The workers of a dye factory have their pay cut by 20% when the factory owner brings in some Manchu thugs to try and increase production. Desperate to reclaim their full wages, the workers hire an actor to impersonate a priest and kung-fu expert from the temple of Shaolin. The factory owner proves the actor a fraud, and punishes all those involved. The young actor feels he has let the workers down, and promises to atone. He sets out for Shaolin, determined to be accepted as a kung-fu pupil at the elite temple.
Direction
Lau Kar-Leung: actual martial artist directing actual martial artists.
Stunts
Training sequences that make your abs hurt vicariously.
Acting
Gordon Liu's physical comedy chops are criminally underrated.
Director
Lau Kar-Leung
Gordon Liu Chia-Hui
Chou Chun Chi
Kara Hui Ying-Hung
Hsiao Hung
Hsiao Ho
Ah Chao
Wong Ching-Ho
Uncle Li
Wa Lun
Chou Shih Sheng
King Lee King-Chu
Monk San Te
Yau Chui-Ling
Worker
Chen Szu-Chia
Ah Fen
Kwon Yeong-Moon
Chuan Min
Yeung Ching-Ching
Hsiao Ting
Johnny Wang Lung-Wei
Boss Wang Kao Feng
Chiang Tao
Chief Ma
Jang Il-Do
Yuen Li Hou
San Sin
Monk with Diarrhea
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Despite the title, this isn't a direct sequel—Gordon Liu plays a completely different character, making the 'return' a playful nod to audiences expecting Monk San Te redux.
Lau Kar-Leung, a genuine Hung Gar master, insisted on actors performing their own fights—rare authenticity in an era of wire-heavy wuxia.
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This movie has amazing fight choreography. Gordon Liu dipping and dodging while tying his opponents together is sick.
@jeffmazziotta 5
My dad bought this movie when I was 13. This movie was ahead of it's time.
@mrferrer9485 2
The first Shaw Brothers flik I ever saw way back in 1986, was lucky enough to meet the star Gordon Liu a few years later in 1990, start the same kung fu style, hung gar, as him and get a personal videoed message from the fliks director, the late Lau Kar Leung in 2003
@chrispopsjunior8978 4
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