Kung Fu: The Master's Daughter
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| German title | Kung Fu: The Master's Daughter Reference Title: The Master's Daughter Reference Title: The Fearless Men of Wu Dang Reference Title: Lady Kung Fu |
| Original title | Wu Dang |
| Country of production | People's Republic of China |
| original language | Chinese |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Sha Sun |
| script | Xie Wenli |
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Kung Fu: The Master's Daughter ( Chinese 武当 , Pinyin wǔdāng ) is a Chinese action film from 1983 . It was produced by the Changchun Film Studio . The film was shot in the Wudang Mountains, among other places . Directed by Sha Sun.
action
In the 19th century, Japanese samurai warriors parade through China . You will compete against local Chinese kung fu masters. But these fights are a farce, the winners have been decided beforehand. With this tour, the Japanese only want to demonstrate their superiority over the Middle Kingdom . The Chinese are to be defeated and humiliated in an impressive manner. The samurai act brutally, disregard the honor of the country and create enemies in the Chinese population through their arrogance.
The great master Chen competes in one of the exhibition matches. He is one of the few who have mastered the high martial art of Wu-Dang, which the Japanese are not up to. So it comes that Chen can defeat his opponents. Shortly afterwards, however, he is murdered by a Chinese collaborator , and his prospective son-in-law is fatally wounded by his Japanese opponent in an exhibition match. His daughter Xuejiao swears bitter vengeance and devises a bold plan. She wants to go to the Wudang Mountains, where an old friend of her father's, who is supposed to teach her martial arts, lives in a secluded monastery in order to beat the Japanese.
She goes on a dangerous journey because she is being followed. Chinese collaborators want to kill them in order to wipe out the entire Chen clan. After several hardships, Xuejiao reaches the mountains and meets the old master who takes her in. Now the hard training begins, in which not only the body of Xuejiao is challenged, but it also shapes her mind and character.
Finally the time has come: she sneaks back to her city and competes against Japanese samurai in one of the exhibition fights. Xuejiao defeats the samurai in several fights. Her father's murderer is killed in a subsequent fight. The samurai have to admit their shameful defeat and return to Japan on the orders of their master .
DVD
The film was released on DVD in March 2008 under the Euro Studios label . This DVD contains both German versions (DDR-Kino and ZDF).
Web links / sources
- Kung Fu: The daughter of the master in the Internet Movie Database (English)