Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 5029090000139 Format: PAL Number Of Discs: 1
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Customer Rating: Summary: One of the Shaw Brothers best movies Comment: This is one of the most hilarious movies I have ever seen. Alexander Fu Sheng plays a thief who becomes friends with a young playboy played by Cheung Chin Pang (who is actually Fu Sheng's brother in real life). They find out about a treasure that villain Johnny Wang Lung Wei is after. Gordon Liu plays a Shaolin monk that is trying to keep the treasure safe, but just like all the movies that they starred in together, Wang Lung Wei gives Gordon one heck of a fight. I don't want to give away too much about the story, because this is a movie you need to experience for yourself. Make sure you have a kleenex box handy, because I had tears running down my face the entire movie from laughing so hard. Slapstick comedy at its finest.
The fighting in this movie is breathtaking at times. All of the fights are very good. I mean, you know that you are in good hands whenever Gordon Liu plays a monk. The movie is directed by Lau Kar Wing and it may just be his best directing job of his career. He has made some very good movies so that is saying quite a lot. And having Wang Lung Wei as the villain ensures that the action will be top notch. He does not play around in this movie. And I can't finish the review without talking about Fu Sheng and Cheung Chin Pang. I have only seen Cheung Chin Pang in a few movies, but this is the best I have seen from him. He is a great athlete and looks very good in his fights. And Fu Sheng doesn't do too bad himself. Also look out for Wilson Tong, Hsiao Hou and Yeung Hung (Brasshead from Kid With the Golden Arm). And director Lau Kar Wing gives himself a funny cameo fight scene.
This is one of those movies that gets more enjoyable every time I see it. I wrote a review after the first time I saw it and I gave it a 4/5 rating. Then I watched it again the next night and enjoyed it even more. Then I watched it again the next night and once again I enjoyed it even more!
Rating- 4.5/5
Make sure to get the region 3 IVL version, and not dubs from shlubs (quote from the reviewer named phil moscowitz). I had to give you props my friend. That is a great line, and I will be using it over and over and over again :-) Customer Rating: Summary: Kung fu comedy bolstered by three top fighting stars Comment: MASTER OF DISASTER (aka TREASURE HUNTERS, 1982) is a Hong Kong kung fu film that deserves to be seen because of its trio of top kung fu stars, its well-choreographed fight scenes, and the letter-boxed transfer seen in the currently available edition. While two of the stars, Alexander Fu Sheng and Gordon Liu, had appeared together in several superior films (LEGENDARY WEAPONS OF KUNG FU, INVINCIBLE POLE FIGHTER) and had each fought the third star (and chief villain here), Wang Lung Wei, in much better fight scenes in earlier films (THE CHINATOWN KID, FIST OF THE WHITE LOTUS), they're all still consistently exciting to watch in this well-mounted Shaw Bros. presentation.
The bad news is that one has to sit through lots of forced comedy on the part of Fu Sheng and his onscreen partner, newcomer Chang Chan Peng (who seemed to have disappeared from films thereafter) and several supporting players, including a bumbling, cross-eyed police captain (To Siu Ming) whose interference constantly impedes the already underdeveloped plot, which has to do with various parties searching for a hidden treasure to which none have any clear leads.
The director is Lau Kar Wing, who was a competent fight choreographer and actor (he appears here as an elderly, kung fu-fighting antiques dealer) and also directed HE HAS NOTHING BUT KUNG FU, FISTS AND GUTS, DIRTY KUNG FU, and ODD COUPLE. However, he lacks the sure hand and confident touch of his masterful older brother Lau Kar Leung (aka Liu Chia Liang), who showed how to blend comic bits and kung fu more seamlessly in such films as DIRTY HO (1979) and MY YOUNG AUNTIE (1981). This low-cost tape edition of TREASURE HUNTERS at least offers a letter-boxed transfer, a boon to kung fu fans because it enables us to see all of the action.
Customer Rating: Summary: Awesome Fu Sheng and Gordon Liu starrer Comment: The box art has Gordon Liu all over the box, but this is primarily a Fu Sheng vehicle. You would think that a movie called Treasure Hunters and starring Fu Sheng and Gordon Liu would have the two of them as treasure hunters. Uh-uh. Fu Sheng is the treasure hunter here with Chang Chan Peng. Gordon Liu enters later as a Buddhist monk. The movie starts out as a straight up Fu Sheng comedy, with Fu Sheng portraying the upstart, cocky, brash, smirky, highly skilled ruffian he plays all so well. He is in top form here. At first, Gordon Liu's appearance comes across as a cameo, and you say to yourself "but of course...yet another shamelessly marketed film 'co-starring' Gordon Liu." Fu Sheng plays strictly for laughs in high comedy with outright slapstick. Just when I'm about to dismiss the film as some low-brow screwball comedy, THEN THINGS GET INTERESTING... Gordon Liu returns and gets involved in some wicked hard-core Buddhist monk Shaolin kung fu with the villians. Shaw Brothers hugely popular villian, Wong Lung Wei (the paunchy never-smiles mustached villian that ALWAYS plays the evil magistrate/junior boss/super villian's right hand guy), gets cooking with his female compatriot. In this one he's the main villian. We get a look at the awesome "Five Monk Array" and I'm starting to really get into this film. The film does the nearly unthinkable of mixing a screwball Fu Sheng comedy with a serioso Gordon Liu deadpan hard-core kung fu flick...AND IT WORKS! Also if you like Lung Wei, this is perhaps one of his biggest roles, comparable to his role in Instructors of Death. You will love this film! Customer Rating: Summary: This is some good Gordon Liu Kung Fu! Comment: Treasure Hunters was actually released as a movie called Dirty Ho. Ho is a man that Gordon liu (the 11th prince) meets at a bar. Ho becomes Liu's servant who must call Liu master after he loses a bet with Liu. There is comedy, beautiful sets and costumes, and the kung fu is off the hook especially the last fight with Lo Lieh. If you are looking for Quality Gordon Liu shaw brothers movies then get this one. Customer Rating: Summary: DECEPTIVE PACKAGING, SUBSTANDARD MARTIAL ARTS Comment: If I can spare just one person from this video, this review will have been worth it. Appalling third rate kung-fu movie with a couple of unrelated(& unremarkable) Jackie Chan scenes spliced in. After Bill Wallace appeared in the opening scene, I looked forward to his return, WHICH NEVER OCCURED! Only one decent martial artist appears, but only in the last five minutes or so. Sadistic slapping of women & burning of wheelchair bound. Gives kung-fu movies the reputation they have with the uninitiated.
