Return to the 36th Chamber

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Moviecut—Return to the 36th Chamber

RETURN TO THE 36TH CHAMBER sees Gordon Liu returning to the film series that he's most famous for, playing a different role in a very different story which nonetheless features the Shaolin Temple. This one's a very good Shaw film, directed with his exemplary professionalism by the esteemed Lau Kar-Leung who injects finesse and quality into the film's many fight and training sequences. Some viewers may be put off by the way that RETURN TO THE 36TH CHAMBER is more of an out-and-out comedy than the original film but I enjoyed the change of pace and style. Everything is done a bit differently here so nothing is repetitive. Liu plays a small-time actor who gets beaten up at the hands of Manchu thugs (including my top guys Johnny Wang Lung Wei and Chiang Tao), so he decides to break into the Shaolin Temple and spy on the monks training. It's pretty funny stuff, with Liu on top physical form and convincing both as the novice weakling and as the kung fu expert. The Shaolin Temple scenes are fun and entertaining with all of the bizarre training we enjoy watching. I loved the way that Liu learns amid scaffolding here which gives him an addiction to bamboo which plays a big part in the fights at the film's climax, which are lighter than usual but no less gruesome. As with almost all Shaw Brothers movies, this is well shot, well paced, and looks absolutely brilliant in high definition; a great mix of comedy, drama, and action.

The original 36th Chamber is known as one of the best Kung Fu movies of all time and I personally echo that sentiment, putting it right up there with The Master of the Flying Guillotine, Seven Grandmasters and The Invincible Armour. I was therefore worried that this movie has been tagged as sequel, knowing that it was unlikely to live up to its predecessor. It turned out to be one of the best movies I have seen in the Kung Fu/Wuxia genre. The story began in a not unfamiliar fashion, where a group of laborers are exploited by their employer who hires some Manchus to essentially frighten them into working harder for less money. They try to fight back and to go on strike but are badly beaten by the Manchus. The workers then get there friend Chao Jen-Cheh (Gordon Lu), an actor, to pretend to be a dangerous Shaolin priest so he can intimidate the Manchus and the boss into treating them fairly but he is eventually found out as a fraud and he too is beaten terribly. After this, Chao vows to go to Shaolin and learn Kung Fu for real and to return to set things straight. For the next while the movie takes a comedic turn as Chao tries many tricks to emerge himself in Shaolin's 36th Chamber (a Kung Fu training zone) and the Abbot takes pity on him, allowing him to stay at Shaolin to put together Scaffolding and fix the temple roofs. Chao does this happily as it allows him to observe the 36th Chamber and he presumes he will be taken on as a student when the roof has been mended. However, 3 years later when the work is complete, he is distraught to find that he is asked to leave the temple without have received any Kung Fu training. He goes back to the village and explains to his worker friends that he has learned nothing. They are angry at him for having learned nothing the entire time he was away and attack him, only to find that Chao has in fact picked up quite a bit simply from having observed the Shaolin students and having incorporated what he has seen into his scaffolding work. Having discovered him strength, Chao challenges the Manchu and the boss who he is now able to defeat with considerable style. The oblivious "training" sequences in this film are great and again they justify the use of the label "36th Chamber" as the original movie is well known for it fantastic training act. All great Kung Fu movies have an amazing training act and this one is no exception. Another thing which I loved about this movie was the unique "scaffolding Kung Fu" style which Chao learns. His time as a scaffolder means that his fighting style is one which largely consists of tying his opponents up. This is unique, amusing, entertaining, impressive and also it brought the whole story together. This is because the laborers at the start are using "colour sticks" to mix sheets of cloth into dye. When the Manchus are introduces, they bare their bamboo batons and declare facetiously "these are our colour sticks". These in the final fight scenes are reminiscent of the bamboo poles that Chao uses in scaffolding the temple and as he takes the Manchus on, he ties each of them and the batons together like scaffolding. It's brilliant the way this all ties together... The criticisms I have are only twofold and very, very minor. Firstly I found it hard to believe when Chao returns to the village completely unaware that his skills have improved...then again this is a Kung Fu movie and anything can happen. Secondly, one of the lead characters, a worker who provides some early comic relief, has enormous false teeth. This was supposed to be funny but is actually a big and unwelcome distraction.

Shimmy shimmy ya, indeed. If there's one thing Hong Kong movies have in store, it's always plenty of sequels. And yet, we welcome those here with open arms. Directed by Lau Kar-leung, this is the spiritual second film in a trilogy. Unlike the first and last movie in said triad, Gordon Liu does not play San Te, but instead an imposter monk Chu Jen-chieh, who just so happens to look like the master of the 36th chamber. After using his likeness to the famed warrior to help his friends - a scheme that doesn't last all that long - Jen-chieh runs to the temple, where he's soon kicked out. Only when he meets San Te is he given the opportunity to build scaffolds all around the temple and renovate the entire complex. From high above the school, Jen-Chieh is able to watch all of the forms of the monks. Finally, when asked to dismantle his work, he rebels and runs through the chambers with ease. That's because he changed his work to practice each of the forms, which was exactly the plan of the smiling San Te. In spite of himself, our hero has become an expert at kung fu. Another lesson from San Te. Jen-Chieh saves his village and continues his training.

This is a good movie. It doesn't really compare to the first film, but it's funny and enjoyable. Gordon Liu is good in this role, and the training chambers are cool. The fight scenes are classic. This is a fun flick, but I wonder if it wouldn't have been better without the comedic elements.

This might be controversial but although I think the original is a good movie this one simply was more entertaining in every way it had better pacing, better characters more inventive action (never seen construction Fu vs chair Fu before) and it had a lot humor Wich depending on what you want out of Kung Fu movies either enhances the experience or decreases it, all around great fun.

I was wondering how they'd make a sequel when the main character of the first movie was basically an invincible warrior by the end. The solution is equal parts clever and baffling; it definitely wasn't what I was expecting. It's far more comedic than the first 36th Chamber of Shaolin movie, and though it features Gordon Liu again, he's not exactly doing what you'd expect (I'll leave it at that; I feel like it's almost a twist, the way this movie subverts expectations when it comes to even its core premise). It's amusing, but also a little unsatisfying as an action movie. Sometimes, when it recreates elements of the first one, it falls a little flat. It's a messy, odd sequel, but certainly a novel one that I can respect in an odd way.

Perhaps why I am so harsh on this film is because of how high the first film set the bar for the Kung-Fu genre. Though it is abundantly clear that this film is more comedic in nature, it fails at surpassing or even being remotely equal to the first. Though I shall give the film some credit and say that the pre-training act was actually quite entertaining, with this con-man BSing his way into posing as a Monk, the moment he starts training, I found that the film did not grip me nearly as much as the first did with its different levels of becoming a monk. The final fight scene at the end of the film is also pretty fantastic, and in my opinion better than anything we see in the first film, with the protagonist making excellent use of a stool, however, this one fight sequence is simply not worth slogging through the boring middle act. I still do not understand the odd decision to cast Gordan Liu in a sequel to his first film, only to have him star as a COMPLETELY different character, let alone one who is fraudulent con-man and a polar opposite to San Te. Regardless, he plays the role very well in spite of the flms sub-par screenplay.