Man zhou ren was released as The Godfathers of Hong Kong in the U. S. by Cannon.
According to the Lost Media Wiki, the Cannon English dub of the film is just about lost. The only known home video release with English audio was a heavily abridged 8mm print release by Ken Films. It's on YouTube courtesy of Kerrie O'Keefe.
Kin Jin Pai plays a detective and wanderer called Man Tshu who comes into a town and challenges the crime family that owns it, burning their opium and taking away one of their prostitute wives as his love interest.
It was directed by Katy Chin Shu-mei - her only film and it's rare to see a Hong Kong martial arts movie from a woman - and a young John Woo was the assistant director.
The end of this film gets incredibly intense and quite violent, which is why Cannon supposedly picked it up.
According to the Lost Media Wiki, the Cannon English dub of the film is just about lost. The only known home video release with English audio was a heavily abridged 8mm print release by Ken Films. It's on YouTube courtesy of Kerrie O'Keefe.
Kin Jin Pai plays a detective and wanderer called Man Tshu who comes into a town and challenges the crime family that owns it, burning their opium and taking away one of their prostitute wives as his love interest.
It was directed by Katy Chin Shu-mei - her only film and it's rare to see a Hong Kong martial arts movie from a woman - and a young John Woo was the assistant director.
The end of this film gets incredibly intense and quite violent, which is why Cannon supposedly picked it up.
