 "Stranger From Shaolin" is a nice old school kung fu movie chronicling the adventures of Yim Wing Chun, as portrayed by the lovely Wong Hang-Sau. Shaw Brothers fans should recognize her as David Chiang's young wife in the classic "Shaolin Mantis".
Here we watch Wong Hang-Sau study kung fu at Shaolin Temple disguised as a young man, in order to avenge her father's death at the hands of the Manchus.
There are some good fight sequences and training sequences as we watch Wong hang-Sau create the Wing Chun fighting style. A later version of Yim Wing Chun is also portrayed by Michelle Yeoh in a great Yuen Woo Ping feature appropriately titled "Wing Chun". Is this film as good? No. It is, however, a good old school feature for lovers of seventies classic kung fu movies! |