Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Chinese
- Country
- Hong Kong SAR China
- Violence
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Chinese — subtitles on.
The story
A dying master sends his last student to check up on five former pupils, who each know a special style of kung-fu.
- martial arts
- kung fu
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Chiang Sheng
Yang De
Phillip Kwok Chui
Meng Tianxia, the Lizard / Constable He Yu
Sun Chien
Gao Ji, the Scorpion / Chief Constable Ma
Lu Feng
Zhang Yiaotian, the Centipede / Tan Shanhu
- Lo Meng — Liang Shen, the Toad / Li Hao
- Wai Pak — Qi Dong, the Snake / Hong Wentong
- Johnny Wang Lung-Wei — Justice Wang
- Dick Wei — Dying Head of Five Venoms House
- Ku Feng — Bookkeeper Yuan
- Lau Fong-Sai — Menfa
- Shum Lo — Fruit Vendor
- Lam Fai-Wong — Prison Officer
- Suen Shu-Pei — Constable Lin Guang
- Wong Ching-Ho — Constable
- Siu Yuk-Lung — Constable
- Directed
- Chang Cheh
- Written
- Chang Cheh, Ni Kuang
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 172 ratings
- Studio
- Shaw Brothers
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
