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Screaming Tiger (1973)

Tang ren piao ke King of Boxers
Screaming Ninja
Tong yan piu haak
Wang Yu, King of Boxers
Wang Yu: Ten Fingers of Steel


Cast:

Yu "I fought Jackie Chan in " Wang
Ching Ching Chang
Fei Lung
Ping Lu
Lan Chi


What the box says:

A Chinese martial artist travels to Japan in order to seek revenge upon those responsible for a tragic incident in his past.


Plot:

Tae Yu Wan gets involved in fighting a gang and meets a guy wearing a giant basket for a hat. Apparently, Tae Yu Wan is seeking revenge on the Japanese that slaughtered his village and family. Later , he gets involved in fighting the ggang again.

In the city, Nim Shu, a lady pickpocket, steals his money. At a Sumo wrestling match. Nim and Taae meet again. Of course, he wants his money back.

A crime boss has a number of kids stealing for him. Nim and Tae arrive and let the Kung Fuin' ensue. Returning to the matches Tae jumps into a match and wins the prize when he dispatches 5 Sumo wrestlers at atime.

Walking by the gang, Tae fights them again. Lee Shen and his son get involved. Apparently, Nim is spying on Tae.

At a karate school, Shen Kung Fues the entire class. Now, Ing Wu, evil karate master, fights Shen. His son comes to the rescue and saves his dad.

The gang breaks into Lee Shang's school. Attacking the class, Ing Wu demands a duel against Lee Shang 2 days from now, once and for all. Ing Wu versus Lee Shang.

Ing Wu wants Nim to tell him about Tae. Refusing to, she gets ainto a fight with the goons. Ing Wu gets into the fight.

Tae disguises himself as Rikshaw driver. He grabs one of the goons and makes him tell about the village attack and who was involved in it.

Later, Nim jumps in front of a poisoned dart to save Tae and learns than Ing Wu killed his family.

Lee Shang and his son attack Ing Wu's school. Unfortunately, Ing Wu beats both of them.

Tae sets Nim ona raft to sea for burial.

Ing Wu has Lee Shang and his son corpses brought to the fight. Tae will end the killing and avenge his family.

Ing Wu versus Tae. Suddenly, cut to a train. Tae chases Ing Wu running along the train tracks before fighting in a coal car. Now off the train on a bridge, Tae drops off a girder. Ing Wu jumps into the stream after him. Tae bashes Ing's head with a boulder. By this point, Ing is pretty punch drunk and fgalls offa waterfall to his death.


What I say:

Early 1970s martial arts movies aren't going to be dubbed in a fashion that would make them look ad good as Godzilla movies from the 1960s. With it being badly dubbed, I may not be hearing the names right. Are there both Shen and a Lee Shang or am I not hearing the names right? Badly dubbed isn't the worst. A lot of this movie seems to be edited down not because of content. Public domain movie DVDs are know for having scenes taken out for no real reason. It looks like characters pop up out of nowhere and disappear until re-appearing in another fight. The first half hour just has Tae walking by the gang and fighting them again and again.

A Karate expert seeking revenge is almost as tired in movies as the cop's buddy who just retired and gets murdered. Of course, Karate experts are always looking to find revenge or they're families just are genetically cursed to be beaten or killed so the expert can avenge them. How many karate movies could have the Kenny Rogers's song the "Coward of the County" in them and seem appropriate?

These are the kind of movies that have some scores taken from other movies. Who hasn't heard the muzack version of "I'm Only Human" in at least one martial arts movie. Not sure if I actually heard the Gone With the Wind theme in the movie or if it were just very similar to it.

It has been quite a while since I've delved back into the low budget martial arts movies from the 1970s. Yes, the past few weeks have been mainly some bad horror movies. Even with my complaints about it, it's good to run across something that doesn't need to be psycho-analyzed by every nansecond.

Can I claim false advertising because of no tigers, and no screaming tigers?



3 NINJAS

Quotable Dialogue

"There's a good side and bad side on every race."
"It was pretty warm work."
"Master, she says the Chinese guy disappeared."


Morals of the Story

Eyeglasses are popular in Imperial China.
Giant baskets are great hats.
Small children love criminlas to be beaten...
Paper walls are easy to jump off of...
Dropping from 50 foot drop won't cause an injury...
The human head is resistent to boulders thrown at it.


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