The Chinese Boxer
The Chinese Boxer

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The Chinese Boxer

1970
Movie
90 min
Mandarin

Lei Ming, a noble young martial arts student who doesn't know the meaning of giving up. He faces a treacherous, blood-thirsty Japanese karate expert, which leads to many memorable battles as well as several unforgettable training sequences.

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IMDb6.4/10
Director: Jimmy Wang YuGenres: Action, Martial Arts

Plot Summary

A righteous martial artist seeks revenge against a group of foreign boxers who have killed his master and desecrated his master's grave. He must master a deadly new technique to overcome their superior strength and numbers. The film follows his journey of training and confronting his enemies in increasingly brutal fight sequences.

Critical Reception

The Chinese Boxer was a significant film in the martial arts genre, noted for its raw and brutal fight choreography, which was a departure from some of the more stylized martial arts films of its era. It helped establish Jimmy Wang Yu as a major star and is considered a precursor to the more explosive Kung Fu films that would follow.

What Reviewers Say

  • Praised for its visceral and intense fight scenes.

  • Recognized for its role in popularizing a more brutal style of martial arts cinema.

  • Often cited as a foundational film in the early 1970s Kung Fu boom.

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Fun Fact

The film's graphic violence and focus on a single Chinese hero fighting foreign adversaries led to it being banned in some territories and was one of the factors that contributed to the rise of the Hong Kong film industry's global popularity.

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