MOVIE · 1980
Return to the 36th Chamber
ActionAdventureComedy101 min
After a dye factory slashes wages and brings in Manchu thugs to force more work, the laborers hire a fast-talking actor to impersonate a Shaolin priest and kung-fu expert. Chia-Hui Liu is the bluffing performer, whose scheme falls apart and leaves the workers punished. Ashamed, he heads for the Shaolin temple to learn the skills he only pretended to have and to win over monks who see through him immediately. Lung-Wei Wang figures among the forces lined up against the workers, as the story moves from factory-floor unrest and comic deception to hard-earned martial arts training.
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