EDITOR’S NOTE: As the journey through Cannon continues, this week we’re exploring the films of 21st Century Film Corporation, which would be the company that Menahem Golan would take over after Cannon. Formed by Tom Ward and Art Schweitzer in 1971 (or 1976, there are some disputed expert opinions), 21st Century had a great logo and released some wild stuff.

Originally Jiao Huo and also known as The Deadly Kung Fu Factor, this was made in 1975 but wasn’t released until 1978.

Gangs in Japan and Hong Kong have come together for a $5 million dollar heroin deal. Kung Chun San Lang (Chen Hui Min ) lands in Hong Kong and is almost immediately arrested before jumping onto a motorcycle belonging to Li Hsiang Yun (Susanna Au Yeung). He soon takes her gambling where he’s caught cheating and nearly fights Tu Shao Hsiang (Charles Heung Wah Keung) before realizing that they’re working together for this big drug connection. Fans hoping for these two gangster movie stars to be battling one another will have to be content with this scene, as they join forces after.

The two leads were also pretty much real-life gangsters playing the part for this movie (and many others).

This is a film filled with fights — you can tell from the alternate name — as well as plenty of nudity and sex (mostly from NaNa, who was a new softcore star at the time), car chases and so many nightclub scenes filled with stolen progressive rock songs and a band that starts playing a Mexican song when Kung fights an entire room full of police officers. And wow — that last fight!

Any movie that starts with a criminal using a turnabout to make the cops chasing him dizzy is going to be one that you’re probably going to want to hunt down.

You can get this on blu ray from Dark Force Entertainment.