The Boxers Omen - Intro
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Boxer’s Omen (1983)
Shaw Bros Studio was totally lost by ’83 so they turned over the keys to their bad boy director, Kuei Chih-hung, who delivered some wild n’krunky black magic movies like BO. A mind-melting gallery of grotesquerie, it’s also the last movie Kuei ever made for Shaw after a life-long career there, probably because he just couldn’t go any further.
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