Iron Protector

[GeneChing]

Aw srsly? This is going to get confused with Sammo's Bodyguard (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?68075-The-Bodyguard). It's like what happened with the Master (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?68967-The-Master-(%26%2324072%3B%26%2329238%3B)-two-different-films) last year. :rolleyes:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n04rzG5Q_ts

At least it has Shi Yanneng (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=955). :cool:

[Jimbo]

How about Sonny Chiba's 'The Bodyguard'(a.k.a., Karate Kiba)?

[GeneChing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UigWj2B6X74

[GeneChing]

I did see this so it's time for the FIRST FORUM REVIEW :cool:

This is the 2nd film written & starring Yue Song; the first one was The King of the Streets (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?66602-The-King-of-the-Streets). Bodyguard costars Shi Yanneng who I knew from my early Shaolin years and we featured on the cover of our May+June 2011 Shaolin Special (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=955). Like Song's 1st film, Bodyguard had a threadbare plot and a lot of action. It's an old story: bodyguard protects a spoiled hottie, an evil gang wants her to get at her dad, and there's some sexual tension - actually there's a lot more intrigue because the adversaries are martial brothers (Song is 'iron legs' ala Eric Idle's character Desmond in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen/Yanneng is 'iron fist' ala Iron Fist (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=1062) et.al.) and there's more but it never interrupts the steady flow of fight scenes. The choreography is much stronger - good wire work, some major falls, some stunts and some preposterous fights. Yue takes on double hatchets, a giant, a gang of like 50+ baton & ratchet wielded, a cute double dagger villianess, a dude with a horse-cutting lance, and of course, Yanneng. It's superhero fightin' where people get kicked through concrete walls - quite tongue-in-cheek, with echoes of Shaolin Soccer (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?46486-Shaolin-Soccer) silliness but not quite the over-the-top mo lei tau style of humor. Very entertaining as long as you park your brain outside.

[GeneChing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tFxUr0RQzI

Now retitled as Iron Protector, surely because as we mentioned above - Bodyguard has been overused.

[GeneChing]

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[GeneChing]

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