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  • Director: Yuen Woo Ping
  • Genre: Action
  • Movie Type: Martial Arts
  • Themes: Serial Killers
  • Main Cast: Yuen Biao, Kwan Tak-Hing
  • Release Year: 1981
  • Country: HK
  • Run Time: 100 minutes

Plot

Director and master choreographer Yuen Woo-ping spins this brilliant kung-fu-thriller featuring future star Yuen Biao. The film opens with serial killer White Tiger (Yuen Shun-yee) fleeing from the authorities of rural China and hiding in a small town's opera troupe. There he covers his prominent birthmark under a layer of face paint. In that same town lives Mousey (Yuen), a shy lad who scares easily. His best friend Foon (Leung Kar-yan) decides that the only way for Mousey to conquer his timidity is to study kung-fu under Wong Fei-hung (Kwan Tak-hing). Mousey proves to be tepid fighter in spite of Wong's best efforts. Yet after several run-ins with the sociopathic White Tiger, Mousey develops the gumption to stand up to this bloodthirsty bully. This film features some of the most influential and oft copied fight sequences in Hong Kong cinema, including Mousey's rigorous training/laundry detail scene and the film's hallucinatory climax taking place on the stage of a Chinese opera. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

Cast

Yuen Shun-Yi

Credit

Yuen Woo Ping - Director
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Dreadnaught
Directed by Yuen Woo-ping
Written by Wong Jing
Starring Yuen Biao
Leung Kar Yan
Kwan Tak Hing
Running time 90 minutes
Language Cantonese

Dreadnaught (traditional Chinese: 勇者無懼) aka Yong zhe wu ju is a 1981 Hong Kong kung fu film directed by Yuen Woo-ping and starring Yuen Biao, Leung Kar Yan, and Kwan Tak Hing as Wong Fei Hung.

Plot

A short-tempered, violent criminal named the "White Tiger" is on the run from the police and joins a theater troupe to hide out, killing anyone who angers him or who suspects his identity. One person he unsuccessfully tries to kill several times is a cowardly laundry man named "Mousy" who manages to escape by fleeing. When a very close friend of Mousy's is killed by the White Tiger, Mousy overcomes his cowardliness enough to seek revenge.

In a scene early on in the movie Mousy is washing the laundry with his bossy sister. After complaining about the repetitiveness of laundry work, his sister scolds him and demands he wash the clothes in the "family way." This leads to a scene with Yuen Biao's character flipping the clothes around with his hands and wringing them out with powerful squeezing from this index finger and middle finger. These abilities turn out to be related to kung-fu methods, as Mousy eventually uses the same laundry method to defeat "White Tiger."

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