JoseBronxRican's video: Sacred Knives of Vengeance - Chop Sucky 110

Ep. , “The Killer”, aka "Sacred Knives of Vengeance", starring Tsung Hua, Chin Han and Chiang Nan. I found time for another clip, this time by heading downtown for one of the old-school record/CD/DVD shops we have here (they still exist), and I found a source for this old gem, a dub I've been wanting to cover for a good long time. Without a remastered video to work with, I had to settle for this super-bootleg, apparently captured from an old PAL VHS release. This is obviously not the John Woo classic, but an unrelated Chor Yuen classic from the early 70's, which means basher-style melees, periodic goofy acrobatics, and naturally dat romance. This English adaptation was also earlier than most, so our most familiar talents end up in supporting roles, leaving Barry Haigh to really go to town with the characters he was assigned. One of my most memorable experiences when I was back in the day recording this stuff on audio cassettes, this was one of the dubs that cemented my love of this concept of presenting deadly serious subject matter with characterizations straight out of Saturday-morning cartoons. As I understand it, this was the last Shaw import to be released in American cinemas by a top Hollywood studio, in this case Warner Bros. Pictures. I just can't help thinking they could've got Mel Blanc and June Foray to do all the characters without anyone noticing.