Big Fight, The aka Blood on The Sun Featuring: Tien Peng, Cheung Ching Ching, Yee Yuen, Jack Long, Hsieh Hsing, Ng Tung Kiu, Cheng Fu Hung, Tsai Hung, Hong Hoi aka Kang Kai, Man Man, Chan San Yat, Au Lap Bo, Blackie ko, Shih Ting Ken, Hau Pak Wai, Director: Sung Ting Mei Year: 1972
The Big Fight Here is a great reason why I love reviewing movies on Flashlegrare.com, I can write my entire opening paragraph in such a ridiculously self indulgent fashion and yet nobody seems to mind that much. On top of that, I actually feel the need to do such things, mostly because it's necessary to inform those who actually read my reviews that I'm not only long winded but that I do have some hang ups about reviewing certain movies. For example, I think it's necessary to let people know that if I'm reviewing MATCHING ESCORT that I enjoy cheap violence, arrestingly low budget imagery, and just about anything featuring Pearl Cheung. Now, for my review of THE BIG FIGHT, I'm putting it out front: I don't see many punch and block/basher films, mostly because I don't seem to find them available anywhere. That said, this particular area remains curious to me, so when THE BIG FIGHT came into my posession, well, this review was the result.
So the movie explains to us in an opening narration that the story is set in the time of WWII, during the Japanese occupation of China. Tien Peng plays a travelling martial arts master who is returning home and gets attacked by evil Japanese soldiers, who promptly get their back ends handed back to them. Of course, the fact that he killed these soldiers never gets to biting Tien back later in the movie, nope he gets away with it. Now he goes back on his merry way and stops in a roadside restaurant, and gee, I wonder if a fight is going break out there. Hmm, I wonder. So inside there is a young woman (Cheung Ching Ching) singing opera, who gets accosted by a pervert guy. Tien Peng beats him up too, and this just about the tenth person he's kicked the crap out of in the first fifteen minutes of the movie. So this young woman and her companions who happen to only be pretending to be travelling performers, but are really rebellious counter Japanese fighters, decide to travel with Peng and then hide out in his town. Along the way, they run into a check point, where they once agian fight the Japanese. After making it into the town, they all hang out and enjoy themselves, and Tien Peng meets up with his girlfriend. Unfortunately, a former martial arts brother of Tien Peng happens to be getting real full of himself, seeing as he's the son of the town's chief, and it's his job to police the town. He gets into a fight with Cheung Ching-ching, and loses, but it angers him. So he finds some salt that Tien Peng was travelling with, and accuses him of giving aid to resistance fighters, because salt is an important part of making gunpowder (?). So while Peng is in jail, the chief and his son get real cozy with the Japanese occupying force. After it is proven the Peng is innocent, the Chief and his son set up a tournament with the Japanese government where powerful Japanese fighters fight Chinese fighters. The Chief hopes that he'll get money and power from the Japanese as long as he lures the best Chinese fighters to their death in arena matches. Not only that, but his perverted son spends his time raping women with the support of the Japanese fighters. After his uncle, a very young student, and his girlfriend are all killed, Tien Peng finally joins the fight once again, and to no surprise, reaks massive havock and generally runs amuck on all of the Japanese fighters.