After the one-two punch of SNAKE IN THE EAGLE’S SHADOW and DRUNKEN MASTER, the landscape of martial arts cinema changed dramatically. Not only was Jackie Chan launched into superstardom, but the Peking Opera influence, as well as the acrobatic and humor started taking center stage. Golden Harvest reaped the rewards with a series of financially successful pictures that would continue throughout the 80s with larger budgets and bigger production values, but the more traditional Shaw Brothers studio had difficulty keeping up with these new tastes. It’s not that their films were getting worse. The Shaw Brothers studio was such a
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