Wonderful character development!

One of the best films i have seen

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

The fight scenes are often vicious to the point of Grotesque. There are children in overabundance in this movie, but it is NOT, NOT a kid's movie. The Nine Devils want to spring their boss from prison and rob a Gold train. Unfortunately, a village of poor people with a high population of teenagers and children, stands in their way. So, what's a group of thugs to do, but kill everyone in the village and burn it to the ground. Luckily, the teens and kids are on the outskirts of town watching one teen try to use his Kung Fu to take down a cow. Yup, a cow. When they sees the smoke from the village, they go to investigate.I cannot take the Nine Devils seriously in the costumes and hairstyles they have. There's a Jin-ish Goon who has a head as a hard as a brick and performs a head butt that has to be rewound and watched at least twice to verify you saw what you saw. Another is wearing pigtails while carrying an oversized Chupa Chup. A third resembles a 1980's WWE Tag Team partner. A Caveman is carrying a stick reminiscent of Jeffrey Dean Morgan's TWD Barbed Wire Baseball Bat. A fourth has Armored sleeves with Kabuki Mask shoulders and Leather studded mittens. A fifth, I kid you not,is running around in pink striped jammies. Yeah, I said Pink striped Jammies. The only "Normal" looking one is wearing an eye patch and a jumper resembling those seen at martial arts competitions.The kids are chased into the woods by two of the Nine Devils, where a Shaolin Abbott and his pupil intervene. Another fight scene occurs where the Abbott, in between "Buddha be Blessed" announcements, kicks some ass and sends the Devils fleeing. I love how the Shaolin kick butt then say "Buddha Be Blessed/Praised". The Abbott and his pupil take the kids further into the hills for protection.The Nine Devils move on to break their boss "Golden Tiger" out of the prison transport coming toward the village. I would never want these prison guards watching any prisoner. They are too easily beaten. Golden Tiger busts out of the cage like he's in a wet paper bag. Seriously, if it was that easy for him to break out, why didn't he do it sooner? The guards were easy to subdue.The Abbott has a friend from Japan coming to meet him. They are going to trade techniques to make both of their Kung Fu styles stronger. The man has brought his two sons with him to teach them about other cultures. Unfortunately, since the Abbott has taken the village kids into the hills, he has to send someone to get his friend. The Japanese encounter the Nine Devils and only the boys survive. They become part of the group protected by the Abbott.The style of Kung Fu the Abbott decides the Teens and children need to learn is Not Called Chastity Kung Fu. That wording no doubt comes from whomever misunderstood the original dialogue during remarketing for the English language countries. The style the adolescents learn is a combo Gymnastics-Kung Fu that would make any Chinese Circus or Cirque Du Soleil proud.The Abbott suddenly announces he's ill and, of course, dying, which leaves training the adolescents to the younger priest, who's very leery about the prospects. When the youngest Japanese boy becomes ill, the Senior Teen and the boy's brother venture back into town to get herbs for healing. They encounter the Nine Devils and Golden Dragon. The Japanese Teen escapes while the Senior Teen remains behind to ensure his escape. The Senior Teen is used to bring the Abbott out of hiding. It works, however, Golden Tiger and his Crue have to work as a unit to kill him.The Adolescents and their new Teacher work harder to become a unit to destroy Golden Dragon and the Nine Devils. The last twenty-five minutes of the film is devoted to eliminating the Devils and their boss one by one. Pajama Man, Jin, Golden Tiger and another Devil are involved in one on one matches, while the others each encounter the Adolescents working as teams. The fights are a tad gruesome as normal matches go. The group fights reminded me of Children of the Corn chasing Adults through the corn fields.The final battle starts with Golden Tiger taking on the Senior Teen. It soon becomes a Battle Royale, as the other Adolescents and their Teacher join him when they finish their fights. There's a moment of singing, which is a tad creepy and again, Children of the Cornesque. Golden Tiger issues that annoying maniacal laughter the bad guys always use. He doesn't laugh for long.The conclusion is the Adolescents kneeling outside the Shaolin Temple awaiting a response from the Main Abbott. Their Teacher appears and announces none of them will be accepted as Priests or Nuns as someone needs to go back to the village and rebuild. The two eldest male teens are instructed to marry the two eldest female teens to continue the population of the village.Hmm, an entire town run only by teens and little kids. No Adult supervision whatsoever. What could possibly go wrong? I would have given it a higher number but the fights were far too gruesome and the Nine Devils were simply too comical to be taken seriously.

After their village is destroyed by an evil gang of murderous bandits named the Nine Devils, a group of around thirty children from the ages of 5 to 18 years old flee into the woods with the Nine Devils in hot pursuit. Fortunately the kids are found by a pair of Shaolin monks who see it as their duty to protect them but noting the numbers and odds are against them, the monks decide they better train the youngsters in the art of Shaolin Kung Fu so they will be able to defend themselves if need be. Once their training is complete though, the kids decide to seek a measure of revenge...While this movie may have some child-like moments of humor, it's really not suitable for kids at all. Its violence is brutal and the Nine Devils really don't hold back when battling with the youngsters, who are simply amazing given the amount of stunt work they do and the considerable physical abuse and punishment their roles demand. Also the resulting brutality when the kids take the fight to the Nine Devils gang in the end is not always easy to watch and frequently disturbs as it's little kids often dishing out said bloody vengeance. Certainly not your usual Kung Fu film and surprisingly entertaining and interesting in that respect if one can get past this one's sometimes shocking content.

A guy gets broken in half by a head butt and there's a lot of action,the acting is good and the plot is enjoyable,i recommend this film,also the DVD has an awesome wu tang music video to go with it. There's a lot of really exctiting fights in this,the action doesn't really let up at all. I think Robert Tai did a good directing job and i'd like to see more of him. Alexander Lo Rei is a very good fighter and i'm sure anyone who has seen this film has looked him up to see more of his work.

SHAOLIN CHASTITY KUNG FU (1981) is an early team-up of star Alexander Lou (aka Alexander Lo Rei) and director Robert Tai and boasts a simple, well-told, coherent tale in contrast with the more frenzied, delirious action found in such later collaborations of theirs as MAFIA VS. NINJA and NINJA FINAL DUEL. Although Lou is the nominal star here, he doesn't dominate the proceedings, but is instead one member of an ensemble cast and shares the stage with a number of talented fighter/performers. He does, however, get the girl, one Liu Hau Yi, who proves a capable partner for Lou in several scenes where they train and fight as a team.The most original touch is the presence in the cast of two dozen or so boys and girls who train together in Shaolin Chastity Kung Fu and work as a team to defeat the bad guys, employing a number of bold, fresh strategies. The kids are evidently members of an actual acrobatic troupe and put their training and skills to great use here.The action starts when a group of teens and children led by one older pair, Lou and Liu Hau Yi, flee their village in the wake of an attack by a bandit group, the Nine Devils, who overrun the village and kill all the inhabitants they can find. The bandits' motive is to use the village as a base from which to rescue their imprisoned boss, Golden Tiger, who is scheduled to be taken to court by a security team passing through. The bandits' attempt to pursue the fleeing kids is thwarted by a traveling Shaolin master and his disciple who fend off the bandits with their kung fu. The two monks then take the village refugees into hiding and teach them all kung fu in preparation for a spectacular climactic battle with the bandits after they've freed their leader.A friendly Japanese martial artist, en route to meet the Shaolin Master, is waylaid by the bandits but puts up enough of a fight to allow his two sons to escape into the woods where they are later found by the village refugees and incorporated into the group. One amusing scene has the Japanese boys blithely enter the pond where the girls are bathing and dismiss the girls' loud protests, unaware that the two sexes don't bathe together in China. The master then sits them all down for a lesson in different customs. It's all handled with abundant good humor and charm.The villains are big and muscular and wield a number of exotic, lethal weapons. Most of them are also somewhat buffoonish, which makes for plenty of comic encounters with the wily, agile kids. The action culminates in a series of battles in which the top martial artists in the group take on the most formidable bandits, while the kids, working in separate groups, ambush and entrap the rest of the gang using a host of different acrobatic team maneuvers and such simple tools as bamboo poles and ropes. It's all very imaginatively staged and employs the boys and girls equally in the action. The cast is quite good and includes some familiar faces from Taiwan-based kung fu films. Liu Hau Yi is new to this reviewer, however, and her qualities of strength, spirit, fighting skill and abiding beauty make one wish her additional films, if any, were easier to identify and track down. As for the kids in the cast, "adorable" may be an overused term, but it certainly applies here. How often does one get to see large numbers of eager boys and girls engaging in rigorous Shaolin training scenes and then putting that training to use? All in all, it's a thoroughly invigorating and delightful kung fu film that should prove a pleasant surprise to longtime genre buffs. Be warned that there are some very quick, gruesome moments--one bullet-headed villain splits a villager in two with his head--but if the younger or more squeamish kung fu fans in your circles can handle such bits, the rest of the film could be a real treat for them. Be also aware that the current edition of this film being distributed in the U.S. is a low-cost, English-dubbed, poor-quality transfer which will simply have to do until a better copy comes along.