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* AnAxToGrind: Numerous Yakuza mooks in the penthouse finale use axes as their weapons to assault Chin-fu.
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* FilmNoir: The first half of the film, having a noir feel of detective thrillers with Chin-fu infiltrarting the Yakuza to investigaste the truth behind his father's death. It goes back to kung-fu fighting territory at its second half.
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* FilmNoir: The first half of the film, having a noir feel of detective thrillers with Chin-fu infiltrarting infiltrating the Yakuza to investigaste investigate the truth behind his father's death. It goes back to kung-fu fighting territory at its second half.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: During the derelict building fight, the mook leader gets impaled through the midesction courtesy of Chin-fu.
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* {{Revenge}}: Chin-fu is seeking to avenge his father and bring the killers to justice.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Starring Jimmy Wang-yu as ''A Man Called... Chin-fu'']]
--> "For most of the movie it looks like a Japanese Yakuza film, plays like a Italian gangster film, and has the fight every ten minutes pace of a Hong Kong chop-socky pic, until suddenly, without any proper set up, we find ourselves into the beginning of the film’s extended climax." - Creator/QuentinTarantino on ''A Man Called Tiger''
A Man Called Tiger is a 1973 MartialArtsMovie directed by Lo Wei, starring Creator/JimmyWangYu. A mix-and-mash of multiple movies popular at its time, made during the peak of Jimmy's career as an action star, it is the first of a short series of movies Jimmy made while in Japan nearing the mid-70s.
Chin-fu (Jimmy) is a mysterious wanderer in Yakuza-controlled Kyoto, who is picking fights in nightclubs owned by the mob and making a ruckus everywhere he goes, resulting in the Yakuza placing a bounty on his head. As it turns out, Chin-fu is the son of a Hong Kong police inspector killed in duty while investigating the Yakuza, and Chin-fu is seeking revenge. With the help of a nightclub singer named Ayako (who also have her own reasons to oppose the Yakuza), Chin-fu will rip the Yakuza a new hole.
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!! A Man Called Tiger contains examples of:
* AnAxToGrind: Numerous Yakuza mooks in the penthouse finale use axes as their weapons to assault Chin-fu.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Both Chin-fu and the Yakuza's higher-ups wears tuxedos in numerous scenes.
* BigBad: Yamamoto leads the Yakuza and is responsible for the deaths of both Chin-fu and Ayako's fathers.
* BloodIsTheNewBlack: Chin-fu in the finale, fighting the whip-wielding Yamamoto while wearing all white.
* CableCarActionSequence: One of the film's key action setpieces has Chin-fu fighting a pair of Yakuza assassins in a cable car's gondola, whose doors are opened. It ends with Chin-fu and one of the assassins HangingByTheFingers outside the gondola while the second mook tries a HandStomp on Chin-fu, but Chin-fu managed to get back in after forcing the first assassin to fall into the bay above the gondola before climbing back to finish off the second.
* TheChanteuse: Ayako the nightclub singer.
* ClothFu: In the final battle, Yamamoto attempts to slice up Chin-fu with a metal whip. Chin-fu responds by taking off his coat and using that as a weapon.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Yamamoto after being sent over a tall balcony at the end of the film]].
* FilmNoir: The first half of the film, having a noir feel of detective thrillers with Chin-fu infiltrarting the Yakuza to investigaste the truth behind his father's death. It goes back to kung-fu fighting territory at its second half.
* GenreMashup: Crime thriller, romance, kung fu, and a bit of ''noir''.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Chin-fu's methods of dealing with the Yakuza. Expect plenty of fistfights and beat-downs throughout the film.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: During the derelict building fight, the mook leader gets impaled through the midesction courtesy of Chin-fu.
* NonIndicativeTitle: There are NO characters named "Tiger" in the film. It's very likely a ShoutOut to Jimmy Wang-yu's other film, ''Film/RageOfTheMaster'', which he plays a character named Tiger Wong in that ''other'' film, but not this one.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Chin-fu tends to do this (or kicking) to most of the mooks he fights, notably [[spoiler: this is how he defeats Yamamoto at the end]]. See below.
* RailingKill: [[spoiler: Yamamoto gets kicked over a railing by Chin-fu at the end of the final battle. With a thirty-storey drop on the other side]].
* {{Revenge}}:
* SmokingIsCool: Chin-fu smokes several times throughout the film. It's ''meant'' to make him look cool.
* {{Yakuza}}: They serve as the main villains opposing Chin-fu in the film.
* YouKilledMyFather: Chin-fu's mission of infiltrating the Yakuza is to find out the perpetrators behind his father's demise and seek revenge.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Starring Jimmy Wang-yu as ''A Man Called... Chin-fu'']]
--> "For most of the movie it looks like a Japanese Yakuza film, plays like a Italian gangster film, and has the fight every ten minutes pace of a Hong Kong chop-socky pic, until suddenly, without any proper set up, we find ourselves into the beginning of the film’s extended climax." - Creator/QuentinTarantino on ''A Man Called Tiger''
A Man Called Tiger is a 1973 MartialArtsMovie directed by Lo Wei, starring Creator/JimmyWangYu. A mix-and-mash of multiple movies popular at its time, made during the peak of Jimmy's career as an action star, it is the first of a short series of movies Jimmy made while in Japan nearing the mid-70s.
Chin-fu (Jimmy) is a mysterious wanderer in Yakuza-controlled Kyoto, who is picking fights in nightclubs owned by the mob and making a ruckus everywhere he goes, resulting in the Yakuza placing a bounty on his head. As it turns out, Chin-fu is the son of a Hong Kong police inspector killed in duty while investigating the Yakuza, and Chin-fu is seeking revenge. With the help of a nightclub singer named Ayako (who also have her own reasons to oppose the Yakuza), Chin-fu will rip the Yakuza a new hole.
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!! A Man Called Tiger contains examples of:
* AnAxToGrind: Numerous Yakuza mooks in the penthouse finale use axes as their weapons to assault Chin-fu.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Both Chin-fu and the Yakuza's higher-ups wears tuxedos in numerous scenes.
* BigBad: Yamamoto leads the Yakuza and is responsible for the deaths of both Chin-fu and Ayako's fathers.
* BloodIsTheNewBlack: Chin-fu in the finale, fighting the whip-wielding Yamamoto while wearing all white.
* CableCarActionSequence: One of the film's key action setpieces has Chin-fu fighting a pair of Yakuza assassins in a cable car's gondola, whose doors are opened. It ends with Chin-fu and one of the assassins HangingByTheFingers outside the gondola while the second mook tries a HandStomp on Chin-fu, but Chin-fu managed to get back in after forcing the first assassin to fall into the bay above the gondola before climbing back to finish off the second.
* TheChanteuse: Ayako the nightclub singer.
* ClothFu: In the final battle, Yamamoto attempts to slice up Chin-fu with a metal whip. Chin-fu responds by taking off his coat and using that as a weapon.
* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Yamamoto after being sent over a tall balcony at the end of the film]].
* FilmNoir: The first half of the film, having a noir feel of detective thrillers with Chin-fu infiltrarting the Yakuza to investigaste the truth behind his father's death. It goes back to kung-fu fighting territory at its second half.
* GenreMashup: Crime thriller, romance, kung fu, and a bit of ''noir''.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Chin-fu's methods of dealing with the Yakuza. Expect plenty of fistfights and beat-downs throughout the film.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: During the derelict building fight, the mook leader gets impaled through the midesction courtesy of Chin-fu.
* NonIndicativeTitle: There are NO characters named "Tiger" in the film. It's very likely a ShoutOut to Jimmy Wang-yu's other film, ''Film/RageOfTheMaster'', which he plays a character named Tiger Wong in that ''other'' film, but not this one.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Chin-fu tends to do this (or kicking) to most of the mooks he fights, notably [[spoiler: this is how he defeats Yamamoto at the end]]. See below.
* RailingKill: [[spoiler: Yamamoto gets kicked over a railing by Chin-fu at the end of the final battle. With a thirty-storey drop on the other side]].
* {{Revenge}}:
* SmokingIsCool: Chin-fu smokes several times throughout the film. It's ''meant'' to make him look cool.
* {{Yakuza}}: They serve as the main villains opposing Chin-fu in the film.
* YouKilledMyFather: Chin-fu's mission of infiltrating the Yakuza is to find out the perpetrators behind his father's demise and seek revenge.
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