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When Taekwondo Strikes (1973)
Directed by Wong Fung
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Overview
The story is about the Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II. A Korean patriot played by Carter Wong gets into a fight with some Japanese people and is chased into a church. The priest there is captured and tortured. Trying to secure his release, the leader of the resistance, Jhoon Rhee is himself captured and tortured by the Japanese. Carter Wong, Angela Mao and Anne Winton have to now try and rescue him. This leads to an explosive climax with the heroes having to fight the likes of Wong In Sik (Hwang In-Shik), Sammo Hung and Kenji Kazama.
Length 95 minutes
Actors
Angela Mao | Jhoon Rhee | Carter Wong | Sammo Hung Kam-Bo | Hwang In-Shik | Chin Yuet-Sang | Gam Kei-Chu | Ken Kazama | Chuan Chen | Kam Shan | Hung Mei | Wong Fung | Wilson Tong | Chin Chun | Anne Winton | Andre Morgan | Peter Chan Lung | Yuen Biao | Lam Ching-Ying
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03/16/2015 | TV | DVD | Borrowed | 7 stars |
| (Average) 7 stars |
Viewing Notes
The plot was a little drawn out but the fight choreography was pretty good without being too flashy. Given the time period of the early seventies, the pace of the martial arts was pretty fast! While these films were getting progressively faster with their fight choreography from the sixties on, most of the seventies stuff hadn’t reached this kind of speed.
Angela Mao is great. I especially loved every time she flipped her ponytail back over her shoulder when preparing to fight. Very reminiscent of the masters stroking their long, whispy beards in other martial arts movies.
I was also really impressed by Anne Winton, who has two great extended fight scenes, including one in a church at the beginning. I could easily watch martial arts movies starring her alone. She’s a great compliment to Mao.
There’s a lot of anti-Japanese sentiment in this film. In fact the plot is based on it. It was interesting to see them combine Korean and Chinese against a common Japanese enemy as well.
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