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You can't expect too much from the late Kung-Fu trash director Yeo Ban Yee, but this movie (released in US as Karate Killer in 1974), was a cut above his usually very low standard, cheaply made as the others but fascinating in the way the mandarin badguy is portrayed by charismatic Thompson Kao Kang. A kind of gelid Kung-Fu Terminator using his hair-queue as a whip! Sadly this actor died young killed by an Hong Kong idiot policeman in 1980, and this is probably the best thing this unlucky actor made. Story tells about the anti-Ching revolutionary struggle in the changing China of 1900 (even if the movie was made in Macau), as the secret agent Jason Pai Piao arrives in town to help the rebels against the diabolic Mandarin. Tons of fights and thundering sound effects of kicks and punches. Music stolen from James Bond saga as usual. If you are a Bruce Lee addict you'll surely recognize fat actor Fong Ai as the japanese samurai, the same role he played in the legendary Fist of Fury. All in all Guai Ke is bona-fide cult trash well rememberd by old timers and a way to re-discover an unsung martial artist who died brutally and untimely 4 august 1980. The same cast and crew went in Italy 1973 to make the terrible Kung-Fu Brothers in the Wild West.