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Duel to the Death [VHS]

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this movies got it all... shoalin monks, ninja, samurai, all of which come together for the ultimate swordsman competition. The fight scenes are super tech, with just the right touch of comic book cinematography. Get the widesceen version.

Oh, yeah! Everything you always wanted from a Golden Harvest swordplay movie; honor, betrayel, ninjas flying through forrests like superman, severd arms and legs, decapitations and fountains of blood! Needless to say, this isn't a movie to watch for an increadable plot, top notch cinamatography or acadamy award winning acting, but for action, great swordfigthing scenes and a comic-book storyline, look no further. This movie is high on the entertainment value, and has more wire flying than a year's worth of Barnum & Baily circus. If you love the hokey old Golden Harvest Kung-Fu movies, you have got to check out this title. Look for the scene where the monk is decapitated, his head flies into and is impaled on a pranch, then after muttering "A monk feels no pain", the severed head exploads! A true Saturday night classic!

A good but strange movie about a match up between China and Japan's two greatest warriors.The competition is held by a chinese family whose ancestors had defeated the japanese in this event in previous battles.The only problem is that the master of this family is planning on killing the chinese warrior,and placing his daughter in the competition.Along with a crooked japanese monk, who is only interested in learning the chinese arts,they plan to corrupt the match.The japanese warrior(Tsui Siu Keung) isnt planning on helping, and is an honorable samurai who wishes to fight to the death to see who is truly the better warrior.The chinese warrior(Damian Lau) is similar to the japanese man in this way,until the end when he doesn't wish to fight.Although he does anyway.The sword fights are great,although i'm not the biggest fan of the wire work which is a little overdone during the sword fights.During the hand to hand combat,the wire work is kept to a minimum.There isn't a whole lot of empty hand fighting, but what there is of it is quite good.Casanova Wong has a small roll in the movie as a chinese master who uses a nice combo of sword and foot against a bunch of ninja.

In only 1 and a half hours this films shows everything which a martial arts fan wants to see: a lot of swordfighting, martial arts, great coreographies, plus and amazing plot full of betrayals and misteries. If you're bored at home, login your computer and buy this film right now. One last thing, here you can watch the most amazing ninjas ever doing all kinds of stuff, from fotocopying some manuscrites to throw shurikens as fast as bullets, this ninjas rule.

Another masterpiece from Ching Siu Tung. If you liked A Chinese Ghost Story or the Swordsman Series (both from Ching Siu Tung) you will love this movie. It has a great story of two swordsmen forced into a duel to the death. The ending is incredible and shocking.

That is my favorite line in the whole movie. The wire work is quite out standing especially the final fight. This movie has mostly samuri to shaolin sword style fighting but there is chinese vs. chinese, kwan-do vs. samuri, sprear to samuri, a little bit of hand to hand combat and monks spade vs. ninjitsu. The ninjas are cooler than the monks because they have very cool tricks. The plot is very good and during english class when you are bored, you can contimplate it rather than shakespear(that's what I do). So, if you are wanting to do somthing fun and you need a good movie, this would be a very good choice.

Ninjas, sholin monks, bad acting, and exploding body parts of card board. This movie has it all! Watching how the ninjas do those impossible would just leave you laughing Watch for it

Great movie... all martial artist must see this movie. Even if you don't like wire. many diferents swords styles, and non stop action.. buy it..