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It starts with a motorcycle gang runs down a guy and takes some paper off him. His daughter, Kuo Hsiao-Chuang (Gwok Siu-Chong) goes for revenge. Si Wai disapproves. She fails but lives. Finally Doris enters in a white blouse, black jeans, and boots on a motorcycle. She is serious hot stuff.

I am a hard core fan of martial arts movies of the golden age from 1967 to 1984. This movie drew my attention because of that and because of Doris Lung Chun-Erh's credit. "Crazy Doris", as I lovingly call her, would have been 16 years old and this makes her 6th movie since age 14. Information about her is hard to come by and harder to confirm. (I won't repeat what I have written about her in other reviews.)

My copy is a digital file that plays on a HDTV as a square video similar to the old VHS format. The dialog is Chinese (no subtitles) and I do not speak Chinese. This seems to be the only available copy of this movie available. Because the movie was cropped to fit the old televisions it makes the fights seem to be filmed too close up. I won't hold that against it for my review.

The movie opens with a few good fights to show our girl is no match for the bad guys. Doris enters at about the 14 minute mark. It is curious that her entry is almost the same entry she made in the 1972 movie "Chinese" or "Dragon's Executioner" or "The Dragon's Vengeance". In the earlier movie, on horseback, she almost runs over the hero (Barry Chan). In this movie Doris, on a motorcycle, almost runs over the hero. In both movies she evens wears the same black pants and white blouse (just minus the vest here).

Since I do not understand Chinese I can't say much for the plot or story. I will say, I could get an idea of what was going on with the story by the facial expressions and body language of the actors. In other words - actors actually acting to tell the the story. Plus, whatever the story it did not drag down the pace of the movie. I never needed a fast forward to get things moving again.

The fights are almost all hand to hand. There was no wire work or mini trampolines either. There are plenty of fights plus the expected big end fight. The action does tend to all look alike by the end with nothing special standing out. Doris does not fight until the end. It's not her best fight but Doris simply makes a fight look good. She might be off in focus or timing, she might be short on a kick or punch, or other errors of form such as posture, back or foot positions).Yet all her moves show fluidity, charisma, and confidence.

So after all this, here we have just another average martial arts movie of the golden age from 1967 to 1984. This movie would only draw the attention of a hard core fan of the genre such as myself. That fan would enjoy an 84 minute run time of an average martial arts movie of the age. I watched this movie once and doubt I will ever watch it again and I have already forgotten it. Let's have another of the same.