The Crippled Masters
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£22.00
More than four decades ago, “one of the strangest and most shocking martial arts movies ever witnessed” (DVD Talk) drove 42nd Street audiences into a stunned frenzy. Today it remains an “amazing” (Severed Cinema), “genuinely jaw-dropping” (High-Def Digest) “undisputed masterpiece” (Grindhouse Database), and is officially licensed on disc in North America for the first time: When a cruel crime boss chops off the arms of a peasant (Sung-Chuan Shen aka Frankie Shum, who was born with Thalidomide Syndrome) and acid-dissolves the lower limbs of a henchman (Chao-Ming Kang aka Jackie Conn,
born with small, deformed legs), the two disabled men train under a
mysterious master to combine themselves into one unstoppable fighting
machine and battle their way to vengeance. Chung Chien Li (THE GUY WITH THE SECRET KUNG FU) and Mu-Chuan Chen (THE IRON MONKEY) co-star in “the FREAKS of martial arts cinema” (1000 Misspent Hours) directed by Chi Lo aka Joe Law (THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN), newly scanned in 4K from the interpositive with 3 hours of revealing Special Features produced exclusively for this release.
| Format | |
| Format | Blu-Ray |
| Film | |
| Year | 1979 |
| Rating | 18 |
| Director | Chi Lo |
| Starring | Sung-Chuan Shen Chao-Ming Kang Chiu Ho Mu-Chuan Chen Chang Chung-Kuei Wei Ho Mei-Lung Hsiang Chung Chien Li Ei Lu Chang Ma Te-Yun Pei San Peng Liang Tai Tou Tieh Liu Shang Ping |
| Country | Taiwan, Hong Kong |
| Label | Severin |
| Region / TV Standard | Region 0 |
| Language | Mandarin |
| Subtitles | English |
| Running time | 92 mins |
| Aspect ratio | 2.35:1 |
| Case type | Standard |
| Extra features | |

