Lau Kar-leung followed The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978) with this 1980 action comedy about a hustler posing as a monk inside a martial-arts monastery. In Mandarin with subtitles. We need to be ...

There’s a recipe to many films produced by the Shaw Brothers, a Hong Kong studio famed for its string of kung-fu successes in the 70s. That’s not to say that the films are formulaic. But a certain ...