Gui hou duan hun dao (1976) Poster

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5/10
More kicks and less explaining please
ckormos15 April 2020
"The Knife of Devil's Roaring and Soul Missing" is the original title. Better the title really was "Return of the Leg Fighter". That would give the movie a story about some guy called "Leg Fighter" who returns and fights using great kicks. Instead, this movie is about people looking for a magic sword. This simple quest adds things that needlessly complicate and slows down the pace to explain things that need no explanation.

My copy was English dubbed with Korean subtitles. I found many of the voices annoying, stammering, overly accented or just weird. Weird characters also pop up to briefly play weird parts then go away. The video was wide screen but not true wide screen in that the sides were cropped a bit. The resolution was as good as any standard DVD (not Blu-ray.)

The fights have a variety of weapons, hand to hand action, and plenty of high kicks from Dorian Tan. I would rate the fights as better than average for 1976. I can't rate the movie that high because of the pacing and dubbing.
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4/10
Too cheap to make an impression
Leofwine_draca27 November 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I caught this on Amazon Prime under the title THUNDER BLADE AND LIGHTNING FOOT. It's your usual nondescript martial arts flick from Taiwan, featuring a number of characters hunting for something called the Sunshine Blade which bestows power on those who possess it. A bad guy called the Demon Swordsman hunts for the blade and only good guy Dorian 'Flash Legs' Tan has the power to defeat him. Sadly, in the hands of the Taiwanese crew, this becomes a cheap and derivative movie made almost entirely without merit. The scenarios are age old, the characters one-dimensional, the fights passable at best. The film also drops its ace by killing off guest star Lo Lieh way too early on in the proceedings.
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