Shaolin Invincible Guys (1978)
The girlfriend of a con-man is being held in a brothel and he must try to raise 200 tales of gold as a dowry. So he cheats a country simpleton out of his money then goes and loses it in the casino resulting in the country man feeling sorry for him. The two become friends and as they are both expert fighters start working as instructors for a local big boss but this causes real trouble.
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Let's be realistic.
A different way of telling a story
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
SHAOLIN DEADLY HANDS (SHAOLIN INVINCIBLE GUYS) opens with gold-toothed country bumpkin Yang (Chen Kuan Chi) looking for work with a local Triad. He has his pocket picked by Yao Fong before running into a robbery-in-progress by the Ching Li gang and foiling it. Fong catches a dealer in a gambling den cheating and promptly cleans house, then loses legitimately to Triad boss Ti Yen. Yao is desperate to buy the freedom of his 16-year-old girlfriend, Lin, from the brothel where she's stuck. Yao ends up throwing in with a gang of 5 street urchins. Yang is turned away by the Triad joins Yao and the urchins. Here, again, we have some good action and all the motivation(s) a pair of righteous avengers could ask for.