--- title: 'Five Deadly Venoms (1978)' type: 'film' director: 'Chang Cheh' released: '1978-08-12' runtime_minutes: 101 genres: - 'Action' - 'Adventure' - 'Thriller' countries: - 'Hong Kong' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/five-deadly-venoms-1978' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077559/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Five Deadly Venoms (1978) 1978 · 101 min · Action, Adventure, Thriller · Hong Kong Original title: Wu du ## Synopsis Five Deadly Venoms, also known as The Five Venoms, is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts mystery film directed and co-written by Chang Cheh and produced by Runme Shaw for the Shaw Brothers Studio. It stars Chiang Shieng as Yang Tieh, a martial arts pupil who aims to follow his master's dying wish: to find the new identities of the master's five previous pupils, and kill them if they have turned towards evil. While doing so, Yang stumbles onto a web of murders and investigations involving all five pupils. Each of the master's previous pupils practices a unique animal-themed style, with the animals being based on the Five Poisonous Creatures of Chinese folklore. ## Credits - **Director:** [Chang Cheh](https://cinepixo.com/people/chang-cheh) - **Screenplay:** [Chang Cheh](https://cinepixo.com/people/chang-cheh), [Ni Kuang](https://cinepixo.com/people/ni-kuang) - **Original Music Composer:** [Frankie Chan](https://cinepixo.com/people/frankie-chan) - **Producer:** [Runme Shaw](https://cinepixo.com/people/runme-shaw) - **Director of Photography:** [Cho Wai-Kei](https://cinepixo.com/people/cho-wai-kei) - **Editor:** [Chiang Hsing-lung](https://cinepixo.com/people/chiang-hsing-lung) ## Cast - [Dick Wei](https://cinepixo.com/people/dick-wei) - [Ku Feng](https://cinepixo.com/people/ku-feng) - [Chiang Sheng](https://cinepixo.com/people/chiang-sheng) - [Sun Chien](https://cinepixo.com/people/sun-chien) - [Luther Chu](https://cinepixo.com/people/luther-chu) - [Wei Pai](https://cinepixo.com/people/wei-pai) - [Lo Mang](https://cinepixo.com/people/lo-mang) - [Philip Kwok](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-kwok) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/five-deadly-venoms-1978 Film facts: Wikidata (Q3828759); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.