Summaries

David Chiang plays a hero who is the master of a secret kung-fu technique and uses it to avenge his father's death in this martial arts chiller Shaolin Hand Lock. A must see for all.

As an expert of the 'Cross fists' technique, a reclusive kung fu master Li Pai perfects a lethal maneuver called the 'Shaolin Handlock' while an old wolf-in-sheep's-clothing friend Fang Yun-piao pays the unwitting Li a visit. Fang flees the country after duping and killing Li with a fatal counter-measure. Vowing revenge, surviving son Li Cheng-ying and sister Li Meng-ping follow Fang's trail to Thailand. Upon killing Fang, they discover that he was acting on orders of a local expatriate criminal kingpin, Ling Hao, who partnered with their father in black-market smuggling during the war. Proving his own worthy kung fu skills, Cheng-ying infiltrates Ling's organization as a hired hand to gain Ling's confidence to get closer to him much to the chagrin and suspicions of Ling's right hand man Kun Shih who engages Cheng-ying into a deadly cat-and-mouse game behind enemy lines. After a failed assassination attempt on Ling by Meng-ping, the intrigue is diverted to a beautiful kept blind woman on Ling's compound who provides a link to some deep-rooted family grievances involving everyone's shared past but not without consequences. Armed with the deadly Handlock maneuver, Cheng-ying and Kun Shih joins forces to exact revenge on the evil Ling Hao after the truth is unraveled.—Kenny Woo

Details

Keywords
  • female nudity
  • martial arts action
  • secret
  • death
  • foreplay
Genres
  • Action
Release date Jun 9, 1978
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin Hong Kong
Language Mandarin
Filming locations Clearwater Bay, Hong Kong, China
Production companies Shaw Brothers

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 28m
Color Color
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

Synopsis

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