The Young Vagabond

The Young Vagabond

By Lau Sze Yu

  • Genre: Action & Adventure
  • Release Date: 1985-01-01
  • Advisory Rating: Unrated
  • Runtime: 1h 25min
  • Director: Lau Sze Yu
  • Production Company: Shaw Brothers
  • Production Country: Hong Kong
  • iTunes Price: USD 4.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: USD 3.99
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It's a fact: the greatest martial arts movie character is Huang Fei-hung. But it's quite possible the second greatest character is "Beggar Su," one of the famous Ten Kwangtung Tigers, and a legendary Ching Dynasty figure. Little known director Liu Shih-yu decided to fill his telling of the character's life story with the best kung-fu actors Shaw Studios had to offer. He reunited the stars of Liu Chia-liang's landmark Dirty Ho - Gordon Liu Chia-hui, Wang Yu, and Wang Lung-wei - and added such other greats as multi-award-winning Ku Feng and Pai Piao, then gave workhorse Lo Chiang his shot as choreographer. Together they made a rare, colorful, action-packed adventure as Beggar Su and his brother train incessantly to defeat the brutally powerful thief called Centipede. Finally, after much death and destruction, Gordon Liu Chia-hui and Wang Lung-wei get a memorable rematch to follow their classic masterpieces in Dirty Ho and Martial Club. The result is not only reminiscent of preeminent director Liu Chia-liang's work, but essentially an homage to him as well!

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  • Kung Fu Slapstick

    3
    By Frank C 66554321.
    Two brothers who fall for the same girl, but run a fowl with a Kung Fu master. Gordon Liu plays the drunken fool who learns from a master and avenges his brother, and girlfriends, death. The fight scenes are sloppy at first, but get better as the plot unwinds. Nothing spectacular, but still fun to watch.

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