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The Chinese Boxer
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Chinese Boxer, also known as Hammer of God, is a 1970 martial arts film from Shaw Brothers, the directorial debut of the studios' long-time megastar Jimmy Wang Yu, notably the last Shaw Brothers movie starring Jimmy before he jumped ship to Golden Harvest.Set in the 1940s in Japan-occupied China, the outskirts of Shanghai are ruled by triads which are working in league with Japanese warlords. When Lei-ming (Jimmy), a righteous young fighter and the best student of his school, tries to take a stand, the triads immediately hires a group of Japanese experts and murderers - led by Master Kitashima (Lo Lieh, who previously starred alongside Jimmy in Golden Swallow and The Magnificent Trio, this being the first time they play enemies) - to kill everyone in Lei-ming's school, with Lei-ming himself barely surviving the massacre. Recovering from his injuries, Lei-ming embarks on a long, bitter path to revenge.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Jimmy would return to produce and direct a sequel, 7 years later, titled Return of the Chinese Boxer (which isn't a Shaw Brothers production, due to the studios blacklisting Wang-yu by that time). Despite the title, it is a standalone story in which Wang-yu plays a different character named Bai-lung. This time the Sino-Japanese war is in full swing, and Bai-lung has to team up with a kunoichi who opposes the local Japanese warlord for her own reasons. | |
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Non-Indicative Title: Despite what the title claims, the protagonist portrayed by Jimmy Wang-yu is not the same one as The Chinese Boxer. | |
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Rape as Drama | |
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Rape as Drama: Diao, the traitor, gets to gleefully rape Lei-ming's love interest Hsiao-ling, for no reason other than this trope. | |
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Blade on a Stick | |
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Blade on a Stick: Various members of the samurai can be seen wielding halberds at various points in the film. | |
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Illegal Gambling Den: Part of the local gangsters' many ilicit activities includes setting up casinos and gambling parlours, overseen by their Japanese hired goons. At least one of Lei-ming's fight scenes involves him toppling a gambling parlour by beating up every henchman in it. | |
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Training Montage: The sequel's opening credits are superimposed over Pai Leung training himself beating up mannequins while avoiding arrow traps in his dojo. | |
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Arch-Enemy: Kitashima to Lei-ming, the former who is responsible for the massacre in Lei-ming's school and killing off all his friends and fellow pupils. It makes their final battle even more epic when it happens. | |
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Dastardly Whiplash | |
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Dastardly Whiplash: This being one of the few roles where Lo Lieh plays a villain, how does the audience know he's a threatening baddie? Give him an imposing moustache, that's how! | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle: The members of the La Résistance mounting a surprise assault on the Japanese convoy, early in the film... and failing completely at it. The rebels are utterly massacred and the fight goes to the favour of the samurai. | |
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Dual Wielding | |
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Dual Wielding: Lei-ming uses twin knives while fighting off Kitashima's goons in the hedge maze. | |
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Good Old Fisticuffs | |
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Good Old Fisticuffs: Pai Leung, who prefers using his fists in fights, opposed to the other combatants who uses different weapons. | |
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Meaningful Name: The opponent known simply as Flying Dagger, a dagger-throwing expert with at least forty knives strapped to his body. | |
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Stock Ninja Weaponry | |
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Stock Ninja Weaponry: Weapons used by the Japanese includes tekko-kagi, kusarigama, shurikens and of course, the good old katana. | |
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Off with His Head! | |
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Off with His Head!: In the scene where Lei-ming defeats a number of Kume's mooks down to one last man, Kume at this point decides to sneak up and ambush Lei-ming. He only managed to accidentally relieve his last mook of the head with a missed swing. | |
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Finger Poke of Doom | |
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Finger Poke of Doom: The final attack Lei-ming uses to defeat and kill Kitashima, by thrushing both his fingers into Kitashima's midsection. What follows is an exploding geyser of High-Pressure Blood from where the poke is... | |
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Beat Them at Their Own Game | |
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Beat Them at Their Own Game: While the villains are proven to be deadly opponents in their own right with their own set of skills, the movie goes all the way to show how Lei-ming is better than all of them even at their own game; killing Lumura the shuriken-thrower with flung knives, beating and slicing the katana-wielding Kume with a katana, and mortally wounding Kitashima - who's known for killing victims with his bare hands - with his bare hands. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Kitashima, the main antagonist of the film. | |
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Eye Scream: In the final battle right before fighting Kitashima, Lei-ming gouges both eyes from one of Kitashima's mooks. | |
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Coat Cape | |
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Coat Cape: Kitashima is shown wearing his yukata over his black karate gi in this fashion when he's not busy kicking ass. | |
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One-Hit Kill | |
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One-Hit Kill: Both Kitashima and Lei-ming can kill with a single punch. Provided that they aren't hitting named characters. | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills: Lumura carries a pouch of shurikens which he can fling with deadly accuracy, notably during the restaurant scene when he had a cage full of quails released, before unleashing a consecutive wave of shirukens nailing all the birds in seconds. Against Lei-ming, however, he ends up having Lei-ming beating him when the latter hurls two short daggers into Lumura's guts. | |
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Samurai | |
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Samurai: A few of them shows up as Elite Mooks opposing Tsao Pai Leung. | |
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Wrecked Weapon | |
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Wrecked Weapon: After becoming the legendary, feared professional killer known as The Chinese Boxer, Lei-ming, seemingly to intimidate his Japanese rivals, holds a katana he retrieved off a henchman, against several challengers approaching him, and immediately snaps the katana's blade using a karate chop. | |
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Professional Killer | |
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Professional Killer: Master Kitashima and his two followers, Kume and Lumura, who slaughter people for fun and money. | |
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Co-Dragons: Kume and Lumura, two samurais who serves Kitashima. They're always seen together and fights Lei-ming at the same time, attempting to (unsuccessfully) take him down. | |
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Action Girl | |
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Action Girl: The kunoichi played by Emily Chang, who is opposing the Japanese warlord for her own reasons. Nope, she's never named onscreen for some reason. | |
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Dark Is Evil | |
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Dark Is Evil: Kitashima's attire, in every scene he shows up. From his black yukata, to his black karate gi, and his... blood-red karate belt, the only part of his attire which isn't black. | |
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