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Heroes of the East

NR
Movie
1978
1h 45m
Mandarin
Action
Gordon Liu stars as a Chinese martial arts student struggling to relate to his new Japanese wife. When a series of martial misunderstandings spirals into an international incident, he's forced to take on seven of Japan's most powerful martial arts masters, each an expert in a different discipline, ranging from karate to samurai to ninjitsu.
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Ching Miao
Ho To's father
Naozo Kato
Senior master Kato
Riki Harada
Japanese Kendo master
Nobuo Yana
Japanese Spear master
Hitoshi mae
Japanese Judo master
Lau Karleung
Master So
Norman Chui SiuKeung
Wang Chun Keung
Huang PaChing
Third Uncle
OuYang ShaFei
Third Aunt
Yuen SiuTien
Ho To's sifu
Chow SiuLoi
Ho To's sifu
Lee HoiSang
Martial art student
Wilson Tong
Martial art student
Peter Chan Lung
Martial art student
Yeung Wah
Martial art student
Hsiao Ho
Martial art student
King Lee KingChu
Martial art student
San Sin
Martial art student
Kei HoChiu
Martial art student/Servant
Ho BoSing
Martial art student/Servant
Directed By: Lau Kar-leung
Written By: Ni Kuang (Screenplay)

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Archangell says...
5 years ago
I originally knew this movie as Shaolin Challenges Ninja (due to the U.S. Title renaming of foreign films at the time) but regardless of the title, it is **STILL** one of my favorite martial arts {Kung-Fu} movies. I watched it again in 2019 and surprisingly, it still holds up. For the time period, it was shockingly not another "..._You killed my master/revenge_..." film that the genre was known for back in the 70s. It has a solid, down to earth plot which tries to explain **WHY** the combat engagements are taking place. This film really was ahead of its time in terms of narrative.
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beardedmovienut
10/10  3 years ago
There have been movies by Lau Kar-leung I find a bit hard to like, They are rare, but it happens. Heroes of the East is NOT one of them. I had this one and Dirty Ho on a bootleg VHS tape back in the late 80s. It was probably the most watched videotape I owned for a while there. So...when I got the S More
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