He Has Nothing but Kung-fu

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"...it's the authentic fighting action that lifts this one up from the endless pit of bullshit independent 70's productions."

- Perkele


He Has Nothing but Kung-fu (1977)

Director: Lau Kar Wing (aka Liu Chia Yung)

Producer: Lui Ming

Writer: I Kuang

Action Director: Liu Brothers

Cast: Gordon Liu, Wang Yue, Lau Kar Wing, Li Ying, Wilson Tong, Lee Hoi San, Karl Maka, Lam Ching-Ying, Mars, Mang Hoi, Chong Fat

Running Time: 91 min.

Plot: This kung fu extravaganza, directed by the legendary Liu Chia Yung and starring Liu Chia Fai and Wang Yue from the Shaw Brothers films, has been hailed as one of the best kung fu films of all time. After fierce battle with the local hoodlums, Hoi is thrown over an embankment and left for dead. However, Hoi survives the ordeal but has lost all of his memory. His fateful meeting with a beggar leads to their teaming up as "Kung fu's deadly duo"! He Has Nothing But Kung Fu has nothing but mind-boggling kung fu fighting!

Reviews

PERKELE'S REVIEW: Wong Yue plays a burdensome pickpocket who eventually quite by accident runs into a martial arts expert (Gordon Liu, with hair) who has lost his memory, but not his skill. Yue allures Liu into helping him with some thugs [Wilson Tong & his soon-to-be-familiar henchmen i.e. Lam Ching-Ying, Mars, Chong Fat] who have tricked a few bucks from him. They cook up quite a mess whit this evil people and Gordon's father [whom Gordon doesn't recognize] and eventually clash up with the big evil boss [I don't know who the actor playing him is]. This is a pretty standard and classical kung fu pic, nothing especially original. The story [by I Kuang, who is undoubtedly the most over-employed scriptwriter in HK movie history] is somewhat more interesting than most, but it's the authentic fighting action that lifts this one up from the endless pit of bullshit independent 70's productions.

PERKELE'S RATING: 6/10