The Mighty Peking Man

Original title: Xing xing wang

1977
15
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

5.4/10

2.3K

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A greedy Hong Kong businessman captures a 50-foot-tall ape from the Himalayas and puts it on display, but it escapes and goes on a rampage.A greedy Hong Kong businessman captures a 50-foot-tall ape from the Himalayas and puts it on display, but it escapes and goes on a rampage.A greedy Hong Kong businessman captures a 50-foot-tall ape from the Himalayas and puts it on display, but it escapes and goes on a rampage.

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IMDb RATING

5.4/10

2.3K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Johnnie Fang
(as Li Hsiu-Hsien)

Ku Feng

Lu Tien

Wei-Tu Lin

David Chen Shi-yu
(as Lin Wei-Tu)

Norman Chu

Ah Lung
(as Shao-Chiang Hsu)

Hang-Sheng Wu

Ah Pi
(as Wu Hang-Sheng)

Ted Thomas

The Commissioner

Steve Nicholson

Yao Hsiao

Huang Tsui-hua
(as Hsiao Yao)

Ping Chen

Lucy
(as Chen Ping)

Radio operator

Director
- Meng-Hua Ho
Writer
- Kuang Ni
All cast & crew
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Trivia
The hair for the Peking Man suit used in the film was made from actual human hair. A total of 300 Hong Kong citizens arrived at the studio to donate.

Goofs
Watch the ending of the film carefully. When the helicopters are shooting Utam the Peking Man to pieces, the impact of the rounds on his body, considering how big he is, should be tiny. But they are huge, as if the weapons being used are his size. Also, when Samantha and Johnny are wounded by the same helicopters, the rounds should have torn their limbs off entirely, not just scratched them.

Alternate versions
The original European version, which is titled "Colossus of Congo", has a different ending than the Hong Kong version.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Pushing Tin/Mighty Peking Man/Election/Lost and Found/SLC Punk! (1999)

Soundtracks
The Jam
Music by Frank McDonald and Chris Rae
DeWolfe Music

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Featured review

Mighty Educational Man, Too!

I learned a lot of things from "Mighty Peking Man":

The Himalayas are tropical

Leopards really enjoy it if you put them on your shoulders and spin them around

A woman raised in the jungle can function perfectly well in society while still wearing a chamois bikini and barely speaking any sort of language

After you've captured a one-of-a-kind animal completely unknown to science, the best way to profit from him is to stage a monster truck rally

"Mighty Peking Man" is a weird mutant hybrid of "King Kong" and all those 1950s giant bug movies, where whole blocks of downtown Hong Kong (or wherever they are) are made of very fragile models and toy vehicles. There is no way on Earth you can approach a movie like this seriously, to try to use the same standards of criticism and taste that apply to normal movies. There's a certain majesty here, an aura of utter ineptitude that transcends mere bad filmmaking and becomes art.

You gotta admire the can-do spirit of everyone involved in this movie -- I just know they were convinced they were making a classic. They probably wanted to surpass "King Kong" in grandeur and drama; instead they surpassed "Plan 9 From Outer Space" in camp and sheer manic idiocy. "Mighty Peking Man" sets a new standard in bad movies -- utterly inept and laughable, and yet highly entertaining.