Hong Kong born film director Godfrey Ho is an interesting fellow, but a total rogue. A prolific movie maker and copyright violator, his method was to combine 'borrowed' footage from other films, stolen music and badly dubbed and appallingly written dialogue to provide a series of incomprehensible Z quality martial arts movies. To maintain a claim to being an auteur, he would also cheaply film fight and sex sequences of his own and then insert them into the melange seemingly randomly, often spreading the poorly executed original material across several movies. He made a 100 films in total, 81 of them between 1982 and 1992.
The oddest thing is that the results are supremely watchable, and never boring, mainly because you are never more than a couple of minutes between a scrap or something so ridiculous that it makes up for the chaos around it.
Ho retired from film making in the year 2000, and became a film teacher. Seriously, the sheer audacity of this guy. Anyway, one thing I've always liked is stills of people punching and kicking each other, so here's some action from 1985's Ninja Terminator.
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