Everybody needs to have an angle, and that’s true for martial arts stars, too: Jimmy Wang Yu played one-armed roles, Jackie Chan brought comedy to the genre, Hsu Feng claimed she used to “act with her eyes”, Brigitte Lin played gender-bending characters, and David Chiang put athleticism over brute strength. Here’s what stars of the genre have said about what.
From Michelle Yeoh to Sammo Hung and Gong Li, martial arts movie stars on the methods they have used to look their best on screen, and some hairy moments.
SYNOPSIS:
A martial artist loses an arm in combat but recovers to take revenge on the fighters that did it.
Living up to the second part of their name, Eureka Entertainment’s latest addition to their ‘Classics’ line is
One Armed Boxer from 1972 and what a treat it is, especially if grindhouse kung-fu movies with sound cues from the
James Bond movies and the theme tune from
Shaft peppered throughout are your thing.
Because if they’re not then One Armed Boxer will have no appeal whatsoever as the movie throws you straight into the action within the first few minutes and doesn’t really let up or break formula for the rest of its 93-minute runtime – somebody talks, a fight breaks out, there is a major injury that ends it, move to another location, somebody talks, a fight breaks out, ad infinitum. It may not sound like much when put like that but
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