Mi zong sheng shou

The movie starts with helpful narrator spouting nonsense about a style of martial arts invented for the movie. Next are some nice views of areas in China inhabited by nomadic horsemen. I do not know if any of the costumes and customs are authentic but it all looks spectacular. Chan Sing and Ling Hon then discuss the plot.

Jackie Chan fans will first spot him standing there doing nothing at the wedding at about the 20:50 mark. He does nothing more in this movie. Patience, he will get his chance.

This movie is one of the first to feature the training sequence. That will be a standard scene in the years to come. This has the theme that all hard work can be martial arts training once you apply it correctly.

I rate all the fights in this movie above average. The final fight begins when Sammo Hung starts to beat up the old man. Angela returns at the perfect dramatic moment. Angela and Dorian then combine versus Chan Sing. The result makes this one of the best martial arts movies of 1976 in my book.