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spoilers.
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=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Shua (Zombie King)
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Captain Cha
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=A0 =A0 =A0I'm not sure about anything regarding this movie. I found it
on Netflix in a Wu Tang Collection called Soldiers of Darkness.
The collection seems to consist of some 20 Chinese films on a
number of disks. "Kung Fu Vampire" was one of them. The movie is
in Chinese (Mandarin? Cantonese?), and the credits in Chinese
characters have not been translated to English except for the
director (Yuan Xiang Ren) and a few others, none of which show up
on the IMDb. Even the year 1993, which I got from an Amazon
description of this movie, is questionable. This is unfortunate
because "Kung Fu Vampire" goes a long way to explain the Chinese
view of superstitution, death, and the chiang-shih hopping
vampire. One thing to note: I've seen a number of Chinese
chiang-shih movies, most of which refer to the chiang-shih as a
"vampire" and to the magician that controls them as a "Taoist
priest." In "Kung Fu Vampire," the term "vampire" is not used.
"Chiang" is translated as "zombie", and the Taoist priest is
called a "voodoo" priest.

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=A0 =A0 =A0Before the opening credits, a narrator explains how, in the
old days, if a person died outside of his home village, the body
would need to be transported back there. Means of transportation
included floating the bodies on rafts or in boats, carrying them
on one's back, magically flying them, or hiring a voodoo priest to
lead them hopping home. Two priests are leading a dozen
chiang-shih while chanting "Dust to dust, earth to earth, life is
all but suffering; Stiffs, stiffs, follow my orders, you'll be
home soon to rest forever" when their Zombie King Shua suddenly
appears and warns them that they are being followed. Captain Cha
and his police suddenly surround the entourage, and Cha informs
Shua that he is under arrest for using corpses in his "unspeakable
deals." A fight breaks out between police and priests. Shua,
having the benefit of magic, bests the police. As the police
retreat, Shua cries out to Cha, "You won't get away with this!"
and sends his priests to kill Cha.

=A0 =A0 =A0Some days later, a boatman is boating down a river, singing
about eating turnips on the third of May. He is transporting Qin
and her silly boyfriend Yung, returned from their medical studies
in Japan, to Miao Ping town through the primitive province of
Xiang Xi to attend her father's funeral. When their boat gets hung
up on a rock, Yung and the boatman get out to push it free (Qin is
forbidden to enter the water lest the water god get too excited by
her presence and stir up large waves that will sink the boat). In
pushing the boat free, the boatman suffers an attack of asthma,
and Qin attempts to give him an injection of adrenalin. Suddenly,
an old witch appears and warns the boatman not to take drugs from
a Han Chinese or risk being possessed by evil spirits. Instead,
she brews up a potion of waxworms and snake blood, which the
boatman eagerly drinks while Qin and Yung puke over the side of
the boat. Unable to go on until the boatman recovers, Yung and Qin
are happy to see another boat headed their way and call to it.
When there is no answer, Yung pulls the boat along their boat but
sees =A0it's empty. When he pulls back a tarp, however, he finds a
pile of dead bodies, with more bodies being towed on rafts behind
the boat. In his terror, he jumps into the water where he meets up
with a floater and barely makes it back to Qin and the boatman.

=A0 =A0 =A0When they finally make it to the mortuary, Qin is dismayed to
learn that her father's body is being led by a voodoo priest back
to his village. Determined to find his body, Qin and Yung set out
searching for it. They come upon some hopping vampires and, when
the priests stop to take a few tokes of opium, Qin checks under
the yellow wards pasted on the foreheads of the chiang-shih, but
no dad. Thinking that Yung and Qin may be police officers, one of
the priests picks a fight with them. Suddenly, Yung is caught in a
net, leaving Qin to fight alone. The maker of the net Dang, a
young man from the Miao town, saves Qin from the priest, but gets
a sword cut to his leg. Qin bandages the cut, Dang releases Yung
from the net, and they go to Dang's village.

=A0 =A0 =A0Along the way to the village, Yung and Qin happen upon a
group of young girls bathing in a pond. When Dang explains that
this is an even day, the day for girls to bathe, Yung steals one
last look. Suddenly, the old witch reappears, scolds him for
peeking, and forces Yung and Qin to accompany her to the village
to see the King. However, the King's grandson Shao Mu is very ill.
The old witch begins to whip up a potion, but Qin takes it upon
herself to diagnose pneumonia and give him an injection. When Shao
Mu cries out from the sting of the needle and then faints, the
villagers assume that these Han Chinese (who they apparently hate)
have killed him, so they take them outside and prepare to boil
them alive. When they hang Yung upside down over the boiling
water, some firecrackers that he's been carrying drop from his
pocket into the fire and begin exploding. The villagers take
cover, and Dang helps Yung and Qin to escape.

=A0 =A0 =A0Qin and Yung go on alone. After walking for the whole day
without finding dad, they stop at an inn to rest. Several voodoo
priests are having their dinners, and their warded chiang-shih are
lined up against the wall, so Yung and Qin look for Qin's father,
but he's not there. After ordering some chiang zhi ji (zombie
chicken), Qin announces that she must use the toilet, but she's
really looking for an excuse to snoop around. [While snooping,
they see a priest "feeding" incense to the chiang-shih, which
explains the use of so much incense in Chinese vampire movies.]
They find another half dozen zombies upstairs but inadvertantly
knock off the ward, causing the zombie to wake up and chase them.
The priests, assuming they were trying to steal bodies, capture
and question them. When they learn that Qin was looking for her
father's body and that her father is Captain Cha, they report this
fact to Shua, who is in the next room. When Shua hears that Qin is
Cha's daughter, he orders his priests to return Cha's body to the
Ghost Cave. On their way to the cave, the priests and zombies are
intercepted by the police, who are on to the fact that the priests
are using corpses to smuggle gold and opium.

=A0 =A0 =A0Meanwhile, Qin and Yung are wandering around the countryside
when they stumble into a cemetery. As they race to get out of it,
a hand suddenly reaches out of the ground and grabs Yung's leg.
When the corpse's face is seen, Qin recognizes him as one of the
priests. He tells her that Shua has taken her father's body to the
Ghost Cave. When Qin and Yung find the cave, they knock out a few
priests, don their robes, and hide behind some rocks to watch Shua
addressing his troops. First, Shua tells them that he has a big
deal coming up and wants to use Cha's body for it. Next, he points
out a traitor and has him tortured by strapping a cage of rats to
his abdomen and setting the rats on fire. In their attempt to
escape, the rats eat through the guy's abdomen. Searching the
cave, Qin and Yung find Cha's body, so Yung tries to carry him
from the cave, but they are intercepted by Shua. Suddenly Dang
appears with a load of explosives and helps Qin, Yung, and Cha's
corpse escape from the cave.

=A0 =A0 =A0Turns out that Dang has been following Qin and Yung and
protecting them from robbers and from Shua's priests. After Qin
cremates her dad's body, they are attacked by Shua's men, one of
whom shoots Yung with a poisoned dart. Dang takes Yung and Qin to
his village where he operates on Yung and removes the poison.
Suddenly, Dang's mother and some of the villagers burst into the
room and take Qin and Yung away. Certain that they're going to be
tortured and put to death, they are surprised to see that Shao Mu
has fully recovered and the villagers are actually bowing to them
as his saviors. Qin and Yung are invited to join in the
festivities at a traditional Miao wedding, where Dang and Qin make
googoo eyes at each other and Yung gets rip-roaring drunk. When
Dang and Qin dance together, jealous Yung begins to frolic with
some of the village girls, which makes Qin jealous, so she slaps
him. When Yung's wound begins to bleed, however, she gets all
tender and carries him to a bed so he can rest.

=A0 =A0 =A0Meanwhile, Dang is feeling bad that he couldn't score with
Qin, so he goes down to the pond to toss around a few rocks. He is
attacked by two of the Shua's men, but Qin arrives just in time to
save him. Back in the village, the festivities have ended, but the
King wants everyone to be on special alert in case of an attack by
Shua and his troops, but it's too late. Shua has sent a dozen
corpses with explosives on their backs to fly into the village.
Once there, the explosives go off and the village begins to burn.
Shua kills Shao Mu's grandmother then goes after his old nemesis
the King, whom Shua maimed several years ago by cutting off the
King's left arm. A big fight ensues, but the police force arrives
in time to save the village, and the King manages to take out Shua
with something like a sharkgun.

=A0 =A0 =A0Her father's murder avenged, Qin is now able to return to
medical school, but she vows to return to Miao again, presumably
in order to see Dang. Yung promises that, if Qin ever returns,
he'll come with her.