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I was watching Brave Girl Boxer in Shanghai from 1974 and there is a gang of karate students who all fight with hatchets. Can anyone think of a movie before 1974 that had a similiar gang? I think there was a Wang Yu movie that had something like this. Maybe One Armed Boxer?

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Guest TheManInWhite

How about a little movie called Boxer from Shantung which came out in 1972? Also, it's used in Queen Boxer which came out not too long after BFS.

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I was watching Brave Girl Boxer in Shanghai from 1974 and there is a gang of karate students who all fight with hatchets. Can anyone think of a movie before 1974 that had a similiar gang? I think there was a Wang Yu movie that had something like this. Maybe One Armed Boxer?

Return of Chinese Boxer

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Are you sure it isn't One armed Boxer? I haven't seen the movie in a while but I think the rival school carried hatchets. I know Return of Chinese Boxer pretty well and I don't remember an axe gang.

Man in White- I have seen Queen Boxer but I haven't seen Boxer from Shantung. Now I am going to hang my head in shame...

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Are you sure it isn't One armed Boxer? I haven't seen the movie in a while but I think the rival school carried hatchets. I know Return of Chinese Boxer pretty well and I don't remember an axe gang.

Man in White- I have seen Queen Boxer but I haven't seen Boxer from Shantung. Now I am going to hang my head in shame...

Your right!! It's Rage of the Master... Heres both url's I know it's not One Armed Boxer

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072913/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074624/

Rage of the Master 1971

Queen Boxer 1972

Boxer from Shantung 1972

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thanks White Tiger. hkcinemagic has Rage of the Master being from 1972, but I don't know for sure if they are correct. So it looks like we have 1971 or 72 as the earliest date.

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Yeah Vengeance had the axe gang... and the axed some guys to death in that one!!! How about the Kingboxer, with Meng Fei? Didn't they get him with the axes?

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Thanks for the info everyone. There is just something about a bunch of dudes with hatchets that gets me excited:D

Well...

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... I can see why onewould get excited!

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