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Director:
Writer:
Tien Huang (screenplay)
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Release Date:
1 January 1980 (Hong Kong) more
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User Reviews:
Good solid kung fu film more (8 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)
Chia Hui Liu ... Hong Wen-Ting
Lieh Lo ... Priest White Lotus
Lung Wei Wang ... Governor Kau Tin-Chung
Kara Hui ... Mei-Hsiao (as Ying Hung Wai)
Hou Hsiao ... Personal Swordsman of White Lotus
Ching-Ching Yeung ... Ching-Ching (as Ching Ching Yeung)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Miao Ching
Chi Cheng Ho
Pa-Ching Huang
Fa Yuan Li
Hui Huang Lin
Ke Ming Lin
Yun-hsiang Peng
Hsien Sheng
Shan Tai
Wilson Tong (as Tang Wei-shing)
Chieh Kuang Wu
Hsi-guan Yang
Hua Yang
King Chu Lee ... Wu Ah-biu (uncredited)
Wing Leung To ... Bald monk in yellow (uncredited)
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Directed by
Lieh Lo 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Tien Huang  screenplay

Produced by
Mona Fong .... producer
Chia-Hsi Huang .... executive producer
Run Run Shaw .... producer
 
Original Music by
Eddie Wang 
 
Cinematography by
Chih Chun Ao 
 
Film Editing by
Hsing-lung Chiang 
Yen Hai Li 
 
Art Direction by
Johnson Tsao 
 
Costume Design by
Chi-Yu Liu 
 
Makeup Department
Yen-Lien Peng .... hair stylist
Hsu-Ching Wu .... makeup artist
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Pa-Ching Huang .... assistant director
Tai-Heng Li .... assistant director
 
Art Department
Kuo-hsing Huang .... props
Yu Lai .... props
 
Sound Department
Ping Kuang Hsu .... sound recordist
 
Stunts
Hou Hsiao .... assistant stunt coordinator
King Chu Lee .... assistant stunt coordinator (as King Chu)
Hsin Shen .... assistant stunt coordinator
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Fen Chen .... lighting technician
Ting Bong Yuen .... lighting technician
 
Other crew
Chen-yung Chou .... script supervisor
Chia-Liang Liu .... fight instructor
Chia-Liang Liu .... planner
Chih Hsien Wang .... production assistant
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Clan of the White Lotus (Hong Kong: English title)
Fists of the White Lotus (USA)
Hung Man-ding sam por bak lin gau (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
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Runtime:
USA:95 min
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Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Canada:13+ (Quebec)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Tiger style kung fu, practiced and showcased throughout the film is also called the "White Eyebrow system," based on the characteristics of the tiger, and was perfected by Taoist Priest Bak Mei. In some scenes in the movie, the Priest White Lotus seemingly cannot be touched or harmed. Legend tells that Priest Bak Mei trained so thoroughly that blows to his body and strikes by weapons actually caused little or no injury. more
Quotes:
Ah- Chang: [Hong Wen- Ting practices his sister's kung fu style] You know, that's too womanly. You carry on, you'll be a REAL woman. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) more

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1 out of 2 people found the following review useful.
Good solid kung fu film, 19 July 2005
7/10
Author: Chung Mo from NYC

Lo Lieh directs himself in this serio-comic kung fu outing.The best part of the film is the way Lo Lieh and Liu Chia Hui interact and get into their larger than life roles. There's lots of mass killing and tragedy at the beginning but by the time the film ends the whole thing has become very comic. The way the evil White Lotus is defeated is one of the strangest scenes in kung fu cinema.

The pacing of the film is slower than comparable films from Liu Chia Liang, who provided the fight choreography here. While the first fight scenes are just average, the final fight scenes have his visual touch on them and it seems he may have directed them.

The whole film is very colorful in the restored Celestial Pictures DVD and I recommend finding that over the U.S. TV print that is around.

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