Ying xiong you lei

The movie starts with a fight at an old temple then after the credits ends up in a bath house. If you like your kung fu movies with a heavy helping of homo-eroticism (and who doesn't?) then this is the movie that beats anything Chang Cheh ever made. It all comes in one fight sequence in an all-male massage parlor/bathhouse. There are wide spread high kicks and cheek to cheek contact (as in face to ass). How did they keep their towels in place? Our hero leaves his job as a masseuse and takes a job as a bodyguard. He ends up as a little brother figure to an assassin. The assassin tries to keep his moral compass because he is only killing to get the money to cure his sister's blindness.Blind Doris says she wants a handsome man to marry. How would she know? The movie changes from a screwball comedy to a drama and back and forth several times. "It's boring to see a man cry." I'm sure something was lost in the translation in that line. The copy I watched was a VHS pan and scan dubbed in English by voice actors I never heard before, but I have heard worse voices. The costumes and sets were surprisingly lavish. The plot and drama were flimsy and the fights were good enough. Overall I can't rate it any higher than middle of the road average for year and genre.