As a rule I generally don't like to spoil the endings of movies but if you've seen one of these Hong Kong(or Taiwan in this case) kung-fu flicks you've pretty much seen most of them. Guy gets his ass kicked, guy gets trained by a master of some sort and then guy gets revenge. So spoiler alert I guess: In this one our hero(Alexander Lo) gets trained in a Buddhist monastery(where they say "Buddha's name be praised" many times!) so he learns about having mercy. When the big final fight comes instead of killing the big baddie(Shan Charng) he breaks his leg and lets him live with all the evil he's done. Instead of being a hobbled loser though Charng instead starts beating up his own head and commits suicide while proclaiming "I'm the devil! I must die!". So even if this is a super-generic film this might be one of the most ridiculous endings I've seen in one of these films and that's certainly worth something.
Super widescreen scratchy version!:
French poster:
One of those hand-painted African posters!:
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