Saturday, September 2, 2023

'Ninja Strikes Back' aka 'Xiong Zhong' (1982) - Bruce Le & Joseph Kong.

Hurriedly fashioned during the inexorable downward spiral of the Kung Fu craze, Ninja Strikes Back's muscular cast still packs an almighty punch! Starring alongside sinewy main man, Bruce Le are Bolo Yeung, Casanova Wong, Harold Sakata, lethal leg-fighting legend, Hwang Jang-lee, and, er, Dick Randall! Penuriously produced with the stylish, meticulous attention to detail one expects from rabidly opportunistic exploitation film impresario, Dick Randall, this is a raw, bare knuckle bonkers Brucesploitation biff-fest!!  

This enjoyably schizo, high-kicking hybrid of pugnacious poliziottesco and bellicose Brucesploitation is a conspicuously cut-price, disco dizzy, clunkily Kung Fu clotted calamity that remains far more entertaining than it has any right to be! Rightfully bloody avengement, ostentatious globe-trotting, head-lopping, pan-dimensional ninjas, pseudo-Bond theatrics, and a climactic coliseum showdown betwixt dynamic combatants, Bruce Le & evil henchmen, Hwang Jang-lee. 'Ninja Strikes Back' is a fun watch for Brucesploitation completists, B-Movie mongolists, vintage Kung Fu fantasists, and aficionados of gratuitously overused unlicensed music!

'This maniacal martial arts mash-up is a raw, bare knuckle bonkers Brucesploitation biff-fest!!' - Tor Bronson.  

 

















 



 


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