Han shan fei hu

This movie, nay, FILM, is nothing short of a masterpiece! Roc Tien literally throws the viewer in medias res, and the action is relentless! The action is so spectacular it defies the laws of psychics! The denouement of Shaolin Fox Conspiracy (brilliant title!) would make Kurosawa green with jealousy. Some guy drinks some kind of elixir (Purple Jade Badger?), turns blue and starts running amok and killing indiscriminately anyone who opposes him. In a scene that will leave you speechless, the blue guy actually breaks someone in two! My God, I'm still having nightmares! Forget The Matrix, see this work of genius at once!!!!

Li Chao Yung's deliriously demented, kaleidoscopically cracked Kung Fu phantasmagoria 'Jade Dagger Ninja' (1982) aka 'Shaolin Fox Conspiracy' is a wildly entertaining, daringly disjointed, DMT-laced, deliriously high-flying fight flick that opens outrageously with a truly dazzling display of balletic, blood-splashed, bad guy goring brilliance! With its wickedly exaggerated, noodle-twistingly violent, hyper-kinetic fisticuffs, wildly acrobatic, crimson-slashed sword fights, this bizarrely underrepresented, sardonically dubbed, synapse shattering, super-schizoid, logic-baiting martial arts mayhem is a must-see surrealistically senseless, hyperbolically absurd, deliriously double-dealing, midnight movie disasterpiece! 'Jade Dagger Ninja' is deliciously convoluted magical Elixir seeking, green-skinned demon-incarnating, psychedelicized pugilism done right!

It rarely makes a lick of narrative sense, and frequently lacks the graceful elan of The Shaw Brothers, but none of that matters one measly jot, as this fearlessly far out fight-flick is consistently crazier than crotch full of angry blowfish, and no less exhilarating! While 'Jade Dagger Ninja' certainly won't dethrone 'King Boxer', out decapitate 'Master of the Flying Guillotine', or righteously beat down 'The Prodigal Son' as top tier Kung Fu classics; trash movie terrorists, and warped aficionados of Joseph Lai's insanely incongruous cut n' paste Ninja WTF mania should groove to this oddball Grindhouse Kung Fu freak-show's relentlessly outlandish oeuvre! And how could any serious thrill-seeking cineaste not find the most sublime cult movie edification in a brain-bogglingly bellicose blockbuster that includes the refined, emotionally penetrating, resonating prosody of "Your kung-fu is good...but I wonder, how would you be in bed????' along with 'You're a hard and fast fighter, I wonder if you're hard and fast where it counts!' and, finally, the immaculate repost: 'You're the famous four kings, are you? You're no forking good!! Phooking deadly lyrical genius, mayte!

Calling this Asian cinema is an insult to every country in Asia that wasn't responsible for this piece of garbage. It's so bad that it's entertaining.

You can't only tell scenes they reused backgrounds and footage, you can tell scenes they reused film. I bought the DVD of this movie because I had to see whether the transparent count-down 8 in the background was just bad VCR tape; it wasn't. The "purple jade badger" is the worst name for an idol ever; is jade even purple? I thought it was green.

As another poster put it, it's like watching a train wreck. Myself and a few friends watched it while we were drunk, it was a hilarious night. Surprisingly, we found it at a Jumbo Video on VHS. I do really recommend it if you like bad movies.

If your looking for a good kung fu film, this isn't it. But it makes a great "midnight movie". This film mostly features swordplay that is nothing spectacular. It's charm lies in its bizarre style. It rips off soundtracks to other films such as Flash Gordon which adds to this style. It has interesting costumes and backdrops. The coolest part of the film is when the villain transforms into creature that looks like a cross between the incredible hulk and santa claus. A truly great film if you like wierd stuff, but not a good kung fu film if you are a fan of the genre.

Now, in all honesty, I gave this movie 4 out of 10 stars because of the sheer camp factor and absurdity of this movie. I've seen many martial arts movies of questionable taste and unthinkable content, but this one sets a bar or two. Fight scenes are surprisingly cool and the costumes and makeup are just too funny, almost like they tried to make it look as hilarious as possible. Excuse my vagueness on this movie, but you have to see it to really understand how I feel about it. Think Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon on crack - honestly, it's that weird. In another note, it is also the first time I have ever seen a Chinese Hulk. Get this movie.