http://www.kungfucinema.com/mystery-of-chess-boxing-the-1979-551 Screen Fighting News & Review Mon, 22 Mar 2010 04:29:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.kungfucinema.com/mystery-of-chess-boxing-the-1979-551/comment-page-1#comment-15308 The Mystery of Chessboxing: Classic Kung Fu Style Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:42:04 +0000 http://69.64.87.108/?p=551#comment-15308 [...] Mystery of Chess Boxing is a Kung Fu film from 1979 (aka “Ninja Checkmate”) and it has everything you want in a 70’s Kung Fu flick, and nothing more. All the hallmarks of the genre are here: bad dubbing, slapping-tin-pan-fight-sounds, zooming closeups on the eyes of the villian, and some mad eyebrow hair in the bargain. It also features something called “double horse style”, which sounds smutty (though there’s also a hybrid astrological equivalent). [...] [...] Mystery of Chess Boxing is a Kung Fu film from 1979 (aka “Ninja Checkmate”) and it has everything you want in a 70’s Kung Fu flick, and nothing more. All the hallmarks of the genre are here: bad dubbing, slapping-tin-pan-fight-sounds, zooming closeups on the eyes of the villian, and some mad eyebrow hair in the bargain. It also features something called “double horse style”, which sounds smutty (though there’s also a hybrid astrological equivalent). [...]

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