Little Godfather from Hong Kong Little Godfather from Hong Kong

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Trained to destroy! Hired to kill! Primed to explode!

Bruce Liang plays a Chinese Kung Fu movie star, who during his free time carries on a one-man crusade against drug dealers. The villains trick Liang into signing up to appear in a new martial arts movie. The plan is to kill Our Hero while the cameras are running, and make it look like an accident.

Bruce Leung Siu-Lung Yasuaki Kurata Gordon Mitchell Mario Cutini Shirley Corrigan Tony Leung Siu-Hung

Director

Ng See-Yuen

Language

Chinese

Alternative Titles

Little Godfather, The Godfather From Hong Kong, Xiangang xiao jiao fu, The Godfather Squad

drama action

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  • John Charles

    Review by John Charles ★★

    After intervening in an attack perpetrated by a Mafia hitman, martial arts star Wang Liu (Bruce Leung Siu-lung) finds himself on the hit list. The godfather responsible lures him to Italy with an offer of big bucks for a film role and the rest of the movie is a series of attempts on Wang's life.

    This was clearly done tongue in cheek (the gangster's sons include Yasuaki Kuroda and Gordon Mitchell - yes, they were adopted) but also contains a multitude of unintentional laughs, so you will be smiling throughout. The choice of Rome as a location was obviously inspired by Bruce Lee's RETURN OF THE DRAGON, but it still works well. Less effective are the martial arts scenes, though…

  • Fu for Thought

    Review by Fu for Thought ★★

    I’m not sure why this one Is so applauded in kung fu cinema circles. It’s barely a kung fu movie and plays more like a Eurotrash espionage film.

    Bruce Leung is great as he usually is but he’s given very little to work with when it comes to martial arts.

    Enjoyable but not if you’re looking for the good ol’ chop socky.

  • ApeQuimby

    Review by ApeQuimby ★★★½

    Italian crime drama meets 70s Kung Fu, mix in one of the funkiest soundtracks and an exploding dog and you've got yourself a movie that needs a blu ray special edition.

  • Lars_Karlsen

    Review by Lars_Karlsen ★★★ 2

    Ng See-Yuen, a king of crazy kung fu (see Game of Death 2), makes here a so-bad-it's-good awesome kung fu masterpiece that makes little sense and is very fun. Everyone wants to kill our hero. Everyone. Not five minutes go by without someone trying to kill him. He is targeted by the producers (the mafia) of the film he's starring in. He could probably give up on the film and go home, but his commitment to the film is commendable. There's more to the story, but it's all about the action and the situations our hero finds himself in. I'm probably underrating this.

  • RealJohnGrace

    Review by RealJohnGrace ★★

    Seems improvised, with a lot of odd continuity gaps. Bruce Leung and Yasuaki Kurata have a good fight in the finale, but that's expected. Look, there's Gordon Mitchell!

  • Isaac Williams

    Review by Isaac Williams ★★★½

    Bruce Leung is a martial arts movie star who inadvertently messes up a plot to kill Interpol agents around the world. The Italian kingpin in charge of punishing him lures him to Rome with a motion picture offer. With his annoying little brother in tow, he quickly realizes that danger awaits him at every turn. The cape-wearing crime boss has top level assassins, including Yasuaki Kurata (FIST OF LEGEND, RETURN OF THE SISTER STREET FIGHTER) & a Nazi (Gordon Mitchell from FRANKENSTEIN’S CASTLE OF FREAKS, I AM SARTANA YOUR ANGEL OF DEATH, et al), but random thugs pop up in bathrooms & on the working set of the fake movie that he somehow keeps filming. Fortunately, a foxy blonde insurance agent pops…

  • Will Sloan

    Review by Will Sloan

    Leung Siu-lung (aka Bruce Leung, aka Bruce Liang), of THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN and KUNG FU HUSTLE fame, stars in this very cheap kung-fu movie, shot guerilla-style on the streets of Rome. Leung plays a Bruce Lee-like kung-fu movie star who is terrorized by the mafia.

    In one incredible scene, a mafia thug tries to assassinate Leung in the crowd during a papal address in St. Peter's Square! Other scenes are shot at the Roman Colosseum and Trevi Fountain. The climactic brawl begins in downtown Rome and then suddenly winds up in a snowy countryside with no explanation. Throughout, Romans and tourists gawk at the camera.

    The very definition of "not a classic," but I enjoyed it.

    Directed by the great Ng See-yuen (SNAKE IN THE EAGLE'S SHADOW).

  • DFvideodiary

    Review by DFvideodiary

    Brain-melting fu trash with Bruce Leung kicking gangster faces in Rome. Daft all over and packed with nice locations and sadistic deaths. Recommended

  • Steven Millan

    Review by Steven Millan ★★★½

    Since both THE GODFATHER and ENTER THE DRAGON were the biggest films at the time,someone in China decided to make a martial arts film that ties together both in a WAY(/RETURN) OF THE DRAGON-esque plot(containing shades of THE BIG BOSS[/FISTS OF FURY]) that has martial arts film star Bruce Leung(Sui-Lung[KUNG FU HUSTLE,THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN]) accidently witnesses the murder of an Interpol agent by the Carroll mob outfit(who are on a worldwide Interpol agent killing spree) and immediately becomes their next target when he undertakes a film role in Rome,Italy(where this film was made) and stays with his two brothers(including a little boy) who are soon also the targets of the Carroll clan. With the aids of both one of…