Hong Kong Craziness

FATAL FLYING GUILLOTINE-1979-Shen Mo Chao (Chan Sing) has spent years in solitude (after he "got sick through too much exercise"!) perfecting his "lightening strike". He also has a strange weapon, "the flying guillotine". Some guys with swords try to take it away and he kills them. After the credits his son Shen (Carter Wong) fights a bunch of monks. To get medicine for his sick mom he must face three trials. The third is to fight the master of the Shaolin monastary. Unfortunately he fails. The monks want Shen Sr. and his weapon on their side and send out a group of fighters (to No Return Valley) to find him. They don't fare too well. All but one is killed by Shen's crazy weapon. The son tries the 3rd trial again and wins (but he kind of cheated). They give him a book that will help mom, however on his way back he's attacked and thrown off a cliff into the water. He survives but a rainstorm also impedes his progress. Fortunately he makes it back in time to give mom the elixir that cures her but only for a few minutes. She dies anyway but not before telling Shen all about his evil father. After several other twists, plot holes and more characters entering the action, father and son battle it out in a crazy finale that ends very abruptly.

This has nothing to do with the better known MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE from 1975 (or it's sequel). Director Raymond Lui was also an actor and stuntman.

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Mystery Title!

SHAOLIN KUNG FU MYSTAGOGUE-1977-This crazy Kung-Fu period piece has lots of fights, violence, bad dubbing and nutty costumes crammed into this story with stars Carter Wong and Hsu Feng fighting for King Tang (Chang Yi). Parts of it are unintentionally funny but of course bad dubbing and editing has something to do with that. Personally, the best thing I liked about this martial arts film was the strange title! It's original title is DA MO MI ZONG and was directed by Pen I-Chang.

Story of a Fake Bruce

STORY OF THE DRAGON-Bruce Lee lookalike Bob (Bruce Li) and his inept friend (Carter Wong) are fired from their restaurant jobs after a fight with 3 "foreigners". They prevent the duo from getting other jobs and get beat up again. They manage to get a job unloading ocean containers. The foreign gang is run by an Asian martial arts teacher with very dark skin and a black wig (I think he was suppose to be Japanese). The nephew of the container station owner shows up and beats up the gang. Though there's a lot of talk about foreigners I think this is suppose to take place in San Francisco which would explain all the white guys. Fake Bruce opens his own school and teaches everyone. The big boss, Mr. Grace says of Kung-Fu: "it's out of date. It's 900 years old!".  Later Lee-Clone beats up Mr. Charlie (Roy Horan) but a "boxing champion" wrecks the school. The boxer defeats Lee in a fight but he trains hard for a rematch. Everyone joins in for the unintentionally funny fights in the finale.

This may also be known as BRUCE LEE: A DRAGON STORY re-dubbed to "less resemble" the real Lee's life story. Co-directors Chi Chang and  Hua Chen were better know for cinematography and second unit work.

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