The Mighty Peking Man (1977) (2024)

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1977

猩猩王

Directed by Ho Meng-Hua

Synopsis

Action... Excitement... Spectacle beyond your wildest dreams!

Word of a monster ape ten stories tall living in the Himalayas reaches fortune hunters in Hong Kong. They travel to India to capture it, but wild animals and quicksand dissuade all but Johnny, an adventurer with a broken heart. He finds the monster and discovers it's been raising a scantily-clad woman, Samantha, since she survived a plane crash years before that killed her parents. In the idyllic jungle, Johnny and Samantha fall in love. Then Johnny asks her to convince "Utam" to go to Hong Kong. Lu Tien, an unscrupulous promoter, takes over: Utam is in chains for freak show exhibitions. When Lu Tien assaults Samantha, Utam's protective instincts take over: havoc in Hong Kong.

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Cast

Evelyne Kraft Danny Lee Sau-Yin Ku Feng Lam Wai-Tiu Hsiao Yao Chen Ping Norman Tsui Siu-Keung Ng Hong-Sang Wang Han-Chen Lee Sau-Kei Gam Tin-Chue Chin Chun Ting Tung Man Man Tang Wing-Siu Tam Ying Yeung Kei Chin Tsi-Ang Wong Kung-Miu Theodore Thomas Steve Nicholson Keizô Murase

DirectorDirector

Ho Meng-Hua

ProducersProducers

Pang Shing Vee King Shaw Runme Shaw

WriterWriter

Ni Kuang

EditorsEditors

Chiang Hsing-Lung Thom Noble Pepita Fairfax

CinematographyCinematography

Wu Cho-Hua Cho Wai-Kei

Assistant DirectorAsst. Director

Hung Hak

Art DirectionArt Direction

Johnson Tsao Chuang-Sheng Chan King-Sam

Special EffectsSpecial Effects

Keizô Murase Koichi Kawakita Sadamasa Arikawa

StuntsStunts

Yuen Cheung-Yan

ComposersComposers

Frankie Chan Fan-Kei DeWolfe

SoundSound

Wang Yong-Hua

MakeupMakeup

Mei-Yun Chou Wu Hsu-Ching

Studio

Shaw Brothers

Country

Hong Kong

Language

Chinese

Alternative Titles

Goliathon, Xing xing wang, Colossus of the Congo, Der Koloß von Konga, El hombre de Pekín (Goliathon), El grandioso hombre de Pekín (Goliathon), Der Koloss von Konga, Il gigante dell'Himalaya, Le colosse de Hong Kong, Γοριλάνθρωπος: Ο Τρόμος της Γης, Mocný Pekingský muž, 성성왕, 北京原人の逆襲

Genres

Fantasy Action Horror Adventure

Themes

Epic heroes Sci-fi monster and dinosaur adventures Show All…

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Premiere

19 Mar 1980
  • The Mighty Peking Man (1977) (3)USAPG-13

Theatrical limited

23 Apr 1999
  • The Mighty Peking Man (1977) (4)USA

Theatrical

11 Aug 1977
  • The Mighty Peking Man (1977) (5)Germany12
  • The Mighty Peking Man (1977) (6)Hong Kong

04 Mar 1978
  • The Mighty Peking Man (1977) (7)Japan

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The Mighty Peking Man (1977) (8)Germany
11 Aug 1977
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The Mighty Peking Man (1977) (9)Hong Kong
11 Aug 1977
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The Mighty Peking Man (1977) (10)Japan
04 Mar 1978
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The Mighty Peking Man (1977) (11)USA
19 Mar 1980
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23 Apr 1999
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  • Review by Karsten ★★★½ 1

    monkey mondays #28

    monkey mondays is back on the menu, this was a good time

  • Review by CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️ ★★★½ 5

    A hot blonde in a polyamorous relation with a giant monkey and several leopards is seduced by a man that cheats on her and sells her ape to an unscrupulous promoter. Humans are truly the worst.

  • Review by laird ★★★½ 1

    Evelyne Kraft spinning a leopard around in slow motion to sweet 70s R&B forever.

  • Review by 🩸 Bloodcurdling Carlo V🩸 3

    Sometimes watching a Chinese man in a monkey suit tear up miniatures feels very reasonable compared to what's actually going on in the world.

  • Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★★

    A very entertaining Shaw Brothers King Kong rip-off directed by Ho Meng-Hua. This is probably Ho's best known movie, no doubt in part because it got a DVD release on Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder label.

    This is simultaneously charming (because of all the miniature model work) and WTF! (our female lead walks around half-naked for most of the movie and she seems to have intimate relations with the titular Peking Man and other wild animals).

    Danny Lee is the male lead here and he isn't playing a police officer for once. I wasn't familiar with Evelyn Kraft before today but I am definitely going to search out a couple of her movies.

    A good time!

  • Review by BeardofTsu ★★★★★ 5

    Not sure I could give this anything less than 5 stars. Mainly down to the work that was put into shamelessly ripping off King Kong from the miniature work to a half-naked Evelyn Kraft who has a somewhat "close" relationship not only to a giant gorilla but tigers, Leopards, and whatever animals she can spin around. After his girlfriend cheats on him with his tv producer brother Danny Lee decides the best way to get over his heartache is to lead an expedition to locate a giant gorilla - we have all been there! They are soon greeted by elephant stampedes, tiger attacks, and quicksand with little sign of a giant gorilla, that is until he finds an almost naked…

  • Review by Slig001 ★★★½

    Hong Kong does King Kong in this shameless but lovingly made rip-off of the classic film. Mighty Peking Man takes the basic elements of King Kong - big ape, expedition to the jungle, corporate arseholes seeking to profit, ape getting loose in the city etc and mixes it with elements of Tarzan (Evelyne Kraft in a skimpy bikini) and a big focus on the ape-girl relationship. The opening few minutes really lets you know what you are in for as a man in an ape suit hilariously smashes his way through a load of a models of a Himalayan village. It has to be said that the first half is better than the second - the expedition into the jungle…

  • Review by Liz ★★★★½ 1

    Pure, wonderful insanity. Almost like how a child would describe King Kong to their friends the next day at school, except it totally lives up to all of the exaggerations and half-remembrances.

    This and Starcrash is a dream double bill.

  • Review by threepenny ★★★★★ 4

    The epic spectacle of a giant ape rampaging through incredibly detailed miniatures of Hong Kong, climbing the Connaught Centre building, is pure joy for anyone who loves Hong Kong movies and the cityscape that defines them. The lead-up is non-stop excitement and WTF-ery, a jungle adventure with Danny Lee leading an expedition into elephant stampedes, lion attacks, and quicksand, until he finds Evelyn Kraft, a jungle girl with an Elephant friend and a Leopard friend that they frolic and play with in ways that Clyde Beatty wouldn't have tried. She was raised since childhood by the giant gorilla. This is a happy switch from the usual sexual possessiveness, this time Kong is basically a protective parent, and all the leering…

  • Review by Gregor Kreyca ★★★½

    Undoubtedly the horniest of all King Kong Rip-offs. And also probably the most entertaining one. If Evelyne Kraft got a bonus-check every time she popped out of costume in this one she’d be a rich woman today. The world of cinema certainly is richer for it. I don’t know what else to say to sell this. Except maybe, there’s an extended slo-mo sequence where she, in her loincloth, starts tossing a real life leopard around. Just saying…

    Quentin Tarantino apparently once argued that The Mighty Peking Man was not a campy guilty pleasure but a legitimate great movie. And never one to argue with a master, I will agree, that I feel no guilt whatsoever enjoying the hell out of this movie.

  • Review by Joachim Andersson ★★★½ 2

    If you thought that The mighty peking man is just a simple cash-in from Dino De Laurentis King kong remake, think again. This movie deals with far more important issues - womens liberation. It might seem like the movie is about a large ape taken to Hong Kong who then proceeds to level the city in his search for the blonde lady he is in love with but that is not the truth. The mighty peking man is actually about Evelyne Krafts left nipple and the immense struggle it has to try to free itself unto the world. There is not a single scene where it can't be seen trying to pop out with great force to conquer the known world. This is not a mere monstermovie, it is a statement of the attitudes towards women and their nipples. And the german blu-ray is fucking gorgeous.

  • Review by Ziglet_mir ★★★★ 3

    Yes, people, yes. This is Hong Kong cinema, not that kung fu fèihuà. Evelyn Kraft as Miss Tarzan is raised by large ape man. It's a point to say this King Kong rip makes it less romantic and turns their relationship fully parent-child. It's hard to believe Shaw Bros weren't purposely filming montages revolving around Miss Kraft's physique, with a persistent nip slip that would have Janet Jackson not hiding in shame. Evelyn Kraft shoulder-spins a fully intact leopard to 70s soul music, shimmies up a tree for the leading man to drool over rear exposure, and has her reassure the ape of sleeping with the gentleman who just found her in the woods moments ago, as to not feel…

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