Boxer From Shantung - Intro
Martial Arts Mayhem
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4m 15s
Boxer From Shantung (1972)
Martial arts movies are divided into “Before Chang Cheh” and “After Chang Cheh.” The first director to put angry young men, stripped to the waist and covered in gore onscreen, his heroes died fighting the power. He celebrated heroic nihilism, masculine anger, and slippery guts, and no movie serves as a better thesis statement to his philosophy than this one.
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