Kick Boxer's Tears
Director: Sam Daat-wai
Year: 1992
Rating: 8.0
Moon Lee takes this
film by its neck and shakes it up HK style. She is by measures a sweetie
pie and then tough as an incoming missile.
Her brother (Ken Lo) is a kick boxer and
in a match against Billy Chow he is killed by dirty means. This kick boxing
match takes up nearly the first 15 minutes of the film and as you might imagine
the fighting between these two ex-kick boxing champions is quite fierce and
authentic looking. One peculiar thing I couldn't help but notice was that
nearly the entire audience consists of 15-year-old kids. Was this a school
outing?
After this Moon goes on an ever increasingly brutal series of challenges
and fights. Against a group of robbers, against Billy Chow, against Yukari
Oshima who is the wife of the main bad guy and then finally in an incredibly
intense brutal finale against the main bad guy and his gang.
Moon gets banged up like hell in this film, but she never stops coming back.
One of my favorite Moon films. I have seen comments in the Asia film NG that
this film didn't have enough action. It does take about thirty minutes before
Moon gets pissed off, but then it goes into overload so I can't see how you
could look for much more in terms of action.
