![]() ![]() ![]() Scott Napier of Far East Films gave the film a score of 1.5/5 stars, noting that "the film's characters and action are rarely taken seriously" and criticizing its out-of-places humor.Martial Arts movies are often viewed as the domain of men. Jay Seaver if eFilmCritic Reviews gave the film a score of 2/5 stars, complimenting Jackie Chan's action choreography, but disliked the film's campy tone. As a result, Lu suggests they use Fei-fei as a target to test their superiority and Fei-fei stops them from doing so by bowing to them, much to their delight. However, by the end, it is still undermined whether Lu or Hu's martial arts is superior. Fei-fei eventually gains the upper hand when she uses Dance-Boxing and with the help of Lu and Hu, manages to kill Ma. Fei-fei fights with Shui first, but when Ma steps in the fight, he accidentally kills his disciple. Ma and Shui arrive to kill Fei-fei, Lu and Hu. Therefore, Lu and Hu create a Dance-Boxing style and uses it to Fei-fei while at the same time, Ma also passes his Upside-down Horse Boxing to Shui. Lu and Hu think of a way to defeat Ma's techniques and remembers the dancing martial arts style they witnessed at the brothel. When Lu and Hu step in to help her, they are also outmatched as well and the trio flees. At this time, Fei-fei also finds Shui and defeats him in a fight and tells him to send a message his sifu to meet at Wan Mountain to next day.įei-fei, Lu and Hu arrive at Wan Mountain the next day, where Fei-fei fights Ma but she is outmatched by Ma's Upside-down Horse Boxing. There, Lu and Hu witness female dance performers who use martial arts techniques hidden in their dance to fend off drunk customers who attempt to molest them. ![]() Lu and Hu, who were present, counts how many of their own respective techniques Fei-fei used in the fights, but was evenly matched again.įei-fei, Lu and Hu visit a brothel where Ma's disciple, Shui frequents. Right after, Fei-fei confronts Lu at the Hundred Birds School to find the whereabouts of Ma before killing Lu in a fight. After a few days of intense training, Fei-fei once again encounters Three Birds and Bird Eggs, but her elevated martial arts skills helps her defeat Bird Egg. Fei-fei returns to Lu and Hu and trains diligently to seek revenge. Lo, Ma, Bird Egg and Ma's disciple, Shui Chang-liu (Sun Rong-ge) raid Hsu's school where they kill Hsu, Ku, and Hsu's disciple, Lung-yu (Hsiao Yao), while Fei-fei manages to flee. Fei-fei flees and Bird Egg orders Hawk to follow her and discovers Ku to be hiding in Willow Bridge where the school of Hsu Chia-wu (Yu Chung-chiu), brother of Ku's sifu, is located. Fei-fei attempts to fight Bird Egg using Five Animals Style, but is easily outmatched by Bird Egg, who proves to be more adept in the style. While Bird Egg and the Three Birds were searching for Ku, they once again bump into Fei-fei. After the Three Birds fail their duties to kill Ku, Lo orders his top disciple, Bird Egg ( Dean Shek), to be in charge of the matter. Fei-fri helps Ku fend off the Three Birds and Ku reveals that he is on the run from Lo Kuan-tien (Ko Pao), chief of the Hundred Birds School, and Upturned Horse fighter Ma Fa-chun (Chia Kai), who killed Ku's sifu, Lin Nien-hai, for killing Lo's comrade in arms, and swore to wipe out all Five Forms Disciples. On one occasion, Fei-fei encounters Ku Cheng-yuan ( Paul Chun), the first disciple of the Five Forms School, who is being chased by the Three Birds from the Hundred Birds School - Roc (Chi Fu-chiang), Hawk (Lui Wan-biu) and Little Bird (Wang Yao). Fei-fei suggests the two to teach her their skills so she can use it on a worthy opponent and would determine whose martial arts is superior based on whose techniques are more useful. The film is set in The Ming State during the time, Fei-fei ( Angela Mao), an orphan, meets two elderly masters, Madman Lu (Hsu Pu-liao) and Hu (Wang Tai-lang), who duel every five years to determine whose martial arts are superior, but they have always been evenly matched for the past twenty years. Dance of Death is a 1979 Taiwanese martial arts film directed by Chen Chi-hwa, with action direction by Jackie Chan, and starring Angela Mao and Dean Shek. ![]()
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