Shao Lin mu ren xiang

If you like Jackie Chan and have never seen this film, you sould hurry to the video shop in your neiborhood right now. This is definitely the BEST in his early 70's.It was made with very cheap budget the same as his other 70's films made by Lo-Wei,so "Wodden Men" robots looks so shabby, even kids will find out that.But Jackie did his best in both acting and action on this. This film was shown in Japanese movie theatre soon after he became popular in Japan with "Drunken Master", and this movie is still popular in Japanese fans (so they said in many Japanese websites!!)

Under-rated film featuring a mute Jacky Chan who begins training at a Shaolin monastery. This films best draw-card is it's plot. This is your regular Kung Fu vengeance story but written much more cunningly and cleverly. The typical plot mechanisms are used, but they didn't bother me, and the story held my attention better than most modern movies I see.

Jackie's fighting is great, and I particularly enjoyed the training he receives from the Nun(?). Not to mention the inventive and really quite absurd training he gets from the imprisoned man.

As like other films of this period, I think that only Kung Fu genre die-hards will really sit through this and feel rewarded. The Wooden Men themselves never seemed as dangerous as the real men in the film - is this some kind of comment on human nature in a Kung Fu film?

I recently watched Shaolin Wooden Men (1976) on Prime. The story follows a young man who witnesses the brutal death of his father. Traumatized, he escapes to the mountains and discovers a Shaolin temple, where he undergoes rigorous and unique martial arts training-ultimately gaining the skills he needs to seek revenge.

The film is directed by Chi-Hwa Chen (The 36 Crazy Fists) and stars Jackie Chan (Who Am I?), Kang Chin (Master of the Flying Guillotine), Ping-Yu Chang (A Touch of Zen), and Yuen Biao (The Prodigal Son).

The opening credits sequence-featuring Jackie Chan versus Shaolin monks-is an incredible way to kick off this hidden gem. While the storyline is fairly straightforward, the training scenes are the real highlight. The wooden dummies are creative and fun, and the scenes with metal shoes are wild. The choreography throughout is top-notch, with standout fight scenes, including a thrilling restaurant brawl and a fantastic final showdown. It has all the elements you'd want from a classic martial arts film.

In conclusion, Shaolin Wooden Men is a solid entry in the genre, featuring elite training sequences and strong action. I'd give it a 7/10 and strongly recommend it to martial arts fans.

As far as martial arts movies go, Shaolin Wooden Men is pretty standard stuff, but I think it's still fun enough in bursts to make it worthwhile for fans of the genre and/or Jackie Chan. He plays a character here who doesn't speak, so I think that helps it stand out a little among all the other early Jackie Chan movies out there (I do feel like he really came into his own and made his best stuff during the 80s and 90s, though).

The plot here is one you've probably seen a bunch of times if you've even watched a decent number of martial arts flicks, but the action is solid (not great, but still mostly fun), and I guess that's the main thing. I don't know if I quite feel like it's a hugely underrated gem or anything, but it's a decent watch and a fairly good time.

The narrative of "Shaolin Wooden Men" is divided into two neat halves: the first delineates the struggles of Jackie Chan's character (a mute orphan) at Shaolin Temple, ending with his successful navigation of the gauntlet of titular wooden men; the second follows him into the world outside the monastery, as he tests his combat skills and discovers that people cannot always be taken at face value. The film never rises entirely above the conventions of its genre, but in depicting the friendship between Chan and Kam Kang (who plays a prisoner at the monastery), director Chen Chi-hwa effects some nice touches...and there are well-choreographed fights aplenty. Six and a half stars.

(By the way, there's no historical evidence that those fearsome wooden fighting dummies ever existed at Shaolin. It's a great cinematic device, though.)