Original title: The Magnificent Trio / Magnificent Wanderers
Year: 1966 / 1977
Country: Hong Kong
Region code: B
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5060000705676
Image: 2.35:1 (1080p)
Audio: Original Mono Audio Tracks
Subtitles: English
Age rating: -
Genre: Action
Cast: Jimmy Wang Yu, Lo Lieh, Cheng Lui
Director: Chang Cheh
Synopsis:
Titles Include: The Magnificent Trio / Magnificent Wanderers
One of the Shaw Brothers Studio's most prolific directors, Chang Cheh – or the “Godfather of Hong Kong Cinema” – is the filmmaker behind Five Deadly Venoms , Chinatown Kid and Boxer Rebellion . Collected here are two films by this maestro of martial arts cinema that showcase his considerable talents at both ends of his career: The Magnificent Trio , produced when wuxia films ruled the Hong Kong box office in the mid-1960s, and Magnificent Wanderers , made at the height of the kung fu craze at the end of the 1970s.
In an early role that pre-dates his star-making turn in Chang's The One-Armed Swordsman , Jimmy Wang Yu stars in The Magnificent Trio as swordsman Lu Fang, who – along with fellow warriors Yen Tzu-ching (Lo Lieh) and Huang Liang (Cheng Lui) – lends his martial arts prowess to a group of oppressed farmers when they kidnap the daughter of their local magistrate. Then, in the kung fu comedy Magnificent Wanderers , the three nomads Lin Shao You (Fu Sheng), Shi Da Yong (Chi Kuan-chun), and Guan Fei (Li Yi-min) attempt to join Chinese patriots in their struggle against invading Mongol armies with the help of the wealthy Chu Tie Xia (David Chiang).
From straight-faced wuxia pian to farcical kung fu comedy, The Magnificent Trio and Magnificent Wanderers display the full range of Chang Cheh, a filmmaker who sat in the director's chair for over three decades. Eureka Classics is proud to present both films on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.
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