The Chinese Boxer (1970)

- Country: Hong Kong
- Action Director: Tong Gaai
- Directed by: Jimmy Wang Yu
- Starring: Chan Sing, Chiu Hung, Fang Mien, Jimmy Wang Yu, Lo Lieh, Wong Chung, Wong Ping
Hugely entertaining and significant film in the evolution of Hong Kong action cinema; the first Shaw Brothers hit to focus entirely on empty-handed kung fu fighting, in stark contrast to the post-modern, swashbuckling wuxia cinema of the 1960s. Shaw’s rivals, Golden Harvest, would quickly go on to perfect the form thanks to their new signing, Bruce Lee, but it was Jimmy Wang Yu who popularised it first. Already a wuxia hero from the One-Armed Swordsman films, this would prove to be Wang Yu’s final film for Shaw Brothers, causing him to eventually break his contract with the studio at the …
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