A Man Called Tiger (Hong Kong title Leng mian hu) is a 1973 Hong Kong martial arts action thriller starring Jimmy Wang and Maria Yi and directed by Lo Wei.
| A Man Called Tiger | |
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| Directed by | Lo Wei |
| Written by | Lo Wei |
| Produced by | Leonard Ho |
| Starring | Jimmy Wang, Maria Yi |
| Music by | Joseph Koo[1] |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Mandarin |
Plot
editChin Fu (Jimmy Wang Yu)'s father was a kung-fu master who was murdered. Chin Fu shows up at a nightclub to revenge for his father's murder. Chin teams up with a sexy lounge singer Keiko (Maria Yi) and heads out to infiltrate the Japanese mafia.[2][3][4]
Cast
edit- Jimmy Wang Yu - Chin Fu
- Kawai Okada - Yoshida Ayako
- Kuro Mitsuo - Boss Shimizu Shobon
- Tien Feng - Boss Yamamoto
- James Tin Chuen - Liu Han-Ming
- Nakako Daisuke - Killer Yoshida Ryohei
- Kasahara Reiko - Shimizu' s secretary
- Han Ying-Chieh - Lin Mu-Lang
- Minakaze Yuko - Chang Li-Hua
- Maria Yi - Keiko, a lounge singer
- Lee Kwan - Siu Lee
- Lo Wei - Miyamoto
- Hsiao Yin-Fang - Kushi Ichiro / Nagatani Shoki
- Kam Shan - Yamamoto's thug Sonataro
- Chin Yuet-Sang - Shimizu's thug
- Lam Ching-Ying - Shimizu's thug
- Lee Tin-Ying - Shimizu's thug
Review
editQuentin Tarantino wrote "For most of the movie it looks like a Japanese Yakuza film, plays like an Italian gangster film, and has the fight every ten minutes pace of a Hong Kong chop socky pic, until suddenly, without any proper set up, we find ourselves into the beginning of the film’s extended climax."[5]
References
edit- ^ "A Man Called Tiger Credits". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2015. Archived from the original on 27 May 2015.
- ^ Gonsalves, John (2015). "A Man Called Tiger". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 27 May 2015.
- ^ "A MAN CALLED TIGER". rottentomatoes.com. 1972. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
- ^ "A Man Called Tiger". letterboxd.com. 1973. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
- ^ Tarantino, Quentin (24 December 2019). "A Man Called Tiger". New Beverly Cinema. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020.