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* {{Eyedscreen}}: Used extensively during the office standoff scenes, on Ding's eyes. The audience can easily see the veins in his eyeballs.
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Compare ''Film/TheDeadlyKnives'', another film set in the Sino-Japanese war released a year earlier, also starring Ling Yun.
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''Heroes Of The Underground'' is a 1973 Creator/ShawBrothers war movie starring Ling Yun, set in the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar.
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''Heroes Of The Underground'' is a 1973 Creator/ShawBrothers war movie starring Ling Yun, set in the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar.
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''Heroes Of The Underground'' is a 1973 Creator/ShawBrothers war movie starring Ling Yun, set in the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar.
Ling Yun plays Ding Yi-shan (丁一山, whose name is the film's Chinese translation), a rebel leader and icon of resistance during the war between China and Japan in the 1940s. When the Japanese under leadership of Colonel Nakajima enforces control on a rural town in the city outskirts, Ding's efforts to thwart the Japanese ends up making him a wanted man. But thanks to the Japanese being in the blank of how he looks like, Ding plots a mission of retaliation.
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!!Tropes included in this film:
* BigBadassBattleSequence: The climatic finale in the valley when the LaResistance forces, inspired by Ding, battles the Japanese army.
* DieLaughing: The film ends with [[spoiler: Ding Yi-shan laughing to the skies as he deliberately detonates the dynamites in a booby-trapped cavern, [[TakingYouWithMe killing himself and Nakajima at the same time]]. It's as big a DyingMomentOfAwesome as it can get]].
* {{Eyedscreen}}: Used extensively during the office standoff scenes, on Ding's eyes. The audience can easily see the veins in his eyeballs.
* GoodHairEvilHair: The BigBad, Nakajima, dons a Hitler-esque 'stache. In case the audience doesn't know a Japanese colonel in a Sino-Japanese era movie is supposed to be a bad guy.
* IconOfRebellion: By the end of the film, Ding has become an icon for revolution in the Anti-Japanese movement.
* KidSidekick: Xiao Fu-Zi, the young urchin who helps Ding Yi-shan spy on the Japanese forces.
* LaResistance: The local resistance forces who opposed the Japanese, with Ding being their hero and icon.
* MoralityPet: Ding Yi-shan having a TagalongKid partner, Xiao Shun-zi, that he frequently bonds with, is an indicator that this war hero is still a human. [[spoiler: When the boy dies horribly, Ding's HeroicRROD is as realistic as expected]].
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Xiao Fu-Zi, the kid sidekick to Ding, ends up being fated to be tortured and executed by the Japanese for being a spy, while Ding is ForcedToWatch to prevent his cover from being blown]].
*SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Commander Wang Ling is about to shoot the audience in the poster and DVD cover.
* WouldHurtAChild: Unsurprisingly, the Japanese interrogators have no qualms putting [[spoiler: Xiao Shun-zi through ColdBloodedTorture]], with disturbingly realistic gore in the aftermath.
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''Heroes Of The Underground'' is a 1973 Creator/ShawBrothers war movie starring Ling Yun, set in the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar.
Ling Yun plays Ding Yi-shan (丁一山, whose name is the film's Chinese translation), a rebel leader and icon of resistance during the war between China and Japan in the 1940s. When the Japanese under leadership of Colonel Nakajima enforces control on a rural town in the city outskirts, Ding's efforts to thwart the Japanese ends up making him a wanted man. But thanks to the Japanese being in the blank of how he looks like, Ding plots a mission of retaliation.
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!!Tropes included in this film:
* BigBadassBattleSequence: The climatic finale in the valley when the LaResistance forces, inspired by Ding, battles the Japanese army.
* DieLaughing: The film ends with [[spoiler: Ding Yi-shan laughing to the skies as he deliberately detonates the dynamites in a booby-trapped cavern, [[TakingYouWithMe killing himself and Nakajima at the same time]]. It's as big a DyingMomentOfAwesome as it can get]].
* {{Eyedscreen}}: Used extensively during the office standoff scenes, on Ding's eyes. The audience can easily see the veins in his eyeballs.
* GoodHairEvilHair: The BigBad, Nakajima, dons a Hitler-esque 'stache. In case the audience doesn't know a Japanese colonel in a Sino-Japanese era movie is supposed to be a bad guy.
* IconOfRebellion: By the end of the film, Ding has become an icon for revolution in the Anti-Japanese movement.
* KidSidekick: Xiao Fu-Zi, the young urchin who helps Ding Yi-shan spy on the Japanese forces.
* LaResistance: The local resistance forces who opposed the Japanese, with Ding being their hero and icon.
* MoralityPet: Ding Yi-shan having a TagalongKid partner, Xiao Shun-zi, that he frequently bonds with, is an indicator that this war hero is still a human. [[spoiler: When the boy dies horribly, Ding's HeroicRROD is as realistic as expected]].
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Xiao Fu-Zi, the kid sidekick to Ding, ends up being fated to be tortured and executed by the Japanese for being a spy, while Ding is ForcedToWatch to prevent his cover from being blown]].
*SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Commander Wang Ling is about to shoot the audience in the poster and DVD cover.
* WouldHurtAChild: Unsurprisingly, the Japanese interrogators have no qualms putting [[spoiler: Xiao Shun-zi through ColdBloodedTorture]], with disturbingly realistic gore in the aftermath.
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