EUREKA BOX SET: Furious Swords and Fantastic Warriors: New Shaolin Boxers (1976)

Zhong Jian (Alexander Fu Sheng) drives a carriage, but mostly he gets into fights, trying to be on the side of justice. Everyone in town is sick of him because, even with the best intentions, he ends up causing so many problems. Even his martial arts teacher tells him to stop fighting.

However, the fighting lessons of Choy Li Fut will make him a better man.

This even starts with a short history of the style, with Fu Sheng performing it and discussing its origins and how it evolved.

I loved the last battle because, unlike so many movies that have training sequences, here you actually get to see the training footage matched with how Zhong Jian fights and how what he learned has made him the fighting master and hero that he is now.

Chang Cheh, you did it again.

This Eureka release has a commentary track by East Asian film expert Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival) and martial artist and filmmaker Michael Worth. You can get it from MVD.

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