Ying peng ying (1972) User Reviews

Here's one mediocre more for the fans of the genre

[ckormos1 · 5/10 · 22 May 2019]

It starts at the train station. On board a few guys talk secretively. The passengers are robbed and the bandits get away. A railroad employee is falsely accused of helping the bandits. Tien Peng joins with him to find the bandit's lair.

The first fight is not until about 20 minutes in with Chen Hung-Lieh practicing with the other bandits. Tien Peng visits him and it revealed they are old kung fu brothers from 10 years ago. They talk quite a bit. Tien Peng is waiting inside the train for the next robbery and a big fight ensues.

Shan Mao plays one of the bandits. He had about 120 roles over about ten years playing bad guys. He died at the age of 27 on March 14, 1977, in Hong Kong, killed with screwdrivers during an attack. No report on whether straight or Phillips head.

My copy is a computer file that plays as wide screen on a HDTV, It is not really wide screen as the image is cropped on all sides. The resolution is typical of old VHS tapes. The dialog is Chinese and the subtitles are easy to read and English.

Overall this is average stuff that would only draw the attention of hard core fans of martial arts movies of the golden age from 1967 to 1984. If you are such a fan this movie will hold your attention for 83 minutes with no complaints and no kudos either.

INTIMIST KUNG-FU ADVENTURE WITH AN ARMY OF SPECIALISTS!

[[e-mail] · 7/10 · 27 December 2020]

If you're familiar with martial arts actors of old days, you can't stay away from this little gem. Action is standard fare and tech values are merely adequates, but story is a little more original than the usual. The main star is Tien Peng, a famous actor in Taiwan back then. He's an undercover cop who returns to his homeland and meet an old time friend, actor Chan Hung Lieh (nicknamed Golden Chan by the industry since he was a really good performer) as the landlord. Actually the cop is going after a train-robbery gang lead by the landlord, but the twos spend some time remembering the days when they were like brothers, so we see them walking together, fishing together or playing at chinese chess. Nothing of all this will help when the moment of truth arrives. The final will be sad for both the cop and the gangster. Tough Duel is low under many aspects but high in giving some relief to the intimate drama. The cast is fullfilled by an army of Kung-Fu movies vets including Miao Tien as the second-in-command of the gang, Lung Fei and Shan Mao as henchmen and a cameo by regular badguy Yee Yuan as the superkiller. All in all an average movie if you see it with a modern eye, but deserving a curious look for the attention it payed to the personal relationship between the Good and the Bad, courtesy by scriptwriter Ni Kuang (Big Boss, Fist of Fury and others credited and uncredited 300 movies). Coreography staged by Yu Tien Lung, a main star himself in trash-cult like The Bamboo brotherhood aka The match of dragon and tiger, and Infernal street. A Kung Fu adventure for the thinking man... or boy.