This is one nasty, old-school, blood pulp, kung fu chop sock. Tien Peng approaches this film with the decision to make his Chinese spy in the Japanese-occupied territories as ruthless and deadly as any Western “anti-hero”. So of course he comes up with an anti-hero that is the worst imaginable. I mean, the Japanese guard was certainly despicable but what “hero” could be so cruel as to force the guard to watch the guard’s dog being
cooked and eaten before killing the guard with his own sword? Be prepared for one of the roughest, most violent fight films of its era, utterly unredeemed with any humor or romance, and where the Chinese hero is the hero simply because the Japanese are bad-guys