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A temple in China.
In the 6th century, a Buddhist monk came to China...
A drawing of a monk.
A book cover with Chinese font on it.
...He lived in the Shaolin temple where he trained young men in the spiritual and physical rigours of martial arts.
Different drawing of kung fu fighters.
He founded the Shaolin school of Kung Fu fighting as seen in the Hand of Death.
A gong sounds and trumpets play.
A caption reads: The Hand of Death.
We slowly zoom into a temple.
Outside we see a series of flags stuck into the ground and a group of monks all kneeling in formation.
We pan across different monks wearing grey outfits all standing.
Through the years, circumstances forced the Shaolin disciples to form themselves into many different sects throughout the country.
A man on a horse lowers his arm giving the signal for a man with a sword to decapitate a hostage. We zoom in on the sword as it is lifted.
During the Ching Dynasty, the Manchu's hounded the Shaolin fighters, persecuting them and torturing them to death.
A sword fight takes place on a second floor. A man is knocked back, smashing through a barrier and falling several feet to the floor via a table.
Many rebels joined the movement but this was to prove disastrous...
A group of fighters hold swords in front of them as they crouch down.
...for it also gave the Manchus the opportunity to infiltrate spies in the guise of revolutionaries into the Shaolin Temple to gain knowledge of the disciples' famed martial arts.
A man dressed in a red robe stands before a group of fighters awaiting instruction.
He fights against one of his students.
The stork fist.
He punches the student who flies to the grass.
The iron palm.
At night, the man in red dodges an attack from a shirtless opponent then delivers a slap that sends him into a table.
The eagle hand.
Beside a river, a man in white fends off two attackers with a series of punches and dodges.
The charging broadsword.
The man in red and white fight each other with swords.
The Hand of Death.
In a valiant move to counter the tyrannical rule of the Manchus, temple elders trained a youth in the best of Shaolin martial arts.
A man in white stands among the other fighters.
He bows down in front of a stone formation.
Truimphant music plays.
Piling power punches.
He carries out an demostration of punches and different poses with his hands.
The rebound kick.
On either side of him, fighters in grey line up as he kicks and fights them each one at a time.
The tiger club.
He attacks a man from behind with a stick then fights off three attackers.
And the dragon sword.
He fights four attackers using a sword to fend off their stick attacks.
He stands among nature with a mountain backdrop. He poses forward with his sword and cuts a leaf from a growing flower.
The Hand of Death also includes the continuous sword.
Two men in black fight him with metal poles which he defends against with his sword.
The baroque lance.
Using a metal lance, he fights off two attackers, constantly spinning it.
And the tiger claw.
He is about to slap a fighter when his opponent stops him by grabbing his arm. He looks at the hand stopping him and his opponent moves his hands like claws.
The Shaolin fighter has perfected every facet of kung fu so that a man could deal with any type of attack in both armed and unarmed combat.
A woman shyly appears from behind a dressing screen.
She removes her robe and is naked as she approaches a man lying on a bed.
They lay down on the bed kissing each other.
A close-up of a nipple.
The Hand of Death.
Four men ride on horses.
To portray the Shaolin martial arts on screen, Golden Harvest films called on ace director Woo Yu Sen.
A close-up of the different actors when their name is read out.
Hung Chin-Pao. Starring Tan Tao-liang. James Tien. Chen Yuan-Lung. And Yang Wei.
Who take their filming seriously.
Two hands grab against each other in a fight.
A fight takes place against a mountain backdrop with the man in red against a shirtless opponent. They exchange blows with the man in red gaining the upper hand and punching him to the ground. He comes back with a flying kick which misses and attempts more kicks.
Two men hold each others hands in a grip facing each other while one kicks the other.
Don't miss it! Mr Eric Yung guarantees you a great film. Be sure to see The Hand of Death.
He kicks his opponent who flies through the air and crashes through a set of large, black clay pots.
Soon on this screen.
Arrow Video
When Golden Harvest first released Hand of Death in 1976, no-one paid much attention to the names of writer/director Wu Yu-sheng, third-billed actor Chen Yuen-lung or fight choreographer Hung Chin-pao in the opening credits. Within a decade, however, each of those men had changed the course of Hong Kong action filmmaking forever, under the names they are best known under to this day: John Woo, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung.
After a traitor of the Shaolin temple, Shih Shao-Feng (James Tien, The Big Boss), has eliminated thousands of his former colleagues in exchange for power from the Manchus under the Qing dynasty, a surviving master of Shaolin, Yun Fei (Tan Tao-Liang), is tasked with the mission of bringing Shih to justice. In order to defeat Shih's overwhelmingly large army - led by the ruthless Tu Qing (Sammo Hung) - Yun Fei will need to team up with a skilled blacksmith (Jackie Chan) and a reluctant swordsman to beat the odds and avenge his fallen brothers.
With early signs of John Woo's affinity for brotherly bonding amidst heroic bloodshed, and featuring one of Jackie Chan's earliest speaking roles after proving his mettle as a stuntman, Hand of Death is an old school hard-hitting kung fu gem (with a dash of wuxia) that any fan of classic Hong Kong cinema needs in their collection!
Product Features
- 2K restoration from original film elements by Fortune Star
- High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray transfer
- Original lossless Mandarin and English mono, plus Cantonese stereo and 5.1 remixes in Mandarin and English
- Optional English subtitles
- Brand new feature commentary by martial arts cinema experts Frank Djeng & Michael Worth
- From Hong Kong to Hollywood, an archive featurette on John Woo's early career, including interviews with Woo, Chow Yun-fat and Peter Lau
- Never-before-seen archive interview with star Tan Tao-Liang, filmed by his former student Michael Worth
- Archive interview with co-star Sammo Hung
- Alternate credits sequence, as Countdown to Kung Fu
- Trailer gallery
- Image gallery
- Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch
- Illustrated collectors' booklet featuring new writing by film programmer William Blaik
- Limited Edition slipcover featuring newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch
- Arrow video
- 97 mins approx
- R
- 2.35:1
- Mandarin
- 1
- Arrow video
- John Woo
- Cantonese
- English
- Tao-Liang Tan
- Jackie Chan
- Ching Chu
- English
- 1976
- A
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A temple in China.
In the 6th century, a Buddhist monk came to China...
A drawing of a monk.
A book cover with Chinese font on it.
...He lived in the Shaolin temple where he trained young men in the spiritual and physical rigours of martial arts.
Different drawing of kung fu fighters.
He founded the Shaolin school of Kung Fu fighting as seen in the Hand of Death.
A gong sounds and trumpets play.
A caption reads: The Hand of Death.
We slowly zoom into a temple.
Outside we see a series of flags stuck into the ground and a group of monks all kneeling in formation.
We pan across different monks wearing grey outfits all standing.
Through the years, circumstances forced the Shaolin disciples to form themselves into many different sects throughout the country.
A man on a horse lowers his arm giving the signal for a man with a sword to decapitate a hostage. We zoom in on the sword as it is lifted.
During the Ching Dynasty, the Manchu's hounded the Shaolin fighters, persecuting them and torturing them to death.
A sword fight takes place on a second floor. A man is knocked back, smashing through a barrier and falling several feet to the floor via a table.
Many rebels joined the movement but this was to prove disastrous...
A group of fighters hold swords in front of them as they crouch down.
...for it also gave the Manchus the opportunity to infiltrate spies in the guise of revolutionaries into the Shaolin Temple to gain knowledge of the disciples' famed martial arts.
A man dressed in a red robe stands before a group of fighters awaiting instruction.
He fights against one of his students.
The stork fist.
He punches the student who flies to the grass.
The iron palm.
At night, the man in red dodges an attack from a shirtless opponent then delivers a slap that sends him into a table.
The eagle hand.
Beside a river, a man in white fends off two attackers with a series of punches and dodges.
The charging broadsword.
The man in red and white fight each other with swords.
The Hand of Death.
In a valiant move to counter the tyrannical rule of the Manchus, temple elders trained a youth in the best of Shaolin martial arts.
A man in white stands among the other fighters.
He bows down in front of a stone formation.
Truimphant music plays.
Piling power punches.
He carries out an demostration of punches and different poses with his hands.
The rebound kick.
On either side of him, fighters in grey line up as he kicks and fights them each one at a time.
The tiger club.
He attacks a man from behind with a stick then fights off three attackers.
And the dragon sword.
He fights four attackers using a sword to fend off their stick attacks.
He stands among nature with a mountain backdrop. He poses forward with his sword and cuts a leaf from a growing flower.
The Hand of Death also includes the continuous sword.
Two men in black fight him with metal poles which he defends against with his sword.
The baroque lance.
Using a metal lance, he fights off two attackers, constantly spinning it.
And the tiger claw.
He is about to slap a fighter when his opponent stops him by grabbing his arm. He looks at the hand stopping him and his opponent moves his hands like claws.
The Shaolin fighter has perfected every facet of kung fu so that a man could deal with any type of attack in both armed and unarmed combat.
A woman shyly appears from behind a dressing screen.
She removes her robe and is naked as she approaches a man lying on a bed.
They lay down on the bed kissing each other.
A close-up of a nipple.
The Hand of Death.
Four men ride on horses.
To portray the Shaolin martial arts on screen, Golden Harvest films called on ace director Woo Yu Sen.
A close-up of the different actors when their name is read out.
Hung Chin-Pao. Starring Tan Tao-liang. James Tien. Chen Yuan-Lung. And Yang Wei.
Who take their filming seriously.
Two hands grab against each other in a fight.
A fight takes place against a mountain backdrop with the man in red against a shirtless opponent. They exchange blows with the man in red gaining the upper hand and punching him to the ground. He comes back with a flying kick which misses and attempts more kicks.
Two men hold each others hands in a grip facing each other while one kicks the other.
Don't miss it! Mr Eric Yung guarantees you a great film. Be sure to see The Hand of Death.
He kicks his opponent who flies through the air and crashes through a set of large, black clay pots.
Soon on this screen.
Arrow Video
When Golden Harvest first released Hand of Death in 1976, no-one paid much attention to the names of writer/director Wu Yu-sheng, third-billed actor Chen Yuen-lung or fight choreographer Hung Chin-pao in the opening credits. Within a decade, however, each of those men had changed the course of Hong Kong action filmmaking forever, under the names they are best known under to this day: John Woo, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung.
After a traitor of the Shaolin temple, Shih Shao-Feng (James Tien, The Big Boss), has eliminated thousands of his former colleagues in exchange for power from the Manchus under the Qing dynasty, a surviving master of Shaolin, Yun Fei (Tan Tao-Liang), is tasked with the mission of bringing Shih to justice. In order to defeat Shih's overwhelmingly large army - led by the ruthless Tu Qing (Sammo Hung) - Yun Fei will need to team up with a skilled blacksmith (Jackie Chan) and a reluctant swordsman to beat the odds and avenge his fallen brothers.
With early signs of John Woo's affinity for brotherly bonding amidst heroic bloodshed, and featuring one of Jackie Chan's earliest speaking roles after proving his mettle as a stuntman, Hand of Death is an old school hard-hitting kung fu gem (with a dash of wuxia) that any fan of classic Hong Kong cinema needs in their collection!
Product Features
- 2K restoration from original film elements by Fortune Star
- High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray transfer
- Original lossless Mandarin and English mono, plus Cantonese stereo and 5.1 remixes in Mandarin and English
- Optional English subtitles
- Brand new feature commentary by martial arts cinema experts Frank Djeng & Michael Worth
- From Hong Kong to Hollywood, an archive featurette on John Woo's early career, including interviews with Woo, Chow Yun-fat and Peter Lau
- Never-before-seen archive interview with star Tan Tao-Liang, filmed by his former student Michael Worth
- Archive interview with co-star Sammo Hung
- Alternate credits sequence, as Countdown to Kung Fu
- Trailer gallery
- Image gallery
- Double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch
- Illustrated collectors' booklet featuring new writing by film programmer William Blaik
- Limited Edition slipcover featuring newly commissioned artwork by Colin Murdoch
- Arrow video
- 97 mins approx
- R
- 2.35:1
- Mandarin
- 1
- Arrow video
- John Woo
- Cantonese
- English
- Tao-Liang Tan
- Jackie Chan
- Ching Chu
- English
- 1976
- A
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