From what I can tell, most Dragon Lee martial arts flicks start off kinda boring then get better as they go along. I myself go from itching to stop the video to smiling wholeheartedly as the sound-enhanced hijinks kick into high gear. Neither a lack of plot twists nor a shortage of fights is ever the issue with Dragon on-screen. In this particular bit of nonsense, Dragon goes from winning the hand of a young heiress (Seo Jeong-Ah) to three mustketeering with a lady ninja in unconvincing drag and her soon-to-be, babelicious boyfriend (Jack Lam). Since a sadistic kung fu magician (Hwang Jang-lee) has stolen away Dragon's fiancee who happens to be the lady ninja's sister and who happens to share a familial tattoo with her captor, the graphic softcore porn scene is especially perverse. Yet even acknowleding my suspension of disbelief, I remain dumbfounded by the final turnabout: An evil spell can be undone when a young maiden exposes her whipped breasts to the wind!
Tits aside, Dragon's up to his usual acrobatics and physical gags in Kim Si-hyeon's Secret Ninja, Roaring Tiger: He fights — and strips — a transvestite in one scene; he kickboxes while holding a bathtowel around his waist in another. The final face-off has some pretty spectacular gymnastics and features the only time I've seen two men perform a double handstand to strangle their opponent between their ankles. Call it the upsidedown chokehold.
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