Kid With The Golden Arm was my first Kung-Fu movie, and while I understood that movies exaggerate, I knew I wanted to learn Kung-Fu & be like Golden Arm! I'm nowhere near a master, but I'm a practitioner for 31 years, now. Thank you, Lo-Meng & the Venom Mob for the inspiration!
My favorite memories from the 80's was as a kid sitting in front of the tv on saturday afternoons watching the venom mobs in action. My 2nd best memories was watching re-runs of the venoms with my family, the movies never get old. I have rediscovered them here in youtube a few years ago and I've re-watched all the old kung fu classic movies again. Thank you to the Venoms and all the other great martial artists from that era.
Outside of a Bruce Lee flick, the Venoms was my all time favorite old school king fu “800 flips before they die” flick... Even the one where they were all like handicapped in some way, that flick was good too... Me and my step dad used to watch these flicks on that channel USA Kung fu theater... That was the shit... I still have this movie on VHS, this and the 36 chambers of Shaolin... #Classics...
Excellent documentary. I was curious of what this was about and it took my breath away. These 5-6 actors the best assembled in movie history by far!! Always a fan thru & thru!! #5VenomsForever
If there's one picture I would have loved to take before I leave this earth. It would be with all original 5 members,exceptional and extraordinary skills
He doesn’t always die but when he does it’s quite a badass death only in five venoms he gets a bad death but he was too over powered and had to die lmao
My favorite all time Shaw Bros film. I found two t-shirts with the venoms’ masks showcased on the front. I wear the t-shirts with a smile. My favorite venom mask is the Scorpion. My favorite venoms are all of them! LOL. I even tried to run up the wall and stay put like the lizard after the movie aired as a kid!
Man I remember watching this as a kid in early 80’s on KTLA on Saturday morning LA’s black belt theater!! Wahhhhhhh!!!! The cast of 5 venoms were the pillars of Shaw Brothers films. Love these guys.
I grew up watching these, recorded them on VHS back then, and have been collecting them on DVD. This video is amazing. I learned so much I didn't know. Thank you so much for making it. I am subscribed now.
This is such a work of love, and it shows! Thank you for your hard work. I actually am missing a film, Legend of the Fox, so now I'm on a mission! LOL! I first saw them in Fu Sheng's Chinatown Kid and THEN in 5 Deadly Venoms. Not a complaint, but a question, did I miss the part where you spoke about Hard Boiled. Maybe you can added in when you re-do this amazing documentary in a year or so, 😉🤓
Entire Sentimental Thanks to You for Commemorating these Truly Inspirational Heroes of our youth! They provided us the best examples of combative masculinity! God Bless their Immortal Siuls!
That was one of my most favorite martial arts movie of all time I will never forget the five deadly venoms I also love the kid with the Golden arms that was another awesome martial arts movie I wish Bruce Lee would have been in one of those thanks for posting that
Bruce did have plans to work with Shaw Studios and their actors. Some pics of this in Conversation with Bruce Lee video on this channel ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jo6YsP4F0_k.html
Seeing this now bring back a lot of memories going to the movies on a Saturday just wish the characters they betray was on Mortal Kombat that would be epic
This is what Martial arts looks like!!! Maybe the future generations should show these movies that the Venoms and Shaw Brothers did!!! I love Masked Avengers!!!
Wang Li is considered the 7th venoms not the 6th. He already had an appearance & fight footages way back in Chinatown Kid prior to his battle against Lu Feng in Shaolin Rescuer. He was actually replacing both Wai Pai & Wang Lung Wei their last film together in Kid With The Golden Arm. Both Sun Chien & Lo Mang weren't in opera school so they're limited with their acrobatic performances as most of their fight sequences didn't made it to the end in most of their films where Phillip Kwok, Lu Feng, & Chiang Sheng have been adapting around them.
Love this documentary, I was lucky enough to meet lo mang when he came to Philadelphia in 2007 , I have pictures with him and myself rolling up my sleeve to show him my 5 deadly venoms masks tattoos I have
While 5 deadly venoms is the most popular (and my personal overall favorite) Crippled Avengers (aka Return of the five deadly venoms aka Mortal Combat) def has the best fight scenes imo. Kid with the Golden Arms is great too tho.
IMAGINE TRYING TO DO LIZARDS MOVE CLIMBING UP TREE AND HANG SIDEWAYS and falling to the ground after watching 5 Deadly Venoms and when finished coming outside like we all do to fight with friends in Brooklyn NYC
Are there any names of the ponytail like hairstyle they have in a lot of the movies anything about it will help cause I want to make it my hairstyle so badly. Lo Meng, Wei Pai, Meng Fei, Sun Chien, Philip Kwok people like that have worn the hairstyle that I am trying to find - Khan
Not necessarily myself as I watch the Shaw Brothers films and the old school movies it's my preference. Those seem more realistic. I'm not into the ones where you see a guy jumping over 2 mountains to fight 1000 guys by himself just to fake. Or the ones where you see a guy throw a punch and like 30 to 50 guys go flying backwards
Thank you so very much for this video. Those men meant a geat deal to me when I was young, and they still do today in my dotage. I was sad to learn Chiang Sheng had died. He was always very special with his vibrant personality.. I am very grateful. Thank you.
"WOW"... Martial Madness, this has to be one of the best put together storyboards of our loved 5 Deadly Venoms rise to worldwide fame... through this awesome documentary! I Congratulate you on such a well made attribute to the legacy of The Shaw Brothers Families , and The 5 Deadly Venoms cast and fan base. I grew up in New York during the 70s when Kung Fu movies had thousands of kids across all 5 boroughs locked into their Television sets, every Saturday. Then it was on to practice on your poor family members! lol. It was these movies that inspired the group "The Wu Tan Clan", and so many, many others into the Martial Arts World. Including me! Again....Thanks for bringing us this very special Documentary on The 5 Deadly Venoms!
I LOVE THE VENOM MOB!!! I have most of their movies and I watch them so often, my personal favorite Venom movies are: 5 Deadly Venoms Ten Tigers of Kwangtung Masked Avengers 2 Champions of Shaolin Brave Archer 3 Ninja In the Deadly Trap Sword Stained With Royal Blood Flag of Iron & House of Traps
Translated and Subtitled in 50 Languages - As well as it should be. I was wondering what happened to original doc. Loved it. RIP Chiang Sheng. The kid will never be forgotten. Chang Cheh and the Venoms ruled Saturday afternoons in Philly. Let's face it Shaw Bros. films ruled whenever they were on.
This is an EXCELLENT documentary! Much love, respect and adoration for Shaw Bros' entire body of work, spanning as far back as the 50s. The introduction of the Venom Mob took the quality of these wonderful films to the next level. Non-Venom actor/martial artists also worth honorable mentions are Gordon Liu, Alexander Fu Sheng, Chen Kwan-Tai, Ti Lung and Lo Lieh. Although Golden Harvest is a close second, nothing speaks to fans of classic kung-fu cinema like Shaw Brothers flicks! So sorry they could never work out something with Bruce Lee, but it's probably for the best as Bruce saw himself as a star, not part of an ensemble cast.
Five Deadly Venoms is truly a cinematic classic. And it was indeed a plot driven movie. I saw it for the first time when I was very young. It was years later as a teenager after watching a few more times that I realized, it only has three real fight scenes in the whole movie! The plot is so great that you don't miss the relative lack of "action".
See, I came up when kung fu movie's we're new and folks laugh at them now days but some of these movies actually change my life. Movies like five deadly venoms , five fingers of death, master killer ,iron monkey , sword masters, snake in a monkey's shadow and the one effected me most was all Bruce Lee's movies. There we're many more but that's a few. I mean for a young black kid , these movies just gave me a way to channel my dreams and show me a way to make myself better and to deal with being bullied. I used these movie's to over come and defeat every bully in my life but it back fired because some folks start to consider me the bully but I wasn't at all. Man one time , I took my entire summer break ( everyday ) to train just like these guys . Didn't have a lot of money but surprise to me was my mom and grand parents supported me doing this. Anyway , I trained my punching speed using two plastic gallon water jugs filled with water. Sounds crazy but it worked ! The feeling you get when you see this kinda training work was super addictive to me. Anyway , thank you to all these actors, I owe you guys more than you know. Much love and respect .
Such a classic fantasy movie. It made every young kid dream of imitating a powerful animal and become a master of that style. This movie sort of set the stage for so many movies to come after it. Of course when you fight someone you have to tell them your style and the killing move you're going to do to them before you do it!
Well done. My favorite. The story line, the mystery, the visuals, the sounds ( ☝each Venom had there own sound effect most didnt notice), the styles. Best Classic Kung fu flick of all time. 2# for me is technically 2 . a two way tie between Way of the dragon & Chinese Connection. 3 is a 2 way tie between The 7 Grandmasters & Super Ninjas. Loss of a fight!!!? Dragon whips its tail!!? The Pie Mai 9 strikes! Fight with me and we'll split the money!!!😂 Classics.
Whatever happened to the Venom who played The Snake in the seminal film? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe he only appeared in 3 of these Venom films: "Five Deadly," "Invincible Shaolin" and "Golden Arm."
Well done good brother. This truly shows what the venom mob did for Shaw Studios & certainly this genre. Chang Cheh was an excellent director along with Mona Phongs production but their best work was with the venoms.
