Plot
The pace and tone of the film is immediately made clear with an opening fight in the woods as Wah-jee and his uncle attempt to flee from ruthless fighters led by a deliciously wormy Chan Lau as Mien Tsu-mun. The pair make it to a Buddhist temple, but the uncle croaks after Tsu-mun and his thugs break in. A fighter turned monk named Huang manages to kill most of them. Once recovered from his wounds, Wah-jee is put to work at the temple, making soy milk runs into town and cleaning out the smoke-filled oven, that is when he isn't clowning around with two junior monks or trading friendly kung fu blows with Tsui-jee , the attractive soy milk seller.
But as always, trouble comes a calling when Tsu-mun returns to the area with two martial brothers in crazy wigs who begin snooping around. Fed up with the torturous regimen of chores at the temple, Wah-jee leaves but overhears Tsu-mun's plans to kill Huang and decides to warn his mentor. A nasty fight ensues that Wah-jee survives only after he's forcibly pulled away by Tsui-jee's father . At this point, Wah-jee learns that his own father died at the hands of a silver-haired fighter played by Hwang Jang-lee who belongs to the same group as Tsu-mun. Three martial brothers initially escaped Jang-lee's attack, but now only Tsui-jee's father remains. Wah-jee, Tsui-jee and her father go into hiding where Wah-jee begins to master the 36 Deadly Styles just in time to face Jang-lee.
There is also a smaller parallel plot interwoven with the previous one involving a brother of Jang-lee who heads off to a Tibetan temple to seek out a kung fu master named Kaung Wu Chun in order to get the manual of 36 Deadly Styles.
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