By the time anyone reads this it will long been available on home video Blu- Ray, by 04/13/21. A year and a half ago there was a fund raiser on kick starters by Bob Furmanek and the 3d archive to raise money to have this restored. It was suppose to be released on 12/20 ,but there were more delays. As a financial contributor ,I just got my copy yesterday. It's great. It the first blu- ray 3d that combines polarized with anaglyph print ,for those who don't have a Polaroid 3D set up. So everyone can see the way it was shot . Earlier I had sent Mr Fermanek email suggested that they ought to use color code ,since it mess up the color way less .I got a respond and he told me that they already tested it with anaglyph. Unfortunately the latter is copy righted so that would have been an expense .Red left cyan right is public domain,but seeing it through red left blu right glasses reduces the color distortion and makes it less green slightly more color detail,but, color code come closer to Polaroid. This was the first Kung fu extravaganza in 3D. Although it is advertised in 4 channel quadraphonic sound,it originally was recorded in mono. The producer probably mixed the tracks that were originally for the mono. Well the music and the sound affects are of oriental in nature .Flutes ,drums japans guitars .The horses galloping sound affects were good .Although the story is minimal the kung fu action is great. Now i don't know which actor plays the prince since all the actors are unknown to me,but Ying Bai plays a corrupt Eunuch Chow who now controls all of Taiwan,were it was shot. The prince wanted to over throw him,but, is forced to go to a monastery for protection,but, that won't prevent Chow to destroy him. Yings character is strange besides being a bad guy. David Wei Tang plays Eunuch's guard protector. The film maker did not give this character name. That was odd. There is a scene where David make a surprise Attack almost to Eunuch,but it turns out he was just practicing cause he want to be a general. The Strange thing is that Eunuch grabs his hand and moves him to Eunuch's bed and starts to put his arms around David and gets' closer to him and next scene. All of a sudden Eunuch gets up it's time to sneak to the monastery and surprise the Prince,Guess who get up out of the same bed ? David. Did he and the Eunuch Chow had gay sex? Sometime Eunuch called Davids character his brother. Tao Liang Tan plays Sao Chin Tan son of a warrior ,who got killed by his enemy, Eunuch ,in a 2d still shot flash back of the brutal murder ,probably the producer wanted to save money on the film. The actor looks very skilled at the portrayal of king fu,but my guess had probably a technical adviser to choreograph it probably. Sao takes off way after the bad guy arrives killing all the monastery priests as they defend themselves. Oh I forgot to say that when Eunuch went to the palace to see if the prince was there they captured an old man played by younger actor Wen Tai Lee. He refuses to answer them and gets his head chopped off,almost flies off the screen .Now poor Sao all alone in the world has seven days to get rid of Eunuch Chow and his Gang. There another character,bad guy ,who plays a general ,who looks likes David character ,Kang Chin ,who plays Lu Kuai. In fact when Sao was scaring Lu Kaiu into the woods ,right next to the city, and surprised attack Lu chopping lu's hands off and Ramming a piece of wood in his chest,suggested,I though they killed David character..Then I realizes he was still alive in another scenes. The 3D cinema photography in the kung fu fights was excellent. The scene where Eunuch's soldiers try to decapitate Sao heads with a claw attach to a chain and he uses his trusty metal umbrella to fight them off,just like the leading character in the 1936 musical the dancing pirate,then more help shows up ,or more help for the bad guys?. The soldiers end up choppy off the head of the extras flying out of the screen instead of Sao's. Eventually ,after a lot of fighting against each other ,David's character has turned against Chow,probably for raping him, and offer help to Sao to overthrow the dictatorship of Eunuch Chow in Taiwan. Although the voices were kind of ridiculous the dubbing was in sink. Too bad the original mandarin language is lost. No there was not one women in this film,except for some servants .Fear not the women will have there turn in the sequel Shogun women coming soon.i remember seeing this in an advertisement at the empire theater in 77,but did not see it at that time .Even though ti was shown on t.v. In 82,but it never came to my station. Fortunately I saw it in Polaroid at the martin twin when it was reissued to the theaters in 83. Extras in this Bu ray disc is a cartoon 3d music video. Mike Ballew discussion of the super touch 3D lens ,which was invented by sexploitaion film maker Mike Findley. More 1950's stereo slides and a slide presentation of a famous department store in Dallas Texas. Worth the buy and watch.04/01/21.
