One-Armed Boxer

One-Armed Boxer (1972) is a Hong Kong kung fu film you can watch online on iFILM, directed and starring Jimmy Wang Yu.

Tien Lung is the best student at his school, which makes him a target. A gang from a rival training hall ambushes his fellow disciples and leaves him with one arm. A local doctor nurses him back; then comes the harder part — relearning to fight without his dominant hand. Meanwhile, rival Master Chao assembles a hired squad from across Asia: Thai boxers, Okinawan karate specialists, judo masters, Tibetan monks. Each is chosen for exactly the kind of attack that's hardest to counter with one arm.

Wang Yu stages each confrontation as its own problem to be solved, and the film stands as one of the founding entries of the "damaged hero" subgenre that ran through Asian action cinema for the next decade. Stream One-Armed Boxer (1972) online on iFILM.