Encounters of the Spooky Kind (Gui da gui). Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, 1980.
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Edition screened: Eureka Blu-ray, released 2021. Cantonese with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 103 minutes.
Summary: A chicken’s head is cut off, 42:32-42:44.
Life Is Cheap. . . But Toilet Paper Is Expensive. Wayne Wang and Spencer Nakasako, 1989.
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Edition screened: Arbelos Blu-ray, released 2023. English and Cantonese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 85 minutes.
Summary: The opening scene shows an abattoir/slaughterhouse worker casually eating a sandwich with a dead chicken hanging behind him and the walls covered in blood. There may be more animal violence of this sort following, but this is unknown as the film was stopped since distribution was not.
The Bare-Footed Kid (Chik geuk siu ji). Johnny To and Patrick Leung, 1993.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Shawscope: Volume Two Blu-ray box set, released 2022. Cantonese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 87 minutes.
Summary: A man takes a small bird from its cage, crushes it in his hand, and throws it to the ground, 19:00-19:05.
Shawscope: Volume Two. Various directors, 1978-1993.
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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: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Disciples of the 36th Chamber, Martial Arts of Shaolin, The Boxer’s Omen, and Mad Monkey Kung Fu contain violence to animals. See individual titles for details.
The Arrow set includes many documentaries, interviews and commentaries, and fourteen feature films:
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, 1978, Liu Chia-Liang
Return to the 36th Chamber, 1980, Liu Chia-Liang
Disciples of the 36th Chamber, 1985, Liu Chia-Liang
Mad Monkey Kung Fu, 1979, Liu Chia-Liang
Five Superfighters, 1979, Lo Mar
Invincible Shaolin, 1978, Chang Cheh
The Kid with the Golden Arm, 1979, Chang Cheh
The Magnificent Ruffians, 1980, Chang Cheh
Ten Tigers of Kwangtung, 1978, Chang Cheh
My Young Auntie, 1981, Liu Chia-Liang
Mercenaries from Hong Kong, 1982, Jing Wong
The Boxer’s Omen, 1983, Kuei Chih-Hung
Martial Arts of Shaolin, 1986, Liu Chia-Liang
The Bare-Footed Kid, 1993, Johnny To and Patrick Leung
My Young Auntie (Zhang bei). Liu Chia-Liang, 1981.
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Edition screened: Included in the Arrow Blu-ray box set Shawscope: Volume Two, released 2022. Mandarin language. Runtime approximately 119 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
The painful cheap comedy is relentless even by Liu Chia-Liang’s standards. Just when I was thinking, Oh God, this is like a 1960’s musical but with the production numbers mercifully deleted, a group of smirking college boys broke into a song. Excruciating.
Heroic Trio 2: Executioners (Yin doi hou hap zyun). Johnny To and Ching Siu-Tung, 1993.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #1207, released 2024. Cantonese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 97 minutes.
Summary: Poisoning and cruel killing of mice.
Details:
1) Mice are seen lying dead after eating the bread provided to prisoners, 48:48-49:00.
2) A prisoner crushes a live mouse and drinks its blood for nourishment, 57:13-57:26.
The Criterion release also includes The Heroic Trio.
The Heroic Trio (Dung fong sam hap). Johnny To, 1993.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #1207, released 2024. Cantonese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 88 minutes.
Summary: A villain grabs small birds out of the air and eats them alive, 42:38-42:45.
The Criterion release also includes Heroic Trio 2: Executioners.
Five Superfighters (Shao Lin da peng da shi). Lo Mar, 1979.
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Edition screened: Included in the Arrow Blu-ray box set Shawscope: Volume Two, released 2022. Mandarin language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 100 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Spacked Out (Mo yan ka sai). Lawrence Lau, 2000.
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Edition screened: Kani Blu-ray, released 2023. Cantonese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 91 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Police Story (Ging chaat goo si). Jackie Chan and Chen Chi-Hwa, 1985.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #971, released 2019 and included in the Police Story/Police Story 2 set. Cantonese with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 100 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals. A small flock of LeRoy Neiman prints is placed in a hazardous situation several times, but they appear to survive unharmed.
Police Story 2 (Ging chaat goo si juk jaap). Jackie Chan, 1988.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #972, released 2019 and included in the Police Story/Police Story 2 set. Cantonese with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 122 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Dirty Ho (Lan tou He). Liu Chia-Liang, 1979.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray box set Shawscope: Volume One, released 2021. Cantonese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 103 minutes.
Summary: No animals in the film.
Heroes of the East (Zhong hua zhang fu). Liu Chia-Liang, 1978.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray box set Shawscope: Volume One, released 2021. Cantonese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 105 minutes.
Summary: No animals in the film.
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
Challenge of the Masters (Liu A-Cai yu Huang Fei-Hong). Liu Chia-Liang, 1976.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray box set Shawscope: Volume One, released 2021. Cantonese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 97 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals. The criminal antagonist travels with a caged bird, but there is no interaction with or harm to the bird.
Chinatown Kid (Tang ren jie xiao zi). Chang Cheh, 1977.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray box set Shawscope: Volume One, released 2021. Cantonese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 115 minutes.
Summary: No depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Dragons Forever (Fei lung mang jeung). Sammo Kam-Bo Hung and Corey Yuen, 1988.
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Edition screened: Submitted by a kind friend. Cantonese language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 102 minutes.
Summary: No particular depictions of violence or harm to animals.
Eros. Wong Kar-Wai, Steven Soderbergh, and Michelangelo Antonioni, 2004.
Drunken Master (Zui quan). Woo-Ping Yuen, 1978.
