The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter

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The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter
The Hong Kong movie poster.
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	五郎八卦棍
Simplified Chinese	五郎八卦棍
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Wǔláng Bāguà Gùn Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Ng5long4 Baat3gwaa3 Gwan3
Directed by	Lau Kar-leung
Written by	Lau Kar-leung Kuang Ni
Produced by	Mona Fong Run Me Shaw Run Run Shaw
Starring	Gordon Liu Alexander Fu Kara Hui Ko Fei
Music by	Stephen Shing
Distributed by	Shaw Brothers Studio
Release date	1984 (1984)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese

The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter is a 1984 Hong Kong film by Shaw Brothers, directed by Lau Kar-leung and starring Gordon Liu, Kara Hui and Alexander Fu (in his final film appearance). It was released as The Invincible Pole Fighters outside of Hong Kong and Invincible Pole Fighter in North America.

Alexander Fu died in a car accident before the filming of The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter was finished. The script was partly re-written after his death and Fu's character does not appear in the final showdown as originally written in the script.^[1]

The film is based on the Generals of the Yang Family (Yeung family in Cantonese) legends.