This is the first kung fu flick with the Pai Mei character in it who was made famous to mainstream Hollywood audiences thanks to Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL movie, further showing that Tarantino's movies rarely have anything original in them at all. Anyone with any knowledge of cinema already knows this, of course, which rules out the mainstream corporate-loving zombies anyway. The Pai Mei in this film is kinda similar in that he's a complete bad-ass and seems pretty unstoppable for most of the movie. He also does this weird thing where he can suck up his genitals into his lower body and grab people's legs with his makeshift vagina which is a very odd and unique kung fu move. Another weird thing is that one of our heroes has his hair up in Mickey Mouse ear-style buns which make him seem not very tough. He also acts a whole lot like Jackie Chan would in his later movies in a comedic manner but it works here.
This is a pretty straight-ahead chop-sockey revenge tale done with some style and that's the way I like them. They also throw in a little love story even though most females wouldn't be caught dead watching a movie like this. Check it out for some martial-arts cinema history. AKA THE EXECUTIONERS OF DEATH
This was sorta remade in 1980 as FISTS OF THE WHITE LOTUS(also featuring the Pai Mei character) which I don't think I've ever seen.
Beware the White Hermit!:
Played on a bone-breaking double-bill with this other Shaw Brothers flick:
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