7 Grandmasters
7 Grandmasters () is a 1978 kung fu film directed by Joseph Kuo, starring Lee Yi Min, Jack Long, Alan Chui Chung-San, Mark Long, Corey Yuen and Nancy Yen. It was filmed in Mandarin, as opposed to Cantonese which is more common due to Hong Kong's enormous output in the genre. Plot Sang Kuan Chun is an old kung fu master who is getting ready to retire from martial arts. But just as he is about to put up the king's signboard and call it quits, he receives a note alleging that he's not the best. Thus begins his journey for one last challenge with each of the Seven Grandmasters to prove his superiority. As Sang Kuan Chun and his three students travel from one challenge to the next, the foursome acquires a fifth—a young man named Siu Ying who wants desperately to train under master Sang Kuan Chun to avenge his father's death. So he tags along, despite the master's insistence that he will not accept any more students. Eventually, we learn more about the master's past. His own teacher, before he died, left him the secret book of The Pai Mei Twelve Strikes. However, a masked man soon