Dance of Death

Dance of Death is a 1979 Taiwanese martial arts film directed by Chen Chi-hwa, with action direction by Jackie Chan, and starring Angela Mao and Dean Shek. Plot The film is set in The Ming State during the time, Fei-fei (Angela Mao), an orphan, meets two elderly masters, Madman Lu (Hsu Pu-liao) and Hu (Wang Tai-lang), who duel every five years to determine whose martial arts are superior, but they have always been evenly matched for the past twenty years. Fei-fei suggests the two to teach her their skills so she can use it on a worthy opponent and would determine whose martial arts is superior based on whose techniques are more useful. On one occasion, Fei-fei encounters Ku Cheng-yuan (Paul Chun), the first disciple of the Five Forms School, who is being chased by the Three Birds from the Hundred Birds School - Roc (Chi Fu-chiang), Hawk (Lui Wan-biu) and Little Bird (Wang Yao). Fei-fri helps Ku fend off the Three Birds and Ku reveals that he is on the run from Lo Kuan-tien (Ko Pao), chief of the Hundred Birds School, and Upturned Horse fighter Ma Fa-chun (Chia Kai), who killed Ku's sifu, Lin Nien-hai, for killing Lo's comrade in arms, and swore to wipe out all Five Forms Disciples. After the Three Birds fail their duties to kill Ku, Lo orders his top disciple, Bird Egg (Dean Shek), to be in charge of the matter. While Bird Egg and the Three Birds were searching for Ku, they once again bump into Fei-fei. Fei-fei attempts to fight Bird Egg using Five Animals Style, but is easily outmatched by Bird Egg, who proves to be more adept in the style. Fei-fei flees and Bird Egg orders Hawk to follow her and discovers Ku to be hiding in Willow Bridge where the school of Hsu Chia-wu (Yu Chung-chiu), brother of Ku's sifu, is located.