Heroes of the East DVD 1978 A Kelet Hősei - 中華丈夫 / Directed by Chia-Liang Liu / Starring: Chia Hui Liu, Yuka Mizuno, Lung Chan, Kang-Yeh Cheng Miao Ching

UPC 5999882942568

MADE IN HUNGARY

REGION 2 PAL DVD

AUDIO: Chinese 5.1, Hungarian 5.1

SUBTITLES: Hungarian

Runtime: 100 minutes

English Summary:

Heroes of the East (Chinese: 中華丈夫), also known as Challenge Of The Ninja, Shaolin Vs. Ninja and Shaolin Challenges Ninja is a martial arts film produced in 1978. It starred Gordon Liu and was directed by Lau Kar-Leung. Lau Kar-Leung has a cameo role as a master of Zui Quan. It's notable for portraying Japanese martial arts alongside the more typical Kung-Fu used in most Hong Kong martial arts films.

In Shanghai about the 1930s, Ho Tao (Gordon Liu) is a Kung Fu student. His rich father has set up an arranged marriage for him with the daughter of a Japanese business associate. Ho Tao initially objects and feigns illness, but soon thereafter agrees to the marriage when he finds bride to be, Yumiko Kōda ("Kung Zi" in Mandarin), is attractive. After the wedding, he finds out that she is also a martial artist. Ho Tao finds her style of Karate to be violent, unladylike, and potentially immodest and tries to persuade her to learn feminine but also effectual styles of Chinese Kung Fu. She is later offended during an argument over which nation has the superior martial arts styles and eventually goes back to Japan. When he travels to Japan to entreat Kung Zi to be reconciled with her husband, Ho Tao's father finds Kung Zi in training by her childhood friend and rather too attentive martial arts sensei Takeno.

Hungarian Summary:

Egy kínai férfi elvesz egy japán nőt. A férfinek sikerül a nő egész harcművész családját megsértenie azzal, hogy kihívja feleségét párbajra. Be kell bizonyítania, hogy a kínai Kung-Fu van olyan jó, mint a Japán harcművészet: méghozzá hét párbajjal a legjobb japán mesterek ellen, akik a nő helyet válaszolnak a kihívásra.

Cast / Szereplők

• Gordon Liu - Ho Tao
• Yuka Mizuno - Yumiko "Kung Zi" Kōda
• Ouyang Sha-fei
• Chan Lung
• Cheng Hong-Yip - Chow Kan
• Ching Miao - Ho Tao's father
• Norman Chu [fr] - Chang
• Ha Ping
• Linda Lin Di Ho
• Hsiao Ho
• Huang Pa-Ching
• Kei Ho Chiu
• Yasuaki Kurata - Takeno, Japanese ninjutsu expert
• Yasutaka Nakazaki - Japanese Sai expert
• Hitoshi Ōmae - Japanese judo expert
• Riki Harada (English credits say Takeshi Yamamoto) - Japanese Iaido expert
• Nobuo Yana - Japanese Sōjutsu expert
• Yūjirō Sumi (English credits say Tetsu Sumi) - Karate expert
• Hayato Ryūzaki (English credits say Manabu Shirai) - Nunchaku expert
• Naozō Katō - Japanese Master
• Hoi Sang Lee - Bald pupil
• Lau Kar-leung - Drunken master
• Lui Hung
• Poon Bin Seung
• San Sin
• Wilson Tong
• Yeung Wah
• Yuen Siu Tien - Ho Tao's teacher