1978 Taiwan with Li Yi-Min, Tsai Hung, Wang Ping, Mau Ging-Shun and Suen Lam Starts with lion dance music then some Peking opera on stage. It cuts to Li Yin-Min and men fighting outside. He finishes up in time to go backstage and get ready for the opera. Some gangsters come backstage looking for him. There is a fight and he gets fired. He joins another group but gets in trouble because of his gambling. Up until now all the fights have been for no reason and they all look alike because there is no story behind them. Li Yi-Min beats up a guy and leaves him lying there, "I know you are not dead!" Then another guy comes along and does kill him. He is killing everyone involved with a certain master. Now there is at least the spark of a story. Tsai Hung plays the prosecutor. Li Yi-Min flees prosecution to find the real killer and bumps right into him. Of course they fight a few times before everything resolves. Overall this is an average low budget 1970s type martial arts movie with nothing to make it above average or below average.
2 Reviews
Li Yi-Min does theatrics and beats up goons
Leofwine_draca12 December 2016
Warning: Spoilers
I saw this Taiwanese martial arts vehicle under the title KUNG FU ATTRACTION, although it appears that some wag re-titled it FOR YOUR FIST ONLY for a later re-release, thus riffing on the Roger Moore/Bond film. It's your typical nondescript kung fu story from Taiwan, suffering from poor presentation in the west; the film looks cheap and pixelated and the dubbing is very poor.
The film's erstwhile hero is Li Yi-Min, sometimes seen tearing up the screen in Shaw Brothers productions, who opens the film by doing some Peking Opera style theatrics accompanied by that old 'lion dance' music. For no real reason, Yi-Min finds himself threatened by a thuggish gang of gangsters who prove themselves to be the weakest fighters imaginable and keep getting beaten up by our hero, whose gambling addiction is his only weakness.
The story just sort of plods along from here. The master villain is a top assassin who goes around killing random people and eventually Yi-Min's path crosses with him with fatal results. For a film with plenty of action, none of it is very memorable and this is an entirely by-the-numbers affair, one that only dedicated genre fans are likely to enjoy.
The film's erstwhile hero is Li Yi-Min, sometimes seen tearing up the screen in Shaw Brothers productions, who opens the film by doing some Peking Opera style theatrics accompanied by that old 'lion dance' music. For no real reason, Yi-Min finds himself threatened by a thuggish gang of gangsters who prove themselves to be the weakest fighters imaginable and keep getting beaten up by our hero, whose gambling addiction is his only weakness.
The story just sort of plods along from here. The master villain is a top assassin who goes around killing random people and eventually Yi-Min's path crosses with him with fatal results. For a film with plenty of action, none of it is very memorable and this is an entirely by-the-numbers affair, one that only dedicated genre fans are likely to enjoy.
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