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Despite his magnificent martial arts ability, he is no match. The master selects Ming Tu as his successor and faces the aggressors, but he is overpowered and killed. The old man, having taken an oath of peace, picks up a sword for the first time in twenty years and leaps into battle, but he too is taken down by the powerful duo.
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Master with Cracked Fingers (Chinese: 刁手怪招; pinyin: diāo shǒu guài zhāo), also released as Snake Fist Fighter, is a 1979 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Mu Chu and starring Jackie Chan. It is often cited as being produced in 1971, 1973, 1974 or 1981.
Films about karate, a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. While modern karate is primarily a striking art that uses punches and kicks, traditional karate also employs throwing and joint locking techniques.
In the 1995 book The Encyclopedia of Martial Arts Movies, authors Bill Palmer, Karen Palmer and Richard Meyers gave the film a score of three-and-a-half out of four stars. [1] Though criticizing the distribution title Ninja Checkmate on the grounds of there not being any ninjas depicted in the film, they wrote, "What you will see are great ...
The actress they eventually cast, Donna Kei Benz, did not speak Japanese and took a four-month crash course in language, etiquette, and martial arts. [5] Japanese actor Atsuo Nakamura's English dialogue was dubbed was by an uncredited Paul Frees. Years earlier, Frees had done the same for Toshiro Mifune in the film Grand Prix and Midway.
From contemporary reviews, Tom Milne of the Monthly Film Bulletin reviewed a dubbed version of the film. [1] Milne found the film to be a "rather tired offering from the Hong Kong conveyor-belt" while noting the film begins well enough with the hero "arriving in town to confound one and all with his dazzling display of town-taming karate chops and kangaroo hops.
Wing-chun is a young lady in charge of a family tofu shop in a mountain village with her father, sister and aunt. After local bullies tried to forcefully marry her during her youth, she trained to become a talented kung fu practitioner to fend off bad men lusting after her beauty, but her new prowess ends up scaring away any suitors to the chagrin of her father.