Synopsis
The Chinese Boxer was the first feature film Jimmy Wong directed and appeared as a leading role at The Shaw Brothers after he left Chang Cheh. It is credited as the first Hong Kong martial arts film that kick started the unarmed combat genre. Since The Chinese Boxer, it was the unarmed combat genre movies that were produced in a large number, rather than martial arts films. Bruce Lee's work is in the extension of The Chinese Boxer. In this film, Wong unashamedly copies Macaroni Western and uses it on Hong Kong unarmed combat movies, in particular in terms of plot development and musical nuance. The main storyline of The Chinese Boxer, the main character hurt and wounded by hostility and violence by two competing martial art schools, practices and refines his skills for the revenge and eventually beats all his enemies, was a recurrent plot in almost all Hong Kong martial art film afterwards. Later, Wong himself repeated the story in One-armed Dragon.