About this episode
The episode reviews the 1970 film Chinese Boxer, highlighting its impact on martial arts cinema and its unique focus on unarmed combat.
Jimmy Wang Yu’s 1970 trailblazer Chinese Boxer, AKA Hammer of God, may seem quaint now but don’t be fooled. This movie introduced the righteous revenge formula taken to even greater heights by Bruce Lee in Fist of Fury and a myriad other homages. Unique for being the first film to focus primarily on unarmed combat we have a two armed Jimmy Wang Yu who plays a vengeful student who powers up from a training montage to take on a fantastically campy (and unmoustached) Lo Lieh as the brutally deadly Japanese Karateka. This Shaw Bro.’s film is a real epic eschewing their typical set based scenes for wide sprawling vista’s, location shots and environmental scenes. A romping good time with shocking and visceral violence even by today’s standards (eye gouging!) this is a great one to watch and have in your collection. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2EFsjsabrziBMvy3kPAJ9 a iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/asian-action-cast/id1230934045
People in this episode
Host: Asian Action Cast
Topics covered
- martial arts
- film review
- revenge
- unarmed combat
- Shaw Brothers
Keywords
- Chinese Boxer
- Hammer of God
- Jimmy Wang Yu
- martial arts
- revenge films
- Shaw Brothers
- Bruce Lee
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Shaw Bro.'s
Books & works: Chinese Boxer, Hammer of God, Fist of Fury
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