The Six Directions of Boxing
- kinetic
- intense
Capt. Ai, a small-town policeman, receives orders to apprehend a gang of gunrunners and find their hidden stockpile of weapons. Enlisting the help of his girlfriend's father—who happens to be a retired kung fu master—the captain takes on both the criminals and a few corrupt officials sent in for good measure.
Our read · The Six Directions of Boxing (1979) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded kung-fu · independent · martial-arts entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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