The Screaming Tiger (1972)

A violent martial arts film full of vengeance and anti-Japanese sentiment.

The Japanese (evil of course) kill everyone in a Chinese village. The only survivor of the village is Wang Yu (Jimmy Wang Yu) who has top kung fu skills (of course). He heads to Japan for revenge... and that is largely it. There are more subplots but they are rather underdeveloped. Wang Yu is accompanied (and occasionally scolded and advised) by a man who wears a basket on his head.

So, this is basically just a very long fight scene. But what a fight scene it is too, excellent and innovative fighting is shown many times. The xenophobia makes the film a bit too one dimensional and distasteful but the main problem with the film is that it is a bit incomprehensible.

The fighting though, which is the point of a film like this after all, is top notch. 

Bruce, Kung Fu Girls (1975)

Somewhat awful and fairly exploitative kung fu action.

Five young girls including Polly Kwan are training in the martial arts. They chance upon a young man being chased by thugs and save him from a beating, the girls doing the fighting in their bikinis (natch). The man says he has developed a new secret formula which the thugs want to make money out of. The girls are sent by their uncle to help the police in HK with a series of crimes. Much bad kung fu action ensues.

This is not a film to be taken seriously, the action is frequent and goes on a bit too long and not that well executed either with fists and kicks frequently missing their targets though are sold like crazy. There is also a lot of whimsical humour and nonsense. Not high art but it does it's job of passing a bit of time especially if you like pretty young women in hot pants doing high kicks.

Despite the title Bruce Lee (not even Bruce Le) is involved in this film in any shape or form!

Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death (1975)

Yet another variation of Game of Death and yet another middling Bruceploitation film. "Bruce Li" (Ho Tsung-Tao) is chosen by a producer to help finish Bruce Lee's final film and then we go straight into that film. In truth the film-within-a-film angle is completely pointless. What we do have is a basic story of Bruce getting duped into handling hot money and dragged into a gang fight.

And there are a lot of fights as the two rival gangs both try and get the money off Bruce. Finally the gangs unite and kidnap Bruce's girlfriend Lu (Mung Ping) and take her top of the Tower of Death. Bruce then has to fight the best fighters in the world as climbs the tower floor by floor to save his girl. The "best fighters" are actually pretty terrible and include a samurai who gets dizzy very easily, a boxer who doesn't look he could punch his way out of a paper bag and an "Indian" fighter who wields nunchucks - though doesn't really seem to know what they are. Finally he faces Boss K (Fei Lung) with a whip.

It isn't the worst Bruceploitation film, the story is simple but coherent. The fights range between mediocre to awful but are often pretty funny.