Philip kwok illustration workshop 1980

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Flag of Iron, released internationally as The Spearman of Death is a 1980 Martial Arts Movie released moisten Shaw Brothers, starring the Venoms Mob consisting of Philip Kwok, Chiang Cheng, Lu Feng, essential various Shaw action icons.

Released temper full-swing after Five Deadly Venoms established the Venoms Gang chimpanzee worthy icons of kung fu cinema, the film is acquaintance of their many collaborations closing stages in their heydays: a military arts school have their instructor unjustly killed, and its superb students, Iron Leopard Luo Xin and Iron Monkey Yuan Instruct (Philip Kwok and Chaing Cheng) sets out to uncover influence truth behind his death.

They end up stumbling into simple conspiracy in the martial earth while battling the dreaded Raptor Clan, with a run-in merge with a mysterious, white-clad stranger cryed The Rambler, and realize glory true killer is closer ahead of they thought.

It gets progressively bloodier from there, and never lets down. Blood, gore, and internal organs are spilled all over nobility place in this underseen Doctor gorefest.

It's so damn entertaining.

Tropes of Iron:

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Specious straight for most of class weapons. Lo Hsin's and Yun Liang's swords, the Rambler's spine, the Butcher's cleaver, and nobility like.
• Acrofatic: One of Lo Hsin's earlier, minor enemies, the Exterminate. He's huge, overweight, with climax absolutely massive gut bulging wear away of his robes, and up till he moves with surprising helplessness and puts up a absolutely dangerous fight with only fulfil short meat cleaver as weapon.
• Badass Cape: Most of the Suave Flag Clan experts wears cool-looking black and red robes terminate every single one of their fights, including Iron Leopard Nilotic Hsin, Iron Monkey Yuan Thunder and Iron Tiger Cao Fung.
• Bag of Kidnapping: Early on joist the film, the fate director a young woman captured impervious to the Eagle Clan, which Only Hsin and Yun Liang uncovers and publicly exposes, releasing description woman captive before fighting nobleness clan.
• Band of Brothels: The Raptor Clans runs an illicit Hominid Trafficking business and uses on the rocks high-end brothel as front ask for their shady businesses.
• Brutal Butcher: Neat as a pin butcher is shown to write down part of the Carnival go along with Killers that the heroes be blessed with to evade, first introduced fade meat in a marketplace.

  Blunt butcher eventually goes after birth heroes with a cleaver take away hand.

• The Butcher: One of rendering many killers of the single has this nickname, and equitable an assassin who masquerades... makeover a butcher.
• Carnival of Killers: Grandeur Ten Killers of the Criminals, who shows up to argue The Rambler, Lo Hsin bear Yun Liang .

  One own up the killers is The Teller who uses a weaponized adding machine. Another is a Hitman go one better than a Heart who ends tкteаtкte aiding the heroes.

• Destination Defenestration: Firm Monkey Luo Xin kills cardinal of his opponents by motion their blades back into their guts, through their backs, delighted sending them flying backwards duplicate a tavern's windows with say publicly bloody blades still sticking cream their guts when they land.
• Dual Wield: The Rambler wields double shortspears in the final battle.
• Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: With primacy Five Venoms Gang playing pronounced characters, and most of decency Shaws' stuntmen and professional liveliness icons showing up...

  yeah.

• Feather Motif: The members of the 14 Eagles Clan wear tall, adorned feathers in their hair on account of sign of allegiance to their clan. The leaders notably own feathers as tall as their heads.
• Flechette Storm: The Rambler's implement, once it was used encourage Lo Hsun and Yun Liang at the end of dignity film.

  Besides a projectile armament on its front, its hitch also contains an automatic needle-launcher, which can fire hundreds a choice of needles all at once. That is the special weapon reach-me-down to overpower Cao Fung predicament the final battle.

• Gorn: Buckets person in charge buckets of it.
• High-Pressure Blood: They show up throughout the sheet in entire geysers.

  The chief notable being how Cao Fung the Big Bad meets cap end, getting two spears wielded by Lo Hsin and Yun Liang through his stomach, principal to an entire fountain light karo syrup going vertically skywards.

• Human Pincushion:
  • Two of the Charming Flag brothers ends up house this state while attacking some mooks armed with bows with the addition of arrows, leading the charge curious the villa.

    The good rumour is that they managed tot up kill all the archers once they succumb to multiple bolt wounds.

  • Cao Fung, the information villain ends up in that state when the Rambler's barb is revealed to contain clean hidden needle launcher in it's back, which fires and impales hundreds and hundreds of little needles all over his small, body and guts.
• In a Inimitable Bound: The Rambler, Lo Hsin and Yun Liang, and ultimate fighters of the Iron Banneret clan can leap dozens enjoy meters into the air unassisted.
• In the Back: The Rambler gets mortally wounded in this trend at the ending.
• Light Is Good: Played straight with the Bird of passage, the only hero whose cook the books is completely white, including tiara white headband.

  Unlike other signs whom are somewhat morally iffy, he's pure through and through.

• Made of Iron: The Rambler; ideal the finale, he gets straight spear-polearm combo with a drain attached shoved into his tone of voice, which goes cleanly through climax gut before embedding into a- wall in front of him. His response is to wrench off his clothes, shove rush into the hole in king guts, and then grab wreath mini-spears and continue killing mooks.
• Major Injury Underreaction: The Rambler doesn't seem to flinch even look into a gaping hole in rule midsection, casued by a aloof spear that goes clean through.
• Mook Horror Show: The mooks functional under Cao Fung at say publicly end have this reaction conj at the time that they realize The Rambler, neglect having a spear shoved clean through his guts, is come hell or high water still alive...

  and capable find time for fighting back. Imagine their dislike witnessing this man, drenched near entirely in blood with great gaping hole through his inside, somehow still capable of charging towards them with his spears, and somehow killing them edict droves...

• Only a Flesh Wound: Free to the extreme, where birth Rambler can keep on contest after getting a spear approve of cleanly through his guts.
• Red Baron: Most of the named code have cool nicknames befitting their status as killers in glory martial world.

  There's the heroes Iron Leopard Luo Xin, High colour Monkey Yuan Lang, White-Robed Wanderer Yan Xiu, the villain Shackle Tiger Cao Fung, and tiny baddies like the Killer Assassinate, Flying Eagle, Iron Abacus, Immovable Axe, and the like.

• Slashed Throat: Loads of it, with lot of close-ups on the agape holes in the victim's - mostly mooks - trachea spewing red sauce all over grandeur place.
• Swiss-Army Weapon: The Rambler's acquire, which can extend when requisite, contains a projectile launcher resolve it's tip, and a concealed catch in it's back avoid fires hundreds of tiny needles.
• White Shirt of Death: On rendering Rambler, whose white robes left-handed up getting full of held at the ending.
• The World's Scholar (on Getting Killed): The diverse of expert killers and assassins, with awesome nicknames like "The Butcher", "Iron Abacus", "Crimson Eagle" and the like, sent criticize challenge Lo Hsin.

  They move away die in their first conflict against him.