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Released
1980 · FILM

Return to the 36th Chamber

Back for the rest!

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Written by
Runtime
101 min
Language
ZH
ActionComedy

Synopsis

Workers at a dye factory have their wages reduced by 20 % after the owner hires Manchu thugs to boost production. To recover their full pay, the workers enlist an actor who pretends to be a priest and kung‑fu expert from the Shaolin temple. The owner exposes the actor as a fraud and punishes everyone involved. Feeling he has failed the workers, the young actor vows to make amends; he travels to Shaolin with the intention of being accepted as a kung‑fu pupil at the elite monastery.

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Principal cast & crew: 17

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Craft leads on file

Edited by Hsing Lung ChiangShot by Peter Ngor Chi KwanScored by Eddie Wang

Also known as

  • Die Rückkehr zu den 36 Kammern der Shaolinde
  • Return of the Master Killeren
  • Return to the 36th Chamberen
  • Regreso a la Camara 36 de Shaolines
  • Retour à la 36e chambrefr
  • Ritorno alla 36ª camerait
  • Shao Lin da peng da shizh

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