For this film he has created a large number of exciting brawls with kung fu used effectively against rifles, bayonets and, in one memorable encounter, a Gatling gun. The fights are all staged by Liu Chia-Liang, who became a top-notch kung fu director in his own right the same year. The Americans are notably absent from the action until the very end, when a handful show up in Civil War uniforms (!) and take off their hats for the heroes. At one point, they confront the German officer in charge of all the foreign troops (played by American actor Richard Harrison, a fixture in Italian films of the 1960s and 70s and a handful of Hong Kong films afterwards), who attempts to fence with them, but they let him live, allowing him to release sketches of the two remaining heroes, making it difficult for them to escape the city undetected. The heroes fight and kill quite a few soldiers but their efforts ultimately amount to little.
Boxer rebellion movie#
The Boxer Rebellion itself occurs offscreen and the rest of the movie involves its aftermath as foreign troops-chiefly Japanese and Russian soldiers-overrun Peking, pillaging, plundering and slaughtering.
The sect leader, Li (Wang Lung-Wei), turns a disastrous loss at the hands of the Japanese into a public relations victory that gets embellished as word spreads until the Empress Dowager hears-and believes-an outlandish tale of 9000 Japanese soldiers killed by the Boxers. Chi Kuan-Chun is the one who is most skeptical of the Boxer leader's claims of invulnerability and warns against attacks on foreign troops without adequate reconnaissance. kung fu stars Fu Sheng, Chi Kuan-Chun, and Leung Kar Yan (Liang Chia-Jen). The three heroes are young men caught up in the fervor of the times who join the Boxers, a cult which claims supernatural powers in its campaign to drive foreigners out of China. The focus here is on the 1900 Boxer Rebellion as told from the Chinese point-of-view, in contrast with the 1963 Hollywood film, 55 DAYS AT PEKING, which told the story chiefly from the English and American standpoint. BLOODY AVENGERS (1976) is one of a handful of historical kung fu epics directed by Hong Kong master filmmaker Chang Cheh.
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