^ "Wu-Tang's RZA Breaks Down 10 Kung Fu Films He'southward Sampled". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2020.

External links [edit]

• The 36th Sleeping room of Shaolin at IMDb
• The 36th Chamber of Shaolin at Rotten Tomatoes
• The 36th Chamber of Shaolin at AllMovie

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