Shaolin

[Drunk Monk]

Rewatched this again on Hoopla. It’s aged well. Im long past the original attachment to the 82 Shaolin Temple film, which is how this film was promoted initially while in production. Even wiki still says this is a remake, but it’s not even in the same dynasty (the original was the start of the Tang (618 CE) and this one was the RoC warlord period (1920s)). It struck me as more Benny Chan (director) which hadn’t been mentioned previously, especially with his swooping in from bird’s eye shots which were almost overdone. Xingyu is quite good in this, especially his coup de Grace. 

This was research for next week.