Executioners From Shaolin
Posted by Skrud at Wednesday, August 4th 2004 at 12:50pm
Many of you may remember Pai Mei from “Kill Bill Vol. 2”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378194/. Well this is the original Shaw Brothers movie that features Pai Mei: “Executioners From Shaolin”:http://www.fantasiafest.com/en/films/film_detail.php?id=1017. This 1977 old-school kung fu movie begins as the Shaolin Temple is being raided by Pai Mei and kills their master. The survivors flee and hide so that they can regroup and eventually avenge their master. However in the meantime the group’s leader (Hung Hsi-Kuan) trains his kung fu (tiger boxing) and marries Wan Yung-Chun, a crane-style martial artist who can keep her legs closed with immense strength so that no one can part them. (As you can imagine, their wedding night is kinky…). Time passes in this movie more quickly than one can really perceive .. because first they have a 10 year old son and then he’s 20 almost instantaneoulsy. … Anyway as it turns out Pai Mai’s weak point is his testicles, which he has the power to retract. There’s no such thing as the “five point buddha palm” in this movie, Pai Mai actually just catches people’s kicks with his balls and then drags them around on the ground. And then awesome kung fu fighting happens. :)
Umm… Didn’t 8th Diagram Pole Fighter come out before this? I think that had Pai Mei (Poon Mei) also… And in Kill Bill it was the 5 Point Exploding Heart Technique. The Buddha’s Palm I think was from Iron Monkey. Hate to be somewhat buttpluggy in my nitpickiness, but it IS Chinese stuff, and you know me… ;)
Whatever it was called… I don’t remember Pai Mei in 8th Diagram Pole Fighter…
But either way, 8 Diagram Pole Fighter: 1983, Executioners from Shaolin: 1977. It’s like Star Wars and Return of the Jedi.