1977 · kung-fu · independent · eagle-claw
Eagle's Claw
Directed by Lee Tso-Nam1h 26m1977
After the Mantis Fist school attacks the Eagle's Claw school and leaves their teacher for dead, the dying master passes over his senior student, Chen Tien Chun, to anoint his second most senior pupil, Lee Cheh, as new master. Dejected, Chen joins the Mantis Fist school and wins the affection of his new master's daughter, while his former schoolmates plot revenge.
Our read: Eagle's Claw (1977) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded kung-fu · independent · eagle-claw entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured kung-fu / independent, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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