Enter the Invincible Hero

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Enter the Invincible Hero
흑표비객
Directed byKim Si-Hyun
Starring Dragon Lee
Casanova Wong
Distributed byHansen Media Corporation
An Asso Asia Film
Release date
  • 10 December 1977 (1977-12-10)
Running time
100 minutes
LanguagesKorean, Cantonese

Secret Bandit of Black Leopard commonly known as its international title Enter the Invincible Hero is 1977 Bruceploitation martial arts drama film starring a Korean Bruce Lee imitator Dragon Lee and Taekwondo master Casanova Wong. It is one of Dragon Lee and Casanova Wong's first collaboration.

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Plot

Ti-Meng (Dragon Lee) the young man who is looking for the job offers his services for protection outfit. When the money from the village has stolen from the bandits Meng was compensate and everyone blamed him for losing all the money. However it turns out that all the money was stolen from the Pang (Casanova Wong) who is also Ti-Meng's old school friend. Ti-Meng finds out the whole situation and decided to get all the money back from Pang. at first pang humiliates and defeats Ti-Meng. at the end fight Ti-meng defeats and kills pang with his new art

Cast

Reception

In webpage Oocities [1] the movie was fairly receive pretty well. J. Doyle Walls DVD talk mentioned that movie is fairly decent as a Bruceploitation standard [2]

Production

Unlike usual Godfrey Ho movie the movie did not use that much cut and paste technique. However some of the archive footage from Enter Three Dragons and The Magnificent have been used in the movie.

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