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	Chang Cheh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chang Cheh (張徹; pinyin:Zhāng Chè) (February 10, 1923 – June 22, 2002) was Shaw Brothers Studio's best known and most prolific film director, with such films as the Five Deadly Venoms, the Brave Archer (based on the works of Jin Yong), the One-Armed Swordsman, and other classics of wuxia and wushu film.
		His films from this period, including Five Deadly Venoms, Kid with the Golden Arm, and Crippled Avengers, feature a heavy influence from the wuxia movie genre, and are considered his most popular films in the west -- not counting 1982's Superninjas, aka Five Element Ninja, aka Chinese Superninjas.
		Chang was a pioneer of what is known by some as "heroic bloodshed"; films that emphasize brotherhood, loyalty and honor, and several of his films, including Vengeance, Boxer From Shantung and Chinatown Kid, can be seen as clear influences on the later work of directors such as John Woo and Ringo Lam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chang_Cheh (640 words)

	Varied Celluloid > Reviews > Five Deadly Venoms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Although Five Deadly Venoms isn't the first film the clan made together (they all appeared in Chinatown Kid a year earlier), this was the film that made them stars and won their way into the hearts of many old school film fans.
		Five Deadly Venoms may be fairly conservative with the amount of actual fighting there is, but that doesn't detract anything from the quality as I've pointed out.
		Five Deadly Venoms goes beyond just the clutchings of a mere Kung Fu film, if you want to think of it in that light it's fine, but Five Venoms is a great 'film', not just for any individual genre.
	www.variedcelluloid.com /reviews/fivevenoms/review.shtml (2202 words)

	Five Deadly Venoms DVD
		But it was their 1978 film, FIVE DEADLY VENOMS, which took them to the next level in the international arena—and in particular the North American marketplace.
		The other Venoms know nothing about him and neither do the audience, as he really only shows up in the conclusion (though he is talked about all through FIVE DEADLY VENOMS).
		FIVE DEADLY VENOMS is simply a must see film that holds up to repeat viewings, though the elements of intrigue won’t be as powerful, since you’ll know the ending.
	www.dvdcult.com /rev_5Venoms.htm (2205 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The Five Deadly Venoms are perhaps the most famous of the Iron Palm training methods.
		The centipede, snake, scorpion, lizard, and toad are regarded as the Five Deadly Venoms in Chinese history, also known as the Five Noxious Creatures.
		This preparation was made by puting the centipede, snake, scorpion, lizard, and toad in a pot, whereupon the creatures gradually ate each other up, and the corpse that was found when the pot was opened was supposed to contain the noxious venoms of all five.
	chinwu.com /fivedeadlyvenoms.html (325 words)

	Two Girls And A Guy Movie Reviews:Five Deadly Venoms
		A dying teacher, master of the five deadly poisons sends an inexperienced pupil on a mission to find the lost members of the original poison clan.
		Pupil number four is the lizard, because of his gravity defying ability to walk on walls and attack with precision...and pupil number five is the toad.
		Five Deadly Venoms was shot and produced during the late seventies by the kung fu production masters the Shaw Brothers.
	screenwritersdaily.com /venom.html (542 words)

	Five Deadly Venoms
		The five Venoms are of course in the city, and some of them are after Old Master, Jr.'s money.
		If you're hoping for a bunch of scenes where the Venoms beat on each other in the cute little masks, you'll be mightily disappointed because only Scorpion wears his throughout the movie and when he finally fights someone, it is without the mask.
		This guy had no personality, unlike all the Venoms, who were easily memorable and believable (well as believable as anyone can be when they do centipede kung fu) and he didn't do much in the movie.
	monsterhunter.coldfusionvideo.com /Five_Deadly_Venoms.html (1943 words)

	subway cinema \| crippled avengers (1978)
		The Five Deadly Venoms were five men who'd strip off their shirts at the drop of a hat, with Peking Opera training, and martial arts skills that allowed them to spend more time off the ground than on it.
		The Chang/Venom team-up is as classic a pairing of director and actor as Josef Von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich; Chang Cheh had found his soulmates, the Venoms, and the Venoms had found their visionary, Chang Cheh.
		Exotic weaponry is brought to bear against the seemingly indestructible bodies of the Five Venoms as they are crippled, learn martial arts, and then have their weaknesses exploited by their enemies in an exhausting series of end battles.
	www.subwaycinema.com /frames/archives/os2001/crippled.htm (602 words)

	cityonfire.com \| Five Deadly Venoms
		But in Five Venoms Chang was still in touch with the energetic camera control he possessed in earlier times.
		The murky lair in which the Venoms are taught their styles is cool enough, but the Venoms in their crazy masks are one of the coolest images in film ever.
		Regardless, Five Venoms is regarded as a classic for a reason, and I've rated it as such.
	www.cityonfire.com /hkfilms/_numeric/5deadlyvenoms.html (1674 words)

	TMe: VENOMS book by Terrence J Brady (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Cast as the Centipede (or # 1) in the original "Five Deadly Venoms" film, this native of Taiwan was usually featured as the villainous character in the other Venoms' films.
		Cast as the Snake (# 2), he is known to many as the "sixth" Venom for he only appeared in a few other films with the Venoms crew.
		Usually portrayed as the hero in many of the Venoms films, he continues to work in the global film industry; even landing a small part in a 007 film.
	www.teako170.com /v1.html (342 words)

	The Five Venoms (1978)
		Premise: The last student of the notorious Five Venoms House goes in search of the five elder brothers he has never met in order to help the righteous brothers stop the corrupt ones from stealing a valuable treasure.
		There are five mysterious fighters each trained in a deadly art modeled after the most venomous creatures in nature.
		Each of the Venoms are quite talented and bring unique personalities to their roles that have stuck with them in most of the films that followed.
	www.kungfucinema.com /reviews/fivevenoms.htm (1249 words)

	Five Deadly Venoms Fansite
		Worried that the skills he has taught are being used to evil ends, he orders Yan Tieh to trace a retired colleague and warn him that the fortune he amassed from the clan activities is under threat from five of his former pupils.
		Yan must discover the whereabouts and true identities of these deadly masked warriors and decide which, if any, he can trust to join him in his perilous mission.
		A blindingly choreographed blend of intrigue and violence, FIVE DEADLY VENOMS adds a truly original dimension to the king fu genre.
	www.geocities.com /daband2000/htms/fivedeadlyvenoms.html (269 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - Five Deadly Venoms (1978)
		Five Deadly Venoms tells the tale of a martial arts master who commands a student to track down some of his other students and get them to stop those that have used their skills for nefarious ends.
		GreenCine Staff Pick: The Five Deadly Venoms, a.k.a., Wu Du, is not an Animal Planet show, but instead one of the great, and unsung, martial arts films of the 70s - or any era.
		The film has an almost perfectly simple set-up: five disciples, "The Centipede," "The Snake," "The Scorpion," "The Lizard," and "The Toad," are summoned by their former teacher, who is worried that his pupils are using their talents for evil.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=6255 (677 words)

	Return of the Five Deadly Venoms DVD
		Venoms movies are actual sequels to THE FIVE DEADLY VENOMS, as those characters were killed off at the end of that film.
		RETURN OF THE FIVE DEADLY VENOMS depicts homicides, amputations, torture, poisonings, disembowelments, and eyeball violence at the hands of Tu Tin Tao and his minions.
		Though the audio presentation of RETURN OF THE FIVE DEADLY VENOMS is Dolby Digital Mono 2.0 (the preferred choice for monaural films), the soundtrack is flat and tinny.
	www.dvdcult.com /rev_Return5DV.htm (2153 words)

	Wu du (1978) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Plot Summary: A dying teacher instructs his final student to check on the activities of five former pupils, each of...
		There are 5 members of the poison clan each one with his own style that mimics the special skill of a venomous animal.
		The styles of each of these characters are fun to watch and you can see the techniques they use in training applied during the film...
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0077559 (813 words)

	Five Deadly Venoms
		Certainly one of the best known of the martial arts films, FIVE DEADLY VENOMS contains one of the best openings of any of the Shaw Brothers films, but on a second (or tenth viewing as the case may be) it certainly doesn't always live up to the glory of the opening.
		The final sequence where the remaining Venoms battle it out is a long and exciting masterpiece of choreography, with some impressive special effects tossed in.
		One thing that can't be overlooked about FIVE DEADLY VENOMS is that it in a way it's responsible for the great revival of Martial Arts videos in the mass culture.
	www.dvddrive-in.com /reviews/e-h/fivedeadly.htm (776 words)

	Botanical Record-Breakers (Part 2 of 2)
		A dose of ricin weighing only two millionths of an ounce (roughly equivalent to the weight of a single grain of table salt from a salt shaker) is enough to kill a 160 pound person.
		One of the two protein subunits of ricin (RTA) is a deadly enzyme that removes purines (such as adenine) from ribosomal RNA, thus altering its molecular structure and function.
		So deadly is the toxin (even deadlier than strychnine, arsenic and snake venoms), that an amount equal to the weight of ink in a printed period in a textbook is enough to kill 30 adult humans.
	waynesword.palomar.edu /ww0601c.htm (7266 words)

	The Five Deadly Venoms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		All of the members of the clan have extraordinary kung fu abilities, denoted by their animal styles, or "venoms" (the lizard can climb walls, the scorpion has a deadly strike, etc.).
		Thankfully, Chang stuck to his guns and stayed with his original script, which has since has become revered as one of the best for the films of its time, if not ever, completing an almost perfect dramatic arc and providing the perfect backbone for the extraordinary action sequences.
		It seems that everyone has a favorite venom (mine is Philip Kwok -- best known to many as Mad Dog from Hard-Boiled -- as Lizard) and it is this personal connection to the characters that The Five Deadly Venoms generates which makes it a true classic of the genre.
	www.hkfilm.net /5venoms.htm (455 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Five Deadly Venoms : Review
		The setup of a student uncovering the five mysterious "venoms" is promising but gets quickly sidelined by a political-corruption plot that bogs down the film's midsection with courtroom scenes that bring its momentum screeching to a halt.
		As a result, Five Deadly Venoms has less martial arts action than it could have had, and its pacing lacks the zip of other Shaw Brothers kung-fu classics like Five Fingers of Death.
		Ultimately, Five Deadly Venoms is too convoluted and awkwardly paced to appeal to non-martial arts fans but offers up enough eccentric thrills to please the genre's hardcore enthusiasts.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/85643/review.jhtml (236 words)

	THE TRUE HEALING ART: Trall
		The snake was two or three days in getting the blanket down and after retaining it for some four or five weeks, the blanket, after another two or three days' struggle, was found in its former position, and not much the worse for the vain attempt of the monster to digest it.
		Five years ago he had the ague, for which he took quinine in huge dozes.
		There is no grosser absurdity abroad, no greater delusion on earth, than the notion that alcohol is in any sense, or under any circumstances, a supporter of vitality, or respiratory food; and on this issue I am willing to debate all the physicians of the United States, and all the learned men of the earth.
	www.soilandhealth.org /02/0201hyglibcat/020120trall.html (17783 words)

	Five Deadly Venoms: Shapeshift: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		So she walked to the airport, checked her luggage, waited for a bit, then got on the plane when it was her turn to board.
		When she got to her row, Maggie noticed that her seat was in the middle of a five person row.
		The Five Deadly Venoms is punk emo gone bad.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/f/five-deadly-venoms/shapeshift.shtml (644 words)

	The Return of the 5 Deadly Venoms
		RETURN OF THE FIVE DEADLY VENOMS is an excellently paced out Kung Fu fiesta, far superior to the somewhat slower FIVE DEADLY VENOMS, and featuring much more action.
		While lacking a certain realism (of a sort) that can be found in later HK cop and modern day films, the performers in these films had to work much harder and perform much better than the later stunt laden films.
		The final battle (which is a three, four and five way at different points) is a masterwork of timing, agility and astonishing stamina.
	www.dvddrive-in.com /reviews/n-s/returnfivedeadly.htm (768 words)

	Rocket-Fuel - Online Music Magazine
		And why the "Five" Deadly Venoms, when there are, in plain fact, only four of you?
		Billy Smith of Dirtnap says that we're out avenging the death of a mysterious fallen brother with rock, and our fallen brother is the fifth Venom.
		9) Hypothetical: All four of the Five Deadly Venoms have been kidnapped by a silent movie-type villian and tied with rope to train tracks.
	www.rocket-fuel.com /~ddreed/features/5dv0499.php (1055 words)

	Shaw Bros Kung Fu
		The five men referred to as Venoms are Sun Chien, Kuo Chui, Lu Feng, Lo Meng, and Chiang Sheng, because the five of them appeared in fourteen films together, their first being 1977's The Chinatown Kid (which debuted Sun Chien and Lo Meng).
		Wei Pai, however, was not regularly utilized in the Venoms cycle of films (he appeared in only four of them: The Five Deadly Venoms, The Kid with the Golden Arm, Ten Tigers of Kuangtung, and The Unbeatable Dragon), whereas Chiang Sheng was.
		I have chosen to not consider a movie with only two Venoms in it to be a "Venoms film." Some people disagree with this decision, but I find that it makes things easier, since very little is known about two-Venoms films made after 1981 such as Fight Among the Supers.
	www.shawscope.com /Venoms2.html (1690 words)

	AVERSIONLINE.COM - THE MP3 BLOG: Five (minus one) deadly venoms! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Wow the song Five Deadly Venoms is damn good with Eddie on vocals.
		So question: was this recorded before the normal 'five deadly venoms' or after?
		It was recorded before Jorge rejoined the band, so they tracked it with Eddie prior to the final version of the album.
	www.aversionline.com /blahg/2005/05/five-minus-one-deadly-venoms.html (543 words)

	Five Venoms aka Five Deadly Venoms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		I've been told that 5 Venoms has been officially released in the U.S, 100 min uncut and in Widescreen so it should be easy to find now.
		I didn't know that the demand for Five Venoms was so big.
		Flash Legs Kung-Fu Shop have all the Venom films including House of Traps, Sword Stained With Royal Blood, Ode to Gallantry, Brave Archer and his Mate, Legend of the Fox etc. They also have a copy of Crippled Avengers, which is recorded directly from the cinema reels.
	www.geomatics.kth.se /sjoberg/homepage/5venom.htm (733 words)

	Amazon.ca: Five Deadly Venoms (Widescreen): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The five muscle-bound paragons of the title have fighting skills so hyperdeveloped that they border upon the occult, each modeled on the behavior of a different venomous beast: centipede, snake, lizard, toad, and scorpion.
		This "poison clan" is embroiled in a complex plot to lay claim to an ill-gotten fortune, but the story line feels like an afterthought.
		The painted masks worn by the Venoms, which make them look like berserk extras in a wrestling film, are based upon the belligerent warrior face paint of Chinese opera.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004TJS2 (547 words)

	Venoms Filmography
		The five men referred to as Venoms are Sun Chien, Kuo Chui, Lu Feng, Lo Meng, and Chiang Sheng, because the five of them appeared in fourteen films together, their first two being 1977's The Chinatown Kid and Heaven and Hell (aka Shaolin Hellgate).
		Curiously, one of the Venoms in this film was played by an actor named Wei Pai, while the central protagonist, Chiang Sheng, played a non-Venom (or a hybrid-Venom, if you will) trained by the Venoms' teacher.
		There was another actor, by the name of Yu Tai Ping, who appeared in all (!) the Venoms films, but since he almost exclusively played lackies, junior bad guys, and other underlings (his role in Super Ninjas being the major exception), he is even less recognized as a Venom than Wei Pai.
	changcheh.0catch.com /ven-film.htm (2150 words)

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