Tiger and Crane Fist (1975)

Original title

虎鶴雙形

Directed by

Jimmy Wang Yu

Genre

kung fu film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 24m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two rival kung fu schools with different fighting styles must set aside their feud. They join forces to fight a nearly unbeatable villain who works for the Japanese occupiers.

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What happens

Tiger & Crane Fists (Chinese: 虎鶴雙形) (a.k.a. Savage Killers) is a kung fu movie, starring and directed by 1970s Hong Kong star Jimmy Wang Yu released in 1976. The story concerns the Tiger and the Crane martial arts style of two schools that has been separated from each other for many years. No one can determine which technique is the best. Both organizations find they must put their differences aside and work together in order to defeat Lu Ting Chu, who is a nearly invincible lackey for Japanese occupational forces. Defeating Chu is essential to repelling the Japanese invaders. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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