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Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris

Original title: Ren quan wei zhen Ba Li
  • 19811981
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
37
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John Liu in Zen Kwan Do Strikes Paris (1981)
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The martial arts expert Liu Chung is living in Hong Kong where he makes Kung Fu movies. When Lius father is kidnapped in Paris he has to come to his rescue and fight a big crime syndicate.The martial arts expert Liu Chung is living in Hong Kong where he makes Kung Fu movies. When Lius father is kidnapped in Paris he has to come to his rescue and fight a big crime syndicate.The martial arts expert Liu Chung is living in Hong Kong where he makes Kung Fu movies. When Lius father is kidnapped in Paris he has to come to his rescue and fight a big crime syndicate.
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
37
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • John Liu
  • Writer
    • John Liu(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • John Liu
    • Bi-Len Cheng
    • Meli Caillard
  • Director
    • John Liu
  • Writer
    • John Liu(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • John Liu
    • Bi-Len Cheng
    • Meli Caillard
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    • 2User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    John Liu
    John Liu
    • John Liu
    • (as Chung-Liang Liu)
    Bi-Len Cheng
      Meli Caillard
      Wan-Hsi Chin
      Wan-Hsi Chin
      Yu-Wen Chin
      Shao-Hua Chu
      Alan Chung San Chui
      Alan Chung San Chui
      Robert Kerver
      Heng Li
      Heng Li
      Kuang-Yung Lin
      Shao-Mei Liu
      Jack Long
      Jack Long
        Ching-Shun Mao
        Li Mei
        Di-Ting Nuo
        Roger Paschy
        Kang Peng
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        • Director
          • John Liu
        • Writer
          • John Liu(screenplay)
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        1/10
        No plot no story, just a mixture collage of random scenes of fights
        This movie is an incredible experience of absurd and nonsense moments.

        At the beginning John Liu, after parking his car on s hill of Hong Kong , is going for a walk and after one minutes there are three men challenging him to a fight. After easily and rapidly hiting all of them down to the dusty floor of the hill, guess what ? , John Liu logically goes back to his car. Then his master talks to him about John's decision to fly to Paris to rescue his father By the way , his father shall never appear in the movie and nobody knows where he is.

        Another fighter, a certain Mr. Smith appears three times and introduces himself every time to John as if it were there very first meeting !

        There is French woman murdered at the threshold of a swimming pool, and nobody understands who and why killed her . In her last word she asked him to tell the police she "committed suicide". Ah, ah, ah . What a crap !

        Then , he was in Paris and then suddenly he is on the sea (is there the sea in Paris). He went to white boat and then he must fight again on a red boat . The boats are two , and after one minute the two boats are one. Unbelievable crap. It sucks from the first minute to the end. I have heard that John Liu understood that he was not talented to turn movies and now he retired to live in a wooden slum without electricity at the border of a river in Taiwan .

        The very fantastic moment of the movie was when "they" (nobody knows whom) kidnapped his new euroasian girlfriend, but after one instant the next shot of the movie shows John laughing happily to think the same criminal because that girlfriend is now safe at home. No plot, just a collage and a mixture of random moments of martial fights without any link and without any logical sequence of facts. Pure crap !
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        • gymbyke
        • Mar 20, 2022

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        • Release date
          • December 10, 1981 (Hong Kong)
        • Countries of origin
          • Taiwan
          • Hong Kong
        • Language
          • Mandarin
        • Also known as
          • Avenging Ninja
        • Filming locations
          • Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
        • Production company
          • John Liu's Film Corp.
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        • Runtime
          1 hour 35 minutes
        • Color
          • Color
        • Aspect ratio
          • 2.35 : 1

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