Tie san jiao

Taiwanese actor Wen Chiang Lung was launched by local director Joseph Kuo in a string of trashy but funny Kung-Fu actioners like this, Iron Man, Rikisha Kuri and others. They were made on the same sets, played by the same cast, all of them well sold on worldwide market. Triangular duel is about a ricksaw guy revenging the death of his master (actor Chiang Nan) killed by a triangular punchfire by a korean fighter (actor Tsai Hung), a japanese (Wu Tong Chiao) and a chinese (Miao Tian). Story is simple like that but tons of old style fights and a parade of vets from the genre (including Lu Ping as the lame master, Nancy Yen as the beauty, Nam Wan as a pupil of the late master, and real life Judo and TaeKwando expert Shut Chung Tien) makes this effort a worthy one if you're a kung-fu cinema fan of the 70's. Blink and you miss Bruce Li/Ho Chung Tao as an extra. By the way the italian version has the leading star dubbed by Roberto Chevalier, now famous for being the italian voice of Tom Cruise. Music score by Ritz Ortolani is stolen from spaghetti western Days of anger, 1968, at least in the european version. A perfect example of what a Kung-Fu movie made by indies was in the 70's, simple, fast, furious and childish as an extravaganza.