36 Deadly Styles
36 Deadly Styles is a 1979 independently released martial arts film directed by Joseph Kuo starring Jack Long, Mark Long, and Hwang Jang-lee.
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 Mien Tsu-mun. The pair make it to a Buddhist temple, but the uncle dies 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. He spends time with two junior monks and trades friendly kung fu blows with Tsui-jee, the attractive soy milk seller.Tsu-mun returns to the area with two martial brothers. 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 fight ensues that Wah-jee survives only after he is 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 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.