1974 Taiwan with Wen Chiang-Long, Tso Yen-Yung, Shut Chung-Tin and Lau Lap-Cho. Also titled "Rickshaw Driver" and "Rickshaw Man". Wen Chiang-Long stars as the rickshaw man who has promised his mother he will not fight because his father died in a fight. He also reminds mom that dad was not a good fighter in the first place. (Wen's martial arts movie leading man career began in 1972 in "A Brave Girl-Boxer in Shanghai" co-starring with the kung fu crazy hot chick Doris Lung Chun-Erh.) The evil Japanese called the Invincible Four kill off one uncle then the martial arts master uncle and the entire school. Wen Chiang-Long grabs mom, forgets his girl, Tso Yen-Yung and they flee. Next the hoods catch them and in a totally unbelievable scene he does not fight to defend mom, he runs off as she told him and mom is killed of course. Stuff like this is why I dislike the "fighter who must never fight again" plot. He runs off with the girl next and her fate seems doomed. Not quite yet, they hide with another uncle but the hoods find them and uncle dies as the two flee. This time he tries to fight but is no better fighter than his late father. The result is as expected – dead girlfriend. He meets Lau Lap-Cho who also seeks revenge against the Invincible Four. He is a scholar so the plan is to be cunning. He divides and conquers and kills one at the brothel. The plan continues as planned. The first hour or so of the movie the fights are beatings because the hero doesn't fight back. The rest of the fights are nothing special, all the same old moves are repeated to fill up the time. Overall I'd rate the film just below mediocre. The other reviewer, T-K, mentions a blind wife and sunglasses. I suspect we might have been watching different movies. Joseoh Kuo also directed "Triangular Duel" that also starred Wen Chiang-Long as a rickshaw driver who promised not to fight.
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ckormos116 September 2015
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Leofwine_draca22 February 2018RIKISHA KURI is a Taiwanese kung fu flick with one of the most annoying central characters ever. He plays a rickshaw driver who is appalled when a group of four Japanese thugs go around beating up martial arts masters and murdering people left, right and centre. Sadly for him, he's made a vow of non-violence after his father was beaten to death after fighting too much. This idiot ends up getting his own mother and girlfriend killed by the bad guys before he eventually decides to fight back, but of course it's a bit late by then. Otherwise this is the usual low budget enterprise, with sloppy camerawork and photography and limited fight scenes. There's very little to get excited about and the hero is way too stupid for the viewer to get behind.
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T-K10 January 2007This movie, also known as Shaolin Kung Fu is quite dark and violent revenge story compared other movies of Joseph Kuo. The crew is pretty much the same as in "Chinese Iron Man" also by Joseph Kuo.
Men Kong Loong is Ah-Fung, the rickshaw-puller who has promised his blind wife not to fight, but when the drivers of rivaling rickshaw company starts bullying him and his colleagues he starts to fight back. This leads him in the trouble with the towns criminal boss.
The lack of any kind of comic relief makes this movie quite unusual representation of this genre The only funny thing, even it was probably unintentional, are the anachronistic big 70's style sunglasses one of the baddies shows off.