Product Details

• Actors: Shun-Yee Yuen, Siu Ming Tsui, Lung Chan, Siu-Pang Chan, Hsi Chang
• Directors: Woo-ping Yuen
• Writers: Siu Ming Tsui, Chi-ming Lam, Ching Wong
• Producers: Woo-ping Yuen, Vincent Leung
• Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Cantonese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Mandarin Chinese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Tai Seng
• DVD Release Date: April 25, 2000
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004RF3N
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,755 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Buddhist Fist" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

The story of two orphans who are raised separately by shaolin monks and trained in the lethal art of the buddhist fist. Fate reunites them after a series of attacks at the monastery and a surprise revelation leads to a duel to the death between the two brothers. Studio: Tai Seng Entertainment Release Date: 02/17/2004 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Yeun Wo Ping

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Buyers Beware!, July 9, 2000

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D+10 "66jzmstr" (Seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Buddhist Fist (DVD)

This is a wonderful, classic Yuen Wo Ping movie. It even stars Yuen Shun Yi, the star of Yuen Wo Ping's original sequel to Jackie's "Drunken Master", the amazing "Dance of the Drunk Mantis". There is one, very large downside to this though, regardless of the accompanying info Tai Seng printed to describe this disc, THERE ARE NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES! Please buyers beware! I first learned this at a wonderful website that includes a synopsis of DVD quality for nearly every version of every Hong Kong DVD you could imagine. Please visit here before buying your next Hong Kong DVD. You will find that some Hong Kong DVDs are of excellent quality, but you will also find that some are of either bad quality, or are misadvertised. "The Buddhist Fist", although a wonderful movie, is unfortunately a prime example of the latter.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars There is no reason not to like this movie!, April 8, 2000

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scott (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Buddhist Fist (DVD)

Another great movie from the Yuen clan.This one has Tsui Siu Ming(who also co-directed) and Yuen Shun Yee(A.K.A. Yuen Hsin Yee) as two orphan friends who were trained in martial arts since they were very young.After being together for a long time,Shun Yee has to leave and work in a near by town.Siu Ming on the other hand stays at the monastery and is framed for rape and murder by a greedy shop owner(Li Hai Sheng),and forced to steal a giant jade buddha.When Shun Yee's stepfather overhears Siu Ming and the shop owner talking,he's caught and tortured by Siu Ming.When Shun Yee returns to the country,he goes on a search for his stepfather,eventually finding that the villian is his best friend,which leads to the final confrontation of friend vs. friend.This movie came out in 1980 at a time when the Yuen clan's choreography seemed to get better with each movie.A lot of familiar faces in this movie.Yuen Siu Tin,Yuen Cheung Yan,Yuen Chun Yeung,and Yuen Yat Chor all have cameo roles.It's too bad that Yuen Shun Yee wasn't a bigger star on screen.He was definately great as a villian in films such as Drunken Tai-Chi,Dreadnaught,and the Miracle Fighter films.But he also proved himself as a good guy in this film as well as Dance of the Drunk Mantis.He shows up every now and then in films and he still does a lot of choreography work.The last thing I saw him in was Iron Monkey as the righteous manchu soldier.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars IF YOU LIKE THE ORIGINAL KUNG-FU FLIX THIS ONE IS IT., May 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Buddhist Fist (DVD)

THIS MOVIE FEATURES SOME OF THE MOST ORIGINAL AND ELECTRIFYING KUNG-FU STYLES IN THE BUSINESS. IF YOU LIKE THE ORIGINAL STYLE KUNG FU MOVIES THIS IS NO DOUBT ONE YOU HAVE TO HAVE.