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Demon Strike (English Subtitled)
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Demon Strike (1979) Been a while since I reviewed anything from the old school era of martial arts cinema so I thought I'd highlight one of the lesser known films from the 1970s. Leung Kar-Yan and Jason Pai Piao team up to take on bad guy Hwang Jang Lee in this very solid action/fantasy movie. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any trailers online so my usual link has not been included but on with the review! Jason Pai Piao plays an officer for the royal court who is tasked to recover some stolen gold. On his journey he has to defend himself from assassins who are determined to kill him. Meanwhile Leung Kar-Yan is the head of a gang who discovers that a Daoist scroll has also been stolen along with the gold and sets off on his own journey in order to prevent it being used for evil. At least, that's what I was able to pick up from the incredibly confusing narrative. It wasn't uncommon for films of this era to start shooting without a script. The film makers would outline a basic story and then to make things up as they went along. Some films were able to pull it off effortlessly while others just ended up becoming an incoherent mess. Demon Strike is one of those films but fortun…
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Demon Strike