return to the 36th chamber (1980)

aka Shao Lin da peng da shi.
"I knew when you first entered this place you were phoney."
The boss of a dye works hires some Manchu to bully his Han workforce and cuts their wages for the privilege. The workforce hire a con artist to play a Shaolin priest, who tricks the Manchu into restoring their wages, but the boss then humiliates Chao (Chia Hui Liu) and dejected Chao determines to actually learn Shaolin kung fu, the only way he knows how, by conning his way into the temple.
Martial arts comedy, that provides some fine set piece fight scenes along the way.

the 36th chamber of shaolin (1978)

aka Shaolin Master Killer. The Master Killer.
"If I could fight, I might have stopped them!"
In the midst of a brutal civil war anti-Ching rebels have established a base in Canton disguised as a school. Following its discovery by the Manchu government, San Te (Gordon Liu) manages to escape, whilst all others are massacred. He flees to the Shaolin Temple, determined to learn kung fu, in order one day to exact revenge.
Having been name checked by everyone from Quentin Tarantino, to the Wu-Tang Clan, this is a must see film for martial arts fans. A well written story drives the action, thought the centre of the story lies not in the revenge motif, but in the journey.