A Man Called Tiger
Directed byLo Wei
Written byLo Wei
Produced byLeonard Ho
StarringJimmy Wang, Maria Yi
Music byJoseph Koo[1]
Release date
1973
Running time
70 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageMandarin

A Man Called Tiger (Hong Kong title Leng mian hu) is a 1973 Hong Kong martial arts action thriller starring Jimmy Wang and Maria Yi and directed by Lo Wei.

Plot

Chin Fu (Jimmy Wang Yu)'s father was a kung-fu master who was murdered. Chin Fu shows up at a nightclub to revenge for his father's murder. Chin teams up with a sexy lounge singer Keiko (Maria Yi) and heads out to infiltrate the Japanese mafia.[2][3][4]

Cast

  • Jimmy Wang Yu - Chin Fu
  • Kawai Okada - Yoshida Ayako
  • Kuro Mitsuo - Boss Shimizu Shobon
  • Tien Feng - Boss Yamamoto
  • James Tin Chuen - Liu Han-Ming
  • Nakako Daisuke - Killer Yoshida Ryohei
  • Kasahara Reiko - Shimizu' s secretary
  • Han Ying-Chieh - Lin Mu-Lang
  • Minakaze Yuko - Chang Li-Hua
  • Maria Yi - Keiko, a lounge singer
  • Lee Kwan - Siu Lee
  • Lo Wei - Miyamoto
  • Hsiao Yin-Fang - Kushi Ichiro / Nagatani Shoki
  • Kam Shan - Yamamoto's thug Sonataro
  • Chin Yuet-Sang - Shimizu's thug
  • Lam Ching-Ying - Shimizu's thug
  • Lee Tin-Ying - Shimizu's thug

Review

Quentin Tarantino wrote "For most of the movie it looks like a Japanese Yakuza film, plays like an Italian gangster film, and has the fight every ten minutes pace of a Hong Kong chop socky pic, until suddenly, without any proper set up, we find ourselves into the beginning of the film’s extended climax."[5]

References

  1. "A Man Called Tiger Credits". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2015. Archived from the original on 27 May 2015.
  2. Gonsalves, John (2015). "A Man Called Tiger". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 27 May 2015.
  3. "A MAN CALLED TIGER". rottentomatoes.com. 1972. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  4. "A Man Called Tiger". letterboxd.com. 1973. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  5. Tarantino, Quentin (24 December 2019). "A Man Called Tiger". New Beverly Cinema. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020.
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