Brothers Five
1970 film
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Traditional Chinese | 五虎屠龍 |
Simplified Chinese | 五虎屠龙 |
Hanyu Pinyin | Wǔ Hǔ Tú Lóng |
Directed by | Lo Wei |
Written by | Ni Kuang Lo Wei |
Produced by | Runme Shaw |
Cinematography | Wu Cho-hua |
Edited by | Chiang Hsing-lung |
Music by | Wang Fu-ling |
Production company | Shaw Brothers Studio |
Distributed by | Shaw Brothers Studio |
Release date |
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Running time | 109 minutes |
Country | Hong Kong |
Language | Mandarin |
Brothers Five (Chinese: 五虎屠龍) is a 1970 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Lo Wei and produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio.
Plot
Five brothers were separated at birth when the evil lord of Flying Dragon Villa murdered their father. The children’s caretaker sliced the backs of their left hands so that they would be able to one day reunite and take their revenge on the evil lord (Tien Feng). Yen Lai (Cheng Pei-pei) is a woman who must reunite the Kao brothers to rid the Teng Lung Manor of killers whilst avenging the murder of their father.[1]
Cast
- Cheng Pei-pei as Miss Yen Hsing-kung
- Lo Lieh as Kao Hsia
- Chang Yi as Scholar Kao Chih
- Yueh Hua as Valet Kao Wei
- Chin Han as Blacksmith Kao Hao
- Kao Yuen as Security chief Kao Yung
- Tien Feng as Master Lung Cheng-feng
- Unicorn Chan as Flying Fork Wang
- Wang Hsieh [fr] as Wang Liao'er
- Sammo Hung as Chu, escort service man
- Ku Feng as Lord Wan Bo-fu
- James Tien as Master Ting Zhi-shan
- Nam Wai-lit as Li Xiaosan
- Chin Chun as Wang's thug
- Lee Wan-chung as Butler Teng
- Lee Ka-ting as Master Yau
- Chow Siu-loi as Wang Fat
- Lee Sau-kei as Lung's servant
- Tsang Choh-lam [fr] as waiter
- Chu Gam as waiter
- Hao Li-jen as villager
- To Man-bo
- Someno Yukio as escort service man
- Ling Hon as servant
- Luk Chuen as Wan's man
- Wu Chi-chin as Lung's gate guard
- Yeung Chak-lam as Lung's gate guard
- Kwan Yan as restaurant customer
- Wong Chi-ming as one of the Weird Eight
- Kei Ho-chiu as Lung's thug
- Hoh Wan as Lung's bodyguard
- Wong Kung-miu as villager
- Goo Chim-hung as villager
- Lam Yuen
- Gam Tin-chue
- Lam Ching-ying
- Sham Chin-bo
- Fuk Yan-cheng
References
- ^ "Brothers Five (1970)". silveremulsion.com. 1970. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
External links
- Brothers Five at HKcinemamagic.com
- Brothers Five at IMDb
- Brothers Five at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
- Brothers Five at Douban (in Chinese)
- Brothers Five at Rotten Tomatoes
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Films by Lo Wei
- Crocodile River (1965)
- Angel with the Iron Fists (1967)
- Death Valley (1968)
- Brothers Five (1970)
- Vengeance of a Snow Girl (1971)
- The Invincible Eight (1971)
- The Big Boss (1971)
- Fist of Fury (1972)
- A Man Called Tiger (1973)
- Naughty! Naughty! (1974)
- New Fist of Fury (1976)
- Killer Meteors (1976)
- To Kill with Intrigue (1977)
- Magnificent Bodyguards (1978)
- Immortal Warriors (1978)
- Spiritual Kung Fu (1978)
- Dragon Fist (1979)
- Shaolin Wooden Men (1976)
- Snake & Crane Arts of Shaolin (1978)
- Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1978)
- Blade of Fury (1993)
- Fearless Hyena Part II (1983, also produced)