1978 · action · comedy · martial-arts
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978)
Directed by Yuen Woo-ping1h 38m1978
Everyone abuses and humiliates a downtrodden orphan until he befriends an old man, who turns out to be the last master of the snake fist fighting style. Jackie becomes the old man's student and finds himself in battle with the master of the eagle's claw style, who has vowed to destroy the snake fist clan.
Our read: Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978) (1978) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded action · comedy · martial-arts entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
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