Fat shan chaan sin sang (2005) User Reviews

Excellent Remake of old TV series

[bickeler · 9/10 · 6 September 2015]

Very well done TV series from HK TV remade from an early 80s series.

Look for Yuen Biao in the lead, Gordon Liu as a police officer and many other character actors from HK Kung Fu movies. Yuen is very good in this albeit he is older and can not move like when he was 25. He looks good though and there is lots of action and a good story . Also Timmy Hung does quite well as the spoiled son who eventually reforms his childish ways. No it's not Fist of Legend as far the action goes it does lean on

the dialogue a bit more but the script is good and I had no issue with the translations to English other than the odd phrase. You need just a touch of imagination to work with most HK industry dialogue to English subs lol. All in all it is much better than many B Kung Fu flicks that I have seen and I found it highly enjoyable.

Translating films to TV sometimes doesn't work.

[bummaster2 · 6/10 · 27 November 2009]

Yuen Biao has stepped out of the current bad HK film industry to the only thing still providing stable jobs; Hong Kong Television.

I won't point out spoilers, but this whole TV series is a mash up of Warriors Two and The Prodigal Son both by Sammo Hung. This TV series features the actors from the previous two films and has pretty much the same stories but told with some plot twists just to drag it self to twenty episodes.

As for amazing kung fu action, watch The Prodigal Son and Warriors Two. You'll get that here on the show, but considering the fact that Yuen Biao, Lee Hoi San, Bryan(Beardy) Leung Ka Yan are all much older the fighting barely had any acrobatics and was obviously sped up.

If it was on TV and you understand cantonese or mandarin, watch it. If it's not on, you probably don't need to see it.

Yuen Wah and Yuen Biao are wonderful together

[hewhoe-1 · 10/10 · 16 February 2007]

With the exception of Northern Exposure, I don't like TV dramas. This Hong Kong series is another exception; it's well-written and cleverly structured to include a cliff-hanger at the end of every episode. And it has a star-studded cast. Yuen Wah (the landlord from Kung Fu Hustle) and Leung Kar Yan as Wing Chun Kung Fu masters, and Yuen Biao (arguably the best acrobat ever filmed) as a Wing Chun student.

It's worth noting that Yuen Wah and Yuen Biao (along with Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, etc.) all grew up together at the same Peking Opera School. They refer to each other as brothers. Yuen Wah is Yuen Biao's elder brother. Their on-screen chemistry is wonderful.