1981 · kung-fu · shaw-brothers · venoms
Masked Avengers
Directed by Chang Cheh1h 32m1981
Philip Kwok plays a repentant killer who vows to destroy the masked gang of which he was a member. A young fighter and his martial arts brothers come to the town to catch the killers, but one of them is not to be trusted!
Our read: Masked Avengers (1981) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded kung-fu · shaw-brothers · venoms entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme kung-fu / shaw-brothers, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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