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FLASH CHALLENGER is a Taiwanese martial arts movie from 1973. It's a singularly cheap effort but one which fills the screen with as much physical action as is humanly possible, which means that it's never a dull film to sit through. Unfortunately I found it an entirely derivative work that pales beside the efforts of Bruce Lee, Jimmy Wang Yu, or the major studios that were putting out similar fare at the time.

The original English title is FEROCIOUS TO FEROCIOUS. The main character is the unlikely-named Frank Chan, a mercenary for hire who is employed to retrieve a shipment of stolen gold by his employer Tiger Wong. The main bad guy is called Jackal Lam who turns out to be a gun runner to boot. Police corruption is also a sub-theme but the emphasis is very much on stock fighting rather than plotting.

The fights aren't bad and they are fairly lively, although I found them a bit too noisy with the constant whooping and the like. The only actor I really recognised was the great Japanese fighter Yasuaki Kurata, who pops up late in the proceedings as a stock bad guy that the hero must fight.