1979 · kung-fu · independent · martial-arts
Fists and Guts
Directed by Lau Kar-Wing1h 32m1979
A mysterious traveler enlists two bumbling con men in a plan to get back supposed family heirlooms stolen by a missing housekeeper who uses various disguises to elude capture.
Our read: Fists and Guts (1979) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded kung-fu · independent · martial-arts entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured kung-fu / independent, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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- intense
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