San De huo shang yu Chong Mi Liu (1977)

San De huo shang yu Chong Mi Liu: Directed by Sammo Kam-Bo Hung. With Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Sing Chen, James Tien, Hark-On Fung. A lowly restaurant worker aims to take revenge on the Manchurian thugs who killed his boss by joining a Shaolin temple under the advise from a monk who rescued him from certain death.

“Excellently crafted kung-fu film dealing with the conflict between the Manchus and the Shaolin monks. We see the barbaric actions of the Manchus from early on in the film, and the tension builds quite steadily until there is only one option left: fight to the death.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSammo is brilliant as usual and his directorial talent can be identified in this film clearly. His martial artistry is great and his strength improves as things get more desperate. His use of the spear in the final reel is awesome. Also, watch out for the snake-fist styles towards the end.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThat said, this is a pretty challenging film in that it portrays senseless and random abuse towards women and children – well pretty much the whole village really. But I guess it makes the revenge angle all that much sweeter… and righteous: (Buddha be praised).”