Product Description

Gordon Liu (Challenge of the Masters) is back as the mischievous Wong Fei-hung. He and his friend Yin-Lin try to pass themselves off as kung fu experts but end up embarrassing themselves when they fail. They go so far as to hire opponents to take a dive during fights in order to fool the public. Their boastful ways backfire when Master Shan (Johnny Wang Lung-wei, The Master) from a rival martial arts school takes out his anger on Yin-Lin. Realizing the sudden seriousness of the events, Fei-hung must really fight a real master in order to salvage his and his father's reputations. Marital Club was directed by the legendary Lau Kar-leung (Drunken Master 2) and features Kara Hui (My Young Auntie) and Hsiao Hu (Mad Monkey Kung Fu).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #67550 in DVD
• Brand: Media Blasters
• Released on: 2009-03-31
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 102 minutes

Customer Reviews

Another great Shaw Bros. DVD from Tokyo Shock!!
Tokyo Shock has done a great job with the other five Shaw Bros. films they have released thus far (as well as their release of "7 Grand Masters"). I really hope they KEEP 'EM COMING, because the video and audio quality on "Martial Club" and the aforementioned DVDs have been superb. This DVD features anamorphic widescreen, english, cantonese and mandarin audio, and english and slates subtitles.
As for the movie itself, it stars Gordon Liu, easily one of the most entertaining and charismatic kung fu film stars EVER, as Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung. If you enjoy Kung Fu flicks, you will enjoy this movie! Do you really need a long plot summary?
Here's hoping that Tokyo Shock and the other companies producing QUALITY RELEASES of classic Kung Fu Films IN WIDESECREEN with the ORIGINAL AUDIO TRACK and ENGLISH SUBTITLES will continue. The other companies I'm talking about are Image Entertainment, Dragon Dynasty, Well Go USA, and Jade Tiger. Now, if only one of them could get the American license for "Return to the 36th Chamber", "Dirty Ho", or "The Five Deadly Venoms"...

Gordon Lui and Wang Lung Wei throw down
This is one of a few Lau Kar Leung,Gordon Liu,and Wang Lung Wei collaborations and it's a classic the story is about conflict amongst kung fu schools and Lau Kar Leungs choragraphy is great. Amazing how well Gordon Liu and Wang Lung Wei match each other punch for punch and kick for kick. This movie is more of a study on perfection in martial arts and not kill for revenge as in most fight films.

Johnny Wang's a good guy?
After making a couple of successful kung-fu comedies like "Return to the 36th Chamber" & "My Young Auntie," Boss Shaw wanted Lau Kar-Leung (Liu Chia-Liang) to make one more comedy before allowing Lau Sifu to make his dream project "The Invincible Pole Fighters". So in 1981 we get "Martial Club", which isn't one of Lau Sifu's best, which means it's still WAY ahead of the average fu movie. The first half has comedy that gets a little old after a bit, but it comes alive in the second half when it gets down to the fu & the ethics of martial arts.

Great performances by Gordon Liu, Robert Mak, Kara Hui, Ching Chu & good non-fighting performances by Ku Feng & Wilson Tong, but this film belongs to Johnny Wang Lung-Wei in one of his few (if not only) heroic roles. The climatic end fight in the "Zig-Zag Alley" is unbelievable, I watched that fight four times in a row. Tokyo Shock did a great job here with the transfer; widescreen, restored, a few special features. This DVD contains all three audio tracks (Mandarin, Cantonese & English), however, the voices used in the English dub suck and does a disservice to the acting, while the subtitles are remastered & easy to read. Well, watch it any way you want, it's definitely worth it.