- 7 Grandmasters
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name = 7 Grandmasters
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director =Joseph Kuo
producer = Joseph Kuo
writer = Yao Ching Kang, Joseph Kuo, Raymond To
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starring = Mark Long, Jack Long, Corey Yuen, Lee Yi Min
music = Chow Fook Leung
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released = 1978
runtime = 84 min
country = Taiwan
language = Mandarin
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amg_id = 1:179363
imdb_id = 0182666"7 Grandmasters" (虎豹龍蛇鷹絕拳) is an
Ocean Shore released film directed byJoseph Kuo , starring Mark Long, Jack Long, Corey Yuen and Lee Yi Min.Plot
Sang Kuan Chun (Jack Long) is an old kung fu master who is getting ready to retire from martial arts. He is satisfied that he's mastered the martial arts and is the best in China. But just as he is about to put up the kings signboard and call it quits, he receives a note alleging that he's not the best. Thus begins his journey for one last challenge with each of the Seven Grandmasters to prove his superiority. As Sang Kuan Chun and his three students travel from one challenge to the next, the foursome acquires a fifth--a young man named Siu Ying (Lee Yi Min) who wants desperately to train under master Sang Kuan Chun to avenge his father's death. So he tags along, despite the master's insistence that he will not accept any more students. Eventually we learn more about the master's past. His own teacher, before he died, left him the secret book of The Pai Mei Twelve Strikes. However a masked man soon stole several pages of the book, leaving only nine strikes. So, somewhere out there, is this unknown man, and he has the final three strikes of Pai Mei, which are the most deadly and can beat even the other nine strikes. Sang Kuan Chun soon accepts the seemingly devout Siu Ying and teaches him the nine known strikes of Pai Mei. Siu Ying ends up learning from his “uncle” that Sang Kuan Chun (who was set up) killed his father during a friendly tournament. Siu Ying is taught the final 3 strikes from a mysterious figure and almost kills Sang Kuan Chun until he realizes he is in the wrong. This all leads up to an exciting climax, where we learn the identity of the masked man who stole the Pai Mei final strikes and the identity of the man who killed Siu Ying's father.
Cast
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Li Yi Min – Siu Ying
*Jack Long – Sang Kuan Chun
*Mark Long – Sangs elder student
*Corey Yuen – Sun Hung
*Nancy Yen – Sang’s daughter
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