The Angry Guest
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
Sombre, breathless, measured kung-fu / shaw-brothers, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →The Angry Guest is a direct sequel to Duel of Fists which had two long-separated brothers, Ti Lung and David Chiang, reuniting in Bangkok and running afoul of the local mob after Ti Lung, a boxer, beats the local favorite in the ring. In this film, the action shifts from Bangkok to Hong Kong to Japan and then back to HK as the brothers contend with a Japanese mob led by crime boss Yamaguchi, who is played by the film's director, Chang Cheh, in a rare screen appearance.
Our read · The Angry Guest (1972) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded kung-fu · shaw-brothers · revenge entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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