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Shawscope: Volume 1

Shawscope: Volume One. Various directors, 1972-1979.

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Edition screened: Arrow Blu-ray box set, released 2021. Mandarin and Cantonese languages with English subtitle. Cumulative runtime of feature films approximately 1,286 minutes.


Summary: Only Five Shaolin Masters and The Mighty Peking Man contain violence to animals, the latter being the main offender. See those titles for details.


The Arrow set includes several documentaries produced by Celestial Pictures around 2003, many interviews and commentaries, and twelve feature films:


King Boxer (Five Fingers of Death), 1972, Jeong Chang-hwa

The Boxer from Shantung, 1972, Chang Cheh and Pao Hsueh-Li

Five Shaolin Masters (5 Masters of Death), 1974, Chang Cheh

Shaolin Temple, 1976, Chang Cheh

The Mighty Peking Man, 1977, Ho Meng-Hua

Challenge of the Masters, 1976, Liu Chia-Liang

Executioners from Shaolin, 1977, Liu Chia-Liang

Chinatown Kid, 1977, Chang Cheh

Five Deadly Venoms, 1978, Chang Cheh

Crippled Avengers, 1978, Chang Cheh

Heroes of the East, 1978, Liu Chia-Liang

Dirty Ho, 1979, Liu Chia-Liang