大明嘉靖王朝，倭寇猖獗，严嵩父子把持朝政，不事抗倭。将领戚继光虽有报国之志，但面对困难的局面有些力不从心。在倭寇的杀戮中，少年月空失去了母亲，大脚僧搭救了月空，把他带到了少林寺。15年后，月空随方丈出席祭海大典，路遇日本女孩一本秀子和剑客风语，活泼的日本女孩秀子爱上了月空。在少林寺，秀子谎称是月空的妻子，引起轩然大波……

前大夏武神赵无极遭武协黄天霸、少林慧能勾结东洋千岛灭门，妻死女失，化名叶龙做少林扫地僧十五年。幸存女儿赵天娇持圣女剑寻仇，被六大派围剿，叶龙下山凭鸳鸯玉佩认出亲女。父女揭穿反派夺武学秘籍、通敌的阴谋，东洋千岛意图吞并大夏武道。叶龙重拾太祖神拳，联合正道武者，在方丈协助下清理少林门户，击溃东洋势力。

隋朝末年，天下大乱。各路诸侯，自立为王，硝烟不断，百姓遭殃。十三个平民百姓虽然出身不同，但都被乱世所害逼入绝境。经历了无数的腥风血雨，他们怀着家仇国恨，循入空门。但是黑暗势力依然不放过他们，死亡当头，他们为求自保，苦练武功。为了天下太平，这十三个和尚救护明君李世民，灭掉了凶残的王世充，演出了一曲英雄壮歌。

Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1952) & the milestone silent surrealist masterpiece A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeji, 1926). Yoso means "esoteric priest" which implies "sorcerer." For such a rarely screened film, it seems to have attracted an unwieldy number of English titles: The Sorcerer, Ghostly Priest, Bronze Magician, Phantom Priest, & on the subtitled 35 mm print the only fully apropos title, Priest & Empress, not to be confused with another Raizo Ichikawa film called The Priest & the Beauty (Anchin to Kyohima, 1960). Japan of the Nara Era had a sovereign female emperor or Mikado, Koken-Shotoku Tenno, who fell under the sway of a Buddhist priest named Dokyo. His influence over her proved so untoward that Empress Koken-Shotoku gave him titles which implied the imperial line might actually pass to him should the Empress die, despite that the imperial line had been preserved as a single dynasty back into prehistory. The crisis engendered by Dokyo led to the banning of women ever again becoming Mikado, a decision periodically revisited including in our own generation when there stood a strong threat of no authentic male heir. The film takes this historical reality & makes of it a believable though tough & very odd love story. Dokyo, who has indeed been called "the Japanese Rasputin," is here played by Raizo Ichikawa. Though Dokyo clearly uses the affections of the Empress (played by the ethereally beautiful Yukiko Fuji) for personal gain & power, his intense devotion to Shotoku is nevertheless no falsehood. When it comes time for his assassination, it is very much Rasputin-like, as he is damnably difficult to kill. It's portrayed quite horrifically but it remains simultaneously sorrowful because his love of Shotoku was no pose.

当一位年轻僧人接触到“博阿健身房”的健美运动员时，他重新连接到了自己身体的力量，引发了一场彻底的转变。

小龙（释小龙 饰）被师父派下山寻找佛缘，第一次来到大城市的他，不幸与师兄失散。还好遇到了流浪儿肥虫（郝邵文 饰），才不至于挨饿受冻。肥虫见小龙武功高强，便决定追随他。随后二人又碰到了英雄救美的古董爱好者一山（元彪 饰），一山被小龙的执着精神打动，决定帮助他一起寻找佛缘。 原来一山的兄弟（徐锦江 饰）正是某个倒卖文物团伙的头目，而他们正在倒卖的，正是小龙师父的寺院丢失了的佛首，小龙三人得知后，便和被一山救下的少女小萱（徐若瑄 饰），一起踏上了寻回佛首之路……

明嘉靖年间，朝廷被严党把持，内部朝政腐败，沿海倭寇横行，明朝危在旦夕。南京城内，南京总兵程肃之子程闻道天资聪慧、少年得志，本欲与青梅竹马的郡王府郡主李蓁蓁喜结良缘，然而，这一文一武两家的联姻，却引起了朝廷高官明德的恐惧。　　于是，明德设计提拔程闻道的结拜弟兄高剑雄，并假传圣旨将程闻道一家灭门。心存愧疚的高剑雄放了程闻道一条生路，但两人从此结怨。重伤的闻道被少林僧人救回少林药局救治，一段关于“禅、武、医”的问道故事就此展开。

电影讲述了一个佛与魔较量的故事，为阻止上古妖魔罗刹降世，将世间颠覆成万劫不复的寒冰炼狱，少林寺弟子慧海踏上了寻找降龙罗汉英雄之旅，青梅竹马的上官灵素始终陪伴守护、不惧未知不畏困难，助力慧海禅武合一破除心魔，参透少林精神，还苍生太平与生机。

雍正年间， 闽粤地区形势动荡，"天鹰帮"敛巨资广纳武林人士，为朝廷一大腹患。南少林也被吸纳其中。雍正决定派他最得意的两位皇子--三阿哥弘时、四阿哥弘历，一文一武、一明一暗兵分两路赶赴南少林，查办天鹰帮一事。雍正命两位皇阿哥出马，意在考察此二人谁可担当国家大任，继承帝业。而两位皇子更是机敏过人，深明雍正之用意。二人为取悦龙颜，呈功于雍正，便使出浑身解数查办天鹰帮与南少林。在此过程中，心狠手辣的弘时视弘历为眼中钉，多次派人暗下毒手，索取弘历性命，以除心头之患。 侠肝义胆的南少林俗家弟子方世玉出手相助，帮弘历逃过一次次劫难和迫害。二人遂结为好友。 而弘时在泉州暗中网罗闽浙总督张信德与其手下，结党营私。他以查办天鹰帮为名，大开杀戒，铲除异己。南少林的玄通方丈被其所迫害致死。弘时从此将自己送上不归路。方世玉也从此视弘时为不共戴天死敌。 弘历在查办天鹰帮的过程中，因有方世玉、洪熙官、侠盗赵大宏、江湖老千卓灵仗义相助，得以化解重重阻难，并渐渐查明弘时和张信德相互勾结的种种阴谋诡计。弘历也发现方世玉之父方德只是天地会手中的一颗棋子，而天地会因作为天地会名誉堂主之一的方德已无利用价值就对其下毒手，此时方世玉为救其父，冒着九死一生的危险杀出南少林之木人巷，从法场劫走方德。弘历被方世玉与方德之间真挚的父子之情而打动，网开一面，允许方德隐居荒岛，从此远离世事。 同时李梦麟得知弘历乃当朝皇子的真实身份，陷入艰难的抉择之中。而弘历也得知他的心上人李梦麟就是天鹰帮的"特使"，亦使弘历陷入深深的痛苦之中。李梦麟天真的以为将父亲早先扣留的财物献于天地会能免于一死从而与弘历在一起，却被师傅认为是叛徒而灭口，她用自己得生命捍卫了她与弘历之间的这段真情，也将自己从痛苦中解脱出来。 在"天鹰帮"之事水落石出之际，由于南少林难脱其咎。弘历决定火烧南少林，此时，方世玉誓言无论怎样都将与南少林生死与共。就这样，一对情同手足的兄弟，对峙于南少林山门之下…… 最后，方世玉和弘历联手粉碎了弘时和张信德勾结倭寇窃取南少林镇寺之宝的企图，并粉碎了敌人分裂祖国、破坏民族团结的阴谋。 本剧是描写少林和尚方世玉从一个天真浪漫的少年成长为一个民族英雄的感人故事。 表现了方世玉的聪敏机变，神勇无敌。歌颂了他爱憎分明，深明大义，为维护祖国统一、安定和平，前仆后继不怕牺牲的民族主义精神和爱国主义精神，也歌颂了他和卓灵、张小莹之间纯真美好的爱情。

A young Xiaolin monk named Omi with a giant yellow head leads a trio of other students to collect powerful items known as Shen Gong Wu while battling the evil Jack Spicer who is also after the artifacts