Uriah43 "Shen Wei Ta" (Wai-Man Chan) is a young man who is dating the sister of the local bully. One night the two men get into a fight and after Shen Wei Ta accidentally kills him he is forced to flee from the scene. Vowing to never fight again he changes his name to "Chung San" and gets a job as a manual laborer off-loading cargo from ships and tries to save as much money as he can. However, when young thieves are caught stealing some rice from a warehouse, Chung San stops them from getting beaten to death by offering to pay for the merchandise out of his earnings. This inexplicably angers the dockyard boss who doesn't like the fact that Chung San dared to interfere and proceeds to order some of his hired thugs to beat him up as well. Fortunately, some of the workers come to his aid and manage to stop things before he is seriously hurt. Not long afterward, things get much worse when the leader of a crime syndicate moves in and takes over the pier which subsequently disenfranchises all of the workers who have spent most of their lives working on the docks. Violence soon erupts with a particularly strong and muscled individual named "Chiang Tai" (Bolo Yeung) killing or maiming anybody who dares to interfere with the syndicate. It's at this time that Chung San realizes that he has to reevaluate his vow to abstain from fighting. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was an old-style kung fu film of the type that gained prominence in the early 70's. While not as good as those movies which featured Bruce Lee, this particular film had more than enough action and several actors (most notably Bolo Yeung) who had previously performed with him to give it a certain amount of credibility. In short, fans of martial arts films from this general era might enjoy this particular movie and I have rated it accordingly. Average.

Woodyanders Lee Hsi (a solid performance by Yeh Fang) accidentally kills his fiancé's brother in a fight. Lee promptly leaves town and vows never to fight again. He gets a job unloading boats in a small village. The ruthless Boss Chan (a perfectly hateful portrayal by Liang Tin) closes down the docks and puts everyone in the village out of work. It's up to Lee to face both Chan and his army of nasty flunkies. Director Ta Huang and writer Kuang Ni deliver a strong and compelling story about courage, morality and redemption that moves along at a steady clip, offers an interesting array of colorful characters, and certainly doesn't skimp on the copious raw, brutal and exciting martial arts fisticuffs. Moreover, the harsh, serious tone and bleak coastal community setting add extra grit to the absorbing narrative. The film earns bonus points for its realistic and unglamorous depiction of violence. Fang makes for a sympathetic tormented protagonist, with sturdy support from Di Chin as tubby, amiable bumbler Wa Ah-mao, Tien Ying Li as the hot-tempered Chu-heng, Wang Chung Tsung as tough, friendly foreman Uncle Lo, and Fan Chiang as Chan's sultry mistress Miss Ho. Top acting honors go to the ever-fearsome Bolo Yeung as the savage and intimidating Chiang Tai, who's the seemingly unbeatable henchman for the main bad guy. The climactic confrontation between Lee and Chiang is a total vicious corker. A worthy chopysocky flick.

winner55 This is indeed the film that solidified Bolo Yeung's international reputation as a strong and implacable villain. And he really pulls his weight in the film, killing with a rare enjoyment.The trouble with the film is two-fold. First it is an early 'chinese boxing' film, not really about the self-discipline that 'kung fu' is all about. It is in the vein of what became known as the 'swining fist' fight movie, since that is what the fighters really do, swing their arms and legs about, without much technique.This leads to another, larger problem: this film is downright cruel. The violence is unrelenting, even sadistic, and there is no great sense that the hero will at last achieve the much needed revenge and justice until the very end.It is unclear why many Hong Kong filmmakers chose that kind of structure during that period; my own guess is that it made making films cheaper, easier and faster - everybody get's killed, and then the hero at last exacts revenge. That's pretty much the whole formula.Historically interesting but actually difficult to watch. Definitely not for repeated viewing.

gcmulock A small village is under the thumb of the local cigarette-flipping Boss Chan (Liang Tim) and his hired thugs, including a giant of a man, Chiang Tai (Bolo Yeung). A man, seeking to run away from his past (he killed someone in a fight) seeks refuge there, vowing never to lift his hand against another man again.Memorable Quotes: "First we kill 'em, then we dump 'em"