Poster or still for Five Deadly Venoms

Film 1978 1h 41m

Five Deadly Venoms

Wu du

  • action film
  • thriller film
  • martial arts film
  • adventure film

1978 film by Chang Cheh

Five Deadly Venoms, also known as The Five Venoms, is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts mystery film directed and co-written by Chang Cheh and produced by Runme Shaw for the Shaw Brothers Studio. It stars Chiang Shieng as Yang Tieh, a martial arts pupil who aims to follow his master's dying wish: to find the new identities of the master's five previous pupils, and kill them if they have turned towards evil. While doing so, Yang stumbles onto a web of murders and investigations involving all five pupils. Each of the master's previous pupils practices a unique animal-themed style, with the animals being based on the Five Poisonous Creatures of Chinese folklore.

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Released
12 August 1978
Country
Hong Kong
Language
Chinese, Cantonese
Studio
Shaw Brothers Studio