1972 · kung-fu · shaw-brothers · iron-palm
King Boxer
Directed by Ting Shan-Hsi1h 32m1972
Jimmy Wang Yu leads revolutionaries against the Manchus featuring his trademark huge fights.
Our read: King Boxer (1972) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded kung-fu · shaw-brothers · iron-palm entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme kung-fu / shaw-brothers, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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