Jing wu men (1972)

English titles: Fist of Fury; The Chinese Connection; School for Chivalry

The master in a Chinese martial arts school in 1910s Shanghai dies suddenly of mysterious causes. A rival school run by the Japanese is suspected of having something to do with that death. Cheng, a former student at the Chinese school, returns after a long absence. His fiancee is also a student at the school. Cheng vows to find out what happened to his old master and avenge him if that should be the case.

Fight film which is very dull in the non-fighting parts. The poor script is centered aroung the oppression of Chinese people by the Japanese who controlled Shanghai. The drama taps into the viewer's weakness for conspiracy theories and revenge fantasies. According to some scientific studies, the Chinese have one of the highest I.Q.s in the world. The star of this movie was seven-eighths Chinese and one-eighth Ashkenazi Jewish. His I.Q. must have been high indeed as, according to the same aforementioned scientific studies, the Ashkenazis' I.Q. is even higher than the Chinese's. But this film is surely aimed at people with I.Q.s lower than that.

Rating: 17