Comments on: 7 Grandmasters | aka Return of the Seven Secret Rivals (1978) Review https://cityonfire.com/7-grandmasters-1978-aka-return-of-the-seven-secret-rivals/ Asian Cinema and Martial Arts News, Reviews and Blu-ray & DVD Release Dates Thu, 13 Apr 2023 06:28:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: JJ Tuttle https://cityonfire.com/7-grandmasters-1978-aka-return-of-the-seven-secret-rivals/#comment-204924 Sat, 29 Sep 2018 20:24:08 +0000 http://www.cityonfire.com/?p=3055#comment-204924 In reply to MingChu.

Mighty Peking Man did make an error -mistaking Mark Lung for Jack Lung and crediting Joseph Kuo as action director, but I don’t think you need to be abrasive about the mistake -take a gander at your first sentence. There are more courteous ways of addressing the difficulty. I can understand if he argued with you, called you out or insisted that his information is correct, but he gracefully thanked you for pointing out the inaccuracies. Perhaps you can also learn from his response.

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By: Mighty Peking Man https://cityonfire.com/7-grandmasters-1978-aka-return-of-the-seven-secret-rivals/#comment-72209 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:30:04 +0000 http://www.cityonfire.com/?p=3055#comment-72209 In reply to MingChu.

Hey MingChu – thanks for your comment. Apologies for some of the inaccuracies in this review. This review, in fact, is a very old one from our archives (probably dates back 1996, despite the Jan 2011 post date; it was written during a time when we didn’t have too many standards in place) Still, this isn’t an excuse. You’ll see that some of our newer reviews, posted in the last 3 years have been of a higher standard (as far as writing and accuracy). I can assure you that this review doesn’t reflect the site as a whole. You will occasionally come across an “archived” review that are kept present with respect to the original submitter.

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By: MingChu https://cityonfire.com/7-grandmasters-1978-aka-return-of-the-seven-secret-rivals/#comment-72198 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 16:27:54 +0000 http://www.cityonfire.com/?p=3055#comment-72198 When you write a review at least take your time and give the very much needed respect to the actors’ and get their name right! It IS Jack Lung Sai-Ga who plays the main roll, fights the grandmasters and shows off incredible gongfu and the best sceen is undoubtedly his fight with Corey Yuen Kwai (Sun Hung -the blade master-) who also happens to be one of the martial arts or action director of this film.

Mark Lung Koon-Mo plays the First Brother aka first student or eldest student of Jack Lung Sai-Ga and although Mark is present throughout the film and shows some very nicely done “high kicks”, the story is NOT about his character. The only thing you got somewhat right was Li Yi-Min’s enthusiastic and stubborn but very much encouraging roll.
Also, absolutely worth to mention that the “bad guy” roll was played by Alan Chui Chung-San (Ku Yi Fung) who is also excellent in his art and the last grandmaster’s “best student” was played by Ma Chin-Ku (Nan-Lin), they don’t require any introduction either, if you know martial arts films.

This film is an absolute masterpiece, Joseph Kuo Nan-Hong’s (is the director and not martial arts director those are 2 completely different things) at his best. The story is not just about mindless fights but rather it is filled with lessons of courtesy, courage, modesty, righteousness and also, a unique way of bonding which is clearly, fantasticly played and carried out in the final fight sceen (Master -Jack Lung Sai-Ga Vs. Student -Li Yi-Min). Joseph Kuo made several more excellent films with the same people from the above mentioned names. He is also well known for writing 45 films and directing 72 films.

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By: john felix https://cityonfire.com/7-grandmasters-1978-aka-return-of-the-seven-secret-rivals/#comment-55477 Mon, 08 Dec 2014 02:52:34 +0000 http://www.cityonfire.com/?p=3055#comment-55477 none

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By: John Hicks Jr https://cityonfire.com/7-grandmasters-1978-aka-return-of-the-seven-secret-rivals/#comment-39902 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 19:10:48 +0000 http://www.cityonfire.com/?p=3055#comment-39902 very good

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