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Brothers Five (1970)


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Iron_Leopard

Wooooooooow! Why isnt this movie more popular?

Are yawl sure this came out in 1970? These fight scenes are on a whole new level. This had to have been inspiration for "Five Deadly Venoms" as the story is almost identical. 

Cheng Pei Pei has more screen presence than any other actress I've seen so far at Shaw Brothers.  I think shes my favorite actress now and I haven't even seen "Shadow Whip" yet. I'm sure that one will seal the deal.

That's all I'll say cause I dont want to spoil anything. But if you haven't seen this one yet then add it to your Prime watchlist immediately. 

Yet another triumph for the late 60s/early 70s Golden Age of Shaw Wuxia.

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Chu Liu Hsiang

I revisited BROTHERS 5 about a year ago and found it very enjoyable, with especially beautiful landscape and settings. With its cheer for Teamwork, it even got something like a message :)

Waiting for a phone call, having little else to do at the moment, I thought about other titles with "numbered protagonists". There are quite a lot of them! 

THE MIGHTY ONE

DEADLY DUO, HEROES TWO, TWO CHAMPIONS OF SHAOLIN

SWORDSWOMEN THREE, MAGNIFICENT TRIO

FOUR RIDERS

FIVE SHAOLIN MASTERS, BROTHER FIVE, KILLERS FIVE,  FIVE VENOMS, FIVE TOUGH GUYS, FIVE SUPERFIGHTERS

SIX ASSASSINS

SEVEN MEN ARMY 

NOTORIOUS EIGHT

FOURTEEN AMAZONS

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12 gold medallions 

12 Deadly coins

The French titles of The Heroic ones is : Les 13 fils du Dragon d'Or 

The Chinese title of Avenging Eagle is something like The 13 assassins

And there are also such titles in the non Shaws' movies...

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13 minutes ago, ShawAngela said:

The French titles of The Heroic ones is : Les 13 fils du Dragon d'Or 

 

Let me test my French.... 13 Sons of the Golden Dragon or something?

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14 hours ago, Iron_Leopard said:

Cheng Pei Pei has more screen presence than any other actress I've seen so far at Shaw Brothers.  I think shes my favorite actress now and I haven't even seen "Shadow Whip" yet. I'm sure that one will seal the deal.

I'm actually in the middle of Shadow Whip right now.  Will probably do Brothers Five next.

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30 minutes ago, massa_yoda said:

I'm actually in the middle of Shadow Whip right now.  Will probably do Brothers Five next.

Nice. I'm doing "Shadow Whip" tonight.

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5 hours ago, TibetanWhiteCrane said:

Let me test my French.... 13 Sons of the Golden Dragon or something?

You got it.

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D'oh of course, how could I forget those titles.

14 hours ago, ShawAngela said:

The French titles of The Heroic ones is : Les 13 fils du Dragon d'Or 

LOL the German title translates to "13 sons of the yellow tiger". The guys who "translated" the titles then were obsessed with yellow tigers. 

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6 hours ago, Chu Liu Hsiang said:

D'oh of course, how could I forget those titles.

LOL the German title translates to "13 sons of the yellow tiger". The guys who "translated" the titles then were obsessed with yellow tigers. 

Lol... I know.... almost all the German titles has "Gelben Tiger" or "Gelben Drachen" in them.

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The Chinese titles for Painted faces, The imposter and A maid from Heaven have all the character for "seven" in them.

Seven golden vampires

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Chu Liu Hsiang

The original title for PAINTED FACES is Seven Little Fortunes. Got curious and checked the other titles you mentioned, THE IMPOSTER is Seven Face Man, MAID FROM HEAVEN is Seven Faires. 

FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS

36th CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN etc

SQUADRON 77

NA CHA AND THE SEVEN DEVILS

THE FIVE BILLION DOLLAR LEGACY

THE THREE SMILES

EIGHT DIAGRAM POLE FIGHTER

VIRGINS OF THE SEVEN SEAS

THREE SINNERS

We're really getting the Shaws by the numbers ;) 

 

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