Dubbed

Picture Quality off of You Tube is terrible and barely watchable.

Aka - Wang Yu, King of Boxers
Aka - Ten Fingers of Steel
Aka - Screaming Ninja (there are no ninjas)

Jimmy Wang-yu is up to one of his two favorite things in this film. Killing Japanese. He does a lot of that in a number of his films. I don't know if it was a personal pet peeve or just very popular in Hong Kong at the time. Of course, in his films he killed hundreds of Chinese as well - so an equal opportunity mass killer. And we love it of course. His other favorite thing of course was hanging out with the triads in Hong Kong. Movies like this were his calling cards. Wang-yu generally kills in two ways in his films - with a sword or with his Ten Fingers of Steel. This one is almost all by hand and he actually looks pretty good in the action scenes. It is filmed well too - with pauses as he delivers his kill shots. And it ends with a ten minute one on one fight that is worth watching on its own. It is as physical and realistic looking as anything you will come across. It is amazing. And looks dangerous.


Wang-yu arrives in Japan with a giant chip on his shoulder - on both actually. He tells another Chinese man that he hates Japanese and wants to kill them all. Why? The usual reason. No, not J-Pop. Three Japanese came to his village in China and killed everyone including his father and sister. He wants revenge and if he has to kill every Japanese he meets, he will. A festival is going on but Wang-yu isn't feeling very festive and within a few minutes he has gotten into a few one on many fights and clobbers everyone. Then a woman (Chang Ching-ching) picks his pocket of his purse and he chases after her - and has to beat up some more Japanese.  She turns out to be part of a female gang of pickpockets run by the Japanese. Wang-yu beats them up too. He even fights five sumo wrestlers at the same time. And he is just warming up.



The only good Japanese in the film is a family that runs a dojo but the old father has been forced into a duel with the evil master of another dojo. This evil master is Lung Fei who was in over 100 kung fu films and is quite impressive. The daughter (Chi Lan) begs Wang-yu to help but he declines saying his business here in Japan is to kill the men who came to his village. Not knowing that Lung Fei is that man. There is a ton of fighting in the film - not just with Wang-yu but a couple others are out for revenge. In fact, everyone in the film is looking for revenge. This all leads to the final fight between Wang-yu and Lung Fei. Worth the price of admission. It goes on for about ten minutes in which it begins on the ground - moves on to a speeding train which may not equal Chaiya Chaiya in Dil Se but is still amazing as they jump from one box car to another, then on to the train tracks on a bridge looking very dangerous and then into the water below and near a thrashing waterfall - all the time just beating the hell out of each other. It is directed by Chien Lung who I am not at all familiar with but he directed about 75 films, mainly in Taiwan. If he has some others like this, I would want to take a look. This was pretty standard kung-fu fare but some good action. Just go to YouTube and go to the final ten minutes.