@ALI FULLER Same with ''Taekwondo master Chin'' Chinese guy with a Chinese name and Chinese symbols on his Japanese clothing... and doing ONE kick in the entire fight! At least in the French dubbing of this movie, they labeled him a ''karate master.'' which makes at least more sense the way he fights.
I've never met a scarier bunch of martial artists. Wow. I got death shivers when I saw the line up. I think even the avengers wouldnt want to mess with this bunch. Even Chuck Norris himself would think twice about starting trouble with them.
@Fletch Keilman Very sad indeed. I would REALLY like to have seen an updated remake of “The Street Fighter,” with Chiba recast into the role of Masaoka…🥲
Incredible-and it predates Streetfighter II by a few decades! The lama Chi Kung Master with the inflation devices in his chest , the Indian Yoga a fighter and the Vampire Goju Ryu guy are a trip! I definitely have to revisit this classic!
You are correct! Pretty much every tournament fighting game made owes something to the "One Armed Boxer" series and "Ring of Death" and a handful of other movies.
@Christopher LOL! Can I get two shots of decent single malt whiskey and a ridiculously long and thick spliff? Just lost an arm, after all. That’s not an excuse for 4:20…more like a reason🤷🏾
@Uday Satvik Tripathi once upon a time, it was. Nowadays, not so much. Kung Fu refused to evolve and adapt with the times, and is now left in the dust.
This movie was the benchmark for the Matrix, Kill Bill, all of Jackie Chan movies, Jet Li movies and any future kung fu action movie. And i can assure you, Van Dame learned his craft from this golden classic film. Any of you who want to be the future Chuck Norris or Van Dame copy these moves and start training NOW. Everybody is kung fu fighting!!!
@Shinja Okinawa well it’s obvious, in his defense he was bitten by a Japanese vampire 🧛♂️ and can’t eat sashimi anymore so he decided to accept this tournament.
Yeah, a very exaggerated character. I'm from Okinawa and can confirm that I don't have fangs, nor do I know anyone one on this blessed island who does.
Wang yu directed and star in this magnificent movie , after leaving Shaw brother's studios as a one armed swords man ,he came to create a one armed boxer, very good movie.
As somebody who adores both Videogames and Kung Fu movies, the former owe a lot to the genre. The escalation of challenge being the primary influence. Saying that, I wouldn't really call Wang Yu films "Kung Fu", they're "bashers" where the participants swing their limbs about using generic techniques. Jimmy wasn't a martial artist but he was tough IRL and had an imposing screen presence. Good director too. Please upload using the original dubs, the re-dubs are terrible.
I grew up watching these Kung Fu movies. Wang Yu was a great actor , he was pre Jackie Chan with the slick Hong Kong movies that came later, and completely change the style of movie fights.
Of course the whole scene is impossible (for example the yoga guy is very funny), but the actors are extremely good, and they make the viewer believe the story.
10:00 Master: Look it's serious take him away quickly Students: NO master he just merely missing an arm and bleeding to death can't we bandage it and stay to watch?
Internal knowings were originated from the Himalayas by the yogis. The 72,000 nadis (energy pathways), the 112 chakras (energy junctions) where one main junction chakra calls manipuraka, located 3/4 inch below the navel, the Chinese internal practioners call it "dantien". Shunya yoga is the method to achieve emptiness, and it became "shun" in mainstream chinese. Sha-kti is life energy then later became "qi" or "chi" in mainstream chinese. The many yogis left their incredible knowledge and energies there at the Himalayas which is in the continent of Asia surrounding by several asian cultures. The external arts probably started with sticks and stones necessary for survival then later each culture developed their own unique styles fit for the surrounding. But the internal knowledge originated from yoga where even today some yogis can heal folks and assume can perform tasks beyond physicality.
Back then the Chinese didn't know a lot about India. Pretty silly considering Indians were involved in the British administration of Hong Kong,Singapore and Malaysia
@Andre King no no no, internal styles martial arts, Tai Chi included, are heavily influenced by Daoism, not Buddism. Daoism is Chinese Original, so no way they are related to Yoga !
Those were the greatest days of our lives, it was kung fu fever in the early seventies, went to see these sort of movies them days. I have got most of these gems in my collection.
As an Indian I assure you that there is bo such thing as yoga style kung-fu. And why did they play an Indian wedding raga when that Indian guy was fighting ? 😂
Back then the Chinese didn't know a lot about India. Pretty silly considering Indians were involved in the British administration of Hong Kong,Singapore and Malaysia
Taekkyeon should be the name because taekwondo was created at the end of WW2. That Korean master used punches more than kicks, and he's wearing Japanese hakama
I love this stuff, remember it well from the 70s, grunting and groaning, OTT sound effects and stage choreography. What's not to like? My garden fu against your combat pilates :)
These movies were regarded as Bgrade to the Shaolin Movies and the big name stars Bruce Lee; Liu Chia Hui (Gordon Liu); Cheng Sing; Bolo; etc; i think this is Jimmy Wang Yu coming out party. They still got airplay after we watched all the others a million times first 😂 Actually i just remembered this is Jimmy Wang Yu a legend of Hong Kong Triad member; he has a rep as true street fighter; if you notice he has no technique its all improvised as he was a real street fighter which i only learnt a couple years ago thanks to AR-vids but he was a favourite; i ddnt know that when i was younger and other movies seemed to have better fighters! This guy had no formal training; just pure reflex; timing; spatial awareness and improvised during the fight; thats why his fight scenes looked B Grade against the others as i think there was no choreography if I remember someone was saying about him. Look it up! He’s the guy that lost the arm; he goes an trains and comes back as the hero...
Crazy fight scene! The tripped out part was that when the bandaged guy took out a few dudes, it gave you hope that they had a chance. The demon martial artist squashed all that though. 😄
This looks like a prequel to Master of the Flying Guillotine. A lot of games (SF and MK to name a couple) definitely took some inspiration from these flicks
There’s 2 Thailand kick boxers 2 Buddhist monks 1 Indian yoga master 1 sensei 1 master of dark arts kun-fu 2 judo white belts 1 disciple of sensei and 1 aikido samurai. .. that’s all my western mind saw even before I watched the video .
@Nam Nguyen So the idea that Wang Yu was the one at fault is plausible. That being said, in those days, people spoke Cantonese in Hong Kong, not Mandarin, and movies were made in Cantonese and subtitled in Mandarin. Saw a lot of them myself back then. (not this one though). So maybe this is where the mistake started? regardless, still a mistake which, funny enough, the French dubbing corrected!
@Nam Nguyen If they were working at the time, if they were working for the same studio, if they were not too costly, if they were willing, if they were available... especially considering in those days most actors were often involved in two or three films at the same time! To be sure, Taekwondo guys were not a rarity in the least in Hong Kong. During the 70's and 80's, it was in fact the most practiced martial art over there, even more than actual Chinese styles! And good kickers were certainly popular as stuntmen. Looking at this guy, it is most obvious his portrayal was not that of a Korean-style exponent.
@Nam Nguyen Or the dubbing company didn't. Haven't heard the original Chinese soundtrack (and I don't speak Chinese) so not certain if it was his fault specifically. A clue might just lie in the fact that the French version refers to him as a karate master and was possibly translated directly from the Chinese original version, not fouling it up as the English one may have done. Then again, in those days, everything in France was either Judo, Ju-Jitsu or Karate...
I grew up in the 70's. Kung Fu, Godzilla, and Speedracer was my jam back then. But this type of choreography even with Bruce in it (except Enter The Dragon) was the standard. Bruce did add his touches to his movies, they even told him he had to slow it down because he was extremely fast, but alas you can still see studio interference. It wasn't till the late 70's and early 80's where it became more of a free form fights with the emerging of Jackie Chan to the scene. Everyone's early thought of Chan was probably the early 90's. But I was one of a few to notice him in Enter The Dragon after watching several of his movies beginning mid to late 70' (early easter egg, spoiler alert).
Considering this is a B movie it's got all the ingredients of an A movie.It's Jean Claude Van Damme's The Quest meets Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury.I would like to see a reboot with Iko Uwais in the Jimmy Yu role. Also some black and Caucasian fighters too not just Asian fighters.An African either Dambe or Moraingy,,a Brazilian capoeirista,a French savateur,a Spanish zapotista and a Greek who does Pankration. ...
🎯🎯🎯🎯The old theaters in downtown Baltimore were full of martial arts movies back in the 1970s. Saturdays during the summer especially…I all but lived down there.
Bruce Lee had innovated the action films in HK when he incorporated elements of grappling arts, karate, FMA, kung fu, and other stuffs to his repertoire.