CONTEST: Well Go USA’s Shaw Brothers set with vintage poster

Well Go USA is giving away 10 copies of their upcoming, four-disc Shaw Brothers box set along with an original Shaw Brothers movie poster to 10 lucky Kung Fu Cinema readers in the U.S. The box set comes in a collectible tin and includes the martial arts classics HEROES SHED NO TEARS (1980), THE HEROIC ONES (1970), DELIGHTFUL FOREST (1972), and TWO CHAMPIONS OF SHAOLIN (1978). Winners will also receive either an original THE HEROIC ONES poster or an original TWO CHAMPIONS OF SHAOLIN poster.

Because Well Go USA is giving away four movies, plus an original Shaw Brothers movie poster to up to 10 winners, we’re going to offer up a little challenge in the form of a short quiz. Contestants much correctly identify the following Shaw Brother movies as described by title. Send your answers, along with your name and U.S. mailing address to contest@wellgousa.com. Winners will be selected randomly from those who answered correctly. Prizes will be shipped in two to three weeks after winners are selected. Contest ends on November 19, 2009.

Identify the following three Shaw Brothers kung fu movies:

1. A naïve young man trained in kung fu in a rural part of China in the early 1900s arrives in Shanghai to seek his fortune. After struggling as a lowly coolie, he is befriended by a dashing young gangster and offered the chance to rise through the ranks of the local criminal underworld. He applies his superior fighting skills to the task and quickly becomes a wealthy gang boss. His rise to the top is short-lived however as rivals conspire to tear this country upstart down. Unable to trust anyone, this fallen hero struggles to survive against an onslaught of knife and axe-wielding thugs.

2. A Chinese emperor creates an elite Special Forces team to assassinate political rivals. Their weapon of choice is a spinning metal disc attached to a chain that decapitates its victim. When a pair of righteous government officials and their families are targeted, several assassins object and become targets themselves. The most skilled member of the team escapes and goes on the run while hunted down by his former comrades who now use the flying weapons of death against him.

3. A vicious, white-haired master of northern kung fu leads an assault by the Qing government on Shaolin Temple which leaves it in ruins and forces its surviving students to scatter. One surviving Shaolin pupil goes into hiding with other anti-Qing rebels as traveling street performers operating out of red boats. He later marries a student of Crane Fist and settles down to raise their son while teaching him Tiger Fist kung fu. Years later, he encounters the white-haired master again and makes a failed attempt to seek revenge by challenging him in a duel. His son later combines the kung fu skills of both parents to develop Tiger Crane kung fu and uses it to challenge the white-haired master in an effort to avenge his father’s death.

(Hint: None of the titles are in Well Go USA’s box set but they have all been reviewed here at one time or another on Kung Fu Cinema.)

Well Go USA’s EPIC HEROES: KUNG FU’S ULTIMATE WARRIORS four-disc tin arrives in stores on November 17. It’s available now for pre-order at HKFlix.com.

Tags: Delightful Forest (1972), DVD, Heroes Shed No Tears (1978), Shaw Brothers, The Heroic Ones (1970), Two Champions of Shaolin (1978), Well Go USA