Rendezvous with Death (1980)

7.0/10 • 98 min • Action

Overview

Sun Chung had been recognized as an expert comedy and crime thriller director, but he was to gain even greater acclaim for his soulful, powerful, intelligent, and beautifully-made martial arts epics. This stands alongside The Deadly Breaking Sword and The Kung-fu Instructor as one of his very best. It’s not so much the plot – a master swordsman protects a treasure chest on a dangerous journey – that makes this great, but what Sun does with it, inspiring the cast and crew to some of their finest work.

Cast

Wong Yu

Xinshuan (Miserable) / Gu Jian

Lo Lieh

Beggar Yang Feng

Ku Feng

Prince Yan Yikang

Chan Shen

Chen Kuan-Tai

Golden Rod Gu Feitian

Lam Sau-Kwan

Tang Ching

Chen Szu-Chia

Lau Wai-Ling

Jamie Luk Kim-Ming

Black Lunatic Shen Shan

Yuen Wah

Poison Scholar Jin Ju

Johnny Wang Lung-Wei

Restaurant attacker with chopper

Ng Hong-Sang

Panda (One of the Four Killers)

Yuen Bun

One of the Four Killers

Stephan Yip Tin-Hang

One of the Four Killers

Chin Chun

Wan Seung-Lam

Ngai Tim-Choi

Huang Pei-Chih

Recommendations

Return of the One-Armed Swordsman

Kid with the Golden Arm

Birth of the Dragon

Eye for an Eye 2

Crippled Avengers

The Final Master

The Paper Tigers

Clan of the White Lotus

Reign of Assassins

Ip Man: The Awakening

Saving General Yang