View Full Version : Question: What films feature the Beggars Clan?
SamuraiDana
10-22-2008, 08:24 PM
Re-watching the BRAVE ARCHER films recently, I was reminded that I've always wondered which kung fu films were the first I saw featuring the Beggars Clan. I went through my notes and came up with the list below, but there are tons of kung fu films I saw B.C. (before computer) that I don't have notes on and the Beggars Clan scenes in BRAVE ARCHER 2 always seemed downright familiar to me from somewhere else.
So, aside from the films listed below, can anyone think of other films that featured the Beggars Clan?
Thanks.
Beggars Clan films
Shaw:
BRAVE ARCHER series of films, esp. BA2
THE GOLDEN SWORD (1969)
LADY OF STEEL (1969)
MURDER PLOT (1979)
RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH (1980)
THE ENCHANTRESS (1984)
Non-Shaw:
WU TANG SACRED FIST, aka INVINCIBLE SHAOLIN KUNG FU (1979)
aka SECRET OF SHAOLIN KUNG FU, aka BUTTERFLY 18, aka SACRED FIST
THE STOMP (1979) aka SECRET MESSAGE, aka NINJA MASSACRE.
TheManInWhite
10-22-2008, 08:30 PM
Kuo Choi's character in 10 Tigers of Kwantung is actually Beggar Su.
Yakuza954
10-22-2008, 08:42 PM
I remember them having pretty prominent roles in Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin and Game of Killers (not to be confused with Green Jade Statuette).
oldeschool17
10-22-2008, 09:52 PM
If memory serves me correct, A Sword Named Revenge has someone from the Beggars Clan
Morgoth Bauglir
10-22-2008, 10:06 PM
If memory serves me correct, A Sword Named Revenge has someone from the Beggars Clan
I don't know how anyone could possibly remember anything about that movie:p:p
Delirious
10-22-2008, 11:35 PM
young vagabond
oldeschool17
10-23-2008, 01:18 AM
I don't know how anyone could possibly remember anything about that movie:p:p
It was allright. Nothing to write home about
SamuraiDana
10-23-2008, 02:12 AM
Kuo Choi's character in 10 Tigers of Kwantung is actually Beggar Su.
Was there any connection between Beggar Su and the Beggars Clan? I've heard of Beggar Su, but I don't recall which films the character was in, and the character's not in any of the films I cited that had the Beggars Clan in them.
I love Beggar movies.
Beggar Su was a real life person who was one of the real Ten Tigers of Kwangtung and a great pole fighter. he lived on the outskirts of towns thus being called king of beggars etc.
There was a trio of Beggar Su movies put out in the 50's called: Beggar Named Su, The Swordsman and the Lady, and Revenge of a Beggar Named Su
Simon Yuen played Beggar Su in Drunken Master, Dance of the Drunken Mantis, Story of the Drunken Master, World of the Drunken Master, and Snake in the Eagle's Shadow which yall already know.
other beggar movies i can think of are:
didn't LKL play Su in Heroes of the East?
CYF played him in the TV show Legend of the Master Su<-- think i still got it
A Hero Among Heroes 1993
Legend Of The Drunken Tiger 1991
King of Beggars 1992
Kung Fu Beggar the tv show 2005-2006? put out by tai seng<-- sorry not much help on this one. i'd bought it before i was in a car wreck which cost me some vision and i can't really read subs now so i couldn't follow it
Killer Meteor
10-23-2008, 11:01 AM
A Beggars Clan, if not THE Beggars Clan, appears in Snake & Crane Arts of Shaolin and Fearless Hyena II
SamuraiDana
10-23-2008, 10:12 PM
I love Beggar movies.
Beggar Su was a real life person who was one of the real Ten Tigers of Kwangtung and a great pole fighter. he lived on the outskirts of towns thus being called king of beggars etc.
There was a trio of Beggar Su movies put out in the 50's called: Beggar Named Su, The Swordsman and the Lady, and Revenge of a Beggar Named Su
Simon Yuen played Beggar Su in Drunken Master, Dance of the Drunken Mantis, Story of the Drunken Master, World of the Drunken Master, and Snake in the Eagle's Shadow which yall already know.
other beggar movies i can think of are:
didn't LKL play Su in Heroes of the East?
CYF played him in the TV show Legend of the Master Su<-- think i still got it
A Hero Among Heroes 1993
Legend Of The Drunken Tiger 1991
King of Beggars 1992
Kung Fu Beggar the tv show 2005-2006? put out by tai seng<-- sorry not much help on this one. i'd bought it before i was in a car wreck which cost me some vision and i can't really read subs now so i couldn't follow it
[NOTE TO SELF: Beggar Su = Drunken Master, Beggar Su = Drunken Master, Drunken Master = Beggar Su, Drunken Master = Beggar Su.
Oh, and Chun Li is in STREET FIGHTER II, not DRAGON BALL. Never mind where that comes from. :S]
(And I only recently re-watched DRUNKEN MASTER and SNAKE IN THE EAGLE'S SHADOW.)
Some of the films mentioned in this thread are ones I'd not previously heard of, so I looked them up on IMDB:
GAME OF KILLERS - a Taiwan production, but not much info
YOUNG VAGABOND - a Shaw film I don't have. And Lau Kar Leung is in it, per the review on IMDB. Did this come out on disc from Celestial?
A SWORD NAMED REVENGE - no listing on IMDB. Is it known by another title?
Thanks.
Morgoth Bauglir
10-23-2008, 10:49 PM
IMDB is not a good place to go to for kf movie info. Try this site- http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=11280&display_set=eng
I beleve the beggar clan are seen in Dirty Ho aswell.
Killer Meteor
10-29-2008, 08:01 AM
Beggar Su isn't in Snake in The Eagle's Shadow
I love Beggar movies.
Beggar Su was a real life person who was one of the real Ten Tigers of Kwangtung and a great pole fighter. he lived on the outskirts of towns thus being called king of beggars etc.
There was a trio of Beggar Su movies put out in the 50's called: Beggar Named Su, The Swordsman and the Lady, and Revenge of a Beggar Named Su
Simon Yuen played Beggar Su in Drunken Master, Dance of the Drunken Mantis, Story of the Drunken Master, World of the Drunken Master, and Snake in the Eagle's Shadow which yall already know.
other beggar movies i can think of are:
didn't LKL play Su in Heroes of the East?
CYF played him in the TV show Legend of the Master Su<-- think i still got it
A Hero Among Heroes 1993
Legend Of The Drunken Tiger 1991
King of Beggars 1992
Kung Fu Beggar the tv show 2005-2006? put out by tai seng<-- sorry not much help on this one. i'd bought it before i was in a car wreck which cost me some vision and i can't really read subs now so i couldn't follow it
andy338
10-30-2008, 07:09 PM
Secret of shaolin kung fu - Lee Yi Min plays leader of the beggar gang also Sammo plays the beggar detective in Knockabout.
Wasn't the character in SITES a snake fist master & not Beggar So?
TibetanWhiteCrane
10-30-2008, 07:16 PM
Yeah, Yuen Siu Tin was Not Beggar So in SITES!
Morgoth Bauglir
10-30-2008, 07:50 PM
I don't think he is Beggar Su is SITES, but isn't his character a beggar?
TibetanWhiteCrane
10-30-2008, 07:58 PM
Yeah, he was pretty much Beggar So by another name!
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