WW2 set story of a Japanese plane shot down with secret plans for the invasion of Shanghai inside. The Chinese have taken the plans and are racing to get the plans into their military hands while the Japanese try to stop them.
In films from the 1970's and early 1980's there seems to be only a limited number of martial arts plots, with most of the traditional set stories being either about conflicting schools or about taking revenge for some wrong. Anything that is set in any other time tends to be set during the Japanese occupation of World War 2 with the repressed Chinese taking on the evil Japanese. All of the WW2 films tend to look exactly the same or if not seem to be part of one long feature film of about 500 hours that was cut up. This film doesn't really seem to fit into that mold and quite honestly stand apart from the rest of the similarly set films. The plot isn't by the book and the action seems to be a little bit more clever. Watching the film I was pleasantly surprised by what I was seeing and actually decided to keep the bargain DVD since its good enough for a repeat viewing.
Recommended.
In films from the 1970's and early 1980's there seems to be only a limited number of martial arts plots, with most of the traditional set stories being either about conflicting schools or about taking revenge for some wrong. Anything that is set in any other time tends to be set during the Japanese occupation of World War 2 with the repressed Chinese taking on the evil Japanese. All of the WW2 films tend to look exactly the same or if not seem to be part of one long feature film of about 500 hours that was cut up. This film doesn't really seem to fit into that mold and quite honestly stand apart from the rest of the similarly set films. The plot isn't by the book and the action seems to be a little bit more clever. Watching the film I was pleasantly surprised by what I was seeing and actually decided to keep the bargain DVD since its good enough for a repeat viewing.
Recommended.