Flash Future Kung Fu (1983)
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(Foreign Titles)
Nomination Year: 2011
SYNOPSIS: The rather complicated dystopian future world this movie is set in is explained on a bunch of title cards shown at the beginning of the movie. In Chinese.
As near as I can tell, in the future, Kung Fu is illegal. Our hero, Killer, practices it anyway, under the tutelage of The Master (not that The Master... I don't think). To test his skills, he participates in illegal boxing matches, which he hides from his Master, who wouldn't approve. One night, on the way home from a match, Killer rescues a young girl from... something. Later, her Mother shows up while he's taking a bath, thanks him (not *that* way, despite the fact that he's in the bath), and takes the girl home. Later, while out in the woods for the grueling wood-chopping training sequence, Killer runs into the Mother again, this time with a Friend. The Friend tries to talk him into getting high, even though he has an illegal boxing match that evening. He tries to explain that he never does drugs, but she talks him into it, and he gets stoned and then gets his ass kicked in the evening's fight. Then things get weird.
For some reason, Killer crashes a party for high-ranking Chinese Nazis. He is recognized and almost killed, but the girl's Mother happens to be there and, in gratitude for saving her daughter, saves his life by poisoning him. After the Nazis leave him to die, the Mother slips out and gives the Master the antidote. However, the Master doesn't believe in this modern medicine hocus-pocus, and instead opts to see his Brother for a traditional cure (see WHAT?! clip). Despite this, Killer recovers and he and his Master decide to take the fight to the Nazis.
Meanwhile, we learn that the girl's Mother and her Friend are dancers at the Nazi dance club/headquarters/mad science lab. After their performance and a shared post-concert shower, the Mother and her Friend learn that the Daughter is about to be used in a Nazi propaganda experiment that will erase her personality and replace it with one perfectly loyal to the Nazi state as an example for the other Nazis to emulate. Fortunately, right then Killer and his Master break in and offer to rescue the girl in exchange for the dancers' help navigating through the compound. Killer fights many Nazis, none of whom wear pants. Eventually, the sidekicks are killed, the villains are defeated, the girl is rescued, the hero and heroine escape, and we no longer have to see any elderly Nazi scientists wearing nothing but underwear under their lab coats.
As near as I can tell, in the future, Kung Fu is illegal. Our hero, Killer, practices it anyway, under the tutelage of The Master (not that The Master... I don't think). To test his skills, he participates in illegal boxing matches, which he hides from his Master, who wouldn't approve. One night, on the way home from a match, Killer rescues a young girl from... something. Later, her Mother shows up while he's taking a bath, thanks him (not *that* way, despite the fact that he's in the bath), and takes the girl home. Later, while out in the woods for the grueling wood-chopping training sequence, Killer runs into the Mother again, this time with a Friend. The Friend tries to talk him into getting high, even though he has an illegal boxing match that evening. He tries to explain that he never does drugs, but she talks him into it, and he gets stoned and then gets his ass kicked in the evening's fight. Then things get weird.
For some reason, Killer crashes a party for high-ranking Chinese Nazis. He is recognized and almost killed, but the girl's Mother happens to be there and, in gratitude for saving her daughter, saves his life by poisoning him. After the Nazis leave him to die, the Mother slips out and gives the Master the antidote. However, the Master doesn't believe in this modern medicine hocus-pocus, and instead opts to see his Brother for a traditional cure (see WHAT?! clip). Despite this, Killer recovers and he and his Master decide to take the fight to the Nazis.
Meanwhile, we learn that the girl's Mother and her Friend are dancers at the Nazi dance club/headquarters/mad science lab. After their performance and a shared post-concert shower, the Mother and her Friend learn that the Daughter is about to be used in a Nazi propaganda experiment that will erase her personality and replace it with one perfectly loyal to the Nazi state as an example for the other Nazis to emulate. Fortunately, right then Killer and his Master break in and offer to rescue the girl in exchange for the dancers' help navigating through the compound. Killer fights many Nazis, none of whom wear pants. Eventually, the sidekicks are killed, the villains are defeated, the girl is rescued, the hero and heroine escape, and we no longer have to see any elderly Nazi scientists wearing nothing but underwear under their lab coats.
Greg Pearson
"WHAT?!"
Kirk Wong
Eddy Ko
