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I’m glad I treated myself to the Five Deadly Venoms dvd from the library.  

This came out in 1978, but it wasn’t the sort of movie an 11-year-old girl in suburban New Jersey would have seen playing locally.  But within the next year after, it started turning up as a semi-regular staple on one of the local broadcast channels, the same one which ran Dr. Who on weekend nights.  But it seemed to get freshly edited for some new commercial density each time it was broadcast, or they’d cut a chunk of the movie to make it fit a 60-minute broadcast window late at night and there were versions with subtitles and a really wack dubbed one, and I’d swear one time they got some of the movie segments in the wrong order.  To 1970s kids, this was gold and we didn’t care that we couldn’t tell at all what was going on.  They were doing kung fu up the walls.   I saw this film twenty years before the first Matrix movie opened.

It was nice to see without any of the film edited out, and the story was so much more clear, and the fights are fun and totally hold up to stuff you see today.  Sure some of it is funky as shit but this is classic.