Hwang Sa-jin

It opens with our hero meets a wounded man who asks him to deliver a secret message. Then he meets a dying girl with the same request. What are the odds? He is now a spy and delivers the message but the bad guys got there first and abducted the girl.

My copy is a digital file made from an old VHS tape. It plays on a HDTV as a square picture that is cropped mostly on the sides. This was because televisions at the time of VHS were not wide screen. It is English dubbed.

This movie is a South Korean production. In the early 1970s if you were making a martial arts movie in South Korea the whole idea was to make it look just like a Hong Kong or Taiwan production. This movie accomplished that and nothing more. The action is certainly competent for the year but it is really just the same brawl over and over again. The story in between the fights is just not interesting enough to keep your fingers off the fast forward button and when you do forward to a fight it looks just like the last fight. It was interesting only in that it was an early South Korean production and there are few. South Korea did have its own martial arts star at that time - Bobby Kim. I have watched a few of his movies and do not have a kind word for any of them.

I rate this movie as below average for the year and genre. I admit I found it impossible to watch without using fast forward but I did manage to get through it to write a review.