Mystery Of Chess Boxing

Written and directed by Joseph Kuo

Starring Jack Long, Yi-Min Li and Kuan-Wu Lung

Supposedly dead, embittered former official, The Ghost Face Killer has returned and seeking revenge on those martial arts masters than once opposed him - his name is infamous and his Five Elements fighting style is deadly. Meanwhile, young Ah Pao joins a martial arts school in order to become a great fighter in order to take revenge on the man who killed his father. He gets very good quickly but timing is everything and his arrival at the school in relation to the return of the Ghost Face Killer sees him suspected of being connected and thus put out of the school. He falls under the tutelage of an elderly chess master in the town while all the time the focus of his vengeance kills his way closer and closer. (IMDb).

 

Snake In The Monkey's Shadow (1979)

Directed by Sum Cheung

Written by Sum Cheung and Wilson Tong

Starring John Cheung, Yao Lin Chen and Pomson Shi

A snake style expert travels the lands, imposing his mastery on others, until he runs into a monkey expert living on the edge of a small town, who defeats him soundly. The snake expert leaves vowing vengeance. A young peasant boy who is bullied by local noblemen seeks to learn drunken boxing from the head of a local martial arts school. The boys learns and eventually meets and befriends the monkey style expert. When the boy beats up his previous tormentors, the nobles patriarch challenges the boys teacher, the drunken master, who defeats the lot of them. Embarrased, the nobles retain two hired snake style killers, one of whom is the expert that that was beaten by the monkey style. They kill everyone except the peasant boy, feeling he is to weak and unskilled to be worth their honour. The peasant combines drunken' boxing with monkey style in an attempt to put down the snake killers. (IMDb).

Bonus

Wu-Tang Clan - Da Mystery of Chessboxin'

Sifu Kwok Daiha, demonstrates the Snake Form Kung Fu (蛇形拳) on Singapore's Amoy Hill.