Fainaru faito – Saigo no ichigeki (1989)

Fainaru faito – Saigo no ichigeki: Directed by Shuji Goto. With Yasuaki Kurata, Simon Yam, Meg Lam, Anzu Lawson. Years after retiring from the world of free fighting martial arts, a man returns to the deadly world of fighting after his best student is killed in the tournament.

“For some strange reason, I like this movie. Iu0026#39;s partly a spoof of _Bloodsport_ and partly your typical Hong Kong movie. The martial arts tournament is named the u0026quot;Free Fighting Tournament,u0026quot; and Bolo Yeung plays basically the same character that he did in _Bloodsport_ (the name is spelled Chang Lee here). The fights are downright weird: a sumo wrestler smothers his opponent by squatting on his face; an Indian fighter who must be seven feet tall and who wears high-top sneakers accidentally breaks a floodlight with a high kick and tells the stage people, u0026quot;Up, up, upu0026quot;; a monkey-style kung fu fighter rolls around on the mat without making much attempt at fighting, then rips a tuft of hair off the Indian fighteru0026#39;s chest (as Bruce Lee did to Chuck Norris in _Return of the Dragon_). As if that wasnu0026#39;t bizarre enough, the master wanders around Hong Kong, tangling with some American punks (who have a very familiar obscene phrase spray-painted on their jeep). Even though _Bloodfight_ is really just your typical Hong Kong chopsocky flick, I am fascinated by it, maybe because I have an interest in anything Asian. Fans of Jackie Chan should give it a shot, as well as anyone who likes Simon Yam (who has worked with John Woo and Chow Yun-Fat in other films).”