Hard Bastard (A Film By Godfrey Ho) [fullscreen & cropped widescreen]

About this film

Hard Bastard aka “Tian long lan” Director: Godfrey Ho Year: 1982 TRT: 1:35-ish? Reviewed: 4/25/2024 VIDEO REVIEW I’m going to be completely drunkenly honest here. This is not a great film. It is not even quite an average film. But it still is a fun romp through kungsfuville. A nice mix of martial arts choreography, campy dialogue, and mediocre crime boss shenanigans makes this a pretty harmless escape into a somewhat entertaining South Korean ripoff of a good Hong Kong Kung Fu Flick. Traveling “pharmaceutical” salesmen (read: hucksters) go from town to town with their little minstrel-like show to entertain the masses and sell them a cure. Amazing that it can solve everything from the constipation to the clap! That’s some good stuff right there! But they find themselves in a town where the local Protection Apparatus ain’t too keen on letting them sell goods without a little kickback, and things get a bit hostile-like. Throw in the son of the local Boss who has some criticisms of the direction his dad is taking the town and a cute little waitress just wanting to escape the madness and you have yourselves a true kung fu legend! Or at least a kung fu tale. Maybe just a story, bordering…

Directors & creators

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Subjects

Godfrey Ho

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