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The Golden Buddha

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Director Lo Wei (of Bruce Lee film fame) helms The Golden Buddha, a 1966 Shaw Brothers film that emulates the popular James Bond films of the era. Paul (Zhang Chong) is a businessman who gets caught up in an international espionage plot when he accidentally switches briefcases with a friend aboard a Singapore-bound plane. The friend turns up dead, and Paul discovers a small Golden Buddha inside the briefcase that contains a set of instructions. The instructions are only one of three parts, the other two being held in similar Golden Buddhas by Lo Wei (doing double duty as actor and director) and Lin Cui. When combined, the three Buddhas will lead the bearers to a buried treasure. But the nefarious Skeleton Gang is after the Buddhas, along with a buxom femme fatale (Fannie Fan) who isn't above showing a little skin to get her way. Luckily, Paul knows kung-fu, so the bad guys had better watch out! Filled with gorgeous international locations, exciting chases, and some straight-out-of-a-Bond-movie bad guys, The Golden Buddha is a campy, delightful adventure that can charm and entertain even today!
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Product Title: The Golden Buddha 金菩薩 金菩萨 金菩薩 The Golden Buddha
Artist Name(s): Lo Wai | Chang Chung | Lin Cui 羅維 | 張沖 | 林翠 罗维 | 张冲 | 林翠 羅維(ロー・ウェイ) | 張沖 | Lin Cui Lo Wai | Chang Chung | Lin Cui
Release Date: 2003-06-26
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Disc Format(s): VCD
Duration: 101 (mins)
Publisher: Intercontinental Video (HK)
Other Information: 2VCDs
Package Weight: 110 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1002840348

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導演:羅維
Director: Lo Wei

  陳氏家族失落的巨大寶藏「金菩薩」誤落在保險公司調查員張保羅(張沖)手上,引來連串追殺,而陳家成員之一陳美蘭(林翠)因擁有另一座金菩薩亦成為目標之一。為了追查真相,張與陳歷盡艱辛,合力對抗,引發連場鎗戰,最終既智破「金菩薩」之謎,又勇破非法集團產陰謀。
  Hong Kong wanted its own 007, and Shaw Brothers gave it to them in this superspy thriller featuring not one Goldfinger, but three golden Buddhas. The late, lamented Hong Kong movie magazine Southern Screen declared "The film is in the true Bone tradition, with beautiful girls, secret weapons, and a cunning foe." It also featurs a hidden treasure sought by a millionaire's daughter, who's thwarted at every turn by the evil Skeleton Gang. It adds up to plenty of campy fun.
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Average Customer Rating for All Editions of this Product: Customer Review Rated Bad 7 - 7 out of 10 (2)

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January 17, 2010

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Well, not Bond, but fun anyway Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10
Shaw may have wanted to do it's own 007, but you won't find a 007-type superspy here. Nevertheless, I found this fun, Saturday matinee-style entertainment. In almost a Hitchcockian manner, the hero -- any otherwise everyman -- finds himself drawn into a plot by a Goldfinger wannabe villain to steal a king's ransom in jewels from a family inheritance. Oh yeah, gold lame outfit, and a gaudily gauche underground hideout in glitzy 1960's colors and decor that certainly cost 10 times the value of the treasure to build, outfit, and man.

Still and all, Paul Chang is fine in his role as the everyman sucked into the search for the treasure, and it's a real treat to see Jeanette Lin, looking just lovely and even prettier than her appearances in earlier MP&GI movies, in a rare color role and her only appearance with Shaw. The only drawback is the incredibly cheezy fight choreography, so hokey it's worth a belly laugh. Considering the world-class fight choreography about to begin in Shaw's martial arts films in the same year, 1966, one can only assume that the stupid looking klunky fights must've been intentional as a "send up" of the bona-fide action sequences in the real Sean Connery Bond films of the era. But, in it's own cockeyed way, they add to the fun value of this title.

Not a masterpiece, perhaps, but certainly an entertaining and enjoyable romp. I'm glad I picked this one up. I think you will be, too.
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Anonymous

July 28, 2003

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Golden Buddha Customer Review Rated Bad 6 - 6 out of 10
Despite the 60's actions cum "cheap-skate" props , the plot itself still will gain the viewers' support. I believe this is the only one Shaw Classic by Lin Cui.
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