A snowy swordplay rarity from Shout’s Shaw Brothers Classics Volume 6 box set, that of all the films on my Shaw Bros. tag, is the least logged title on Letterboxd.

The impetus for watching this today was Fang Jen-Tzu, to complete her two-movie filmography in a double bill with The Angry Guest. She is once again (tearily) excellent.

Tien Feng plays a vile, evil bastard on the level of his villain in one of my top ten martial arts titles,…

“So you’re saying our martial arts are crap?”

Not exactly, but it’s a pretty perfunctory punch-up for all involved, especially given that the fight choreographers are Lau Kar-Leung and Tong Kai.

Flying between Hong Kong and Japan, the whole thing has the chaotic, uncoordinated feeling of a Saturday morning cartoon, which is pleasantly diverting if you’re in the mood. The bouncy jazz score certainly helps in this regard.

Even our two leads taking out bad guys with heavy construction machines…

In my least favourite decade of film, The Fabulous Baker Boys is immediately one of my favourites of the '80s for being the polar opposite of the avarice represented by the era on-screen.

Hard-bitten, wintery photography makes the bottom of show business feel bottomless; the small-time struggles of a lounge trio cut through with a line of smart-alecky cynicism as sharp and sad as unforgiving Seattle winds.

Pithy patter masks fifteen years of pathetic artistic compromise, while a constant fog…

In place of rapey anal jokes (unless you count the title), we've got an extended fingering gag!

They may dress like it, but none of the characters or the makers of this repellant trash have any class or clue about acting like a gentleman.

For a second time, Matthew Vaughn tries to sell us on the idea of Colin Firth's Harry Hart being a firm believer of "manners maketh man", but these are empty words, for this even fouler-mouthed sequel's…