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Zen Kwan Do Strikes In Paris
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I’m kind of obsessed with John Liu. If all he did was New York Ninja or Ninja In the Claws of the CIA , I’d still be into him. But I keep finding his movies and they’re all as strange as the next. What a shame that there’s only one more that he made, Dragon Blood , for me to check out. And yes, this also goes by a ninja title. Avenging Ninja . Beyond being the founder of the Zwen Kwan Do fighting system, Liu also directed and wrote this movie. And stars in it as himself. Now you see why I’m so fascinated. Liu was once a martial arts teacher but now he’s part of the Hong Kong film world. Well, for now. Because his father, an American aerospace scientist, has just been kidnapped and now he has to go to Paris, as the title promises us. What it delivers is a plot that literally confounds all attempts to explain it. Let me try. Liu had a romantic scandal that rocked the world of Zen Kwan Do. He fell for a wealthy woman named Catherine and her father came after him, which left one lover dead, another as a nun and Liu’s daughter somewhere out there, out where dreams come true like Fievel. But not in America. Instead of finding his father, John fights goons. And fights a guy in an American…
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KonCategoryIII
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Strike Harder