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Heroes Of The East

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Heroes Of The East	comment	Heroes of the East, also known as Challenge of the Ninja, is a 1978 Martial Arts Movie directed by Lau Kar-leung, released by Shaw Brothers, starring Gordon Liu in one of his very few non-Shaolin monk roles during the "Shaolin period" of his career.Ho Tao (Liu), a Chinese martial artist married to a Japanese karateka, Yumiko, finds himself in deep trouble after being challenged by Japanese martial arts rivals affiliated with his wife after unintentionally pissing off a Japanese challenger in what was supposed to be a friendly duel. With seven Japanese challengers in his way, led by Yumiko's former teacher Takeno who objected Yumiko's relationship with a Chinese man, Ho Tao must defeat each and every single one of them.The movie is known for being among the few Shaw films from the late-70s to not portray the Japanese as villains - instead, they are Anti Heroes at worst - despite the setting. The movie is pretty much an Excuse Plot to showcase the martial arts skills of two different Eastern countries.
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Heroes Of The East / int_13f7da6	comment	Ho Tao actually learns this the day before by having his servants fight the legendary master Beggar So (played by the director) and observing his movements.
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Heroes Of The East / int_1f030546	comment	Stock Wushu Weapons: Ho Tao uses a variety of these during his duels, firstly when sparring with his wife, and then against the Japanese challengers. The dao, jian, qiang, Butterfly swords, and three-sectioned staff notably gets the spotlight.
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Heroes Of The East / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The sparring between Ho Tao and Yumiko, using different weapons, originally feels like a showcase of their skills in assorted martial arts, but later on it turns out Ho Tao had to counter his Japanese challengers, who uses the exact same skill in weapons he saw his wife using earlier, on him.
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Heroes Of The East / int_2ab49f53	type	Bruce Lee Clone
Heroes Of The East / int_2ab49f53	comment	Bruce Lee Clone: Oddly, the Japanese master with the tonfa and nunchucks seems to be one.
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Heroes Of The East / int_2bb951b8	type	Nobody Can Die
Heroes Of The East / int_2bb951b8	comment	Nobody Can Die: Enforced trope - allegedly during filming of the movie, the director, Lau Kar-leung, insisted that the film's onscreen bodycount to be zero, despite the usage of various deadly weapons throughout the film. Which makes sense, since the weapon duels in the film are meant as a showcase of both countries' respective skills, instead of being used for killing intents.
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Heroes Of The East / int_2cf282ea	type	She Is All Grown Up
Heroes Of The East / int_2cf282ea	comment	She Is All Grown Up: Apparently, Yumiko wasn't much of a looker as a child, and Ho Tao tries to avoid their Arranged Marriage, until he finally sees she's grown quite beautiful.
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Heroes Of The East / int_3abfffa4	type	DavidVsGoliath
Heroes Of The East / int_3abfffa4	comment	David vs. Goliath: The karate master challenging Ho Tao, who is at least a head taller and several times larger, being the Goliath. Ho Tao had to formulate a better way to defeat this hulking opponent, which he countered using his speed. There is also the fight with the Judo master who also towers over him, which unfortunately turned out to be a more comedic fight than a showcase of grappling, since Ho Tao's friends managed to rub him in peanut oil so he could avoid being grabbed (the film justifies this since the judo guy decided to challenge him at midnight instead of the middle of the day, with Ho Tao not being fully rested).
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Heroes Of The East / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Heroes Of The East / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Ho Tao wins most of his duels with little difficulty, with only the judo and ninjutsu masters giving him trouble.
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Heroes Of The East / int_40217655	type	Faux Action Girl
Heroes Of The East / int_40217655	comment	Faux Action Girl: Yumiko also practices Japanese martial arts, but is pretty much sidelined after the Japanese masters come to challenge Ho Tao.
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Heroes Of The East / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Heroes Of The East / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: At the end of the movie, Ho Tao and all the Japanese masters, with Ho Tao thanking them for their demonstration and making peace with the kenjutsu master by finally accepting his sword.
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Heroes Of The East / int_50d71a78	type	Dual Wielding
Heroes Of The East / int_50d71a78	comment	Dual Wielding: If a weapon can be dual-wielded, it will. There's Ho Tao using twin Butterfly knives, tonfas, clubs, and then there's his Japanese challengers who use sais, kusarigamas, and the like.
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Heroes Of The East / int_51beab21	type	Good Old Fisticuffs
Heroes Of The East / int_51beab21	comment	Good Old Fisticuffs: The battle against the karate master. Despite both sides having weapons, Ho Tao and the challenger fights with their fists.
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Heroes Of The East / int_5d310fb8	type	Sword Fight
Heroes Of The East / int_5d310fb8	comment	Sword Fight: One of the first sparring between Ho Tao and Yumiko, where the latter draws her katana after the former pulls out a jian. Later in the film, Ho Tao had to fight another katana expert, but this time he uses a dao instead.
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Heroes Of The East / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
Heroes Of The East / int_629fa757	comment	Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Initially, Ho Tao is absolutely against his family putting him through the arranged marriage with the Japanese Koda family, but after meeting Yumiko Koda ("Kung Zi" in Mandarin) for the first time, he started having second thoughts. Ho Tao and Yumiko ultimately ends up together as happily as they can be after the marriage, though not without a few bumps along the way.
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Heroes Of The East / int_6ca52003	type	Master of All
Heroes Of The East / int_6ca52003	comment	Master of All: Ho Tao and Takeno who utilize multiple fighting styles and weapons and prove better than the designated masters of each individual martial art.
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Heroes Of The East / int_6d31613c	type	Stock Ninja Weaponry
Heroes Of The East / int_6d31613c	comment	Stock Ninja Weaponry: Upon Yumiko's first arrival into the Ho family, she brought along with her a massive crate of her own "equipment"... which turns out to be assorted collection of ninja weapons, including the nihonto, katana, kusarigama, various shuriken, a kama, several kunai, and the like. And then there are the challengers from the Japanese school, who uses sais, makibishi, smoke bombs, etc.
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Heroes Of The East / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
Heroes Of The East / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: Ho Tao and Yumiko's marriage is initially hindered by this. She insists on attending her wedding with Ho according to Japanese customs, managing to offend the guests. She later has all of Ho's Chinese weapons replaced with Japanese weapons. Ho Tao, upon defeating Yumiko's kendo teacher who is his first challenger, is surprised to see the kendo teacher offering him the sheathed katana while kneeling over. Ho Tao refused, much to Yumiko's horror... later that night he finds out from Yumiko that he had unintentionally offended the Japanese by refusing to accept the katana as a token of accepting their defeat, and now every Japanese martial artist is out to challenge him.
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Heroes Of The East / int_7aa989ea	type	Token Evil Teammate
Heroes Of The East / int_7aa989ea	comment	Token Evil Teammate: While evil is a stretch, the Judo master is only one to exploit a loophole in the agreement that Ho Taoâ€™s challengers would come for him one day at a time, by challenging him at midnight. He does however leave peacefully when he is defeated.
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Heroes Of The East / int_7eb2bc15	type	Ambiguous Time Period
Heroes Of The East / int_7eb2bc15	comment	Ambiguous Time Period: The film never specifies what decade it is set in but commonly assumed to be the 1930s. Which adds another layer to its Chinese-Japanese tensions.
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Heroes Of The East / int_7f413791	comment	Wall of Weapons: Shows up in the Ho family's main hall. Of the wushu variety.
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Heroes Of The East / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Heroes Of The East / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The film's foreign subtitle is Challenge of the Ninja. Guess who turns out to be Ho Tao's final opponent?
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Heroes Of The East / int_a6441fa	type	Gratuitous Ninja
Heroes Of The East / int_a6441fa	comment	Gratuitous Ninja: Takeno, the final challenger Ho Tao needs to defeat, turns out to be trained in the art of ninjutsu, and uses various ninja weaponry to challenge Ho Tao, as well as spending the entire fight clad in ninja robes.
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Heroes Of The East / int_c1e6c92c	type	UnluckyChildhoodFriend
Heroes Of The East / int_c1e6c92c	comment	Unlucky Childhood Friend: Implied with Takeno, who laments he spent so much time practicing martial arts that he missed his chance to marry Yumiko.
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Heroes Of The East / int_c84a641f	type	Drunken Boxing
Heroes Of The East / int_c84a641f	comment	Drunken Boxing: What Ho Tao uses to battle the karate expert. Ho Tao actually learns this the day before by having his servants fight the legendary master Beggar So (played by the director) and observing his movements.
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Heroes Of The East / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Heroes Of The East / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: Ho Tao and Yumiko, all the time. Their bonding consists almost entirely of arguing the superiority between Chinese and Japanese weaponry, and then whipping out said weapons to fight each other, before making up after concluding their battle.
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Heroes Of The East / int_d302b1c5	type	Run the Gauntlet
Heroes Of The East / int_d302b1c5	comment	Run the Gauntlet: After unintentionally pissing off Yumiko's former school, Ho Tao ends up fighting every elite expert of the Japanese school, all of them which are eager to beat the snot out of him. Downplayed in a way that the Japanese are willing to send their challenges one at a time - so after defeating an opponent, Ho Tao had at least a day to rest and prepare for the following day's fight.
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