The Angry Guest
Chang Cheh, pleased with how much of Duel of Fists’ runtime he filled with shots of driving cars, really tries to outdo himself in this sequel. There’s a chunk of my notes that reads “Driving montage. More driving. Fucking hell more driving. Yep, more driving.” There’s a bit where a car stops at a stop light and we watch the pedestrians cross the screen for about 20 seconds before we watch the light turn green and the car continue on. That’s cinema.
Made hot on the heels of Duel of Fists at times it feels like it was made so quickly that Ni Kuang was forced to fish an old Bond-mania script from the archives. We get a Bond-style lair, complete with arch villain Chang Cheh (in his one and only Shaw Brothers acting appearance he totally barrels the camera Pee Wee Herman style). And we get a bunch of Bond-esque villains, including a man wielding a deadly cane and Bolo Yeung dressed like a Christian mountain man.
Another sign this was not a script written for Chang Cheh – it features two actresses, and one of them actually gets to be decent at fighting. Unheard of!
The most important appearance here is that of Kurata Yasuaki. He’d appeared in one Taiwanese film before this one, and was already a regular on Japanese TV, but this is his first film in Hong Kong. He’s not in a lot of Shaw Brothers movies but he’s a familiar face fans of 70s and 80s Hong Kong cinema. I was hoping for a better climactic fight between him, David Chiang and Ti Lung. But he brought karate to a construction equipment fight. Oops.
Once you get past the endless driving sequences this one is fairy fun, if very very dumb. There are a few wild stunts, a lot of outfit changes, plenty of shirtless men, and a scene where 19 dudes in a row angrily rip off their jean jackets. Yes, I counted.
Ian Whitney
Published: 2026-11-01