Reviewed by: Oliver Sodemann Date: 02/11/2023 Summary: What a good camerawork can do! Leading actress Kuo Hsiao-Chuang is surely not the top-notch fighting actress in the genre. Her fighting skills look more like ballet, based on Peking opera, especially her kicking. And most probably that is where she comes from. But with this movie you can learn, that very refined martial arts are not the most important thing, especially not for generating a dramatic movie. Besides Yu Feng-Chi's THE AVENGER, starring Chia Ling, CHIU CHOW KUNG FU maybe one of the more powerful movies on the independent side, due to some good plots elements, and, regarding the fights, a very good camerawork! The fights have their special moments with some special ideas - like defending kicks by a blocking leg which was not the most common at the time -, but finally it is the camerawork, and not to forget, the sound of the fights that makes the fighting scenes here very watchable! The movement of the camera and, watched closely, very good ideas how to begin a shot, how to follow the kicks and punches, is what makes this movie a must-see for afficionados of the genre! And it’s an art to keep the viewer interested – as there are examples of movies where it simply gets boring to watch the fight scenes, although the martial artists are far better ones than in CHIU CHOW KUNG FU and have done very good movies on the other hand. To name just two: Ho Chang's THE BLACK PANTHER or Chien Lung's THE BROTHER TWO cannot convince with their fights, as they seem to repeat the same punches and kicks over and over again, with always the same rhythm. Reviewer Score: 7